A minor issue at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport (MSP) has
potentially major implications for the future of Islam in the United States.
Starting about a decade ago, some Muslim taxi drivers serving the airport
declared, that they would not transport passengers visibly carrying alcohol, in
transparent duty-free shopping bags, for example. This stance stemmed from
their understanding of the Koran's ban on alcohol. A driver named Fuad Omar
explained: "This is our religion. We could be punished in the afterlife if we
agree to [transport alcohol]. This is a Koran issue. This came from heaven."
Another driver, Muhamed Mursal, echoed his words: "It is forbidden in Islam
to carry alcohol." They also refuse to carry anyone with a dog because it's considered that as dogs saliva is 'UNCLEAN" even if the person is blind and freezing and NEEDS his dog to live his life with some dignity.
If the Muslims chose to take a job in the public service sector, the should be made to obey the taxi laws just like everyone else does, but no, not the Muslims..they are special and want all Americans to bow to their will and their religion.
The issue emerged publicly in 2000. On one occasion, 16 drivers in a row
refused a passenger with bottles of alcohol. This left the passenger - who
had done nothing legally wrong - feeling like a criminal. For their part, the
16 cabby's lost income. As Josh L. Dickey of the Associated Press put it,
when drivers at MSP refuse a fare for any reason, "they go to the back of the
line. Way back. Past the terminal, down a long service road, and into a
sprawling parking lot jammed with cabs in Bloomington, where drivers sit idle
for hours, waiting to be called again." I think that if they refuse fares they should not be allowed to pick up fares at the airport, period, after all the airport grants permission for cabs to ply there trade there and can revoke this privilege at any time.
To avoid this predicament, Muslim taxi drivers asked the Metropolitan
Airports Commission for permission to refuse passengers carrying liquor - or
even suspected of carrying liquor - without being banished to the end of the
line. MAC rejected this appeal, worried that drivers might offer religion as an
excuse to refuse short-distance passengers.
America needs to stand up and see what is happening, the Imams that set themselves up to get thrown of the airplane so security might get relaxed so there suicide bomber brothers can bomb innocent Americans again. Now Muslims telling Us what they will or will not do at work. Does this mean as a Jew If I was A taxi driver I could refuse any once displaying a cross because it offends me? Or carrying Crab or pork because it is unclean and against my religion> When will we stop playing the accomadation game with minorities that are trying to subvert our way of life?
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