USATODAY.com – Airport Check-in: Fare refusals in Minnesota — Sounds like this is more easily resolved by pulling their cabbie license. What gives?
Minneapolis-St. Paul is concerned that its taxi service is deteriorating. Citing their religious beliefs, some Muslim taxi drivers from Somalia are refusing to transport customers carrying or suspected of carrying alcohol. It started with one driver a few years ago, but the average number of fare refusals has grown to about three a day, says airport spokesman Patrick Hogan. “Travelers often feel surprised and insulted,” he says. “Sometimes, several drivers in a row refuse carriage.”
Taxi drivers and officials from the airport, taxi companies and the Muslim American Society are discussing how to address the issue. Partly out of concern that taxi drivers might be citing religion to avoid short-distance fares, the airport is now forcing drivers who refuse a fare to go to the end of the line for waiting taxis. It is not a popular decision among drivers, Hogan says.
I guess these same guys are useless insofar as taking drunks home from bars too, eh? So what good are they?
Isn’t this the same as a cab driver refusing to take a minority person into a less than desirable neighborhood. Aren’t there laws against that. If we let them do t hatt , what’s next, a ham sandwich, unveiled women, men without full beards. If they don’t like it go back to their country and take their religion with them. This is the United States of America.
Some of my relatives are Muslim – and boy they drink & drive
I’d prefer to see them in a cab. But wait! would they refuse a Muslim
a ride if they “suspected”. alchol?
Up is Down and Down is UP… This is their revenge for what they determine Racial Profiling at the Airports & Government Buildings.
If it’s an open container I would take them either … but I just don’t believe that is the case…. the cab drivers are “profiling”
We all are profiling….
I heard they also don’t want seeing eye dogs? Is that true?
Any cab driver that refuses to carry a passenger carrying alcohol should be in another line of work.
If this is allowed, Muslim Communities will be allowed to ban Liquor & Beer sales; and require stores to only carry Halal meats.
It is a Muslim tenent to force others to follow their laws – read Robert Spencer’s Book “The Truth about Islam”
WW3 BEGAN ALONG TIME AGO. WAKE UP. WE ARE BEING INVADED. FUCK THESE NON-HUMANS. IT IS TOO BAD THAT THIS IS HAPPENEING BUT I LOOK FORWARD TO THE COMING CONFRONTATION. I THINK THEY UNDERESTIMATE US. WE ARE NOT EUROPE. OUR GOVERNMENT ARE ALL A BUNCH OF SELL OUT PUSSIES BUT WE ARE NOT. BRING IT ON FUCKING RAGHEAD MORONS.
I refuse to give my money to any muslim- wether its a cabbie or a convience store worker.