Muslims in Minneapolis
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A Star Tribune article describes a current issue regarding muslim taxi drivers refusing to transport anyone leaving the airport with alcohol on ther persons.
It may seem insignificant to most, but this may have more of an impact then you might expect.
About three-quarters of the 900 taxi drivers at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport are Somalis, many of them Muslim. About three times daily, would-be customers are refused taxi service when a driver sees they're carrying alcohol.
What your looking at is nearly all 3/4 of the taxi services refusing to do their jobs in the name of their religion. From the reports, a taxi driver is in line(3 hours) to pick up a would be customer from the airport. You have a line of taxi's to pick up a line of customers. Currently, if the taxi pulls up to pick up the customer and the customer has any type of alcohol on him (most from duty free stores, ect) the muslim taxi driver refuses to transport them. The taxi driver must then go to the back of the taxi line for the next opportunity to pick up a customer.
Apparently, a would be solution would be to have some marker to help identify those willing or unwilling to transport the alcohol. The public came up in arms about this one and that attempt failed.
The issue is two-fold.
1)If you work for a company, should you not comply with that companies rules and polices.
2)If you work for a company, should you not be allowed to apply your faith/religious views with your job?
In fairness to the cab drivers...
The observant drivers object only to transporting openly displayed alcohol, said Ali Culed, a Somali Muslim who's been driving an airport cab for eight years. They won't search passengers or quiz them about what's in their bags.
But on the other hand, why should the cab drivers be able to discriminate?
One side is making it a customer service issue, the other is side a religious issue.
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4:53 PM
As long as you, the customer, can always get a cab... who cares? If you were a devoutly Christian cab driver, and some guy gets into your cab wearing a "Jesus Can Suck My Cock" t-shirt, what would you do?
5:54 AM
According to the article and what little I have heard on the news, that is the problem. The cab drivers are refusing to serve the customers. Considering 3/4 of the cab drivers are muslim, refusing, it is a big deal. I will be interested to see if their weight will change the policies.
Given the fact that I have to currently accept other viewpoints, I would drive him to destination.
If they had a shirt saying all Canadians are wimps, what would you do?
11:12 AM
I'd just sit back in smug satisfaction and think, "Whatever, at least they aren't burning our flag in the streets of, like, every city in the world."
1:57 AM
Yeah, that's good logic JTL. You just continue to sit back.
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