Airport taxi flap about alcohol has deeper significance
by Katherine Kersten
The airport taxi controversy may go deeper than the quandary over whether to accommodate Somali Muslim cabdrivers who refuse to carry passengers carrying alcohol. Behind the scenes, a struggle for power and religious authority is apparently playing out.
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Mohamud adds that Americans need to learn about Islamic law because the Muslim population here is growing. That's why the proposed two-tier system for airport cabdrivers is important, he says. It could become a national model for accommodating Islam in areas ranging from housing to contractual arrangements to the workplace.
MAC officials will hold another meeting today about the airport controversy, and Mohamud says he will try to revive the two-tiered pilot project for taxis. Whatever the meeting's outcome, we now have reason to believe that the issue is only a prologue to a larger drama playing out in Minnesota and the United States.
A moslem, a useful idiot or an ignoramous responds:
Nothing more than Muslim-bashing
Once again, Katherine Kersten has decided to do some Muslim-bashing, by implying that the actions of a few Somali cab drivers, in refusing to drive people carrying alcohol, are representative of the beliefs of all Muslims, or at least indicative of a "power struggle" within the community's Muslim population. Apparently the "few bad apples" theory cannot be applied here, as it was with respect to the outrages at Abu Ghraib.
When will Kersten even the playing field and trumpet the same type of power struggle going on in the Christian community, simply because a small number of pharmacists refuse to sell contraceptives?
Pertinent Links:
1) Airport taxi flap about alcohol has deeper significance
2) Nothing more than Muslim-bashing
Prior links that concerned themselves with the cab driver refusals:
1) Cab Driver Update
2) Transgenders not welcome on cabs in Minneapolis St. Paul
3) Moslem cab drivers refusing service to liquor carrying infidels
Friday, October 27, 2006
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While it is true that alcohol is one of the ten universally acceptted Najis or Unclean things in Islam, so are Kafirs?
So my question is: If transporting alcohol is offensive to their religous sensitivities, should not they also refuse to transport Infidels?
I have sources and further exposition here.
Najis Unclean Things
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