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GLOBAL CABIFATE
Minneapolis, Minnesota:
Cab drivers said they’d rather wait for another fare than risk punishment in the afterlife.
"It is forbidden in Islam to carry alcohol,” Mursal said. “Therefore, I don’t carry alcohol.”
Melbourne, Australia:
Muslim taxi drivers are refusing to carry blind passengers with their guide dogs or anyone carrying alcohol.
At least 20 dog-aided blind people have lodged discrimination complaints with the Victorian Taxi Directorate. Dozens more have voiced their anger.
And there have been several complaints that drivers refuse to allow passengers to carry sealed bottles of alcohol.
London, England:
A Muslim minicab driver refused to take a blind passenger because her guide dog was “unclean”.
Abdul Rasheed Majekodumni told Jane Vernon she could not get into his car with the dog because of his religion. Islamic tradition warns Muslims against contact with dogs because they are seen as impure.
Drammen, Norway:
Grethe Olsen, accompanied by her guide dog Isak, experienced being rejected by no less than 21 taxis before finally getting a ride. Olsen thinks the taxi drivers said no for religious reasons. The Norwegian Blind Association confirms that this is a well known problem all over the country, especially in cities with many immigrants. It arises when a blind person accompanied by a guide dog wants to take a taxi from a stand, instead of ordering one in advance.
(Via many, many readers and the ever-vigilant LGF)
Of course if we cave into “angry muslims” yet again then we will have to replace Guide Dogs with Guide Horses.
Tim, the guide-dog-assisted blind have been refused access here in America as well.
I’m suggesting they freshen up their access rights: a bank of them, with cops and cameras, at the Minneapolis airport would be a good start.
As the torrent of faux outrage and perpetual demands increases, the phrase “pressing their luck” keeps popping into my head.
Over the past few years I’ve lost whatever small amount of patience I might have once had for such shenanigans.
Over playing their hand—hastening the day when the rest of the planet stops kowtowing to these bullies—might be the best thing Islamists could do, for themselves and all of us.
Oh my christian god?!?!?!?! What next? It’s a global trend to undermine the sanctity of the cab driver/passenger bond. Will these muslims ever stop? Who can stop them? Thank my christian god that the bloghead and his steady blogsheep are rising to this mighty challenge… I feel safer already.
Posted by Miranda Divide on 2006 10 08 at 04:34 PM • permalink#13...the sanctity of the cab driver/passenger bond. ?
Like this - Accused cabbie says he acts as agony aunt..?
Hey Miranda, how about I poke your eyes out and then see how you (taxi) fare?
-- Nora
Posted by The Thin Man Returns on 2006 10 08 at 04:52 PM • permalinkNo dog would consent to lead her.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 10 08 at 05:00 PM • permalink"Islamic tradition warns Muslims against contact with dogs because they are seen as impure.”
That’s kind of the muslims to be concerned, but we can always give our dogs a bath if they should accidently make contact with a muslim.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2006 10 08 at 05:41 PM • permalinkI’m surprised cabs will accept Miranda now. Especially the ones with Muslim drivers. Shouldn’t she be wearing one of those full face-covering burkhas (so she won’t be mistaken for a sharpei or a Basset hound or something?)
Posted by JorgXMcKie on 2006 10 08 at 06:03 PM • permalinkTurned out of a cab because you’re carrying booze? Drivers of ME appearance refusing to let you and your dog climb aboard? No problem! Call Paco’s Anything Cabs Online! Whiskey, dogs, pigs, bibles - whatever you’re carrying, we’ll take you where you want to go. And in luxury: our fleet consists exclusively of refurbished, seven-passenger 1939 Packard touring sedans. So why waste time training Fido to drape himself around your neck in imitation of a fur stole? Why lie about that clinking noise coming from the brown bag? Call Paco’s Anything Cab’s Online NOW, and leave the average cab driver ululating in a cloud of high octane gasoline fumes from one of our V-16 powerhouses!
You know, these cultists are damn near getting everything they want...about damn time to give them what they don’t want.
For instance, tell the cultist cabbie, where he can stick his cab. Boycott ALL cultist cabbies. Inconvenient, you betcha, but it would seem a helluva a lot better then it is leaving your rights, beliefs and freedom, outside of the cab, as the cab door slams. Basically, becoming an instant dhimmi and feeling dirty, inside and out, bowing to their demands and perverted cult.
It’s a global trend to undermine the sanctity of the cab driver/passenger bond.
Gotta wonder how quickly—and how loudly—Miranda would be shrieking if a Christian were to refuse service to a Muslim for religious reasons.
Posted by Rob Crawford on 2006 10 08 at 07:15 PM • permalinkThe Victorian Equal Opportunity Act 1995 specifically prohibits discrimination in relation to the “provision of goods or services”.Section 42(1)(a) seems to cover the activities of the dog and alcohol hating Muslim taxi drivers adequately.I daresay the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal is already on the case.
That does it, I’m trading in my current seeing-eye dog for one of those St. Bernards.
#33: LOL! Man, they’ll not only refuse to let you in the cab, they’ll be throwing rocks at you!
Unless, of course, you take one of the PACO cabs, in which case we will provide your new dog with a side of beef to snack on.
#36: {i]This I’ve got to see. Somehow I picture cats just sort of going their own way, oblivious of where they’re leading their “master”.
We’ve been over this ground before. Cabbies are licensed by municipalities to provide a service. Municipalities limit the number of licenses in order to ensure that cab drivers have share in a monopoly of service; in return, cab driver agree to provide service to anyone - barring certain well-defined exceptions (e.g., persons who clearly are intoxicated or who may present a physical risk to the driver). There’s no religious exception that I’ve ever seen - for example, Salt Lake City does not permit its Mormon cabbies to refuse rides to gentiles who may have coffee or cigarettes in their grocery bags, despite Mormonism’s prohibition against the consumption of those substances.
Any cabby that refuses a ride to a blind man because his dog offends the cabbie’s religious sensibilities should have his license pulled. Period.
Posted by Urbs in Horto on 2006 10 08 at 09:19 PM • permalinkI find it interesting that only a few weeks ago, the Age was running sob-stories about the agony of muslim cabbies forced to hide their name cards, in the hate-filled world that is Howard’s Australia. Now, apparently, there are some who have no problems outing themselves as muslim. Perhaps we can get Jihad Jack Thomas’s opinion on this: he was a cabbie, although he’s probably now more busy working on his book deal.
OK, even if these fucknuts were Jeffersonian democrats, they’d be on my wrong side. I mean, what kind of intolerant jerk doesn’t like dogs? Especially seeing eye dogs, search and rescue dogs, and companion dogs. Hell, I even have lefty friends who like dogs and make contributions to programs to identify and train helping dogs! What do you say Miranda, bongoman, kilo, Lorenzo, et al. Ya think maybe we could all agree that this is egredious affront to everything we hopefully hold dear?
Posted by Vanguard of the Commentariat on 2006 10 08 at 09:31 PM • permalink#39: Any cabby that refuses a ride to a blind man because his dog offends the cabbie’s religious sensibilities should have his license pulled.
I think he ought to have his nose pulled, his eyes given a two-finger poke, and a hank of hair pulled out of his head. A cab driver like that deserves the deluxe Three Stooges treatment.
A Muslim minicab driver refused to take a blind passenger because her guide dog was “unclean”.
Man, they’re going to have real problems with my seeing eye pig.
Posted by Art Vandelay on 2006 10 08 at 10:29 PM • permalinkNow that’s done it.
There are only two creatures on this planet that you can be absolutely sure love you unconditionally. Your child and your dog.
And I’ve got your ‘unclean’ right here camelboy. Dogs have an occasional ambiance that might need bathing once a month or so, but that’s still more than the last ragtop cabbie I drove with bathed - I can attest to that.
You want to live in the 7th century, fine! We’ll wall you off and you can chop heads and stone your women to your hearts content.
But the quickest way to Allah you will ever find is to fuck with my dog.
Besides, he’s a Border Collie - which means he’s smarter than 2/3s of you, understands English better, works harder, and freakin’ hates Poodles to boot.
Don’t they know that all dogs go to heaven. That’s more than I can say for every one of those devil worshipping pricks.
You said it, trainer!
These idiots are picking a fight, picking a fight, I say.
Time and past time we knocked the chip off and decked ‘em good and proper!
This is not random nor is it uncoordinated. Pushing all the right buttons, they are, and it’s high time we pushed back.
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 10 08 at 11:42 PM • permalinkI’m so angry I refuse to even preview!
“It’s” gotten that bad!
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 10 08 at 11:44 PM • permalinkI fully intend to flagrantly split infinitives and misuse apostrophe’s until something is done!
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 10 08 at 11:46 PM • permalinkThs at least can be solved by legislation fairly easily: Any taxi-driver refusing a fare without good reason commits an offence, loses taxi licence and gets deported. Have plenty of cops and security guards to airports, railway stations, and other major pick-up points to enforce.
Posted by Susan Norton on 2006 10 08 at 11:52 PM • permalinkWhat’s black and tan, and looks good on a recalcitrant, truculent cabbie?
I’ve noticed a similar trend here- every hack I’ve poured myself into for the last two years has been piloted by a surly former Horn of Africa denizen, who has usually regard me and my rheumy-eyed, bleary blather with the sort of look you normally see from a maiden aunt who discovers her much disliked unemployed, unkempt, freeloading nephew doing a Portnoy to that evenings calves liver dinner in the ‘fridge.
I for one would prefer a return to the days when taxis were driven by locals with an interest in civics and law enforcement rather than prophet-addled khat gobblers.
As others have noted, threatening the taxi-licence will soon sort this out. In Melbourne it costs about A$350,000 to get a taxi licence. That’s an asset you don’t fuck with.
Chances are that the owners have no idea that drivers are trying this crap on. These idiots have probably been sub-let casual shifts and aren’t being supervised. The question is, does our illustrious socialist state government have the balls to stamp this behaviour out, or are they too beholden to multi-culti sensitivities?
I can guarantee that as I type this, licence owners are preparing driver contracts which stipulate that drivers will accept fares from any reasonably behaved, fare-paying passenger or they will forfeit all income.
Posted by Mr Hackenbacker on 2006 10 09 at 01:52 AM • permalink#6, RebeccaH:
Well, in the US at least, the ACLU is going to pop a cork trying to work this one out. I can’t wait.
It wont even be a contest. Once a person reads the words of the founder of that organization then all the questions and confusions get answered with a SNAP!
The ACLU will do what ever it believes is most harmful to the US and most damaging to the US Constitution and has greatest effect at eroding the rule of law in the US.
Anything short of dragging the offenders out into the street and beating them in full public view will do nothing to stop or even slow down any of this.
Try enforcing the laws currently on the books and they and their allies will simply get the laws changed to suit their needs.
Stop them by any means other than blood shed in this current effort of theirs and they’ll simply change to another effort.
For as long as we continue to be too weak and afraid to do what must be done then we will continue to be nothing but lambs walking up the ramp and awaiting our turn for our throats to be slit.
I find it pretty bizarre that some western lefties (like Miranda Divide, Kilo, Marylin Shepherd, etc) make light of this contemptible discrimination by Muslim taxi drivers.
For the record, despite being a RWDB, I’m actually a very considerate and polite person. (Shhh, don’t tell anyone!)
I am the first to show respect to some body else’s culture if I regard myself on “their territory”. For example, I would regard it as very rude to drink alcohol inside a kebab shop if the owner was distressed by it.
In fact, I’ve been on that exact situation just recently when two friends (one Chinese, one Maltese, as it happens - sorry lefty moonbats if I don’t conveniently fit into your “all conservatives are racist” dogma) had some bottles of Jim Beam with them inside the shop as we waited at the tables for our order. We were totally sober, but one of the guys did open his bottle, and take a very small sip. If it was soft-drink, this would not have been a problem. But when I noticed one of the turkish staff notice, and had a slightly distressed look, I quietly asked my mates to take the booze to the outdoor tables and wait there. They did so. The staff member smiled and said “You didn’t have to go outside, but I appreciate it anyway.”
A shop (of any sort) is a private business, and I’ve got no problem with deferrig to a property-owner’s rules/whims.
But taxis are NOT like a private property. As many, many have pointed out here, taxis are licensed by governments, and get certain benifits AND certain obligations that go along with that. And one of those obligations should be not to bring your religion into the taxi and discriminate against customers.
I think a simple motto is “My house. My rules. Your house. Your rules.”
It’s simultaneously the same reason I would be a courteous to a muslim’s whims inside his property, whilst never backing down even an inch into dhimmi status in the public arena.
#30 If VCAT’s onto it, expect to see a veritable flood of blind people up on charges of religious vilification and discrimination. How dare they cause all those poor cab drivers to lose money by having guide dogs??
And regarding taxi licences costing $350k. Is that for real? We’ve had a spate of attacks on cab drivers recently, and one was an afghan who’d apparently been in the country for 6 weeks and didn’t have any family here.
I’d love to know how he could afford one, let alone read the melways to get people where they should be.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2006 10 09 at 06:37 AM • permalinkA friend of mine got her cab license in the 80s, she used to pick me up on a Friday night when I finished afternoon shift at Telecom (about 9:30-10pm) and I’d ride in the cab with her. Usually a Friday night. She’d finish her shift at about 3-4am or so on Saturday, and we’d go to Pancakes on the Rocks for a buckwheat mignion with two eggs (the second egg was free before 6am). Mmmm.
She studied really hard for her cab license. She had to know how to get from A to B, and rattle it off as part of the examination. I don’t think they do that any more.
64. I know they don’t do that anymore.
As an interesting aside, I know I’ve been reading too many hadiths when I catch a cab to the servo with my rugrat and she starts singing songs.
Not sure what religion the cabbie was, but he was momea, and when he told me how cute and pretty my girl is, it made my skin crawl.
Too many tales of Aisha, and mine is only a couple of years younger than that poor little one.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2006 10 09 at 06:52 AM • permalinkas a regular cab user i run into the mohammeds & habibs daily. most are fine. some are arseholes. just like regular folks. the arseholes quickly change their behaviour if you tell them you are going to get out now & not pay them if they continue whatever offensive garbage they are carrying on with (i must play this koranic whining tape at full blast, why does your husband let you go out alone at night, blah blah etc). same tactics work with most species of offensive cabbie. the mighty dollar works
At least one Lefty’s multicultural head is exploding.
“Martin Amis has launched an attack on “miserable bastards” in the British Muslim community, accusing them of trying to destroy multicultural society by failing to “fit in” with other faiths. “ —The Independent.
I’m envisioning a world…
where I get into a 1937 Packard taxicab, with a roomy rumble seat to fit my seeing eye St. Bernard and my carpal tunnel assistance pig. Erskine Hawkins plays as I sip chilled champagne and nibble shrimp wrapped in bacon. Travis Bickel is my driver. I don’t even care if I get home tonight…At least in Chicago, we have many more options - East Europeans are good - but they can get a bit territorial and they hold a grudge too much to shave those few extra seconds off (usually making sure they are positioned to curse someone, etc. I prefer recent West African arrivals. Fearless - they have seen things that would make you faint dead, so what is a little traffic to them. Not as territorial either. Just close your eyes and you won’t be scared...and you’ll get there fairly quick too!
Posted by Major John on 2006 10 09 at 01:18 PM • permalink#51 Bonmot. A practical measure. I not only approve, I will be doing exactly that next time I require a cab (never far from a marker and paper when you’re carrying enough computing power to run a small city on your shoulder)
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 10 09 at 04:43 PM • permalinkTo all and sundry:
Whenever you take a cab, first ask the driver if they are Muslim. If yes, or there is equivocation, then go to the next cab.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2006 10 09 at 09:30 PM • permalink#11 Cosmo, it has gone beyond that. People will take matters into their own hands and it won’t be very nice. The ruling elites will splutter and gabble but it will be out of control and nasty.
The only way to avoid this is to address these issues now but the elites keep shirking their duty on the matter.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2006 10 09 at 09:41 PM • permalinkI have four words for anyone who wants to try that here: Americans with Disabilities Act.
linkTitle III prohibits discrimination of people with disabilities in public accommodations and services operated by private entities. Section 12182(b)(2)(A) clarifies specific prohibitions on discrimination on the basis of disability, and includes in the definition of discrimination:
a failure to make reasonable modifications in policies, practices, or procedures, when such modifications are necessary to afford such goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages, or accommodations to individuals with disabilities, unless the entity can demonstrate that making such modifications would fundamentally alter the nature of such goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages, or accommodations. (42 USC 12182(b)(2)(A)(ii))
It would be nice to see that Act, which has been put to such bad use so often in the past, put to such good use. And, yes, the ACLU will pop its cork. A twofer.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2006 10 09 at 10:07 PM • permalinkIt’s not the license that costs $350k, it’s the cab number plates, the actual permit for the taxi to operate.
That’s right. The licence to drive[/] a taxi is only a few hundred dollars. But they won’t get far without a cab and the owner is liable for the driver’s behaviour if they don’t rein them in.
Posted by Mr Hackenbacker on 2006 10 10 at 05:03 AM • permalinkI’ve screwed up the italic tags somehow. Apologies Andrea.
No job for me at webdiary.
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