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Last updated on August 9th, 2017 at 07:22 am
The latest on those alcohol-averse Minneapolis taxi drivers:
Cab drivers said some have refused two fares in a day, which can burn up nearly half a 12-hour shift. 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” …
[Airport spokesman Pat] Hogan said refusals to carry alcohol began 10 years ago but came from just a handful of drivers. Now, though, he estimates that three-quarters of the 900 airport cabdrivers are Somali, most of them Muslim. Hogan said drunken passengers haven’t had trouble getting a cab, just the ones who let on that they’re carrying a bottle.
Ponder the media outrage if drivers refused service to anybody carrying the Koran.
