http://www.nysun.com/pf.php?id=46220
BY YOUSSEF IBRAHIM
January 8, 2007
Excerpt:
Islamic taxi drivers at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Air****t are
refusing passengers carrying alcohol and blind folks with seeing-eye
dogs because the animals' saliva is sacrilege according to Sharia law.
The enterprising Muslims during the past year have stranded 100
passengers a month, sometimes for more than an hour, according to the
Metropolitan Air****ts Commission, since three-fourths of the 900 taxi
drivers servicing the air****t are Somali Muslims who have decided to
participate in the new discipline.
To make matters worse, a local outreach director of the ever-obliging
Council on American-Islamic Relations, Damon Drake, dismissed the
issue, saying, "Now that the Muslims are here, they need to be
accommodated."
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