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I got this email today from Jihad Watch reader Paul:
I've been through the airport here several times in the last 2-3 weeks, and from what I see, all the cabs at Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) airport have adopted the same restrictions as the ones in Minneapolis -- no alcohol, no pets (likely to include seeing-eye dogs, etc., although I didn't have time to ask) -- and no one has said anything locally.
Does anyone have any more information? If you're flying into Dallas anytime soon, buy some fine Scotch and hail a cab, and then email me.
Posted by Robert at June 7, 2007 3:33 PM
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at June 7, 2007 4:16 PM
Residents of Dallas are likely to be less long-suffering than those in Minneapolis -- and the result there should have been instructive enough.
Posted by: Hugh at June 7, 2007 4:20 PM
get drunk and throw up in the cab...
Posted by: exsgtbrown at June 7, 2007 4:26 PM
To whoever cares. You got yourself a business niche. Capitalize, by some cars, hire only people who will do their job, dogs, pork, vodka and all. Market to customers that you will go out of your way for them, seeing eye dogs and all. I know which cab co. I'd be using.
Posted by: mustang65 at June 7, 2007 4:32 PM
I do not think the Dallas non-Muslims will have any patience for this nonsense. Keep up with updates.
Posted by: bigcatgirl13106 at June 7, 2007 4:40 PM
The airport operator also has a business niche ... he has to take care of his patrons who need to get to and from the airport.
If Islamist cabbies refuse passengers for religious reasons, the port operator needs to ban them from the airport's taxi stand.
Posted by: Kristopher at June 7, 2007 5:24 PM
I live about 10 minutes away from DFW airport. I have never noticed anything like this in the past, but I usually have friends or family drop me off at the airport. I have not heard anything about an alcohol (or any other sort of) ban on cabs at DFW. I think this would be pretty big local news, if it were true.
The airport is a regional governmental entity with its own roads and police and administration, and I believe that a governmental entity condoning such an exclusionary religious practice would violate the 1st Amendment. Also, while many of the surrounding cities are dry, and one cannot buy beer, wine, or liquor in them (my city of Irving, for instance), on DFW Airport land, there is a store that sells beer and wine (but not liquor).
I don't think I'll have time to look at this today, but perhaps tomorrow, when I had already planned on a trip to the liquor store, I will run by the airport afterward and see if I can figure out if there is any validity to this claim. I, personally, would be shocked if there were.
Posted by: Grant at June 7, 2007 6:20 PM
one thing with DFW is that there are multiple terminals unlike Minneapolis where all passengers exit out to the same cab stand.
If this is happening at DFW it would be reported. Most folks either rent a car or are picked up by friends/family. I know that is what I do when I fly into DFW.
the Muslim population is sizeable in the DFW area but not as concentrated as in other areas
Posted by: pak152 at June 7, 2007 9:47 PM
Why would you want to take a darn cab anyway? 40 to 50 dollars one way to Dallas,or Fort Worth. Shuttle 15 to 20 dollars, and the train is around 2 dollars--
Posted by: Mackie at June 7, 2007 11:18 PM
Can ANYONE explain:
WHY SO MANY MUSLIMS END UP AS CAB DRIVERS WHEN VEHICLE TRANSPORT IS POSSIBLY FORBIDDEN IN ISLAM?
Perfecting some ability to drive must be the major educational experience in Muslimolands; that or keeping the corner store.
at June 8, 2007 5:59 AM
"Can ANYONE explain:
WHY SO MANY MUSLIMS END UP AS CAB DRIVERS WHEN VEHICLE TRANSPORT IS POSSIBLY FORBIDDEN IN ISLAM?"
...being a cabbie allows you to move freely around the city...you learn all the roads, alleyways, and shortcuts. It helps you locate and identify the most valuable future targets. Often important businessmen and other high value targets ride in cabs, future victims for kidnapping for ransom or execution...Being a cabbie, you can ogle western women all day long....Cabs parked for extended periods of time at any location draw little attention from police..(the cab could become a future car bomb waiting for the appropriate target to pass by before it is set off)....Death to infidels is allowed in Islam...
at June 8, 2007 7:49 AM
"Why would you want to take a darn cab anyway? 40 to 50 dollars one way to Dallas,or Fort Worth. Shuttle 15 to 20 dollars, and the train is around 2 dollars--
Posted by: Mackie"
...some people do not like waiting for shuttle or train...some people do not like rubbing elbows with the common folk (usually arrogant racist types)....some people have private agendas to attend to at locations where neither the shuttle nor the train go to...some people do not even know about the shuttle or trains availiable (stupid and uninformed)...some people like to live dangerously (riding with Muslims and or riding in a cab)...Some people just have more money than they have sense (possibly dhimmicrats)....some people have no friends or business associates to pick them up...and some people still do not know about Muslims...
at June 8, 2007 8:00 AM
It makes me want to hire one of these cabs, get nicely settled in the back seat, direct the driver to the freeway/interstate where it would be difficult to exit and break out a ham sandwich, eat a few bites and drop it on the floor.
Posted by: PLCinTEXAS at June 9, 2007 8:31 AM
I think Muslims become cabbies because that's all they're really qualified for, since their entire education seems to consist of memorizing the Koran.
That and a cabbie's schedule permits them to pray.
Posted by: venividivici at June 9, 2007 10:29 AM
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