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Airport Wants to Penalize Muslim Cabbies
Associated Press
January 5, 2007
CBNNews.com -- MINNEAPOLIS - Officials at Minneapolis-St. Paul International airport are proposing stiffer penalties for Muslim cab drivers who refuse service on religious grounds to people carrying alcohol.
Drivers who reject passengers for anything except safety reasons would have their airport taxi licenses suspended 30 days for the first offense and revoked for two years after the second offense.
Last year, the airports commission received a fatwa, or religious edict, from the Minnesota chapter of the Muslim American Society. The fatwa said Islam prohibits taxi drivers from carrying passengers with alcohol, "because it involves cooperating in sin."
Each month, about 100 people are denied cab service at the airport. About three-quarters of the 900 taxi drivers at the airport are Somali, many of them Muslim.
Copyright 2007 The Associated Press
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