Since when do employees make up their own rules, and illegal ones, to boot?

Submitted by Dr RJP (United States), Oct 10, 2006 at 13:04

Usless a cab driver owns his cab and is self-employed, he is obliged to follow the rules of his employer. If a Muslim cabbie does not want to transport seeing-eye dogs, and by doing so, violate the civil rights of the disabled, he should be fired.

He does not have a constitutional right to be hired to drive a cab, and since he knows -- or should know -- full well that seeing-eye dogs DO have a constitutional right to ride in cabs or enter businesses, that he should seek another line of work.

How does the Muslim cabbie know where a passenger has been last, or what he or she touched?

In Orthodox Jewish law, there are ways to purify oneself when contacting unclean things after the fact. Do you mean to tell me that the great religion of Islam has no way to ritually clean something?

The fault likes not with Islam, per se, but with its blind followers who cannot find a way to make sense of its rigid 7th Century mentality in the 21st Century.

If Muslims want to live like it's the 7th Century, then stay away from 21st Century jobs like taxi drivers.

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