Discrimination by the back door !

Submitted by B Shah (United Kingdom), Oct 12, 2006 at 03:23

This is an unacceptable way of imposing someone else's religion on to the rest of the populace. Don't they realise they have come to live in a nation that was founded on religious freedom !! If the taxi drivers feel so strongly about it, maybe they should consider going to a country where Sharia is the law and not live under a secular / Christian inspired constitution.

If airlines from muslim nations don't mind selling alcohol, why should these taxi drivers mind transporting it ?
Most muslims claim to abhor intoxication of any sort, and yet Afghanistan produces opium on an industrial scale ! Mullas refer to it as the crop of Jihad - their holy war ! Pakistan, yet another country with muslim constitution, happily provides conduits to it and ships it all over the world.

In anycase, most of these Koran spouting drivers hope to go to a heaven where the rivers and fountains run with wine !! So what's so wrong with enjoying it here ?

The taxi drivers should be sued under discrimination laws and not be allowed to impose their life choices on others. Its not the American way !!

B Shah

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