Looks like the pressure is increasing not abating on the issue of the Muslim airport cab drivers at the Mpls/St. Paul airport.  Ed at Captain’s Quarters has extended the issue beyond liquor and service dogs.

From Youssef Ibrahim of the NY Sun:

Even if one could dismiss such shenanigans as a humorous episode that escaped nationwide attention until recently and will soon go away, what of the next challenge?

What if Islamic drivers deny the right of transportation to women wearing short skirts, robed priests and rabbis, or homosexual couples, as indeed has happened in Minneapolis?

And what to do should conductors, pilots, and stewards on trains and planes insist they should not transport unveiled women or serve alcohol. How far off is the day when emboldened imams in neighborhoods where American Muslims are in the majority, such Dearborn, Mich., demand the broadcasting of the calls to prayer over loudspeakers at dawn and at other times.

Ed talks about the Muslims who chose to immigrate to the Twin Cities, they chose to be airport cabbies along with the required regulations.  The level these Muslims have gotten to is beyond the pale:

This fatwa, issued by the Minnesota chapter of the Muslim Society, exists as an attempt to foist Islam onto Americans who have not chosen it. It will not end with service dogs and alcohol; as Ibrahim notes, it has already gone beyond both. They will eventually refuse service to vast swaths of the traveling public, which will render MSP’s cabstands a huge bottleneck for those who must use the airport.

snip….Most immigrants already know this. Most Muslim immigrants, I’d wager, believe it. It’s organizations like the Muslim Society of America that insists on silly edicts and their weak-minded followers that cause all of the problem, and it’s the failure of Americans to insist on assimilation that perpetuates it.

As Ed notes, where do the demands end?  But then, this multiculturalist approach in the US today extends beyond Muslims who have immigrated from the Middle East, there’s also the Mexicans and Central Americans who are not assimilating.  If the US culture and laws are too much for these immigrants (and I’m talking about LEGAL immigrants here) then they need to leave the country.  NOW. 

Other posts:
Mpls/St. Paul Airport Cabs Allowed to Discriminate on Passenger Pickups
I suppose this is next for Mpls/St. Paul Cabbies
Twin Cities Airport looking to suspend Taxicabs who refuse service to fares

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