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Fallible wrote:I was attempting to show that religion is only one reason why a taxi driver, Muslim or otherwise, might refuse to carry dogs.
Yeah, and I can't thank you enough for that groundbreaking watershed reasoning. I was blind and now I can see. Who'd have thought some taxi drivers don't like taking dogs for other reasons! nonono, don't beat yourself up KIR, every day's a school day.
Keep It Real wrote:Fallible wrote:I was attempting to show that religion is only one reason why a taxi driver, Muslim or otherwise, might refuse to carry dogs.
Yeah, and I can't thank you enough for that groundbreaking watershed reasoning. I was blind and now I can see. Who'd have thought some taxi drivers don't like taking dogs for other reasons! nonono, don't beat yourself up KIR, every day's a school day.
Earlier KIR's word doc saved thoughts wrote:You haven't pointed out jack shit "Graham." I said if the 20 taxi drivers at the station had been non-muslim my sister et al would almost definitely have been given a lift home. I stand by that. If you have anything resembling reason or rational why that's obviously wrong you've failed to present it. 20 taxis.
Fallible wrote:I see plenty of Muslims in woods, on hillsides, by lakes, at the seaside, in shops, in parks, on the bus, at the hospital, playing football. walking down the road, even. It's almost like they behave like humans.
Keep It Real wrote:Come to think of it, I don't recall seeing any Muslim families in the local parks, or out walking in the countryside.
But you have no doubt that Muslim taxi drivers would refuse because your sister once asked some number not more than 20?Keep It Real wrote:Earlier KIR's word doc saved thoughts wrote:You haven't pointed out jack shit "Graham." I said if the 20 taxi drivers at the station had been non-muslim my sister et al would almost definitely have been given a lift home. I stand by that. If you have anything resembling reason or rational why that's obviously wrong you've failed to present it. 20 taxis.
I have my doubts as to whether a random sample of 20 non-muslim taxi drivers would all refuse to take a young woman, child and clean dog home at night from the train station...but agree there is some doubt over the issue.
Hermit wrote:
I'm at the end of my tether. Please help me. I need a reliable method for recognising Muslims. From your posts I gather you know exactly what a Muslim is and how to recognise one.
Keep It Real wrote:Hermit wrote:
I'm at the end of my tether. Please help me. I need a reliable method for recognising Muslims. From your posts I gather you know exactly what a Muslim is and how to recognise one.
As a bare minimum: looking like you're from Pakistan and living in Gloucester is conservatively 80% reliable I estimate. If you're looking for 100% reliable then, correct, I have no answers.
Keep It Real wrote:I was thinking of fundy type muslims who dress like this:
But yeah, fuck that train anyway basically, it was a very loose comment from me as I haven't ever paid real attention to whether there're people who "look like they're Muslim" in parks etc before so have no solid opinion on the matter really.
Keep It Real wrote:
I moved from Cheltenham to Gloucester around 8 months ago and live in the Muslim bit here
Another thing surreptitious57 and myself have in common I guess
Hermit wrote: In post #151 I have mentioned that "most our local Muslims are Muslims in the same way as most our local Christians are Christian: Pretty much in name only. And they don't dress like Muslims are supposed to be dressed or have Muslim style beards." Please keep in mind that this may be the case in the UK also. I venture to say that it is almost certainly the case. You don't notice them because they kind of blend in with society at large. You just notice Muslims that do look like stereotypical Muslims because they really stick out, don't they, and then decide that all Muslims look like that because... well, there's no because, is there?
Keep It Real wrote:As Rachel said earlier in the thread the uncomfortable around dogs thing may gradually have permeated the culture in a nebulous kinda way so they didn't grow up around dogs and generally picked up a bad vibe. If they then become taxi drivers that nebulous "bad vibe" might just tip the scales against taking dogs regardless of religious dogma per se, when combined with the other reasons a cabbie might refuse to take dogs.
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