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'Muslim taxi' offers gender-segregated rides
Published: 27 Jan 12 13:47 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.de/society/20120127-40387.html
A German man has created a new website to arrange shared car trips with a twist – it’s targeted toward Muslims, and drivers can only offer transport to members of the same sex.
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Those interested in offering rides specify their gender, asking price and how many passengers they can accommodate. Potential passengers contact the driver directly.
Selim Reid, a 24-year-old from Norderstedt, city of about 70,000 near Hamburg, told the Hamburger Abendblatt newspaper that he was inspired to create the site because of Muslims’ bad ride-sharing experiences.
In 1996, for instance, his parents, who are originally from Iraq, caught a ride with a Muslim-hating driver who spent the whole time criticizing them.
“The driver and the people with him swore the whole way about foreigners in general and in particular about my mother’s head scarf,” Reid told the newspaper.
Of course, you don't need to be a Muslim to use Reid’s service. In fact, he told the Abendblatt, that’s one of the main points of Muslim Taxi.
“Those really looking for dialogue will find it by using Muslim Taxi,” he said.
In operation since late last year, the website has attracted its share of criticism. People have accused Reid of trying to create a parallel society and supporting immigrants who don’t want to integrate in German culture.
But Reid says the response from thousands of grateful riders has showed him he’s filling a niche.
“Many Muslim brothers and sisters complained that they can’t use conventional offers because the gender segregation stipulated by Islam is not implemented,” he added.
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Why not??? There are already plenty of businesses which are orientated towards special needs of different cultural and religious groups. For one Dönner is done with Halal meet, and all enjoy it equally well. If you like it you can take it, if not leave it alone.
Lets see how long this potential bomb is allowed to run by the open mined staff of the Local, hopefully they will take the time and check out the LA Times, Washington Post and NY Times to see how their comment sections are conducted.
Is Germany falling apart because a shrewd businessman is filling a niche market? I don't think so, but I guess most people will say the opposite.
Next story in the Local: "muslim-WG.de offers gender-segregated accommodation", as if this was something new under the sun.
They also removed the pedophile priest comments.
If the driver of the taxi was critising the religion, he would have board-down and would have taken up another taxi.
Are we created for the religion or the religion is for us?
many likes to be enslaved and be gratified for being a slave to the religion. People needs to learn to use religion as just another tool to bring comfort to humans not these kind of .... (how to call it?)
Anyway, I totally disagree with your comment "Religion is the root of all evil". Instead, religion is a way of life & how you live in society. Now, it depend upon the person, how you look at religion !!!
The basic Concept of any religion is to live a good life and be a good human and it teaches you all good ways.
At the end, it again, hypocratic people who tend to lead the religion without any basic understanding. As we can see some comment frm above :-|
Everyone's free choice to ride with me. As long as they are Atheists only. I will check out their religion before I will let them enter my car. A quick test will do.
I do not have to eat halal-helal-kosher-beefless food, and the Muhammedans are not forced to eat currywurst. Islamophobia in our Western countries, Infidelphobia in their Muslim countries. I don't really care because I do not live in a Muhammedan country, and I do not want to either.
I hope someone will offer Catholic taxi servies and someone else Lutheran taxi services, too. And Norse Pagan taxi services, of course. Care for the autochthonous needs.
Just wondering how I can refuse someone a ride explicitly because of their religion. There is a clause in the German constitution explicitly outlawing this.
I wonder how far I will get with my concept.
I think there are enough laws which Muslims can turn to if they feel discriminated rather than creating another level of discrimination in the name of religion or culture they decided to throw in to the bin before coming to Europe.
Was he saying that his Muslim brothers and sisters didn't know the way Europeans travel before landing in this continent. He should think again whether its right to come to a country and try to change its way. Will his so called brothers and sisters allow a European go to Iraq and try to live European way. lets say kiss in public :)
please if you dont like it dont ride it. very simple.
dont argue like an idiot.
I too believe religion to be fundamentally wrong and only increases the "them and us" syndrome. Each religion believes they are right and others are wrong. This leads to a feeling of superiority as that religion is made up of the chosen people. The world would be far better off without religion as this would remove an option for people to judge. Of course many people are just morons and will always find a different way to express their misguided hate.
Many crimes are committed in the name of religion so let's wise up and put the fairy tales of our ancestors behind us.....
We should export this to Saudi Arabia... They don't allow femails to drive, do they.
Where do the jews sit? In the boot?
BTW, I'm Jewish!