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Originally Posted by Sowa
It's not discrimination at all. The Muslim drivers are discriminating and asking for special privileges because of it. This isn't the same rights it is a special privilege they are requesting. Other cabbies have to go back to the end of the line if they refuse service to a customer based on some belief they hold, ie a vegan would have to go back to the end of the line if someone was carrying meat or leather...
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dis‧crim‧i‧na‧tion [di-skrim-uh-ney-shuh
n]
treatment or consideration of, or making a distinction in favor of or against, a person or thing based on the group, class, or category to which that person or thing belongs
rather than on individual merit:
racial and religious intolerance and discrimination.
Discrimination applies to stereotyping a group of people (such as Muslims should not be cab drivers) not on the actions of those people (such as the decision to consume alcoholic beverages).
You can't discriminate based on actions. (I think there is an echo in here) I am pretty sure the word discriminate is being thrown around pretty literally due to lack of a better term.
I can not draw parallels between veganism and religious beliefs (again, this has already been addressed pages ago). I don't eat meat, so if I waited in line at a restaurant, and I get my order and it had meat in it. Would I walk to the back of the line and wait again, or do I just order again? If a cab was at the front of the line, and the next passenger had something that couldn't fit in the cab, should the cab go back to the end of the line? I don't think it makes much sense to not allow the cab to just take the next available fair - regardless of the motives for doing so. Again, as you will see on pages 1 through 12, it does not affect anyone, so what's the problem?!?!?!?