{"id":9376,"date":"2010-07-18T18:38:43","date_gmt":"2010-07-18T22:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=9376"},"modified":"2010-07-18T18:38:43","modified_gmt":"2010-07-18T22:38:43","slug":"muslim-bus-and-taxi-drivers-refuse-to-let-guide-dogs-on-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/muslim-bus-and-taxi-drivers-refuse-to-let-guide-dogs-on-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Muslim bus and taxi drivers refuse to let guide dogs on board"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Blind passengers are being ordered off buses or refused taxi rides because Muslim drivers or passengers object to their ‘unclean’ guide dogs.<\/p>\n

One pensioner said he had twice been confronted by drivers and asked to get off the bus because of his guide dog, and had also faced hostility at a hospital and in a supermarket over the animal.<\/p>\n

The problem has become so widespread that the matter was raised in the House of Lords last week, prompting transport minister Norman Baker to warn that a religious objection was not a reason to eject a passenger with a well-behaved guide dog.<\/p>\n

National Federation of the Blind spokesman Jill Allen-King said the problem was common, and ‘getting worse’.<\/p>\n

The tension stems from a strand of Islamic teaching which considers a dog’s saliva to be impure.<\/p>\n

George Herridge, 73, a retired hospital maintenance manager, said he was ‘stunned’ to be twice asked by bus drivers to leave their vehicles because of his guide dog, a black labrador.<\/p>\n

Miss Allen-King said she had been repeatedly left on the kerb by Muslim taxi drivers who refused to take her dog.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

How about if the dogs wore burkas?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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