Norwegian Muslim Cabbies Refusing to Carry Guide Dogs
Charles Johnson
Mon Apr 2, 2007 at 10:27 am PDT • Views: 634
It isn’t just in Minneapolis that Muslim taxi drivers are pushing an extremist agenda, and refusing to carry passengers with alcohol, or blind people with guide dogs. LGF reader Fjordman translates an article from Norway’s Aftenposten that shows the exact same agenda in Oslo.
Coincidence? We doubt it.
Blind woman Gry Berg, accompanied by her guide dog, was denied entry into four taxis in the center of the city of Oslo, Norway, this March. Three of the drivers claimed that their unwillingness to accept her dog was due to allergy, while the fourth one simply locked the car doors and refused to give an explanation for why he wouldn’t let Ms. Berg into his cab.
Andreas Strand, leader of the youth organization of The Norwegian Association of the Blind and Partially Sighted, reacts strongly to this treatment. “It makes it difficult for blind people to live a social life,” he says. Strand claims that it has become an increasingly common problem that blind people accompanied by guide dogs are denied access to taxis, and has written a letter of complaint to the three companies whose drivers were involved in this particular incident.
Now, the police and the local transportation authorities will cooperate on punishing drivers who refuse to accept dogs into their cars. Director Odd Bratteberg of the Transportation Authority in Oslo warns that they will conduct random tests at taxi stands, and that drivers who refuse to accept passengers with dogs risk having their license revoked.
Frank says: