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Muslim Cabbies

May 28, 2009 by Debra Mason

A case study of a dispute over Muslim cab drivers refusing to transport alcohol because of religious beliefs

In October 2006, a woman returning to Minneapolis from a trip to France was refused service by five taxi drivers at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.

The woman had two bottles of wine in her suitcase, and the taxi drivers were Muslims. Most observant Muslims avoid alcohol, based on verses in their holy book, the Quran, which calls intoxicants “abominations of Satan’s handiwork” (5:90:91) and orders them to abstain. The Muslim taxi drivers refused to have alcohol in their taxis.

At the time of the incident, an estimated three-quarters of the Minneapolis airport’s 900 taxis drivers were Somalis, many of whom are Muslim, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune reported. The newspaper reported that potential customers carrying alcohol were refused taxi service about three times a day, with Metropolitan Airports Commission spokesman Patrick Hogan saying, “It’s become a significant customer-service issue.” Some Muslim cab drivers also asked dispatchers not to call them to pick up passengers wanting rides to liquor stores and bars, a USA Today article reported. By 2007, an estimated 5,000 people had been denied service in the previous five years because they carried alcohol, according to airport taxi officials.

Moral obligation or discrimination?

The same month, a transgendered woman in Minneapolis interviewed by the Fox 9 television news said that on three occasions Muslim taxi drivers who came to pick her up refused to take her, and that she often waited for cabs that never came. “This is more than just religion, it’s flat-out discrimination,” she said. As many as half of the drivers of Minneapolis’ 2,000 cabs are recent immigrants – many Muslim, the news channel reported. The Twin Cities is home to the nation’s largest Somali immigrant community, many members of which fled their East African nation’s civil war.

Some Muslim cab drivers reportedly also refused to transport passengers accompanied by dogs, including assistance dogs for people with disabilities. Islam considers the saliva of dogs to be unclean, said Hassan Mohamud, director of the Islamic Law Institute at the Muslim American Society of Minnesota. Some Somali cashiers refused to handle pork products during store checkout. The Quran prohibits eating pork. Similar conflicts arose in Australia and Canada about the same time.

The issue highlights a conflict between rights to religious belief and practice and rights to service without discrimination. The boycotting drivers believed the airport should accommodate tenets of their faith. Others – from cab customers to Minnesota residents and national bloggers – felt the drivers discriminated against those who did not share their faith and aimed to impose Islamic law. Federal law requires employers to make reasonable accommodations for religious beliefs, as long as they don’t place an “undue burden” on the business.

Workplace conflict

By the time of the October 2006 reports, the Metropolitan Airports Commission, which regulates the airport’s taxi service, had been discussing possible accommodations with drivers over the issue for about two years (with some reports saying the conflict had been brewing at least since 2000). The commission agreed to have drivers use lights on top of their cabs to identify them as drivers who would not transport alcohol. Airport personnel could then direct customers to a different driver. But the proposal incited a public backlash, with more than 400 responses from the public, most against the proposal.

In October 2006, the commission rejected the proposal, meaning that cabbies who refused fares would have to move to the back of the taxi line, a delay of three to five hours.

Mixed response

Not all Muslims shared the views of the cabbies who refused fares. Temple University Islamic scholar Mahmoud Ayoub pointed out in a USA Today article that the objection in the Quran is mainly to consuming intoxicants, often interpreted as alcohol. And many Muslims own businesses that sell beer or serve pork, he said.

Omar Jamal, executive director of the Somali Justice Advocacy Center said: “We tell taxi drivers, if you don’t want to do this, change your job. You are living in a country where alcohol is not viewed the way it is in your country.” Some Somali immigrants and advocates said they feared the conflict would sever relationships with mainstream groups and employers, and that Muslim employees were manipulated by religious extremists.

However, the Minnesota Chapter of the Muslim American Society, which backed the protesting employees, believed an accommodation of the drivers was appropriate. “More than half the taxi drivers are Muslim and ignoring the sensibilities of that community at the airport I think is not fair,” Hassan Mahamud, vice president of the MAS Minnesota chapter, said in a USA Today article. In 2006, MAS issued a fatwa or religious edict, saying that “Islamic jurisprudence” prohibits cab drivers from carrying customers with alcohol “because it involves cooperating in sin according to Islam.” MAS, which was founded by U.S. members of the Muslim Brotherhood, promotes the spread of Islamic influence through political parties and militant groups in the Middle East, according to a USA Today article.

Some Muslim cab drivers said the refusals were not a choice but part of their religion, and that drivers who knowingly transported alcohol would have to answer to God on Judgment Day. Some also framed it as a civil liberties issue. Abdisalam Hashim, a Somali Muslim and taxi manager, said in a USA Today article, “When I’m American, I have freedom to practice my religion and freedom to work anyplace I want to work. This is the way we address Islam. … We have the right to say this is how we do it.”

Response from non-Muslims during the conflict ranged from support for civil liberties and religious expression, to anger at the boycotting cabbies. “GET OVER IT, you are in America act like an American!’ a comment on one online bulletin board said. “Americans are not going to put up with this. If they won’t do the job they were hired to do … fire them,” a blogger posted. Eva Buzek, the woman with the wine whose story was told in 2006 and a Polish immigrant, said in 2007, “In my book, when you choose to come to a different country, you make some choices. I never expected everything to be the same way as in my homeland, and I adjusted. I never dreamed of imposing my beliefs on somebody else.”

Resolution?

In 2007, amid public complaints about lack of service, the Minneapolis airport commission approved a proposal to suspend airport licenses for cab drivers who refused service for reasons other than safety. This included a 30-day suspension for a first offense and two-year revocation for a second offense. “Our expectation is that if you’re going to be driving a taxi at the airport, you need to provide service to anybody who wants it,” Hogan, the commission spokesman, said in a Star-Tribune article. Some Muslim drivers felt the new rules persecuted based on religion.

Later in 2007, Muslim employees of three Twin Cities taxi companies offered to provide free rides to blind people and their guide dogs who attended a convention of the National Federation of the Blind of Minnesota. The Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic relations, America’s largest Islamic civil liberties group, backed the effort. CAIR members and some Muslim cab drivers said that reports of Muslim cabbies refusing rides to blind people with dogs were untrue and that drivers had been misrepresented in the media. The effort did not address other types of boycotts.

Issues and Study Questions

• Based on the overview above, what happened? Why?
• What could have been done differently? By whom?
• Would it have made a difference? What difference?
• Why was religion problematic in this situation?
• What is the responsibility of taxi drivers to the public? What about other professions?
• What, if anything, can be learned? How do we prevent such occurrences in the future? Should we?
• Are Constitutional rights, religious advocacy groups, and professional organizations sufficient to handle such problems? If not, who should address them?
• What would you have done differently, as a cab driver, a Muslim, a passenger, a non-Muslim, an airport official, a religious leader?
• Do you think there was a “right” and “wrong” position here? If so, whom do you believe was “right?”
• Have you faced similar conflicts in your own profession? If so, what were they? Were they resolved? How were they resolved?
• Do you think education about religious literacy would have helped/harmed in this situation? How so?

Compiled by Amy White

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Faithful Reporting

May 28, 2009 by Debra Mason

Jeff Reynolds has been sent to do a follow-up article on an accident in Cairo, Ill. A school bus approaching a railroad crossing stopped as it must by law. A semi truck did not slow and struck the bus from behind, sending it into the path of an oncoming train. Eleven school children between the ages of six and twelve were killed and fifteen others were injured. The bus driver was also killed. The truck driver was slightly injured, was taken to the hospital, treated and released.

Jeff decided to interview parents of the dead and injured children. Several pairs of parents refused to talk with him; their pain was not a public matter, they said. Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Buckton did agree to speak with Jeff. He went to their home for the interview. Mrs. Buckton showed Jeff a picture of Jenny, aged 8, their beautiful, intelligent, playful daughter, their only child. She wept and continued to speak about her wonderful, dead child. Mr. Buckton remained stolidly silent, arms crossed, eyes down. Jeff turned to him to ask what sustained him during this terrible tragedy? Mr. Buckton looked at his wife and then said that only their faith kept them from going to the truck driver’s house to confront him and perhaps, admitted Mr. Buckton, do him physical harm. He was angry, deeply angry, but he was controlling it and trying to find the strength to forgive the truck driver whom the Bucktons felt was responsible for their Jenny’s death.

“Where do you look for such strength?” Jeff asked.

Mrs. Buckton looked at her husband who said, “In our faith. Jesus forgave his executioners. I wonder if he could have forgiven them if they had killed his daughter?”

Jeff wasn’t sure what to do at this point. He knew that his editor was against any mention of God in the paper and especially against stories that seemed to support any particular faith. Jeff wrote the story of the Buckton’s struggle pretty much as they had told it to him.  The story appeared without any mention of faith, only of the Bucktons’ anger at the truck driver.

Issues and Study Questions

  • Based on the overview above, what are the issues?
  • What are the beliefs at issue here?
  • Should Jeff have mentioned religion in his story? If so, how should he have done so?
  • What could Jeff or his editor do differently?
  • What do you feel the newspaper/parents should do here?
  • Why was religion an issue in this situation?
  • What do you think the parents’/readers’ reaction was to this story?
  • What is the responsibility of journalists in such a situation? What about other professions?
  • Do you think there is a “right” and “wrong” way to handle this situation? Why? Why not?
  • Have you faced similar issues in your own profession or personal life? If so, what were they? Were they resolved?
  • What can be learned?
  • Do you think education about religious literacy would have helped/harmed in this situation? How so?

Source: Religion and the Professions (General Honors 1030) taught by Dr. Jill Raitt, University of Missouri

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Religion and the News Media

May 28, 2009 by Debra Mason

This case utilizes the following four articles. The situation described in the problem is hypothetical.

  • “The Case for Intelligent Design”
  • “Greetings from Idiot America”
  • “Scientists Speak Up on Mix of God and Science”
  • “Spirited Debate”

The journalistic coverage of religion is on the rise as the visibility of religion and spirituality increases in American society, politics and popular culture. The managing editors of the publications that printed the stories listed above have been inundated with reader feedback – both positive and negative. After seeing the volume and passion of the letters, the editors decide they must respond. Each editor asks the ombudsman to evaluate the stories to determine whether the stories were fair. Ultimately the editors want the ombudsmen to write columns on how reporters should cover controversial issues involving religion and diverse religious beliefs and practices with which reporters may be unfamiliar. The ombudsmen will also consider ways for reporters to minimize personal bias in reporting about religion.

Issues and Study Questions

  • Based on the overview above, what are the issues?
  • What are the beliefs at issue here?
  • Why did the readers support or object to the coverage?
  • What could the journalists do differently?
  • What do you feel the ombudsmen should do here?
  • Why was religion an issue in this situation?
  • What is the responsibility of the publishers in such a situation? What about other professions?
  • Do you think there is a “right” and “wrong” way to handle this situation? Why? Why not?
  • Have you faced similar issues in your own profession or personal life? If so, what were they? Were they resolved?
  • What can be learned?
  • Do you think education about religious literacy would have helped/harmed in this situation? How so?

Source: Religion and the Professions (General Honors 1030) taught by Dr. Jill Raitt, University of Missouri

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Enrollment open for religious literacy class

May 28, 2009 by Debra Mason

May 28, 2009 – There are a few days left to enroll in “Religious Literacy for the Public and Professions,” a new online course offered through MU Direct: Continuing and Distance Education. The course (REL ST 3100) teaches students to engage and encounter religion in day-to-day life and in the professional workplace. Its primary goal is to examine religious diversity in private and professional contexts from a practical standpoint by examining a variety of case studies. The course is open to University of Missouri students who are absent from campus for the summer or unable to attend day classes and to nontraditional students.

  • See more about the course
  • Enroll in the course
  • See more about MU Direct: Continuing and Distance Education

Five seats remain available for the course, which is offered through the University of Missouri’s Department of Religious Studies. The course was created by the department and the Center on Religion & the Professions at University of Missouri. The instructor is Justin Arft. Students can register up to June 8 for the eight-week class, which runs June 8-July 31. MU summer registration is June 3-5. A late fee is assessed if registering June 5-8.

  • E-mail the instructor

Textbooks for the course include “Religion and the Workplace” by Douglas A. Hicks and “How to Be a Perfect Stranger: The Essential Religious Etiquette Handbook” by Stuart M. Matlins and Arthur J. Magida.

The Center on Religion & the Professions was founded in 2003 with a mission of improving religious literacy among professionals, to help them serve a diverse public. For more information about the Center, call (573) 882-9257.

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CORP Newsletter – May 18, 2009

May 18, 2009 by Debra Mason

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News, Research, Calls for Papers and Events from the University of Missouri’s Center on Religion & the Professions (CORP)
May 18, 2009

Greetings! This will be our last edition of the newsletter before it takes a summer hiatus, but read on for current news and upcoming events, plus previews of some events coming up this summer and in early fall 2009. [Read more…]

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KBIA interviews CORP director about hate group

May 14, 2009 by Debra Mason

May 14, 2009 – National Public Radio affiliate KBIA interviewed Debra L. Mason, director of the Center on Religion & the Professions, on May 14 for a story about Westboro Baptist Church, which planned a protest in Columbia. In the wide-ranging interview, Mason addressed questions about whether the media should cover the group – known for its position against homosexuality and protesting at soldiers’ funerals – how they are related to other Baptists and whether they could be classified as a cult.

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In addition to directing the Center, Mason is executive director of the Religion Newswriters Association and is a professor of journalism studies at the University of Missouri School of Journalism. She is a nationally recognized, award-winning and widely published specialist in religion journalism and has more than 25 years of professional reporting, research and teaching experience.

The Center on Religion & the Professions (CORP) aims to improve religious literacy among professionals, to help them serve a diverse public. It performs research and creates curriculum, resources and public programming to accomplish that goal. For more information about the Center, call (573) 882-9257.

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CORP achievements featured in J-School newsletter

May 12, 2009 by Debra Mason

May 12, 2009 – Recent accomplishments of the MU Center on Religion & the Professionsjournalismlogo are featured in the May 2009 Missouri School of Journalism Graduate Studies Newsletter. These include speaking engagements by Dr. Debra Mason, CORP director; large turnouts at recent CORP-sponosred events; and information about the new “Religious Literacy for the Public and Professions” class to be taught online this summer.

Download the newsletter at the Missouri School of Journalism Graduate Program page, under Graduate Publications. The article appears on Page 11.

The Center on Religion & the Professions, which works to improve the religious literacy of professionals, including journalists, is an affiliate of the Missouri School of Journalism.

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MU professor's book on work and faith featured

May 12, 2009 by Debra Mason

May 12, 2009 – Dr. Richard “Chip” Callahan‘s recent book, “Work and Faith in the Kentucky Coal Fields: Subject to Dust,” is this week’s Book of the Week in Books & Culture: A Christian Review, a Christianity Today publication. Callahan is an assistant professor in the callahanDepartment of Religious Studies at University of Missouri. With a primary interest in religion in America, Callahan’s research explores the sphere of work and labor, including how occupational cultures, settings and relations of exchange both inform and are informed by religion.

His latest book uses oral histories, folklore, folksongs and vernacular spirituality to tell the history of how early 20th-century coal miners and their families lived their religion in eastern Kentucky’s coal fields. It is published by University of Indiana Press.

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Mason starts new blog

April 23, 2009 by Debra Mason

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April 23, 2009 – Debra L. Mason, director of the Center on Religion & the Professions, has launched a new blog on religion and the news. Recent posts feature topics such as religion and Facebook, media access to federal faith-based initiative leaders, and President Obama’s biblical literacy.

Mason is executive director of the Religion Newswriters Association and is a professor of journalism studies at the University of Missouri School of Journalism. She is a nationally recognized, award-winning and widely published specialist in religion journalism and has more than 25 years of professional reporting, research and teaching experience.

  • Read the Debra L. Mason blog

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CORP Newsletter – March 17, 2009

March 17, 2009 by Debra Mason

crp-logoNews, Research, Calls for Papers and Events from the University of Missouri’s Center on Religion & the Professions (CORP)
March 17, 2009

CORP EVENTS
April 2 Film Series: “Spirituality & Health” Free. “Swimming in Auschwitz: Survival Stories of Six Women,” chronicles the families, faith and spiritual stories of six women deported to the notorious Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp during the Holocaust. Discussion led by Dr. Brick Johnstone, MU professor of health psychology and head of CORP’s Spirituality & Health research team. Wrench Auditorium, South Memorial Union, 7 p.m.

April 7 Lecture and Book Signing: “Losing My Religion” by William Lobdell, former Los Angeles Times reporter and editor. Lobdell covered religion at the Times for eight years, reporting on such stories as the Roman Catholic clergy abuse crisis. In 2007, he wrote a column revealing that his experience with religion as a journalist caused him to lose his Christian faith. His memoir, “Losing My Religion: How I Lost My Faith Reporting on Religion in America – and Found Unexpected Peace,” was published in 2009. Free. Fred W. Smith Forum, Reynolds Journalism Institute, Missouri School of Journalism, 7-9 p.m.

April 11 Conversation: “Prayer and Your Profession.” Do you pray at work? Hear from those for whom prayer is part of daily practice, including in their professions. Find out what it means for them to be able to pray at work and how it relates to their professions. Free. Part of the “Sects and the City: Coffee and Conversation on the Intersection of Faith and Life” series. The Cherry Street Artisan, 111 S. 9th St., Columbia, 11 a.m.-noon.

CORP NEWS
Director Interviewed: CORP Director Debra L. Mason was interviewed about technology use by churches for an article, “PTL*: Praise the Lord, Local church invites prayer requests via text message,” in the Columbia Daily Tribune on March 7, 2009. Mason provided information about the role of technology in churches and faith outreach, types of technology and trends.

Research Published: Religion and health research conducted by CORP-affiliated researchers has been published in the Missouri Medicine Quarterly. The article, “Spirituality, Religion and Health Outcomes Research: Findings from the Center on Religion and the Professions,” was authored by Dr. Brick Johnstone, head of CORP’s Spirituality and Health research team. The issue comes out in March 2009.

New Resources Online: CORP has added new resources to its Web site, including links to codes of ethics and conduct for 41 disciplines taught at MU; and to more than 60 religious organizations at MU. The Web site now also includes a newly launched feature on ways to donate to the Center.

New Course: CORP and affiliates have developed a new course, “Religious Literacy for the Public and Professions” (Religious Studies 3100) that will be taught online in Summer 2009 through MU Extension’s Center for Distance and Independent Learning. The course provides practical knowledge about religion as it is encountered in the professional world in a pluralistic society. For information, call 882-9257.

CAMPUS AND COMMUNITY EVENTS
March 26 Lecture: “Matters of Life and Death,” by Thomas Lynch, funeral director, noted speaker and author of books such as “The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade.” Part of the President’s Lecture Series at William Woods University. Cutlip Auditorium, William Woods University, Fulton, 7 p.m.

April 2 Lecture: “From Transience to Transcendence: The Psychological Impact of Awareness of Mortality on Human Conflict, Aggression and Peaceful Co-Existence,” by Jamie Arndt, associate professor in MU’s Department of Psychological Sciences. Overview of how human aggression and conflict can be understood, in part, as responses to the existential predicament of the human condition. Part of the 2009 Distinguished Lecture Series in Psychological Sciences, sponsored by the MU Department of Psychological Sciences and MU College of Arts and Sciences. Ketchum Auditorium, Laferre Hall, 3:30-5 p.m.

April 3 Brownbag Lecture: “The Mystery of the Resurrection: An Eastern Perspective,” sponsored by the MU Christian Scholars’ Forum. Fellowship, presentation and discussion; bring lunch. N243 Memorial Union, noon-1 p.m.

April 3-5 Retreat: Insight Meditation, led by Gina Sharpe, New York City Insight founder and visiting teacher at Insight Meditation Society and Spirit Rock. Featuring meditation, inquiry and conferences with teachers, focusing on awakening of wisdom and compassion and their manifestation in everyday life. Sponsored by Show Me Dharma. Sliding scale, $55-$100. Location to be announced. The non-residential retreat runs 7-9 p.m. April 3; 9 a.m.-5 p.m. April 4; and 8 a.m.-noon April 5.

April 4 Training: Diversity Train the Trainers, a program to instruct participants on diversity exploration activities. Sponsored by the MU Multicultural Center. Free. For more information, call (573) 882-7152. Gaines-Oldham Black Culture Center, 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m.

April 8 Film: “For the Bible Tells Me So,” an exploration of how people and families of faith address having a gay child. Sponsored by the MSA/GPC Films Committee. Free. Wrench Auditorium, South Memorial Union, 8 p.m.

April 14 Dinner: Social Justice Seder, an interfaith event honoring the Jewish liberation story of Passover and celebrating struggles for freedom. The meal is kosher for Passover and is vegetarian. Free and open to the public. Sponsored by the MU Women’s Center, Hillel, the Jewish Student Organization, the Multicultural Center, and the LGBT Resource Center. For more information, contact Struby at strublem@missouri.edu or (573) 882-6549. Location to be announced, 6 p.m.

April 20 Lecture: “Muslims and the Secular State: Dynamics of Majority/Minority Situations” by Abdullahi An-Naim, director of the Religion and Human Rights Program of Emory University School of Law’s Law and Religion Program. An-Naim, who is from Sudan, is an internationally recognized scholar on Islam and human rights, religion and human rights, Islamic law and criminal law. Sponsored by the MU Department of Religious Studies. 114 MU Physics Building, 7 p.m.

CONFERENCES
April 29 Seminar: “Living with Grief: Diversity and End-of-life Care,” a teleconference seminar focusing on understanding diversity and how cultural histories, traditions and beliefs can affect end-of-life care. Moderated by Frank Sesno, CNN special correspondent and professor of media and public affairs at George Washington University. Hosted by the MU Center for Health Ethics. Continuing education credit available. Deadline to register is April 3. For more information, contact Allison Farris at (573) 882-2738. $30 ($20 for students). MU Old Alumni Center, 1105 Carrie Francke Drive, Columbia, noon-4 p.m.

CALLS FOR PAPERS
March 31 Deadline: Nida School for Translation Studies, a program of the E.A. Nida Institute for Biblical Scholarship at the American Bible Society, aimed at supporting advanced training and research into translation studies. Theme is “Translation and Culture.” Conference to be held Sept. 7-9, 2009, in Rimini, Italy. For details, visit http://www.nidainstitute.org/TheNidaSchool/NidaSchool2009.dsp .

RELIGION IN THE NEWS
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