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Blind passenger hounded off bus because of his dog (You guessed it: Muslims again)
GetReading.co.uk ^ | 6/3/09 | Paul Cassell

Posted on 06/11/2009 11:34:50 AM PDT by LibWhacker

A driver told a blind cancer sufferer to get off his bus when a woman and her children became hysterical at the sight of his guide dog.

George Herridge, 71, told how the mum flew into a rage and shouted at him in a foreign language. A passenger explained she wanted him to get off the bus during the incident on May 20.

Mr Herridge, from Tern Close, Tilehurst, said: “Her child was kicking and screaming and someone off the bus told me her child was frightened of my dog. The driver said, ‘Look mate, can’t you get off?’

“I stood my ground. I had not done anything, my dog had not done anything and I was getting off the bus for no one.”

The retired NHS worker claimed he was forced off a bus by a driver after a similar encounter last summer.

And a day after the latest bus incident an lady began screaming “I don’t like dirty dogs” at Mr Herridge at the Royal Berkshire Hospital.

A week earlier he faced further animosity from a couple at Asda in The Meadway, he said.

He is unsure what has provoked outbursts but said he thinks some have come from Asian people and that it may be due to religious or cultural differences.

If the people who were upset were Muslim, they consider dogs to be ritually unclean.

Some may have them as pets but keep them in a separate living area. Anything coming into contact with its saliva, such as clothes, must be washed seven times if they intend to pray in those clothes.

Mr Herridge said: “I do not expect any special treatment but just to be left in peace and live my life the best I can.”

Reading Buses accepted the driver was wrong but had been placed in an “impossible situation”.

Drivers have been re-instructed to convey the blind and the bus company has sought advice from the Royal National Institute for the Blind and hopes to speak with Muslim leaders.

As part of a Muslim Council of Britain project, Mufti Zubair Butt, Shar’ia advisor to Muslim Spiritual Care Provision in the NHS, admitted Muslims “require some education” on guide dogs.

In response to concerns raised about guide dogs in mid-2008, he said: “It is important that one does not impose one’s own understanding upon others, but one shows understanding and compassion for others, their needs and their views, especially in an open communal space and in a country where Muslims are living as a minority.”


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: blind; bus; crushislam; dog; islam; islamicagenda; muslims
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1 posted on 06/11/2009 11:34:51 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: LibWhacker

You won’t find a LIONS Club in an Arab/Muslim country. They’re not to keen on the Blind.


2 posted on 06/11/2009 11:36:51 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: LibWhacker

You guessed it. England again ....


3 posted on 06/11/2009 11:38:04 AM PDT by SkyDancer ('Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not..' ~ Thomas Jefferson)
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To: LibWhacker

I see the ownership in a bus company in his future.


4 posted on 06/11/2009 11:38:04 AM PDT by bgill (The evidence simply does not support the official position of the Obama administration)
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To: LibWhacker

The Brits have been castrated.


5 posted on 06/11/2009 11:38:13 AM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, save Bowman for later)
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To: LibWhacker

Disgusting.


6 posted on 06/11/2009 11:38:54 AM PDT by Dallas59 ("You know the one with the big ears? He might be yours, but he ain't my president.")
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To: LibWhacker

Id rather sit next to a filthy dog licking his private part than a muzzie minding his business.


7 posted on 06/11/2009 11:39:23 AM PDT by DogBarkTree (Support The American Tea Party)
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To: LibWhacker

This woman should have been the one kicked off the bus, and even better out of the UK altogether.


8 posted on 06/11/2009 11:39:24 AM PDT by KJC1
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To: LibWhacker

Who leads blind moosies around, monkeys,
or do they hate all animals? Are the vegetarians?

Never mind, I don’t really care.


9 posted on 06/11/2009 11:40:00 AM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (The plan... 0 in power for life. At least that's what they told him.)
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To: LibWhacker

gee, let’s see-there is, thanks to liberal thought(oxymoron) a “wall of seperation” between church and state in this country.
The muzzies religious sensibilies were offended by the dog on a STATE mode of public transportation. Their religion or religious beliefs lack “standing” when it comes to public accomodations.
They should have gotten their berqua wearing asses off of the bus.


10 posted on 06/11/2009 11:40:20 AM PDT by mrmargaritaville
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To: massgopguy
If they do not want to ride on a bus with a dog then it is the right to WALK instead of riding.
11 posted on 06/11/2009 11:40:25 AM PDT by cpdiii (roughneck, oilfield trash and proud of it, geologist, pilot, pharmacist, iconoclast.)
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To: LibWhacker
Reading Buses accepted the driver was wrong but had been placed in an “impossible situation”.

Uhh--no he wasn't. Kick the mother and children off the bus for causing a scene.

12 posted on 06/11/2009 11:40:34 AM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: massgopguy

Muzzies shun the mentally and physically handicapped. Ask anyone who has had the misfortune to know them.


13 posted on 06/11/2009 11:40:53 AM PDT by DogBarkTree (Support The American Tea Party)
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To: SkyDancer

lol


14 posted on 06/11/2009 11:40:54 AM PDT by LibWhacker (America awake!)
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To: KJC1
Muslim birthrate in European socialist countries (ie, those who work are paying them to procreate)

8.1

15 posted on 06/11/2009 11:41:12 AM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, save Bowman for later)
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To: LibWhacker

I be so suing I wonder if any Brit attorney would take this dude to court

I doubt it I could be wrong


16 posted on 06/11/2009 11:42:06 AM PDT by SevenofNine ("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us, resistence is futile")
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To: massgopguy; ExTexasRedhead

This so stupid. I wonder if the Muslims were in the country legally. Aside from that; they are in another country and get over it or take another form of transportatioin.


17 posted on 06/11/2009 11:42:10 AM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: LibWhacker

“in a country where Muslims are living in a minority”

Not their plans, though, is it?
Bye bye, Lassie.


18 posted on 06/11/2009 11:43:01 AM PDT by GnuHere
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To: LibWhacker
If the people who were upset were Muslim, they consider dogs to be ritually unclean.

And Pakis who wipe their asses with their hands are clean?

19 posted on 06/11/2009 11:43:23 AM PDT by FreepShop1
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To: bgill
I see the ownership in a bus company in his future.

LOL, I see a reading problem, this happened in Britain.

20 posted on 06/11/2009 11:43:34 AM PDT by org.whodat ("Way past time for new commodities regulation")
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