"Muslim" isn't an ethnicity or race. There are muslims of every race and gender. Oh, yeah, there are also a lot of Arab Christians too. So again, how do you find out if a person is a muslim or not? You can't tell by looking at them.
Posted on 09/09/2011 6:43:27 PM PDT by MamaDearest
PEORIA — Ryder has canceled all truck rentals for the coming week due to credible but unconfirmed threats of terrorist attacks in the wake of the 10th anniversary of 9/11.
A customer who did not want to be identified told the Journal Star that she had been informed by Ryder of the cancellation by phone call Friday. A Ryder representative told the Journal Star all local rentals for the weekend had been canceled, though that person declined to elaborate on the reason.
Further questions were referred to the head of rentals for the local arm of the company. That person did not immediately return a request for an interview.
The customer was told by a Ryder representative in Peoria that the president of the company had decided to stop all truck rentals this week in the wake of the threats of terrorist attacks on the East Coast.
U.S. officials said Thursday they were investigating a credible but unconfirmed threat of a car bomb that may be used to target bridges or tunnels in New York City or Washington, D.C.
Neither U-Haul or Budget Truck Rental have any plans at this time to discontinue rentals in the area over the weekend, according to Peoria-area representatives reached by phone Friday afternoon.
Anyone who had moving plans disrupted this weekend who would like to share their story is asked to call the Journal Star newsroom at 686-3114 or email news@pjstar.com.
For more complete details, read tomorrow’s Journal Star or check pjstar.com later.
If it were up to me, muslims wouldn’t have any rights. They wouldn’t even be in this country.
I'm with you - also I hope everyone else does massive 'checks' if the person look suspicious.
He could have refused to sell them tickets for the flight. I am sure now he wishes he would have.
AQ wins when we become prisoners inside our own country.
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Hell, they won when TSA was set in place to grope old white women and little children.
What does a muslim look like? How do you know if someone is a muslim or not?
Ryder truck + Ramzi Yousef = 1993 WTC bombing.
Good call ...
Can the car rental agencies also follow suit?
Exactly. As if renting a Ryder is the only way to acquire a terrorist vehicle. I can think of plenty of substitutes for the both the verb to rent and the noun Ryder.
Stupid grandstanding by Ryder. Anyone they inconvenienced by breaking a contract should sue them.
Perhaps so, but his supervisor would have fired him and then sold the ticket to them, accomplishing nothing.
A check of Ryder’s website confirms that they have zero truck rental availability nationwide this coming week.
I bet it Hertz to do that.
ps-sidebar is great as well!
Ok. But can’t they just use U-haul or something else?
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Nah, it must be in the ‘terrorist hand book’ that they MUST use a Ryder....s/s/s/s
Well, I had no intention or need to rent a truck BUT, if they were to turn me down this weekend, they would NEVER have to worry about my crossing their threshold ever again.
"Muslim" isn't an ethnicity or race. There are muslims of every race and gender. Oh, yeah, there are also a lot of Arab Christians too. So again, how do you find out if a person is a muslim or not? You can't tell by looking at them.
This time, by panic-mongering.
See: Longshoremen in Washington state...where NO ONE WAS ARRESTED after union thugs destroyed property, threatened journalists and held a security guard hostage.
I guaran-damn-TEE you if Tea Party folks had destroyed property, threatened journalists and held people hostage, Barack Hussein Obama would be spewing out another nationwide "Let's be Civil" drivelfest.
Easy Fix. Give all prospective customers the “Bacon Test”
They have to eat a rasher of bacon or no rent truckie...
Obama and his minions would be shouting, “RACIAL PROFILING”
Sorry to be un-PC, but it’s a pretty good bet that an Arab-type is going to be Moslem, and a white or oriental is not.
Otherwise, rock on.
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