600 Kilo Bear:
The Chilul Hashem was made by the non-Jewish provocateur who went on the bus just to expose something that the passengers wanted and agreed to based on the perfectly valid views of their rabbonim.
No, the chillul Hashem was MADE by the people enforcing their practices against the law. The reporter was merely the instrument that made the chillul Hashem chal. She is immaterial in this regard.
Had someone done the same to expose an African-American practice, everyone would be crying “racism.”
Alternately, the company will ditch the franchise and the new operator or the MTA won’t make a penny on it because the old operator will get all the Jewish business.
It will all be forgotten, things will go on as they always did, and unless some passenger acts the way the sikrikim do, no one will interfere.
Try stopping any Islamic or African-American practice, including such beautiful demonstrations of civilization as the Crown Heights Labor Day Massacre, I mean parade, where bystanders of all creeds risk getting hit by stray bullets.
On the other hand, bnei yishmoel pere odom that follow the religion of a certain warlord who would today be arrested for pedophilia are suing a Catholic college so they can have a room without crosses! They will probably win, unless the college capitulates first as so many do because of fear of Islam.
So you want us to have the RIGHT to break the law, since the Muslims seem not to CARE if they do? The principle is not sound.
BP has far more political clout than the non-English speaking and often non-citizen population of Southeast Queens.
All they agreed to was that the DRIVER could not enforce seating…
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