Translated from Swedish: Muslim taxi drivers blocked the entire Oslo

Muslim taxi drivers blocked the entire Oslo 1000 taxis were stopped in the night – in protest against the Muhammad cartoons

Notices went out last night on the taxi radio.

All drivers who opposed the Norwegian Dagbladet publication of the Muhammad cartoons would put the car between two and four at night.

At three o’clock had 1 000 Muslim taxi drivers gathered.

It was hard to get somewhere in the middle of Oslo between two and four at night.

A thousand drivers

When the Norwegian NRK was in place at three o’clock, almost 1 000 Muslim taxi drivers parked their cars inside the city center to protest against the Dagbladet printed caricatures of Muhammad.

It was last Wednesday that Dagbladet had caricatures of the Prophet on its front page, as an illustration to a text that security police had linked to the controversial cartoons on its website.



“Misuse of freedom of expression”

The publication aroused anger among the Muslim taxi drivers, who decided to show its position.

– It is the abuse of free speech, we are reacting against. We do not do anything drastic, but we want to show that we are opposed to what we hold sacred being misused, “said one of the drivers, Munir Rashad to VG Nett.

The protest was peaceful until the police confined themselves to ensure that there was a clear passage for emergency vehicles.