Apparently 10 per cent of cabbies in the Tajik capital, Dushanbe ......
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| Kissing Banned In Some Taxi Cabs |
...... have banned kissing in their taxis.
Kissing in public, whilst not explicitly illegal, is frowned upon in the Muslim country. So some of the taxi drivers say that an unofficial ban should also apply in their cabs, which they say are public spaces.
They say that they are after all their place of work, and as Tajikistan is not Europe, and is a very conservative country, where traditional Muslim rules of decorum should apply.
Most cabbies already have signs in their vehicles banning smoking, drinking, and listening to loud music .... the new signs have worried some locals, who think it poses a threat to personal freedom, as public shows of affection are currently perfectly legal, and decent people know how to behave in public.
But the increasingly Islamic countries of the old Soviet Empire, are bending slowly to the calls from hard line clerics .....
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