Friday, September 28, 2007

Hookah Me Up!

The City Council passed a no smoking law in Vancouver Canada. Muslim's did not like it and went to court. They won....

Vancouver's hookah-parlour owners are celebrating after winning an exemption Thursday from a proposed new bylaw that will ban smoking on most sidewalks in commercial districts, in bus shelters and even in taxis passing through Vancouver.
In giving the bylaw unanimous approval-in-principle, Vancouver city council members bowed to arguments that hookah lounges provide an important cultural space for the city's Muslims and granted them a temporary exemption.

Cultural space! Can the Rastafarians be far behind? "Excuse me while I light my spliff...." olde Bob Marley tune.

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