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Yahia Nassar

Muslim cabbies pray at a BP station in downtown Manhattan while patrons pump gas.

For devout Muslim cabbies in New York City, parking tickets are the price of prayers

Lifestyle & Belief

Muslims are required to pray five times a day — at specific times, no matter what they’re doing. For New York City’s Muslim cab drivers, roughly half of the 40,000 people driving cabs, that means stopping their cabs wherever they are to pray.