You can certainly get food poisoning from rice, and I'm sure a lot of people think that you can't. One of the foulest things I have ever smelt that didn't involve maggots was from a saucepan full of rice that somebody in an old flat had left out for about a week, with the lid on.
What that fact seems to have turned into, though, is an urban myth that if you reheat rice it will KILL YOU DEAD. If you get some rice from a takeaway, if it was okay when you got it the chances of it being okay after a night in the fridge are extremely high. And reheating isn't going to change that either way really. Just, you know, don't leave it out all night and then think "oh it's rice it'll be fine only meat goes off". If you'd reheat a curry in the same situation why not the rice?