Now the Germans are stirring

Ron in Regina

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Muslim street prayers is now a fairly well used and documented provocation across Europe. The idea is to do a highly aggressive and threatening act in public yet make it look like an act of piety, so that any response to it other than total submission to the subversion of public space to Islamic purpose, appears to be an aggressive and anti-freedom act, as well as a breach of their rights to freedom of religion and making the Muslims be both the aggressor and victim at the same time.

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I can't think of another reason for this behaviour at this point. Is there
not a Park or empty Parking Lot or a Mosque to pray in other than an
intersection of roadways...in the middle of the road?
 

gerryh

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I can't think of another reason for this behaviour at this point. Is there
not a Park or empty Parking Lot or a Mosque to pray in other than an
intersection of roadways...in the middle of the road?


As has been pointed out by me and ruff, they were not praying in the street, it was an obvious square that was already blocked off by a stage.
 

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I can't think of another reason for this behaviour at this point. Is there
not a Park or empty Parking Lot or a Mosque to pray in other than an
intersection of roadways...in the middle of the road?

Well, the video does seem to show them in some sort of public square. You can see the protesters are actually on the road surface nearby though.

If you think about it though, you could say the same thing about the German Defense League. Could they not practice their Islamophobia behind closed doors and out of sight?

There is so much anti-Islam stuff going on in the Europe, it shouldn't be surprising that there are some Muslim people who are interested in publicly standing up to this.
 
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Thats only because I hadn't seen it yet.


I saw NOTHING wrong with what was going on. I noticed a stage set up to the left in the square with someone ranting on and on in German. Have no idea what it was about, and then a group of Mulsims doing their prayers in the same square as the stage. No traffic was impeded that wasn't already being impeded by the stage, and there was plenty of room on either side of the group of men to get by and around them, so foot traffic was not impeded either. They didn't force anyone to pray with them, they obviously didn't force anyone into silence. Though I did hear a lot of whistleing and caterwalling trying to disrupt the Muslim prayers.




ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh poor baby, still have your knickers all tied up in knots about this I see. You can always move to Scandinavia.

I concede on a traffic interruption- I do not concede that this was an interruption of an event. Peaceful yes - disruption - yes
 

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I can't think of another reason for this behaviour at this point. Is there
not a Park or empty Parking Lot or a Mosque to pray in other than an
intersection of roadways...in the middle of the road?

As I mentioned earlier try building a Mosque in France, England and possible Germany - If it was a church, not a problem- No wonder these counties have a problem with Muslims- some, not all is created by the far right, ill educated idiots.
You see 2 reactions - one bending over backwards for the PC crowd and then you have the extremist far right. Both are wrong.
 

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How was it a disruption?

I would also like to hear that answer. It seems like there is no reason that that relatively small group of people praying would cause any disruption at all. It is the huge group of people protesting them that seems to be causing all the ruckus.
 

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According to my wife the first part is a muslim prayer and then he goes on to preach from the Koran in German. She couldn't take any more after the 2 minute mark.
 

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So what does that mean for this discussion?

I checked around and could not find much info, except for the hate blogs. And I was not going in there.

Cannuck- I see you are on the Tampon- Perhaps a Midol will work.
 
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So what does that mean for this discussion?
I think it means it was much ado over nothing. So nothing to discuss. I incorrectly thought buddy who was leading the prayers was using those in front of him who really were praying to spout off about radicalism.