Category Archives: Street Prayers

The Mecca of the city: In a London street, the faithful find a way to pray as their mosque overflows

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Yep, it’s finally reached London. Although my headline would have been different.

‘British Muslims line up for free prostate exam’

From The Daily Mail:

In the shadow of the glass and steel skyscrapers of London’s Square Mile, hundreds of  Muslims kneel in the street for Friday prayers.

Yesterday’s hour-long service a stone’s throw from the heart of the financial district proved so popular that worshippers filled the streets around the tiny community mosque.

City workers in pinstripe suits mixed with Muslims from the local Bangladeshi community, cramming into the streets beside a Bentley and other parked cars.

The Brune Street mosque, in Spitalfields, East London, is the nearest mosque for Friday prayers for many City workers and others from Brick Lane and Whitechapel.Filling the street: Beneath a towering office block the shoeless worshippers bow down. The Brune Street mosque, in Spitalfields, East London, is the nearest mosque for Friday prayers for many City workers

The Brune Street mosque, in Spitalfields, East London, is the nearest mosque for Friday prayers for many City workers and others from Brick Lane and Whitechapel.

It is a one-room community mosque with a maximum capacity of 100, so when some 300 turn up for Friday midday prayers locals have become accustomed to seeing worshippers kneeling in the surrounding streets, all facing Mecca.

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Muslims force moscovites to remove their shoes on public streets.

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How do you spell ‘dhimmitude’? If ever there was a time for water cannon and vast amounts of soap…

This video was uploaded Nov 20th. There are fleeting subtitles.

In a sort of related post, it seems Muslims get very offended when you ask them to clean up the litter they leave behind on public streets as this article from the Daily Mail shows. As in the video above, residents can’t help but notice that the culturally different Muslims do not hold the same regard for public cleanliness and the environment as the natives of either Moscow or London. But they really dislike having it pointed out.

Hundreds of Muslims Pray in New York Park, March to NYPD Headquarters in Protest

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I would have hoped that a peace loving, pro-American Islamic population would be willing to assist in any terror investigation of its own community whole heartedly.

To be fair, a lot of the people who have been caught before they did anything were turned in by fellow Muslims. But this is still an interesting demonstration for those who might claim to be all American.

Below is some of the article from…

From the Blaze:

NEW YORK (The Blaze/AP) — Hundreds of Muslims prayed in a lower Manhattan park and marched to New York Police headquarters Friday to protest a decade of police infiltrating mosques and spying on Muslim neighborhoods.

Bundled in winter clothes, men and women knelt as the call to prayer echoed off the cold stone of government buildings.

“Being Muslim does not negate our nationality,” Imam Talib Abdur-Rashid told the crowd of about 500 gathered in Foley Square, not far from City Hall and local courthouses. “We are unapologetically Muslim and uncompromisingly American.”

The demonstration was smaller and more subdued than the Occupy Wall Street protests that led to clashes with police and made headlines worldwide. Police wore windbreakers, not riot gear, and protesters called for improved relations with police.

“We want for you to respect us,” Abdur-Rashid said, “and we will respect you.”

It was the first organized opposition to the NYPD’s intelligence tactics since an Associated Press investigation revealed widespread spying programs that documented every aspect of Muslim life in New York. Police infiltrated mosques and student groups. Plainclothes officers catalogued Middle Eastern restaurants and their clientele. Analysts built databases on Arab cab drivers and monitored Muslims who changed their names.

 

80,000 Muslims Pray on Moscow Street

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See now, in Ottawa that would normally mean about $200,000,000.00 in parking violations. Well it should mean that.

From The Moscow Times:

H/T Blazing Cat Fur

06 November 2011
The Associated Press

Tens of thousands of Muslim men knelt shoulder-to-shoulder in prayer on the freezing streets of Moscow on Sunday to celebrate the religious holiday of Eid al-Adha.

Estimates of the number of Muslims living or working in the Russian capital run from 2 million to as high as 5 million, but the city has few mosques.

Police said 170,000 people celebrated the holiday in Moscow, including 80,000 who gathered on the street outside what was once the main mosque. The 100-year-old pastel green Cathedral Mosque was torn down in September and a new mosque being built next to it is still under construction.

Many of those who braved temperatures of minus 8 degrees Celsius to pray on Sunday morning were migrant workers from countries in Central Asia that were once part of the Soviet Union.

“Of course, new mosques are needed,” said Maruv, a shop worker from Tajikistan who gave only his first name. “Look at how many people are in the street, and it’s cold. They have been standing here waiting for the beginning of prayers since 6 a.m., and there are no facilities.”

Police cordoned off the area and set up metal detectors to screen worshippers. The mosque is located next to the Olimpiisky Sports Complex, where this weekend women tennis players from Russia and the Czech Republic played the Fed Cup final.

Eid al-Adha, or “festival of sacrifice,” known as Kurban-Bairam in Russia, is a feast celebrated by Muslims worldwide. The holiday commemorates Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice his son, Ishmael, to show obedience to God, but God provided a sheep for him to sacrifice instead.

Read more:http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/80000-muslims-pray-on-moscow-street/447169.html#ixzz1cyRMHRNA
The Moscow Times

Occupy Wall St. becomes large outdoor mosque

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Occupy Wall St becomes mosque

Details and more photos here

Many times when I have posted videos showing this behavior in France and other European cities, Americans have posted quite clearly how they would deal with it if this happened at home. Well? Still feel the same way about the Europeans now that you are in the same situation?

THE TRUTH BEHIND THE ‘VICTORY’ OF THE PRAYER STREET BAN IN PARIS FRANCE

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The Tundra Tabloids receives the following report from Gandalf on the real reason behind the French ban on Muslim street praying in France, and the low turnout in Muslims defying it. The French government is funding the building of a mega mosque on the same corner where they’ve turned out to pray for years. Talk about a shake down and politicians lying through their pointed teeth about it, all on the taxpayers dime. KGS

Gandalf:

More news about Muslim street prayers

[Actually it’s a 2 building center, same project but separated in 2 different buildings (one mosque in each).]

French govt rented a former firemen barracks and gave it to muslim orgs to use as a “Friday mosque”. Most of the muslims use this place now during friday payers. Only a small group of salafist provocateurs were in the streets last friday (around 200, no big deal).

The trick is they have already won, because the Mayor of Paris, Bertrand Delanoë, will build next year a mega islamic center (with 2 mosques inside) with taxpayer money (28 million €) so they just have to keep low profile till they got their new mosques. Muslim leasers called for appeasment, they want their mosques!

So everybody is happy. The muslims because they’ve won, and our dhimmi gov’t won because “they have solved” the street prayer issue. A-holes. Needless to say that renting a building 30000€ per month to a muslim org is forbidden by our law, no one seems to care though.

It’s a sad story when your country rejoices on a defeat, it’s becoming a habit concerning Islam lately.

MUSLIMS DEFY PRAYER BAN IN STREETS, THEY LINE UP REGARDLESS

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Well that question has been answered. KGS

Muslims defy outdoor prayer ban in France

PARIS — Hundreds of Muslims defied a French ban on outdoor prayer — which came into force Friday –and took to the streets and sidewalks of Paris to pray.

The French government announced Thursday it was banning praying outside, with officials pledging to enforce the ban from Friday.

But 200 Muslims ignored the ban and prayed on the streets in the neighborhood of La Goutte d’Or, Le Parisien newspaper reported.

French interior minister Claude Gueant said he had nothing against Islam but wanted it out of the public eye because France was a secular state.

More here.

FRANCE: ISLAM; PRAYING IN PARIS STREETS BANNED FROM TONIGHT

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Something will happen because of this and soon.

From ANSAMED:

(ANSAmed) – PARIS – Beginning this evening at midnight, holding Muslim prayers in the streets of Paris will be prohibited. The announcement was made by France’s Interior Minister, Claude Gueant, in an interview published today by the daily Le Figaro, which noted that ”use of force” against those not complying with the regulation had not been ruled out. The minister underscored that a ”convention” had been signed with Muslim associations so that a former barracks could be used as a place of prayer. For a long time Paris Muslims have met in the city streets on Friday, especially in the working class neighbourhood Goutte d’Or (18th arrondissement), due to a lack of space in mosques. (ANSAmed).

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Street Prayers in France spreading fast and to everywhere.

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I just got an email from one of our French corespondents with a link to the video below and this description of what is taking place. I might be able to translate any French in it later if it is necessary. Thanks to M L for sending me this information.

 

on Monday, August 1st, 2011, from 10 to 11 PM, we have spotted 40 to 50 Muslims praying in front of a buiding, on the Vercingétorix street, No105, in the 14th district of Paris.
During the 30 days of ramadan, each evening, thousands of Muslims pray in the streets of Paris, in many different locations.
Now, everywhere in Paris, people can walk on Muslims praying illegally on the ground, or on the sidewalks, or in front of a building.
This proves that the situation is worsening very fast in France, and it’s not a surprise, since more than 300,000 Muslims enter our country each year (half of them legally, the other half illegally)

English version:

“It’s not for politicians to decide” -Tim Hudak

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Blazing Cat Fur busts the self named conservatives for being what they really are. Cowards. I also wonder who to vote for this election. Its slim pickings at this point.

Ontario Tories on Muslim prayer in schools: it’s not for politicians to decide

“Progressive Conservative critic Elizabeth Witmer said her party had no intention to bringing up religion in schools in the upcoming election, noting that this case is specific to one school board and it was up to them to sort out.  “We have indicated that we would not be bringing this (faith-based funding) forward again, we feel that the people did speak last time and our position is that this is an issue that the Toronto board needs to deal with,” she said.”
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Please go to Blazing for the rest

ISLAM: PARIS; HANGAR-MOSQUE TO AVOID PRAYING ON THE STREET

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My money is on, ‘this won’t work at all’

From Ansamed:

(ANSAmed) – PARIS – A large hangar on the outskirts of Paris could be turned into a place of worship for Muslims, with the city’s police keen to stop members of the community from praying on the streets. Police authorities have already identified a former barracks that could hold the large number of worshippers who meet every Friday in Rue Myrha and Rue Polonceau, in the multi-ethnic Goutte d’Or area in the north of the city. Prayers take place in the middle of the road because the nearby mosques are too small to deal with the numbers.

The situation, which has been going on for some time, has led to traffic and public order problems, with some local residents on a war footing. The leader of the far-right National Front party, Marine Le Pen, has even drawn on the issue as part of her campaign for the 2012 Presidential elections. The government of President Nicolas Sarkozy, mindful of losing votes, has promised to resolve the issue.

Today’s Libération newspaper says that the police have found a huge hangar that could be turned into a makeshift mosque: a disused barracks near Porte des Poissonniers, between the road heading north out of Paris and the Périphérique, the city’s famous ring road. Yesterday, the Imam of the small mosque on Rue Myrha, Hamza Salah, visited the proposed new site. Moussa Diakité, the Imam of the mosque on Rue Polonceau, visited the hangar a few days ago.

The building is owned by the Ministry of Defence and part of it is already occupied by an association that provides support for the homeless. The other part, some 1,500 square metres, is currently unused. The plan would see the area shared between North African Muslims from the Rue Myrha mosque with sub-Saharan Muslims from the Rue Polonceau.

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Islamic Ritual Prayer Conducted At Toronto District School Board Middle School

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Islamic prayer in public schools. Not just in England anymore.

From Blazing Cat Fur. Again. Cause you know, it would be racist for actual professional news media to you know, report the news.  The entire article is here, but please click over and thank them for this story and maybe donate to BCF‘s defense fund as they are being sued by one-who-sues-a-great-deal-but-must-not-be-named-lest-he-sues-us.

I received this e-mail from Mark Harding. I phoned Valley Park Middle School, who in a panic directed me to call the TDSB directly @ 416-397-3000. The TDSB “Communications Dept.” is so far incommunicado -they are away at a meeting.
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“Islamic ritual prayers are done in my 13 year old daughter’s middle school on every Friday.

Every Friday my daughter’s school cafeteria changes into a mosque as dozens of Muslim boys and their imams (Islamic preachers) lead Islamic ritual prayers and no one else can even walk through the cafeteria.

Some imams (Islamic preachers) come from the outside of the school and lead Muslim students in the Islamic prayer and this happens at the school Cafeteria after the lunch on Fridays. All other non-Muslims are in classes in the afternoon when they are using the cafeteria as mosque. There is a mosque nearby but the Muslim kids pray in the school

School administration take part preparing the Cafeteria and making it into mosque every Friday and no one but Muslims can use the Cafeteria during the Islamic prayers on Friday.

And there are a number of other incidents involving Islam and other anti-Christian issues that I complained about, including a white convert to Islam who was a supply teacher and who openly promoted Islam and bashed Christianity last year!”

The school’s name is: Valley Park Middle School, and the address is:

130 Overlea Boulevard

Don Mills On, M3C 1B2

Phone: 416 396 2465

Email: Va********@*****on.ca

“Mark, my other two kids also go to a different public primary school and the snack for all the kids in this primary school is all “Halal”. My wife complained about it and she was told she can prepare her own snack for our kids but the school would not drop the Halal menu for all the students. All the school kids in this primary school have to eat halal snacks whether they are Muslim or not”