Saying your prayers.
It isn't of course every day that a bus driver orders his passengers off so he can pray. You still perhaps don't expect the reaction of some when he then said they could get back on:
I don't think I've ever come across a bus driver who hasn't had some sort of rucksack or hold-all with all his stuff in. Strange behaviour or not, it's one thing for someone to be devout, and another entirely to be a "fanatic". The articles ends with:
Which is complete nonsense, as only the most devout or adhering pray five times a day, or at least go through the traditional praying ritual while doing so.
This being the Sun the comments are full of the usual hate, how this is the end of Britain as we know it and the habitual conspiracy theories, but this one takes the biscuit:
It's always interesting how the least persecuted members of society can always find something to be outraged about, even in the most innocuous of gestures and behaviour.
After a few minutes the driver calmly got up, opened the doors and asked everyone back on board.
But they saw a rucksack lying on the floor of the red single-decker and feared he might be a fanatic. So they all refused.
I don't think I've ever come across a bus driver who hasn't had some sort of rucksack or hold-all with all his stuff in. Strange behaviour or not, it's one thing for someone to be devout, and another entirely to be a "fanatic". The articles ends with:
Muslims pray at pre-dawn, noon, afternoon, sunset and evening.
Which is complete nonsense, as only the most devout or adhering pray five times a day, or at least go through the traditional praying ritual while doing so.
This being the Sun the comments are full of the usual hate, how this is the end of Britain as we know it and the habitual conspiracy theories, but this one takes the biscuit:
I am afraid it does not surprise me. I had to sit in the 'communal' room, the only room for visitors at Bart's hospital for a short break after seeing my brother who was dying. I had to sit through a moslem praying on a mat. I did not think that was right in my Christian country. Can you imagine if I had produced a cross and chain and began to pray?
It's always interesting how the least persecuted members of society can always find something to be outraged about, even in the most innocuous of gestures and behaviour.
Labels: British Muslims, Muslim bashing, persecution complex, Scum-watch, Sun-watch
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Posted by: pansypotter
I am afraid it does not surprise me. I had to sit in the 'communal' room, the only room for visitors at Bart's hospital for a short break after seeing my brother who was dying. I had to sit through a moslem praying on a mat. I did not think that was right in my Christian country. Can you imagine if I had produced a cross and chain and began to pray?
I wonder if "pansypotter" (pp) has considered that the moslem was praying for a relative's recovery. Does pp expect everyone of all religions to pray to only the Christian God? Or perhaps they're not entitled to religion in Britain.
I would hazard a guess that every day hundreds if not thousands of people of all religions pray in hospitals, and I would imagine that in 99.9% of cases, each person doesn't mind other people doing it. I'm certain of that figure because it would be front page mail/express news if there were attacks going on.
So Mr/s pp, it doesn't surprise me that asshats like you are whinging because someone who isn't white dared to pray.
Posted by: BigGunBrazil
Just goes to show where England is going, nobody has respect for anything, praying is a private thing and should be kept private or in an appropriate venue. Henry 8th. would have beheaded him!
"Nobody has respect for anything" "he should bloody well pray somewhere private".
How to prove your own point in one easy step.
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Sunday, March 30, 2008 2:35:00 AM