France Bans Public Prayer

[Iormlund]

I saw a Law & Order episode the other day from 2002 - where a white boy gone muslim was preaching about the 20,000 arabs killed by America vs. the 2,000 Americans dead on 9/11.  Then yesterday I saw a nation of islam type who had gathered a group and was loudly saying "They talk about the Americans killed on 9/11, but do you know how many Arabs, America has killed in its wars?"  Sad.

Why is it sad?  We're 10-to-1.

It's terribly inefficient, though. Just tossing a stinkbomb in Mecca would likely get you a higher ratio.

[Martinus]

I saw a Law & Order episode the other day from 2002 - where a white boy gone muslim was preaching about the 20,000 arabs killed by America vs. the 2,000 Americans dead on 9/11.  Then yesterday I saw a nation of islam type who had gathered a group and was loudly saying "They talk about the Americans killed on 9/11, but do you know how many Arabs, America has killed in its wars?"  Sad.

Why is it sad?  We're 10-to-1.

It's terribly inefficient, though. Just tossing a stinkbomb in Mecca would likely get you a higher ratio.

But then we couldn't pretend we are their allies and buy their oil.

[Ed Anger]

I saw a Law & Order episode the other day from 2002 - where a white boy gone muslim was preaching about the 20,000 arabs killed by America vs. the 2,000 Americans dead on 9/11.  Then yesterday I saw a nation of islam type who had gathered a group and was loudly saying "They talk about the Americans killed on 9/11, but do you know how many Arabs, America has killed in its wars?"  Sad.

Why is it sad?  We're 10-to-1.

If we used our big boy weapons, we could improve that ratio.

[Iormlund]

I like Islamic architecture, though. And there's plenty of interesting stuff to see from previous civilizations in the ME.

[Razgovory]

I saw a Law & Order episode the other day from 2002 - where a white boy gone muslim was preaching about the 20,000 arabs killed by America vs. the 2,000 Americans dead on 9/11.  Then yesterday I saw a nation of islam type who had gathered a group and was loudly saying "They talk about the Americans killed on 9/11, but do you know how many Arabs, America has killed in its wars?"  Sad.

Yeah, but most those were killed by other Arabs.

[Slargos]

Human rights have nothing to do with this. Prayer or other religious rituals absolutely do not belong on a public street.

And yet you miss the point completely.

Typical Sarko populist pre-election bullshit.

[garbon]

I saw a Law & Order episode the other day from 2002 - where a white boy gone muslim was preaching about the 20,000 arabs killed by America vs. the 2,000 Americans dead on 9/11.  Then yesterday I saw a nation of islam type who had gathered a group and was loudly saying "They talk about the Americans killed on 9/11, but do you know how many Arabs, America has killed in its wars?"  Sad.

Why is it sad?  We're 10-to-1.

The sad bit was that after nearly a decade since the sentiment was expressed on tv, you can still hear the ignorant position spouted on the sidewalk.

[citizen k]

This article and Zoup's reaction in the Medal of Honor thread give a glimpse into the French mind/attitude, that people in U.S. or even in places around the world that still hold religous processions/rituals in the "public square" are not familiar with.

[Octavian]

I saw a Law & Order episode the other day from 2002 - where a white boy gone muslim was preaching about the 20,000 arabs killed by America vs. the 2,000 Americans dead on 9/11.  Then yesterday I saw a nation of islam type who had gathered a group and was loudly saying "They talk about the Americans killed on 9/11, but do you know how many Arabs, America has killed in its wars?"  Sad.

Why is it sad?  We're 10-to-1.

The sad bit was that after nearly a decade since the sentiment was expressed on tv, you can still hear the ignorant position spouted on the sidewalk.

Has anyone ever calculated the number. If not that's probarly why the question gets spouted on the sidewalks, in tv etc. They seek an answer!

[HisMajestyBOB]

You understand that they pray in the street, thus obstructing traffic?

Couldn't they just be ticketed for that instead of for praying?

The unions are against all laws that prohibit blocking traffic.

[Admiral Yi]

That's a good point.  If you ticket praying Muslims then you'd have to ticket shit dumping farmers too.

[Scipio]

I saw a Law & Order episode the other day from 2002 - where a white boy gone muslim was preaching about the 20,000 arabs killed by America vs. the 2,000 Americans dead on 9/11.  Then yesterday I saw a nation of islam type who had gathered a group and was loudly saying "They talk about the Americans killed on 9/11, but do you know how many Arabs, America has killed in its wars?"  Sad.

Why is it sad?  We're 10-to-1.

It's sad, because the NoI brother doesn't compute the number of black people killed by Arabs.

[Slargos]

I saw a Law & Order episode the other day from 2002 - where a white boy gone muslim was preaching about the 20,000 arabs killed by America vs. the 2,000 Americans dead on 9/11.  Then yesterday I saw a nation of islam type who had gathered a group and was loudly saying "They talk about the Americans killed on 9/11, but do you know how many Arabs, America has killed in its wars?"  Sad.

Why is it sad?  We're 10-to-1.

It's sad, because the NoI brother doesn't compute the number of black people killed by Arabs.

Again. Missing the point.

His "black brothers" are chattel even to him. His ancestors were the ones selling the slaves to Jewropeans in the first place. This bitching is just political posturing, not any heart felt desire to put things into perspective.

[garbon]

This bitching is just political posturing, not any heart felt desire to put things into perspective.

I think that's definitely the case. After all, I can't really believe that he gathered such a crowd of black people with trite statements about Arabs (after all many of said audience at best don't care about Arabs). I'd imagine he hooked them in with talk about unemployment and tough circumstances for African Americans. The bit about 9/11 probably just served to illustrate how uncaring and hypocritical America can be.

[Duque de Bragança]

They still complain while the State offered them a temporary mosque at no cost, in violation of laïcité principles.

Rue Myrrha is in Barbès neighborhood, just a short walk from Gare du Nord (for the Brits and Germans coming from Cologne/Aachen) or Gare de l'Est (for Germans coming from Frankfurt/Stuttgart/München). Go there on a Friday, it's really exotic