Manter
Lunch Mob
Yeah, xenophobia does my head in. Ignorant islamophobia pisses me off....Is there nothing which irritates you, or that you disapprove of?
Yeah, xenophobia does my head in. Ignorant islamophobia pisses me off....Is there nothing which irritates you, or that you disapprove of?
Yeah, xenophobia does my head in. Ignorant islamophobia pisses me off....
Nah I like it here, there's a great community.I'd sell up fast if I were you.
<<looks round>>Yes, everyone's an ignorant islamophobe except you, you unctuous prat.
Nah I like it here, there's a great community.
Better make sure you don't live near any churches. Or markets. Or roads. Or children. Because noise is not in fact a Muslim issue.Good for you - I'm pleased you like it there. Personally I wouldn't, because I'm noise-sensitive.
FWIW before moving here, I lived around the corner from a mosque and a quarter of a mile from two churches. I'll give you one guess about which disturbed my mornings and evenings more.
Clue for the slow of thinking: The steady stream of people in and out of the mosque wasn't a problem, nor was their parking (many lived within walking distance), nor was the muezzin noticeable. Church bells before and after services, also practised on by visiting groups almost every week (for at least a couple of hours at a time) became a little tiresome.
Presumably for similar reasons that some people wear religious symbols very discreetly (eg under their clothing); sometimes it's enough for you to know that you do it.If it wasn't noticeable WTF do it then?
Presumably for similar reasons that some people wear religious symbols very discreetly (eg under their clothing); sometimes it's enough for you to know that you do it.
Overt gestures tend to be more of a defensive thing, people secure in their own identity don't need them.
The good old days of the second world war, when there was no extreme islam on the warpath!
In any case loads of Jewish and other refugees did get locked up in camps before being let in the UK.
To our collective shame, some were even locked up in camps (or required to report to the police every day) after arrival as refugees, because they were classed as "enemy aliens".<snip> In any case loads of Jewish and other refugees did get locked up in camps before being let in the UK.
Enemy aliens - Japanese people living in the USA were locked up in camps during WWII for similar reasons.I've a feeling I'm going to regret asking this but . . . What??
Not only Christians - it's a human thing, not a dogma thing.Oh well, that's jesus-freaks for you!
Not only Christians - it's a human thing, not a dogma thing.
Jesus random non sequiturs and racismWell football is 'a human thing' too and look how mindless that is?
Jesus random non sequiturs and racism
I have never heard a call to prayer from any mosque in London, and there are three quite near where I live.
Or church bells.
I used to hear the muezzin when Greebo lived in Watford, but that was because she lived all of 30 metres from Watford Mosque.
I loved to hear the call to prayer from Kingsland Road Mosque in Hackney...I lived just the other side of the canal in Haggerston. It was/still is beautiful.
Agreed.
Last time I was talking to my dad about the refugee crisis, he reminded me that for many of his generation, the first time they heard the call to prayer was on Led Zeppelin's "Kashmir". Nowadays, for most people in urban settings, it's so absolutely normal that we often tune it out in the same way we tune out church bells.
Enemy aliens - Japanese people living in the USA were locked up in camps during WWII for similar reasons.