Posted on 11/19/2017 3:32:06 PM PST by Olog-hai
French authorities will stop Muslims from praying in a street north of Paris, the country’s interior minister said on Sunday, after a series of protests by lawmakers and locals over what they view as an unacceptable use of public space.
“They will not have prayers on the street; we will prevent street praying,” Interior Minister Gerard Collomb told Questions Politics (Franceinfo, France Inter, Le Monde).
Prayers in the street have taken place every Friday in the multiethnic suburb of Clichy-la-Garenne since March to protest the closure of a popular local mosque that had operated in a government building but since been turned into a library.
Worshipers have accused the authorities of not offering suitable land to build a new mosque and the interior minister acknowledged the need for an alternative: “Muslims must have a place of worship to pray. … We will make sure we resolve this conflict in the next few weeks,” he added.
A local Muslim association has said it intends to hold prayers in the city center next Friday. …
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Okay time for the Catholics to gather in large groups praying the Rosary, Buddhists to gather together to meditate and the same with other religions, all blocking the streets to traffic.
Bring-in The Scoops.
That wouldn’t induce demand for a strongman leader nearly as effectively.
A CAT D9 would work well too. It worked on Rachel Corrie.
Are the French going to do a Rachel Cory on them?
There once was a Frenchman who knew when to give mobs a “whiff of the grape”!
The Corsican version of the "street sweeper"...
But france will not prosecute the act. This is proof muslims get special treatment under the law.
JoMa
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