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Video: Mosque In U.S. Holds Daily Prayers Amid COVID-19 Lockdown While Christians Are Threatened and Fined Everyday
Conservative US ^ | 04.19.2020 | Alex Hall

Posted on 04/19/2020 3:38:15 PM PDT by USA Conservative

On Easter, Kentucky State Police were circling the parking lot of a church that’s packed for Easter service — defying state orders — and issuing warnings, if not citations.

Following Governors’s license plate order, which applies anyone who attends an in-person church service or any mass gathering, police will refer those motorists to local health departments, which will then order 14-day quarantines – although several attendees told The Courier Journal they have no intention of following the order.

While situations like this are happening all over the country on Christians, Muslims can hold their daily prayers in the “epicenter” of the COVID pandemic.

A Syracuse mosque is still open for daily prayers amid the Coronavirus shutdown as Christians are threatened and fined for attending drive-in services.

Syracuse.com reported:

[Irfan Elahi] used his skills to create a prayer room covered in plastic with special ventilation that allows daily prayers to continue in the 116-year-old former church, as the holy month of Ramadan nears.

The room is lined with plastic, and two machines siphon air out of the room to create negative pressure. Air in the room is recycled every four minutes. Elahi used the materials and expertise from his day job to create what he called a “clean room.”

About 10 worshippers in masks are allowed in at a time, though rarely do that many show up. They stand far apart from each other as they follow a prayer leader standing on a plastic-covered prayer rug.

Video below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNFzJUJXvP8&feature=emb_title

New York is the country’s Coronavirus epicenter with more than 18,000 deaths, however, this mosque is still open for prayers.

This mosque located on the north side was once the Holy Trinity Catholic Church, but it closed down due to lack of parishioners — now it is considered a victory mosque.

Earlier on Saturday President Trump retweeted reporter Paul Sperry’s tweet on Ramadan and social distancing in the Muslim community.

Paul Sperry tweeted: Let’s see if authorities enforce the social-distancing orders for mosques during Ramadan (April 23-May 23) like they did churches during Easter.

President Trump re-tweeted this and the left had enough reasons to accuse President Trump of being Islamophobic.

One female reporter asked President Trump about his Sperry retweet at the daily coronavirus press conference. Partial transcript:

REPORTER: I want to ask you about one of your retweets from Paul Sperry:“Let’s see if authorities enforce the social distancing orders for mosques during Ramadan like they did churches during Easter”

TRUMP:I would be interested to see that b/c they go after Christian churches but they don’t tend to go after mosques. Our politicians seem to treat different faiths very differently. I don’t know what happened with our country, but the Christian faith is treated much differently than it was, and I think it’s treated very unfairly.”

“You know I just spoke with leaders and people that love mosques,” he continued. “They love mosques! And I’m all in favor of that. But I would say that there could be a difference. And we’ll have to see what will happen. Because I have seen a great disparity in this country. Video below:

https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1251634752026808323?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1251634752026808323&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fconservativeus.com%2Fvideo-mosque-in-us-holds-daily-prayers-amid-covid-19-lockdown-while-christians-are-threatened-and-fined-everyday%2F

Everyone knows for some reason, mosques are not treated the same way as churches are unfairly treated by the authorities. They come down hard on churches in ways they’d never do to a mosque. Nobody says it out loud though…nobody but Trump.


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Government; Health/Medicine; Religion
KEYWORDS: aclumia; antichristian; blogspam; christianity; christians; church; churches; clickbait; covidhoax; discrimination; donaldtrump; lockdown; mosqueandstate; mosques; muslims; shutdown; twittertwatter
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To: Steve Van Doorn

None. Can still be contaminated.


21 posted on 04/19/2020 4:27:20 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear ("Progressives" (elitist Communists) "Love you to death".)
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To: USA Conservative

What are the coordinates of these prayer rooms?


22 posted on 04/19/2020 4:35:02 PM PDT by HighSierra5
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To: Steve Van Doorn

The room is covered in plastic - that makes it airtight (as opposed to dry walls/ceilings) so that you can create the negative pressure to make the air flow directional.

if you’ve got a gaming PC the case fans serve the same purpose, channeling the air flow in one direction so it doesn’t hang around.

Now, I can see that that would stop contaminated air from hanging around - but all the studies have said it’s not airborne and the most recent studies think that it only travels in droplets (from sneezing, coughing or talking)) so this whole air pressure system is... worthless and masks should do it.


23 posted on 04/19/2020 4:42:12 PM PDT by Skywise
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To: USA Conservative

Some animals are more equal than others...


24 posted on 04/19/2020 4:42:25 PM PDT by Kriggerel ("All great truths are hard and bitter, but lies... are sweeter than wild honey" (Ragnar Redbeard))
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To: USA Conservative
Following Governors’s license plate order, ... police will refer those motorists

I've often wondered about ordinary German soldiers who got assigned to Auschwitz or Treblinka as guards. I guess they could've refused but then sent to a punishment battalion on the Russian front, which was pretty close to being suicide.

25 posted on 04/19/2020 4:43:51 PM PDT by libertylover (Socialism will always look good to those who think they can get something for nothing.)
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To: Skywise
"all the studies have said it’s not airborne and the most recent studies think that it only travels in droplets "

Oh this is new to me. I will look into it thanks

26 posted on 04/19/2020 4:53:53 PM PDT by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: humblegunner

It’s what you get when you’re not shy about throwing bombs and decapitation people versus turning an unending supply of “other cheeks”.


27 posted on 04/19/2020 4:57:19 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: Old Yeller

Never underestimate the power of stupid people, in large groups.


28 posted on 04/19/2020 4:57:48 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: USA Conservative

Maybe someone is hoping the Muslims catch the Virus and all die


29 posted on 04/19/2020 5:00:56 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: gibsonguy

This could spread the virus throughout the mooselimb community. They all could get sick and possibly die. OM! What a tragedy. Oh well, in·shal·lah. All will be fine.


30 posted on 04/19/2020 5:05:55 PM PDT by mosaicwolf
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To: humblegunner

Thank you.


31 posted on 04/19/2020 5:14:51 PM PDT by Bigg Red (WWG1WGA)
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To: USA Conservative

I have absolutely no problem with this. Let them assemble but stay away from us.

Let the real God sort it out.


32 posted on 04/19/2020 5:51:13 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (We are governed by the consent of the governed and we are fools for allowing it.)
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To: fhayek

Just like the dems, dems want the freedom to oppress and denigrate non-dems. There is no such a thing as an “elitist dem”, they all think they should be at the top, and contol how you should live your life


33 posted on 04/19/2020 7:29:18 PM PDT by Ponyexpress9790
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