I understand where you are coming from regarding your experience this morning. They are so in your face. I believe they do it just to antagonize us. Just like the ‘flying imams” and the taxi drivers here in MN. We have quite a few Somalian muslims in our city and I know one of the reasons they are here is because the churches brought them here. When our Catholic diocese (and I’m Catholic) wanted to bring some Bhutu (or something like that) tribe over here I wrote my senator strongly opposing this. They are one of the most uncivilized tribes there are. One of my main concerns was the health issue. You know these people have never had vacinations and wouldn’t consent to them.Anyway, they haven’t come here yet. Too much opposition, I think. (I know, paragraphs would have been good).
/rant off
Hi MNbelle! Thanks for your interesting and informative post. I’m glad the Bhutus haven’t come there yet. As you might have surmised, that was the first personal experience I can recall having had like that. The ‘flying imams’ were obviously doing it, probably for several reasons, including testing the reaction of the other passengers and also the officials. I totally agree that they must be doing it to antagonize us, which begs the question of their true sincerity in their ‘act of worship’. After he left, I told the train driver that if the muslim was trying to bow toward mecca and was off by a fraction of an inch, by the time that aim got thousands of miles away, he would be off by many miles and bowing to something totally different.