Photo credit: Allison Bailey/Middle East Images
Muslim students pray at sunrise at a Gaza solidarity encampment at George Washington University, while a D.C. police van blocks the street, Washington, DC, April, 29, 2024.
Posted on 04/04/2026 6:19:13 PM PDT by deks
Street prayer is no longer the image of quiet devotion. From Toronto to Times Square, it is political theater, often conducted en masse, blocking roads, obstructing entrances and projecting intimidation into the heart of civic life.
Predictably, civil liberties organizations and establishment Muslim leaders have raised alarms. The rhetoric is heavy, but it misses the core issue: Public prayer in this context is not an act of private conscience. It is a performance of power in shared civic space.
Prayer must not endanger others or disrupt public order. Even Islamic law recognizes the folly of obstructing communal life with ritual performance. Quebec, in other words, is not contradicting Islam but upholding a principle embedded within it.
This is not the first time Islamists have sought to stretch the limits of accommodation. Public prayer in Western cities has increasingly been used as a form of political demonstration. It is no coincidence that these displays often coincide with "Free Palestine" rallies that slide easily into antisemitic chants and intimidation of Jewish communities. Outside synagogues and churches, on sidewalks and in squares, mass prayer becomes less about God and more about leverage — about showing who can claim the public square.
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Quebec passed Bill 9 on April 2, 2026, officially banning collective religious practices, including public prayers, in streets and public parks. The law, which received support from the governing Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) and the Parti Québécois (PQ), allows municipalities to grant exceptions on a case-by-case basis through a formal resolution.
The legislation, an expansion of the province’s secularism laws like Bill 21, was introduced in response to public prayers held during pro-Palestinian protests and aims to reinforce state religious neutrality. While individual, discreet prayer is not targeted, unauthorized group prayers that obstruct public spaces are now prohibited.
Tear gas them for dispersal from the roads.
Photo credit: Allison Bailey/Middle East Images
Muslim students pray at sunrise at a Gaza solidarity encampment at George Washington University, while a D.C. police van blocks the street, Washington, DC, April, 29, 2024.
They look really stupid on the ground with their butts in the air
and they’re not praying
I’d rather see a mooselimb take a dump in the street than hear that call to prayer stuff. Actually, everywhere there are mooslimbs one is subjected to both.
They need to be fing each other.
How do we know that is not what happens in the Mosques?
Islam is not a religion. Islam is a kinetic theocratic parasite who’s sole purpose is to infect and destroy the host government because of their empathy and compassion. It is then that infected and overtaken country joins “the Borg cube”
F’ em..let em pray and run the Muslim scom over.
Right. We have this in the US but it would be worse if the Dems believed in God. Would be more widespread.
It’s bad enough the pagan Dems shoot into places like the Church of the Annunciation windows in MN to try to murder children, or drive a truck with automatic weapon and ammo and gas cans into the central hall of a Jewish temple in West Bloomfield, Michigan and set it on fire with 214 children present in the building gasping from black smoke.
And the demonic egotist Don Lemon leading a group to shriek and howl in a church during a service with many afraid this was a mass shooting event. One little girl asked her mother “Are we going to die now?”
Note the sound of mass prayer is more obvious than the silent prayer against abortion a cop in Britian assumed through mental telepathy that Isabel Vaughan-Spruce was thinking. She went to jail and through several court appearances and appeals to defend herself for praying. Accused in court of “influencing” and “violating law in public space” through silent prayer and “her presence.” New law angle is violating a “buffer zone” as of 2026.
photo....
Actually from an ad for a remedy for excessive flatulence.
“Quebec takes bold action “
Way too little way too late.
Churches are discouraged from ringing church bells, but these people can take over a park to show they dominate. Zohran is with them, taking it over. You didn’t expect anything different, did you?
There are close to one million Muslims in New York City. Are they here to become Americans? How many are not?
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani joins a crowd of Muslims who took over Prospect Park and held a public prayer session.
This is New York City now.pic.twitter.com/MolkeCbNHt— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) March 20, 2026
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IIRC, Florida has this “run ‘em over” law . . .
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