[CometBaby]

Let's see, he attended a PERSIAN (probably Islamic) celebration in a public park, and began playing Christian music?????

I mean how would we like it, if we had a Christian celebration and some guy shows up playing the Islamic call to prayer?

Sounds to me like this guy went there looking for trouble.

[kingofbloviatorland]

"Someone in the predominately Muslim crowd complained to police,"

Complained to the police? Why not ask him to turn the music down first?

[WKUHilltopper]

"I mean how would we like it, if we had a Christian celebration and some guy shows up playing the Islamic call to prayer?

Sounds to me like this guy went there looking for trouble."

Personally, it wouldn't bother me at all. But you could be right, the guy could have been looking for trouble. The article doesn't really address the "volume" of the music. Maybe it was just as loud as all the others. Basically, that's a public park and it's immaterial for "one group to claim it", even for a day. He had right of access irrespective of what they were doing.

The article is written as if the police were responding more from the compliants of the muslims there in the park. But it's hard to say on the info they gave us.

[fr_freak]

Let's see, he attended a PERSIAN (probably Islamic) celebration in a public park, and began playing Christian music?????

I mean how would we like it, if we had a Christian celebration and some guy shows up playing the Islamic call to prayer?

Sounds to me like this guy went there looking for trouble.

It was a Persian New Year's festival. The guy is Persian. Why wouldn't he go? You don't have to be Muslim to be Iranian. Perhaps he was playing his music very loudly to make some kind of statement, but the article doesn't say that. But certainly his presence alone is not cause to assume he was looking for trouble.

[Bismark]

It was a Persian cultural event, and yes, one can be from Iran and be a Christian or a Muslim or even a Jew.