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Yodelling offends praying Muslims, say judges
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Posted on 11/30/2010 10:15:02 AM PST by marthemaria
An Austrian has been fined for yodelling while mowing his lawn, according to a report.
The Kronen Zeitung newspaper claims Helmut G. was told by a court in Graz, Styria, that his yodelling offended his next-door Muslim neighbours.
The men reportedly accused the 63-year-old of having tried to mock and imitate the call of the Muezzin. The daily paper writes the Austrian was fined 800 Euros after judges ruled he could have tried to offend them and ridicule their belief. The Muslims, whose nationalities were not revealed by the report, were right in the middle of a prayer when the Austrian started to yodel.
"It was not my intention to imitate or insult them. I simply started to yodel a few tunes because I was in such a good mood" the man told the newspaper today (Mon).
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: austria; blasphemy; islam; islamiclaw; islamicsupremacists; lifeamongthekufir; mosqueandstate; napl; sharialaw; yodel; yodellinginthevalley
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To: TexasTransplant
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posted on
11/30/2010 10:30:29 AM PST
by
TexasTransplant
(I don't mind liberals... I hate liars...there just tends to be a high degree of overlap)
To: Bean Counter
You got the right one ... I got the wrong one
TT
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posted on
11/30/2010 10:32:40 AM PST
by
TexasTransplant
(I don't mind liberals... I hate liars...there just tends to be a high degree of overlap)
To: marthemaria
I agree, yodeling was unfair to his neighbors.
Next time, may I recommend he should play this with the volume cranked to 11?
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posted on
11/30/2010 10:33:51 AM PST
by
Jonah Hex
("To Serve Manatee" is a cookbook!)
To: Slings and Arrows
Are they offended by those Yodeling Kitties?
44
posted on
11/30/2010 10:34:37 AM PST
by
LucyT
To: massgopguy
***They yell “sooey” in Oklahoma still?***
Ah, only if you want to get tarred and feathered! That is the call of the ARKANSAS RAZORBACKS in Fayetteville, the sworn "enemies" of OU!
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posted on
11/30/2010 10:34:42 AM PST
by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
(I visited GEN TOMMY FRANKS Military Museum in HOBART, OKLAHOMA! Well worth it!)
To: marthemaria
I guess what the Oklahomans will need to outlaw is not Sharia but judicial idiocy. Judges will just find decisions like this using their own stupid intuitions.
46
posted on
11/30/2010 10:36:01 AM PST
by
Rippin
To: Political Junkie Too
Correction
2. Muslims invade.
4. Judge collaborates with invaders.
47
posted on
11/30/2010 10:36:22 AM PST
by
massgopguy
(I owe everything to George Bailey)
To: marthemaria
What doesn’t offend Muslims? Not much besides blowing things up.
To: marthemaria
He should buy a pig....as a pet you know, and when he needs to call the pig into the pen he could yodel. Problem solved.
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posted on
11/30/2010 10:39:49 AM PST
by
Bud Krieger
(Another President, another idiot....)
To: marthemaria
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posted on
11/30/2010 10:40:55 AM PST
by
kalee
(The offences we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we engrave in marble. J Huett 1658)
To: GraceG
To: marthemaria
At some point it will be radical islam against the rest of the world IMO.
Only those not practicing their faith are IMO non-radical.
I used to be more open minded, but as I read and experienced Islam more I have formed my harsh views.
Too much evidence supports that the moon god cult has issues that we don't want to be a part of.
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posted on
11/30/2010 10:42:25 AM PST
by
A CA Guy
( God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
To: Nervous Tick
I’m gonna take up yodeling then.Here 'ya go - repeat 3x:
LITTLE OLD LADY WHO
To: no-to-illegals
That’ll work if the Australians are in Austria, which is where the yodeling Austrian lives and yodeled.
54
posted on
11/30/2010 10:47:16 AM PST
by
kalee
(The offences we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we engrave in marble. J Huett 1658)
To: LucyT; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; martin_fierro; ...
He should buy two pigs, name them Mohammed and Barack, and practice his hog-calling.
55
posted on
11/30/2010 10:49:08 AM PST
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Slings and Arrows; Revolting cat!
Sooooeeeeiiiieeee! Sue-Sue-Sue!Suuuuuuuuuueeee-eeeeeyyy!
Hire a lawyer.
56
posted on
11/30/2010 10:50:41 AM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(The establishment clause isn't just against my OWN government establishing state religion in America)
To: marthemaria
57
posted on
11/30/2010 10:51:15 AM PST
by
logitech
To: marthemaria
“Who let the pigs out...? Who! Who Who! Who!?!!!”
58
posted on
11/30/2010 10:52:53 AM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(The establishment clause isn't just against my OWN government establishing state religion in America)
To: ReneeLynn
So, the muslims can jabber prayers but this guy can’t yodel? I think I’d hate to live in that neighborhood. Yodeling AND muslim prayers? Tuba practice, at intervals throughout the day from 6am to 10pm.
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posted on
11/30/2010 10:54:43 AM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(The establishment clause isn't just against my OWN government establishing state religion in America)
To: massgopguy; Political Junkie Too
Correction2. Muslims invade.4. Judge collaborates with invaders.
"I for one welcome our new insect overlords"
60
posted on
11/30/2010 10:59:05 AM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(The establishment clause isn't just against my OWN government establishing state religion in America)
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