From MailOnline.com: An Austrian has been fined for yodelling while mowing his lawn because it offended his Muslim neighbours next door.
A judge decided Helmut Griese, 63, was 'ridiculing' their beliefs and fined him nearly £700.
Rather than face a protracted court case with all its attendant legal costs, Griese agreed to pay.
The court heard how the Muslim family regarded Griese as a 'grumpy old man' and came to view his open-air versions of the Alpine chanting as racist asides aimed at them.
Austrian media reported how the pensioner was accused in the court in Graz of trying to 'mock and imitate' the call of the Muezzin.
They alleged that he always began his yodelling just as they knelt down to pray to Mecca.
'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' he told Austria‘s Kronen newspaper Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1339150/Helmut-Griese-fined-700-Muslim-neighbours-claim-yodelling-mocks-prayer.html#ixzz18Rd0bMuD
Whoever says Muslims are a religion of peace or common sense are just plain idiotic. Islam is a hateful religion, not a peaceful religion. It is full of crazy people like the muslims in this article.
So, in honor of those kind and compassionate Muslims who probably did not the 9/11 attacks or any other Muslim atrocities, I give youSlim Whitman.
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That's a rather sweeping statement. Do you consider Mohammed Ali to be crazy and hateful? Would you say that Mormonism is full of sexist child molesters? No, you wouldn't, because you happen to know a lot of Mormons who are normal, decent people, so you don't judge them all by the actions of Warren Jeffs and his ilk. You're entitled to your opinion, but when you make a sweeping generalization like that, you reveal your ignorance and undermine your own credibility.
ReplyDeleteSaudi Arabia, Yemen and Iran are not the majority of Muslims worldwide. Muslim women are not treated like crap in Indonesia (the world's most populous Muslim nation), Turkey, India, Jordan, Bosnia, Albania, the United States, or a host of other nations. Painting all those Muslim populations with the same brush (as you have done) reinforces Osama bin Laden's clash of civilizations mythology.
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