Queen Elizabeth Windsor and Prince Philip are German, Greek and Danish.
Posted on 03/29/2008 12:00:46 PM PDT by knighthawk
The white Islamic convert rolled out his prayer mat in the aisle and knelt on the floor facing Mecca.
Passengers watched in amazement as he held out his palms towards the sky, bowed his head and began to chant.
One, who filmed the man on his mobile phone, said: “He was clearly praying and chanting in Arabic.
“We thought it was a wind-up at first, like Jeremy Beadle.”
The 21-year-old plumber added: “He looked English and had a London accent. He looked like a Muslim convert, with a big, bushy beard.
“Eventually everyone started complaining. One woman said, ‘What the hell are you doing? I’m going to be late for work’.”
After a few minutes the driver calmly got up, opened the doors and asked everyone back on board.
But they saw a rucksack lying on the floor of the red single-decker and feared he might be a fanatic. So they all refused.
The passenger added: “One chap said, ‘I’m not getting on there now’.
“An elderly couple also looked really confused and worried.
“After seeing that no-one wanted to get on he drove off and we all waited until the next bus came about 20 minutes later. I was left totally stunned. It made me not want to get on a bus again.”
The bizarre event unfolded on the number 81 in Langley, Berkshire, at around 1.30pm on Thursday.
The passenger said he rang the bus firm to complain but claimed it did not believe him.
He said: “They asked me, ‘Are you sure?’. Then they said they would get back to me, but they weren’t taking me seriously at all.”
Yesterday the driver, who said his name was Hrun, told The Sun: “I asked everyone to get off because I needed to pray. I was running late and had not had time.
“I pray five times a day as a Muslim — but I don’t normally ask people to get off the bus to do it.”
Muslims pray at pre-dawn, noon, afternoon, sunset and evening.
A spokesperson for bus company London United said: “We are aware of a reported incident involving our route 81.
“We are currently undertaking a full investigation into the matter.”
>In a crisis, such a group is much easier to identify, isolate, and deal with.<
Very convenient.
That is very interesting. Thanks for posting!
Not what it used to look like.
I wonder how many times over the years they voted for Labour. The chicken have come home to roost, as JW would say.
The right to halt everything and pray has been one of the Muslim demands that is hardest to deny for governments, as they don't want to deny religious freedom. Next comes the demand to have a loud minaret blaring out the call to prayer. It is our right! We need more mosques, too so the call can be heard everywhere. It is our right! Or are you against freedom?
When it gets to the point where you hear that call all over your city, you can pretty much stick a fork in yourselves, you're done.
“CCH” LOL!
Got to do some research on just how, in Islamic doctrine, contact with pig molecules by a Muslim results in his forever being denied entry into paradise. Someone posted that it’s not like a mullah can issue fatwa saying, “as a jihadi, don’t worry if the infidels throw pig parts at you, just continue your attack and paradise will be yours!”. Contamination by pig is seriously fearsome to ROPers.
Hmmm..... “Pig products: the Muslim kryptonite?”
But you know, this bus incident may be one of those things that only happen once. In the wake of Flight 93, the likelihood of passenger counterattack may discourage future bus jihadis.
I agree it was a test. They keep pushing and pushing, time we started pushing back.
Yes, they should have joined in by reciting the Lord's Prayer aloud while holding hands in a circle around the mat.
It always is. And the Brits failed.
Last time I was in London, 2001, I was riding on a Tube train behind two young men who were reading aloud from a Bible, obviously trying to evangelize. A uniformed officer made them stop.
They can test this and test that, but they have no way of knowing if the result of the test might be the same next time. They can miscalculate and are pushing their scientific method somewhat farther than they would if they were more mature than ordinary children.
Queen Elizabeth Windsor and Prince Philip are German, Greek and Danish.
That's probably why he ordered them all off the bus in the first place. I'm sure he must've taken the ignition key as well, to prevent something like that from happening (I'd be sorely tempted to leave tire tracks down his back if *I* got behind the wheel).
Someone should've rousted the Arch-dhimmi of Canterbury out of bed and asked him for a ride to work.
Aersolized pork rinds need to be sprayed over places they frequent..
“The Horsey Set”
Tactical Pork Fat Rules!
They’ll have a swine time!
"Carry instead of Mace or pepperspray on public transportation driven by a bearded, dress-wearing man."
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