Posted on 03/30/2008 8:53:57 AM PDT by Stoat
Prayers please ... the driver holds out hands with palms facing sky
A MUSLIM bus driver told stunned passengers to get off so he could PRAY.
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.
Route to Mecca ... he kneels on prayer mat
placed at front of the bus
“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.
At the wheel ... 'Hrun' drives No81
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.”
Muslim bus driver Halts bus to pray Mecca The Sun HomePageNews
Fire his ass.
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.
I would question why anyone is even hanging around the vicinity at this point and the police haven't swarmed the entire area, but that's just me.
how many muzzie pilots in England?
Brothers and sisters, it is time to start drawing some lines and setting some limits.
The words “exile” and “deport” need to get into our conversations.
Nothing will happen unless passengers refuse to board the bus; meanwhile the “full investigation” will never end.
The passengers should have laughed at him, and told him to get off the bus to pray to his pagan god. I feel uncomfortable being around people when they pray to their various manifestations of Satan, especially Muslims.
This nonsense needs to be nipped in the bud. STAT.
Unbelieveable
The Bus company needs to make sure and certain that this man gets every opportunity to meet his religious time requirements-they should fire him.
The passengers(customers)come first, if Mr. Hrun does not understand that, too bad.
Thankfully the US is only about 1% muslim, and hopefully that will shrink with proper application of foreign and immigration policy. The UK is somewhere around 10%, therefore it is likley lost. As muslim populations increase past about 3%, islamification of the entire country begins, others usually grant considerations in the name of tolerance and freedom, but the islamists play it up in the courts, media and public square (victims of course), as Islam is a system of planned world domination.
Anyone who claims Islam is a religion of peace fails to understand that peace, according to muslim philosophy, can only occur when all men are Islamic.
God Bless, Molon Labe.
Kicking you al off the bus meant he was a "fanatic".....the rucksack gave you reason to believe he was a possible murderer.
Should have beat the holy hell out of him.
People are ALLOWING this kind of crap to happen. When they start standing up to these wackos things will change. Otherwise they can wallow in the misery that they have brought upon themselves.
And of course the British Government puts up with this crap.
People should complain loudly and have him fired.
That would be a logical assumption.
Again? This happened yesterday, too. Maybe it’s going to be a new tradition.
Are you profiling? Those people should be profiled back to their sandbox.
The real question is why DO people put up with this?
If no one speaks up they will continue to take and take....until we have nothing left.
Its time to stand up
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