Aapa: Besides, the traffic can wait. It is only a few minutes. The Frenchman can wait to get his wine for his mistress. The French have an extended lunch hour. And jumma prayers fall into the lunch hour period.
Aapa, first of all, it is very inconvenient and expensive in large cities to have traffic blocked, even for 'only a few minutes'. Not to mention dangerous, as it prevents police, ambulances, and fire trucks from reaching their destinations. Emergency situations do not suddenly stop for the lunch hour, or prayer time and a single second, let alone 'just a few minutes' can make the difference between life and death in such situations.
Secondly, even if there was no danger, inconvenience, or expense, you do not have the right to block other people's traffic with your religious practices. If I myself am in the road, and need to do something that prevents me from moving my car along with the rest of traffic, such as calling someone on my cell phone, I do not stop in traffic and block the other cars, I pull over to the side. Even if there are no other cars in the road at the time, I pull over to the side, in case one comes while I am doing my phone thing. Doing otherwise is rude and dangerous.
Truthfully, I find your insistence on the right to block traffic, rather than moving yourself out of the road in order to pray, to be rather childish. I have seen very rude and immature people indeed in Milwaukee by a fire department downtown, who, when the fire trucks are trying to get out into the street, rather than pulling over to the side to let the fire trucks out, keep their cars on the road, thus blocking the fire trucks, and in addition, make obscene gestures at the fire trucks.
I dislike such people intensely. I myself have already gotten my car stuck in the snow a few times, and had to dig it out, or get people to help me push it out, because I pulled my car into a snow bank in order to get out of the way of an emergency vehicle. It once took over an hour to get my car out of the snow after doing this! And you complain that you do not want to take a few seconds to pull out of traffic to do your prayers?