visionusman
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Assalamualaikum all. Please allow me to share an annoying experience. On a recent visit to Paris, I once had to pray in Public. I do know that France is a very secular state, but did not think that praying quietly in a park would offend the French secular society. Fortunately on my last visit there I did not need to perform salaat outside and there fore did not really know how the French people felt about such an act.
Any way I was performing my prayers in a quiet corner at the Jardine de Luxembourg when a guard in uniform came and started shouting "no religion, no religion" several times. As I was praying I naturally didn't stop. A friend was standing besides me and not praying. This friend later told me the gaurd was abt to kick me but the friend interrupted him and said that we were just about to leave. This might be because the Jardine as you know is next to the national aassembly. But kicking some one is still assault. Isn't it? Don't we have a right as human beings to practice our religion if it doesn't affect any one else? I don't think any police man in the UK would ever do that.
Other than this incident the French people were really nice and I don't want to give an impression here that the French are nasty because they aren't. I just shared this to ask my French friends what the law says there and why I offended the gaurd.
Any way I was performing my prayers in a quiet corner at the Jardine de Luxembourg when a guard in uniform came and started shouting "no religion, no religion" several times. As I was praying I naturally didn't stop. A friend was standing besides me and not praying. This friend later told me the gaurd was abt to kick me but the friend interrupted him and said that we were just about to leave. This might be because the Jardine as you know is next to the national aassembly. But kicking some one is still assault. Isn't it? Don't we have a right as human beings to practice our religion if it doesn't affect any one else? I don't think any police man in the UK would ever do that.
Other than this incident the French people were really nice and I don't want to give an impression here that the French are nasty because they aren't. I just shared this to ask my French friends what the law says there and why I offended the gaurd.