Conventional wisdom has it that a Muslim mosque is wholly
devoted to teaching and reinforcing Qu'ranic discipline.
This is not so. According to the Encyclopaedia Britannica,
while Mohammed's original mosque in Medina was fashioned for worship and
indoctrination, modern mosques are centers with functions of military, legal,
charitable, as well as religious and educational import.
ImaYussef prepared for the
first Word Trade Center bmbing in his New Jersey mosque ! Remember ?
Therefore the citizens of the United Kingdom AND Eire who
have been dedicated to their local "pubs" for centuries and who are wholly and
individually fond of their "pint" are in the throes of grief over the disappearance of up to 20 "locals" a week throughout
the United Kingdom. This will surely take on the bloody activity of
self-flagellation and the wringing of hands and gnashing of teeth when they learn that their
favorite Home away from Home will soon become a mosque.
It is a pattern already being realized in many small communities, where the conglomerates that own
and operate most of the Inns in in the country, find it a welcome and lucrative
choice to sell the fading local pubs to Islamic communities fpr
mosques.
It's no secret that the rusty and dusty-- as well as some bright and
sunlit-- rural mostly-beer drinking haunts have been money-losing propositions for
nearly two decades. And when the pub has been sold by the
conglomerate, its surrounding community of potential loyalists who have paid
scarce attention to the demise of pubdom in the UK,
awaken with outrage that Radical Teetotalers are taking possession of their watering
holes and that there will never again be music or singing in
what was once "The Lame Horse" or "Biddy's Brake" or "The Unforseen" and will
never again receive the benediction of sloshed and spilled
"bitters" or "dark" from a tangle-footed tippler.
Members of my family and I have all-- back in the rowdy B-S
days (before sobriety) frequented these loveliest of Britain's gifts to
civilization and while I can understand that charging two
pounds sterling ($3) for a pint of the best is an understandable spur to the
death of the public house, I cannot imagine Scotland, England or
either Ireland where Islamic mosques replace the pubs with Islamic discipline and instruction in armament as well as the call of the Haditha and the Suras.
either Ireland where Islamic mosques replace the pubs with Islamic discipline and instruction in armament as well as the call of the Haditha and the Suras.
It is truly sad to an old and trustworthy pub lover to imagine
Martial Arts taking over the space where many loud imprecations and poorly aimed
haymakers characterized the reportage of violence at the
sites.
I am not sure why, but this mind wanders to the specters of Sam
Adams and John Hancock garbed in loincloth and feathers hoisting Tea chests into
the drink.
Yes, indeed ! This Pub-to-Mosque thing is the way revolutions
are ignited.
