By RFI
France on Friday introduced a ban on praying in the street forcing thousands of muslims into temporary alternative spaces for their day of prayer. Interior Minister Claude Gueant has said that praying in the street is a direct attack on the principle of secularism.
In Paris, a former barracks north of the city limits is the new prayer area for those living in the multi-ethnic Goutte d’Or neighbourhood. The barracks has two 750-and 600-square-metre rooms which can hold up to 2,700 people.
More: http://www.english.rfi.fr/france/20110916-ban-forces-muslims-streets-friday-prayers
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Europe is scared of prayers?
I agree with the French Government. Prayers are everybody’s private matter and it must not put to inconvenience other citizens. Moreover it can become an open invitation to anti-Muslim activists to start religious attacks / controversy. Muslims should pay for and arrange places with sufficient space to accommodate their worshipers in privacy.
Respecting law of the country is Jama’at Ahmadiyya’s principle.