Holding prayers in the street is not the result of mosque shortages. Throughout the history of Christianity, Christians established house churches when they didn’t have a church to pray in — that is, they would just go to someone’s house and hold services there. There were no ostentatious prayers in the street. These street prayers are actually a confrontation and a statement: the Muslims in Clichy-la-Garenne are asserting their supremacy, implicitly demanding that everyone else who wants to pass along the street has to accommodate them. This is a manifestation of the old Islamic dictum that “Islam must dominate and not be dominated.” Consequently, French Interior Minister Gerard Collomb is entirely correct to try to stop this. It is inevitable that eventually the leaders of all Western countries are going to have to decide whether they’re going to defend their own laws and culture, or whether they’re going to bow to Islamic norms and practices one by one until finally they are Sharia states. This confrontation is coming, and cannot be avoided.
“France Seeks To Ban Muslim Street Prayers In Paris After Clashes,” by Jacob Bojesson, Daily Caller, November 19, 2017 (thanks to Lookmann):
Muslims won’t be allowed to hold mass prayers on the streets of a Paris suburb where protestors and worshippers have clashed in recent weeks, French Interior Minister Gerard Collomb said Sunday.
Weekly street prayers have taken place in the suburb of Clichy-la-Garenne every Friday since the local mosque was shut down by authorities in the spring. Local politicians and protestors have tried to stop the street prayers and the national government is ready to take action.
“They will not have prayers on the street, we will prevent street praying,” Collomb told Franceinfo in an interview published Sunday. “We will make sure we resolve this conflict in the next few weeks.”
Collomb emphasized that “Muslims must have a place of worship to pray” while acknowledging that the current solution doesn’t work….