• Why Jihad Watch?
  • About Robert Spencer and Staff Writers
  • FAQ
  • Books
  • Muhammad
  • Islam 101
  • Privacy

Jihad Watch

Exposing the role that Islamic jihad theology and ideology play in the modern global conflicts

Australian Football League mandates prayer rooms in all stadiums

Apr 22, 2012 5:15 am By Robert Spencer

The Q Society, the courageous group of freedom fighters that sponsored and organized my speaking tour of Australia last December, has the story:

AFL Mandates Prayer Rooms in all Australian Footy Stadiums – Will the call of the muezzin soon ring out at quarter time?

22 April 2012, Melbourne – Q Society of Australia Inc acknowledges the right of the AFL and stadium operators to provide whatever facilities they deem necessary to encourage and increase patronage at their functions. However, as representatives of citizens concerned with the spread of political Islam and sharia law in Australia, Q Society voices strong objection to such ill-advised developments.

It is important to outline the reasons for this objection.

Observant Muslims can take part in football just as they take part in other activities without needing a prayer room wherever they go. Koran and Hadiths clearly acknowledge (references below) the need to modify the prayer schedule, especially when in non-Islamic countries. Missed prayers can be made-up later when there is opportunity. The Islamic religion is much more practical than some Muslim fundamentalists want us to believe.

Requests for prayer rooms in secular spaces do not come from average Australian Muslims. Do we recall the Pakistani or Bangladeshi cricket teams complaining? Are visiting sport teams from the Middle East on public record with such requests? These demands are conceived by fundamentalists and Islamic activists seeking to impose their divisive religious lifestyle on to what they perceive our “˜infidel” society.

This seemingly simple and apparently moderate request for pious Muslims to be able to practice their religion while in public venues, heralds once more the stepped introduction of Islamic sharia law. It starts with a multi-faith prayer room, moves to a Muslim-only prayer room, on to gender-segregated Muslim prayer rooms, then Muslim-only ablution facilities and eventually a staffed mosque. Examples abound in our universities. Spreading from one facility to another, gender segregation and religious apartheid are suddenly entrenched in our society. No other religious group has similar aspirations.

This is not an extremist reaction, but a factual response based on documented methods used by political Islam to achieve its long-term aim of imposing sharia law worldwide.
Verifiable history plays out before our eyes. Europe shows us the next steps in this process.

Many European cities reveal how segregation has advanced to Muslim-only zones where the indigenous population dare not venture. All from the same well meant, but ill-advised path some short-sighted Australian politicians and the AFL are beginning to tread.

Q Society stands with the majority of Australians for a free and integrated community, with one secular law applied equally to all Australians. There is no place for gender segregation or religious apartheid anywhere in our Commonwealth. There is no place for sharia law, even at its most basic level, in Australia.

Q Society believes religion belongs in churches, synagogues, temples and mosques, not in footy stadiums or any other secular public space in Australia.

References:

Koran Sura 4:101
“And when ye go forth in the land, it is no sin for you to curtail (your) worship if ye fear that those who disbelieve may attack you. In truth the disbelievers are an open enemy to you.”

Hadith narrated by al-Bukhaari (571) and Muslim (631):
“O Messenger of Allaah, I could hardly pray “˜Asr until the sun had almost set.” The Prophet said: “By Allaah, I did not pray it either.” We went to Bat-haan and he did wudoo” for prayer and so did we, then he prayed “˜Asr after the sun had set, then he prayed Maghrib after that.

Hadith narrated by al-Bukhaari (572) and Muslim (684):
“Whoever forgets a prayer or sleeps and misses it, the expiation for that is to pray it when he remembers.”
About Q Society of Australia Inc
Q Society of Australia Inc is a national grassroots organisation run by volunteers since 2010.
Our members are concerned about the socio-political problems associated with the rise of Islamic sharia law in Australia; as well as religiously-motivated human rights abuses against women and indigenous religious minorities in OIC countries. We seek to inform and lobby for a free and open discussion about the socio-political impact of Islam in Australia. We oppose the Islamisation of our society and attempts to silence critical debate under the pretence of multicultural tolerance. No tolerance for the intolerant.

Share this:

  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)
  • Click to print (Opens in new window)
  • Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)
  • More
  • Click to share on Skype (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)

Follow me on Facebook

Filed Under: Australia, dhimmitude


Learn more about RevenueStripe...

FacebookYoutubeTwitterLog in

Subscribe to the Jihad Watch Daily Digest

You will receive a daily mailing containing links to the stories posted at Jihad Watch in the last 24 hours.
Enter your email address to subscribe.

Please wait...

Thank you for signing up!
If you are forwarding to a friend, please remove the unsubscribe buttons first, as they my accidentally click it.

Subscribe to all Jihad Watch posts

You will receive immediate notification.
Enter your email address to subscribe.
Note: This may be up to 15 emails a day.

Donate to JihadWatch
FrontPage Mag

Search Site

Translate

The Team

Robert Spencer in FrontPageMag
Robert Spencer in PJ Media

Articles at Jihad Watch by
Robert Spencer
Hugh Fitzgerald
Christine Douglass-Williams
Andrew Harrod
Jamie Glazov
Daniel Greenfield

Contact Us

Terror Attacks Since 9/11

Archives

  • 2020
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2019
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2018
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2017
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2016
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2015
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2014
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2013
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2012
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2011
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2010
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2009
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2008
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2007
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2006
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2005
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2004
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2003
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • March

All Categories

You Might Like

Learn more about RevenueStripe...

Recent Comments

  • Boycott Turkey on New study reveals that Muslim religiosity strongly linked to hatred towards the West
  • gravenimage on Audio: Robert Spencer on Muslim Brotherhood influence in a Biden/Harris administration
  • gravenimage on Audio: Robert Spencer on Muslim Brotherhood influence in a Biden/Harris administration
  • gravenimage on Muslim cleric: ‘We welcomed the takeover of ISIS because they wanted to implement the Sharia’
  • gravenimage on Muslim cleric: ‘We welcomed the takeover of ISIS because they wanted to implement the Sharia’

Popular Categories

dhimmitude Sharia Jihad in the U.S ISIS / Islamic State / ISIL Iran Free Speech

Robert Spencer FaceBook Page

Robert Spencer Twitter

Robert Spencer twitter

Robert Spencer YouTube Channel

Books by Robert Spencer

Jihad Watch® is a registered trademark of Robert Spencer in the United States and/or other countries - Site Developed and Managed by Free Speech Defense

Content copyright Jihad Watch, Jihad Watch claims no credit for any images posted on this site unless otherwise noted. Images on this blog are copyright to their respective owners. If there is an image appearing on this blog that belongs to you and you do not wish for it appear on this site, please E-mail with a link to said image and it will be promptly removed.

Our mailing address is: David Horowitz Freedom Center, P.O. Box 55089, Sherman Oaks, CA 91499-1964

loading Cancel
Post was not sent - check your email addresses!
Email check failed, please try again
Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email.