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Originally Posted by Saaf_laandon_mo
The Friday prayer is seen by most muslims as the most important 'regular' prayer to perform in congregation. Hence why you get a huge amount of people outside mosques on Friday afternoon. Because of the amount of people women will not attend in smaller mosques (as the emphasis is on men attending the prayer in congregation) but many large mosques have separate rooms.
What I dont understand about arguments that have been bought up by the parking issue is that illegally parked cars, be they outside the mosque or on a high street, will get ticketed or clamped. The mosques I regularly go to in South London are all on red routes - which limits parking extremely. Most people park in bays or legally on the road. They are also there for an hour maximum. I have seen cars get clamped and ticketed - but never the same car get ticketed or clamped twice. Generally people learn their lesson and park legally next time.
Yes I agree double parking and obstructions will happen. But there are ways that someone being illegally parked can deal with it. And there are fines in place to prevent it happening.
As for being penned in because cars are obstructing the driveway - a few years back my neighbour decided to park in front of my dropped down kerb as she thought she was entitled to do so. A quick call to the locall police station sorted out the problem in a few minutes.
Also bear in mind that mosques do not want to constantly have complaints regarding parking directed at them as it leads to hostility and tension between muslims and neighbouring non muslims. Quite a few mosques I know have people standing outside ensuring people are parked with consideration to others.
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I believe the effectiveness of the police in taking action against illegal parking is very much down to your local force. The local community council meetings have had so many resident complaints, that after years of the police taking no action they have now been hounded by the residents to act.
The religious place of worship and parking problem is widespread amongst all religions, I believe the lack of action in our area was due to both the parking issues being on a Sunday and it involved the church.
I don't believe as stated in one previous post the council/police are afraid of being branded racists for taking action, in my view it would be more accurate to say, they are afraid of being classed as atheists if they took any action.
Places of worship (All religions) appear to be treated leniently in this respect, and the leniency they receive is possibly the main cause of friction aside from racism.