The retail park at the centre of the Islamophobic parking row (picture from the Get Surrey website)

It seems that the religion of special needs is alive and whining in Woking, Surrey where Muslims attending the mosque are outraged that their parking needs are not subsidised by everybody else.

Car parking facilities are a costly addition for any shopkeeper but they are vital if the shopkeeper wants to bring trade into their shop. The land on which they are built costs money, the construction of them costs money and the security and maintenance of the car park also costs money. For quite a while now Muslims have been royally taking the piss out of the car parking facilities at a local retail centre in Maybury, Woking. They’ve been leaving their vehicles there for hours at a time whilst they spend time praying at the mosque. Now the owners and managers of this retail facility have become mightily pissed off with Muslims taking car parking places that could be used by paying customers. They’ve become so annoyed with the Islamic car park thieves that they’ve amended the rules by which this car park is run. They’ve changed the times that free parking is allowed so that it is restricted to one hour on a Friday, which is peak Islamic arse-lifting time.

Now rather than respect that the rules had changed and maybe try to do something to reduce the traffic congestion that nearly always accompanies an outbreak of mosques, the local Muslims have instead decided to whine their heads off about how discriminatory the new policy is. Here’s my suggestion to the local Muslims. Why don’t you break the habit of a lifetime and just put up and shut up about this?

Here’s what one of the local news outlets, the Get Surrey website said about this story (Note: Original story in italics and this blog’s comments in plain text)

“Parking restrictions at Maybury car park is ‘victimising’ people attending Friday prayers at the Shah Jahan Mosque according to leading figures in the Muslim community.

A parking restriction in a Maybury car park discriminates against those attending Friday prayers, senior figures in Woking’s Muslim community claim.

Always playing the victim these Muslims aint they?

They feel it is unfair people are allowed to park in spaces at Lion Retail Park for three hours, apart from on Fridays between 1pm and 4pm, when drivers can only leave their cars for an hour.

Seems perfectly fair to me. After all these Muslims are not contributing to the trade in the retail park whilst they are arse-lifting.

The car park is next to the Shah Jahan Mosque, in Oriental Road, where Muslims meet for Friday prayers just after 1pm.

This can last more than an hour, forcing worshippers who use the car park to rush out at the end of services, unable to converse at all with other community members afterwards.

Some have received tickets after the cameras of enforcement company ParkingEye caught them out, resulting in an £85 fine.

Oh dear, how sad, never mind. However despite the loud whine from the local Bearded Savages my give-a-fuck-o-meter is still stuck on -20

Shahid Azeem, chairman of Woking Asian Business Forum, said: “One hour isn’t enough for a Muslim at Friday prayers.

“I just feel that this is victimising people. There is no other reason why they would do this.”

I can think of plenty of reasons unrelated to victimisation or discrimination why the management of the retail park would do this.

Tahir Aziz, the new Councillor for Maybury and Sheerwater, said: “People have had tickets because of this.

“In essence it’s a discriminatory policy. I would like to sit down with the Mosque and the landowner.

“This is unacceptable. As a councillor I’m not happy with it. People are angry about it.”

‘People’? Or do you just mean the small coterie of loud and demanding Bearded Savages who probably make up a lot of your support Cllr Aziz? If the bylaws and rules are not suitable for you then you are free to go and live in a Muslim country where your religion of death, rape and corruption will be indulged even more than it is in the UK.

Councillor Mohammad Ilyas Raja, another Maybury and Sheerwater member, has also said he is not happy with the Friday restriction.

However I bet those who can now find car parking places whilst they are shopping are delighted with this new rule.

Although the retail park spaces are right in front of stores including Pets at Home, Currys and Asda and notices state they are for customers only, there is no enforcement to ensure drivers actually use the shops, only that they leave within the timeframe and do not use marked bays.

Not a problem in my view. These car parking places were originally intended to be for shoppers anyway.

And Cllr Aziz said that many of those who use the Mosque, use the shops there anyway.

Are you sure about that Cllr Aziz? Show us your data if you are so confident of your assertion.

“Some of them are local residents, they use the Asda. We can ask them not to use the car park for longer than they need to,” he said.

“Friday prayers can last for two hours – charities come along and speak, people meet up. This is a historic mosque in Woking.”

Oh dear Cllr Aziz is now hiding behind the shield of ‘charity’. However what must be borne in mind is that there are a fair number of Islamic charities that are to say the least, dodgy.

Indeed the Shah Jahan Mosque was the first mosque built in the UK.

And many people have been regretting Islam’s arrival ever since.

Its head Imam is Hafiz Muhammad Saeed Hashmi.

He said: “It’s unfair. They should understand that they should be flexible.”

St Paul’s Church in Oriental Road allows worshipping Muslims to park there and churchgoers also park at the mosque, and Imam Hashmi is unhappy that the same is not true at the retail park.

Cllr Aziz should realise that the church is, like the retail park, a private enterprise and therefore has the right to decide who can park on their property and when.

“Neighbours should respect each other.”

That’s a laugh. How much ‘respect’ have the followers of Islam showed towards the people (and especially the children and young women) of places like Rotherham, Tower Hamlets, Newham, Preston etc etc? From where I sit I see precious little in the way of respect for Britons and our culture from Muslims.

A spokesman for Savills, which manages the site on behalf of landowner British Land, said that the one-hour restriction on Fridays was part of a historic agreement with the mosque.

Imam Hashmi denied knowledge of any such agreement.

Who do you believe on this? The site management or the local Muslim head-man? Personally I choose to believe the retail park management on this. Of course Imam Hashmi is going to deny knowledge of the agreement, but whether he is telling the truth is another matter entirely.

It is not the first time a row has broken out over parking for worshippers in Woking.

Woking Borough Council’s policy of allowing users of three churches in the town to park for free in its public car parks was challenged three years ago by the National Secular Society.

It led the council to amend the policy so that members of other community groups promoting social including and undertaking voluntary work, could use the car parks for free too.

This is a totally different situation to that regarding public car parks. This is a private car park for a retail park and not a public facility.

So, to conclude, when you hear a whining sound that rises in pitch and volume as time goes on, don’t automatically assume that it is a flood or a hostile aircraft, it could merely be your local Bearded Savages moaning that they are not being pandered to enough.

‘Islamophobic’ parking regulations, I’ve heard it all now. I think this complaint means I will have to add another box onto my ‘Muslim Bullshit Bingo’ card.

Link

Original story from Surrey local website on the ‘Islamophobic’ parking row

http://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-news/claims-parking-restrictions-discriminate-against-9319524