Yodeling Offends Praying Muslims
So say Austrian judges, reports the Austrian Times:
An Austrian has been fined for yodelling while mowing his lawn, according to a report.The Kronen Zeitung newspaper claims Helmut G. was told by a court in Graz, Styria, that his yodelling offended his next-door Muslim neighbours.
The Muslim neighbors, the story says, accused the guy of trying to mock them and the Muslim call to prayer with the yodeling. The man said he was just yodeling a few tunes because he was in a good mood. He was fined 800 euros after the judges said he could have been trying to mock them. (Hellooo, madness!)
Gregg points out that, in Mars Attacks!, yodeling is what makes the aliens' heads explode. Hmm, sort of a reverse jihad!
A commenter calling herself Anna Nym left a remark on the site with, she says, more news from Austria (like about how the neighbors played a recording of their Friday "prayers" -- I believe she means the Muslim call to prayers):
Quite a short article here, so let'ss add some facts from the homebase:1.) the infidel Friday: This, which was originally a "over the fence-quarrell" lastet from 2009 to summer 2010 YES, the muslim neighbours did have a recording of their Friday Prayers on high volume to listen to it in the garden every FRI/12.pm and yes Herr Helmuth G. did yodel, sing lawn-mowing and making noise in other "creative ways" every FRI/12.pm. Significant thing here is, the muslim neighbours STOPPED their noise after some weeks. Mister G. did not! And so, after a time and a Mister G. who did not want to talk or stop, the muslim neighbours did something very austrian/western: they called Police.
2.) the more infidel reporting of Mister G.: As every learned Austrian know, if a austrian policeman has to aussekoffern wegn so an Schaas bec. of a neighbour quarrell at holy midday time (midday time is kinda holy in Austria, i don't know for muslim world though) he will get pissed...very pissed with the originator of (his) midday peace interuption- so after dunning Mister G. FIVE TIMES to keep it down at midday, the police reported Mister G. to the districts attourney bureau bec. of defying a officers orders - so not the muslims reported him, the police did (The neighbours said, they wanted a amicabe solution)! Anyway Mister G.s case was dismissed and got into a so-called Diversion
More here.
Cute yodeler here:
Muslim call to prayer here:
The late Don Walser, the "Pavarotti of the Plains" was another fine yodeler:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdNht2kiSNQ
Robert at December 17, 2010 2:28 AM
The Muslim asshole just needs some sensitivity training courses, or at least needs to broaden his obviously narrow-minded, ignorant understanding of other cultures.
JakeTaylor at December 17, 2010 4:28 AM
They are sowing the wind, going after an Austrian in his own country doing something as iconically Austrian as yodelling. Someone should clue up these idiots about how nasty the Europeans, the Austrians especially, can get with unwanted Middle Easterners. They generate psychopathic national leaders when they have a mind and go a-scape-goating. They still even have some of the infrastructure in place
Jim at December 17, 2010 8:18 AM
What a great idea! Whenever I'm bothered by Muslims in my community, if they approach me, I'll just start yodeling!
Brilliant!
o.O
Flynne at December 17, 2010 8:27 AM
Love Mars Attacks! Those Martians sure know how to build a woman!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDAaTzccCik
Eric at December 17, 2010 8:33 AM
This reminds me of a law suit that Muslims won in Dearborn, Michigan (who has a large Muslim community) a few years ago giving mosques in that community the right to play their calls to prayer over a loudspeaker.
The Imam's defended the practice saying that it was equivalent to the ringing of church bells. As though the quiet peal of bells for a few minutes on Sunday morning is equivalent to the amplified, incessant caterwauling of the Islamic call to prayer 5 times per day, every day.
Interestingly, the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee urged "tolerance" over the issue, and then a few weeks later got the city council to reject a proposal by local churches to hand out Christian flyers at the city's Arab festival.
AllenS at December 17, 2010 10:30 AM
I would love to learn to yodel. I think it is very beautiful.
NicoleK at December 19, 2010 10:49 AM
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