Re: Re: Re: Muslims Parking and Praying - Think Before You Build
Who was that genius who figured out that the best place to put the prayer facility is next to one of the busiest intersections at O'Hare and not make room for the taxicabs anyway?
No one thought of the fact that the worshipers, being taxicab drivers would bring their taxicabs?
That's sure to earn a Congressional Medal of Boner.
We call this town the "City of the Big Shoulders":
Not because of Carl Sandburg's poem:
CHICAGO
Hog Butcher for the World,
Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat,
Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler;
Stormy, husky, brawling,
City of the Big Shoulders:
They tell me you are wicked and I believe them, for I
have seen your painted women under the gas lamps
luring the farm boys.
And they tell me you are crooked and I answer: Yes, it
is true I have seen the gunman kill and go free to
kill again.
And they tell me you are brutal and my reply is: On the
faces of women and children I have seen the marks
of wanton hunger.
And having answered so I turn once more to those who
sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer
and say to them:
Come and show me another city with lifted head singing
so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning.
Flinging magnetic curses amid the toil of piling job on
job, here is a tall bold slugger set vivid against the
little soft cities;
Fierce as a dog with tongue lapping for action, cunning
as a savage pitted against the wilderness,
Bareheaded,
Shoveling,
Wrecking,
Planning,
Building, breaking, rebuilding,
Under the smoke, dust all over his mouth, laughing with
white teeth,
Under the terrible burden of destiny laughing as a young
man laughs,
Laughing even as an ignorant fighter laughs who has
never lost a battle,
Bragging and laughing that under his wrist is the pulse.
and under his ribs the heart of the people,
Laughing!
Laughing the stormy, husky, brawling laughter of
Youth, half-naked, sweating, proud to be Hog
Butcher, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with
Railroads and Freight Handler to the Nation.
(by Carl Sandburg)
Blogger's note: We call this town the "City of the Big Shoulders" because they don't call this town the "City of those who think things through to the end."
It is clear enough that the City isn't going to push this issue far/into the courts. This is the kind of matter that is a loser on constitutional grounds for DCS.
The open offer for free representation in the Circuit Court of Cook County to anyone ticketed for praying while parked appears to have been sufficient to assure my Muslim cousins the opportunity to worship as their faith requires without being tormented.
