{"id":105449,"date":"2026-10-22T04:00:49","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T08:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=105449"},"modified":"2026-10-21T14:10:35","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T18:10:35","slug":"street-theatre-with-a-niqab-and-a-prayer-mat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/street-theatre-with-a-niqab-and-a-prayer-mat\/","title":{"rendered":"Street theatre with a niqab<\/em> and a prayer mat"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Substack Notes<\/em>, Dan Burmawi<\/a> discusses the recent phenomenon of Muslims choosing to performatively pray on the public streets:<\/p>\n

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Photo from Dan Burmawi’s note on Substack<\/em>.<\/p><\/div>\n

Tonight, as I was leaving a restaurant on 14th Street in New York around 10 p.m., this Muslim woman took a prayer rug and a niqab<\/em> out of the trunk of her car, put the niqab<\/em> on, laid the prayer rug down, and started praying on the street.<\/p>\n

I grew up as a Muslim in the Islamic world, and let me tell you: this is absolutely part of an organized effort to flood the public square in the West with Islamic symbolism.<\/p>\n

First of all, there is no Islamic prayer at 10 p.m. Even if she missed the Isha<\/em> prayer, which takes place earlier in the evening, she has until dawn to make it up. So why choose to pray on the street at 10 p.m.?<\/p>\n

Second, a Muslim woman who does not wear a niqab<\/em> or hijab<\/em> in her daily life would never normally have a niqab<\/em> sitting in the trunk of her car.<\/p>\n

She is clearly not strict enough to wear it every day, so why would she suddenly be so strict about missing a prayer that she carries a niqab<\/em> in her trunk specifically for this purpose?<\/p>\n

Third, in almost any Islamic country, you would never see a woman praying on the street at 10 p.m. This would be completely unacceptable.<\/p>\n

If she were genuinely worried about praying, she could simply wait until she got home, especially since a missed Isha<\/em> prayer can be made up before dawn.<\/p>\n

I can tell you with full confidence that these scenes we keep seeing of Muslims praying in the streets of the West are intentional.<\/p>\n

They serve to assert dominance, normalize Islam in the public square, seize ground, and demand exceptional treatment that immediately turns into claimed rights.<\/p>\n

Bad-faith acts like this are signals of the same project that turned many cities in Europe into shitholes.<\/p>\n

Exceptional threats demand exceptional measures.<\/p>\n

Islam must be banned in the West because it is not a religion; it is a hostile political ideology.<\/p>\n

Until that happens, the West will continue losing ground to this ideology every single day.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Substack Notes, Dan Burmawi discusses the recent phenomenon of Muslims choosing to performatively pray on the public streets: Tonight, as I was leaving a restaurant on 14th Street in New York around 10 p.m., this Muslim woman took a prayer rug and a niqab out of the trunk of her car, put the niqab […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[28,53,11,13],"tags":[47,321,43],"class_list":["post-105449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-politics","category-religion","category-usa","tag-islam","tag-nyc","tag-women"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-rqN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105449"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105453,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105449\/revisions\/105453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}