Thread: fined £700 after Muslim neighbours claimed his yodelling mocked call to prayer

Austrian, 63, fined £700 after Muslim neighbours claimed his yodelling mocked call to prayer

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ks-prayer.html


A judge decided Helmut Griese, 63, was 'ridiculing' the Muslim family's beliefs and fined him nearly £700. Yodelling is as much a part of Austrian culture as lederhosen (file picture)





An Austrian has been fined for yodelling while mowing his lawn because it offended his Muslim neighbours next door.
A judge decided Helmut Griese, 63, was 'ridiculing' their beliefs and fined him nearly £700.
Rather than face a protracted court case with all its attendant legal costs, Griese agreed to pay.
The court heard how the Muslim family regarded Griese as a 'grumpy old man' and came to view his open-air versions of the Alpine chanting as racist asides aimed at them.
Austrian media reported how the pensioner was accused in the court in Graz of trying to 'mock and imitate' the call of the Muezzin.

They alleged that he always began his yodelling just as they knelt down to pray to Mecca.
'It was not my intention to imitate or insult them. I simply started to yodel a few tunes because I was in such a good mood' he told Austria‘s Kronen newspaper.
The yodel is a song sung with an extended note which rapidly and repeatedly changes in pitch and makes a high-low-high-low sound.
Developed in the Central Alps as a method of communication between mountaineers or between villages, the yodel later became part of the region's traditional lore and musical expression.

Accused: Helmut Griese was brought before a judge in the Austrian city of Graz and accused of mocking his neighbour's religion




Most westerners of a certain age know it purely through a version of a song warbled by Julie Andrews in the classic Austrian-set musical ‘The Sound of Music.´

The court heard how things came to a head late in the summer when Griese was both mowing his lawn and yodelling as the family were praying.

Police were called and it was him who was issued with a summons as tempers got heated.
He was charged with the arcane offences of 'disparagement of religious symbols' - usually reserved for neo-Nazis who desecrate Jewish graves - and ‘hindering religious practice.‘

not a nice thing to be doing to your neighbour.
if it's true.

Wait until Ewald Stadler get's into overdrive over this case.
Austrian politician Ewald just luuurves sensitive Muslims.
Top man, we just need a few more in Europe.

if he did in fact interfere into their prayers
then i don't believe too many will agree with him.
some things are sacred to some people
and prayer is number 1.
you don't interrupt a family praying,, to take the piss !!

Originally Posted by billy the kid

if he did in fact interfere into their prayers
then i don't believe too many will agree with him.
some things are sacred to some people
and prayer is number 1.
you don't interrupt a family praying,, to take the piss !!

Billy, this is Europe, not ass up lady whipping Sharia sh*t .
Do not like it - foxtrot oscar and take your brethren and 5 wives with you.
If you are in Europe LEGITIAMLY, which many of our guests are not ,you should
just adopt a passive acceptance of our law.
I realise that in 30 yrs. time Europe will be ruled by Islam, but give us a break for now please.

Originally Posted by blue

The court heard how things came to a head late in the summer when Griese was both mowing his lawn and yodelling as the family were praying.

Alright, guilty as hell . But 700 quid does seem a bit over the top for disturbing the peace. And please Allah, don't teach your Muezzins how to yodel. That would mean war.

it's all bollox to me , all of it.
but if somebody deliberatly started
throwing stones at my window and playin strange music while i wos fokin the missis
guess it was a noisy fokin mowing machine and im yodelling on top to boot.
he did this on regular occasions ?
if he genuinely did not intend to fok with their prayers then he must be a dumb fuck.
700 euro does seem a lot for this
personally i'd like to see the whole lot of em flushed down the bog
and sent back to the desert.

Couldn't he say their prayers was upsetting his yodelling..?

When I was in the middle east I regularly had to turn Motorhead up as they were making a racket first thing in the morning as I was going to bed..


...even the large amount of voddy wouldn't blank out the noise....










THOUGHTLESS BASTARDS

So there is now effectively a law against yodelling in Austria.

Austrians had better check with the local Imam before donning the lederhosen.

I believe it is still legal to yodel in Switzerland.

I think Muslim Austrian fusion yodelling might be interesting.
Maybe include an East side NY beat.
Kicking!

Yodelling in its proper setting.

Now that I think of it, yodling does sound a little like the call to prayer. I worked in Saudi Arabia and too heard all the calls to prayer in the hospital. Often wondered what the brain surgeons thought when they were trying to do fine surgery when that racket started.

^^....nice one.

Health warning on story - it is the Daily Wail

My mate got done by a Yemini court for reaching across the alley ( about 12 ft ) and stuffing a sock ( on the end of my fishing rod - which was confiscated)into the mosque loudspeaker at 5 in the morning ! He had just finished a 36 hour shift !!!


500 US $ if I remember right - that was in 1968 !!!

Originally Posted by Thormaturge

Yodelling in its proper setting.

Good one T,... Down under we have some bumper (fender) stickers on cars reading "This is Australia,, fit in or F**k off"
But sadly like someone just said, we'll all be run by towelheads in a few decades!!

^^They would cut his balls off now.

^ We are letting them do it.

If the guy had been wearing his yodelling gettup as in that pic then they should have let him off.