Have you seen the prayer rooms at airports? They get paid too!!!
Imagine if you went in there and saw a pilotā¦
Thats not the point, your generic prayer room is fine, more so in an airport.
It depends on what goes on behind closed doors at the wahabi subsidised barber shop.
How would you know if they are just prayer rooms and not a hotbed for radicaliszing those who just want to worship?
I understand the concerns. Religious zealotry doesnāt end well. But, should people worry about hypothetical secret rooms in barber shops or about real religious organizations getting money (serious cash) from abroad?
@ShirleyNot : Humor aside, So, what if there was? One? More than one? Are there different muslim pilots ? e.g. From indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey, India or other countries? Muslim pilots == terrorists?
AFAIK, those muslim pilots @ 911, did not even know how to land a plane ā¦
Anti-Muslim prejudice appears to be the last āacceptableā form of bigotry. If anyone made comparable jokes about Jewish lawyers, financiers, filmmakers etc.. and linking them to criminality, there would be immediate outrage, screams of antisemitism and a swift banning.
As for secret rooms in barber shops, I guess commercial rents must be so low in Zurich, Zug, Geneva etc. that they can afford to have empty rooms with prayer rugs as opposed to more revenue generating chairs.
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I know someone who is trying to break into and make a living as a hair dresser. She pays CHF 35/hr to rent a chair in a shop. If she does the hair at CHF 25 per person, volume is survival for her.
There are a lot of jokes about Jews. Maybe more than about any other ethnicity.
Muslims may consider not committing terrorist attacks if they donāt want people to have prejudice. Christmas markets in the whole Europe are surrounded by heavy blocks not because Christian or atheistic drivers may want to attack visitors, you know.
How do you know that?
I think you are getting this wrong:
Look at it from a different viewpoint; I doubt any rationally thinking person, especially here on SF where most members use high octane brains can be accused of bigotry against your generic muslim, just as nobody will take a second glance at Moshe Rosenwasser chowing down on a bagel.
But:
Ultra orthodox Jews.
Evangelical Christians
The muslim raygun
Buddhist self immolators
ā¦any fanatical wingnuts who use their religion for mayham is fair game.
And it is not all that many, but these minorities are giving the rest a bad name.
As to the secret rooms, they are not so secret and they are known to exist and if the turkish government, or the Saudis pay monies to keep a room empty, then it is a problem brcause the afore mentioned are not known for spreading a message of peace.
Maybe it depends on the country. In the FSU states they are definitely in the top of the popular jokes and are applicable in many situation from the everyday life. People (Jews or not) telling it to each other quite often, sometimes only the last sentence because everybody knows theses jokes.
One of the most popular joke is when jewish parents are asking the person, who has rescued their son from the water, whether he has seen his cap.
I donāt know how itās in the other cultures.
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When I was growing up in was either Polish or Newfie jokes. Not that we had many Polish, or Newfie, neighbours. In fact I think I have only met one Newfie in my life and he was just the son of a real Newfie.
Q: How many Newfies does it take to ice-fish?
A: 7. 1 to cut the hole and six to push the dory in.
No Jewish jokes when I grew up.
I suspect the Holocaust and horrors of the second world war was fresher in peopleās minds.
In school there were always topical jokes depending on what was going on in the world.
Here are some I remember, provided here for historical context:
Q: Whatās the fastest thing on two legs?
A: A chicken in a Cambodian refugee camp.
Q: What were the last words said on the Space Shuttle Challenger, by the teacher?
A: āCan I drive?ā
Poor taste but thatās school boys for you.
Yes, thereās some bigotry.
At the same time, thereās the Republic of TurkiyĆ« buying real estate in Switzerland to open mosques. Canāt blame people for having worries about a guy with authoritarian tendencies using government money to manipulate religion for political purposes.
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Whats the worlds Most dangerous car really?
ā¦Food Truck through Somaliaā¦.!
Jews have a Great sence of Self Ironie and their Jokes can be quite slicing. But they Are Not the KZ Kind of jokes, These Seem to have fallen out of Fashion along with Bernhard Manning.
Is he the German tribute act?
Iād rather pay a few francs more if it meant Swiss towns donāt end up unrecognizable like some other places in Europe.
Yeah, maybe the cookie-cutter Swiss hairdo for blokes will catch on and put these punks out of businessā¦ 
Nothafen is this wretched iPhone wanting to do the German.
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Pre-WW2, a lot of comedians in Germany were (mostly secular) Jews.
When people say Germans have no (fine) humor, I know exactly why.