..probaby not,and you possibly don't give a toss - but you see this is how it starts.
"In our country, we cannot accept that women be prisoners behind a screen, cut off from all social life, deprived of all identity," - "The burqa is not a religious sign, it's a sign of subservience, a sign of debasement _ I want to say it solemnly,It will not be welcome ".
(French President Nicolas Sarkozy)
"Quba Mosque was established in Gumma Ken in year 2004.The Mosque has a capacity of 250 people. Besides five-time salat & salat-ul-Jumma, programme of weekly Daroos e Quran is organized on every Saturday. Inshallah Quran classes for children will be started soon.
Location:
Honcho 4-7-26,Tatebayashi-city,
Gumma Ken ,374-0024,Japan.
Tel&Fax:022-422-1818
Contact:Br.Zaib Bhatti
Mobile :090-7714-9906
# 5 minutes walk from Tatebayashi Station
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Here in Kobe Port is one of the oldest Mosque in Japan, built in 1935. It survived both the heavy firebombing during World War 2, one of very few buildings which did, and also the Great Hanshin Earthquake in 1995.
In my 7 years of living in Kobe I've only seen a couple of women wearing a burqa, on their way to Friday prayers at the Mosque. They have to walk so I suppose that's why I saw them, the rest of the time they probably go by car. I think the Muslim pop is mainly Indian, some Turks.
Within the same sq mile there's a Mosque, a Synagogue, a Jain Temple and a Catholic Church. Many of these people do business together, usually pearl dealing which Kobe is famous for.
I was going to go for a mornin' walk - but Kobe/Hyogo is not Gunma/Kanto now call me a snob and call what you like.
*i'll take it straight on the chin*
yours - in snobriety
remora
there is something in here about this East/West rivalry..
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/09/world/osaka-journal-tokyo-s-rival-says...
I ask myself sometimes in the middle of the nite *Eastern Japan 50 Hz (Tokyo, Kawasaki, Sapporo, Yokohoma, and Sendai); Western Japan 60 Hz (Osaka, Kyoto, Nagoya, Hiroshima)
why?,why?,why?
rem
.."Kobe now hosts the oldest surviving Jewish Community of Japan"
http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~tamar/Kobe/Kobe.html
now I know where the Spurs supporters are!
(*_*)
the 60Hz/50Hz don't really matter because all equipment can deal with both.
East-West difference. I suppose it might be something like North and South in the UK.
I found people on the Kanto Plain, especially Tokyo to be very formal, while people in West Japan are less formal, more loud, more friendly, so I prefer living in West Japan.
both the Jews and Muslims of Kobe go way back! Along with a bunch of others like Russians.
and to get to my original point- I was just ducking into the 7/11 one morning (2004) across road from what used to be a discrete ground floor business building..when I clapped eyes on that sideshow..well, it it didnt really hit me until (a few days later) when some mysterious Bangladeshi Chappy with a bicycle bailed me up in the Main Street of Tatty-B and asked if I knew what the Cricket Scores were...(there goes the neighbourhood)
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