Muslim UK Bus Driver: “Get Off Bus, I Need To Pray” - With Video
A MUSLIM bus driver told stunned passengers to get off so he could PRAY.
The white Islamic convert rolled out his prayer mat in the aisle and knelt on the floor facing Mecca.
Passengers watched in amazement as he held out his palms towards the sky, bowed his head and began to chant.
One, who filmed the man on his mobile phone, said: “He was clearly praying and chanting in Arabic.
Click on the pic to view the vid.
“We thought it was a wind-up at first, like Jeremy Beadle.”
The 21-year-old plumber added: “He looked English and had a London accent. He looked like a Muslim convert, with a big, bushy beard.
“Eventually everyone started complaining. One woman said, ‘What the hell are you doing? I’m going to be late for work’.”
After a few minutes the driver calmly got up, opened the doors and asked everyone back on board.
But they saw a rucksack lying on the floor of the red single-decker and feared he might be a fanatic. So they all refused.
The passenger added: “One chap said, ‘I’m not getting on there now’.
“An elderly couple also looked really confused and worried.
“After seeing that no-one wanted to get on he drove off and we all waited until the next bus came about 20 minutes later. I was left totally stunned. It made me not want to get on a bus again.”
The bizarre event unfolded on the number 81 in Langley, Berkshire, at around 1.30pm on Thursday.
The passenger said he rang the bus firm to complain but claimed it did not believe him.
He said: “They asked me, ‘Are you sure?’. Then they said they would get back to me, but they weren’t taking me seriously at all.”
Yesterday the driver, who said his name was Hrun, told The Sun: “I asked everyone to get off because I needed to pray. I was running late and had not had time.
“I pray five times a day as a Muslim — but I don’t normally ask people to get off the bus to do it.”
Muslims pray at pre-dawn, noon, afternoon, sunset and evening.
A spokesperson for bus company London United said: “We are aware of a reported incident involving our route 81.
“We are currently undertaking a full investigation into the matter.”
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How much do you want to bet everyone who refused to get back on the bus is now going to be labled an islamophobe? He can stop work to pray, but I can’t show up drunk, what the hell’s up with that?
March 31st, 2008 at 1:17 pmhehe
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its only to get worse
March 31st, 2008 at 1:21 pmWhat a jerk. Fire his ass.
March 31st, 2008 at 1:21 pmHe’d have played hell getting me off that bus. Plus I’d have sh1t myself trying to fart during his prayer.
March 31st, 2008 at 2:19 pmI would have jumped in front of him and maced him but good. Let him drive his bus without eyes…and I doubt any one of those people would have snitched on me, let alone tried to stop me.
March 31st, 2008 at 2:19 pmNext move will be putting prayer breaks into bus drivers’ schedules. Really, whose needs are more important? The riding public or Muslims??????
March 31st, 2008 at 2:21 pmallahlovesporkchops
how freakin hilarious would that be? just cutting a big fart while hes praying to the moon god haha
March 31st, 2008 at 3:36 pmWhy wasn’t he beaten senseless by the passengers?
Sorry, no sympathy here. You are a dhimmi only to the point you allow it.
Bus drivers don’t even do that in Saudi Arabia. This cocksucker just wanted to show the world (and he did!) how soft the underbelly of Europe is.
They are getting just what they deserve.
March 31st, 2008 at 3:43 pmPayup is a bitch, Brits! You dolts were asleep at the wheel for years.
March 31st, 2008 at 3:58 pm
cb10 Good way of putting it.
March 31st, 2008 at 6:50 pmStupid Brits, asleep at the wheel; now look at the nation.
I was a truck driver for twenty years. I could eat soup, talk on the CB, shift gears, beat off and change my underwear all at the same time.
March 31st, 2008 at 7:20 pmThis guys a poser…
These fuckers are just trying to piss you off. Don’t let ‘em…kick some ass whenever you get a chance. Throw ‘em off the bus and drive it yourself.