{"id":15992,"date":"2015-02-16T14:45:38","date_gmt":"2015-02-16T14:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=15992"},"modified":"2015-02-16T01:58:10","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T01:58:10","slug":"god-bothering-megaphone-toting-islamophobe-annoys-oxford-circus-shoppers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/god-bothering-megaphone-toting-islamophobe-annoys-oxford-circus-shoppers\/","title":{"rendered":"God-bothering, megaphone-toting Islamophobe annoys Oxford Circus shoppers"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"God-bothering,<\/p>\n

Seen annoying shoppers and deafening passengers trying to get into a crowded Oxford Circus tube station was this God-bothering bloke with a megaphone. His name is Carl.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\"God-bothering,<\/p>\n

His message seemed to solely focus around how Islam was an intolerant religion of hate and violence.<\/p>\n

Whereas whatever religion he was going on about was, no doubt, incredibly<\/em> tolerant.<\/p>\n

\"God-bothering,<\/p>\n

He briefly stopped banging on about how terrible\u00a0Islam was to have a go at a few other random religions and started going on about new age hippies at one point.<\/p>\n

\"God-bothering,<\/p>\n

Here’s Carl again, raving and shouting away.<\/p>\n

\"God-bothering,<\/p>\n

\"God-bothering,<\/p>\n

Carl he’s been seen at this spot for some time, and always flapping around his sheets of paper.<\/p>\n

\"God-bothering,<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, less than 15 metres away on the opposite side of the road was a far more enjoyable kind of noise being created by this busking band.<\/p>\n

More of the same, but in Brixton: The street preachers and religious cults of central Brixton, 2000-2014<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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