DISCRIMINATION AGAINST US AS IRISH CHRISTIANS AT CROKE PARK MUSLIM EVENT?

3 months ago

Umar Al Qadri insists we weren't asked to leave the Croke Park Islamic Eid event BECAUSE we weren't Muslim. He was responding to our assertion that the event was not as open and welcoming to all as he was making out. We doubled down and insisted we were discriminated against. We also informed him (after accusations of being seen as a hostile presence) that we were highly respectful at all times, despite harassment.

What do you think? Were we asked to leave due to not being adherent to Islam? Moreover, were we at any time anything other than calm, polite and very respectful? Or did we allow ourselves to be goaded into a confrontation in which we would be likely made out to be "far right" aggressors? And would there have been uproar if we as white Irish Christians had told Muslims to leave an event they attended legitimately?

This incident is not the only time we were asked we approached, surrounded and followed several times (in other instances a number of Irish staff and security were involved and were "following orders"). We were repeatedly hassled, questioned and told to leave. We had to show our tickets (which we bought online) 6 times. Gardaí were also called. At no point did we allow ourselves to be antagonised, and at no point were we aggressive. We were the opposite...however we have a feeling we will still be made out to have acted incorrectly.

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