SPECIAL BREW AKBAR!!!

"wheresh da offie gone?"

Near where i live is a Muslim prayer center, not so out of the ordinary you may think, and you would be right.

The reason I'm mentioning this is because the center is squashed in between an off licence and a pub, and as you may know most Muslims frown upon 'the demon drink' (mind you the pages of Islamic history are littered with heavy drinkers, a few have even drank themselves to death).

But recently the off licence was shut down and brought by the center who knocked through the dividing wall to make the prayer center bigger.

This means that the faithful will be listening to an imam warn of the dangers of alcohol while kneeling prostrate in the very place where the SPECIAL BREW and the WHITE CIDER was stacked and sold.

The irony of this was not lost on me and i had to laugh at the thought of a devoted Muslim prostrate and with his face near the floor, his nose being filled with the pissy smell of old stale super strong brew.

And if that wasn't bad enough for the faithful, the center's 'owners' have now started making plans to take over the pub on its other side! (this was the pub that as teenagers we would go to buy weed from the old west Indian blokes -nice old men they were.) this would make the center much bigger, but i bet it would be a hard job of ridding the pub, and especially the floor, of the piss, puke and stale beer smell that has accumulated over the years! and if the bar was to be taken away then there would be lots of space to pray, and if the pub owners were nice enough they might leave the karaoke machine in and the imam could preach in the same spot where many years of drunkards stood swaying as they sang along to DEAN MARTIN hits of yesteryear.

Oh, how i love irony!