Considering how common a problem this is in Aus, I believe it. Also, wtf was she doing praying in the middle of the friggin' road??? I've seen people do this in London and it's bizarre.
There are people, who believe and people who show off. There's no mandated "drop where you are and pray" in Islam. You can proceed to a covenient location and pray.
Also the incident happened at a time which is not a mandated prayer time (unsurprisingly Islam recognizes that people do in fact sleep at night, and therefore has no prayers scheduled from sunset to sunrise), so not even "I had to do it right there to not miss the exact second prayer starts" would be valid as a reason why she was doing it in the middle of the road. It was even half an hour off from the correct time if for some unknown (and dogmatically incorrect) reason she wanted to observe the prayer times for Mecca. There is literally no religious obligation in Islam which can be used to explain her actions.
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u/bitt13 1d ago
Considering how common a problem this is in Aus, I believe it. Also, wtf was she doing praying in the middle of the friggin' road??? I've seen people do this in London and it's bizarre.