It seems as though in Austria, the popular yodel is an insult to Muslims.

An Austrian court has recently fined a citizen for yodeling while mowing his lawn, according to a report in The Kronen Zeitung newspaper.

The citizen, 63-year-old Helmut G., was told by the court that his yodeling offended his next-door Muslim neighbors, who accused him of trying to mock and imitate the call of the Muezzin.

In Muslim tradition, the Muezzin is the chosen person at a mosque who leads the call to prayer at Friday services and the five daily times for prayer from one of the mosque's minarets.

The yodel is a song which is sung with an extended note which rapidly and repeatedly changes in pitch and makes a high-low-high-low sound. Developed in the Central Alps as a method of communication between alpine mountaineers or between alpine villages, the yodel later became part of the region's traditional lore and musical expression. The technique is used in many cultures throughout the world and Austria is one of the countries where it is most popular.

Unfortunately for Helmut G., his neighbors were in the middle of a prayer when he started to yodel. The Kronen Zeitung reported that he was fined 800 Euros after judges ruled that he could have tried to offend his neighbors and ridicule their belief.

Helmut G. clarified that It was not my intention to imitate or insult them. I simply started to yodel a few tunes because I was in such a good mood.


http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/141152

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So Austrians must stop an art that has been done for thousands of years and is fully ingrained in there culture because it offends a violent cult.

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No Austrians have to stop Yodeling because #1 either their judiciary system is a complete failure (and hence the lawmakers and the ppl who put them their should answer)or #2 that they don't have to stop yodeling and that there obviously is more to this story as is usually the case with 9 outa 10 articles u post.

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Niroo don't be jealous that I contribute more to this forum than you.

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I love yodeling.

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looks like a pissing war. somebody got to lose.