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Mosques are against the First Amendment...

:rolleyes: Oh, brother...you'd think a christian would welcome a call to prayer no matter where it came from. I would.
 
If the community allows church bells then they should allow the Muslem call to prayer.

Reminds me of an article saw long ago. In Norway (I think) a Mosque won the right to similarly anounce "God is Great", which might be what the call to prayer is. The author, an atheist, spoke of he should also have the right to yell out "There is no God".
 
From the article:

Some Muslims say the call to prayer is the equivalent of church bells. But opponents argue that church bells have no religious significance and that allowing the Arabic call, which lasts less than two minutes, unfairly elevates Islam above other religions.
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Woah there...run that past me again:

church bells have no religious significance
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Church bells have the same religious significance, and the same purpose, as the Muslim call to prayer.

Some people will just say anything to justify their own bigotry.
 
"I do not impose Jesus on them because He's quiet,"
"Jesus calls in a quiet, gentle voice -- He doesn't have to blare over a PA system to call His followers


he just smites villages and kills first borns. but at least i'm not awoken at night.
 
The alternative, of course, is that the city outlaws a "call to prayer" by the mosque. Boy, wouldn't that set a great precedent!

"No, I'm sorry minister, you cannot stand on the steps and welcome members into your church. That would be considered a public call to prayer, and that is against the city ordinance."
 
"I do not impose Jesus on them because He's quiet," the Hamtramck resident says. "Jesus calls in a quiet, gentle voice -- He doesn't have to blare over a PA system to call His followers.
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My heart sings at the thought of a world where this is true.

The City Council of Hamtramck, Michigan, has given preliminary approval to a mosque's plans to send out the Muslim call to prayer on loudspeakers. The Bangladeshi al-Islah mosque wants to air the Arabic call to prayer via loudspeakers five times a day, but has agreed not to air them between 10:00 at night and 6:00 in the morning.
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This looks like a job for Fred Phelps. Quick, to the kook-cave.
 
I re-read the article and it seems to me the christians are afraid that the muslims will take over the town.
 
This looks like a job for Fred Phelps. Quick, to the kook-cave.
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I’ve actually been to about 5 of his protests (I know, why? Why?? I just had to see it for myself… and then repeat 4 other times for some reason. I’m over it now :) .).

But I don’t think Phelps would be interested in this; he has more pressing matters to attend to, like protesting Mr. Rodger’s.

I think he even has a bit of fondness for some Muslim sects, though he may never outright say it.
 
Scot C. Trypal said:

I think he even has a bit of fondness for some Muslim sects, though he may never outright say it.
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Hey, whatever turns you on. There are probably a few Yahoo groups dedicated to Muslim sex, if he wants.

Oh, you said "sects"

Nevermind
 
and that's why I've lurked here for so long. Someone always makes me laugh. :)

But seriously, this fight in Michigan has some odd quirks, like:

Some Christian residents, like Joanne Golen, resent the city allowing Muslims to impose their religion on everybody else. Golen feels her rights are being violated.
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This sentiment is uniquely funny, at least to me.

A local conservative talk radio host was going on and on about how horrible allowing this call to prayer would be a day or so ago, and this same guy was, just weeks before, infuriated about the Ten Commandments being removed from Moore’s courthouse. He went into the specifics of Islam, though with great mischaracterization and bias, and concluded only a fool would believe in such a religion and that it deserves no first amendment protections. Amazing.
 
I don't know if I would consider this a regilious issue.

I would be upset if this happened in my neighbourhood, but I would be upset if anything was projected by loudspeaker near my house at six in the morning.
 
Nope, we have local radio hosts that could make Savage look like a pansy.

Man, I have to kick my “know your enemy” habit; it’s not healthy.
 
rustypouch said:
I don't know if I would consider this a regilious issue.

I would be upset if this happened in my neighbourhood, but I would be upset if anything was projected by loudspeaker near my house at six in the morning.
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In my folks' hometown, the whistle blows every weekday at 7 am. I'd call it traditional, but in principle it's there to wake everyone.

When I lived there, I rarely heard it because I slept right through it. OTOH, when I go visit now, it wakes me up every day. Really torques me off, I must say.
 
Yahweh said:
The irony of that article is absolutely delicious, like skittles.
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Nah, more like the bittersweetness of Sweet and Low (TM), you want to think it is sweet and funny, but it still hurts and makes you hate it.
 
I actually agree that announcing the call to prayer on public loudspeakers across the neighborhood is overstepping the bounds... but.... sauce for the goose, I would be tempted to disallow church bells for the same reason.

To leave it open season invites churches and mosques, perhaps even out of some level of rivalry and spite, competing for attention with louder and louder messages...

But it would be an unfair restriction on free exercise not to allow some kind of public announcement... perhaps within the level of some local noise ordinance...
 
I don't know, the call to prayer could be replaced by church bells, I think they are a bunch of bigots, they just aren't into religouse canting. next thing you know they will be giving the "it's not how many times you pray but the quality of the prayer talk".

When they face Mecca do they face actual Mecca or a great arc?
 
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