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I saw that a contentious battle is brewing in Dearborn, Michigan, USA, over a mosque’s use of an outdoor loudspeaker for its call to prayer. Dearborn, for those unfamiliar with it, is basically little Somalia with one of the most concentrated Muslim populations in the USA! Here’s what is happening;
“One resident spoke at Tuesday’s city council meeting, The mosques in East Dearborn are at times waking us up at 5:30 a.m. with a call to prayer and, at other times, forcing us to listen to the prayer in our yard and in our own home,” Unger said in the meeting.
During Tuesday’s meeting, Council President Mike Sareini, (a Muslim of course) said police investigated and gathered decibel tests from certain mosques. Sareini said the city has found instances of a mosque violating the city ordinance.
How convenient. So the local people endure the wailing from the Mosques at an ungodly hour and just have to put up with it. In essence they MUST accept middle eastern culture in middle America.
How would you like to wake up to this? It’s not just the US that suffers this. Try the Welsh capital, Cardiff.
There is no difference. Muslims insist that local CHRISTIAN areas must submit to the Islamic call to prayer. I disagree. It should be the other way around, they must submit to OUR values and societal norms.
Some will say that the Adhan (the call to prayer) should be tolerated. But if we accept this then we accept our cities becoming equivalent to Middle Eastern cities, third world enclaves. Others will say what’s the difference between the cries from the Mosque speakers and Church bells? Well, Church bells tend NOT to ring out at 5.30am. Further, we live in Christian countries and Church bells are an expression of that.
If we turn the other way and accept the Muslim call to prayer sounding out across out towns and cities, we signal supine weakness, not tolerance.
