[GL of Sector 2814]

The argued that if Christian church bells ringing is permitted, their prayer calls should be blared throughout the city

Assuming that the prayer calls are of the same decibel level as the church bells, on what basis would you prohibit them?

[Mengerian]

Church bells are not spoken words. They are merely a string of tones using seven notes, and sharps or flats thereof. Prayer calls are spoken / or "chanted" as the case may be.

Islamic prayer calls (through a PA system of amplified loudspeakers) are screaching out spoken words, words proclaiming "Allah as the only one" "Islam is the light"; etc. De-facto promotion of Islam throughout audible city-wide prayer calls via loudspeakers is not the same as church bells.

[LukeL]

Church bells chime the Westminister tone on the hour, it is a clock and nothing more.