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Cairo to use computerised call to prayer after complaints over tuneless muezzin
The Telegraph ^ | 13 Aug 2010 | Richard Spencer

Posted on 08/14/2010 10:20:51 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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Once again, one religion is more technologically advanced than all the others...
1 posted on 08/14/2010 10:20:54 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Slings and Arrows

How many minarets are there in an hour?


2 posted on 08/14/2010 10:23:36 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Soon people visiting Ground Zero will have to hear that horrible noise five times a day.


3 posted on 08/14/2010 10:47:16 PM PDT by rdl6989 (January 20, 2013- The end of an error.)
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To: nickcarraway

Oh God-Can you imagine all that screeching noise going off at one time?


4 posted on 08/14/2010 10:57:51 PM PDT by Amberdawn
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How many minarets are there in an hour?

Too many.


5 posted on 08/15/2010 12:24:39 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: nickcarraway; Slings and Arrows

The muzzies are going to sync the prayers to the mecca clock via computer world wide so that the muslims have their own time and western time is abandonded.

The result will be a synchronized “call to worship” that can be heard five times a day world wide.

That would truly be domination of the mind and we need to end these calls to worship in the USA.

Sorry, slings. I don’t find anything funny here. This mecca clock/unified islam time thing is an insidious idea and should be crushed if possible.


6 posted on 08/15/2010 1:15:37 AM PDT by paulycy (Restore Constitutionality Now: Islamo-Marxism is Evil.)
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To: nickcarraway

One of the reasons why Christianity really advanced the development of mechanical clocks was the need to tell monks the time of prayer service in the morning, mid day, and evening in monasteries. Indeed, the church tower bell synchronized to mechanical clocks literally became the way to tell time for a whole town around the church that could hear it until the arrival of accurate handheld watches in the 18th Century.


7 posted on 08/15/2010 4:44:45 AM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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To: Slings and Arrows; nickcarraway; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; ...
In Riyadh, where the muezzins compete, we heard one call out,
Come to the mosque to seek the strength of Allah
to help you slaughter the infidels in our midst

Hey! Hold on a minute. That would be ....us!

Our driver, who pulled over during prayer time, was only too happy to assist in the translation. But it wasn't all bloody. In the evenings, there was a very good English-language TV show featuring an Imam with an impeccable Oxonian accent, who patiently explained the nicer parts of Quran to us infidels, who if we did not submit to the Will of Allah, would serve as slaves to the faithful throughout all eternity.

Whateva! The money was fab.

8 posted on 08/15/2010 5:19:49 AM PDT by Kenny Bunk (The Republican Party was founded to Save the Union. Can it now Save the Republic?)
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To: Kenny Bunk

BTW, some muezzins are really quite unique. Imagine Luciano Pavarotti doing a chicken imitation.


9 posted on 08/15/2010 5:21:56 AM PDT by Kenny Bunk (The Republican Party was founded to Save the Union. Can it now Save the Republic?)
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To: nickcarraway

Cool—in Egypt, you’ll be able to set your cellphone with a special ringtone for when the mosque calls. Hmmmm... which tune to use?


10 posted on 08/15/2010 5:27:36 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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Oh God-Can you imagine all that screeching noise going off at one time?

At least it will all be synchronized.

I can hear three mosques from a few places around base and sometimes when they're all going off at the same time, it's excruciatingly discordant.

11 posted on 08/15/2010 7:53:10 AM PDT by Allegra (Pablo is very wily.)
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BTW, some muezzins are really quite unique.

There was one we used to hear when I lived/worked in another part of this lovely {sarc} town who really did have a beautiful voice.

We used to refer to him as "Mohammad Pavarotti." LOL

12 posted on 08/15/2010 7:56:27 AM PDT by Allegra (Pablo is very wily.)
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To: Slings and Arrows; paulycy

Too many indeed.

Someone should tell Paulycy that not all Not-a-Pings are funny.

Oh, Paul, there you are!


13 posted on 08/15/2010 8:23:05 AM PDT by TheOldLady (Tagline left home again. Door hit it in the azz on the way out.)
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To: Allegra

That’s awful and should be banned. If people don’t know when to go to worship, they need their heads examined.


14 posted on 08/15/2010 8:31:00 AM PDT by Amberdawn
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To: Allegra

Now I feel obliged to stand up for my team.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjejxVitQMc


15 posted on 08/15/2010 8:46:36 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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OK - that’s cool. I always associated it with funny FR stuff. I’ll be a better, more respectful and humbler ping list member from now on, I promise!


16 posted on 08/15/2010 8:49:17 AM PDT by paulycy (Demand Constitutionality Now: Islamo-Marxism is Evil.)
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To: Slings and Arrows
LOL - that's hilarious!

Umm....what is it?

17 posted on 08/15/2010 8:52:53 AM PDT by Allegra (Pablo is very wily.)
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ROFL! You're cool.
18 posted on 08/15/2010 8:53:14 AM PDT by TheOldLady (Tagline left home again. Door hit it in the azz on the way out.)
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To: Slings and Arrows; Allegra
Now I feel obliged to stand up for my team.

Catchy a capella (except for the drum) tune. I watched the whole thing. It's great.

I agree with Allegra, what is it?

19 posted on 08/15/2010 8:58:42 AM PDT by TheOldLady (Tagline left home again. Door hit it in the azz on the way out.)
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To: nickcarraway

Tuneless? How could they tell?


20 posted on 08/15/2010 8:59:16 AM PDT by Let's Roll (Stop paying ACORN to destroy America! Cut off their federal funding!)
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