Posted on 03/27/2022 12:09:20 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
Mosques in Minneapolis will now be able to broadcast the “Adhan,” or public call for prayer, multiple times each day.
In a move pushed for by Councilmember Jamal Osman, mosques will not need to apply for permits to broadcast outside their doors if noise ordinances are followed.
“This is huge. This is huge to many people who call Minneapolis home,” Osman said.
Prior to the change, many members of Minneapolis’ Muslim community relied on alarms and timers to know the proper time to pray – a practice done five times throughout each day.
“In our faith, it is obligatory,” said Yusuf Abdulle, executive director of the Islamic Association of North America.
The Adhan, which uses repeated phrases such as “Allahu Akbar,” meaning “God is great” will allow for Muslims near the mosque to know prayer time is soon to arrive.
“It is a dealbreaker for Muslims. It is really, extremely important” Abdulle said. “When you hear the Adhan, and you’re home, or in your office, or wherever you are, you know it’s the time. You don’t need to look at the time. You go and get ready and go to the prayer.”
While mosques are now able to broadcast outside their doors, Osman says there will be some limitations – the call will be kept to 70 decibels or less and will not be broadcast during prayers both early in the morning and late at night.
Abdulle says mosque leaders plan to work with neighbors ahead of the change. Osman says the change is a step in the right direction for religious equality.
“The city of Minneapolis is a welcoming city,” Osman said. “We have a lot of work still to do to make sure everyone is enjoying the same rights, every religion is enjoying. This is a great step.”
> The message is clear. Terrorism works. <
Much of this can be traced directly back to George W. Bush.
After Pearl Harbor FDR declared war.
After 9/11 Bush said that “Islam is peace.”
Say what you will about FDR. But we needed an FDR after 9/11. Instead we got some sort of dolt.
I live in a small town and hear church bells twice a day. Noon and 5 PM. They are lovely. It is not, however a call to prayer. For me it is a time reminder.
Can’t they just use cell phone notifications or text messages?
That wouldn’t serve to piss anyone off.
Religious Jews manage. There’s an app for that!
“Osman says there will be some limitations – the call will be kept to 70 decibels or less and will not be broadcast during prayers both early in the morning and late at night.”
One or more well placed arrows will fix that racket.
This pathetic excuse for a “faith” is nothing but a hypocritical cult. They can annoy us, but we can’t do the same to them without being called haters.
Oh No
We can’t do that
Separation of church and state, ya know?
Balkanization.
This is what I mean when I say the USA is NOT a sovereign country. Instead, it is an empire controlled by hidden globalist and oligarchs answerable to no one.
Minneapolis will soon resemble Mogadishu. They deserve it.
Ain't it the truth.
“Minneapolis will soon resemble Mogadishu”
It already does. And it is spreading rapidly to the suburbs.
i hope that they have plenty of repla ement speakers for the ones about to be shot off the poles!
Hate crime. 20 yrs. in the slammer.
The public call to prayer is a relic from the days before modern timekeeping and was a feature of exclusively Muslim countries. There is no place for it in modern America. “But what about Christian church bells?” They are non-verbal and do not project a specific message.
I’ve got relatives up there. I feel sorry for them.
What did anybody expect? The administration gave away the city to towelwrappers when it hired an incompetent cop who murdered an innocent woman and paid a very very light penalty for it.
me too. I am wondering how close they are to a mosque, and am afraid to look!
So true!
“Department of Defense Dictionary of Military Terms defines terrorism as: The calculated use of unlawful violence or threat of unlawful violence to inculcate fear; intended to coerce or to intimidate governments or societies in the pursuit of goals that are generally political, religious, or ideological.”
there is an app for that.
No loudspeakers necessary.
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