Michigan City Council OKs Muslim Prayer Over Loudspeaker

Fox News website ^ | April 21 | Associated press

[righteousindignation]

Hamtramck,Mich.--Over some residents' objections, the City Council voted unanimously Tuesday night to allow a mosque to send out a call to prayer to Muslims on a loudspeaker....five times a day.

[Iron Matron]

This is about Guts, people. Do we have as much guts as this little group of ragheads in Michigan? If we don't. If we allow this then just go ahead and buy your prayer rugs now.


Well said. I know I come off as rather radical, but darn!, sometimes we should yell just to wake up the crowd!

[patriot_wes]

How times change. My dad was the Commander of the VFW post in this town in the 50's. It was a fun Polish place. With great picnics at Swiss Valley Park - don't know if that's even there anymore. Obviously the clientele has changed.

[ought-six]

"Except not all Arabs are Muslims, so check before boycotting Arab businesses."

That's very true. My cousin is married to a Catholic Arab of Lebanese descent.

[Iron Matron]

Christian Arabs are currently being persecuted in Sudan for their beliefs. There are a lot of them, even in this country. It's like you're saying someone must be Catholic just because they are of Irish descent and that we must suspect all Irish of collusion with the Catholic Church.


I stand corrected. Anger has again clouded what I write.

IM

[Khurkris]

....snip the damn wires...

[ought-six]

"Many Christians here are already advocating violence over what comes out of some loudspeakers."

It reminds me of the comments of a Jewish community leader in Berlin in 1936: "It's just a faze. If we let them do this one thing, they'll leave us alone."

[Hat-Trick]

"Lotsa Burkas at the Red Wings game tomorrow night methinks."

I can only hope those will be the Flames fans with their paper-bag burqas, ashamed of a goalie named Kiprusoff.

There will be lots of praying before the start of the series with Calgary, but 100% of it won't be coming from inside a mosque or on a bad rug facing Mecca.

Already sent mine up for a Wings/Avs Western Conference Final.

[TomasUSMC]

Some folks say: "Many Christians here are already advocating violence over what comes out of some loudspeakers."

The truth is that the advocation of violence will be what comes out of the loudspeakers. Just like in Iraq.

Tell to use cell phones or go back to the middle yeast.

[AppyPappy]

Nope. That would be wrong. We all have the right to free speech.

Actually, you go in the mosque and wire in a FM receiver to the amplifier where it cannot be seen. Then you can add words to the prayer with a Mr Microphone.

"ALLLLAAAAAAHHHHH AH booty call AAAKKKBBBAARRRRR
SAAAALAAAAHHHHH where my freak girl at SAALLLAAAAMMMMi ride baby

[antiRepublicrat]

Do you think women should not be allowed to braid their hair or wear jewelry?

1 Peter 3:3 and 1 Timothy 2:9. Don't forget covering their heads in church unless they want all their hair shaved off (1 Corinthians 11:5). Sounds pretty Muslim, huh? Does your wife cover her head in church? No? According to your thinking she is not Christian.

As for the rest, I consider women to be equal to men. That women are subordinate to men is a product of old thinking where women were considered to be property and nothing more, extended by Christianity to consider them unclean and evil. It is codified misogyny. BTW, Muslims do (at least should according to historical example) allow women to teach religion and lead men.

[Shazolene]

Make sure there is a loudspeaker right across the street from every councilmember's house, and broadcast the Muzzie-call at the same times every day. Have a recall petition signup sheet going. I bet they re-think their decision quickly.

[Khurkris]

...thats devious...I love it...

[antiRepublicrat]

Anger has again clouded what I write.

And that's what I'm preaching against here. I do not want to live in a Muslim-dominated society any more than you do, but in order to fight against the spread we should not act based on emotion. We'll only lose that way.

Fight within the law, fight the right targets and do it legally and morally in the eyes of the population at large. Otherwise you give ammunition to the opposition, who could then claim persecution and have laws and public opinion bent to their favor.

I know it would be fun and instantly gratifying to take pot shots at annoying loudspeakers, but that would only help the Muslims.

[ought-six]

"They tend to be very violent when you confront them with the truth."

I can do that, too. I won't turn the other cheek.

[chuckwalla]

Good idea.
The question I have is if they hate the west so much why do they love our technology so much.
They didn't create any of the weapons they use, the west did.
They had nothing to do with electricity or loud speakers or any of the other modern western inventions but despise the west and want the west dead.
To be true they should only use what they have created under allah's direction.
That would leave them with burka's only to fight with.
Really what have they created?

[ought-six]

"Islam doesnt assimilate it dominates."

Truer words have never been spoken.

[chuckwalla]

The problem with your advise is that for the last thirty years the left has been emasculating everyone against self devense.
Muslims fanatics respect force not laws.
This is war not some criminal trying to break into your house.

[ought-six]

"There are exceptions: those living in the slums sucking up hate speech; those too stupid to think for themselves listening to hateful leaders, and those leaders themselves. Those also happen to be the only ones you see on the news."

You mean like the millionaire Osama Bin Laden? The wealthy Mohammad Atta? The other wealthy terrorists? Poverty has nothing to do with it.

[ought-six]

"Well then...shall we?"

Yup. When the time comes, we will do what we have to do.

[antiRepublicrat]

You mean like the millionaire Osama Bin Laden? The wealthy Mohammad Atta? The other wealthy terrorists? Poverty has nothing to do with it.

These are the leaders I referred to. Poverty has a lot to do with who follows these power-hungry mad-men to blow themselves up.