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Michigan City OKs Islamic Calls to Prayer
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| 4.20.04
Posted on 04/21/2004 2:08:52 PM PDT by ambrose
Published Tuesday, April 20, 2004
Mich. City OKs Islamic Calls to Prayer
The Associated Press
HAMTRAMCK, Mich. The City Council gave preliminary approval Tuesday night to a mosque's plans to send out a call to prayer to Muslims on a loudspeaker.
The Bangladeshi al-Islah mosque wants to air the Arabic call to prayer via loudspeakers five times a day, but agreed Tuesday not to air the calls before 6 a.m. or after 10 p.m.
The council indicated it would give the plan final approval next week.
Some Muslims say the call is the equivalent of church bells. Opponents argued that church bells have no religious significance and that allowing the Arabic call, which lasts less than two minutes, unfairly elevates Islam above other religions.
TOPICS: US: Michigan; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: islam; muslimamericans
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posted on
04/21/2004 2:08:53 PM PDT
by
ambrose
To: Dan from Michigan
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posted on
04/21/2004 2:09:07 PM PDT
by
ambrose
("I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it" - John F. al-Query)
To: ambrose
Welcome to the Islamic States of America, sick. We can't even know our own enemy. The societal toilet has been flushed, hang on and enjoy the ride.
To: ambrose
What a dumb idea. Slowly but surely they try to subvert us.
To: ambrose
The bloody handwriting was on the wall.
FMCDH
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posted on
04/21/2004 2:13:13 PM PDT
by
nothingnew
(The pendulum is swinging and the Rats are in the pit!)
To: ambrose
Only info I could find on the specifics of the amendment:
http://hamtramck.us/Departments/COUNCIL%20PACKET%20ITEMS/minutes/2004%20minutes/020304%20Minutes.htm HAMTRAMCK CITY COUNCIL MINUTES FEBRUARY 3, 2004
"Councilperson Ahmed initiated discussion regarding amendment of Ordinance 434 and offered the following resolution.
Resolution by Councilperson Ahmed.
RESOLVED, that the Common Council hereby does request our legal department to draft amendments to Hamtramck City Ordinance 434 for the purpose of regulating amplified "calls to prayer" with specific restrictions regarding level of amplification, schedules, duration and a method of resolving complaints. The amendments should include the following points:
The level of all amplified broadcasts must be set as to not cause valid complaint as determined by the Council.
The "call to prayer" may be amplified only from 6:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. for duration not lasing longer than five minutes.
Any complaints shall be referred to the Council and the Council shall, after consultation with parties involved, decide on a course of action to resolve the complaint.
Such actions may include a requirement to reduce the volume, reduce the duration, and change the direction of the amplification or in the extreme, for the amplification to cease. The Council may make the determination that a complaint is not justified and therefore requires no action.
Supported by Councilperson Cedar.
Carried unanimously."
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posted on
04/21/2004 2:13:58 PM PDT
by
mrsmith
("Oyez, oyez! All rise for the Honorable Chief Justice... Hillary Rodham Clinton ")
To: ambrose
No problem....Insist there be no amplification to their wailing...or give them pagers to announce time to bend over and pray to Mecca....This is really sad but what ya going to do.
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posted on
04/21/2004 2:15:58 PM PDT
by
JamesA
( The more you try to change my convictions the more resolved I am to keep them.)
To: nothingnew
Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin
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posted on
04/21/2004 2:16:02 PM PDT
by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: ambrose
What's the over/under for Sharia law in that city?
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posted on
04/21/2004 2:17:33 PM PDT
by
Mr. Mojo
To: ambrose
This must be a joke!
How do we take back our country?
Vote for Fonda and Kerry in 2004.
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posted on
04/21/2004 2:18:21 PM PDT
by
BIGZ
To: mrsmith
Such actions may include a requirement to reduce the volume, reduce the duration, and change the direction of the amplification or in the extreme, for a judicious application of trinitrotoluene.
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posted on
04/21/2004 2:19:05 PM PDT
by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: ambrose
So, then... the city fathers won't have a problem with Christian churches in that area getting their own loudspeakers that say: "Jesus is Lord!"
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posted on
04/21/2004 2:21:49 PM PDT
by
Migraine
(my grain is pretty straight today)
To: ambrose
The Bangladeshi al-Islah mosque wants to air the Arabic call to prayer via loudspeakers five times a day, but agreed Tuesday not to air the calls before 6 a.m. or after 10 p.m. The council indicated it would give the plan final approval next week. I could just vomit.
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posted on
04/21/2004 2:25:13 PM PDT
by
Euro-American Scum
(A poverty-stricken middle class must be a disarmed middle class)
To: ambrose
To: ambrose
"agreed Tuesday not to air the calls before 6 a.m. or after 10 p.m." I suppose 6:01 am is ok??
To: ambrose
Wonderful just F$%&KIN Wonderful.
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posted on
04/21/2004 2:31:26 PM PDT
by
bikerman
To: Mr. Mojo
Watch for the establishment of a Ministry of Virtue and Vice shortly thereafter.
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posted on
04/21/2004 2:35:21 PM PDT
by
COBOL2Java
(If you can read this, thank a teacher. If you are reading this in English, thank a soldier.)
To: ambrose
I "resemble" the title.......Born Hoosier from Michigan City, Indiana here..........
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posted on
04/21/2004 2:49:02 PM PDT
by
litehaus
To: mrsmith
Insane...
I didn't realize our nation was so far along...
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posted on
04/21/2004 3:03:21 PM PDT
by
k2blader
(Some folks should worry less about how conservatives vote and more about how to advance conservatism)
To: ambrose
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posted on
04/21/2004 3:16:14 PM PDT
by
Chuckster
(Neca eos omnes. Deus suos agnoset)
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