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Michigan City OKs Islamic Calls to Prayer
AP ^ | 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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To: ambrose

Where the heck is the ACLU when you really need them
21 posted on 04/21/2004 3:20:46 PM PDT by boxerblues
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To: ambrose
City Council caved! No guts! Shame on them.
22 posted on 04/21/2004 3:21:47 PM PDT by cubreporter (I trust Rush...he will prevail in spite of the naysayers)
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To: ambrose
"Michigan City OKs Islamic Calls to Prayer"

Allow me to make a prediction here. My prediction is that sometime during the first half of this century the Islamic government of Hamtramck, MI will ban any and all Christian activity within the city. Violations of this edict will be met with violent and brutal force by the city government.

Those of you who believe that Islam is a "religion of peace," take note.

23 posted on 04/21/2004 3:42:09 PM PDT by davisfh
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To: cubreporter
Here's a thought - Why didn't the local Muslim community apply for a low power FM radio license? They could then tune their own PERSONAL FM radios to that station and let the local station broadcast their Calls ot Prayer as per schedule.

This would not disrupt the rest of the community - they could "tune out".

Just my $.02
24 posted on 04/21/2004 3:44:21 PM PDT by Jambe
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To: Jambe
Why do muslims even need a call to prayer? Don't they own wristwatches? Seriously.
25 posted on 04/21/2004 3:47:06 PM PDT by Dog Gone
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To: mrsmith; sultan88

"Carried unanimously."

Says it all!
26 posted on 04/21/2004 3:51:15 PM PDT by Phosgood
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To: BIGZ
Vote for Fonda and Kerry in 2004.

Jane's on top? Of the ticket?

27 posted on 04/21/2004 3:55:58 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Dog Gone
"Why do muslims even need a call to prayer? Don't they own wristwatches?"

Ah, that is the problem. Wristwatches were invented after the ninth century. Good muslims do not accept anything invented after that --- such as treating womem with respect, following laws that give rights to others, that sort of modern nonsense. No, the devout Muslim will beat his wife, keep her off the streets, genitally mutilate his daughter, kill the infidels, and other great things from the ninth century.
28 posted on 04/21/2004 6:19:40 PM PDT by scotiamor
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To: Pearls Before Swine
What difference does it make?
29 posted on 04/21/2004 6:36:40 PM PDT by BIGZ
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To: Jambe
your .02 is worth it. That was a good idea. :)
30 posted on 04/21/2004 8:48:32 PM PDT by cubreporter (I trust Rush...he will prevail in spite of the naysayers)
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To: RolandBurnam
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RolandBurnam,


It's simple: Palestinians are the Gutter-Dogs of Hummanity.

Palestinians breed like sub-human vermin, then sacrifice their own children to become "Human Bombs", killing others' Children in the process.

Palestinians are typical of the Arab mental squalor that's condemned entire sub-continents to vast cesspools of poverty, disease, and brutal ignorance.

Palestinian Women are worthy of the Enslavement in which they and their Babies suffer eternal damnation, at the hands of Pseudo-Men whose Barbarism is only exceeded by their Pathetic Depravity towards the Moslem Boys playing at the local Mosque.

Palestinian Women could have rebelled against their Depraved Male Slave-Masters decades ago, as did their Asian and Western European sisters. But the Arab's racial cowardice (genetically inbred over the centuries) condemns Arab Men and Children to flee from genuine Honor just as disease flees from Penecilum.

Why does the entire World turn away in disgust at the Palestinians ?

Because even the monstrously evil Bolshevicks and Nazis had the courage to fight their enemies as Men, face-to-face, eyeball-to-eyeball.

Because even the deranged Japanese Kamakaze Pilots of World War II mustered the honor of a suicide-death in the face of Open Battle.

Accordingly, even fifty (50) years after World War II, American, Japanese, British, German and Russian soldiers will even toast together the mutal memory of their fallen comrades, because all were imbued with the Singular Honor of Men who Sacrificed Their Lives (on the field of battle) for their respective nations.

Palestinians ? They cannot even comprehend such Honor.

It's as foreign to Palestinians as America's Bill of Rights and the God-Ordained Right of Women to enjoy the blessings of life and family, without living as Dowery Slaves in the Shadow of Fear of being Burned at the Stake to satify the Satanic Monsters lurking in the Soul of every Islamic man.

Have I made my Point ?


Patton@Bastogne

Free Republic member since 1998.



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31 posted on 04/21/2004 8:56:05 PM PDT by Patton@Bastogne (Nuclear Victory in 2006 over Iran & North Korea !)
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