[RightWingAtheist]

BAAARRRRFFFFFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Petronski]

I remember well dining on a balcony in Montreal when the call to moongodsquats went off about half a block away. Very creepy.

As I recall, I promptly ordered another beer and a BLT.

[Libertina]

Church bells don't pump out religious demands 5 times a day - early, late, or loud.

[netmilsmom]

The churches in Hamtramck are willing to cut the bells to get this stopped.

[Becki]

Church bells don't turn Muslims or Jews into Christians; there's no reason to think the Muslim call to prayer will undermine other faiths.

They say this now, butt then why are they being silenced?

Becki

[Ichneumon]

LOL! Nice graphic.

Since the city council has already gone ahead and approved this, I think the appropriate public reaction should be to wait for each of the five-times-daily Muslim prayer calls to start over the loudspeakers, and then at that moment start blaring their own amplified performances of the Lord's Prayer, the Star Spangled Banner, Zog Nit Keynmol (song of resistance from the Jewish Vilnius ghetto), church bells, a speech by Daniel Pipes, an Arial Sharon press conference, the Beatles' "Why Don't We Do It In the Road", or whatever strikes their fancy.

[nightdriver]

Since about 1892, islam is essentially illegal in the United States. I guess we sorta pick and choose which laws we obey in this country.

[henderson field]

Don't you mean Call to Cultural Pollution (and more of it)?

[GATOR NAVY]

First of all, the calls to prayer will be in Arabic, so they will reach only those who speak the language.

As someone who lives in Japan, where neighborhood loudspeaker announcements are very common, let me advise the writer that not speaking the language of said announcements does not make them any less annoying.

[quantim]

It will be interesting to see if The Detroit News projects the same barf this weekend. They are sure to weigh in on the smelly side.

where two-thirds of the public school students speak a language other than English at home.

Well, at least a third speak English to some degree.

First of all, the calls to prayer will be in Arabic, so they will reach only those who speak the language

What the heck does that mean?  So I tell everyone at the grocery store to STFU only because they understand English?

Other recent threads on this forum on this topic:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1121563/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1121988/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1121901/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1120870/posts

 

[SandRat]

Fair is fair. Every church in Hamtramick should ring the bells for every service to include Vespers, Saturday confession, Funerals, Weddings what ever the service.

Sorry Imam's and city council, but that's the way the bell tolls.

[Agitate]

This is utterly disgusting. I am a Christian, what would happen if my church blasted psalms out or speakers? Can you say ACLU lawsuit???

If we don't fight for this country, we will lose it. The inequity and preference towards islam and muslims in the name of being PC is getting worse daily.

We can all get mad but are the people of MI doing anything about it? Is the ACLU filing a suit?

[sheik yerbouty]

The screeching from the minarets is noise pollution. Such noise would hazardous to people working nearby. OSHA should step in..

[texastoo]

Are we do dumb to think that the muslims would let America set their time to pray? They settled for 6am but as I understand it the time by the Koran is something like 4-5am.

I think they are winning a huge battle right now.

The editor of this artlcle suggests that the other residents of Hamstramck would sell their souls to the devil for a tax base.

As someone has already mentioned, what about the people who work night shifts?

[RightWingAtheist]

Hey, the graphic's gone!

Oh well, here's another one:

[taxesareforever]

Is anyone else surprised that there are so many Muslims in a town whose name starts with "Ham"?