Hamtramck Residents To Hear Prayer Broadcasts(poll to FReep)

ClickonDetroit News ^ | April 21/22, 2004 | Staff

[PeaceBeWithYou]

Just unbelievable.

[Iron Matron]

Are arabs too stupid to set an alarm on thier wristwatch?

Must be.

Non-Muslims need to take care of this however they can.

[smith288]

Why dont they just have a radio station that does the calling?

Islam's call to prayer will remind me of the October suprise Bush gave Saddam... Sitting an watching the Baghdad cam always seem to be calling to prayer then BOOM

[muawiyah]

Last time Hamtramck made it big time in the news they were trying to keep African-Americans from living in the town, and out of employment on the fire-department (which had the highest paid firefighters in North America).

That was several decades ago.

One imagines they welcomed Kurds and Arabs into their town with "relief" that "they aren't Negroes"!

I live within the sound of 3 mosques and a Methodist church with huge bells.

They all get drowned out by Interstate 95~

We'd much prefer the calls to prayer or the bells if we could just get that highway shut down. Will you help us?

[PeaceBeWithYou]

You could ask for a wall, but eventually you'd get an increase in taxes, and I doubt you would hear the bells/CTPs

You could also relocate, they can move your house just about anywhere with moving technology these days.

Failing that, you could go record the bells/CTPs and play them back in your house loud enough to cover the highway noises.

Does that help?

[RightWingAtheist]

So far, it's 573 (11%) in favor, and 4507 (89%) against. Well done, FReepers.

[Redbob]

Just a hunch here, but wasn't that Interstate already there when you moved in?

[muawiyah]

This is in Springfield VA. We already have a wall. Actually, we have a myriad of walls in this area, and I'm less than a mile from a subway station which means my property keeps on earning a net increase in value of $10,000 per month.

Maybe I could relocate and rent the place out to someone who doesn't care.

[Redbob]

Freeped!
89% "No. It is a noise disturbance "

[CJ Wolf]

Those aren't walls, they are defensive barriers in case of invasion.

[muawiyah]

BTW, guys, almost all those guys living in Hamtramck are hard-core union Democrats.

If they knew FR folks were siding with them, they'd be begging those Moslems to build even more minarets and do 24/7 calls to prayer.

[45Auto]

I wonder where the hypocrites from the ACLU are? Shouldn't they be filing a lawsuit claiming this city ordinance is unconstitutional based on "separation of church and state"? Oh, I guess its only one certain religion they don't like......liberals are going to go nuts if the rag-heads seize power and force them all to come to prayer five times a day....How many Muslims are on the city council, anyway?

[lilylangtree]

Wimps! Refuse to stand up to the islamics demands. Noise pollution.

[PeaceBeWithYou]

Majewski said the ordinance will allow the city "a way to deal with all religions, not simply the Muslim call to prayer."

Control, it's always about control.

[hellinahandcart]

I don't think so. If they do an actual call to prayer, it's not loud enough to carry 13 blocks over to me...

They've got something like a news ticker out front, that has the words traveling across it. I think it's the Five Pillars of Islam and some other stuff. I stood there and watched for a while on day, to see if "Death to all Infidels" ever ran by...

[telebob]

"If you guys think about it, the Muslim call to prayer is actually a beautiful thing..."

Pass the kool aid.

[wattsup]

Turn up The Christian Church bells.

[righteousindignation]

Guess What?! I was browsing for news on Hamtramck and found out the City Council also has voted against what they term "A unilatal, unprovoked war against Iraq"!!!

[righteousindignation]

Unilateral not 'unilatal'! sorry for mistake, need to slow down but this is so horrifying a development for America as we knew it was founded to be.