Posted on 03/28/2008 10:29:29 AM PDT by JCG
Muslims students at the University of Miami have organized for the Islamic call to prayer, broadcasted each Friday afternoon this month from Richter Library's clock tower in commemoration of Islamic Awareness Month.
The call to prayer, or Adhan, is spoken in Arabic and is meant to resonate throughout the area.
"It serves as constant reminder of when we have to pray, because prayer itself is a reminder of our religion and how we practice it," said Selima Jumarali, the vice president of the organization.
According to the teachings of Islam, Muslims are to pray five times a day. In Muslim-majority countries, the call is usually performed live by an individual and is heard before every prayer.
Friday afternoon was chosen as the time to play the call because "it revolves around the day of congregational prayer," Jumarali said. Like Saturday for Jews or Sunday for Christians, Friday "holds strong significance for Muslims," she said.
Outside the library last Friday, students listened during the three-minute recording.
Kaleena Salgueiro said that although she could not understand the words in Arabic, the call was "pretty" and "very melodic." She said it reminded her of chanting in a monastery.
Razan Alif, who is Muslim, was also sitting outside and heard the prayer call.
"You always hear church bells ringing, but you never feel the existence of the Muslim community on campus," she said.
When asked whether they thought the Friday prayer call should be continued even after the month, many replied "why not?"
Regardless, Jumarali expressed her gratitude toward the administrators for allowing this expression to be displayed.
"It brings true variety to the university and open appreciation to diversity, especially in these times when people have misunderstandings of Muslims and who we are," she said.
Farah Dosani may be contacted at f.dosani1@umiami.edu.
Islamic Awareness Month. I didn’t know we had or even needed one of those. Sounds like some kind of @$$kissin’ to me.
Why is it Islam is allowed to stick their evil cult in everyones face while Christianity is forbidden from doing the same thing?
Where is the UCLU and their team of religion hating lawyers? If this was Christianity, they'd be suing the school for allowing religion on the school grounds.
I think most of us became painfully aware of Islam on 9/11.
When they take over, that mutant Marxist lesbian midget will be the first to have her head sawed off with a rusty knife.
They're not scared the Christians will blow up their buildings and murder them in their sleep.
This is the 21st century. Tell them to text-message the call to prayer.
This whole part of the Islamic faith was instituted centuries ago. Haven't these guys ever heard of text message alerts! Why disrupt an entire community, town, or city for the needs of a few?
I'd gather a group of students together and have them recite 5 times a day (that just happened to coincide with the howler monkey yowling) The Lords Prayer, together and with enthusiasm.
And just let them even try to stop us...
You either fight these mohammedan incursions or you accept that your children and their children will be at best dhimmies and at worst converts to the mohammedan abomination.
Oh, I could have so much fun with that. That Dutch PM's movie should be a part of the festivities.
Maybe we Christians are jealous because church bells on Sunday morning don’t see crowds heading toward the chapel.
Like beheadings, amputations, honor-killings....
I don’t ever want to hear islam spoken ever! This call to prayer is just their way of forcing us to change. The foot baths started it. What is next???
Interesting that they would pick March which is used to celebrate all things hellenic including Greek Independence day (march 25) when a PRIEST in 1821 raised the modern Greek flag in defiance fo the ottoman occupation.
FYI: University of Miami is private.
They have them, and some pretty high-tech ones that tell you what the direction of Mecca is no matter where you are. The calls are antiquities -- like church bells, only much more annoying.
BTTT
Typical stupid, ignorant westerner. here's what that "pretty" Arabic chanting translated into english sounds like:
Qur'an:9:112 "The Believers fight in Allah's Cause, they slay and are slain, kill and are killed."
Qur'an:9:29 "Fight those who do not believe until they all surrender, paying the protective tax in submission."
Ishaq:325 "Muslims, fight in Allah's Cause. Stand firm and you will prosper. Help the Prophet, obey him, give him your allegiance, and your religion will be victorious."
Qur'an:8:39 "Fight them until all opposition ends and all submit to Allah."
Qur'an:8:39 "So fight them until there is no more Fitnah (disbelief [non-Muslims]) and all submit to the religion of Allah alone (in the whole world)."
sing it in "pretty" sounding arabic. even if a Muzzy does this standing right next to a dumb westerner, they will smile and think it's "pretty".
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