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.
do we have a link to the new movie about islam in its own words?
The fact that a clintonista run donna shalela campus is doing this only proves the surrnder to the enemy of the christians.
Shalela is a bigger fool than ever since under islam she would be wife number 4 for some ugly dude.
“Islamic Awareness Month”
Which month is Christian Awareness Month?
December!
Oh, how “pretty” and “very melodic”. Let’s ask those people who had their necks sawed through while the pretty melodies were played as background music for the videos that the savages were making to distribute over the internet and view together while eating halal popcorn.
The Christians should then organize some kind of prayer service for themselves if this is allowed. Ring bells or something. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander and there is a case here if no other religions are afforded a place to announce or pray. Maybe the call to prayer is “offensive” to others. If you pray you should know when you are supposed to pray don’t ya think?
Wake up America!
It shouldn’t be allowed but if no one speaks up and makes their voices heard it will continue.
Not to mention cell phones. They could sign up to have the calls to prayer broadcast by cell phone, so they could listen to the whole thing without everybody else being forced to listen to it.
They would have dropped the military hairy eyeball-to-eyeball with the American 11th Armored Cavalry at the Fulda Gap and just hired a few slime-ball lawyers and ad agencies in America to accuse us of cultural insensitivity and ethnic discrimination.
More lefty Americans and Europeans would have supported them than we now have supporting our own troops.
In no time at all they would have owned the whole ball of wax.
Moooooooooooooooooooslum dominance coming to a city near you..............SOON
“Islamic Awareness Month”
Stopped right there
Which comes after African-American Month, which comes after...
I want a Typical White Person Month!! Damit!
“ISLAMIC AWARENESS WEEK?!!!”
Are they f’n kidding me?
When’s NAZI AWARENESS WEEK?
Exactly, the bells also do not proclaim blasphemy across the neighborhood.
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