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Islamic call to prayer shows Muslims ‘belong’ in Minneapolis
Al Jazeera ^

Posted on 07/05/2022 3:54:42 PM PDT by TigerClaws

Minneapolis, Minnesota – Pastor Jane Buckley-Farlee was recently walking through her Minneapolis church’s Cedar-Riverside neighbourhood when an unexpected song broke out.

“I heard this music that sounded sort of heavenly,” she told Al Jazeera. At first, she did not know what it was – but after a few moments, she realised it was the adhan, or the Muslim call to prayer.

“It was echoing among all of the buildings, but it was still a little hard to hear with all of the traffic,” she recalled. “But it just made me smile. I stopped and listened and just smiled. I must have looked silly, but it was just so tender and beautiful.”

While public broadcasting of the adhan is common in Muslim-majority countries, Minneapolis recently became the first major city in the United States to allow it year-round after city council passed a resolution in March. Now, the city’s thousands of Muslim residents, many of whom are Somali immigrants, can hear the same familiar calls in the streets of their new hometown – and not just during the holy month of Ramadan.

Jamal Osman, a member of city council’s three-person Muslim caucus who proposed the resolution, said it was “a wonderful honour, the first recognition of Ramadan by the city, and acknowledging that the call to prayer can be broadcasted in Minneapolis”.

While the Dar Al-Hijrah Mosque in the city’s Cedar-Riverside neighbourhood, home to many Somali and other East African residents, has been broadcasting the adhan during Ramadan since 2020, others are now preparing to join it year-round. At the Abubakar as-Saddique Islamic Center near the city core, the adhan will begin ringing out sometime before the end of September, said executive director Abdullahi Farah.

“We want to be respectful and listen to feedback before we do it,” Farah told Al Jazeera, noting that the centre plans to hold a community consultation event in the coming weeks.

Because the five daily calls to prayer are based on the rise and fall of the sun, the earliest and latest calls will likely remain internal for most of the year, Farah said. The volume would be roughly the same as church bells – audible but not disruptive to the neighbourhood.

“It’s a tremendous opportunity for us to reach our neighbours and the wider community, but first and foremost it’s an opportunity for us as Muslims. It reminds us of back home,” Imam Mowlid Ali told Al Jazeera.

“It reminds us that we belong here. It reminds us that we’re not hiding our faith. In a way, it increases our confidence and also our sense of belonging to this community.”


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: hyphenatedidiot; janebuckleyfarlee; minneapolis; minnesota; noisepollution
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1 posted on 07/05/2022 3:54:42 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: TigerClaws

Why do they have to call them to prayer ?


2 posted on 07/05/2022 3:55:42 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: TigerClaws

The Muslims will argue that Minneapolis belongs to the Muslims.


3 posted on 07/05/2022 3:56:11 PM PDT by BipolarBob (Where is Biden leading us and what's with the hand basket?)
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To: TigerClaws

The call to prayer is an announcement that that is Muslim land.

They are laying claim to parts of our country.


4 posted on 07/05/2022 3:57:08 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: BipolarBob

Anywhere the call to prayer goes out is Muslim land.


5 posted on 07/05/2022 3:57:59 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: TigerClaws

By “sort of Heavenly” I assume this “pastor” means demonic.


6 posted on 07/05/2022 3:58:23 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: TigerClaws

Ones who cut off the fingers of a little boy as they crucify his father on a metal cross, choose among concert goers in Paris to laugh at them as they shoot them to death, kidnap young girls to make them into sex slaves, and set off bombs in public to shoot shards of metal, nails and glass into the faces and bodies of innocent bystanders-———
————belong in a place much, much hotter than Minneapolis.


7 posted on 07/05/2022 3:59:01 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: TigerClaws

We would have millions of Somalis in Minnesota (and Maine) if GHW Bush had stayed out of Somalia as he should have.


8 posted on 07/05/2022 3:59:42 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: TigerClaws

The left is up in arms about church and state regarding Supreme Court decisions.

Not this, though.


9 posted on 07/05/2022 4:00:09 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: TigerClaws

Every Christian within the hearing of those calls should take the time to bow head and pray for the Salvation of those Muslims.

It’s an audible reminder of the Lost whose souls are to be tormented for eternity should they not accept the Salvation gift of Jesus Christ.

I can recall when the churches rang bells and didn’t mind being told to stop ringing them. They didn’t realize what they were agreeing to...... or didn’t care....

So the audible reminder should prompt those Christians to pray....


10 posted on 07/05/2022 4:01:04 PM PDT by Notthereyet (NotThereYet. )
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To: TigerClaws

I stopped reading at pastor Jane.

No such thing as a female pastor in the Bible.


11 posted on 07/05/2022 4:01:10 PM PDT by cyclotic (I won't give up my FREEDOM for your FEAR. Oh Canada, we stand on guard for thee.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Take two:

We would NOT have millions of Somalis in Minnesota (and Maine) if GHW Bush had stayed out of Somalia as he should have.


12 posted on 07/05/2022 4:01:38 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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No one asked me if i wanted Muslims here.


13 posted on 07/05/2022 4:02:18 PM PDT by escapefromboston (Free Chauvin)
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To: TigerClaws

Ring the church bells LOUDLY, and far more importantly sing those hymns to Jesus as the only Lord and Savior LOUDLY. And if you cannot sing to save your life you can hum that tune!

Islam is all about planting flags ... well, Christian, you can plant some flags too!


14 posted on 07/05/2022 4:04:42 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: TigerClaws

We live in a country where about half the population is hell-bent on cultural suicide.

Muslim immigration is just one weapon in that attack on heritage America.


15 posted on 07/05/2022 4:05:38 PM PDT by LongWayHome
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To: escapefromboston

Maybe it’s just me, but, I would never invite termites into my home with the goal of achieving ‘species diversity’ within the house.


16 posted on 07/05/2022 4:06:35 PM PDT by fhayek
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Notice no lawsuits by the ACLU.

I wonder why...


17 posted on 07/05/2022 4:13:34 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: Lurkinanloomin

It was started by his daddy

Have to wonder what the world would be like f it weren’t for that disgusting family.


18 posted on 07/05/2022 4:16:02 PM PDT by qaz123
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To: butlerweave; All

Read up on Hamtramck, Mich.


19 posted on 07/05/2022 4:18:21 PM PDT by qaz123
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To: qaz123

I said GHW Bush.

Both of them were bad Presidents that I am disgusted with myself for voting for them.

McCain, the King of Amnesty was too much for me in 2008.
I voted for the only eligible candidate on my ballot, Bob Barr.


20 posted on 07/05/2022 4:19:36 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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