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.”
Why do they have to call them to prayer ?
The Muslims will argue that Minneapolis belongs to the Muslims.
The call to prayer is an announcement that that is Muslim land.
They are laying claim to parts of our country.
Anywhere the call to prayer goes out is Muslim land.
By “sort of Heavenly” I assume this “pastor” means demonic.
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.
We would have millions of Somalis in Minnesota (and Maine) if GHW Bush had stayed out of Somalia as he should have.
The left is up in arms about church and state regarding Supreme Court decisions.
Not this, though.
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....
I stopped reading at pastor Jane.
No such thing as a female pastor in the Bible.
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.
No one asked me if i wanted Muslims here.
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!
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.
Maybe it’s just me, but, I would never invite termites into my home with the goal of achieving ‘species diversity’ within the house.
Notice no lawsuits by the ACLU.
I wonder why...
It was started by his daddy
Have to wonder what the world would be like f it weren’t for that disgusting family.
Read up on Hamtramck, Mich.
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.
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