Posted on 07/01/2015 4:48:50 PM PDT by markomalley
The mosque in Sandnessjøen starts with call to prayer using outside loudspeakers. It is met with very mixed reactions among the citizens, NRK reports.
The Muslim Association in Sandnessjøen begins with outdoors call to prayer in connection with Friday prayers. A loudspeaker will be placed outside the premises of the mosque and the call to prayer will be heard over the entire neighborhood.
The municipality has given the permission, but that this will become a weekly fixture in the town center, has created harsh reactions among people in the municipality.
- We are not in Mecca
- It is unusual for us, with such call to prayer. We are not in Mecca, and they need to see the difference between Mecca and Sandnessjøen, says Stein Bjorn Mentzoni.
- It is completely outrageous. It belongs abroad, where they come from. I do not think it belongs here, but they do as they please, says Elin Jørgensen.
But not all are negative to 1.5 minutes of Islamic call to prayer.
- I just laugh at it. It's just funny how they scream. They can keep at it all night, says ignorant Asbjørn Bjørkan.
Spokesperson of the Muslim Association Masjid in Sandnessjøen, convert Tanja Bryn Lund, is looking forward to implementing the outdoors call to prayer, and compares it to church bells.
- What is new is that we take the call to prayer outside. It is part of the Muslim worship in the same way that church bells are part of the Christian worship, says Bryn Lund.
The Association will try this during Ramadan and will consider continuing with outdoors call to prayer every Friday. Tanja Bryn Lund understands that people are skeptical.
- There is much negative focus on Islam in the media, and the turmoil in the world perhaps makes that people are skeptical. People know little about Islam, and we hope they will be less skeptical eventually, she says.
The ignorant mayor of the municipality, Bård Anders Lango (Labour), believes the criticism is due to ignorance (??). He welcomes the offer himself.
- I think it's about that this is something we have not had in the municipality before. Then it's a little new, and people think that they do not want this.
This is what it will sound like, as they hear daily in Hamburg, Germany:
(video at link)
a small thing and a great big thing too
it shows Europe, or at least much of it, has been sold out by its ruling elites...
especially so in light of the millions and millions of generally hostile socalled immigrants that ruling elite has imported or allowed into the various European nations
unless they start sending same back to their home countries soon, Europe is lost to history
Stupid beyond belief.
Electricity is haram.
Religious Liberties, in Europe, means making accommodations for Islam since Christianity is dead.
It’s a start. Before they know it it will be every day, five times a day, looking at Muslim butts and hearing that creepy wailing. So long, Norway, it’s been nice knowing you.
Sweetest sound on Earth, my arse!
There is some European Nationalist type party over there that puts videos of themselves on YouTube going to wealthy elitist neighborhoods early early on weekends and blaring the call to prayer out of a van’s loudspeakers. Hilarious.
“- It is unusual for us, with such call to prayer. We are not in Mecca, and they need to see the difference between Mecca and Sandnessjøen, says Stein Bjorn Mentzoni.”
That ship sailed the moment you let this garbage into your country pal.
White Europeans HATE Islam. The evil elites who rule them want to import more Muslims. WHY DO THE WHITES PUT UP WITH IT?
Their outrage is short-lived. They'll vote once again for the muslim enablers come election time.
They put up with it because of the welfare state. They get job security, free stuff, and long vacations - much like our own federal employees.
dumb to cave to primitive Muzzlims but Norway is still something like 93% Norwegian
Big mistake.
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