Tensions rise in a Michigan town John Leland NYT Wednesday, May 05, 2004 Broadcasts of Muslim call to prayer anger many residents HAMTRAMCK, Michigan To hear people in this blue-collar town tell it, things were fine until the al-Islah Islamic Center petitioned to broadcast its call to prayer, or azan, over an outdoor loudspeaker. Masud Khan, the mosque's secretary, sat on the carpeted floor one day last week and reflected on what he had learned about some of his neighbors in the last few months. "How much they hate us," he said softly. Jackie Rutherford, a librarian and youth worker,...
