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2008-01-14 Britain

Mosque's plan to broadcast call to prayer from loudspeaker 'will create Muslim ghetto'

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Posted by anonymous5089 2008-01-14 08:41|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top
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#1 "This is not an anti-Muslim thing, it is more about community cohesion."

For me it is just an anti-muslim thing.

Posted by Excalibur 2008-01-14 09:06|| 2008-01-14 09:06|| Front Page Top

#2 Anything which dominates their neighborers is a muslem thing.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2008-01-14 09:31|| 2008-01-14 09:31|| Front Page Top

#3 Fine. We'll be ringing the Church bells AT THE SAME TIME.

Posted by Ptah">Ptah 2008-01-14 09:43|| http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org]">[http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2008-01-14 09:43|| Front Page Top

#4 Actually, the church bells idea is a good one, and should be presented in parallel with their call to prayer. Not at the same time, necessarily, but in the *orthodox* Christian manner.

That is, they ring the church bells for the Angelus prayer, which is a Catholic tradition but can also be done by CofE, in the morning, at midday and in the evening. They also ring them for daily mass, Wednesday evening mass, an on multiple times on Sunday. And for weddings and funerals.

This would mean the church bells would ring at least four times a day, and as often as six.

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-01-14 10:24|| 2008-01-14 10:24|| Front Page Top

#5 Simple answer,

Tell them that they can have their call to prayer as often as christian churches are allowed to ring their bells in Saudi Arabia. Or better yet in Mecca :).

Posted by CrazyFool 2008-01-14 10:33|| 2008-01-14 10:33|| Front Page Top

#6 anonymoose, i got a better one, down here in the south alot of churches still ring their bells on the hour and they ring once for the hour of the day say 12o'clock you get 12 rings

Posted by sinse 2008-01-14 10:41|| 2008-01-14 10:41|| Front Page Top

#7
A spokesman for the Central Mosque said that sounding the call to prayer is a traditional part of the religion.

So call people to prayer on their farking cell phones.

Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford 2008-01-14 11:52|| 2008-01-14 11:52|| Front Page Top

#8 Dr Chapman added the broadcast is not to comparable to the ringing of church bells because: "They are just a signal. The Muslim call is a theological statement."

Excellent. Perhaps it would be about community cohesion because I would be tempted to erect a tower and install a PA system atop it and play Weird Al's 'Spam', or 'Bologna', or 'This song is just six words long' at the same time and I know from experience, it may be that a Monty Python song would be more appropriate, many may want to do a song to belches and farts, or just sound an old air raid siren. See, chaos.

Posted by swksvolFF 2008-01-14 11:57|| 2008-01-14 11:57|| Front Page Top

#9 CrazyFool has the best idea especially since the money for this project is undoubtedly coming from Soddy Arabia.

Posted by Abu Uluque6305 2008-01-14 12:08|| 2008-01-14 12:08|| Front Page Top

#10 I'd be setting up my own loudspeaker system - one that plays "Tequila!" at high decibels five times daily.

"Oh, was that annoying? So sorry... "

Posted by mojo">mojo 2008-01-14 12:17|| 2008-01-14 12:17|| Front Page Top

#11 I was thinking something more Wagnerian, say Ride of the Valkyries into Valhalla, with subwoofer support from a General Electric YJ93-GE-3.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-01-14 12:34|| 2008-01-14 12:34|| Front Page Top

#12 1,000+ years of history shows they dont' stop until the they are stopped.

Posted by Whomong Guelph4611 2008-01-14 13:14|| 2008-01-14 13:14|| Front Page Top

#13 "Muslim elders at an Oxford mosque have said they intend to push ahead with plans to broadcast a call to prayer from a loudspeaker despite fierce opposition."

Here is what an Oxford Muslim steeped in the cultural surrender of the West might be heard to say:

"Screw your fierce opposition, kufir. We are Muslim. We are your overlords. By now we thought you'd have understood that. You're stupid. You're cowards. And you're filthy, to boot.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. We Muslims could set our alarm clocks at 5:00 am to go to prayer at 6:00 am, but most of us don't do that anyway. We just want the call to prayer stuffed in your face six times each day. Oh, you thought it was FIVE times per day? Wrong. The call to prayer is six times per day. Google Islam Finder to see the six times per day the call to prayer goes out to your Masters. Allah only requires us to answer the prayer five times each day. We Muslims don't get to the mosque too often at 6:00 am. You can understand that, can't you? We prefer to wait unti the call to prayer at 8:00 am. More civilized in the British way. While you kufir are at work at 8:00 am we Mulsims sneak out and go to mosque. Hey! Somebody has to earn a living while we recite by rote our prayers in order to collect the welfare checks each month. We get to work, if at all, by 9:30am. If we've got our OWN buisness to run we don't stick to the scheduled call to prayer to hard unless we've got kufir working in our place. That's just the way it is. Deal with it the way the multi-culti PC crowd does. No matter what we demand they give in to us! Ha!"

Posted by Mark Z 2008-01-14 13:38|| 2008-01-14 13:38|| Front Page Top

#14 The olde traditional amp and loudspeakers, just like Mo had. Just like they knuckled under in Hamtramk, MI. Press one for English?

Posted by Phinater Thraviger 2008-01-14 13:50|| 2008-01-14 13:50|| Front Page Top

#15 I hate electronic bells, too. They sound like crap and they are too easy to use: just set the timer to play some extended 'carrilon' junk. Isn't it wonderful!! And we raised the money ourselves!!

Posted by KBK 2008-01-14 15:26|| 2008-01-14 15:26|| Front Page Top

#16 s/carrilon/carillon/

Posted by KBK 2008-01-14 15:27|| 2008-01-14 15:27|| Front Page Top

#17 How else do you wake the faithful in a two mile radius and call them to prayer?

Call them on their damn cellphones.

Posted by SteveS 2008-01-14 15:27|| 2008-01-14 15:27|| Front Page Top

#18 Gotta be careful about what blows up when you call a muzzie cell phone.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-01-14 15:28|| 2008-01-14 15:28|| Front Page Top

#19 Call them to prayer with a very large explosive device, dropped by a British C-130, going off over their mosque. I'm sure they would understand...

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2008-01-14 17:12|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2008-01-14 17:12|| Front Page Top

#20 YOu know, someone should come up with a Muslim clock that does the call to prayer at appropriate times. Then you wouldn't need to screech over the city and no muslims would have an excuse.

The only excuse for the annoying screetching is that it so perfectly sets the location in motion pictures. Oh, the call to prayer, we're in the 8th century, or the middle east. Okay.

Posted by rjschwarz 2008-01-14 17:23|| 2008-01-14 17:23|| Front Page Top

#21 why not assign songs to these frequent alerts.
AC DC's Highway to Hell comes to mind.
;) It would remind me of all of those fun videos that we've all seen and enjoyed.

Also, I wouldn't mind a reminder to catch last call at the bar....

Posted by Jan 2008-01-14 19:00|| 2008-01-14 19:00|| Front Page Top

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