the Al Islah Islamic Center says they should be able to broadcast over public loudspeakers in Arabic, five times a day, from 6am to 10pm. .....
I don't think they had loudspeakers in the days of their founder........
Just like they did 1,400 years ago....
Somebody should put up a loudspeaker opposite the mosque, and every time the muezzin broadcasts the call to prayer, they should blast back Frankie Yankovic playing the Beer Barrel Polka.
There is an option here. If I were a Hamtramck resident i would by a bullhorn or a bell (maybe both). When the call to prayer begins I would consider it a call to make noise....lots of noise. A few thousand residents doing the same could drown out the daily caterwalling.
How quickly they learn how to play the game.
So does this mean that All Christian Church's in America now get to read the bible to the town 5 times a day at 110 db?
Just think, a Chapter a day, five times a day every day, seven days a week. Most Mosques you can hear easily a half a mile away.
Why you could hear the Lords Prayer or the Ten Commandments every day of the week!!!
Or is freedom in the name of rude only valid when the very same thing is done in Arabic not english?
Bullshirt, It is called a watch son...
Get rid of the Church bells and the calls to prayer. Both of them irritate me.
Religious tolerance for all!!!! (Except Christians and Jews, of course).
I have a backyard neighbor that plays load arabic music that sounds like cats in heat. So on weekends when he starts this noise with his little radio I open the sliding glass doors to the den, crank up the 250 watts per channel multichannel mega amplified stereo and slip in Van Halen, Metalica, Hendrix,Ted Nugent, ZZ Top, Deaf Leappord, George Thorogood, or anything that must be played loud and rock the house. Its beautiful and gives me an excuse to crank it. The other neighbors applaud when I shut the arab squelch down to a level that only can be heard in his own space and the peace and quite return to normal. Than I just put the Giants game back on and work in the garden.
"Political Powder Keg: Has Religious Tolerance Gone Too Far?"
As a Christian, I'd like to know: What religious tolerance?
Because Star Trek is set in the FUTURE!
Response: No.
Comment: There are two reasons: (1) Politicians need blocs of votes and politicians in these times will kill to woo those blocs;(2) Tolerance is defined as the inability to say Yes or No, the inability to take a stand. To take a stand requires a people. The U.S. has become merely a population.
You know, the sad thing is that there's a really simple way around this...
First off, rather than loud speakers, the mosque could simply purchase a low or medium powered radio transmitter, and they could sell radio receivers to their congregation. Then, they could broadcast the call to prayers to their hearts content, without offending or bothering anyone else.
Since this simple idea was never brought up, it goes to reason that this isn't simply a way to notify believers that it's time to pray. It's a way to demonstrate their political power, and probably to intimidate the "infidels" too.
Mark
The sound of church bells in the distance remains one of my absolute favorite sounds. It's a shame that they will be heard less and less in the wake of PC-dom.
Hafiz Mohammed of the Islamic Association of Michigan: "Those people who are opposing Azan, our position is not a new phenomenon. They are. . ."
Aside to a companion,"Habib, What is that word to manipulate the American infidels?"
Habib: "Racist, my Imam".
Hafiz Mohammed: "They are RACIST!".
Hey...there's a new invention out there...perhaps you've heard of it.
It's called a CLOCK!