Posted on 12/24/2007 3:09:26 PM PST by wazoo1031
Anger over plan to broadcast Muslim call to prayer on loudspeaker in Oxford Last updated at 12:46pm on 24th December 2007
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Outrage: Proposals for loudspeaker Muslim calls to prayer in central Oxford have been attacked by local residents
MORE NEWS Muslim plans to broadcast a loudspeaker call to prayer from a city centre mosque have been attacked by local residents who say it would turn the area into a "Muslim ghetto".
Dozens of people packed out a council meeting to express their concerns over the plans for a two-minute long call to prayer to be issued three times a day, saying that it could drown out the traditional sound of church bells.
But a spokesman for the Central Mosque said that Muslim's also have the right to summon worshippers.
Dr Mark Huckster, who lives in Stanton Road and works at East Oxford hospice Helen House, told the Oxford Mail: "The proposal to issue a prayer call is very un-neighbourly, especially in a crowded urban space such as Oxford.
"I have lived in the Middle East and a prayer call has a very different feel to church bells and I personally found the noise extremely unpleasant, rather disturbing and very alien to the western mindset."
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Again, sorry if it’s a repeat! MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL!! :-)
Probably just have to get used to it. Same thing happening in Detroit area, despite protests.
Wouldn’t it be way less intrusive for all observant Muslims to carry a personal communication device that is set on “vibrate” when the hour of prayer is at hand? Those of us who are NOT Muslim, and never intend to be, would find this a much better public-relations tactic than blasting out an overwhelming cacaphony at fixed intervals.
There is something militaristic and totalitarian about these “calls to prayer” being broadcast in the public square.
But a spokesman for the Central Mosque said that Muslim’s also have the right to summon worshippers.... So? Call Western Union. And then throw out all the Moe- Ham- Heads.
I’m looking forward to the disturbing the peace charges.
If you’re in Turkey you expect it although at first it does interrupt the train of thought, which is the intent of course. In the West no one has the right to interrupt anybody’s train of thought.
Ourageous. I hope the locals kick up enough of a fuss. Why don’t they honestly move over to Saudi Arabia if they want that sort of thing. WE the British people certainly don’t.
Right, I’ll be off to our midnight service now.
I wish you all a very merry Christmas!
read below.
The Invasion is on.
According to the raghead religion, any area that is within hearing range of the call to prayer, is muslim land.
Some well timed marine horns would be top notch.
Stage 1:
Start immigrating - move into a country quietly
Stage 2:
Begin starting churches: “learning centers” community helps: food etc.
Stage 3:
Political activism: demanding rights, denounce derogatory comments/press etc.
Stage 4:
Get elected, pass laws favoring rights etc. move toward political majority
Stage 5:
Political control, Sharia Law
Heres the original thread from this am
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1943750/posts
Hamtramck Mi. (Detroit)
It used to be a predominantly Polish Catholic area.
The case can be made that bells are traditionally used for secular purposes as well as religious, and that call to prayer has no purpose other than religious.
I hate listening to call to prayer and would raise a freaking ruckus.
You’re so lucky! The midnight Masses in Chester have been cancelled, due to unruly drunken hoodie yobs! I could have gone to one tonight way across town (not that its that big) at 9:00, but I’d already cracked open the wine and wasn’t going to go alone. My only other Catholic friend (who is Irish) lives too far away to get the bus as they stop service and taxis double their rates on Christmas and New Year’s Eve...and they wonder why the rates of drink-driving have increased exponentially over the Holidays! I know that in New Orleans and Houston the cab service is free if you call them and slur enough, as they’d rather compensate the cabbies with taxpayer money than have to deal with the cost of scraping folks off the pavement...it is cheaper in the long run. What do they not do that in England? Oh, that’s right, its cost effective...Double the rates, which pretty much guarantees that people are gonna drive drunk, I mean that is such Crap! Anyway, again, wishing you and yours a Merry Christmas!
“Muslim ghetto” - do you have any idea how hard it is to clean frito pie off a screen?!?
I don’t suppose any Muslim would mind if they broadcast the Lord’s Prayer before and a Hail Mary after the cacaphony?
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