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Good News: Paterson, N.J., Gets Muslim Police Chief and Islamic Call to Prayer Over Loudspeakers
pjmedia.com ^ | 2/26/2020 | robert spencer

Posted on 02/27/2020 6:15:39 PM PST by bitt

The next Democratic debate isn’t in Paterson, New Jersey, but it should be: that unlikely city is blazing new trails in multiculturalism and diversity. On Wednesday, the City Council voted unanimously (with two members not voting) to grant preliminary approval to the Islamic call to prayer being broadcast over loudspeakers in the city. This followed the swearing-in earlier this month, on the Qur’an, of course, of Paterson’s new police chief, Ibrahim “Mike” Baycora, the first Muslim police chief in an American city.

Celebrate diversity, right? Sure. The problem is that it is by no means certain that this diversity will celebrate us. The Paterson noise ordinance says: “The city shall permit ‘Adhan’, call to prayer’, ‘church bells’ and other reasonable means of announcing religious meetings to be amplified between the hours of 6:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m. for duration not to exceed five minutes.”

So the Islamic call to prayer is just like church bells. Sure, and informed, devout Muslims are just Methodists with hats and beards. Reality, however, is not so rosy. The Islamic call to prayer, now to be sounded three times a day in Paterson, New Jersey (there are five daily prayers, but two of them fall outside the 6AM-10PM parameters of the ordinance), declares:

Allah is greater (Allahu akbar, four times)

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1 posted on 02/27/2020 6:15:39 PM PST by bitt
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2 posted on 02/27/2020 6:15:52 PM PST by bitt (A government afraid of it's citizens - should be afraid.)
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Welcome to shitsville


3 posted on 02/27/2020 6:18:56 PM PST by Starcitizen (American. No hypenation necessary. Send the H1B and H4EAD slime home. American jobs for Americans)
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Patriots know what needs to be done to those loudspeakers.


4 posted on 02/27/2020 6:19:13 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Dear Mr. Kotter, #Epsteindidntkillhimself - Signed, Epstein's Mother)
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To: bitt

Paterson NJ, now officially conquered muzzie territory.

Thomas Jefferson, Tripoli, Marines. Need it again.


5 posted on 02/27/2020 6:20:13 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: bitt

do they broadcast Bells for the Catholic churches?


6 posted on 02/27/2020 6:21:05 PM PST by cherry
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To: fieldmarshaldj

The Founders thought of everything with the 2nd amendment.


7 posted on 02/27/2020 6:21:38 PM PST by Does so (...Democrats believe in democracy only when they win the election...)
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From Wiki:

It has since evolved into a major destination for Hispanic immigrants as well as for immigrants from India, South Asia, and the Arab and Muslim world. Paterson has the second-largest Muslim population in the United States by percentage.


8 posted on 02/27/2020 6:24:01 PM PST by Moonman62 (Charity comes from wealth.)
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