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Doug Kanter
 
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Default Michigan Muslims Want to Use Loudspeakers for Call to Prayer

"Phaedrine" wrote in message
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In article ,
"John Gaquin" wrote:

"plantsman" wrote in message

..... I'm sure it will
be a "low-pitched voice" g. Have you ever heard how they sound in

other
countries?


I've spent a considerable time over the last thirty-five years living

and
working in various mid-east countries. There is absolutely nothing
unobtrusive about the prayer calls. And it isn't just 6AM. When I

lived in
Turkey, the morning call in summer came as early as 3:30AM.

I suspect there are a few citizens of Hamtramck who will take care of

the
loudspeakers.



Their city council (if they pass this) might as well start packing now.


If the town's anything like here, you need a permit to use sound
reinforcement equipment of a certain size, outdoors at ANY time of day,
unless it involves the sirens/horns on an emergency vehicle. The council
needs to either look further into existing laws, or move real quick and
change the ones they have so "no permit, no loudspeakers".