"John H" wrote in message
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On Fri, 16 Apr 2004 19:45:29 GMT, "Doug Kanter"
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"Phaedrine" wrote in message
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In article ,
(Curtis CCR) wrote:
I agree that if other Churches are allowed to ring bells for
religious
reasons (as opposed to just announcing that it's noon) then mosques
should be allowed to have prayer calls.
I guess I do not understand how you equate the two. If mosques are
allowed loudspeakers, for instance, then perhaps churches should be
allowed to use electronic augmentation for their bells as well? Is
that
what you are saying? (I don't understand why rec.boats got on this
list!)
Allowing Muslims to use loudspeakers doesn't mean everyone else is going
to
do the same. Jehovah's Witnesses robots knock on your door when you're
busy,
trying to make you take stupid pamphlets. They're legally allowed to do
so,
but you don't see Hassidic Jews doing it, right? It's just a difference
in
the approach.
Having said this, I'd take any opportunity to murder anyone who blasted
prayer announcements over a loudspeaker at 5-something in the morning.
But,
this is a personal view, not a legal one. :-)
By the way, won't noise ordinances take care of some of this problem?
If Muslims are allowed to use loudspeakers, shouldn't the Mexicans on the
corner
be allowed to blast the "salsa" on their systems at midnight? I mean, if
it's a
cultural thing and all.
Mexicans *do* blast salsa all night, and here in Rochester, Hispanic
citizens, in general, are famous for bringing boom boxes to public parks to
serenade everyone present. But, that's also a practice popular with guys
with mullets and backwards Caterpillar hats who drive over-customized
pickups with confederate stickers on the windows. We have a lot of that
he Fake Southerners.
PS. Doug, did I see your pretty face in a discussion of Nikon lenses?
Yep. It was really a debate about whether such a lens would fit into this
month's toy budget, versus finally buying a fly rod. The fly rod won.