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Michigan Muslims Want to Use Loudspeakers for Call to Prayer
"John H" wrote in message
... On Fri, 16 Apr 2004 19:45:29 GMT, "Doug Kanter" wrote: "Phaedrine" wrote in message ... 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. |
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