Muslim Call To Prayer, Over Loudspeaker, IN Brooklyn, I'm Offended. Now What?

[twyacht]

So ONE complaint can get a Nativity Scene removed, Santa barred from attendance at a school, but this? Muslim Call To Prayer ON A LOUDSPEAKER!!!

http://www.theblaze.com/blog/2010/12/20/muslim-call-to-prayer-rings-out-in-brooklyn-n-y/

Video at link.

Please watch.

The mosque, Masjid At-Taqwa, is reportedly located in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn and the site Logan’s Warning claims to have captured the video above last Thursday, around 6:00 a.m.  According to the website, the message translation reads:

    Allah is most great. Allah is most great.
    Allah is most great. Allah is most great.
    I testify that there is no God but Allah.
    I testify that there is no God but Allah.
    I testify that Mohammad is the messenger of God.
    I testify that Mohammad is the messenger of God.
    Come to prayer! Come to prayer!
    Come to success. Come to success.
    God is most great. God is most great.
    There is no God but Allah.

In a country increasingly obsessed with political correctness, it’s hard to imagine what kind of outcry would take place if a Christian church played Christmas carols over a loudspeaker at this time of year, let alone messages that proclaim the superiority of Jesus Christ.  The ACLU would have them run out of town!

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Mosque in Brooklyn,...fine, I have no issue....But the author is right. If this was a "Church" doing this,........there would be HELL to pay.

I am officially offended...

[TAB]

we need a group of yodeling carolers to stop by...

[billt]

If the Catholics did the same in Mecca they would be arrested and most likely executed.   Bill T.

[Jackel]

its nothing new. a few months back there was an African american music awards show. now thats all well and good, but if it was the other way around there would be hell to pay.

[fightingquaker13]

Sorry guys, but I officially refuse to be offended. Let me explain. As a libertarian and Episcopalian, I am offended by those who are offended. The Muslims, the Evangelicals, the Catholic League, the feminists etc. Those people offend me. Not for what they say or believe, but because they are a bunch of sad sacks who can't hold their water and expect me to give a damn. Its as though I somehow became responsible for not hurting their freaking feelings! Look, I could care less what they want. They speak their piece, I speak mine and we're all good. Say I'm oppressing you for doing so.......? Call the faithful to prayer. I say that Mohamed was no prophet, the Koran ain't holy, and Allah ain't God. BTW, I like Salmon Rushdie. If you're ok with that we're cool. If you're offended? KMA. And I'll say the same to the professionally offended Christians who worry about "the war on Christmas" or are upset about Muslim calls to prayer. To them I say tighten the hell up and move on. A free society, like a good internet board, requires that in order for you to speak your mind you also others to do like wise. You just don't whine about it.
FQ13
I refer to the Gunny here to make my point.

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[crusader rabbit]

we need a group of yodeling carolers to stop by...

...And have 'em eating pork ribs and slinging grease all over the area while they sing Away in a Manger. 

Offered for discussion by an increasingly (yeah, it can happen) intolerant Crusader Rabbit

[MikeBjerum]

Sunrise Easter worship at every Christian church in the city!

Let the bells ring in celebration!

Then we will see if the PC goes both ways.

In fact, why wait for Easter?  Midnight, December 24, 2010 we move our bright lights and chorus of Angels outside!  At 12:01 AM, December 25, 2010 we shine spotlights on and from every church in the city, the bells ring in celebration as the choirs do their best to recreate the chorus of Angels, over the loud speakers, bringing the Good News to the Shepherds in the hills.

[TAB]

I have zero issue with the call to prayer... what kills me is its at sunrise.  some of us like to sleep in...


There are actually laws on the books about making noise at diffrent times.   just enforces those equally and all is good.

[Big Frank]

At 6:00 a.m. you shouldn't be hearing ANYTHING over a PA system. Doesn't the city have a noise ordinance?

[MikeBjerum]

I have zero issue with the call to prayer... what kills me is its at sunrise.  some of us like to sleep in...


There are actually laws on the books about making noise at diffrent times.   just enforces those equally and all is good.

That is my point!

If they can do it to worship their god, we can do it to proclaim our Savior!