Would you object to an amplified Muslim Call to Prayer?

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Story here - would you mind? Do you mind church bells ringing? What are your reasons?

Don't know what I think - would be interested to hear your thoughts!

I think it is reasonable to stop any noise before 7am, whether bells, calls to prayer, pneumatic drills etc.

After all, it is not legal to use your car horn between 11pm and 7am!!

It's about protecting peace during the night, not discriminating between one noise an another.

Call to prayer reasonable during daytime hours, if not amplified more than any other permissable noise levels.

What does it sound like?

It's rather beautiful, IIRC from when I lived in Malaysia.

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It's an awful distorted cacophany! Like cats fighting. At dawn.

They dont allow the call to prayer in mornings anyway in england in the one mosque that does amplify the call.

The calls to prayer vary according to the time of year, the dawn call to prayer happens at 6:30am at the moment, it can be very early in the summer tho.

As this is not a muslim country I wouldnt expect people to tolerate or accept it. Taking into consideration that expats living in dubai tried to get the call to prayer banned in a country which they were only guests in I doubt very much they would allow such an imposition in their own country.

The call to prayer I think is beautiful, I understand what they say, and given the right muezzin I used to look forward to hearing it when I was in muslims countries. The call to prayer is a reminder, it's pretty amazing to watch people shut up shops and leave their work behind all heading towards the mosque man woman and child....

In the UK, we have adhan (the call to prayer) monitors in our homes, which are tuned into our local mosques, when the muezzin switches on the internal mike the call to prayer is transmitted directly to our homes, we also get to listen to the actual prayers, and wedding ceremonies and death prayers and sermons over the adhan monitors without disturbing the neighbours.... I would absolutely hate for my neighbours to be distrubed by my acts of worship, it would simply nullify the prayer I think.

That's brilliant - so it's basically the same concept as a gigantic baby monitor?

Church bells are apart of Christian culture, but they are not required by the Bible. That doesn't make them any less pleasant. For alot of people its all part of the experiance as I imagine the call to prayer must be for Muslims.

I would object. I don't object to church bells because they are once a week and, although I am almost always still in bed when they start, I can live with once a week and, quite frankly, it's a bit lazy to be in bed at that time.

If a mosque wants to do the call to prayer once a week, that would be fine. If it was the morning prayer on, say, a Friday I would live with it even though, as others have said, the first prayer is (I understand) very early. 35 times a week is a bit of a different proposition (although, being at work, I wouldn't hear a lot of them).

If I was woken up early every morning of the week by a call to prayer, it would drive me nuts. I am not good with being woken up by stuff other than my alarm or my family. I barely keep my composure when I'm woken up at 6:30 on Monday by the bin men...

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If it was loud enough to be intrusive it would bother me, but no more than any other intrusive noise, and not because of what it was.

nindragons, you know I never thought of it like that , but yes that's exactly it.....it's quite funny on occasion when they forget to switch the mikes off, my sisters local mosque also does tours of the mosque and she loves listening ot the local school children asking questions and stuff.

I would absolutely hate it.

COuld do without it early and late but not bothered otherwise. Churchbells only ring about 9.30 ish don't they? Bit of land near a church near me that can't be developed cos property developers say no-one would buy a house there cos of church bells.

Oh apologies for the actual text in that link - I didn't read it first, was just looking for the prayer....... first thing that came up on google.

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It's meant to be amplified in muslim countries to remind people to come to prayer. Like the church bells remind worshippers to come and worship I suppose (sorry I don't know the reasoning behind church bells so guessing here).

The article posted by the OP is scaremongering mosques in england are not about to begin amplifying their calls to prayer and disturb the local population.

Given the current political climate, I would think most sensible muslims are merely grateful for being allowed the same freedom of worship as other religions.......

Probably, Cod because if Allah had wanted people to wear watches he would have invented them 1600 years ago.

That seems to be the argument supporting ritual slaughter of animals.

Not at all Icod, but I find the call to prayer more affective than an alarm which I tend ot automatically switch off and forget about....

Again am most certianly not advocating mosques in the UK start amplifying the prayer call at all.

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smallwhitecat, because the call to prayer is made by a real person with a human voice, which would struggle to be heard over background noise in a modern city.
Church bells are considerably louder than an unamplified muezzin .