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!

Ooooh I know this sort of article is silly but I would LOVE to hear the muslim call to prayers

It always reminds me of fabulous holidays

Having said that, church bells drive me batty. Three hours twice a week or young un-cordinated buffons clanging away - it drives me BONKERS.

actually mumblechum they used to estimate the prayer times by the positioning of the sun before saying the call to prayer. And the muezzin if nobody else checks his watch before sayign the call to prayer......

Muslims pray in congregation, so if the local mosque says the call to prayer you know the congregation is about to start and arrive in time to pray together......

Of course, as far as we know, no-one is in this country being asked to listen to an amplified call to prayer early in the morning, and the 'why can't they' and allusions to being a PITA are exactly the kind of mischief envisaged when this man started this theoretical 'scare'.

If anyone can tell me they are woken at down by a call to prayer in the U, I stand corrected.

Don't think it would be any more annoying than aeroplanes. I thought I was able to hear an amplified call to prayer when I was a student in Leicester 15 years ago, but maybe I am misremembering. I don't think it was a problem.

On the other hand, on the Jeremy Vine show today some idiot texted in on the back of the Bishop's comments saying that Brick Lane was now a no go area . Reading what fuzzywuzzy said about the likelihood of muslims having monitors in their homes, it seems like an ill thought out comment that will give the BNP etc. a bit of mileage.

oh yes here in Somerset I can't get ANYTHING done without being bothered by noisy Muslims

Can someone enlighten me on what and when the call to prayer is? I'm struggling with this 5 a day beginning at 5am. Does someone go out in the street and verbally call in all muslims 5 times a day, begining at 5am? Surely this is not so. HAve I completely missed the plot? (probably)

sorry can't read whole thread too long.

I would object to anything that was amplified to a level that would wake me up but aside from that - if I can put up with the bloody aircraft noise to Heathrow then any noise with a pleasanter purpose would be fine in my book.

Sounds like the technology is better than it was when my friend bought this device that was supposed to click to tell you when you were facing in the direction of Mecca. According to the machine, Mecca lay due south of Hong Kong.

Interestingly, on the Jeremy Vine show, people who thought the Bishop had made a good point seemed to come from those well known muslim ghettos, Sussex and North Wales.

LOL Smallwhitecat - this was started by a reference to a theoretical amplification etc...not by any suggestion that it is happening or that Mmuslims want it to happen! So I thiknk your point is somwhat back to front!

lol at Brick lane being a no-go area. Is fine during the day and surely biggest problem at night is drunken white yobs going for a curry?

There may be moslem no-go areas but I can;t beleive Brick lane is one of them.

I would object privately. I would not say so in real life to a Muslim though. It is awful that I feel like that isn't it but I really would be afraid of voicing objections about Islam.

I'll be happy with hearing a call to prayer five times a day (well, konw I won't actually-having been forced to endure it for three years in Turkey was bloody annoying) when the sound of church bells ringing can be heard in places like Saudi Arabia.

When I was in Dubai the morning call to prayer was not loud enough to wake me.

Even in Mecca I had to set my alarm clock to wake in time of morning prayers.

Madina tho I could hear it perfectly well, but then we were staying practically in the mosque peoper....

Is no one going to explain this 5 a day thing to me -- I so feel like I'm talking about fruit and veg.

I just don't understand how anyone can go pray 5 times a day and get anything done?

Indeed.
Even Christian services have to be arranged on the quiet in someone's living room. (As I know from experience.)

Same with headscarves.I'll be fine with these when blokes wear them too.I don't hold with one rule for one sector of society.

I miss the sound of call to prayer. I lived in ME for a couple of years, right next to the main mosque, it added something to the atmosphere. Not sure that it would do the same here though. But if the immediate neighbours don't mind, then why not.

Elusis it takes about five minutes ot do the prayer.

The first happens at dawn. The second at midday, I do mine at lunch time when at work so nobody is bothered about it...as far as I know nobody even knows I nip out to pray at lunchtime either. the third happens an hour before dusk, the fourth at dusk and the final one (which is also very long), is done at night time.