For now, it is only allowed to be broadcast on Friday afternoons and every evening during the month of Ramadan without a noise permit. But if New York is anything like ‘Minneapolistan,’ sooner or later, it will be broadcast FIVE TIMES A DAY, EVERYDAY, starting at the crack of dawn from mosques all over the city.
NY Daily News (h/t Victor S) New York City mosques can now broadcast the Islamic call to prayer freely on Fridays and during evenings in the month of Ramadan without a permit, Mayor Eric Adams said Tuesday, seeking to foster a spirit of religious inclusivity in the five boroughs.
Under NYPD guidance outlined by the Adams administration, mosques’ ability to amplify the adhan, or call to prayer, would not be undercut by sound regulations during the most sacred month of the Islamic calendar. Adams said the city had previously lacked clarity on mosques’ rights to broadcast the call to prayer.
Adams’ office said mosques would be permitted to broadcast the prayer call from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. Fridays and at dusk during Ramadan, a monthlong religious holiday that begins in March.
Adams, a Democrat and an unabashed Christian, said the mosques should keep the volume of their calls to a “reasonable level,” but said the adhan must be allowed to echo just as “Christian church bells ring on Sunday.”
It is not clear exactly how many Muslims live in the five boroughs, but the number is thought to be above 100,000, and perhaps as high as 800,000. (Gee, you should be able to know the exact number, considering their names are dead giveaways about their religion)
You might want to consider earplugs for your pets:
Ridden Aydemir aka the ‘Apostate Prophet,’ an ex-Muslim commentator on all things Islam, explains what you need to know about the Islamic Call to Prayer, that no Muslim will ever tell you:
“The Call to Prayer is a guttural blaring that is a war cry to let every “unbeliever” know Islam is superior to every other ideology and deserves special privilege. Just as “Allahu Akbar” is a declaration to unbelievers that “Allah is greater, and we’re about to show you just how much greater he is,” more and more Western cities are allowing the Call to Prayer to be blasted from large amplifiers five times a day, beginning at dawn.”
silmarillian1 says
When the last brick falls from the last mosque on the head of the last imam we will have true peace
s says
“Barack Obama said the Muslim call to prayer is “one of the prettiest sounds on Earth.””
Does Adams agree? I bet he wouldn’t if that blood curling noise was assaulting his neighborhood.
BareNakedIslam says
And it will be sooner or later. Now that the camel has his nose inside the tent, it’s only a matter of time until they start blasting the call 5 times a day.
DavidW says
Just put some loudspeakers on a truck and after the call to prayer drive by the mosques playing “Onward Christian Soldiers” very loudly.
BLR says
I know where there is a pak of wolves who would run to that sound for breakfast … different world Bonni ! think about it
Munich says
In New York – of all places!!!
The Tasmanian Devil says
Just more evidence that you get and deserve what you elect.
John says
Just wait until Mayor Eric Adams in an effort to get the muzzie vote provides city funding to build a gigantic mosque right next to where the twin towers fell!
Mary C says
When the 9/11 anniversary is here, you know the conspiracy theorists will be out and about with their nonsense. I don’t know who’s more pitiful, them or Holocaust deniers. Either way, I’ve got no patience for either group of kooks.
Dr. Gary Katz says
horrific! Auditory imperialism. This IS bad news.i don’t think that this is some sacred traditional practice, since the loudspeaker wasn’t invented until the late 1800s Not 600 A.D.!
No Surrender? says
Clearly wrong. 9/11 and the constant warning of worse to come. The black man reconnects with his former slave master. Did I read somewhere that I am glad I am not young anymore.
BareNakedIslam says
Several places here.