| | | Canada: Mississauga amends noise bylaw to allow Islamic call to prayer
May 1, 2020 2:00 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER
The adhan, prayed in Arabic, repeats “Allahu akbar” (Allah is greater) six times, “I testify that there is no god but Allah” three times, and “I testify that Muhammad is Allah’s prophet” twice.
Dr. Gavin Ashenden, former chaplain to the British queen, who resigned his position in protest against a Qur’an reading in a Scottish church, observed that “the Muslim call to prayer is a dramatic piece of Islamic triumphalism. It proclaims Islam’s superiority over all other religions….”
Is Mississauga really wise to broadcast repeatedly a declaration of the superiority of Islam, a faith that directs its adherents to make war against Christians and other non-Muslims and subjugate them as inferiors under the hegemony of believers (cf. Qur’an 9:29)?
Is Mississauga wise to broadcast the cry “Allahu akbar,” beloved of jihad terrorists the world over? Chief 9/11 hijacker Mohammed Atta wrote this in his letter to himself before carrying out his jihad mission: “When the confrontation begins, strike like champions who do not want to go back to this world. Shout, ‘Allahu Akbar,’ because this strikes fear in the hearts of the non-believers.” This is why the Fort Hood jihad killer, Nidal Malik Hasan, shouted it as he shot thirteen Americans in November 2009, and why so many other jihadis have used it essentially as an announcement that non-Muslims are about to die.
But Bonnie Crombie doesn’t care. She is just following the crowd. Soon all of Canada and the U.S. will have the call to prayer blaring out over loudspeakers all over cities everywhere, and likely, as in Cairo, directed especially at churches during services.
“WARMINGTON: Mississauga amends noise bylaw to allow call to prayer,” by Joe Warmington, Toronto Sun, April 29, 2020 (thanks to Gary):
That just may have been a traditional call of the minaret you heard in Mississauga at sundown Wednesday.
Mississauga mosques will have similar sounds each evening during Ramadan, the Toronto Sun has learned.
Mayor Bonnie Crombie said a compromise passed by Mississauga City Council Wednesday will offer some comfort to the city’s Islamic community with Ramadan falling during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Mississauga’s municipal politicians voted unanimously to temporarily waive current noise bylaw restrictions “for the broadcasting of the evening call to prayer from local mosques and other non-residential buildings regularly used for worship, for the period of Ramadan . . . up to May 24, 2020.”
The adjustment allows the call to be “broadcast only once per day for a maximum of 5 minutes.” Mosques, of course, will remain closed as ordered by the province when it imposed emergency measures designed to help fight the pandemic.
“Council’s decision today to support the symbolic broadcasting of the call to prayer during Ramadan this year will provide inspiration, familiarity and comfort to our city’s Muslim community during this challenging time,” explained Crombie.
She stressed that the decision to waive the noise bylaw was not intended to act as an invitation for people to gather at mosques.
“Council was pleased to make this temporary exemption to our noise bylaw in response to a request made by the Muslim Council of Peel and mosques across Mississauga,” she added….
“Normally amplified sound would not be allowed, but at this time, any mosque requesting the call to prayer is being granted,” said Toronto spokesman Tammy Robbinson…. |
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