"Good neighbors keep their noise to themselves"

"Safe to say I won’t be moving there," writes Mind of Mog re Detroit suburb Hamtramck," where members of the local Muslim community want loudspeakers on mosques to announce the Islamic call to prayer five times each day," reports World News Daily:

But the idea is running into opposition from other residents . . . many of whom are Christian, who think the prayer calls as early as 6 a.m. and as late as 10 p.m. would be disruptive . . . "When you call to prayer, you are proselytizing, and as a citizen of the United States I don't want to hear it," [said one] . . . "It is not my God. My God is Jesus Christ. I don't want this noise invading my home at 10 p.m," [said another].

But it seems the local officials have already succumbed to dhimmitude:

City Council President Karen Majewski compared the call to prayer to bells ringing on Christian churches, though other residents were said to disagree at Tuesday's meeting.

Majewski says the loudspeaker measure is likely to pass at next week's meeting, and would subsequently take effect in late May

It appears that a longstanding generic p.c. "diversity" mindset has prepared Hamtramck especially well to slip effortlessly into a dhimmi attitude of chastened subservience:

On its website, the city says it provides "A Touch of THE WORLD In America," touting itself as "the home of the most varied ethnic mix of people and customs from around the world."

Before getting into a religious discussion, though, we would object to the prayer calls on simple grounds of unwanted noise and invasion of privacy. As they say at the Noise Pollution Clearinghouse: "Good neighbors keep their noise to themselves."

Comments

[mog]

So true, inteferes with my sleep. But good neighbors do share cute kitty pics.

[Sissy Willis]

Prrrrrrrr.

[Leiu Owiesny]

Worst part about all that is that it did pass, and starting at the end of May we will be forced to hear call to prayer 5 times a day. I live on the Detroit side, and since Detroit doesnt really care, the mosques around my house start call to prayer at 5:20am, and I get woken up many times by this. In a 3-mile radius we have 7 mosques. That doesn't even include the many muslims who hold call to prayer out of their garages or houses. This has just opened up a can of worms that everyone is afraid of. Too many people are afraid to say no to the muslims 'cause they do not want them sending out suicide bombers or anything. America has never bowed down to any other religion, and we should not start now. In our area we no longer call it East Detroit we call it Middle East Detroit due to all the Arabs and Indians who have taken over the area. They have opened businesses, and none have used English on their signs. When you glance into their stores you see items that they are not allowed to sell such as focus hope food and welfare items, but since they are doing it in Detroit, they are getting away with it. Not to mention those stores that are selling food without proper licences to do so. It is really a shame what has come to this beautiful area.