Wednesday, April 28, 2004

Hamtramck-abad

Unmitigated Gall

Practitioners of the religion of peace have once again managed to piss off alot of people.

Last week the Hamtramck, MI City Council gave “initial approval” to allowing city mosques to broadcast calls to prayer over loudspeakers in a decision sure to piss off both infidels in general as well as muslims who might want to sleep in that day. 

Not surprisingly, the council completely caved to muslim demands with a unanimous vote of support.  Don’t want to offend anyone, don’t you know.  Well, except for people who don’t want to hear it, which is the rest of the city.  Final approval was expected at last night’s meeting.

Leaders of the city’s muslims claimed that infringing on their right to make a goddamned racket through loudspeakers was actually infringing on their right to practice their religion, going on to claim that it was in their tradition to do so.  I’m no more an expert on Islam than the next kaafir but as best I understand it, Islam did pretty well for itself through the 13 centuries that passed BEFORE electric amplification.  And don’t try and tell me that none of Hamtramck’s umma has a damned watch to tell him when he’s supposed to get down to some Mecca-facing. 

We know though that the legal issues in question- noise ordinances, rights of religion- are only the mechanism muslim leaders are using to proselytise.  Masud Khan, head of the Al-Islah Islamic Center, initiated this whole loudspeaker business.  Pleased with the council vote, and after the requisite Allah-thanking, he added,

“Hamtramck is going to be a pioneer city for the whole United States.”


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