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| South Africa today, your town tomorrow; Call to prayer | |
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| brianoflondon | Dec 18 2010, 08:11 PM Post #1 |
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‘'It's like the Middle-East' LINK December 17 2010 at 01:20pm By Vincent Cruywagen DAILY VOICE The Jaami Masjid mosque in Oudtshoorn is the subject of local dispute. Photo: Noor Slamdien A quiet town is on the brink of a religious war after locals called the Muslim call to prayer a “nuisance” that will bring down their property value. At the centre of the controversy is the Jaami Masjid Mosque in Church Street, Oudtshoorn. The use of a loudspeaker for the athaan (call to prayer) has angered certain residents in the Karoo town. Mufti Basheer Khan, the imam of the mosque, started using the PA system at the start of Ramadaan in 2010. Since then, there has been an outcry from residents and the Ratepayers’ Association to silence the athaan. Residents also say the mosque did not follow the proper procedures in getting approval from the municipality. But Imam Khan denies any wrongdoing and says he followed the proper procedure and has documents to prove it. He said: “I have taken away the early morning call to prayer so as not to disturb residents. The other call to prayer is during the day, before sunset and an hour after sunset. I cannot see how this could be a disturbance.” But the Ratepayers’ Association says they are not condemning Islam but are totally against the use of loudspeakers for the call to prayer. Chairperson Lizanne Pelham said: “It’s like living in the Middle-East. The imam said it would be a mosque without any call to prayer on a PA system.” And her sentiments are echoed in letters to the municipality. Tour operator Reinhold Hensel stays directly opposite the mosque. He says in a letter to the municipality in May this year: “This mosque is not silent anymore since last September when the imam made the call to prayer over the speakers. This makes the lives of the local residents, including my family, unbearable. “Not only am I personally disturbed by the call to prayer but my business, which is a bed and breakfast and a tour operation has been severely affected, to the point where I have to close my business.” He goes on to write: “As there are historically no Muslim residents in the area, I can only assume that the reason for the mosque’s call to prayer with a complete lack of thought for local residents, is to chase out the existing community and lower the house prices so that these can be bought up by new Muslim residents.” Law firm Cillers Odendaal representing a number of concerned residents and ratepayers state in a letter to the municipal manager: “The public address loudspeakers used to call prayers cause a nuisance to the surrounding property owners.” But law firm Mahood Mai representing the mosque and Muslim residents states in a reply the Muslim community of Oudtshoorn have no wish to start a conflict with fellow residents with whom they have been living in peace.Mai Mai said: “We are living in a democratic South Africa where equality and the freedoms of religion, belief and opinion are entrenched in terms of Sections 9 (2), (15) and 31 (1) of our Constitution. The calling to prayer by our client, which is prevalent in the entire South Africa, is an integral part of Islam. ‘The athaan is akin to the ringing of the church bells by persons of the Christian faith. “Our clients are insulted by the fact that your client deem the athaan as a nuisance and are regretful that your clients have not taken the opportunity of learning the significance of the athaan.” Mai says his clients don’t believe the athaan can constitute a “nuisance” given each prayer’s call is about three minutes. Head of the Muslim Judicial Council (MJC) Moulana Igshaan Hendricks says they will fully support the Oudtshoorn Muslim community. “In the past we have successfully arbitrated similar case in Cape Town and we are ready take the same route if deem necessary,” he said. “This is the first time that I was informed about the objection against the call to prayer in Oudtshoorn. “We will immediately take up the issue with the imam.” - Daily Voice |
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Brian of London has been actively occupying a very small slice of hideously over-occupied Tel Aviv since early 2009. Islam is a giant bungee cord tying it's adherents to the 7th century. They can pull themselves almost to the twenty first century but eventually the cord tightens and flings them back. | |
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| Deleted User | Dec 18 2010, 08:19 PM Post #2 |
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Mosque Blight "Unlike churches, mosques are not places of spirituality, peace and sanctuary. They are quasi-military citadels and centres of subversion, intimidation and aggression: Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey's prime minister and ex-mayor of Istanbul, says that 'the mosques are our barracks, the minarets our bayonets, the domes our helmets, and the believers our soldiers.' Commenting on the Oxford Mosque's demands to broadcast the amplified pre-recorded wailing, Dhimmiwatch says "The noisy call to prayer is an act of dominance and aggression. The louder it is, the better. Mosques were always supposed to be built in high ground, or in the most imposing spot, towering over churches and synagogues, in the lands first conquered by Islam. Those aggressive skyward thrusting minarets were symbols of power, of dominance. And the same thing continued wherever Islam went. Some fail to understand that the placement of mosques, the size of mosques, the significance of minarets, and those calls or cries, now electronically amplified, are all part of a single system. That system is one by which the mosque is not merely or mainly a place of worship, but a place of community gathering... of plots and schemes. It is even -- as we see even here and there in Europe -- a place to store weapons, explosives, false papers in false ceilings -- and a place from which to fire on Infidels ... A mosque is NOT a Muslim "church." It is a Muslim "church" and a Muslim "community center" and a Muslim "armory" and a Muslim "army recruiting center" and a Muslim everything. The easy, and comforting, belief in the West that it is merely a "house of worship" is something that Infidels must disabuse themselves of....The muezzins wail ...would be an intolerable display of triumphalism. ... One may look at what happened in Granada. There, the Spanish government, thinking to do the grand thing, allowed a mosque to be built. It was built, on the highest ridge in the city. It now overlooks a nunnery. And the nuns have been complaining ever since that the noise from that mosque has permanently disrupted their own existence, their own necessary quiet, as the Call to Prayer (and indeed, other noises) suppress any possibility of contemplation." Exactly the same thing has happened at Bodh Gaya - the most holy site of Buddhism - where the meditation of peaceful Buddhist monks is deliberately disturbed by prolonged playing of this amplified cacophony from the nearby recently built Mosque: Just as the amplified wailing at Bodh Gaya, the historical centre of Buddhist culture, is a deliberate 'in-yer-face' insult and humiliation to Buddhists, so the wailing over Oxford, which is perceived by Muslims as a historical centre of Anglosphere culture, is a deliberate 'in-yer-face' insult and humiliation to the English. Moreover, the caterwaul that dhimmies refer to as a 'call to prayer' is actually far more offensive than that. It is an assertion screeched over an English city in Arabic stating that Islam is the only true religion, that a psychopathic murdering pedophile is a greater spiritual leader than Jesus, and that everyone should worship the Man in the Moon - aka Allah." http://crombouke.blogspot.com/2010/01/mosque-blight.html |
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