Die Regina-Moschee wird bedroht, nachdem sie wöchentlich einen verstärkten Gebetsruf gestartet hat

Just no. Please.

Seeing a bunch of comments saying “church bells,” which I think is completely different from broadcasting Leviticus and forcing it down people’s throats

No business or church or mosque or residence should be allowed to broadcast any noise that can be heard beyond their property.

I don’t want to be forced to hear ANY religion against my will.

We are not here to bother anybody,“ M Anisur Rahaman, director of the mosque, said. What does loud public speaker broadcasts do then if not bother people? Interested people could choose to subscribe to receive the call. And it is not like church bells no one has heard church bells in Canada for many years

It would be so easy for everyone who wants to receive the call to prayer to set an appropriate ringtone and then the mosque can just send out an automatic phone call to those who want it.

Religion should be private and not in public places. Please practice your religion as you desire but don’t subject others to it in a public place.

This goes for all religions.

It’s just alien to Canadian sensibilities. Just like we are not overtly patriotic. I vote no on weekly amplified call to prayer in Regina.

To the people now complaining about church bells, I’m sorry, but church bells have been part of this country’s soundscape for centuries. They do not only mark church services; they also mark the time. More importantly, they are not explicit prayers or religious proclamations being projected over loudspeakers. They are musical bells, and in many cases they function no differently than clock towers or civic bells.

And before anyone jumps down my throat, I am not even Christian. I just think it is completely absurd to pretend that traditional church bells and amplified Islamic calls to prayer are the same thing.

Bells are not inherently or exclusively religious. Clock towers ring bells. Old City Hall in Toronto rings on the hour and every 15 minutes. Bells have a civic, historical, and cultural function that goes well beyond church services. So people can fuck off with the argument that if we object to amplified calls to prayer, we also have to get rid of old church bells. No, we don’t. That is not a serious comparison.

What bothers me most is the instinct to flatten everything into some fake equivalency. We should be able to say that blasting an explicit religious call over loudspeakers is different from church bells ringing, without immediately deciding that the only fair solution is to erase long-standing Western traditions too.

We do not need to hate our own culture in order to be fair to others. We do not need to accept every imported religious practice in public space just to prove we are tolerant. And we certainly do not need to destroy our own traditions simply because someone wants to call us hypocrites.

People are free to worship. People are free to practise their religion. But public accommodation should not require everyone else to be subjected to amplified religious declarations. There is a difference between private religious freedom and imposing religious sound on the public. That distinction should not be controversial.

As a devoted Muslim who goes to the mosque regularly, I do not agree with this move. I do not need to hear the call to prayer because i know the time of the prayers.nor do I want my neighbors annoyed by the loud noise

“We are here to share knowledge”. There are thousands of other ways to do that without forcing your religious noise on people in the area.

‚We are not here to bother anybody,‘

But, you are bothering people.

There was outrage at people just recieving unsolicited amber alerts on their phone a few years back. What did you think would happen by blasting religious dogma? We value our privacy and quiet.

There are literally so so many good and easy solutions to this that the choice to use a loudspeaker is nothing more than proselytizing.

I find it funny how they could go to multiple Islamic countries, where Azaan is done in public, to come to Western countries to impose their beliefs under the guise of tolerance lol.

This is a slippery slope

We are not a Muslim country plain and simple we don’t need that

I’m a Muslim.

Don’t do that. Most of us want a low-key, quiet existence. Heck, there’s a mosque near me with garish neon lights and tall towers and it’s both ugly and incongruous with the neighbourhood architecture.

Stop it. Please.

They are patient. It will be weekly. Then during special days. Then more and more.

Gotta nip this in the bud. If not this will become more frequent.