Friday, April 23, 2004

Just the other day we saw a piece on the news about people suing to stop church bells from ringing, for a variety of reasons most of which have to do with a hostility towards Christianity. Apparently a lot of places have church bell ordinances. Now Agape Press is reporting that residents of Hamtramck, MI outside of Detroit are giving permission for mosques to blare their call to prayer over loudspeakers five times a day. They can broadcast as late as 9:59 at night and as early as 6:01 in the morning.

Where are the civil liberties groups protesting this? Where is Americans United for the separation of church and state? Why not have a truck with a loudspeaker drive around Hamtramck blaring the message that church services are starting on Sunday morning?


Most importantly, why do we feel the need to be as accommodating as possible to a religion whose followers fly planes into our buildings? Whose nations discriminate against and war against Christians? Our servicemen and women are restricted from the free exercise of their faith in Islamic nations we are guarding, and yet we allow anything to go in this country when it comes to Islam. You want to listen to loudspeaker calls to prayer? Go back to Saudi Arabia or Qatar or Pakistan or wherever it is you come from. We can find someone else to drive our taxis and run our 7-11s.

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