Muslim Dearborn Mayor Dismisses Complaints About Mosque’s Loud Call to Prayer
The Muslim mayor of Dearborn, Michigan, is dismissing noise complaints about a mosque’s call to prayer, deeming it a non-issue.

The Muslim mayor of Dearborn, Michigan, is dismissing noise complaints about a mosque’s call to prayer, deeming it a non-issue.

Cologne’s massive central mosque broadcast the Islamic call to prayer for the first time ever this week following a German court ruling granting permission to do so.

Thousands of Muslims gathered in London in an event put on by Mayor Sadiq Khan, who described it as Donald Trump’s “worst nightmare”.

Mosques across Great Britain could begin daily broadcasts of the Islamic call to prayer through loudspeakers after they were given special dispensation to play the adhan in the holy month of Ramadan.

Several German parties, including the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) of Chancellor Angela Merkel, have expressed support for allowing public broadcasts of the Islamic call to prayer during Ramadan across Germany.

A chapel in Linz, Austria, is set to blast out the Muslim call to prayer each day throughout the Christmas period as part of an “art installation” aimed at emphasising “that Islam is a religion of peace.”

Conservative Anglicans have been angered that the Muslim call to prayer was performed at Blackburn Cathedral.

The municipality of Karlskrona has rejected calls from the populist Sweden Democrats and the conservative Christian Democrats to ban the public call to prayer at a local mosque. The municipality rejected the proposal to ban the public call to prayer saying that

Authorities in Indonesia jailed a woman for 18 months on Wednesday after complaining that a nearby mosque was “too loud” and “hurt” her ears.

Police in the Swedish municipality of Karlskrona are expected to grant the local Islamic association the right to broadcast the call to prayer in public and are refusing to consult local residents on the decision because it would be too much hard work.
