Early one morning you wake up to hear this broadcast throughout your city. What are your immediate thoughts?

2015-11-22T23:19:06-05:00

Majewski, whose family emigrated from Poland in the early 20th century, admitted to a few concerns of her own. Business owners within 500 feet of one of Hamtramck’s [Michigan] four mosques can’t obtain a liquor license, she complained, a notable development in a place that flouted Prohibition-era laws by openly operating bars. The restrictions could thwart efforts to create an entertainment hub downtown, said the pro-commerce mayor. And while [store owner] Majewski advocated to allow mosques to issue calls to prayer, she understands why some longtime residents are struggling to adjust to the sound that echos through the city’s streets five times each day...“The Polish people think we were invading them,” said Masud Khan, one of the mosque’s leaders, recalling that time in an interview earlier this month. “We were a big threat to their religion and culture. Now their days are gone.”

The mosque, which attracts about 500 people for its Friday prayer services, has purchased a neighboring vacant limestone building in the heart of the city that once was a furniture store. The mosque’s leaders plan to put a minaret — a spire — on the building and use it to continue broadcasting a call to prayer five times a day. The private sale enraged city leaders, including the mayor, who sees the area as key to commercial growth. Mosque leaders estimate that the 20,000-square-foot building will hold up to 2,000 people once the renovation is finished next year.

Earlier this year at Duke University:
Duke University has abandoned its plan to transform the bell tower on the Methodist school’s neo-gothic cathedral into a minaret where the Muslim call to prayer was to be publicly broadcast.

“Duke remains committed to fostering an inclusive, tolerant and welcoming campus for all of its students,” university spokesman Michael Schoenfeld said in a statement. “However, it was clear that what was conceived as an effort to unify was not having the intended effect.
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2015/01/15/allahu-akbar-duke-university-to-broadcast-muslim-call-to-prayer-from-chapel.html

However, you will now hear this 'call to prayer' 5 times a day for the rest of your days living in Hamtramck, MI. What are your thoughts and comments?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/for-the-first-majority-muslim-us-city-residents-tense-about-its-future/2015/11/21/45d0ea96-8a24-11e5-be39-0034bb576eee_story.html

https://freesound.org/people/ejaz215/sounds/33937/

Call to Prayer from the Prophet's Mosque.mp3 by ejaz215

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Response by TSgt David L. made Nov 22 at 2015 11:29 PM

2015-11-22T23:29:59-05:00

There goes the neighborhood! LOL

Response by PO1 Brian Austin made Nov 22 at 2015 11:44 PM

2015-11-22T23:44:40-05:00

No more irritating than clanging church bells.

Response by 1SG Private RallyPoint Member made Nov 23 at 2015 1:46 AM

2015-11-23T01:46:39-05:00

I have an alarm clock in the shape of a mosque I picked up in Kuwait many years ago that plays the Azan at a preposterously loud sound level. It is ugly and pink and has been thrown across the room more times than I can count. Whenever I want to mess with Soldiers, I bring it to the field with me.

You've never seen a group of Soldiers snap awake and get out of bed faster than when that bad boy goes off.

Response by SGM Steve Wettstein made Nov 23 at 2015 6:28 AM

2015-11-23T06:28:57-05:00

I would probably have flashbacks thinking I was back in Ramadi.

Response by SSgt Alex Robinson made Nov 23 at 2015 6:30 AM

2015-11-23T06:30:35-05:00

This is wrong. If a Christian religion had something like a call to prayer the ACLU would be going insane... It's like a Christian displaying the nativity scene in public....

Response by SPC Nathan Freeman made Nov 23 at 2015 6:44 AM

2015-11-23T06:44:26-05:00

Sounds like two cats fighting a wildebeest

Response by MSgt James Mullis made Nov 23 at 2015 9:46 AM

2015-11-23T09:46:54-05:00

My next move would be to become very political and run for city council to put an end to this insanity.