Noise ordinances and common sense win out this time. But it might not be too long before non-Muslims will simply have to get used to being awakened before dawn during Ramadan. To complain about the noise would be "Islamophobic." After all, remember that when the local authorities in Hamtramck, Michigan, voted to amend the noise ordinances to allow for the Islamic call to prayer over loudspeakers, Masud Khan, a local mosque official, said that the Muslims were going to broadcast the call to prayer over loudspeakers anyway, regardless of the outcome of the vote. No non-Muslim observers or analysts seemed interested in the implications of that.
"Giving Ramadan a Drumroll in Brooklyn at 4 A.M.," by Kirk Semple for the New York Times, September 13 (thanks to Denise):
A few hours before dawn, when most New Yorkers are fast asleep, a middle-aged man rolls out of bed in Brooklyn, dons a billowy red outfit and matching turban, climbs into his Lincoln Town Car, drives 15 minutes, pulls out a big drum and -- there on the sidewalk of a residential neighborhood -- starts to play.
The man, Mohammad Boota, is a Ramadan drummer. Every morning during the holy month, which ends on Sept. 21, drummers stroll the streets of Muslim communities around the world, waking worshipers so they can eat a meal before the day's fasting begins.
But New York City, renowned for welcoming all manner of cultural traditions, has limits to its hospitality. And so Mr. Boota, a Pakistani immigrant, has spent the past several years learning uncomfortable lessons about noise-complaint hot lines, American profanity and the particular crankiness of non-Muslims rousted from sleep at 3:30 a.m.
"Everywhere they complain," he said. "People go, like, 'What the hell? What you doing, man?' They never know it's Ramadan."...
They never know it's Ramadan? Well, they better get with it!
What the hell? What you doing, man? Mohammad Boota never know it's the 21st century.
Oh well. Time to fight fire with fire.
Ring the angelus. Ring the Consecration. Ring the church bells loud and long at every proper occasion..especially in neighbourhoods encroached upon by Mohammedan colonies.
Blow that shofar, outside every synagogue.
And...soon it will be the season for Christmas-carolling, Carols by Candlelight in the parks, Salvation Army bands in shopping centres and malls, and the like. Pull out the stops, people. Make the rafters rattle.
Chinese New Year should be riotously celebrated in Chinatowns all around the world.
It should be noted, however, that - excepting New Year, and Midnight Mass at Easter and Christmas - all of these non-Muslim festive makings of noise occur during normal hours of human activity (after dawn and into the evening), rather than (like this Ramadan drumming, and the adhan) deliberately disturbing the deep sleep of the small hours.
And they are of a different nature to Muslim noise-making, anyway.
Non-Muslim societies have to realize that the adhan is precisely equivalent to the Nazis' 'Sieg Heil!' and 'Heil Hitler!' With similar malevolent aggression coded into it.
ummmm - maybe they could use alarm clocks, genius
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I would counter a better way is to immidiatly fire up a pork bbq and inform the muslim drummer that i will be cooking pork and making sure the smoke is blowing his way
with the use of a powerful fan.
Hey you muslims can wake me up at 4:00 am
I will cook pork to contaminate your damned drum
at 4:00 a.m.
Enjoy call it multi pork (err culteralism)..
Believe it or not, but someone in Izmir, Turkey, has actually dealt with such nuisance as it should be dealt with.
I suppose if someone gave Mahound Boota a little taste of that very medicine, the best remedy against retardan drummers IMO, it (not he) would think twice before going around waking everyone up.
Deport all the Muslims and therewill be no further problems.
Who cares if it is Ramadan?
Muslims can always put that crap on an I Pod and have it bang away at 3:30am if they want. It's the 21st century, not the seventh.
"Make the rafters rattle." Love it, DumbleDore!
Proud Kafir, it's too early for me to split a gut but that was great! Human nature taking care of business. ; )
Of course Muslims can use an IPod, an alarm clock or a frickin' wristwatch to wake themselves up in time to eat, but that's not the point. That's not what will make the rest of us "feel subdued".
Next time, rock salt and a shotgun.
This is just one more example of what a fake "fast" Ramadan really is. Muslims aren't supposed to eat or drink during some of the shortest days of the year, unless of course, they meet one of the numerous criteria for eating and drinking. They have a big meal every night. And as this story proves, they eat every "morning".
Um, not for nothin' but I live in Massachusetts and it was still dark this morning when my dog woke me up to go out. It was 6AM.
Isabella, do you want to know one more crazy thing about the mahoundian fasting madness and those drummers? One day after the last one on which mahound-worshippers starve and dehydrate themselves between sunrise and sunset to honor and emulate their pedophile, those drummers show up in the neighborhoods where they woke everyone up for the previous month in order to, believe it or not, collect some baksheesh for the "valuable service provided." I've seen this crap firsthand in Mahoundistan (and I don't have to tell you that they never got anything from me, but I would have given them a few rotten bananas covered in fruit flies if I spoke their bedouin savage gibberish, so I'd tell them loud and clear why that was the only thing they deserved.)
Muslims consume more rich food and indulge in gluttony more during their supposed fast than the rest of the year. There is more food sold and more weight gained because they eat like overgrown Hogs before sunup and walk around all day with a pious sad countence looking foreward for the sun to set so they can stuff their guts like a German sausage.
How did the drummer know it was time to get up? Was he awake all night or did he set his alarm clock? Let the drummer get a phone list and call Muslim households. How do they get up the rest of the year?
Surely a plausible defense for killing this drummer would be insanity by way of sleep deprivation?
I can almost hear it now...Silent Night, Holy Night! Allahu Akbar! Ash-had anna lah ilaha illallah! All is calm all is bright!
Ash-hadu anna Muħammadar rasulullah! Round yon virgin, mother and child! Getting louder...Hayya 'ala-salah! Getting louder still...Hayya 'ala 'l-falah! Holy infant so tender and mild! Sleep in!.. Al-salatu khayru min an-nawm!
Heavenly peace...sleep in...Allāhu akbar! La ilaha illallah!
Heavenly peace!