“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.”
The Islamic call to prayer declares:
God is the greatest (Allahu akbar)
I testify that there is no God but Allah
I testify that Mohammed is God’s Prophet
Come to prayer
Come to security/salvation
God is the greatest
There is no God but Allah
The Upper Austrian Cultural Quarter’s Ursuline Church has in effect become a mosque for the Christmas season.
Just last month, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that criticizing Muhammad is now forbidden. The ECHR was ruling in the case of Austrian citizen Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff, who “insulted” Muhammad nearly a decade ago by referring to him as a pedophile because of his child bride Aisha. According to the ruling, Austrian courts “carefully balanced her right to freedom of expression with the right of others to have their religious feelings protected.”
“Austrian Chapel to Broadcast Call to Prayer Throughout December to Show Islam ‘Is Religion of Peace,’” by Virginia Hale, Breitbart, November 27, 2018:
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.”
At certain times each day between December 2nd and 23rd, people strolling through the centre of Linz will be treated to “a special kind of audiovisual experience,” when recordings of muezzin calls, which were taped in Algeria, Mozambique, Istanbul, and Singapore, are played from the chapel of the Upper Austrian Cultural Quarter’s Ursuline Church.
The organisers behind ‘ADHINA’ say the installation “succeeds in linking the aesthetics of different realms of reality,” when visitors hear “the muezzin call as an Islamic ritual” melding together with “the everyday sounds of a secular-urban world,”, as they walk past the “Christian sacral architecture” at the site, where the baroque buildings were founded as a monastery.
By staging this “acoustic intervention” during Advent, when Austrians are preparing for Christmas, the ‘sound artists’ behind the project, Werner Puntigam and Klaus Hollinetz, “want to create awareness that Islam and Christianity are religions of peace or want to be,” according to promotional material for the project.
With 8 per cent of the population declaring themselves to be Muslim in 2016, Islam is the second most widely professed faith in Austria, where tensions between the religious community and the formerly secular value of freedom of speech were highlighted in a case at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) last month…..
Andy says
They are just laughing at us in our Judeo-Christian Civilization. How stupid are we to allow this to happen.
Germany – Migrant Jokes About Germans Working for Welfare for Economic African Migrants Refugees
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBz8DegBkzA
mortimer says
Priest out after objecting to Muslim prayer in church
mortimer says
It’s the most wonderful time for JIHAD … Who do you think the Truck of Peace will bump into today, dear Austrians ??
Kay says
Unbelievable.
And the children growing there won’t remember a time when such was foreign and faraway.
But I have to wonder why the church allows another god to be proclaimed.
Andy says
Now Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer is a RACIST & BIGOT!
Huffington Post Says Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer is “Problematic,”
Claims classic animation is bigoted and racist
https://www.infowars.com/huffington-post-says-rudolph-the-red-nose-reindeer-is-problematic-internet-laughs-in-their-face/
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2018/11/29/huffington-post-claims-holiday-classic-rudolph-is-problematic/
Dave says
How about change it to Rudolf the Brown-nosed Reindeer?
WPM says
How long before that church is a Mosque ? After the Islamic call to prey is blasted on the churches grounds do not the Moslems now consider the church a Mosque now?? How many Christians are flying the white flag of having Moslem pray curses said on their Holy churches grounds ,appeasing bullies only encourages bullies. No church bells at Christmas time from Christian church bell towers it might upset the savage Moslems, but let us blast the Moslem cat-a-walling cursing call to Moslems butt in the air pray.
Leon Degney says
What’s the matter with the congregation ( if they have any that is)? They, if they exist, must be a gutless, spineless bunch of dhimmis. The UK is totally knackered, proper British people will be leaving there in droves in the very near future I suspect. They must be absolutely sickened to watch the destruction of a once great country at the hands of those who are supposed to be their protectors. I cannot recall a time in my life such as this where our politicians and others in *authority* prostrate themselves before an ideology such as this barbaric bloody Islam.
Libertyphobic says
This is tolerance? Let FREEDOM RING! Ring the church bells all day. Have all bells ring to the tune of Christmas songs. I love the sound of church bells. Peace to all JWs. Be vigilant and keep a keen sword.
Andy says
+1 Peace to you as well
Time for Judeo-Christian Countries to get back to it’s Judeo-Christian roots and stop being politically correct.
Andy says
laszlo PAP says
Have all people in Austria picked out a new name for Austria???? you should because you are not Austrians any more
Paul says
If you have spent time in muslim countries you will really hate the muezzin’s call to prayer.
Very loud, like a fire alarm designed to get you out of a burning house.
This is noise pollution presenting itself as art or community action.
If I believed in god I would ask for strength to put up with this stupidity.
Pau
Andy says
I can’t stand that Moslem call to prayer, It just makes me cringe.It is a horrible sound!
I hate it!
Dave says
anyone see Dumb and Dumber (Jim Carrey)? The most annoying sound in the world? Well the call to prayer qualifies for that!
Leon Degney says
Yes, it has to be heard to be believed. I spent some time in a hotel in Penang Malaysia and was right above a Mosque. That call to prayer in the early hours of the morning was enough to wake the dead. Three weeks was more than enough.
brane pilot says
So it is official. SIgned, sealed and delivered by the UN and the ECHR.
‘Feelings’ of Muslims have legal precedence over the basic freedoms of everyone else.
You know, the freedoms that wars were fought over, and millions died to defend and protect in 1940-45.
Those freedoms.
Undone by sniveling EU lawyers and unelected judges. Europe is now fully under Sharia Law without a shot being fired.
In Islamic countries, and now in non-Islamic countries also, the ‘feelings’ of Muslims take precedence over all other legal considerations regarding relations with non-Muslims without exception. This is now official legal precedent.
This is a truly breathtaking verdict. As is well known by the UN and ECHR, once freedom of speech falls, freedom of thought falls soon after. Then it is over for Western Civilization. They know this.
This is all Europe has to offer in response to the US entering WWII.
They are telling us that defeating HItler was a mistake.
The problem is not Muslims.
The problem is not even Islam.
The problem is Europeans who feel they must destroy Europe to signal virtue to a political fad, and a comatose public being herded off a cliff like sheep.
Fine.
I’m done with Europe.
Let them burn.
James Lincoln says
If Western Europe finally goes down in flames and is totally Islamized, at least the citizens will not be accused of being Islamophobic, xenophobic, racist, nationalist, etc.
Dave says
There will be ‘Peace’ (as in the ‘religion of peace’)
Andy says
MOre like the religion of pieces!
Timothy Smith says
If I remember my history lessons Linz is also the hometown of a certain paper hanger and failed artist named Adolf. Seems fitting that the Church there would overlook the Jew hating teachings of Islam.
Emilie Green says
Linz has never shed itself of Hitler, its most famous resident,
https://theamericanscholar.org/what-occurred-at-linz-a-memoir-of-forgetting/
Did you know, I ask, that Linz was Hitler’s hometown?
Actually, no, they did not.
Well, that’s important. You see those two illuminated buildings across the river, flanking the bridge? They were built at Hitler’s order.
Really?
Yes, I say, and they were constructed with stones quarried at Mauthausen, just up the river, Linz’s local concentration camp, and one of the most fiendish in the entire system—its policy was extermination-through-labor. The cut stones were carried up 186 steps from the quarry floor, on the shoulders of skeletal men. Most prisoners were literally worked to death, although sometimes the guards amused themselves by throwing them off the rim of the quarry or lining up two and giving one the choice, jump or push the man next to you.
H. van Iwaarden Arends says
terrible I cry when I read that. Hitler was also a lover of islam.
somehistory says
In the past, I have read many accounts of what the fiends did to those in the camps, written by some who managed to survive until it was over.
One of the most horrible to learn was that pits were dug…by the prisoners…and filled with sewage. And then many of the ones who dug the hole were pushed in, wherein they drowned.
How anyone could forget the horrors, is beyond imagination. And now the world is allowing a repeat of the horrors.
Anjuli Pandavar says
Good God! How about a full “acoustic intervention” exhibition? Here’s a suggested daily programme:
08:00 – A woman stoned to death in front of the church. [Advice to audience: please refrain from cheering so you don’t miss the blow that cracks the skull, the highlight of the exhibit].
09:00 – A little girl’s clitoris cut off on the alter [The chapel is very proud of its fitting acoustic environment. Prior booking required as viewing spaces are limited]
10:00 – Fifty boys mindlessly recite the Qur’an [No questions allowed]
11:00 – Administration of falaka to the boy judged to have recited the Qur’an with the least fervour [The screams of a pre-pubescent boy are not to be missed]
12:00 – Adhan [The Linz City Council has fast-tracked and approved the chapel’s application to install ablution facilities for those wishing to respond to the adhan immediately. An imam will be on hand to assist those who might need to say the shahada first. The public can rest assured that the interior of the chapel will be Shai’a-compliant for the duration of the exhibition]
13:00 – Audience-participation piece: mass-rape of females in and around the chapel
14:00 – Slave market [early arrival advised if wishing to purchase]
END OF DAILY EXHIBITION (except final day)
15:00 – Final Day Special Event: Chapel burnt down with Christians inside [Touring exhibit from Egypt]
See you all there, insha-Allah.
mortimer says
THEOLOGIAN Rev. Mark Durie has begged churches not to open their chapels for SUPREMACIST DISCRIMINATORY ISLAMIC PRAYERS …
A prominent element in Islamic daily prayers is the recitation of Al-Fatihah (the Opening), the first chapter of the Koran. Often described as a blessing, Al-Fatihah has a sting in its tail. After introductory praises, the final sentence of Al-Fatihah is a request for guidance “in the straight path” of Allah’s blessed ones, not the path “of those against whom You are wrathful, nor of those who are astray.”
Who are the ones who are said to be under Allah’s wrath or to have gone astray from his straight path? According to the revered commentator Ibn Kathir, Muhammad himself gave the answer: “Those who have earned the anger are the Jews, and those who are led astray are the Christians.”
Al-Fatihah is as central to Islamic devotion as the Lord’s Prayer is to Christians: It is recited at least 17 times a day as part of daily Muslim prayers. Yet according to Muhammad himself, this prayer, which is on the lips of every pious Muslim day and night, castigates Christians as misguided and Jews as objects of Allah’s wrath.
Another good reason for churches not to host Muslim worship, paradoxically, is their veneration of Isa, the Islamic Jesus.
Muslims venerate Jesus, but as a Muslim prophet. In the pages of the Koran, the disciples of the Muslim Jesus declare, “We are Muslims” (Sura 5:111). The Islamic Jesus is not the Christian Son of God, the divine suffering Savior who died on the cross for the sins of the world.
Certainly there are some similarities between Isa of the Koran and Jesus of the Gospels. The Koran calls Jesus “al-Masih” – the Messiah – and both figures are said to have been born of a virgin, to have performed miracles of healing and to have raised the dead. Yet here the similarities end. Isa of the Koran was not crucified and did not die but was raised up by Allah (Sura 4:157-158).
It is in Muhammad’s vision of the end times that the role of the Muslim Jesus comes into sharp focus. Muhammad taught that when Isa returns, he “will fight for the cause of Islam. He will break the cross, kill pigs, and abolish the poll tax. Allah will destroy all religions except Islam” (Sunan Abu Dawud 27:4310).
What does this saying mean? The cross is a symbol of Christianity. Breaking the cross means abolishing Christianity. According to Islamic law, the poll tax, or jizya, buys protection of the lives and property of Christians (and Jews). Abolishing this tax will mean that jihad will be restarted against Christians and no more protection shall be afforded to those who do not submit to Islam.
The Egyptian jurist Ahmad ibn Naqib stated in his compendium of Shariah, “The Reliance of the Traveller,” that the toleration of Christians living under Islamic law only applies “before the final descent of Jesus. … After his final coming, nothing but Islam will be accepted from them, for taking the poll tax is only effective until Jesus’ descent … for he will rule by the law of Muhammad … as a follower of our Prophet” (translation by Nuh Ha Mim Keller, pages 603-4).
In this end-times scenario, the Islamic Jesus becomes the ultimate destroyer of Christianity, when, by his sword, he compels all followers of the Christ of the Gospels to become Muslims and live in accordance with the Shariah of Muhammad.
Churches should not welcome into their buildings the veneration of Isa the Islamic Jesus, who, as a true Muslim, is intended to bring about the final, violent destruction of Christianity. By all means, let Christians show kindness to their Muslim neighbors, but the sentiments embedded in Islamic daily prayers, which curse Jews as the target of Allah’s wrath and Christians for going astray, can have no place in a Christian church – even if recited in the cadences of classical Arabic.
Rev. Mark Durie, an Anglican priest, is the author of “Revelation: Do We Worship the Same God?”(City Harvest International, 2010) and “The Third Choice: Islam, Dhimmitude and Freedom” (Deror Books, 2010).
Tom S. says
Isn’t it interesting that the Islamic call to prayer is done musically, while Islam condemns music? I think the church should rather use a robot-monotone voice to blast the Islamic call to prayer during Christmas to portray Islam in a more authentic way.
John says
ECHR can you stop this monstrosity from hurting my religious feelings?!
FYI says
This is no surprise.
The judas priests and the false Christians come out and show themselves!
Jesus won’t spare FAKE Christians{Matthew 7 v 21-22},those who ignore His prophetic warnings{Matthew chpt 25:”the foolish bridesmaids”}or take the Mark on the hand.Be advised!
Those lazy,Christless “Christians”,who facilitate islam,the religion of antiChrist, cannot presume Mercy;and it plays out AGAINST those who do so according to scriptural prophecies.
Keep ringing those CHURCH bells,do NOT permit islamic “prayers” in any church:that is an abomination to God.You may as well have a pagan or satanic service!
allah,the “best of deceivers” koran 3:54 is NOT the Biblical God!
Remember, the koran CURSES Christians for believing in Jesus {koran 9:30}and those islamic fatiha “prayers” do so too.
somehistory says
Revelation chapter 13 “the wild beast”…the “dragon’ and the “false prophet,” which in this chapter is said to be another “beast with two horns and performs great signs to mislead the people.”
“the beast seemed to have had a fatal wound, but the fatal wound had been healed. The whole world was filled with wonder and followed the beast.
4 People worshiped the dragon because he had given authority to the beast, and they also worshiped the beast and asked, “Who is like the beast? Who can wage war against it?”
5 The beast was given a mouth to utter proud words and blasphemies and to exercise its authority for forty-two months. 6 It opened its mouth to blaspheme God, and to slander his name and his dwelling place and those who live in heaven.
7 It was given power to wage war against God’s holy people and to conquer them. And it was given authority over every tribe, people, language and nation.
8 All inhabitants of the earth will worship the beast—all whose names have not been written in the Lamb’s book of life, the Lamb who was slain from the creation of the world. 9 Whoever has ears, let them hear. 10 “If anyone is to go into captivity, into captivity they will go. If anyone is to be killed with the sword, with the sword they will be killed.”This calls for patient endurance and faithfulness on the part of God’s people. ”
https://www.biblestudytools.com/revelation/13.html
The “false prophet” proclaims in front of the “wild beast” that it is to be worshipped and demands that all the people of earth “worship the beast and its *image*” …an image that the false prophet helps to construct.
This “false prophet” is a *collective*…made up of more than one entity, but speaking as an individual ‘false prophet.”
This calls for prayerful endurance on the part of all who are “written in the Lamb’s book of life.”
The “dragon and the second wild beast…the false prophet…are demanding worship of this wild beast and the image they have caused to be built.
This evil “call”…disgusting, slanderous and blasphemous…is a large part of what Revelation foretold. It is a ‘call” to “worship the wild beast and its image.”
The group that silenced free speech so the “wild beast” could not be criticized is playing its role as a part of the “second wild beast…the false prophet.” To say, “who is like the wild beast and who can do battle with it?”
Max says
This is why I haven’t put a foot on any Church for decades in spite of the fact that I love God.
MS says
These churches are trying to push people away from them & to Islam?
Jennifer says
CHRISTINE, GET THE FACTS STRAIGHT: Allah is not God.
In Arabic and the Qur’an, Allah is always named Allah ‘the god’.
God Almighty is always Ilah, Al-Rahman, the Beneficent, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful .
Allahu akbar means Allah is greater. The call to prayer is thus:
Allah is the greatest (Allahu akbar)
I testify that there is no god but Allah
I testify that Mohammed is Allah’s Prophet
Come to prayer
Come to security/salvation
Allah is the greatest
There is no god but Allah
ronyvo says
The original reason for this noisy call to payer (azan) was in time (7th century) where there was no clock alarms, in primitive Sahara countries. That is why mosques have those minarets with all around balcony so the moazen (the caller) can go around to wake up and force every Muslim to pray. As we know every thing in Islam is by force..
Also, during Ramadan (the month of fasting) there was (I don’t know if now) ‘el mesharraty, a man goes around with a very noisy ‘tabla’ in the middle of the night to wake up people to eat.
Even in some Muslim countries these annoying and peace disturbing habits have been stopped, because people including Muslims complained bitterly. Yet, we in Christian countries allow these primitive peace disturbing habits!!!!AND by churches. This is utterly a disgraceful attitude. Some one have to warn this church of the horrible mistake.
Indiana Tom says
Church to blast Islamic call to prayer throughout Christmas.
I am sure they will get a blast one way or another.
God is the greatest (Allahu akbar)
I testify that there is no God but Allah
I testify that Mohammed is God’s Prophet
I see the drunk whore is riding the pig beast.
Jan Favre says
Vatican II has given bitrth to Chrislamism, stating that Allah is the same as Yahweh.
Dee says
Noise pollution , disturbing the peace…remove the offending loudspeakers , and have a Christian group sing Christmas carols.
Stand up for your culture , God , and country…
Ade Fegan says
? to show Christianity is a religion of stupidity more like !