Or rather, specifically, Cape Town.
Barack Obama called it the “prettiest sound on earth”. But even if it were, few people would appreciate having it blasted out at 5 in the morning while they’re trying to sleep.
But in Cape Town, the battle between elderly people trying to sleep, mosque loudspeakers and media activists jumping to the defense of the loudspeakers continues.
Here’s the latest incident.
JOHANNESBURG – The Islamic call to prayer can be heard five times a day in cities and towns the world over.
In Cape Town, a resident has complained that the call is “too noisy”.
Members of the Muslim community are incensed that a formal investigation will now be pursued.
The investigation that will take place after the holy month of Ramadaan, will include a sound test to measure if the athaan is within by-laws limits.
But the city says education and tolerance are key.
Those who’ve been attending mosque here for over a decade, say the complaint is both silly and dangerous.
“I think it’s silly you know because some people that are not Muslim they appreciate the sound that comes from the calls to prayer. JUMP If they do get it right at one mosque, they are going to start it everywhere, this is the danger of it,” said Abdurahman Jattem.
Few people appreciate wailing in a foreign language through massive loudspeakers early in the morning. Proposed alternatives have included radio broadcasts, phone calls and even WhatsApp.
Loudspeakers are loud and disruptive. Especially when the elderly are trying to sleep. The media response has generally been some variation of “Shut up and learn to appreciate it.”
Here’s another Cape Town noise nuisance story from 5 months ago.
CAPE TOWN – The City of Cape Town says it will conduct sound level readings within the next 10 days at a Strandfontein mosque after it was served with a noise abatement notice.
The sound tests are part of the game. The mosque turns the noise down, passes the test, then turns the sound back up again. And more complaints follow. Followed by outrage that anyone dares to complain about the noise.
No Muzzies Here says
The loud blasts are not going to be replaced by unintrusive substitutes such as telephone or social media. They are intended to disrupt the sleep of infidels and to force them to be subject to Sharia.
The wailing cries take over an area and turn it into a Sharia-compliant area, effectively making it Islamic. Infidels wake up every day at the behest of their new masters.
Nero says
True, our children are forced to memorize and sing subconsciously-it work.
CRUSADER says
It gets under the skin of the mind….
mortimer says
So … Muslims can use an app from Googlestore …
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/life/ottawa+muslim+call+prayer+there+that/7174317/story.html
Ottawa’s Muslim call to prayer: There’s an app for that
Amanda Shendruk, OpenFile Ottawa
Mahfoudhi said he uses his smart phone for accurate prayer times. In fact, he says, there’s an app for that.
“We’ve gotten around the restriction of not being allowed to do it publicly, and we actually have a little app,” said Mahfoudhi.
“We have software, we have apps—it’s all around us. In fact, sometimes I’ll be with my wife and we’re at home and my phone will go off and her phone will go off and her computer will go off, all of them with the call to prayer. So you almost end up feeling like you’re in some Muslim land where the mosques are calling off.”
Mahfoudhi said there are watches and clocks that will do the same thing, but that the technology isn’t necessary.
“To be honest, nobody really doesn’t know when prayer time is. There will obviously be people who don’t have a computer or are not savvy enough to know that there are apps or software that they could use, so they tend to have a little print-out schedule of the times and they just have that pinned on their fridge.”
observer says
I so agree.
But you can bet your bottom $ they’d complain about church bells that never sound at 0500 and are comforting on the ear.
Inevitably these people are dangerous.
Their god is a (false) god of war who knows only about power and control. So of course his devilish spawn will threaten anyone who complains. How can there ever be compromise when they don’t grasp the meaning of the word ?
David Cooper says
Absolutely–There should be ringing of church bell to counter this unholy sound 5 times a day’
CogitoErgoSum says
Muslims ban the ringing of church bells in the countries they control. Free countries which do not wish to be ruled by Muslims should BAN the sound of the Muslim call to prayer. Again, as with the question of discriminatory taxes based on religion, the Muslims are fine with this sort of thing being directed toward others. So if they complain about it, they reveal themselves to be the hypocrites they are.
CRUSADER says
Drown “the calls” out with blaring rings of bells and chimes.
It’ll be more loud and clangy — but it’ll be music to the morning ears
just knowing it pisses off the Muzzie supremacists.
What a greater way to start the day ! + + +
CogitoErgoSum says
Sorry Crusader, I like my peace and quiet. Let’s just BAN their annoying calls to prayer.
CRUSADER says
Leaf-blowers should be included in such a BAN.
gravenimage says
CRUSADER, I think the vicious Islamic call to prayer is more of a threat to our freedoms than are leaf-blowers, which are merely annoying.
Reziac says
I’d suggest the sounds of pigs oinking and dogs barking…
Steven RSA says
There is no such thing as a call to prayer, only a daily declaration of supremacy. Good for the complainant, I’m sure it was more than one.
Reziac says
Bingo! Mosques are not houses of worship; they are symbols of conquered territory. The ‘call to prayer’ exists to remind everyone who rules over them.
CRUSADER says
The wide Crescent begins to close….
while for the rest of us the stomach turns….
mummymovie says
God, I miss the old world that is now dying before our eyes.
I admit, in my past, my left-leaning, cathartic pseudo-revolutionary, bleeding heart years, before I knew what islam was all about and understandably began to fear it so, I would’ve agreed with B. Hussein O. about the sound of the call to prayer… well, al least I thought it sounded neat, because it made me think of a faraway place… anywhere far away, y’know, like an adventure.
And in the happy days of yore, when European and American children had bright futures to look forward to, and before smart phones, globalists, and neocons had shrunk the world down to size, spreading third world migrants all over the globe. and took the fun out right out of traveling, it was fun to dream of going somewhere far away to hear foreign sounds and see foreign things. But why travel now, when these types of places are right outside your front door (or at least some surreal, dangerous version of them?)
That was the whole point: That you would have to GO SOMEWHERE ELSE to see this stuff back then.
That was before I became a refugee. That’s right.
Now the third worlders, asylees, fake refugees and their chain migrant “relatives” waddle around the streets all day shrouded in what look like carpet remnants piled upon their heads and shoulders, their teenage kids roam the streets in gangs speaking Arabic, and whatever mush-mouth they speak back in Somalia, and the boat people crap on the street corners in the neighborhood from which I’ve recently fled, out of concern for the safety of my young daughter, as cab drivers speed up and down our old street on the way to the mosque that transformed an old church in the neighborhood.
Sickening how globalism, multiculturalism, and endless “refugee” flows exploited by government-subsidized contractors, as well as “big meat” packing plants and yogurt factories have seeded these people all over in our towns and cities, and have ruined them for our kids and their kids.
They are here now, and reproducing at a breakneck pace, spawning little muslim citizens. This is the global islamic hijra and demographic replacement, and it is in full-swing.
Emma says
very well written, many will agree with you on how the idea of foreign cultures was once an adventure, is now tragically forced invasion.
CRUSADER says
If when young, you aren’t Liberal leaning, you have no heart…
If when old, you aren’t Conservative leaning, you have no mind!
Michael J Cunningham says
Why don’t you credit the speaker, Winston Churchill?
CRUSADER says
Nice to give credit.
It’s truthful and applicable and absorbable, either way.
gravenimage says
I’m afraid this is often mistakenly attributed to Winston Churchill.
Here is an investigation into the origin of this and similar quotes:
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/02/24/heart-head/
CRUSADER says
All lot of people have been known to say this phrase,
or something similar to it…. The point is that it is accurate
to apply, not so much who said it….
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/02/24/heart-head/
For those super curious about this particular quote,
there are many variations……
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“A man who is not a Liberal at sixteen has no heart; a man who is not a Conservative at sixty has no head.”
— Benjamin Disraeli
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“Celui qui n’est pas républicain à vingt ans révèle une bien vilaine âme; mais celui qui l’est encore à trente est un imbécile. Aujourd’hui nous pourrions ajouter: ou un coquin.”
….
“If a man is not a republican at twenty, it is because he has no heart, and if he is one at forty, it is because he has no brains.”
— Victor Hugo
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gravenimage says
Sorry, CRUSADER–I linked to the same article before I saw that you had already done so.
CRUSADER says
No apology necessary, GravenImage.
Blessings on you.
gravenimage says
🙂
CRUSADER says
Keep the Second Amendment handy….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVRb2Vh7OXE
mummymovie says
Haha perfect!
Thanks!
Dawne says
I couldn’t agree more mummymovie. I am also a “refugee” from London the city of my birth and where my children have also been born and brought up. I have no objection to planned immigration, but the waves of uneducated, unwashed immigrants who have no intention of assimilating or fitting into our culture – it is an invasion. Cities in the UK are all pretty much going the same way.
KWJ says
That’s what the climate change people want-no flying on planes which will probably become expensive like in the 60s that only more affluent can afford. An electric car can barely make it out of the state and take hours to re-charge. What happens with tourism?
I just can’t see young people having a better and more free life; sounds like a lot of things will be decided for them.
As far as calls to prayers, many people have complained and tourists in Istanbul have commented they were woken up. That Muslims don’t acknowledge that, yes, it is annoying shows the self-centered, supremacist thinking regardless that it disturbs the public good 5x a day every day and I have a right not to be aurally assaulted by some religion. Church bells occur on Sundays only, if at all, and when mass starts and sometimes for weddings, no less, bells don’t say anything.
Muslims create their own bad image. Such a noise at 5:00 am is no different than why roosters are illegal in my city and playing loud music. If a rooster is too loud and piercing then so are calls to prayer. Religion can’t allow you to do whatever you want. Perhaps these guys who have that very loud bass in their cars should park next to a mosque which they will feel the bass go right through the building and see how that feels. Seriously.
I saw a video of a woman in England yelling at a Muslim near the mosque. I don’t find it to be a nice sound and they’re pre-recorded. They should be on apps that will wake up Muslims on their cell phone. We don’t live in villages like when there were no clocks…the Europeans brought them clocks.
It’s another thing they get off on doing to the infidel. Better too is when they can extort money from taxpayers for the mosque. I do know that under the Obama admin at least one mosque got $300,000 and our govt should not be giving money to religious organizations! None of them. I also remember Obama saying that one day our children will be going to Islamic schools. Our?
Jan says
Call for prayers is the most horrific, brutal and annoying noise A child can ever experience.
As a child whenever I heard that noise especially in the early mornings, I used to get paralized in my bad. No matter how many times my parents explained me that it was just another religious prectice, it was just too much for a child to understand or comperhend the terror of that annoying noise.
There must be some kind of a serious organization that works on forbidding this primitive nonsens practice all over the world not just non islamic countries but specially islamic countries.
For instance in Egypt you can’t possibly escape a single azan (call for prayers) even when you are kilometers in the middle of the desert. There are estimated 7 million kopts ( christians) in Egypt according to the state and 12 million according to the kopts.
Why in the hell those peaple have to listen 5 times a day 365 days a year after year being called to go and pray?!
I always ask myself, especially now that we are living in a era of technology where everybody has a television and almost everybody has A mobile phone.
Why would they still want to hang those loud speakers on the top of the minarets If their main goal is not to dawa (preach), brainwash or annoy the non muslims population?
CRUSADER says
Isn’t it a form of speech as well as preach ?
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Rula Jebreal discusses with Bill Maher: Islam and Free Speech —
Panelists Rula Jebreal and Senator Angus King respond to Bill Maher’s statement on the Berkeley controversy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRlm4o6he74
CRUSADER says
What is a SECULAR Muslim, anyhow?
gravenimage says
Good question. You don’t find “secular Christians” and “secular Hindus”…
mortimer says
Most Muslims have either a smart phone or a smart watch. They can buy an app which will remind them of prayer times.
THERE IS NO NEED TO HAVE THE ENTIRE POPULATION ANNOYED BY HIGH-DECIBEL WAILING EVERY DAY.
Mark says
That call to Jihad is one of the worse sounds on the planet, right up there with alley cats fighting. I’ll but the adjacent property, mount speakers and point them at the cults encampment and blast hard rock 24/7.
Ren says
Wherever muslims reside, there is discord.
Rolf Wittwer says
Millions of people of other faiths around the world are rudely roused from their sleep every early morning at bedtime by excessive Islamic noise and submissive, sometimes aggressive prayer.
This has nothing to do with religion, but with provocation, indoctrination, brainwashing,f aith terror, oppression and rule of domination.
Many Muslims are also fed up with the provocative behavior of their so called “religion of peace”, they can not, do not want to dare to detach themselves from it and liberate themselves from it.
Fear, reprisals, contempt and punishment of any kind are the reason not to do so.
No any other faith is so imperious.
The hunger for freedom in Islam is enormous.
That’s why it will eventually collapse soon.
Iran could be a start.
Frederic Bastiat says
Hey, Muslims. There is this *new* technology called a CLOCK and it has a function called an ALARM. It will wake you and ONLY you at 5 a.m. without bothering anyone else.
The public broadcasting of the call to prayer was necessary when people didn’t own clocks. It can now be done away with so you can live peaceably with your neighbors.
Anjuli Pandavar says
Did the Prophet Muhammad Peace Be Upon Him have a clock? Huh? Huh? Tell me that. The Prophet Muhammad Peace Be Upon Him did not have a clock. Clocks are haram. If clocks were halal, then the Prophet Muhammad Peace Be Upon Him would have had one. Please don’t be so ignorant.
gravenimage says
Yep–Bi’da.
saturnine says
I realize your post is sarcastic, but the rejoinder is that Muhammad also had no public address system. If clocks are haram, so is a P.A. system.
gravenimage says
Muslims are very selective in what they reject–for instance, Muslims always make an exception for the latest weaponry.
Lilith Wept says
No, Mohammed had a black slave who had an unusually loud voice, that’s who would do the call for prayer.
In a Hadith it says that Mohammed used to get two men, one to make the call for prayer and the other to gather firewood, then Mohammed would go burn the houses down of those moslems who were sleeping and not coming to prayer.
The more I study Islam the more disgusted I am and the more I see that IMO, Islam was started by Satan. Because it is so incredibly clever in the way it spreads, and forces itself on the non believer. Like the call to prayer….listen to that year after year and as it was said, it gets under The skin of the mind…..
Read the biography of Mohammed “ Its All About Mohammed” by FW Burleigh to see how many times Mohammed barely escaped death…..and now many times that Islam was a hair away from being obliterated, and there were so many times where if one tiny thing had changed, there would have been no Islam…..
Either Islam was the luckiest religion in the world to have managed to exist despite all the times that it was a breath away from being destroyed or Satan protected it .
Islam is one of the fastest growing ideologies and the most dangerous ideologies that has ever existed, IMO, because of things like death for apostates, the high birth rate due to polygamy and birth control being frowned upon, the fantastical devotion to Islam, that it blends a political system with some religious aspects, and is self policing ( moslems will report other moslems to Imams and the officials or the government , for their own good, if they see a Moslem not following Islamic law and the Koran…..)
If someone tried to create the most dangerous, fanatical supremacist, expansionist , hostile to all non believers kind of ideology ,that has ever existed ….
they couldn’t have done better than Islam…..
Lydia Church says
Actually… it is the ugliest sound on earth!
It sounds like a bunch of demons escaping hell through a tunnel.
But that is just typical of obama to claim the opposite!
It’s also just another way for them to impose their hijra (or however that’s spelled) takeover.
CRUSADER says
hajara in Arabic = emigrate
hijra in Arabic = departure
Hegira / Hijra …. variants
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/hegira
HOWEVER:
Hindi, literally ‘eunuch’…
…(in South Asia) a person whose birth sex is male but who identifies as female or as neither male nor female.
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/hijra
FYI says
That call to “prayer” is to the pagan Arab god Lah{Al lah},the god of the muslims{not and never to be confused with the actual Judeo-christian Biblical God:they are not the same..}
A god who,according to Christian Prince{on You Tube} has…ONE Leg and two RIGHT hands.
{Al Lah cannot use a Left hand as that is associated with defilement}
What sort of a stupid god has only ONE leg?
What sort of deity has two right hands?
How must {Al} Lah get around the Universe on his ONE leg?
{Boing…..Boing…..Boing..}
Max says
Maybe one day Obama will tell the truth and say “I am a Muslim”.
Max says
The Iranian Mullahs absolutely agree with Mullah Obama’s comment. They all think that it the “prettiest sound on earth”.
gravenimage says
Battles Over Islamic Call to Prayer Continue in South Africa
……………….
More in-your-face Muslim supremacism.
na says
Desert people , There is no trees . So if they need oxygen they have to depend the other four corners of earth. suppose If terrorists invaded Europe they would damage all trees to stop the supply of oxygen and to kill kuffar.
gravenimage says
No, people who live in desert areas do not lack oxygen–water, often, but not oxygen. And while Muslims are a real threat, they do not single out trees for destruction. Moreover, Muslim terrorists already *have* invaded Europe, and more are doing so all the time–there are growing Jihad terror attacks in Europe and the rest of the West.
John says
Satanic FILTH, learn how to set an ALARM CLOCK and stop Shoving your SHIT in every-bodies faces.
Lawrence says
Nothing will be done. South Africa is like Sweden and the UK, dhimmi territory. The ANC government hearts Hamas and Iran. So does the SA media.
Worth remarking on why the call to prayer five times a day? Because Islam is such an insane death cult, that it has to wear down the minds of its followers, it cannot permit the slightest doubts or skepticism. So it constantly has to force itself on its adherents, five times a day. Keep up the indoctrination, the mind-numbing ‘prayers’ that function as a kind of self-hypnosis. Because if it lets up for a few hours even, the mind of an adherent might turn away from the cult, might have certain questions pop into the head, questions and doubts that cannot be permitted. It is standard brainwashing technique to reinforce the conditioning, over and over, drum it into the head, otherwise it won’t stick. Overwhelm the consciousness so that no consciousness is left, just an empty hollow head filled with lies.
kuriakose says
This is an interesting point on this issue. In Selangor, one of the states in West Malaysia, the chief minister( a muhameddan) has ordered that the loudpeakers for the call to prayer be muted. And it is actually enforced. I was there and I can attest to this. In other states, however, it is as per normal.
Todd Lampiris says
The simple solution is to emulate noise cancellation technology used in headphones and autos. Surround Offensive Noise Making Terror Camp with loudspeakers and rebroadcast their noise 180 degrees out of phase… As Achemed Says “SILENCE……”
OLD GUY says
This is similar to the Nazi loud speaker trucks running around blasting everyone with their propaganda prior to WWII. They say it is a call to prayer and it is their prayer to convert or kill non Muslims. If they can interrupt my sleep they need to hear my church bells and see my cross or they can shut their speakers OFF!
JMB says
Here in Sydney Australia, local councils have banned the Muslim call to prayer even when exemptions have been requested during Ramadan. But with more and more Muslims being elected to more and more local government areas it will only be a matter of time before it happens here.
gravenimage says
Don’t give up the fight, JMB.
Nelson. M says
I live in Cape Town, South Africa. Yoh!
you don’t have an idea of this matter like myself. I will assure you that Islam has infiltrate cape town like you cannot believe. People from Pakistan, Afghanistan, Morocco, Egypt, Bangladesh, Iran, Syria etc…they have find safe heaven in South Africa, especially Cape Town. let me give you an example of what have been going on. we had our Church service operating in a conference Hall of High school. we received multiple threats from the white neighbours that we are disturbing them during praise and worship time. however, the hall has sound proof material and I couldn’t understand the reasons for these complaints, there were 2 mosques in the same area and they have loudspeakers and they are very loud during these call to prayer. but nothing happened to them. we were forced to move from that hall and Muslims still operating in the same area. that show how the Cape Town Government has been culprit in this matter. my house is in the area that there are 5 to 7 mosques and I promise you guys it is not a joke how disturbing it can be, it is like they are competing who scream the loudest and better….. even yesterday I think they were testing the loudest sound system in cape town, it was crazy and I promise nothing will happen to them, they have people in the local government, provincial government and national government so complaining about this matter I don’t think it will ever been resolved.