The idea of the Islamic call to prayer (adhan) being broadcast over loudspeakers during Ramadan in Canada this year, due to the lockdown of mosques, started out being a controversy in the city of Mississauga, which decided to change its noise bylaw to accommodate the adhan. Then came the news that Calgary’s Muslim mayor had taken it upon himself to give mosques “permission” in the city to break that city’s noise bylaws.
It wasn’t enough that there are already apps that announce the Islamic call to prayer for Muslims who do not live within earshot of mosques. Respect for real diversity, equality of rights for all, the freedom of expression, the rule of law and Canada’s constitution in general have all been in decline over issues related to Islam. Divisions among communities are now commonplace, often created or exacerbated by Muslim lobby groups that have conditioned leaders and the general public that to disagree with them, or to criticize Islam in any way, means you are “racist,” “Islamophobic,” “intolerant” and the like. Jihad Watch provided an overview of the adhan issue in Canada HERE.
Now the adhan can be heard over loudspeakers all across Canada. In the space of less than two weeks, cities across the country adopted measures to broadcast it, ignoring the voices and rights of dissenters.
The Canadian officials responsible for this have acted in disregard of the multitudes of persecuted Christians and other religious minorities who are forced to listen to the adhan in Muslim countries. Those who have escaped unspeakable atrocities and come to Canada must now be forced to hear it over loudspeakers in their new, “diverse” country.
A Canadian Press article states:
Usually, the musical chant that ushers Muslims into their house of worship for prayer is prohibited under city noise bylaws. But across Canada, cities are allowing the call, or adhan, during the COVID-19 crisis, during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Ottawa, Toronto, Hamilton, London, Edmonton, Calgary, Vancouver and other major cities have all made exemptions to the usual rules.
It isn’t simply a musical chant. It is a sermon with profound implications:
Allah is greater (Allahu akbar); intoned four times.
I testify that there is no God but Allah (Ashhadu anna la ila ill Allah); intoned twice.
I testify that Mohammed is Allah’s Prophet (Ashhadu anna Muhammadan rasul Allah); intoned twice.
Come to prayer (Hayya alas salah); intoned twice.
Come to security/salvation (Hayya alal falah); intoned twice.
Allah is greater (Allahu akbar); intoned twice.
There is no God but Allah (La ilah ill Allah); intoned once.
The mainstream media has been celebrating all this as a big win for multiculturalism and reporting only on those who support the broadcasting of the the adhan over loudspeakers. Dissenting voices, which include many Muslims, are simply being ignored. The suppression of dissenting voices is tyranny. In Sharia states, no dissenting voices are allowed to be heard. In Canada, under “Islamophobia” Motion M-103, dissenting voices, including politicians who have a spine, are increasingly either bullied or marginalized.
“Islamic call to prayer being heard for the first time across Canada,” by Laura Osman, Canadian Press, May 15, 2020:
OTTAWA – The Al Rashid Mosque has stood in Edmonton since 1938, but no one there today can remember ever hearing the daily call to prayer ring out through the loudspeakers.
Usually, the musical chant that ushers Muslims into their house of worship for prayer is prohibited under city noise bylaws.
But across Canada, cities are allowing the call, or adhan, during the COVID-19 crisis, during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
Ottawa, Toronto, Hamilton, London, Edmonton, Calgary, Vancouver and other major cities have all made exemptions to the usual rules.
The Al Rashid, Canada’s oldest mosque, livestreams the call online every evening for thousands of people who cannot be there in person.
Some parents have been bringing their children to stand outside the mosque at sundown to hear the call and share the experience they never expected to pass on in Canada.
Some who worship there grew up in countries where Islam is the dominant religion. For them, the sound transports them back to their own childhood, where the adhan was heard ringing through local neighbourhoods five times each day.
For some who grew up in Canada never hearing the adhan in their communities, the experience has been transformative.
“Being able to break their fast on the sound of the prayer, it was a big moment they will not forget, I’m sure,” said Noor Al-Henedy, who works for the mosque.
Ramadan is a month-long period dedicated to prayer, reflection and charity, underscored by the practice of abstaining from food and water during the day.
While Muslim Canadians have endured the same hardships as the rest of the country during the COVID-19 crisis, including job losses and isolation, the pandemic has provided an even greater opportunity to reflect on life’s priorities and put others first.
“This Ramadan in particular took everybody to the root of what Ramadan really is,” Al-Henedy said.
“To really be able to reflect well on yourself while fasting, to look around you and appreciate the blessings that you have, to understand the struggle that many people are going through … is really important.”
Hearing the call to prayer outside the mosque has emphasized that, she said.
“It’s really comforting,” said Sahar Zimmo, who has heard the adhan before while travelling in other countries, but has now heard it in her hometown of London, Ont., for the first time.
The London Muslim Mosque was built in 1964, making it Ontario’s oldest Muslim house of worship.
“To actually hear the call to prayer, it gave me a sense of hope, a sense of relief at a time when things are up in the air and not normal,” she said…..
Uday Chebbi-Pant says
Justin Trudeau is handing over Canada and its people to Jihadis on a Silver platter,now is the time to resist if not for yourself,atleast for the sake of future generations or suffer and repent ti the end of the world.
Nancy says
Canadians better wake up and stop this. Lebanon use to be a Christian country and look at it today. They came in the same way. People please wake up, its not fair to our children, grand children and great grandchildren to be forced to live under Sharia Law..
Rufolino says
“Not fair” ??
A social catastrophe more like.
mortimer says
Jihadi Justin is in bed with the Muslim Brotherhood. And it took less than a weak for Muslims to abuse the privilege of using loudspeakers.
Please note that Christian bells are VERY DIFFERENT from the Islamic prayer call which is verbal and supremacist.
Christian bells are non-verbal, musical chimes. The Islamic call is the ISLAMIC WAR CRY call Muslims to fight and conquer the dirty kafirs.
No Muzzies Here says
All the fools who voted for liberals are responsible for this. A country that seriously deludes itself into believing that it is modern and progressive, is now allowing a seventh-century expression of superstition and hate to invade everyone’s privacy.
The screaming wail heard at 4.40 AM is designed to announce the new owners of the country. There is no escaping it. It is everywhere. No part of the country is now free from its new overlords.
Stang says
And why are they calling them to prayer? They are not allowed to congregate so why call them together. Or are Muslims allowed congregate while everybody else stays home?
Susan says
Actually, they have been; I keep reading where the police in the UK and US show up at a mosque that has people in it, and leave without making them disperse – I call this prejudice against Christians and Jews – look how they treat them!
Monica Sp says
I agree. Canada needs to stop giving them money. They are being brought in & paid to live here! I read $50,000 every year per person! Plus benefits!
RichardL says
Maybe Canadians who get woken up at 4:40am wake up?
Dude says
As soon as I hear it, I will sing hymns so loud that no one within ten feet of me will hear the blasting. I avoid the neighbourhood anyway since they jaywalk like they own the joint, snarling traffic for a mile in every direction.
I guess they haven’t learned the red-yellow-green light intersection crossing protocol yet. HAH
notnolib says
The real translation of the terrorist call to terror sounds like the old Oscar Meyer Bologna jingle.
Our moon god has a first name,
it’s a-l-l-a-h.
Our moon god has no second name,
it’s A-L-L-A-H.
We kill kafir most every day,
and if you ask to whom we praaaaayyyyyyyyyyy……
To kill kafir is A-O-K,
says a-l-l-a-h, oy vey.
They are to be laughed at.
Michael Copeland says
Camel ….nose ….tent
spiro says
Well what’s next teaching Islam in the schools
Sharia courts
Silencing. Non Muslims
When will Canada embrace Islam at the expense of Christians and Jews
Will Canada wake up before Islam is dominate
Dan says
For about five years I lived less than a block away from the largest, oldest Catholic church in my city, and when the bells rang Sunday morning for Mass, for MAYBE a minute or so, I could barely hear them.
I also spent six years sailing the world, a little over a year in various muslim countries, and hearing that screech multiple times day and night was so bloody annoying that when I was sitting in a dark theater for the opening scene of “American Sniper” (Which starts with a black screen and that thrice damned screech.) I nearly had one of those PTSD flashbacks.
Walter Sieruk says
Canada is one of the many nations of the West which has Muslims living within it. Canada is this above,top article is article is an example of the gall of some Muslims in their stealth jihad to see how far they can go,pushing Westerners into more an more appeasement to their Islamic ways.
By disturbing the peace with their Islamic call to prayer through those loudspeaker blasting their religious noise those stealth jihad-minded Muslims are pushing ,more and more the people of a Western country into tolerating then accepting Islam as a growing might into the West lands. Further appeasement is something that those Muslim will view as weakness on the part of Westerners .
Those Muslims in Canada with their Islamic agenda for the West will not lose resolve their goal of their stealth jihad for the advancement of Islam should and needs to be countered with a strong resolve of the people of the West to halt the insidious and subversive influence of the stealth jihad in the nation of Canada and likewise other Western countries.
owensgate says
I would be astonished if they stopped the caterwauling on the first day AFTER “ramadama” is over; they’ve set a precedent that seems irreproachable. Get used to it Canada, you brought this upon yourselves.
gravenimage says
Yes–I’m worried that this is going to continue after Ramadan, as well.
Tom says
The solution is simple. Vote out those mayors and councillors that allowed this exemption to noise bylaws.
Canadians are extremely passive and apathetic when it comes to local politics, leaving the election of mayors and councils to the activists in our communities, most of whom are left leaning or ethnic block organizing.
The time has come for Canadians to get their sorry asses off the couch and get out to vote in local elections. If they don’t, they will be living as second class citizens in their own country because local mayors and councils will only become more left wing and Islam controlled.
Grace says
Canadians will find they will be less than servants; they will be the slaves of their Sharia masters. When they start marrying twelve year olds and throwing their gay population off the tops of high buildings perhaps they will wake up, too late.
Westman says
Soon Canadians will have a rousing breakfast, without Canadian bacon, to the blare of, “Allah is greater!”.
It will be a joy to watch the food labels gain the innocuous, “halal prepared”.
My wife bought a camel saddle for a foot rest. Is there a hidden message?
James Lincoln says
Christine Douglas-Williams, in her feature article, states:
“Muslim lobby groups that have conditioned leaders and the general public that to disagree with them, or to criticize Islam in any way, means you are “racist,” “Islamophobic,” “intolerant” and the like.”
Imagine if this way of thinking had applied to Nazis in early 1930s Germany. The above statement would be reworded to say something like:
Nazi lobby groups have conditioned influential world community leaders – and the general public – that to disagree with them, or to criticize Nazi-ism in any way, means you are “racist,” “Naziphobic,” “intolerant” and the like…
If this had been the mindset in the 1930s – all the way into the 1940s – Nazi Germany would have prevailed in World War II.
gravenimage says
James–with all respect–this often *was* the case in the 1930s. Fascism was frequently characterized as “modern” and those who criticized it as “anti-German” or even as “warmongers”. This happened to Winston Churchill for many years.
James Lincoln says
gravenimage says,
Rightly so, early on this was indeed the case.
However the pendulum eventually did swing after the world witnessed Nazi atrocities…
gravenimage says
True, James.
James Lincoln says
Where’s Charles Bronson when you need him?
Start about the two minute mark…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTx_jDEnvxs
Wellington says
Thanks for that, James. Loved Bronson. Two of my other favorite movies of his are Hard Times and From Noon Till Three, both with his wife in real life, the beautiful Jill Ireland. You’ve probably seen both. Thanks again for the link.
James Lincoln says
Wellington,
Glad that you enjoyed the clip. It’s from the 1974 movie , “Mr. Majestyk” .
It’s based upon the classic crime novel “Mr. Majestyk” written by the late – and – great Elmore Leonard.
I had the good fortune of meeting Mr. Leonard during a book tour, shortly before he passed away.
Yes, I too loved Bronson – and have seen all of his major works. Pertinent to this website, I particularly liked the role that he played as Dan Shomron in “Raid on Entebbe” (1977)…
GreekEmpress says
Elmore Leonard was great.
Bronson was great.
And I still have Clint Eastwood to “make my day”—
Thanks for the clip!
E T says
Shane, we need Shane. Yesterday I watched Shane, I loved the way he went to town and elimated the bullies who were terrorizing the ranchers. Where is our Shane? Tom Quiggin is trying but there are so many Islamists and Justine, Freeland, the Liberal Party, the CBC, CTV, many collaborators.
gravenimage says
A great film.
FYI says
Who do muslims “pray” to when they respond to that islamic call?
{al} Lah the ARAB god of islam.
The god who admits to being a champion deceiver {koran 3:54}{HINT#1}
{al} Lah who teaches the OPPOSITE to the 2nd chief Commandment of God{lev19:18}with his doctrine of HATE{al walaa wal baraa},his apartheid system{muslims vs non-muslims} and koran 5:51 where he condemns muslims for being friends with infidels{HINT#2}There is none of that “love thy neighbor” stuff in islam…
{al} Lah whose greatest enemy is a MAN called the “King of Kings”{BIG HINT #3}
“The messenger of allah said ‘the most hated of men before allah on the day of resurrection and the most wretched and the man most hated to him,will be a MAN
called MALIK AL AMLAK for there is no king but allah”
SAHIH MUSLIM VOL 5 HADITH #5611
This is an authentic {sahih} hadith:check it yourself if you are a muslim.
So if you are a muslim see if you can work this out…..
Who do you think the “King of Kings is”{HINT#4…..Revs 19:16}?
Why is allah’s enemy a MAN?{Now,isn’t that a bit odd?}
How did allah completely MISS the Golden Rule{Matthew 7 v 12}which is defined as being the MEANING of the “Law of Moses and the teachings of all the prophets”?{HINT#5}
Why does allah teach the OPPOSITE of the 2nd chief commandment of God{Lev19:18}?
How did allah MISS 1]the Ist chief commandment of God{Deuteronomy 6:1-9}2]the Holy Spirit,the Helper?
Clearly allah is NOT the Biblical God of Moses and Jesus:It’s a different god isn’t it!
So obviously you muslims “pray” to a different god whose enemy is a MAN called the King of kings,a god who admits to being a champion deceiver.
can you see who you “pray” to?
Or did you miss all the clues{or perhaps prefer not to see them}
revereridesagain says
Either “God” would have me stoned to death as an unbeliever, among other things. Difference is, only the Muslim one can get away with that now.
FYI says
I identified as an atheist for many,many years.I read the Bible as an atheist even using it {intentionally taking passages out of context to “prove” something that contradicted the Bible}
I read the OT and the NT.
It was while researching the Golden Rule that,to my amazement,I found it in Matthew 7 v 12
“Do for others what you want them to do for you.That is the MEANING of the Law of Moses and the teachings of all the prophets”
I had no idea that the Golden Rule was equated with the MEANING of the Law of Moses.Nor that the 2 chief commandments{Matthew 22 v 37-40}
constitute “the WHOLE of the Law of Moses and the teachings of all the prophets depend on these 2 laws”
So how did the ‘holy’ men of the day,in the time of Jesus,MISS all that?
How did they miss the PURPOSE of the Law{=the 2 chief commandments,Love God,Love others}and the MEANING of the Law{=the Golden rule}?
They made up rules and regulations that enslaved people{which is ferociously condemned by Jesus see Matthew chpt 23}they knew NOTHING about God just as muslims today don’t.After reading the Bible,years later {after 9-11} I read the koran and I could not believe how much was MISSING and WRONG in the koran.
{How could allah have MISSED the Golden Rule,the 2 chief commandments?the Golden rule is in Judaism AND Christianity but not in islam ..although no doubt islamic ‘scholars’ will try to prove otherwise,usually by fiddling the Arabic..}
As for stoning anyone to death..
Jesus Christ condemned the Doctrinaire interpretation of the Torah and we see this in his sparing of the woman caught in adultery:the ‘holy’ hypocrites are exposed as frauds when the one with no sin amongst them is invited to cast the first stone and not one of them can do so.
Thus the woman is given the chance by Jesus to repent and make it right with God:THAT’s how it is supposed to be, but the ‘holy’ men didn’t do that!
They said “this woman was in the very act of committing adultery.In our law Moses commanded that such a woman must be stoned to death”
{John 8}
“They said this to trap Jesus”:But note that by Matthew 7 v 12,the Law of Moses and the teachings of the prophets is equated with LOVE,the Golden Rule,NOT stoning people to death!
The hypocritical ‘holy’ men didn’t know anything about the LAW.
Had they truly known the Law they would have known it was wrong to stone someone to death{as Jesus showed them with the woman caught in adultery}
Jesus Christ condemns ‘holy’ men for leading people astray:an atheist might have a better chance with Jesus Christ….Jesus Christ would condemn anyone who stones somebody else to death as a murderer.
Wellington says
Sharia creep in auditory form. Sharia comes in many forms.
Jerry says
La Allah Illah YAHWE vue Mohammad Rassoul Shaitan
Merri-joy says
Every Canadian non-Muslim household & community should ring Church Bells loudly & put on a really LOUD recording of How Great Thou Art or another well known Christian Song – at the time of the Muslim Call to Prayer!
Each day they should play a different Christian song – but all Household’s play the same music LOUDLY!
And before and after the Music – loud Bell Chiming!
gravenimage says
Canada: Islamic call to prayer now blasted on loudspeakers all over the country for Ramadan
……………
Suicidal insanity.
tim gallagher says
Pathetic surrender. The tolerance, the being too nice to Muslims, is always one way. Looking at the photo of the Muslim noise maker, is he covering his ears so that he doesn’t have to listen to that hideous fucking noise that the Muslim call to prayer makes? Maybe even this maggot can’t stand that monstrous noise, although he obviously doesn’t mind imposing it on the people who are unfortunate enough to live near the mosque.
revereridesagain says
“O Canada” has become “Oh, Canada… why are your destroying yourself in the cause of subjugation to self-righteous savages?”
E T says
London, Ontario, Come to prayer, yes come and listen to Mazin Abdul-Adhim, “Pig and monkeys is what I call the likes of Netanyahu, yes he is much worse than pigs and monkeys and I’m trying to be nice actually”.
“Canadian soldiers are war criminals”.
“No matter what the manipulative elite do, they will fail at this manipulative scheme and Islam will rise once again ……..and will be restored under complete Muslim control and there is nothing the lying, fear mongering scum of the capitalist elite can do about it”.
Imam Al-Andalous Islamic Center, Montreal. “Oh Allah count their numbers; slay them one by one and spare not one of them”.
Ottawa mosque, Imam Abdu Albasset Egwilla. “Martyrdom in the name of Allah”
Quebec Council of Imams, Hussein Amer, “ Allah punished the Children of Israel by transforming them into apes and pigs because they committed a major sin or did nothing to prevent it. Only those who warned of committing the sin were saved from being punished”. According to Amer “ the sinners survived only three days in the new form of animals before dying without leaving behind off-springs”.
Imam Mostafa Saad Hannout, Masjid mosque Toronto, “ Oh Allah show your kindness to our brothers in Gaza. oh Allah give them victory over your enemy and their enemy. oh Allah, take revenge against the grandchildren, (descendents) Of apes and pigs”.
9000 Bathurst Islamic Center, Imam “Marriage with 9 year olds is moral.”
“Temporary marriage with nine year olds or permanent “.
Imam Sahaba Masjid mosque, Edmonton. “Who are those that earned the wrath of Allah? …..They are the Jews…..Those who were cursed by Allah. Allah was angry and turned them into monkeys and pigs”.
Saudi scholar Muhammed Saliheen Al-Munajjid, in Canada explains why Allah turns “some of the Children of Israel” into pigs and apes and how this term is related to the Quranic verse “those who have evoked (Your) anger”.
Sheikh Younus Kathrada, Victoria, British Columbia, speaking to Muslim youth, “Merry Christmas, Are you congratulating them on the birth of your lord? Is that acceptable to a Muslim? By saying that you are approving of it. Qur’an —Muslim’s “not go the way of the Jews and the Christians, indeed God is not for evil people. Oh you who have believed, do not take Jews and Christians as allies, They are allies of one another”.
in responding to the NZ massacre his crazy son of Allah said “Governments, law inforcement and the media are responsible; Muslims should not trust law inforcement, they pathetically spy on us”.
“Do you know you and I must be offended when people say that they worship Jesus, or when they say Jesus is the son of God? Why do our hearts not react?”
Way back in August of 2006, the Imam at the Papineau Mosque (where Justine Trudeau is the member of parliament) the Imam said “God kill all against Allah”. Fight the holy war”.
Call to Jihad is more like it. Canada needs just one leader, perhaps just one Christian leader to step up and shout “Stand up, Stand up for Jesus, ye soldiers of the cross”.
E T says
Correction. In responding to the NZ massacre, THIS crazy son of Allah
OLD GUY says
Christians let the BELLS RING and the music play loud and clear. If its good for Islam it certainly must be good for Christians.