Imagine Henriette Reker’s embarrassment when she discovers that the respect all goes one way. But by then it will be far too late. More immediately, the implications of this, beyond the expected hosannas from the usual proponents of globalism and multiculturalism, are ominous. When Köln allows public broadcasts the Islamic call to prayer, what exactly is it allowing? The adhan, prayed in Arabic, goes like this:
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.
Dr. Gavin Ashenden, former chaplain to the British queen, who resigned his position in protest against a Qur’an reading in a Scottish church, observed that “the Muslim call to prayer is a dramatic piece of Islamic triumphalism. It proclaims Islam’s superiority over all other religions, and in so doing casts Jesus in the role of a charlatan and a liar. The Muslim god, Allah, is unknowable and has no son. Jesus was, therefore, a fraud in claiming He and the Father are one.”
Is Köln really wise to broadcast repeatedly a declaration of the superiority of Islam, a faith that directs its adherents to make war against Christians and other non-Muslims and subjugate them as inferiors under the hegemony of believers (cf. Qur’an 9:29)?
Is Köln wise to broadcast the cry “Allahu akbar,” beloved of jihad terrorists the world over? Chief 9/11 hijacker Mohammed Atta wrote this in his letter to himself before carrying out his jihad mission: “When the confrontation begins, strike like champions who do not want to go back to this world. Shout, ‘Allahu Akbar,’ because this strikes fear in the hearts of the non-believers.” This is why the Fort Hood jihad killer, Nidal Malik Hasan, shouted it as he shot thirteen Americans in November 2009, and why so many other jihadis have used it essentially as an announcement that non-Muslims are about to die.
But in Germany today, any such concerns will be dismissed out of hand as “Islamophobic.” Angela Merkel is no doubt certain that Muslim communities in the country will be grateful, and will redouble their efforts to become loyal, productive citizens, marching together with non-Muslims into the glorious multicultural future. That’s the way it will work out. Isn’t it? No Muslims will take seriously the adhan’s declarations of Islamic superiority and heed the Qur’an’s calls to wage war against unbelievers. Will they? In multiculti Germany today, such an idea is inconceivable!
“Germany’s largest mosque to broadcast call to prayer on Fridays,” Reuters, October 11, 2021 (thanks to Henry):
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s largest mosque will be permitted to broadcast the call to prayer over loudspeakers on Friday afternoons, after an agreement between the city of Cologne and the Muslim community to ease restrictions, the city said on Monday.
All 35 mosques in Cologne will now be permitted to broadcast the call to prayer for up to five minutes on Fridays between noon and 3 p.m., under a two-year initiative. That includes the Cologne Central Mosque, which was opened in 2018 after becoming a flashpoint for anti-Muslim sentiment from far right parties, particularly following an influx of asylum seekers in 2015-2016.
“Permitting the muezzin call is for me a sign of respect,” Cologne Mayor Henriette Reker wrote on Twitter. The call to prayer would join the bells of Cologne’s cathedral – northern Europe’s largest Gothic church – as sounds heard by those arriving at the city’s main train station, she said.
“It shows that diversity is appreciated and lived in Cologne.”
During controversy surrounding the construction of the large mosque, backers made a point of assuring the public that it would not routinely broadcast the call to prayer, or azan, which is heard five times a day in Muslim countries….
Ray Jarman says
Any Christian nation should reply to a request from any Muslim to spew its venom from any mosque that it may do so only after a Church bells can be played on Sunday mornings. I am sick of reading about Muslims being permitted to spew their hatred for all others while Christians, Jews, Hindus and other groups are not even permitted to practice their religions in Islamic stink holes. Where in any Christian nation are Muslims being slaughtered daily as is the case in Nigeria, Pakistan, Bangladesh and others?
bill says
The call originated in primitive times when there were no watches and people judged the time
by the sun’s position. Today when people have watches and cell phones, not to mention public clocks, there is absolutely no justification for it except to establish Muslim presence
Ray Jarman says
+1
Bill, It is funny you say that as once in Nigeria, the Embassy expediter and I were traveling to the Abuja Airport to pickup some classified material and the noise from one of the towers could be heard. I asked him why the noise every morning and he remarked that is was the call to prayer to which I asked him if he and others had alarm clocks. He just laughed and we talked about other things. In 2004, things were different and we could joke with one another but I doubt if that conversation could occur today in Nigeria.
gravenimage says
The Islamic call to prayer is as much about Muslim supremacy as it is about telling time–especially as it is unlikely that every Mosque-goer lives within hearing and easy walking distance of the every Mosque.
And this was true even early on. Note that in a Hadith the “Prophet” Muhammed says that he and his horde would gather outside a town before dawn, and if they heard the Islamic call to prayer they would not attack–but if they did not, then it was time to rob, rape, and pillage.
God, I hate Islam.
Check Burry says
Then there is the next few inches of some other concession they need,, and so the march goes on, this is another wedge in the door.
gravenimage says
Yes, Check–Muslim demands and creeping Shari’ah are not going to end here.
somehistory says
“Respect.” mozlums don’t deserve respect. The whole can of garbage that is islam is nothing but feculent , demonic waste and that is not deserving of respect.
This idiot, this fool, is forcing her “respect” for something that only deserves condemnation, rebuke, criticism, scorn….on all of the other people who will be condemned and forced to listen to the call to satan….the ‘preying’ that they do to all others who refuse to bow to their beast, is being given honor, when it should be banished, and punished severely.
She should be kicked out of her seat of authority. She doesn’t deserve any respect either.
jim says
I spent some time in a small German city. I have heard that the Muslims broadcast the call to prayer from their minaret. But I have not heard it yet, it is in another part of town. In Minneapolis, they decided to let them broadcast the call to prayer 5 times a day during Ramadan in Cedar Riverside, a small part of town where they settled very many Muslims. The question is, however, will it be only a one-time affair or will it become all the time and every year. And all over the city. Why cannot they announce the time to prayer on the cell phone or internet? Have they no alarm clocks?
Fitna says
It’s supremacism-it’s a constant threat to non-Muslims, they’re poking us in the eye and saying we can’t do anything about it. They are our lords and we need to submit.
Often times the dirtbag politicians who approve these call to prayers don’t live in the same neighborhood so they get to sleep soundly while their fellow (usually poorer) non-Muslims are the ones who suffer for their virtue-signalling.
It’s the Liberal mantra, NIMBY (not in my back yard). They love Islamic migrants (rapists/terrorists) and call to prayers and rape-gangs, so long as it’s NIMBY. They foist it on the rest of us.
Just listen to this stupid b*tch mayor who says 5am is not the time to bother her regarding Islamic prayers in this morning (which she approved in other neighborhoods). The cognitive dissonance is jaw-dropping.
So she doesn’t like to be woken up by Islamic prayers at 5am but she has no trouble if others are disturbed by it. Note that it’s a woman in power again submitting to Islam…for the naysayers. Yes some men do it as well, but by far females are more apt to bow down to Muslim thuggery.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBASeEiAxDo
Check Burry says
Its telling us We are here, to stay, so accept the inevitable.
Let the locals hold a referendum, and see the result from normal people.
Northern Virginiastan says
Who is Henriette Reker? Let’s remind you. First of all, Köln is Cologne. From Wikipedia:
[Henrietta] Reker was seriously wounded when a 44-year-old man stabbed her in the neck with a knife, while shouting about an “influx of refugees”. State prosecutors confirmed the attack to be politically motivated, after the perpetrator “confessed to having xenophobic motives at the uncontrolled influx of migrants”. As a member of Cologne’s municipal administration, Reker had been responsible for the housing and integration of refugees.
Reker was accused of victim blaming following the attacks at Cologne’s 2016 New Year’s Eve celebrations. She claimed that “there’s always the possibility of keeping a certain distance of more than an arm’s length – that is to say to make sure yourself you don’t look to be too close to people who are not known to you, and to whom you don’t have a trusting relationship”.
She is delusional.
Andra says
Reker´s attack is something some people do not believe in. The perpetrator did not have any official file. They said he was without work but they did not have a file about him at the work agency. The attack was pushed to be serious but after some days Reker was out of hospital again and continued her ralley for becoming mayor of Cologne. She claims not to be in a party but after this strange attack the greenies, the SPD and the CDU called the voters to vote for her.
And her attitude towards New Years Eve 2015 fits in very well in celebrating bowing to the Muezzin as a matter of showing respect.
gravenimage says
Yes–Reker blamed the victims of the New Year’s Eve attacks for not maintaining distance–as if yoy could do that in a crowd of people including those Musims *intent on assauting women*.
dhimmi says
submission
Michael Copeland says
“It shows that diversity is appreciated and lived in Cologne.”
Memo to the Mayor of Cologne:
Islam does not do diversity.
“if any one desire a religion other than Islam never will it be accepted of him.”
Koran 3:85, part of Islamic law
gravenimage says
+1
Dhimmi says
few doctrines if any are against diversity more than ISLAM
Wellington says
Another useful idiot.
GreekEmpress says
Creeping sharia
somehistory says
It seems to be getting help to creep quickly. A couple of stories about Sherlock Holmes had a creature known as “the Creeper.” That creature had help in his creeping when the head bad guy used a gun to make people wait to be “creeped upon” and have their backs broken.
If mozlums had less help from people such as this fool woman, they wouldn’t be able to do so much damage.
gravenimage says
Grimly true. dhimmi tools like Reker do a great deal to enable Islam.
gravenimage says
Germany: 35 Köln mosques to broadcast call to prayer, mayor says ‘permitting muezzin call is a sign of respect’
……………….
Notice how all this respect goes one way. Most recently Köln (Cologne) was known for Muslim men attacking and sexually assaulting Infidel women and girls.
Terry Gain says
When you allow adherents of this “religion” into your country this is what you get.
gravenimage says
I have long said that the flood of Muslims being allowed into the west needs to be stopped. President Trump took some good steps to achieving this, but all that has been rolled back under Biden.
Terry Gain says
The flood cannot be stopped so long as Islam is regarded as a religion rather than a conquest ideology. And no, it can’t be both a conquest ideology and a protected religion, except in nations which have a death wish.
gravenimage says
Terry, you keep saying that the guarantees of freedom like the First Amendment allow members of any religion to practice all aspects of their faith–but this simply is not true. Human sacrifice is not legal, nor are the horrors of Islam.
Pretending that Islam is not a religion does not help us, any more than lying about its being peaceful does.
And I note that you have never said how you intend to have our language changed–by fiat? This is not actually how language works.
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
Thank you, Robert, for quoting the Islamic call to prayer (“adnan”) in its entirety. This wording is difficult to reconcile with Dr. Gavin Ashenden’s characterization of it as “a dramatic piece of Islamic triumphalism. It proclaims Islam’s superiority over all other religions, and in so doing casts Jesus in the role of a charlatan and a liar. The Muslim god, Allah, is unknowable and has no son. Jesus was, therefore, a fraud in claiming He and the Father are one.”
The adnan does not say what or whom Allah is greater than (why not?). It mentions nobody except Muhammad, and does not compare religions. Islam is guilty of Ashenden’s critique, but the adnan is not.
ronyvo says
That is what Muslims ae expecting, cowardice.
notnolib says
Robert has an inaccurate translation of the muslim call to terror. It actually goes like this (to the tune of the 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.
Oh we kill kafir most every-day,
and if you ask to whom we prayyyyyyyyyy………
To kill kafir is a-o-k,
says a-l-l-a-h, oy vey.
savvyone says
notnolib, Love your poetic song, I will not be able to get it out of my head!
Peter Burrows says
It’s time to reply in kind: https://silvercityburro.com/2021/09/24/could-an-opera-singer-destroy-islam/(opens in a new tab)
Peter Burrows says
You have to hit the ‘Search’ button after you get to the blog site. Sorry about that. WordPress likes to torment me.
gravenimage says
Islam does hate and despise music.
OLD GUY says
Respect is gained or earned by your actions, not just given out so that the giver feels good. You ever notice the gang leaders, mafia leaders and cartel leaders are always about respect and will kill you for not respecting them? I will not RESPECT Islam as long as it is violent and vile. And I won’t but up with their call to prayer over loud speakers.
gravenimage says
+1
Green Infidel says
Around a decade ago, Cologne became home to the biggest mosque in Germany.
Then on New Year’s Eve in 2015, fireworks were set off by gangs, aimed at Cologne Cathedral.
Nearby, at the main station, large gangs of Muslim youths preyed on infidel women, harassing and sexually assaulting many, in an attack which became infamous all around Europe.
And now the call to prayer… Not from one mosque, but over 30.
Just a coincidence, that Cologne is also the city with the biggest Gothic Cathedral in Northern Europe?
gravenimage says
Exactly, Green Infidel.
somehistory says
“R E S P E C T….find out what it means to me..” (Aretha knew)
Nothing about islam commands respect. It is vile, evil, putrid, feculent, demonic.
And when people like this woman say it’s all about “respect,” it shows what a weakling she is/they are when it comes to morality, virtue, integrity, honesty and just plain common sense.