Wednesday, April 28, 2004
Call to Prayer
This is so cool. While we are doing our whatevers this Tuesday, April 27th, the City Council of the City of Hamtramck (home of the paczkis on Fat Tuesday and Perogies for dinner and everything else Polish and Catholic by my recollection) is making world news. They are voting whether to allow a loud speaker to broadcast a call to prayer Five Times a Day, Every Day.
Hamtramck is a little 2 mile square inside the city of Detroit. This call to prayer will be heard in all neighborhoods by neighbors of all religions. This is not just for the Muslim neighbors. All will hear it just as all hear the church bells or the Jewish horns.
You can hear this call to prayer at this site: detnews.com/2004/metro/0404/26/a01-133933
Can you imagine? Five times a day you would hear this.
On the one hand, it is a call for people to pray, not murder or plunder or commit any acts other than peaceful religious ones.
On the other hand, it is not just a once-a-week on Sunday Morning before and after church bells. Our Christian pastors must be envious--how wonderful Christians could be if they considered calling people to pray 5 times a day instead of once on Sunday.
This should be interesting.
This is so cool. While we are doing our whatevers this Tuesday, April 27th, the City Council of the City of Hamtramck (home of the paczkis on Fat Tuesday and Perogies for dinner and everything else Polish and Catholic by my recollection) is making world news. They are voting whether to allow a loud speaker to broadcast a call to prayer Five Times a Day, Every Day.
Hamtramck is a little 2 mile square inside the city of Detroit. This call to prayer will be heard in all neighborhoods by neighbors of all religions. This is not just for the Muslim neighbors. All will hear it just as all hear the church bells or the Jewish horns.
You can hear this call to prayer at this site: detnews.com/2004/metro/0404/26/a01-133933
Can you imagine? Five times a day you would hear this.
On the one hand, it is a call for people to pray, not murder or plunder or commit any acts other than peaceful religious ones.
On the other hand, it is not just a once-a-week on Sunday Morning before and after church bells. Our Christian pastors must be envious--how wonderful Christians could be if they considered calling people to pray 5 times a day instead of once on Sunday.
This should be interesting.
