Call to Prayer Controversy

An excerpt from the Washington Post -

Israel wants mosques to turn the volume way down
By William Booth and Ruth Eglash

JERUSALEM — When the call to prayer begins in the Palestinian neighborhoods here, the Muslim faithful hear a song beautiful and sublime. Hour by hour, five times a day, it is the soundtrack of their lives. And it stirs deep emotions.


Across the walls, across the lines that separate Arabs from Jews, the Muslims’ call to prayer means something very different.

The Jews hear noise, they say. And worse.

During periods of heightened violence, when the Jews who live near Palestinians hear the Arabs proclaim that “God is great!” in a broadcast that travels far from the mosque’s loudspeakers, they say they do not think of God.

They hear a threat.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/israel-wants-mosques-to-turn-the-volume-way-down/2016/12/11/8631e9b0-b538-11e6-939c-91749443c5e5_story.html?utm_term=.04a9ab4ef5d1&wpisrc=nl_rainbow&wpmm=1

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I loved hearing the call to prayer.  It was very soothing and reverential.  It was foreign to me, but I didn't perceive it as being intrusive.

The issue here is so much more than these simple prayers recited throughout the day.