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Mufti: Jerusalem municipality to require quieter call to prayer
Mufti: Jerusalem municipality to require quieter call to prayer
Published yesterday (updated) 02/03/2014 14:44
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=677901
JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Israeli municipal authorities in Jerusalem are planning
to require mosques to lower the volume of the Muslim call to prayer, the
Grand Mufti of Jerusalem said in a statement Sunday.
“Mosques in Palestine in general and in Jerusalem in particular have been
targets of a vicious campaign by the occupation authorities,” Muhammad
Hussein said in the statement.
The mufti condemned the plans, saying that Muslim authorities were the only
ones who had the right to intervene in mosque affairs.
“The occupation authorities make light of all heavenly laws and
international law as they follow a systematic plan designed to efface all
Arab and Palestinian landmarks in Palestine and replace them with Jewish
landmarks.”
Palestinian officials frequently condemn what they refer to as the
“Judaization of Jerusalem” on the part of Israeli authorities, who they say
engage in discriminatory policies that discriminate against Palestinian
residents and seek to encourage their departure from the city. East
Jerusalem has been occupied by Israel since 1967.
Israeli authorities sometimes limit the Muslim call the prayer in other
parts of the Palestinian territories, particularly in Hebron where Jewish
settlers have taken over properties in the city center.
Israeli forces forbade the Islamic call for prayer at the Ibrahimi Mosque in
Hebron 49 times in the month of January because it “annoyed” Jewish
settlers, according to an official from the Palestinian Authority ministry
of endowments.
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Sounds like the usual muslim propaganda. Muslims murder and torture Christians but pretend to be victims because their call to prayer can’t be loud enough to wake the dead.