Calls to change mosque loudspeakers

Obviously Islam is a source of Noise Pollution.

Year-round, like most urban dwellers in the world's largest Muslim nation that boasts 800,000 mosques, the 22-year-old university student has to contend with the "azan" that begins at dawn and calls worshippers to prayer five times a day.

But during Ramadan the mosques go into overdrive. Their crackling speakers blare out not only the azan, but also calls to worshippers to wake before the pre-dawn sahur breakfast that begins the day-long fast, and Koran recitations that go on almost all day and night.

"It's worse during Ramadan," complained Kusuma, who for the past three years has lived in a rented room only 20 metres (65 feet) from the closest mosque.

In Indonesia, Ramadan - a time of year when Muslims forgo food, drink and sex between dawn and dusk - started on July 21. Eid al-Fitr, the feast marking the end of the fasting month, falls on August 19. Dates may vary elsewhere.

But while it is regarded as one of the most spiritual periods in the Islamic calendar, for many it is also the most noisy.

"Most people wake up just before 4:30 am for a quick sahur, but the speakers start calling the people to wake up at 2:30 am ," said Kusuma

Timesten wrote:

Year-round, like most urban dwellers in the world's largest Muslim nation that boasts 800,000 mosques, the 22-year-old university student has to contend with the "azan" that begins at dawn and calls worshippers to prayer five times a day.
But during Ramadan the mosques go into overdrive. Their crackling speakers blare out not only the azan, but also calls to worshippers to wake before the pre-dawn sahur breakfast that begins the day-long fast, and Koran recitations that go on almost all day and night.
"It's worse during Ramadan," complained Kusuma, who for the past three years has lived in a rented room only 20 metres (65 feet) from the closest mosque.
In Indonesia, Ramadan - a time of year when Muslims forgo food, drink and sex between dawn and dusk - started on July 21. Eid al-Fitr, the feast marking the end of the fasting month, falls on August 19. Dates may vary elsewhere.
But while it is regarded as one of the most spiritual periods in the Islamic calendar, for many it is also the most noisy.
"Most people wake up just before 4:30 am for a quick sahur, but the speakers start calling the people to wake up at 2:30 am ," said Kusuma

Blasting speakers is your positive statement about Islam? Wow, you are desperate.

It's their business. Leave it be that.

Timesten wrote:

It's their business ...

What happens when "their business" opens up shop right next door and you have to hear, whether you want to or not, call to prayer 5 times a day at all hours blaring on a loud speaker.

Timesten wrote:

It's their business. Leave it be that.

Yes and a lot of them are complaing about it. So they should. Pollution is pollution.

Wilberhum wrote:

<quoted text>Blasting speakers is your positive statement about Islam? Wow, you are desperate.

Quite desperate indeed!This guy goes 'gaga' seeing hijab clad Saudi women participating in UK Olypics;thrashes out posts after post about the glories of Muslim participants-when others just normally go for the best performers irrespective of religion. He should know that most of the problems stem up only from his countires in the UK Olypics

get EARTH FIRST after them and prove the loudspeakers are disrupting the flight of birds.....

The muslims bother, offend and insult people wherever they go. The world would be a far better place if there were no such thing as islam.

Used to hear that as a child, where I lived church singings are not to be heard beyond the church walls because it is not Islamic and may offend muslims. But muslims have no problem imposing their noise on others. Who cares if you worked late and need some sleep?

ancient grunting blasted blasted though loudspeakers is noise pollution to the rest of the thinking world.

Timesten wrote:

It's their business. Leave it be that.

It's not their business if they are bothering others around them.

Rusty Tin Can wrote:

Used to hear that as a child, where I lived church singings are not to be heard beyond the church walls because it is not Islamic and may offend muslims. But muslims have no problem imposing their noise on others. Who cares if you worked late and need some sleep?

That exactly sums up the typical and rampant hypocrisy that is inherent in Islam itself and therefore in Muslims.

Oh sod off, you stupid buggars!

I don't like those blaring minarets either but have none of you ever lived across the road from a Christian church when those damned bells start rattling the windows and shaking your bed towards the middle of the floor?!

What about the drone of 7 million Budhist monks "ummm"'ing in unison?

Faith wrote:

The world would be a far better place if there were no such thing as islam.

But then who would have the balls to punish the United Snakes for its crimes against humanity?

Annie Muk wrote:

Oh sod off, you stupid buggars!
I don't like those blaring minarets either but have none of you ever lived across the road from a Christian church when those damned bells start rattling the windows and shaking your bed towards the middle of the floor?!
What about the drone of 7 million Budhist monks "ummm"'ing in unison?

It's not so much the noise....It's the crime, the honor killings, the skyjackings, the rapes, the bomb plots, the cartoon riots, the forced marriages....In the West, that kind of thing is considered..well...off-putting .

Annie Muk wrote:

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But then who would have the balls to punish the United Snakes for its crimes against humanity?

We're trying to help the Russians sober up and get their empire back so we can re-start the Cold War and restore order to the world.

Faith wrote:

<quoted text>We're trying to help the Russians sober up and get their empire back so we can re-start the Cold War and restore order to the world.

Now you're talkin'!

Faith wrote:

<quoted text>We're trying to help the Russians sober up and get their empire back so we can re-start the Cold War and restore order to the world.

In hindsight, we should have let them have Afghanistan. They would have been easier targets after we let the Russians put down the tribes.

They have volume controls