Zone1 Dearborn residents raise concerns about loudspeaker used by mosque for call to prayer

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Dearborn residents raise concerns about loudspeaker used by mosque for call to prayer​

By Gino Vicci
September 24, 2025 / 5:54 PM EDT / CBS Detroit




A contentious battle is brewing in Dearborn, Michigan, over a mosque's use of an outdoor loudspeaker for its call to prayer.

One resident spoke at Tuesday's city council meeting, presenting a signed petition over the speaker at the Dearborn Community Center on Schaefer Road.

Andrea Unger cited a city ordinance, which states that people are prohibited from creating "the continuance of any unreasonably loud, disturbing, unusual or unnecessary noise which annoys, disturbs, injures, or endangers the comfort, repose, health, peace or safety of others within the limits of the city."

"The mosques in East Dearborn are at times waking us up at 5:30 a.m. with a call to prayer and, at other times, forcing us to listen to the prayer in our yard and in our own home," Unger said in the meeting.

Dearborn residents raise concerns about loudspeaker used by mosque for call to prayer

A contentious battle is brewing in Dearborn, Michigan, over a mosque's use of an outdoor loudspeaker for its call to prayer.

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This is crap.

I am looking forward to hearing the complaints from the anti christians holding muslims to the same standard they hold christians,,

 

[Lisa558]

That must be unbearable! Totally horrible! I feel sorry for those poor residents

It will only get worse once the antisemitic Muslim becomes the mayor of NYC.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Ours every Saturday 12:00. Several minutes.

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Condolences to you and yours.

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[OhPleaseJustQuit]

That must be unbearable! Totally horrible! I feel sorry for those poor residents

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Back when I was a lot more tolerant, I heard a few versions of the adhan, the call to prayer, that were easier to listen to, but I never had to live with it five times a day for an extended period of time.

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[BothWings]

Do Christian Churches do that anymore? I think you are being sarcastic.

Actually, I just went and looked up the issue on You Tube. This one is not made up. Sure 'nuff this particular mosque IS doing this and it ain't right.

I used to live in Orange County, NY...and in Orange County, NY there is Jewish village called Kiryas Joel. My family actually rented from an Orthodox Jew for about a year and we lived among them and a few Puerto Ricans too. Most of our neighbors were actually decent people to tell the truth, sometimes even neighborly but we also lived on the outskirts of town where people with different persuasions were a little more mixed. I played with some Hasidic kids when I was a kid myself. But, as you headed into the heart of the village it was all Orthodox Jewish and their lifestyle became more and more dogmatic and centralized. This was a PUBLIC zone, NOT private property. And as time progressed through the '90s and on into the 21st century, the leaders of that village tried to take advantage more and more of the public while still trying to preserve their religious "church" status. They were using town water and repeatedly made appeals to try to get it for free based on that! There were many similar cases. And "ordinary" people were starting to get fed up with them. I can understand that and agree that those Hasidic folks were behaving very audaciously. They also had a way of standing around in groups at supermarkets and holding up the line and stuff. You couldn't get by and you had to ask them to move. And they would do it very slowly and incredulously like they were doing nothing wrong, like they were clueless that it was a public place with procedures in place, and everyone had to share.

 

[DGS49]

When I was growing up in the East Liberty neighborhood of Pittsburgh, there was a large, cathedral-like church that pealed its bells at 0900, noon, 1800 and 1900. As a little kid, I had to be home by the time the 2100 bells finished tolling.

I found the bells nice and comforting, but maybe there were others who found them obnoxious.

Conversely, I think that the President and every Governor ought to make it clear that if you come to this country from some God-forsaken shit-hole, you must accept our culture and do nothing that is antithetical to it. "Do your call to prayer via cell phone, radio, or silently."

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

When I was growing up in the East Liberty neighborhood of Pittsburgh, there was a large, cathedral-like church that pealed its bells at 0900, noon, 1800 and 1900. As a little kid, I had to be home by the time the 2100 bells finished tolling.

I found the bells nice and comforting, but maybe there were others who found them obnoxious.

Conversely, I think that the President and every Governor ought to make it clear that if you come to this country from some God-forsaken shit-hole, you must accept our culture and do nothing that is antithetical to it. "Do your call to prayer via cell phone, radio, or silently."

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Smart phone. You know that every one of them, maybe with the exception of old grandmas, has one. And if not, they have clocks.

I manage to get to Mass every morning without having to have church bells to remind me.

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[BothWings]

When I was growing up in the East Liberty neighborhood of Pittsburgh, there was a large, cathedral-like church that pealed its bells at 0900, noon, 1800 and 1900. As a little kid, I had to be home by the time the 2100 bells finished tolling.

I found the bells nice and comforting, but maybe there were others who found them obnoxious.

Conversely, I think that the President and every Governor ought to make it clear that if you come to this country from some God-forsaken shit-hole, you must accept our culture and do nothing that is antithetical to it. "Do your call to prayer via cell phone, radio, or silently."

I'll bet East Liberty was a lot nicer then than it is now!

(Yes, I'm familiar with it.)

Totally agree with the rest of your post, btw.

 

[Crepitus]

Getting Answers

Dearborn residents raise concerns about loudspeaker used by mosque for call to prayer​

By Gino Vicci
September 24, 2025 / 5:54 PM EDT / CBS Detroit




A contentious battle is brewing in Dearborn, Michigan, over a mosque's use of an outdoor loudspeaker for its call to prayer.

One resident spoke at Tuesday's city council meeting, presenting a signed petition over the speaker at the Dearborn Community Center on Schaefer Road.

Andrea Unger cited a city ordinance, which states that people are prohibited from creating "the continuance of any unreasonably loud, disturbing, unusual or unnecessary noise which annoys, disturbs, injures, or endangers the comfort, repose, health, peace or safety of others within the limits of the city."

"The mosques in East Dearborn are at times waking us up at 5:30 a.m. with a call to prayer and, at other times, forcing us to listen to the prayer in our yard and in our own home," Unger said in the meeting.

Dearborn residents raise concerns about loudspeaker used by mosque for call to prayer

A contentious battle is brewing in Dearborn, Michigan, over a mosque's use of an outdoor loudspeaker for its call to prayer.

www.cbsnews.com

This is crap.

Suddenly you understand the problems with pushing you religion on others?

 

[JustAGuy1]

Suddenly you understand the problems with pushing you religion on others?

I've never pushed anything on anyone.

 

[Crepitus]

I've never pushed anything on anyone.

But many wish to. Prayer in schools anyone? ten commandments in the courthouse? praying at high school football games?

 

[hjmick]

OK where are all of you Leftists who mocked me when I said "Call To Prayer" is coming to America? And this raises a religious question: Why do Muslims need a loud obnoxious Call To Prayer 5 times a day when the other major religions don't?

Church bells.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Suddenly you understand the problems with pushing you religion on others?

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When do Christians ever do this to non-Christians?




FIVE TIMES A DAY.

And that's not the entire adhan.



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[Crepitus]

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When do Christians ever do this to non-Christians?




FIVE TIMES A DAY.

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When they pray at secular public events. When they push their ideology by doing things like teaching the bible in public schools.

Have you forgotten all the things your theocrats want to do ?

 

[JustAGuy1]

But many wish to. Prayer in schools anyone? ten commandments in the courthouse? praying at high school football games?

Hell will welcome you. We prayed at every game, nobody whined child.

 

[Crepitus]

Hell will welcome you. We prayed at every game, nobody whined child.

Hell is just as imaginary as heaven and ghod.

 

[JustAGuy1]

Hell is just as imaginary as heaven and ghod.

Right up until it isn't.

 

[Crepitus]

Right up until it isn't.

Wake me when that happens.

 

[skye]

When I was growing up in the East Liberty neighborhood of Pittsburgh, there was a large, cathedral-like church that pealed its bells at 0900, noon, 1800 and 1900. As a little kid, I had to be home by the time the 2100 bells finished tolling.

I found the bells nice and comforting, but maybe there were others who found them obnoxious.

Conversely, I think that the President and every Governor ought to make it clear that if you come to this country from some God-forsaken shit-hole, you must accept our culture and do nothing that is antithetical to it. "Do your call to prayer via cell phone, radio, or silently."

I agree with that, yes Sir.

 

[JustAGuy1]

Wake me when that happens.

No need, you'll know.