Wolfgang Schörner: When the Imam calls to prayer;
Bavaria September 25th
At a meeting of Mayor Stefan Korpan (CSU) and two pastors with Imam Benjamin Idriz on Wednesday in Penzberg, the Imam wished that the call to Friday prayer could also be heard outside the mosque.
As a qualification, he added that this should not be done loudly and not, as prescribed in the Koran, five times a day.
It is only about a call to prayer once a week on Friday, occasionally perhaps, as a sign of solidarity together with the church bells.
Loudspeakers should sound the call to prayer for three to five minutes, but only in the vicinity of the mosque and not in the entire city area.
Of course, the mayor has to legally clarify whether a call to prayer requires approval and to what extent this falls under the freedom of religion set out in the Basic Law.
However, it should also be borne in mind that Islam is a strict, uncompromising religion that is geared towards global growth and that fundamentally rejects cooperation with other religions.
An example of this is Saudi Arabia, which is shaped by Islam, where, for example, apostasy, the conversion of a Muslim to Christianity, is punished with a death sentence and is still brutally carried out.
Are a call to prayer, and the duration and sound components downplayed by it by the Iman, really worth looking into?
I mean, yes, if you don't want to take the risk of hearing the Muslim call to prayer thundering over the whole city from the towers of the Frauenkirche one day with the bells off.
Peter Hütz
Krailling
On September 23, 2020, the Higher Administrative Court (OVG) for the state of North Rhine-Westphalia rejected a complaint against the muezzin call approved by a city in the northern Ruhr area.
The residents, a married couple with a plot of land about 900 meters away, saw their religious freedom restricted by the reputation.
The 8th Senate of the OVG did not share this view.
"Every society has to accept that you can see that others are living out their faith," said the presiding judge.
The OVG does not see the plaintiff as being “significant nuisance” through the call.
Since the two pastors who were also present at this meeting with Imam Benjamin Idriz already gave their consent to the muezzin call, in future it will probably only be about the expandable issues of volume and duration of the call time or their intervals.
The reactions to the solidarity-based symbiosis of the imam loudspeaker call with the accompanying church bells will also be interesting.
Johannes Ostermair
Ainhofen
Out of personal interest, I have repeatedly dealt intensively with the topic “Does Islam belong to Germany?” (Statement by our Chancellor Angela Merkel).
As I can see from the article, both the Penzberg mayor Stefan Korpan (CSU) and the two pastors Bernhard Holz and Julian Lademann have shown themselves to be open to the wishes of the Imam of Penzberg, namely in the future perhaps together with the church bells as a sign of solidarity together to call to the prayer of Islam for Friday prayer.
This is where my hair stands up!
Islam is a "totalitarian ideology".
If you still have doubts about this, I recommend the various publications by the book author Hamed Abdel-Samad ”, in particular the book“ The Islamic Fascism ”.
My conclusion: resist the beginnings!
Rita Schweiger
MdL aD, Nandlstadt