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Muezzin call in Germany: Kölle Allah

2021-10-22T11:29:03.471Z


The bells are allowed to ring, the muezzin should be silent? Why Christians are making a strategic mistake when they view Muslims as a threat rather than an ally.


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On the Rheinboulevard in Cologne

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In some quarters of Cologne a muezzin will be heard in the future.

The city has allowed the mosque communities to publicly call their believers to prayer, every Friday between 12 p.m. and 3 p.m.

I am more familiar with Cologne Cathedral than Cologne Central Mosque.

But that in a city with many bell-ringing churches, Islam now also gets its five minutes, I think it's only fair, Kölle Allah.

Some critics say that muezzin and church bell cannot be equated. The bell is a western cultural asset. A muezzin call like "Allahu Akbar, God is greater than all religions, all enemies, all people", on the other hand, is alien to our culture, stands for a partly violent, misogynistic, anti-enlightenment religion, and in some cases even represents a call to the caliphate. Cologne give up his liberal values ​​out of misunderstood tolerance.

Cultural asset? One can only hope that no Muslim will remember the story of Pope Calixt III. remind. When the Ottomans approached under Sultan Mehmed II in 1456, he ordered the bells to ring every noon to call Christianity to prayer against the enemy. Many churches hold fast to this tradition of the twelve o'clock tinkling, which entered into pious usage as the so-called Turkish bell, and many churches hold fast to this day, so much for the West. Incidentally, Christian churches in Turkey are allowed to ring the bell.

So that no misunderstandings arise: I consider Islamism, radical, political Islam, to be a real danger. Anyone who thinks that a woman has to run three steps behind her husband is wrong in Germany. But I also think that it is disrespectful to insinuate that the more than five million Muslims in Germany are planning a state of God with mandatory burka and pork ban. The right to undisturbed practice of religion guaranteed in Article 4 of the Basic Law also applies to them. Precisely because radical Islam likes to thrive with the import imam in the backyard mosque, it is good if Muslims go into public more than before, when dealing with Islam in everyday life normalizes. This facilitates control as well as integration.

I also believe that Christians are making a strategic mistake in viewing Muslims as a threat rather than an ally.

At the end of the religious struggle, there is not a victory over the Turks before Vienna, but a society remote from the church, in which religious customs have been secularized away.

Like in Berlin, for example, where the “Sun, Moon and Stars” festival will soon be celebrated in daycare centers, because the non-Christian children are not expected to move to Saint Martin's.

Wouldn't it be better for all believers if there were peaceful coexistence?

What speaks against it if both the Christian St. Martin's and the Islamic sugar festival are celebrated in the day care center.

A liberal society respects the diversity of ways of life.

The ringing of bells is part of Germany, and so will the muezzzin call in the future.

Source: spiegel

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