Below are three related stories about the inroads Islam has made in America.<\/p>\n
The first, from ABC News New York City<\/a> in September 2023, reports:<\/p>\n OZONE PARK, Queens (WABC) — <\/span>New York City took a big step earlier this week, clarifying that the Muslim call to prayer can be broadcast every Friday afternoon from any mosque — no permit necessary.<\/strong><\/p>\n It is 1:15 p.m. Friday, and on Forbell Street in City Line, Brooklyn, the Adhan, or call to prayer can be heard. Worshippers of the Muslim faith head into Masjid Al-Aman for afternoon prayer.<\/strong><\/p>\n “We have gotten the attention of a lot of our neighbors I know sometimes in the wrong way,” said Kobir Chowdry.<\/strong><\/p>\n “We don’t have an opposition to it as long as it’s kept at a respectable level, same as the Catholic Church bells and the music,” said Sam Esposito from Ozone Park.<\/strong><\/p>\n However, concerns have spurred confusion that a permit was required to broadcast the prayer.<\/strong><\/p>\n “The permit is that you don’t go beyond 54 decibel points,” added Chowdry.<\/strong><\/p>\n On Tuesday, Mayor Eric Adams and city leaders publicly acknowledged the most sacred Islamic prayer times, between 12:30 p.m. and 1:30 p.m. for Friday prayer and during Ramadan.<\/strong><\/p>\n “If you are a Mosque or a house of worship of any kind, you do not have to apply for a permit to amplify your call to Friday prayer. You are free to live your faith in New York City if you hear the Adhan on Fridays,” said Adams. “The Jewish community goes to temple on Saturday. And you hear the Christian church bells ring on Sunday.”<\/strong><\/p>\n The second article, from Daniel Greenfield<\/a>, reports:<\/p>\n Sen. Saddam Azlan Salim, the second Muslim selected for the state senate, after Ghazala Hashmi, who is now acting as Virginia\u2019s Lt. Governor, the Bangladeshi immigrant, from a country where non-Muslims are being murdered in the streets, has introduced a bill to define \u2018Islamophobia\u2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n The most notable thing about his bill SB 624 \u2018Assault and battery; definition of \u201cIslamophobia\u201d, penalty\u2019 is how completely unnecessary it is.<\/strong><\/p>\n Virginia already has multiple layers of hate crimes enhancements for assaults motivated by race, ethnicity and religion. During Gov. Glenn Youngkin\u2019s term, the legislature has already passed SB 7 (Senate Bill 7) and its counterpart enhancing the assault charge for anyone who \u201cintentionally selects the person against whom a simple assault is committed because of his race, religious conviction, gender, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, color, or ethnic or national origin.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n That should cover Islam and Muslims. And yet Sen. Saddam introduced a 3 page bill with 10 clauses in its first section a whole lot of whom do nothing more than add (including Islam) where it isn\u2019t remotely needed or useful. For example \u201cbecause of his race, religious conviction (including Islam), gender, disability, gender identity\u201d or \u201cbecause of his race, religious conviction (including Islam)\u201d. Islam appears to be the only religion being singled out this way.<\/strong><\/p>\n Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff was put on trial in Europe because she referred to Mohammad as a pedophile. In Islam blasphemy is anything negative the hearer does not want to hear–it doesn’t matter if it is true. This principle is what this bill is setting up.<\/p>\n Finally, the last article comes from msm<\/a> last week. It reports:<\/p>\n A Palestinian activist has called for dogs to be banned as pets in New York City<\/a> claiming they aren’t Islamic.<\/strong><\/p>\n Nerdeen Kiswani said dogs have a ‘place in society’ but ‘not as indoor pets.’<\/strong><\/p>\n ‘Like we’ve said all along, they are unclean,’ she wrote on X.<\/strong><\/p>\n After receiving fierce backlash she later claimed that her post was a ‘joke’.<\/strong><\/p>\n ‘[Laughing] at the Zionists frothing at the mouth at this, thinking they’re doing something,’ she wrote.<\/strong><\/p>\n ‘It’s obviously a joke I don’t care if you have a dog, I do care if your dog is s***ting everywhere and you’re not cleaning it.<\/strong><\/p>\n ‘Also clearly trying to weigh in on an issue unaware of the current NYC discourse where we’re collectively (jokingly) hating on dogs given all the visible dog s**t in the unmelted snow.’\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Muslims typically do not keep dogs as pets as many believers feel they are meant to be used for work such as herding or hunting.<\/strong><\/p>\n We need to protect our culture. If you are here, you should be expected to assimilate–not try to duplicate the culture you left.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Below are three related stories about the inroads Islam has made in America. The first, from ABC News New York City in September 2023, reports: OZONE PARK, Queens (WABC) — New York City took a big step earlier this week, … Continue reading