11 December 2009

You can’t call the Islamic call to prayer a noise or a nuisance’, says Muslim leader

MUSLIMS in Kenya should not be subjected to new noise pollution rules. Reacting to a recent directive issued by the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA), Adan Wachu, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Kenya Muslims, has advised mosques to ignore the initiative and continue calling the faithful to prayer as they have always done.

Adan Wachu Wachu added: For Muslims and Islam, a call to prayer cannot be under any circumstance or instances be equated to a sound or noise that is undesirable or nuisance. [The Freethinker] Read more