The five horrifying moments of the day when half your neighbours are Muslim
In Dearborn, Michigan, more than half the residents are Muslim, including the mayor. And it has consequences for the public sphere.
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In Dearborn (Michigan, Wayne County), 55% of the inhabitants are Muslim. For this reason, Five times a day the call to prayer sounds over the loudspeakers. Throughout the city. Day and night. A citizen sends X a video of how he wakes up between 4 and 5 in the morning. It's no longer about some mosque doing it as a… Minneapolis, New York, Stockholm or Birmingham. In Dearborn It doesn't matter where you live, because they will call you to pray and you will feel it..
Dearborn is known as Dearbornistan.
The presence of Islam in Dearborn is perceived in the public space through of visible elements such as mosques (they have the largest in the United States), shops with Arabic signs and the availability of products halal, but also for the sonic practice of the call to prayer.
In 2021, The election of Abdullah Hammoud as Dearborn's first Muslim mayor marked a turning point.Of the seven councillors, four are of Arab origin and Muslim. This has meant that the Muslims have control of everything and things like that happen. The mayor invited a citizen to leave the city. for disagreeing to name a street after a Hamas supporter, that The police present a shield with Arabic letters or what A girl with a hijab wins the beauty pageant. from the county with the Muslim vote to the county. Or what happens in neighbouring Hamtrack: the ban on the LGBT flag.
What is the call to prayer in Islam?
The call to prayer (or adhan) is a chant lasting a minute and a half to notify the faithful that they must go to the mosque to pray. It is recited five times a day, corresponding to the prayer times: at dawn, at midday, in the early afternoon, in the evening and at night. The times of the call are not fixed because they depend on the sun's position each day.
What does the call to prayer say?
The call to prayer (adhān) It is a set of phrases in Arabic to call the faithful. The text may vary slightly depending on tradition but it is always a cry to to remind who is in charge and who follows the right god.
The call to prayer says: God is the greatest, God is the greatest. I testify that there is no god but God and that Muhammad is the messenger of God. Come to prayer, come to salvation. God is the greatest, God is the greatest. There is no god but God. In the case of the dawn call, the phrase is added: Prayer is better than sleep.
Criticisms of the call to prayer
Phrases such as “There is no other god but God.” They can be seen, from an external perspective, as a denial of other religions. For many critics, It is directly religious supremacism. announced five times a day in a western city.
Critics argue that the message can be invasive in public spaces, especially because it is repeated several times a day at varying times depending on the sun's position. But in Dearborn they have no say; it's Dearbornistan and it won't change, especially now that they've signed a sister-city agreement with the city of Qana in Lebanon: This agreement allows immigrants from Lebanon to enter on J-1 visas, which grants them the status of «exchange visitor» and gives them access to jobs, education and resources.
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