The Muslim call to prayer can now be broadcast without requiring permits, Mayor Adams announced in New York City.

Now, you can hear the call to worship every Friday around lunchtime and every evening during the month-long Islamic holiday called Ramadan.

Today @NYCMayor and @NYPDPC Caban stood together with Muslim faith leaders to roll out a new initiative that will make it easier for Mosques and houses of worship to broadcast the Islamic call to prayer on Fridays and during Ramadan.

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— NYC Mayor’s Office (@NYCMayorsOffice) August 29, 2023

Oh, isn’t that nice, all in the name of inclusion, tolerance, and acceptance? It’s the good Christian thing to do. It’s a good neighborly thing to do. We are a melting pot, after all. No? And Toni, way back in 2015, wrote about how Barack Obama “studied the Koran in Jakarta and has called the Muslim call to prayer one of the “prettiest sounds on Earth.”

The Adhan, popularly known as the Islamic call to public prayer, can now be publicly broadcast by mosques in New York City without a permit every Friday and throughout Ramadan under a new initiative launched by Mayor Eric Adams and NYPD Commissioner Edward A. Caban. But not everyone is happy about it. – The Christian Post

America may not have been founded as a Christian nation right off the bat when the Mayflower swayed its way toward the Massachusetts shores, but it did carry a group of God-fearing Christians.

Ethics and values derived from the Hebrew and Christian Scriptures have shaped this nation from its inception, but without being forcefully imposed on anyone. – Faith & Liberty Trail

Christianity is the most prevalent religion in America, barely though. Recent stats show that only a little over half the population considers themselves Christian, approximately 63% and that is just identifying as Christian. Church membership is lower than that, especially since the pandemic. Remember all the church closings?

But this news from Mayor Adams seems like the next logical move in our borderless country. In the olden days, immigrants came here legally and assimilated. That is no longer the way.

There is a new way. Open borders, along with tolerance, acceptance, and inclusion. And diversity and equity.

“For too long, there has been a feeling that our communities were not allowed to amplify their calls to prayer,” said Mayor Adams. “Today, we are cutting red tape and saying clearly that mosques and houses of worship are free to amplify their call to prayer on Fridays and during Ramadan without a permit necessary. We want our brothers and sisters of Muslim faith to know that they are free to live their faith in New York City because, under the law, we will all be treated equally. Our administration is proud to finally get this done.” – NYC.gov

And, of course, New York City isn’t the first city to do this. Earlier this year, Minneapolis did the same with all five daily calls to prayer over a loudspeaker. There is nothing wrong with a bit of liberty of Sharia Law seeping in, right? Freedom of religion and all. Head nod towards OG Dearborn, Michigan too

Nothing wrong with that, right? I’ll repeat it, all in the name of tolerance, acceptance, and love. Seems right and sound on the surface.

Of course, we must show love and tolerance to our brothers and sisters. Yes! I sincerely mean it.

However, I do take a pause here to remember hearing these same sentiments regarding sexual preference, and now we are mutilating and abusing children and allowing men to pose as women while usurping our spaces like it is as normal as

But I digress.

Maybe I can point you to a book titled The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam instead. The author is Douglas Murray.

Murray contends that European civilization as it has historically existed will not survive. He explores two factors in explaining this: The first is the combination of mass migration of new peoples into Europe together with its low birth rates; The second is what Murray describes as “the fact that… at the same time Europe lost faith in its beliefs, traditions, and legitimacy”. – Wikipedia 

And I have to ask, are we following this model? Just like Europe, we are close to losing our faith, beliefs, traditions, and legitimacy, as Murray writes in his book. The guilt of our past makes us vulnerable. Instead of seeing what we have learned from our mistakes, we love feeling the guilt of it.

We must pick ourselves up, see what is right again, and not fear freedom and liberty.

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