Detroit area city inaugurates all Muslim council
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And another comment that I had to erase…
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[Mayor elect] Ghalib said … "We are proud of our beliefs and values. But we are not going to try and impose them on others."
[Council member] Jaczkowski added: "We're gonna take an oath to protect the Constitution of the United States. And the Constitution of the United States includes the separation of church and state."
The mayor-elect and his council promise a separation of mosque and state. That's the law, they say, and also their intent.
Sounds reasonable enough. Best wishes to the newly elected mayor and city council.
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@axtremus said in Detroit area city inaugurates all Muslim council:
[Mayor elect] Ghalib said … "We are proud of our beliefs and values. But we are not going to try and impose them on others."
Except when they do
At last week’s city council meeting, several residents of the Hamtramck Senior Plaza apartments on Holbrook complained about the volume level of the call to prayer coming from the Ideal Islamic Center, located across from the apartment complex.
Jeanette Powell said she’s not complaining as a way to “bash anyone’s religion.”
She said the call or prayer was broadcast at 6 a.m. and found the volume “overbearing.”
“Just turn it down a little bit.”
Carol Marsh said not only was the call to prayer too loud, she insisted that the organizers of the center never said it would serve as a mosque.
“We were lied to,” she said. “We were told it would never be turned into a mosque.”
But Sakrul Islam of the center said no one ever said it would not be a mosque, saying an Islamic center “covers everything.”
