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Andrea Unger, who has lived for 40 years in the city of Dearborn, Michigan told Fox News Digital recently that the loudspeakers at a mosque about a quarter-mile from her home broadcast the Islamic call to prayer multiple times a day, sometimes as early as 5:30 a.m. and often for as long as five minutes. It can be heard clearly inside her home.
Ms. Unger recorded the call to prayer for 30 consecutive days and found that it consistently exceeded 70 decibels. The city ordinance states that noise in residential areas is not to exceed 55 decibels at night (after 10 p.m.) or 60 decibels during the day (from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m.). Loudspeakers are prohibited between the hours of 10 p.m. and 7 a.m.
She has raised concerns about this with the police department and city council over the past two years, to no avail. “There is no atheist, Christian, Jewish, Catholic, or other group that is allowed to use loudspeaker to blast a five-minute prayer into the homes of people in the East Dearborn community,” she told Fox.
Some of her neighbors have been reluctant to join her in speaking out.
“I have heard a lot of people say, ‘I’m glad you said something,’ because people are afraid they’ll get called names like ‘Islamophobic,’ like our mayor [Abdullah H. Hammoud] called [Dearborn resident and Christian minister] Ted Barham, because you disagree,” she said, referring to an incident I’ll get to in a moment. “We’re not Islamophobic, we’re not anti-Muslim, we are not anti-Jewish. We just want to live in the community that it’s always been [before]. Something changed two years ago to allow this.”
Dearborn Mayor Hammoud (pictured), who has been in office since January 1, 2022, dismissed these concerns on a recent episode of the Not From Here podcast, claiming “we’ve done decibel readings at these mosques, all within threshold, all within legal limit. And so for me, it’s not an issue.”
It’s not an issue for him because he’s Muslim. He added,
We also have to uphold our constitutional rights to freedom of religion. And I would say this, you know, that’s the thing. I’m saying this as a Muslim. People, of course, are going to say this is a call to prayer, but like, you know, why are these complaints just coming forward now?… Call to prayer has been happening since the 1970s in Dearborn.
The complaint about the call to prayer is not an issue of religious freedom – it’s an issue of the mosque consistently breaking the sound ordinance. Nevertheless, Hammoud went on to compare the sound of the call to prayer to that of church bells – as if the melodic tones of church bells are being blasted into Dearborn residents’ homes five times daily beginning at 5:30 a.m. for up to five minutes or longer. It’s also worth pointing out that the majority of Muslim-majority countries around the world prohibit church bells from being broadcast from loudspeakers at all – if churches are even allowed.
You may recall Hammoud as the mayor who unloaded on local resident Edward “Ted” Barham, a Christian, at a September city council meeting, after Barham objected to new street signs honoring Arab American News publisher Osama Siblani, whom he described as “a promoter of Hezbollah and Hamas.” Indeed, Siblani has proudly defended the two terror organizations as “freedom fighters” and refused to repudiate Hamas’ October 7, 2023 savagery in Israel, condemning instead “those people who drove the Palestinians” to carry out the barbaric attacks. Barham compared the “provocative” street signs to naming a road “Hezbollah Street or Hamas Street,” and stressed that as a Christian, he wanted to encourage peace.
An obviously triggered Hammoud then interjected with a hate-filled tirade that shocked many in attendance: “The best suggestion I have for you is to not drive on Warren Avenue or to close your eyes while you’re doing it. His name is up there and I spoke at a ceremony celebrating it because he’s done a lot for this community.”
He went on to smear Barham as “a bigot,” a “racist,” and “an Islamophobe” before declaring, “Although you live here, I want you to know as mayor, you are not welcome here. And the day you move out of the city will be the day that I launch a parade celebrating the fact that you moved out of this city.”
It’s absolutely jaw-dropping that an elected local official would launch a personal attack in this fashion on a citizen bringing a legitimate complaint about honoring a terrorism supporter. It’s especially telling that the Muslim mayor would target that citizen as being unwelcome in the city. Hammoud apparently is confident that, because Dearborn has the country’s highest per capita population of Muslims, he can threaten Christians like Barham as “unwelcome” without repercussions.
This is what we see happening from Europe to Australia to the United States: all too often, when Muslims in the West secure even local political power and a sizeable-enough population, Islamic supremacism rears its ugly head, and harassment, intimidation, and even violence follow.
Consider this in light of the recent revelation that a whopping 48 mosques have been constructed in Texas within the last two years alone. According to a 2020 survey by the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU), the number of mosques in Texas had grown 35% since 2010, from 166 to 224 – although the Not the Bee website notes that online data scrapers list as many as 330 mosques in Texas as of 2025. Will no-go zones become inevitable? Will Houston, which has the largest Muslim population in the southern United States, become the next Dearborn?
At least one Texas politician is taking action. Gov. Greg Abbott on Tuesday signed a proclamation declaring the Muslim Brotherhood and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as foreign terrorist organizations in Texas – a good start (now if only the Trump administration would take similar federal action). “The Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR have long made their goals clear,” the statement reads, “to forcibly impose Sharia law and establish Islam’s ‘mastership of the world.’”
Bravo for Gov. Abbott. The Lone Star State must not become the next Michigan.
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Isn’t this how it always goes? Little by little until you wake up one day and say “what happened?”
This is what happened in academia. Little by little the Leftist’s were taking over teaching America is bad and white people are racist. All while the rest of America was complacent. Same with LBTQ movement. Oh, you’re paranoid. Nobody is glorifying the gay lifestyle or Trans movement and presenting it to elementary school kids.
Muslims are slowly taking over. How in the world that Dearborn Mayor Hammoud got away unscathed by what he said is beyond me. The national news media didn’t touch that with a ten foot pole.
carl van winter I am scared Muslims are taking over the country. They don’t want to assimilate. 76 mayoral elections resulted in 42 Muslim mayors. Little by little we are giving away our country
The sound of Satan’s false religion in American cities five times a day is not nearly as disturbing as the presence of Muslim armories, training centers, and propaganda mills that we allow to be built in growing numbers across our land. This whole edifice of evil must be purged if our republic is to survive.
That dude has a frightening face. A killer’s stone cold stare.
He has the face of a goat. They all do. It gets very lonely in those desert tents.
A rabid goat, and we all no once an animal goes rabid, there is only one solution.
Reconquista may be in our future. Deux vult!
Only our towns St Mary’s Church rings their Bell but its a time when everyone’s already well awake our local Museum last rung its bell on July 4th 1976 for the Bicentennial and the rang all the Church bells to
The church bell is non-specific.
The Muslim call to prayer is exclusionary.
…..and this proves that Muslims are all so very dirty, they do not possess a Sense Of Proportion……..much less a Sense Of Decency.
I recommend blasting klezmer music through massive speakers to drown out the noise.
Maybe it could kill the Muslim invaders, like the Slim Whitman music killed the invading Martins in “Mars Attacks!”. (^_^)
Technology has made the loudspeakers obsolete—congregants could be alerted by SMS text messages if the purpose was to notify them to come to prayers. Loudspeakers obviously are about religious domination. Bells don’t contain any words or messages.
Exactly. Excellent point. Wait for them to say that not all Muslims have cell phones to receive texts.
Put the church bells on an on/off switch and blast them through a very large loud speaker every time the effing call to prayer is sounded.
The is annoying noise pollution can definitely be heard in other cities near Dearbornistan
America is unrecognizable.
Perhaps it is getting what it deserves for turning its back on God.
Dearborn needs two things: 1) a noise ordinance and 2) a citizenry that will stand up and protest in whatever way they can. What will hey do when prayer rugs in the classroom are next, provide vacuum cleaners?
The noise ordinance would be hostile to Islam, but would do nothing to attack the post-war liberal religion responsible for bringing Muslims into our homeland. Post-war liberalism is designed to destroy Christianity and her people. It insists Christians tolerate and empower hostile others, while taking the hostiles’ side against ourselves. It mandates we become “beautiful losers” and comfort ourselves with having played by the rules.
Christians need to be bold again, and defend their faith against all religious and cultural hostiles.. Christians need to acquire and use political power to that end as we once did. We must recognize what needs to be done and boldly implement the curative. No more feckless cowardice.
The Satanic Voices should be banned in the US.
It’s not a call to prayer. That’s the wrong translation.
Exactly right. The sound is an ugly, blasting demand to submit.
Church bells are a gracious and beautiful invitation.
Big difference.
It’s a call to Satan.
Lawn-mowers may not be used before 8a.m. Why can’t Muslims keep track of time with clocks, watches, phones and computers? The 7th century is over.
You attribute the motive to one of ignorance or bad manners. Think conquest.
There should be no church bells or any other “call to worship” noise. It is worshipers’ responsibility to know when to attend their religious services. Otherwise there will Muslim calls to worship in every US city.
Although I understand and appreciate your comment (silence is golden), I want to gently disagree. There will be religion in any society — it is not whether but which.
This is a time of war, and I am no longer comfortable with silence, having been told to make myself small and quiet for the sake of hostiles and their religion bent upon the conquest of my nation and people.
I remember the church bells of my youth, living about a block away from a church. The sound of them was beautiful, never before the sun was already high in the sky and never loud, obnoxious or demanding.
Silence is what post-war liberalism has demanded of Christians. Finished with that. Beauty order and peace should rule again.
American does NOT have to let itself be taken over by Muslims. Note that they are cleverly using our First Amendment about religious freedom against us, yet the mayor is saying in effect, “I don’t like you for being Christian, so leave.” For him, the First Amendment does not apply, apparently.
Even without the mayor’s obnoxious, bold statement, non Muslims can simply say to Muslims, “We don’t like you and don’t want you here. Yes, we definitely are islamophobic. Your culture is bad for us, and so are your evil intentions to take us over. So NO. Don’t come here.”
We no longer need to let a hostile culture trap us in our own laws.
““Although you live here, I want you to know as mayor, you are not welcome here. And the day you move out of the city will be the day that I launch a parade celebrating the fact that you moved out of this city.”
Let me correct that bubba ““Although you live here, I want you to know as an American, you are not welcome here. And the day Muslims move out of the country will be the day that I launch a parade celebrating the fact that you moved out of this country”
The Muslim religion is incompatible with any founding document or principle of this country. Matter of fact it is the anti-thesis of our country. Our country is of an English culture and Christian religion. When I recite the Nicene creed, nothing in it deviates from supporting the ideals of this country.
The invasion of our country, and it is needs to stop here and now. The alternative is future Mad Max blood in the streets.
You got it! Now what’s needed areT shirts and banners that say that. And never mind if you get arrested for saying that. It’s your First Amendment right.
This is push back. Better than complaining.
Then of course this mayor would support church bells ringing in Mecca.
It doesn’t sound like church bells so it is different!
This rabid dog is comparing nuts to apples, church bells sounds nice, while rabid Islamic dogs barking sounds ridicules, and ugly. I’d rather hear fingernails scraping down on a chalkboard.
Church bells only ring at the beginning of church, and not go on as long as the rabid Islamic barking does.
1. There is no such thing as Islamophobia.
2. Islam is not a religion. It is an ideology that includes a religion.
A political mafia faking to be a religion.
Different in many ways. First it is vexing. It’s troubling and disturbing to hear a call from people who call for the destruction of our country and the replacement of our government. We don’t want to hear it. Which leads to that – we don’t want to hear that call, but we DO want to hear church bells. Next, it’s 4 or 5 times a day, while church bells are once or twice a week. Next, it’s early in the morning when people are trying to sleep. Church bells are at 11 oclock in the morning. Lastly it’s not wanted by the public and they moo slims know it’s not wanted.
“The sweetest sound I know is the Muslim call to prayer.” — Quote by Barack Obama
Well, America, this is another facet of “hope and change” people were so proud to vote for in 2008 & 12.
turn off your ****** bullshit or someone will turn it off for you, asshole
This is what the infiltrating Muslim jihadis do. They manipulate the very freedoms of ours they disdain and weaponize them against us. Meanwhile, they ignore the fact that Islam is not a religion by any definition of the word. It is a CULT, founded by a madman. It is not comparable to other religions. Therefore, it is not protected by the Constitution any more than Satanism should be.
Their call to prayer is NOT the same as church bells. We lived a couple of blocks from a beautiful church in my hometown. The bells peeled very softly, and, the rare times we could hear them above the traffic, we found them to be beautiful and soothing, and we are not Christian. I’ve also lived in Israel where there is a cacophony of bells and calls to prayer, but, still, the Muslim calls to prayer are the ones we all found annoying and far too loud.
The jihadis also used “Islamophobia” to bully others into silence. Meanwhile, there is no such thing. It’s a made up lie of a term. It’s not a “phobia” if they really are trying to kill you.