Reliable information can be obtained from the Dutch website Het Vrije Volk (The Free People):
The Netherlands have deteriorated to such an extent that today, in at least 16 mosques in 13 towns the muezzin calls the muslim faithful to prayer with loudspeakers. In Amersfoort from two mosques (Mevlana and El Fath mosques) on Fridays; in Apeldoorn (where a lunatic last year tried to ram a bus with the royal family with his Suzuki), from the Eyup Sultan mosque, twice a day. In Breda once a day. In Dongen, twice a day from the Isra Camii mosque. In Gorinchem every Friday, and in Heerenveen once a day. In Roosendaal from two mosques. In Rotterdam-Vlaardingen from the Ummet mosque on Friday, and in Rotterdam-Maassluis from the Yeni mosque on Friday too. Every day in Tilburg from the Suleymaniye-mosque, and in Veendam even thrice a day. In Zaandam from the Sultan Ahmet mosque on Friday, and in Zeist from the El Moslimen El Mathhakine mosque and the Eyep Sultan mosque.
This list is far from complete. According to chairman Driss Boujoufi of the Contact Organization Muslims and Authorities there are possibly "20 of the 450" who are doing it. An imam calling himself Anwar Mahfouz of the "Netherlands Islamic Society" in Amsterdam, says loudspeakers are used too in Amsterdam, Utrecht and Ridderkerk. His own mosque calls muslims to prayer with a sound system thrice a day: at 1.30pm, at 4pm and at 9pm. "Thus not at night. And we're doing it very modestly, 64 decibels". Furthermore there are plans to start with the practice in Leiden, from the Al-Hijra mosque. Also in Epe Vaassen. In Hoofddorp the faithful are called to prayer with light signals.
The Turkish suleymaniye mosque in Tilburg, South Netherlands. The mosque is named after a friendly turkish imam who always gave candy to christian schoolchil... erm, I mean after Suleyman the Magnificent, who waged war against christian countries all his life, conquering Rhodes, Belgrade and most of Hungary (and killing its king Louis in the process at the Battle of Mohacs). He also laid siege to Vienna in 1529 and again in 1532, with both attempts failing however. He was still sultan when his troops invaded Malta in 1565, a siege that also failed.
So, this is the nonsenical drivel a LOT of indigenous Dutchmen get blasted into their ears these days:
Allahoe Akbar (Allah is the greatest)
Allahoe Akbar (Allah is the greatest)
Allahoe Akbar (Allah is the greatest)
Allahoe Akbar (Allah is the greatest)
Ashado allaa ilaaha illALLAH (I testify that there is no god but allah)
Ashado allaa ilaaha illALLAH (I testify that there is no god but allah)
Ashado anna MoehammadarrasoelALLAH (I testify that mohammed is allah's messenger/prophet)
Ashado anna MoehammadarrasoelALLAH (I testify that mohammed is allah's messenger/prophet)
[WARNING: it seems that if you read the crap above loud, you automatically become a muslim - MFBB]
Hayya alassalaah (Haste you to the prayer)
Hayya alassalaah (Haste you to the prayer)
Hayya alalFalaah (Haste you to success)
Hayya alalFalaah (Haste you to success)
Allahoe Akbar (Allah is the greatest)
Allahoe Akbar (Allah is the greatest)
Laa ilaha illALLAH (There is no god but allah)
Wait, that's not all.
In Zeist, mayor R.G. Boekhoven stated literally that it was "childish to protest the calls for prayer". Mayor Boekhoven is from the socialist party PvdA. But, I suspect you suspected that already.
Vlaardingen's mayor T.P.J. Bruinsma (Vlaardingen is near Rotterdam, which as a whole is already 50% foreigners, mostly muslims, and which has a muslim mayor, Ahmed Aboutaleb), has bluntly said that he "saw no reason to reject the requests of mosques to call the faithful to prayer with loudspeakers", this despite the fact that locals were heavily disappointed that the Ummet mosque had begun to use loudspeakers for the call to prayer.
T.P.J. Bruinsma is from the socialist party PvdA, one of The Netherlands's two major socialist parties (the other big one is the SP, the Socialistische Partij). But, I suspect you suspected that already.
By contrast, in Ridderkerk a church's locks were once glued closed to prevent the sounding of the clocks, and in Tilburg some culture relativists tried to silence the clocks of the Holy Margarita Maria Church. Former mayor Ruud Vreeman never showed any interest into this matter, saying instead that "the court should look into the matter". Town selectwoman for the Environment Marieke Moorman did show interest... by threatening to fine the priest for 5,000 EUR per "offense" [sounding the clocks - not kidding. MFBB]. Curiously though, or perhaps not so curiously, neither Vreeman nor Moorman think of the daily call for prayers from the huge Turkish Suleymaniye-mosque a little bit further on the Ringbaan-West as an "offense".
Both Vreeman and Moorman are from the socialist party PvdA. But, I suspect you suspected that already.
Meanwhile, in Pakistan...
MFBB.
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