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I have been in several countries where I have head the call to prayer from the minuets. I did think that it was eerily beautiful (especially one morning in Istanbul, when the air was still and the traffic was very quiet, and the calls rang out from the literally hundreds of minuets). I was sitting outside of the Blue Mosque and watched all of the people line up at the water basins to perform their ablutions and then remove their shoes and enter the place of prayer. Simply a wonderful experience!
I have been in several countries where I have head the call to prayer from the minuets. I did think that it was eerily beautiful (especially one morning in Istanbul, when the air was still and the traffic was very quiet, and the calls rang out from the literally hundreds of minuets). I was sitting outside of the Blue Mosque and watched all of the people line up at the water basins to perform their ablutions and then remove their shoes and enter the place of prayer. Simply a wonderful experience!
I assume the call to prayer was said in Turkish which is indeed a beautiful sounding language,
I assume the call to prayer was said in Turkish which is indeed a beautiful sounding language,
I've experienced the call to prayer while in India, and it is indeed quite an experience, not unlike the sounds from a Hindu temple and ringing of the church bells on Sundays.
I must say, THAT is a beautiful society as a whole, with much greater freedom of religion. All the more interesting are tombs of Sufi saints where Hindus and Muslims find a common refuge, and one I have visited (built by Mughal emperor Akbar, grand father of the emperor who built the Taj Mahal) has a quote from Quran but attributed to Jesus Christ (one of the prophets in Islam), inscribed on the main entrance of the majestic palace in Arabic.
Can't really blame them considering how he has behaved.
He has embraced the muslim world at the expense of other nations, like Israel.
He has alienated traditional allies.
In 2007, in an interview with Cristoff of the NYTimes, he said the muslim call to pray was the most beautiful sound in the world. Now, would a true Christian believe that? In fact, he was able to recite it right there, in perfect dialect.
Anybody got the first couple lines of that little ditty?
He was raised a muslim while in Indonesia.
Thank you for reminding us of this excellent Nicholals Kristoff article. The article, in its entirety, is a wonderful testament to President Obama's ability to function so effectively in the international arena. The accurate quote is posted below. Using the criteria that Obama attended a Muslim School, why isn't he considered a Catholic if he attended a Catholic. Inquiring minds would like to know.
Clip:
...He once got in trouble for making faces during Koran study classes in his elementary school, but a president is less likely to stereotype Muslims as fanatics — and more likely to be aware of their nationalism — if he once studied the Koran with them.
Mr. Obama recalled the opening lines of the Arabic call to prayer, reciting them with a first-rate accent. In a remark that seemed delightfully uncalculated (it’ll give Alabama voters heart attacks), Mr. Obama described the call to prayer as “one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.” Obama: Man of the World - The New York Times
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As a child, Obama spent four years in Indonesia with his step-father, a non-practicing Muslim, and his mother. Between ages 6 and 8, Obama attended a local Muslim school in Jakarta; after that, he was enrolled in a Roman Catholic school. In his book Dreams Of My Father (p.142), Obama writes:
In Indonesia, I’d spent 2 years at a Muslim school, 2 years at a Catholic school. In the Muslim school, the teacher wrote to tell mother I made faces during Koranic studies. In the Catholic school, when it came time to pray, I’d pretend to close my eyes, then peek around the room. Nothing happened. No angels descended.
In his more recent book, The Audacity of Hope, Obama writes (p.274), “Without the money to go to the international school that most expatriate children attended, I went to local Indonesian schools and ran the streets with the children of farmers, servants, tailors, and clerks.” Think Progress » Obama Smeared As Former ‘Madrassa’ Student, Possible Covert Muslim Extremist
I am more interested to know how many atheists think Obama is secretly a Muslim.
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