Muslim Call to Prayer in Regina (split from Liberal Gov't 2025 - ???)

[Jarnhamar]

colonize communities with loudspeakers

That's a great way to phase it.

 

[The Bread Guy]

The article here understated the size of the Muslim community in Dearborn.

You'd think people would get that if an entire city council full of nothing but Muslims was elected in places like Hamtramck, right?

 

[Halifax Tar]

The article here understated the size of the Muslim community in Dearborn. It is one of the largest enclaves outside the Middle East. Now, having said that.

I'll provide you company and succor.



There are evil people everywhere. Some of the woke humanitarians have lost the inate and hereditary functions to recognise the precursors of fight or flight to see that evil as a threat. There world is one of kumbaya and Burle Ives songs. Just ask these people. They live with the problem, have identified it and have decided it was time to do what there government has failed to do. No need to pretend this is a one off and the sudanese asshole is just a poor misunderstood traveller. Sudanese 'knife attack' suspect charged with attempted murder

I believe what you are trying to explain would be called Suicidal Empathy or perhaps the Paradox of Tolerance.

Examples of such were posted bye another contributor up thread.

 

[Brad Sallows]

You'd think people would get that if an entire city council full of nothing but Muslims was elected in places like Hamtramck, right?

It's qualitatively the same as many communities which are mostly formed of people sharing an ethnic or religious bond. Mennonites, fringe LDS, Amish, various communes come to mind. In their own communities, they just want to be left alone to live as they choose. In a very few cases some of their choices produce results that others, almost entirely not living there, find unsettling or would like to see eliminated. And they get a lot of stick from people claiming the mantle of liberalism (freedom to exercise religion is decidedly not unlimited), and there isn't much push back that liberals should mind their own business. On some particular issues - polygamy, particularly involving very young women, is a standout - there's strong and almost uniform disapproval. Arranged marriages. Marriages with too little genetic separation. Denial of some rights to women. Abuse of people in the community who dissent or refuse to abide by community rules. (These problems exist, not in all such communities, and probably only in a very few.)

None of the aforementioned groups are really seeking to expand their turf, and most of what they do is enforced by family and religious community, not statutory local government. Those are strong distinctions with any group that is seeking to impose their ways via government, and to expand political influence and power to do that.

If people have objections to illiberal practices - empirically, people do - and are willing to act legally against such communities - empirically, people have - it follows that it is sensible to prevent such communities either from forming in the first place (drastic, excessive), or to draw and enforce bright lines that strike a line through some of their practices. It is obvious that federal and provincial governments have the power and obligation to protect individual rights preferentially over the collective privileges of groups to follow some tradition or scriptural dogma.

 

[mariomike]

Regina Police had this to say ,

A consistent process is followed when assessing amplification permits. On average, each year , RPS issues over 100 amplification permits to various community groups. Based on information provided to RPS , the request falls within bylaw requirements.

They also included a definition of a hate crime in the release, describing it as any criminal offence committed against a person or property that is motivated in whole or in part by bias, prejudice, or hate against an identifiable group.

 

[Fishbone Jones]

You'd think people would get that if an entire city council full of nothing but Muslims was elected in places like Hamtramck, right?

It's getting harder to find good sausage over there now.

 

[Fishbone Jones]

I believe what you are trying to explain would be called Suicidal Empathy or perhaps the Paradox of Tolerance.

Examples of such were posted bye another contributor up thread.

I don’t know anything about those fancy psychological terms or what they mean All I'm saying is I shouldn’t have to be waiting for an attack by a nation or it's individuals sworn to destroy us and invited by our own government. The same government that is supposed to protect us.

 

[Jarnhamar]

Progressive Denmark isn't a fan.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/06/24/islamic-call-to-prayer-ban-left-wing-denmark-europe/

Denmark’s immigration minister has announced plans to ban the Islamic call to prayer, claiming parts of the country felt like “a suburb of Islamabad”.

 

[mariomike]

REGINA – A Regina mosque is pausing announcements of the Muslim call to prayer from its rooftop speakers after receiving some pushback.

He says some had threatened to remove the speakers from the rooftop

 

[Halifax Tar]

REGINA – A Regina mosque is pausing announcements of the Muslim call to prayer from its rooftop speakers after receiving some pushback.

He says some had threatened to remove the speakers from the rooftop

Let the the pause becomes a permanent stop.

 

[Jarnhamar]

Let the the pause becomes a permanent stop.

Canadians shouldn't be vilified for not wanting to import every cultural practice of every other country around the world. Or at least being discretionary about what they want to accept.

 

[OldSolduer]

Canadians shouldn't be vilified for not wanting to import every cultural practice of every other country around the world. Or at least being discretionary about what they want to accept.

We’re a pretty tolerant country. Sometimes too tolerant.

 

[Halifax Tar]

Canadians shouldn't be vilified for not wanting to import every cultural practice of every other country around the world. Or at least being discretionary about what they want to accept.

There are lots of places in the world one can live to have the call to prayer in their lives, Canada doesn't have to be one of them.