The Sound Of Diversity

City permits loudspeakers to broadcast Islamic call to prayer five times daily.

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April 28, 2004, 9:00 AM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"Next month, Hamtramck will become one of the few cities in the United States where the Islamic call to prayer is broadcast onto public streets. The impact of that decision is reverberating across the nation. Loudspeakers on an old brick building in Hamtramck have become a symbol of the struggle between tolerance and tradition, and raise questions about what it means to be American."

Thanks to Richard Layman

FULL STORY: Cultures collide in diverse Hamtramck: Uproar over Islamic call to prayer pits tolerance, tradition

Monday, April 26, 2004 in The Detroit News

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