The Minneapolis City Council, in the US state of Minnesota, unanimously decided to read the call to prayer in public five times a day in a large city for the first time in the country’s history.
With the voting held in Ramadan, the parliament changed the relevant restrictive articles in the city’s noise regulation, which stood in the way of the call to prayer openly, especially in the morning and at night.
“Minneapolis has now become a city for all religions,” said Mohammed Dukulfy, imam of the city’s Nur Mosque, who watched the vote. used the phrase.
Jaylani Hussein, President of the Minnesota Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), said that the 5 times prayer time showed that “a nation founded on religious freedom has fulfilled its promise to the world”.
Last year, the city council gave permission for the call to prayer openly, but due to the limitations in the noise regulation, morning and night prayers were excluded.
Three of the 13 members of the city council of Minneapolis, which has a population of about half a million, are Muslim. (AA)