Regina mosque targeted by threats after broadcasting call to prayer - BERITAJA

Last Friday, Regina City Jamia Masjid broadcast their first unrecorded outdoor Athan, aliases Islamic telephone to prayer.

The City of Regina granted the mosque a licence for 1 period to present their telephone to dream each Friday earlier Jummah, besides known arsenic noon dream and lasts a fewer minutes. The telephone to dream is recited 5 times a time for Muslims, reminding them to stitchery for worship.

The enactment itself was shared online which prompted threats done email and societal media. The comments scope from Islamophobia to threats against the mosque’s speaker.

Regina constabulary opportunity they will beryllium looking into the threats arsenic imaginable dislike crimes and will summation RPS beingness astatine Muslim gatherings.

“The City of Regina, they’re trying to bring multicultural diverseness successful the bosom of downtown,” says M Anisur Rahaman, head of Regina City Masjid.

This isn’t the first clip a metropolis successful North America practiced broadcasting the Islamic telephone to prayer.
A fewer years ago, Minneapolis was the first awesome U.S metropolis to present the dream 5 times a time and received a mixed response.

Regina City Jamia Masjid is presently undergoing renovations and preparing to invited much group successful the upcoming months. They besides dream to invited those pinch concerns to the mosque to reply questions and person a speech about what the telephone to dream intends to Muslims.

Regina constabulary opportunity the licence will beryllium successful spot until July 10, 2026, based connected the city’s sound abatement bylaw, and will beryllium reviewed accordingly erstwhile the period is completed.