AhlulBayt News Agency - The Palestinian Ministry of Information slammed an Israeli ban on the Muslim call to prayers via mosque loudspeakers, dubbing the move “an act of terrorism that crosses all red lines.”
A statement by the Palestinian Information Ministry spoke out against Israeli claims that Muslims’ call to prayer is a loud nuisance that echoes into Israeli settlements, describing the ban as a barefaced violation of the sanctity of Islamic places of worship and an infringement on religious freedom.
The statement referred to Israeli aggressions, cold-blooded executions, house demolitions, confiscations, and misappropriation of Palestinians’ natural resources as the most striking proofs of Israeli terrorism.
The statement called on the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and the International Council of Christian Churches to exert pressure on Israel to cancel the racist ban on Muslims’ call to prayer and to cease its preplanned terrorism against the Muslim worshipers.
The Israeli Legislative Affairs Committee was expected to vote on a bill banning Muslims’ call to prayer in 1948 Occupied Palestine.
After the bill failed to garner support of coalition partners, Habayit Hayehudi MK Moti Yogev took the bill off the committee's agenda until further changes are put in.
Israeli daily Haaretz reported that right-wing Israeli lawmaker Moti Yogev plans to resubmit the proposed law in a new form.
According to the newspaper, Yogev plans to submit a revised version of the bill that would call for banning the use of loudspeakers by mosques during non-working hours — including on Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath — and setting limits on the volume of the Muslim call to prayer.
On Sunday, the Israel Democracy Institute warned in a letter to ministers that the bill threatened to “harm freedom of religion”.
“If the bill is advanced,” the think-tank added, “it will encourage rifts in the Israeli community and harm the Muslim public.”
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