Saturday, August 09, 2008

Uproar Over Loud Calls in Muslim Morocco


In this March 23, 2008 file photo, a Moroccan woman, left, draws ...

In this March 23, 2008 file photo, a Moroccan woman, left, draws a henna tattoo on the hand of a tourist, on the Jamaa El Fanaa square in Marrakech, Morocco. Morocco, a country of 33 million people, gets more than 7 million tourists a year, and there are worries that some may be put off by the five heavily amplified calls a day to prayer, each lasting five minutes, to summon the Muslim faithful to daily prayers. And the argument is deepening fault lines between a government drive to modernize and a wave of rigorous political Islam.  (AP Photo/Abdeljalil Bounhar, File)

Full article - August 9, 2008 - from the Associated Press

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