Mehdi Hasan Says If Christians Can Have Church Bells Muslims Can Play the Call to Prayer

This is a tough one for me because I despise Hamas sympathizer Mehdi Hasan. But if Christians are allowed to ring church bells to call parishioners to church, then Muslims should be allowed to broadcast the call to prayer over loudspeakers at mosques. I hate to say it, but it makes sense.

I've written a lot about the U.K., and I've seen a lot of complaints from Brits about the Muslim call to prayer being blasted from loudspeakers at 5 a.m. A few councils in the U.K. have put noise restrictions on the broadcasts as well as time constraints. The first Adhan, as it is called, comes before sunrise, and it's followed by four more into the night.

Anyway, here's a short clip of Hasan:

Mehdi Hasan to American Christians: "If you can have your church bell, we can have our Islamic prayer call" pic.twitter.com/Oy1IroBqS1
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) October 21, 2025

I can't find it in the archives, but I remember writing a post about a group singing outside a church in London who were told to stop by a police officer. I can only find the video on Facebook, but there is indeed a female police officer telling a woman that her group is not allowed to sing church songs outside of church grounds. Reportedly, the police apologized and said the officer was wrong. So maybe I'm not so comfortable having the Muslim call to prayer broadcast five times a day.

Mehdi is comparing this to church bells

pic.twitter.com/To1SumUche
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) October 21, 2025

Medhi is flexing nuts because he knows there’s too many of them here legally now to do anything about it.

Nothing *Constitutional* to do about it, that is. https://t.co/ycTGxPpjp3
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) October 21, 2025

This only ends in war unfortunately.
— MAZE (@mazemoore) October 21, 2025

Let's see if Afghanistan is cool with Christians putting up church bells in all of their major cities.
— Dissident West (@dissidentwest) October 21, 2025

It was recently announced that the Vatican had installed Muslim prayer rooms for visiting scholars.

Vatican to open Muslim Prayer room to accommodate Muslim scholars visiting the Vatican Apostolic Library.

“Some Muslim scholars have asked us for a room with a carpet for praying and we have given it to them.” - Vice Prefect Fr Giacomo Cardinali.

Source: Catholic Herald pic.twitter.com/xfg45ch08w
— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) October 15, 2025

Will Muslims reciprocate and put Catholic prayer rooms in mosques?

It’s not the same thing. Not even close! That’s noise pollution and if we’re going to ignore the laws and play the freedom card, Christians should counter that noise with “Jesus loves me” on loud speakers at the same time.
— Angela 💭 (@ms_babyrussell) October 21, 2025

That's something I hadn't thought of. Bells are bells, while the Muslim call to prayer is a spoken statement.

False equivalence. The islamic call to prayer is a statement of religious supremacy, go and look up what it means. Ringing bells is not.
— Orwellwasright Abouttheleft 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 (@IMissHitchSlaps) October 21, 2025

Church bells ring from the faith that built the nation. If he wants equal volume, there are 50+ nations with the Islamic call to prayer that can accomodate him.
— Sass.Campbell (@sassyimi) October 22, 2025

Christianity laid the foundation for individual rights and liberty—principles that stand in stark contrast to those of Islam. Even the sounds of a church bell and a prayer call reflect that difference.
— Xi Van Fleet (@XVanFleet) October 21, 2025

I suppose people like me on the "far-right" are just Islamophobic and fear Sharia law taking hold in the country. That's why Rep. Chip Roy introduced the "Preserving a Sharia-Free America Act." Now that I can get behind.

We must stop the advance of Sharia in America. The @freedomcaucus is leading the charge. Thank you for teaming with me @RepKeithSelf / let’s pass the “Preserving A Sharia-Free America Act.” https://t.co/AEBC6STSGD
— Chip Roy (@chiproytx) October 11, 2025

People will just dismiss Roy as an Islamophobe and right-wing extremist until he's proven right.

I'd rather silence the church bells than have the Muslim call to prayer blasted five times a day.

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