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Arab MKs sing Muslim call to prayer in protest of anti-muezzin law
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleResponding to the government’s proposed bill to bar mosques from using loudspeakers for the Muslim call to prayer, two Arab MKs sing the muezzin, as it is known in Arabic, on the podium of the Knesset.
MK Ahmad Tibi and MK Taleb Abu Arar, both from the Joint List, sing out in Arabic: “Allah is most great. I testify there is no God but Allah. I testify that Muhammad is the prophet of Allah. Come to prayer. Come to salvation. Allah is most great. There is no God but Allah.”
Abu Arar’s call to prayer prompts backlash in the Knesset, with Likud MK Oren Hazan accusing him of “degrading” the prayer.
This was not the Bedouin MK’s first time singing the muezzin at the Knesset; in 2014, he also took to the microphone to sing the call to prayer.
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