Hamtramck, Michigan has a majority-Muslim city council, so businesses find it impossible to get a liquor license within 500 feet of a mosque.  But what disturbs residents the most are the calls to prayers, five times a day, starting at 6 AM. Many longtime residents point to 2004 as the year they suspected that the town's culture had shifted irrevocably. It was then that the city council gave permission to al-Islah Islamic Center to broadcast its call to prayer from speakers atop its roof.... The mosque's leaders plan to put a minaret — a spire — on the building and use it to continue broadcasting a call to prayer five times a day.... several senior citizens living in an apartment complex complained about the volume of the 6 a.m. call to prayer from a nearby mosque. Susan Dunn, who was on her fifth unsuccessful run for city council, raised the issue before the governing body. At one point as she spoke, a mosque close to Dunn's house began...(Read Full Post)