DAR AL HARB - U.K.: MOSLEM CALLS TO PRAYER IN ENGLAND...DO I HEAR BELLS RINGING IN MECCA?!? UMMMM NO...

Oxford clergyman attacks Muslim plans for calls to prayer
by Ruth Gledhill, Religion Correspondent

The clergyman who runs one of Oxford’s largest and most successful churches has attacked Muslim plans to begin calls to prayer from the city’s Central Mosque.

The Rev Charlie Cleverley, Rector of St Aldate’s, a thriving charismatic evangelical church in the heart of Oxford, claims non-Muslim residents will be driven away by the thrice-daily calls to prayer over the eastern part of the city.

In coming out against the proposals, Mr Cleverley, who previously worked at a church in a Muslim area of Paris, is going against the views of his own bishop.

The Bishop of Oxford, the Right Rev John Pritchard, has backed the plans, to be submitted to the city council by leaders of the mosque later this year.

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