A German court on Wednesday rejected an application to pacify Azan from a small-town mosque with a loudspeaker from Muazzin from a small-town mosque after a five-year lawsuit.
The Turkish Islamic Community (Ditib) is now once again allowed to use Azan’s loudspeaker to offer prayers in the city of Oer-Erkenschwick in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
Local residents filed a complaint in 2015 against the related permits, which allowed the Muslim community to use a maximum of 15 minutes of loudspeaker between noon and 2pm on Friday.
Azaan was withheld for five years on the basis of the complaint, a complaint was lodged by a couple who lived about 900 meters (984 yards) from the mosque, who said that Azan’s voice disrupted their freedom of religion. was.
The court, which sits in Muinster, rejected their argument. “Every society should accept that everyone in this society has been allowed to perform their religious duties. Therefore, a ban cannot be imposed on Azan.
The court further noted that, unless someone was forced to follow his religion, there was no basis for the complaint, he ruled.
