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...future. Furthermore, to facilitate inter-religious dialogue in society, we must grant permission for religious views to be expressed openly and shared in public. As an essential part of the human experience for so many, faith cannot be confined to private settings. This becomes significant when considering the adhan, the Muslim call to prayer, which some consider proselytizing. During its annual Islam Awareness Week last month, the Harvard Islamic Society offered students a taste of the Islamic tradition by having a member proclaim the adhan on Widener steps every day at 1 p.m., a time when the Yard is bustling...
...More striking than several hundred students selflessly giving up food—fasting might be uncommon at Harvard, but charitable gestures are not—was the Muslim call to prayer, the adhan, issued through the Yard from the Widener steps...
...While even the most inveterate atheist could no doubt appreciate the adhan for its cultural value—and the warm, oriental Eurus it breathed through the Yard, liberating, if even for only a moment, a campus oppressed by vestiges of a Western and patriarchal past...
...some of these self-admitted unbelievers—who themselves claimed “God is imaginary”—recently argued in a Crimson editorial that the publicly-broadcast adhan poses a grave threat to religious pluralism...
...believe so. Indeed, other religions make truth claims similar to those contained in the adhan, but those claims, as a matter of practice at Harvard, are voiced privately or not at all. The adhan, it seems, is the exception to Harvard’s unspoken rule of religious respect and tolerance...