[jacquesm]

No, but some do try to ring them at 07:15 every morning really loud and really long, it took a judge to put a stop to that. Link in Dutch, no English source, sorry.

http://www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/tilburgse-pastoor-mag-kl...

I'm all for stopping any such nonsense but then churchbells are out. All of them, they served their purpose in the times before social media and alarm clocks but nowadays there is no reason for them.

And if that is used to stop Mosques from doing their 'call to prayer' I'm all for it, but let's keep things equal.

Of course that may be a bit hard to do in a town with both a large Catholic and a large Muslim population. But either both should not take offense at what the other does or both should agree that there is no gain from any of this.

[GnwbZHiU]

It doesn't have to be all or nothing. To be equal, we can allow churches to ding the bell once a week on sunday, and allow mosques to recite call to prayer once a week on friday.

[to3m]

If you live in a country where Christianity is the state religion, you could just disallow the call to prayer on account of the fact it is not Christian. (One advantage of a state religion is that you can do stuff like this. Of course, you have to be careful not to take it too far - condemning unbelievers to death might be a bit much, for example.)

[morgante]

Sounds good to me.