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Court In Ghana Restrains Town's Small Mosques From Using Microphones

By Howard M. Friedman

In Ghana, according to Monday's a href="http://www.modernghana.com/news/195085/1/krachiwura-drags-moslem-leaders-to-court-for-dis.html"Ghanain Chronicle /a, the Presiding Magistrate at Kete-Krachi district court has ordered nine mosques in the a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kete_Krachi"Kete-Krachi /atownship to stop using microphones during their worship. An emex parte/em motion requesting the order was filed by the Paramount Chief of the Krachi traditional area. The court held that the mosques create excessive noise in violation of an anti-noise law. Four major mosques are still permitted to use microphones. The restraining order applies to a group of small mosques, each with six to eight worshippers, created by individual families which are contending among themselves for chieftancy positions.

Full post as published by Religion Clause on December 18, 2008 (boomark / email).