According to an article in Ekkleisia, the Anglican bishop of Oxford has been receiving death threats after coming out in support of the public call for Muslim prayer in the city of Oxford.
“In January the Rt Rev John Pritchard, who also studied at Oxford University, backed the Muslim loudspeaker call, Adhan, which would take place every Friday in Oxford.
[…]He told the Daily Telegraph: ‘I received extraordinary mail. One said, ‘resign’ six times in a large font. One called for me to be beheaded and another said: ‘I wish I lived closer so I could spit on you.’ The dark underbelly of British society was coming out.’
The Telegraph claims that a spokesman for the representatives from Oxford’s Central Mosque has repeatedly stated their wish to be able to play the muezzin’s (caller’s) traditional message to the Muslim faithful from speakers on a minaret. But the Anglo-Asian Association for Friendship in East Oxford told Ekklesia that ‘this is the total opposite of what the two authorised representatives of the Central Mosque said at the meeting [to discuss the issue]’.”
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