Iran Press/West Asia: In a video post on X, Itamar Ben-Gvir said police needed “to address and enforce the issue of noise in mosques”.
Israel’s Channel 12 reported earlier that Ben-Gvir had sent police instructions on enforcing the ban, including by confiscating loudspeakers and issuing fines.
About 14 percent of Israel’s population is Muslim, according to the Pew Research Center.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has condemned the Israeli government’s latest ban on the Islamic call to prayer at mosques in Israel.
“Attacks on mosques, churches, cultural sites, and religious texts are all part of the decades-long Israeli campaign to erase Palestinian culture,” said Nihal Awad, the national executive director of CAIR.
“A war on Islam and Christianity has always been a major component of the far-right Israeli government’s genocide targeting the Palestinian people,” he added.
Awad went on to accuse US President Joe Biden of “enabling the suppression of religious liberties” through its support for the Israeli government, and called on Muslim-majority nations to work together and “take concrete actions to end this genocide”.
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