(NL Times) The leader of an Amsterdam mosque believes someone with bad intentions deliberately sliced an audio cable on the building’s rooftop to prevent the religious group’s first call-to-prayer from being amplified by an outdoor loudspeaker. The Blauw Moskee was set to announce the beginning of a prayer service just before 1 p.m., but visitors and passers-by were met only with the street noise typical of any Amsterdam Nieuw-West neighborhood.
“It looks like sabotage,” … said the mosque’s head imam, Yassin Elforkani, to newspaper Parool. “We tested the sound system yesterday and everything worked fine. We did not want to do it again today to limit any inconvenience. It must have happened tonight or this morning.”
The mosque had not decided Friday afternoon whether or not to ask police to investigate.
