Max Genest - Public Reacts to the Call to Prayer in Regina

In this episode, we talk about the Call to Pray scandal that happened in Regina, Canada, and what the city council should and should not do in order to allow the call to prayer during Ramadan. We also talk about whether or not it should be allowed.

00:00:00.000 This is Mechina. Here I am in downtown Regina, where the call to prayer scandal happened.

00:00:05.140 There was a mosque and they started to call to prayers.

00:00:11.400 The city council had no vote on this.

00:00:14.180 In fact, the reason why they did it is because the police gave them the permit using already existing noise bylaws.

00:00:21.480 Now, they had to shut the whole operation down because of backlash from the community.

00:00:25.200 the police even said that if you start harassing the muslim community they're basically gonna go

00:00:30.160 after you and very interesting i've seen there's a large diaspora muslim community here in regina

00:00:37.680 so i have a sign here that says allow mosque call to prayer yes or no hey what do you guys think of

00:00:43.120 the sign over here if we should allow the cult of prayer to happen or not yes yes okay do you think

00:00:49.360 it would be a good idea if it was like five times a day during ramadan sure that would be better

00:00:55.360 better okay what's like should it be five times a day every day yeah yeah could be no comments no

00:01:03.280 a comment no are are you folks um um muslim yourselves yeah okay all right we're just asking 0.79

00:01:08.960 people what they think about the cult of prayer terrorists terrorists i think everyone is a piece

00:01:15.040 piece of the greater picture right i think you know canada is far more multicultural than it

00:01:19.600 was and i think it's just fantastic uh yeah there should be um what should be the limit

00:01:27.040 should there be a limit at all no so if it's like five times a day all day uh

00:01:35.040 just as long as they're communicating with god and stuff you know okay should we allow 0.57

00:01:43.440 the call to prayer to it happened no no yeah the mosque called the prayer oh my god they're lost 0.74

00:01:52.720 to me it sounds like a nice idea so why not i'm indifferent you're in you're indifferent just

00:01:57.840 don't care you know other people be other people right there's a thing that people can do in

00:02:04.000 liberal democracies where they use the liberal democracy to undermine the liberal democracy

00:02:08.880 right um there's a way in which blasting a call to prayer which is non-neutral over the entire area

00:02:16.800 claims the public space in the name of their faith if we should allow the call to prayer or not

00:02:23.840 should we all right it's wild

Max Genest - July 19, 2026

Public Reacts to the Call to Prayer in Regina

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