New Yorkers Wake to the Islamic Call to Prayer: '...They Don't Need Planes Anymore ... New York Is Falling, One Amplified 'allahu akbar' at a Time' [Videos]

Eli Shepherd-Opinion : Feb 17, 2026
RedState

[RedState.com] ...A tweet making the rounds this week shows video of the Islamic call to prayer, the Adhan, echoing through New York City streets at dawn. Five in the morning. Amplified. Projected over neighborhoods that still carry the scars of September 11, 2001. That date is not ancient history. It is living memory. ... The Adhan is not ambient background music. It is a declaration. The phrase "allahu akbar" means "God is greatest." It is a theological claim. It is a call to submission. Practicing Muslims understand this. That is not controversial. That is simply fact. Now imagine living in lower Manhattan. Imagine hearing that broadcast before sunrise, rolling through concrete and glass, over a skyline where nearly 3,000 Americans were murdered in an attack carried out in the name of that same phrase. Context matters. Memory matters. And if that memory is ingrained in my mind, being in 6th grade and states away at the time, I can't imagine where it sits for those in the city... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here Click Here to read this commentary. (Screengrab image: via X-RAIR)