Huff Post: by Steve Rose.

Channel 4 has taken the conscious decision to ‘shock’ and inform the British public by airing the Islamic call to prayer (adhan) throughout Ramadan.

Muezzin Hassen Rasool will record the call to prayer, at the same time it is played in mosques around London (around 3am).

One the first day of Ramadan, Channel 4 will interrupt scheduled programming with four 20-second reminders that the call to prayer is soon. After that, they will continue to broadcast the 3am adhan but the shorter reminders will move to their website.

When you break it down, the company are doing a small, but great service to the many Muslims marginalised in this country. So often, the right wing media will only condemn Muslims as ‘extremists’ and ‘criminals’. Rarely, will representations be positive (unless they fit that newspapers value system).

Instead, Ukip, a political party who called for the burka to be banned, detest multiculturalism and had a county councillor resign over Islamophobic comments become the counter view.

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