NEW YORK BOROUGH BECOMES “ENEMY TERRITORY” FOR CHRISTIANS AND JEWS
September 16th, 2009Bam! Bam! Bam!
It’s 3:30 a.m. in Brooklyn and Mohammad Boota, a Pakistani immigrant, is beating his barrel drum along Coney Island Avenue and Foster Avenue.
Boota, who immigrated to the U.S. in 1992 from Pakistan, is joined by other drummers, other Pakistani immigrants, as the cries of muezzins ring out from loud speakers throughout the borough.
The racket goes on every morning during Ramadan.
The pounding of the drums, Boota explains, is necessary to wake believers so they can eat a meal before the day’s fasting must begin….
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