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This is terrific. We need MORE BAGPIPES!
THIS IS HOW YOU DEAL WITH THE ISLAMIC CALL TO PRAYER!
Video shows the highly obnoxious Muslim call to prayer being blasted over loud speakers only to then be drowned out by some bagpipes!
I applaud this and encourage more action like this.
We MUST push back against Islam!! pic.twitter.com/5ePlEpFdDx
— AmericanPapaBear™ (@AmericaPapaBear) December 14, 2025
Roman style…
The spectacle of bagpipe-playing shepherds, known as #zampognari, is common in central and southern #Italy during the festive season and still exists in #Naples and #Rome. Keep an ear out for them this #Christmas – you’ll hear them before you see them! https://t.co/ids0oUvYGl pic.twitter.com/lGug6m3RGX
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Black to move. Mate in 4.
NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so there won’t be “spoilers” for others.
Evolution of the number of priests of the SSPX since its foundation in 1970. https://t.co/y34fIUt8DO pic.twitter.com/CXPtP23rlC
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I’m not seeing it today… anyone?
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Obnoxious Muslim call to prayer drowned out by one piper in full Highland regalia, I think it is awesome. Does anyone know where this was?
I wonder if I can talk one of my sons into learning how to play the bagpipes . . .
TRIAS. They do find odd words! I always start with MENSA – really helps…
The bagpipes, assuming this is Jordan, play scottish tunes, indeed this chap is in scottish military highland dress. The King of Jordan is often accompanied in procession to the mosque for prayers by his own scottish pipe band. I was quite stunned when I first heard them.
So lovely as the idea may be, one cannot equate bagpipes with Christianity in opposition to Islamism!
Re: call to prayer drowned out by bagpipes
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A question for those of you think it is “terrific”, ‘awesome’, etc…
What will you do when someone uses the precedent and takes a similar action regarding our steeples, bells, and the Angelus?
With Eucharistic processions?
As to the Latin Wordle, I am satisfied that they have erred.
I tried “Aisti” as a barbaric variant on “aestu” and it accepted the “aist”.
I then went through the entire alphabet (including letters previously rejected) and it accepted none of them for the final letter.
I love the sound of bagpipes, but if this were happening near me, I would answer the adhan with the Laudes Regiae blasting over loudspeakers.
I was stationed in Germany before deploying to the Middle East, where the adhan was a constant presence. When I finally returned to Germany and heard church bells again for the first time, I broke down and cried. That sound meant home. It meant I was back in the West, back in Christendom.
I have never taken church bells for granted since.
1. . . . . . . . R-h5+
2. K-g1 . . R-h1+
3. K×h1 . . Q-h3+
4. K-g1 . . Q-g2#
I think in the U.S. there has been a move over the last 60 or so years to silence the bells of Catholic churches, whether it’s the Angelus, or even the hourly and quarter hourly chimes, which tell people the time. Yet, this is allowed?
So if this is really about a call to prayer, and not just being done to annoy the non-Muslim citizens living in the area, then why don’t the Muslims modernize and just send a text to anyone who signs up to be reminded that it’s time to pray?
1. Ra4+ Kb8 2. Ra8+ Kxa8 3. Qa6+ Kb8 4. Qb7#
In re ludi latini, cur non vocabulum <> eliges? Hoc est forma personae 2dae singularis imperativae activae de verbo <>.
[Quod verbum Latinum coniectaveris non intellego. Quia verbum illud inter symbola posuisti, programmata diarii putaverunt te codicem HTML inserere conari. Itaque verbum electum non apparuit. Aut ita puto.]
Haha, I failed at formatting. I think the word is “absta,” from “absto, abstare.”
Yes Charivari Rob I do think it’s fantastic.
The Catholic Church is the on true faith established by Jesus Christ. If anyone does the same I will defend the Church’s use of bells, processions etc. I will not descend in to relativism or modernism and shrug my shoulders. The Church’s use is to bring us to God.
Any call to Muslim prayer is a call to a false god. It should not be tolerated as comparable to the Catholic faith.
@David I
“absta” would be a good guess, in my opinion,
In fact, I made that guess and the puzzle rejected the “b” and the second “a”. Did you get a different result when you tried it?
I remain convinced that the puzzlers have made a mistake today.
I had never associated bagpipes with childishness until now. This is rather like blasting Gangsta Rap on a boom box in front of a church when the Angelus rings. If our best resistance to Islam is to resort to trying to create petty annoyances, we deserve to lose. Showing a modicum of respect never hurt anyone.
If I may say to those who replied, you’re all slightly missing the point. the letters in the right place go Green. Blue means the right letter but in the wrong place. It worked with TRIAS, as I said.
Ands the piper is almost certainly a Muslim!!!
Black to move and mate in 4
1) … Rh5+
2) Kg1 (forced) Rh1+
3) Kxh1 (forced) Qh3+
4) Kg1 (forced) Qg2# mate
I was going to make a comment but I would not wish to be childish…
Thank you @Josephus
I missed that point. Not having seen both colors, I thought blue was the correct letter in the correct place.
Thak you for the correction…
Two comments:
1. I heard recently that Pope Leo XIV was invited to pray with an Iman inside a mosque. Pope Leo XIV politely declined. (Taylor Marshall reported on something like this). Good for him.
2. About silencing bells: I was an altar boy circa 1980. Oftentimes, one particular parochial vicar would silently mouth over to me “no bells” before the consecration started. This was during the “Holy Holy Holy.” To this day I have no idea why this priest would do this because I liked ringing the bells.
A question for those of you think it is “terrific”, ‘awesome’, etc…
What will you do when someone uses the precedent and takes a similar action regarding our steeples, bells, and the Angelus?
With Eucharistic processions?
Recruit more pipers. Open up the church and employ the full organ stop.