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SULAIMANI — A mosque in Koya in Erbil
governorate accidentally broadcast an Arabic song through the minaret’s
loudspeakers instead of the call to prayer in a glitch caught on video and
spread through social media on Friday (January 28).
"Before the Friday prayer at 11:30am
the mosque broadcast the Quran through the loudspeakers as usual,” explained Jamal
Abdullah, the muezzin of the mosque. "After completing the reading of the
Quran, because of a technical glitch in the flash memory that was used, it was
converted to an Arabic song.”
Abdullah said he quickly disconnected
the flash drive from the device, adding, "This is the first time such a problem
happened at this mosque.”
The Director of the Ministry of Endowment and Religious Affairs, Abdullah Anwar, said, "This case happened for the first
time and the reason was a technical glitch in the flash drive memory.”
Anwar said a decision was made to use a
different technique in broadcasting the call to prayer so that such issues
would not be repeated.
He said there are 25 mosques in Koya
district but the number of employees is low.
(NRT Digital Media)