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<p class="blog-post-meta"><time datetime="2016-09-07T19:32:36+03:00">Wed Sep 07, 2016</time> by Alan Orth in
<span class="fas fa-tag" aria-hidden="true"></span> <a href="/tags/mosque/" rel="tag">Mosque</a>, <a href="/tags/noise/" rel="tag">Noise</a>, <a href="/tags/amman/" rel="tag">Amman</a>
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<p>The irony is rich with this one, because this mosque has a sound system from another planet. If I wasn’t worried about my personal safety I’d put up a sign right next to it saying: <em>Please mute your mosque, there is a sleeping Alan 50m away</em>.</p>
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