The Minneapolis City Council advanced a bill late last week to permit the city-wide public broadcasting of Islamic prayers up to five times a day.

And when I say public broadcasting, I'm not talking about NPR and PBS.

The bill, which was unanimously approved, would amend noise ordinances to permit mosques to transmit calls to prayer over loudspeakers with amplifying equipment,

as late as 11 p.m. and as early as 330 a.m.

Which means that Minneapolis is now a Muslim city.

It's a little strange to think given Minnesota's traditional demographic makeup as ethnically wider than the driven snow and religiously polite middle of the road Protestants.

I'm not sure Minnesotans had ever even heard of Islam until about ten years ago, but now as a result of mass migration,

Minneapolis looks different.

I'm not even saying necessarily that that's the worst thing.

Islam, for all of its flaws, is still a sainter worldview than leftism.

At least Muslims acknowledge the existence of God at Muslims understand the difference between boys and girls.

The same, sadly, cannot be said, of leftists.

The drastic change in Minneapolis is also not the worst thing, because it serves as a reminder to the rest of us about a basic fact of politics.

Cultures are going to worship one thing or another.

Cultures will be defined by one thing or another.

There's no neutrality, there's no vacuum.

The things we value, the rituals we engage in, the language we speak, the way we view ourselves,

it's going to be based on one worldview or another.

We will have a Christian culture, or we will have a leftist culture,

or I guess we could have a Muslim culture.

But the one thing we are not going to have is no culture.

Perhaps conservatives will finally get that message now that it's going to be blared on loudspeakers five times a day.

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