The Egyptian government has embarked on a controversial plan to unify the Islamic call to prayer in the beginning of the holy month of Ramadan. <br /><br />One muezzin will sound a call to prayer that will be transmitted by radio frequencies to thousands of mosques across the capital Cairo simultaneously.<br /><br />Officials say the reason for the program is to avoid a discrepancy in the different prayer times between mosques and to stop the overlapping sounds of prayer calls from nearby mosques. <br /><br />Although many muezzins complain that they will not be able to perform as a result of the unified call, the government insists that Cairo's 730 Muezzins will not lose their jobs. <br /><br />Al Jazeera's Ayman Mohyeldin reports from Cairo on what some religious scholars are calling an interference of the government in religious affairs. <br /><br />[August 12, 2010]
