Wajir residents frame dawn prayer as defiance of the oppressive sun

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The call for the morning prayer—the first of the day’s five—rang before the sun, that ungodly sun, dawned and took its place. A call to pray that reminded me, and the proud people waiting for their turn to see again in that hospital courtyard in the middle of nowhere, that He was more powerful than it. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 116