Do Muslims Arabize/Islamize? Loud Islamic prayers 5x24x7.

Submitted by Prashant (India), Dec 15, 2011 at 00:08

Dear Dr Pipes:

The question whether Arabs and Muslims arabize or islamize non-muslim populations can be answered by obsering what is happening around the world. One extreme is arabization or Islamization through violent means. A lot of violent arabization arguably happened throughout the history of Islam. But, removed from this extreme, there is a lot of non-violent but still objectionable islamization that is going around.

It takes insensitivity and hypocisy to engage in this kind of non-violent but objectionable islamization. And, Islamists have plenty of both. In most of India where Muslims contitute not more than 20% of population, you can hear Islamic prayers five times a day, 365 days a year broadcast over loudspeakers. In certain parts of many towns you can hear these prayers from two different competing mosques broadcast simultaneously. For $500 worth of sound eqipment, an insinsitive mullah, and a vote-bank democracy you can get a license to interrupt others' sleep five times a day. The proponents of these prayers are completely insensitive to the fact that they share the towns with other religions and people. They are also ignorant that patients, students, and workers may not like to be woken up at odd hours just because someone wants to pray at a inflexible schedule prescribed 1400 years ago. Since public use of loudspeakers is allowed occasioanlly in all societies, Islamists can use these loudspeakers five times a day and three sixty five days a year. I have also heard that in many European cities huge traffic jams and road-blocks are caused by congregational Friday prayers.

Everything that Muslims do is done as a group and is unchallengeable because it comes directly from God. And since religion/politics/society is all mixed-up absolutely nothing can be spoken against or critically examined. If a loudspeaker chants a prayer in a foreign language, your only option is to just give up and listen. Contrast this situation in the modern, objective, deemocratic and free societies where communities disallow church bells to reduce loud noise at odd hours. Islamists uninvited imposition of their will on others is a type of Islamization/Arabization that must be obected to. I would like to hear from your readers in other countries if loud Islamic prayers are broadcast in their parts of the world as well.

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