Can we correct Muslims' behavior?

Submitted by Prashant (United States), Mar 24, 2022 at 00:17

Dear Dr Pipes, During a recent breakfast in a diner an interesting thing happened: A woman diner on the table next to mine turned the speaker of her phone on and busied herself in a conversation with her friend while she enjoyed her breakfast.
While the lady enjoyed her meal, I was not able to enjoy mine because I had no desire to hear or join the woman's conversation. The woman obviously showed poor judgment.
After tolerating this behavior for a few minutes, I had to tell the woman to end the phone call. Luckily, she stopped the conversation instantly. NO riots occurred, no stones were pelted, and no curfews had to be imposed. No one called me a racist or bigot either.

Just a few days prior to this, I was in an Indian city. India is 80% Hindu by population demographics but it also has an increasingly petulant Muslim minority population. In almost all cities and villages of India, 5 times a day and 365 days per year, you will hear the Islamic call for prayers on loudspeakers. If you get up early in the morning to get some work done, you will hear the Islamic advertisement before you can finish your morning coffee. It does not matter whether you like it or not, you got no choice. You cannot tell the Muslims to curb this intrusive and inconsiderate behavior.

I have been told that in some European cities also Islamic calls for prayers can be heard on loudspeakers. I know that Christian churches all over the world voluntarily stopped ringing their bells to accommodate the nearby residents who might not like to be woken up by their sound.

Muslims are stubborn and cannot be expected to be flexible. And the more they receive, the more they demand. I will invite your readers to research themselves that Islamic calls for prayers are already becoming a matter of controversy in many US cities.

It is not a surprise that in every corner of the world where Muslims live, they have a strained relationship with other sections of the population.

I hope some Muslims read my message and reflect upon it.

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