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India: Muslims enraged, put bounty on head of Bollywood singer for tweet critical of adhan over loudspeakers

Apr 23, 2020 12:00 pm By Christine Douglass-Williams

Islamic supremacists “dug out Bollywood singer Sonu Nigam” for a tweet from 2017. He merely criticized the broadcast of the adhan (the Islamic call to prayer) over loudspeakers. He didn’t criticize the adhan itself, just the volume; and for that, woe be unto him even today.

Two teens reportedly were stabbed for supporting his tweet when it was first posted, and now, three years later, Nigam still can’t live in peace.

Nigam has found himself stranded in Dubai because of the coronavirus, and now he has had to shut down his Twitter account over a renewed onslaught of hateful and intimidating messages from Muslims who get threatened and become threatening when anything about Islam is criticized. Telling.

“Singer Sonu Nigam deactivates Twitter account after Islamists attack him for his 2017 tweet on loudspeakers at religious places,” OpIndia, April 21, 2020:

Islamists today dug out Bollywood singer Sonu Nigam’s 2017 tweet where he had expressed displeasure over use of loudspeakers at religious places and attacked him, calling him ‘hateful’.

Owing to coronavirus pandemic, Sonu Nigam is currently stuck in Dubai as he was in the gulf country when the worldwide travel restrictions were put in place. After he started getting hate directed towards him, he deactivated his account.

It is pertinent to note here that Nigam did not have issues with azaan, but usage of loudspeaker for the same. He had earlier expressed displeasure over loudspeaker during Ganpati Visarjan as well.
He was then mocked for having deleted his Twitter account.

Back in April 2017, Sonu Nigam stirred up a storm after tweeting his exasperation of usage of loudspeakers for azaan, the prayer call for Muslims. Even back then, the fundamentalists had attacked him for voicing his displeasure against the forced religiousness through loudspeakers. Some had even wished for throat cancer for the singer for wanting to stop usage of loudspeaker for azaan. After his tweet went viral, a bounty of Rs 21 crore was given on his head by one Rizwan Malik for the same. A maulvi in West Bengal issued a fatwa and announced a prize of 10 lakh rupees for any person who shaves the head of Sonu Nigam. Sonu took the fatwa head-on and proceeded to himself shave his head. But, the Maulvi refused to pay up, citing that he had two more conditions: that someone put a garland of old torn shoes around his neck and tour him around the country.

Two youths in Madhya Pradesh were reportedly stabbed after they expressed solidarity with Sonu Nigam….

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Filed Under: Dubai, Featured, India, Jihadist intimidation and thuggery Tagged With: Adhan, Bollywood, Ganpati Visarjan, Rizwan Malik, Sonu Nigam


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  1. Captnhook says

    Apr 23, 2020 at 12:17 pm

    Who wants to hear that vile noise….seriously

    • Mural says

      Apr 23, 2020 at 12:26 pm

      +1. The vile nature of Muslims rears its ugly ahead across time.

      • mortimer says

        Apr 24, 2020 at 12:01 pm

        Muslims don’t need the vile noise because there are a hundred apps they can put on their cell phone to remind them to worship the Black Stone five times a day and curse Jews and Christians.

    • mortimer says

      Apr 24, 2020 at 12:28 pm

      Response to Captnhook: Islam existed over 1300 years without electricity.

      Dynamic loudspeakers were invented in 1925 by Edward W. Kellogg and Chester W. Rice.

      So the use of loudspeakers by Muslims is less than 100 years old.

      • mortimer says

        Apr 24, 2020 at 1:25 pm

        1936 FIRST LOUDSPEAKER IN A MOSQUE

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudspeakers_in_mosques

        Loudspeakers were invented in the early 20th century, and they were introduced in mosques in the 1930s, where they are used by a muezzin for the adhan (“call to prayer”), and sometimes for khutbah (sermons).

        Outdoor loudspeakers, usually mounted on tall minarets, are used five times a day for the call to prayer, sometimes starting as early as 4 a.m. Some mosques have loudspeakers that are powerful enough to be heard as far as 5 km (3 mi) away. In areas where more than one mosque is present, the loudspeaker sounds overlap one another, especially in the early morning when sounds are more clearly heard. Loudspeakers are sometimes also used inside mosques to deliver sermons or for prayer.

        The first known installation of a microphone–loudspeaker set occurred in 1936 in the Masjid Sultan in Singapore; it was reported that the summons to prayer could ‘carry more than a mile’. Though some mosque attendees were sceptical of this new electric system, most believed it was necessary to empower the muezzin’s voice to transcend a modern city’s noises. Electrically amplified adhans have become commonplace in countries such as Turkey and Morocco, whereas in others such as the Netherlands only 7 to 8% of all mosques employ loudspeakers for the call to prayer.

    • Eva Anna von Behne says

      Apr 25, 2020 at 1:25 pm

      You got that right.

  2. Templer says

    Apr 23, 2020 at 12:26 pm

    The true god never force anything satin does this crape you adahzn anyway islam is bullshit thekoranis the same pedo mo Santainc as is islam ☪️

  3. OTTER says

    Apr 23, 2020 at 12:36 pm

    How to deal with an ideology that thinks about killing as it’s first and evergreen response?

    • mortimer says

      Apr 24, 2020 at 12:03 pm

      Response to a good question from OTTER: we ‘deal with’ Islam by convincing Muslims that the Koran is of human origin. They leave Islam instantly.

      • gravenimage says

        Apr 24, 2020 at 10:38 pm

        How many Muslims have you convinced to leave Islam, Mortimer?

  4. somehistory says

    Apr 23, 2020 at 1:41 pm

    It is one horrific noise that shatters nerves. Music affects the emotions. Sounds that are not musical can do the same. This demon-inspired garbage of sound, does one of two things….makes the non-moslim feel as though an attack on the senses is happening ( indeed, it is happening), and makes the moslim feel the need to attack the non-moslim…whomever can be found that may be unable to protect themselves from the attacking moslim.

    I have heard it…in person and online. It is awful, vomit inducing and one feels the need to escape it. moslims must…by their lawless code of evil conduct…listen to it. No wonder they get so angry after going to their “preyer” meetings.

    • keith says

      Apr 23, 2020 at 5:03 pm

      First time I heard it as an18 year old it grated the nerves and made me cringe, at first I thought it was due to my hangover but after being subjected to that prick in the tower strangling the same cat each morning for the 90 days I was there, well I can honestly say I never want to hear it again.

      • somehistory says

        Apr 23, 2020 at 6:31 pm

        It’s been while since I last heard it and I hope never to hear it again. I refuse to listen to any video where it’s a part, so If I don’t ever hear it in person again, my hope will be realized.

        The only way “o’ could think it was the “most beautiful” sound is that he is moslim.

        • mortimer says

          Apr 24, 2020 at 12:15 pm

          Obama no doubt associated the early-morning wailing with a happy, secure, carefree time in his young life. He was attending a private school in Indonesia where he was well treated. He had many nice friends when he was among Muslims. He doesn’t understand the jihad doctrine or the Al Walaa wal Baraa doctrine of Islamic hatred directed against kafirs. Obama is a sincere Christian. He is unaware that the Koran is a very anti-Christian book, much of it is a polemic against Christians.

          Obama’s lack of interest in learning about Islam’s essential, hidden, political teachings is a vice in any politician.

        • gravenimage says

          Apr 24, 2020 at 10:40 pm

          Mortimer–with all respect–the idea that Obama managed to reach both adulthood and the presidency without learning anything at all negative about the vicious creed of his youth is questionable. Moreover, what about his threatening anyone who dared to say anything critical of the savage warlord “Prophet” Muhammed?

  5. Jayell says

    Apr 23, 2020 at 1:49 pm

    Surely the Indian subcontinent was partitioned to avoid this sort of situation. Muslims would have been as good as absent from India so they couldn’t have caused their usual murderous criminal nonsense and endangered the good citizens of India. So, for the safety of the majority, the Indian authorities should re-impose the demands of partition and remove those who choose to persist with their islamic ‘faith’ to the territories reserved for them in Pakistan and Bangladesh and allow non-muslims to relocate to India. Problem solved (we hope) – so long as people stay where they’re supposed to be.

    • Palladini says

      Apr 23, 2020 at 2:18 pm

      Muslims have a duty to populate the entire world in a takeover event. The next world war wil between Muslims and all other people and it will be here soon.

      • Sobieski says

        Apr 23, 2020 at 2:34 pm

        Who will fight that war? Our generation? Or, will it be our children and grandchildren? We need to act to avoid the torture, rape and murder of our posterity.

      • Jayell says

        Apr 23, 2020 at 4:50 pm

        Well, they certainly are making a fair job of over-populating the place. But that’s the only job they’re any good at. And the war has certainly already started.

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 23, 2020 at 9:10 pm

      Jayell wrote:

      Surely the Indian subcontinent was partitioned to avoid this sort of situation.
      ………………

      Not quite, Jayell. It was Muslims who demanded that they receive what is now Pakistan and Bangladesh as an Islamic state.

    • mortimer says

      Apr 24, 2020 at 12:24 pm

      Response to Jayell: the partition of British India is a complicated historical a PhD thesis to get to the bottom of it. Partition was predicated on political and religious demands. India was not then ‘a country’, but a region filled with small and large principalities. Each principality was given a right to choose to join the ‘Union of India’ or stay outside it. The choice of the principality of Jammu Kashmir was to remain independent, but to be protected by the Indian Army. Not all Muslims in India want to be part of Pakistan. Their education and life is better in India.

    • Pradeep Choudhary says

      Apr 24, 2020 at 3:39 pm

      Sadly, we got fucked as soon as we got independence since we got Congress as rulers, who ran their own socialism and nearly bankrupted the country in 1991. They also had this thing in them to make India a *secular* country not a Hindu one. So they framed constitution and made it secular socialist and gave them the same rights as everybody else, just that Muslims still follow their sharia laws and don’t heed to the Indian panel code, so Hindu can’t marry two women, while they can. Thankfully a Uniform civil code will come soon and we’ll see yet more riots for its implementation. Besides Muslims didn’t leave India either for their own nefarious motive of taking over India despite overwhelming voting for the creation of Pakistan but not all of em moved and vast majority stayed back to fulfill their ultimate goal of Dau ul Islam.

      • LR says

        Apr 25, 2020 at 4:11 am

        Interesting. I hope India will keep it’s wits, and crack down on any trouble makers.

        Ironically, Utah recently downgraded polygamy to a minor infraction. Ugh.

  6. Michael Copeland says

    Apr 23, 2020 at 2:04 pm

    Founded by thuggery and kept in place by thuggery.

  7. Palladini says

    Apr 23, 2020 at 2:15 pm

    Islam is not here to integrate, unlike every other religions who have come to North America, who all got along with each other, muslims do want to integrate, they are here to Dominate us
    Islam is NOT a religion, maybe a cult at most, but more of a Political system then a Religion
    Since the start of islam, 270 million People have died by at hands of muslims worldwide, it is not a religion of peace.
    To back up my facts watch this video and see for yourself – https://youtu.be/t_Qpy0mXg8Y

    • Beverly says

      Apr 23, 2020 at 7:04 pm

      It’s not a religion. It’s a totalitarian theocracy that uses law (Sharia) and religion (Muslim) to control an indiv 24/7/365 from cradle to grave. It’s a violent death cult and the way to paradise is to kill and be killed in service to Allah. They bring up their children to kill and even kill them if it suits them. This is called “Honor Killing.” You cannot believe in Islam and science at the same time.

      • gravenimage says

        Apr 23, 2020 at 9:08 pm

        A theocracy is a polity that imposes the laws of a religion.

        You are quite right about the rest, though.

  8. gravenimage says

    Apr 23, 2020 at 8:53 pm

    India: Muslims enraged, put bounty on head of Bollywood singer for tweet critical of adhan over loudspeakers
    …………………..

    Bloody thugs. If a singer had said anything critical over the volume of church bells or the loudness of Hindu chants, would it be the same? Of course not.

  9. Val says

    Apr 23, 2020 at 9:40 pm

    I’ve never been to a place that allows that god-forsaken noise to be blasted out across cities. If I ever hear anything like that, I will track down the loudspeakers and cut the wires.

  10. schwami says

    Apr 24, 2020 at 2:52 am

    Things have been crazy in India. What I see is a civil war between muskins and state. Heck, it is already happening. One reason is yesterday’s hindus are today’s woke seculars and believers in scientism. So, resistance to Muslim is very low.

  11. peter says

    Apr 24, 2020 at 10:18 am

    That is what happens when people for generation are brain washed from elementary school level saying that all religions are the same and islam is a religion of peace and muslim conquests are glorified along with the conquerors and not a word is said about true patriots like Shivaji and Rana Pratap Singh of Mewar and patriots were vilified simply because they opposed Gandhi .God save Hindus and India from the traitors from within and without!

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