In a round of tweets, Bollywood singer Sonu Nigam has recently expressed his displeasure on being disturbed through his morning sleep due to the Fajr Azaan.
On his Twitter handle, he posted, “God bless everyone. I am not a Muslim and I have to be woken up by the Azaan in the morning. When will this forced religiousness end in India.”
God bless everyone. I'm not a Muslim and I have to be woken up by the Azaan in the morning. When will this forced religiousness end in India
— Sonu Nigam (@sonunigam) April 16, 2017
And by the way Mohammed did not have electricity when he made Islam.. Why do I have to have this cacophony after Edison? — Sonu Nigam (@sonunigam) April 17, 2017
Azaan is a call to prayer given five times a day by the muezzin of a mosque. The first call is given early in the morning. Calling it "forced religiousness," he tweeted he is not a Muslim and still wakes up by the Azaan in the morning. Obviously, this did not play well with the Twitterati and brought about a major backlash of differing spiritual and political agenda. Twitter users, outraged by his comments, are slamming Sonu Nigam on the social networking. Many users criticised him for raking up a religious issue.I don't believe in any temple or gurudwara using electricity To wake up people who don't follow the religion . Why then..? Honest? True?
— Sonu Nigam (@sonunigam) April 17, 2017
@sonunigam Am a Hindu but isn't same "inconvinience" faced by Non Hindus too when we blare loudspeakers for Navratri n Ganesh processions? — Maya (@IamMayaSharma) April 17, 2017
@sonunigam That time Electricity isn't there but they used to make Sound in other way.Don't say anything if u don't know it accurately
— Adiba (@AdibaSumi) April 17, 2017
@sonunigam India is a secular country, u cant say such things. So many Muslims out there... should they not be called to prayer, cuz you get disturbed? — Saniya Pathan (@saaniisweet) April 17, 2017