Artificial amplification is a relatively recent invention. For 1,300 years of Islam, the muezzin sounded the call to prayer from the minaret with his unaided voice only. These loudspeakers are a declaration of supremacy, a declaration of who is aspiring to be China’s new masters.

“China removes loudspeakers from hundreds of mosques in Muslim-majority region to stop calls to prayer as anti-religion sentiment rises,” by Sophie Williams, Mailonline, August 24, 2017: