In a poetic sense the sound of Islam is the adhan. The sound of Hinduism is the om. The sound of Buddhism is the dungchen. The sound of Judaism is the shofar. The sound of Christianity is the church bell. The sound of the post-Christian secular West is the sad dearth of the church bell. The church in the West is no longer public or prayerful. We are now private. The only way we know how to be public is to be political.
