An interesting note on the social changes in Islamic countries in the last generation. Somewhere around 1956, I don't remember for sure exactly, my father arranged for me to spend an extended summer with the family of a Pakistani Air Force Captain. Some good things, a few bad, one absolutely necessary, but what comes to mind most strikeingly today is that no one seemed to care that much about religion. In Karachi nothing stopped when the muezzin called. One seldom saw any one praying in public. The mosques were never crowded save on special holidays. It was a very secular place then.