Before I left I was the elder assigned to overseeing the growth of our Arabic group. We had specific direction from the branch to preach to Muslims and they even had a brother from turkey visit with us for a full month and educate the publishers on Arab customs and a lot of how to reach the heart of Muslims.
We we had a huge Arab population in our surrounding cities. We got to the point that we were having 6Arabic meetings a month Sunday. 2 theocratic schools. However it crumbled because there was an issue with a number of sisters and brothers who were getting to deep in the Arab culture.
Not just the clothing and the language but there was too much extracurricular activity. The c.o. Who handles Arabic groups became alarmed because they realized that after going on the studies he realized the Arabs and Muslims were really preaching to the witnesses. They lost 8 publishers to Islam around the same time in 2012. After a number of issues etc... They shut the group down and said they would let us know when to revisit the idea of the group .