It’s not to conceal the fact that they’re Muslim. It was simply the standard for a significant period of European history to Latinize names, as Latin was the common tongue of academia. Germans, Norse, and Slavs all suffered this same Latinization.

For that matter, translating names into the local language is far from abnormal in world history - the use of the local name is extremely recent in nearly all languages. Even personal names of people who were known, personally, was not abnormal - famously, T.E. Lawrence was known by his Arab allies as “Auruns”. In English, the Anglicization of Marcus Antonius as Mark Antony by Shakespeare still has currency some 400 years later, even as other Anglicizations of Roman figures have largely fallen out of favor.

This is making mountains out of molehills. It’s one thing to want the Arabic forms to replace the old Latinization - that’s valid. It’s another thing entirely to accuse it of being done to steal credit from Muslims.

“Stop latinizing”

We literally did centuries ago. No Arabic name is ever latinized because - aa it turns out - if you stop using Latin, you don’t need Latinization.

For existing names, I don’t see a problem with using the historic remnant. It was useful at the time because of Latin grammar and the Latin names are much more well established.

It happened with every name by the way. See Confucius, Nostradamus or Copernicus.

What localized name should you call Copernicus by the way?

The Latin Nicolaus Copernicus?
The Polish Mikołaj Kopernik?
The Middle Low German Niklas Koppernigk?
The Modern German Nikolaus Kopernikus?

Turns out being a scientist in a multilingual region leads to a bunch of different names.

Eh, as long as it’s just the proper noun, I don’t really care that much. Languages can have their own versions of nouns based on the cultural context at the time. Is calling Deutschland Germany a problem? Zhongguo China? Nah.

You wanna call Shakespeare something different, go for it, it just means he was important enough to have a moniker in another language.

I’ve never heard of any of those names, latinised or not, what did they do?

In addition to that, there’s a tendency in mathematics to name a formula or theorem after the mathematician that discovered them if they are of western origin, meanwhile discoveries by arab/muslim/non-western academics are often referred to by a name that conceals the identity of the person behind them.

It may be a small thing, but it definitely skews the perception around scientific progress in a eurocentric direction, willingly or not lending support to ideas of superiority of some ethnicities over others.

I remember when I first listened to a newscaster in aljazeera saying: Gerhard Schröder Sometimes it makes it worse trying…

This is not surprising, pretty much everyone did this for names back in the day. Kings, popes, cities and countries all have different names based on the language.

You should avoid using letters that do not exist or have different pronunciation. Or accept that people pronounce names offensively wrong. Noone cares enough to know every language and place of origin before reading about a thing.

And most people cannot even read the alphabet (IPA). Foreign scripts even less so.