New Delhi, March 29, 2023 (PPI-OT): Close on the heels of the disruption of Taraweeh prayers by some Rashtriya Bajrang Dal miscreants in Moradabad city of Uttar Pradesh, a ruckus has now erupted in Greater Noida city of the same state with some elements raising a hue and cry over namaz being offered by Muslims in the basement of a residential colony. Several people have taken to social media to express their anguish and dismay over the sequence of events whereby Muslims are being prevented from performing their religious obligation.
Some residents of Supertech Ecovillage-2 Society in Greater Noida started protesting as namaz was being offered in the basement of a building. The residents created a ruckus on the issue following which the police reached the spot and dismantled all arrangements made for the purpose of congregational prayers. The incidents of namaz disruptions have drawn anger on social media with many raising questions as to why it was being done.
Sweden-based academic and writer of Indian origin, Professor Ashok Swain, asked: “Why are these Hindus of a housing society near India’s capital Delhi creating a ruckus? They are angry because some Muslim residents of the society are offering namaz in the basement. When Hindus became so weak to fear the prayers of a Muslim?” Swain is currently a professor at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University.
Journalist Samar Halanakar said that Hindus take over streets to celebrate their festivals but are not ready to tolerate namaz in a basement and a godown. Historian Rana Safvi asked why offering namaz is becoming problematic for some people. Muslim want to offer their namaz in peace. Kalim, a noted social media user and a researcher at Altnews, urged elite Hindus to acknowledge that there was a problem in their own backyard.
“Muslims in North India can’t even pray in peace because the Hindu majority gets angry and causes legal problems and the authorities side with these aggressors,” he tweeted.
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