Posted on 12/03/2021 9:27:49 PM PST by Cronos
Until a few weeks ago, no one had given much thought to the car park in Gurgaon, a satellite city to India’s capital, Delhi. But for the last few Fridays the dusty, litter-strewn patch of concrete has become a religious battleground.
This week as a Hindu nationalist mob assembled in their usual saffron, roars “Jai Shri Ram” (Hail Lord Ram) and “hail the motherland” filled the air. Then a cry rang out: “The Muslims are here.” And the mob began to charge.
For more than a decade, this car park has been one of hundreds of sites that the Muslims of Gurgaon have been using as a makeshift prayer ground on Fridays, their designated day of congregational prayer, for jumma namaz. Usually such prayers are held in mosques but Gurgaon, a city that rose in the 1990s from the brushland on the outskirts of Delhi to serve India’s new middle class, has a severe shortage, with around 13 to cater for a city of more than 1.5 million people.
....rumblings of discontent began, as Hindu vigilante groups realised that Muslims were praying on public land
Every Friday for months, members of Hindu vigilante groups alongside local residents have been gathering, occasionally armed with axes and wooden rods, at the sites of namaz to try to stop them happening. Slogans including “shoot the traitors” have been shouted and Hindu prayers and songs read out to try to drown out Qur’an readings.
“Conducting namaz in the open is land jihad,” Thakur said before being arrested. “It’s an international conspiracy. They do namaz outside, then they build a shrine, then they build a mosque and then inside the mosque they are harbouring terrorists and weapons and they are a threat to the nation. I will not stop my fight until this becomes illegal.”
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They are preventing muslims from illegally taking over a public car park for their "prayer sessions "
Peaceful Hindus vs. the ROP.
Invest in (pop)corn futures.
Yeah, I think I will take Hindus for $500 Alex.
Isn’t this the reason that India and Pakistan split in the first place?
Pakistan has driven out most of their non Muslims, while India is expected to accommodate a large Muslim minority (India is 12% Muslim, there are almost as many Indian Muslims as the population of Pakistan).
It’s going to blow up some day.
Both have nucs. Not a good situation at all.
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