Video Editor: Vishal Kumar, Sandeep Suman
On20 April, 2018, around 100-200 Muslims had gathered as usual to offer Namaaz in the barren field located in front of the Paras Hospital in Sector 53, Gurugram. But their offering namaz was interrupted shortly after by a group of 7-8 men shouting ‘Jai Shree Ram’ and ‘Vande Mataram’. The protestors claimed to be a part of the ‘Sanyukt Hindu Sangharsh Samiti’.
The peopleoffering the Namaaz chose to leave the area without any retaliation. A video of this incident went viral on social media.
The cops arrested people for disruption and harassment but were later released on bail.
The members of the Sanyukt Hindu Sangharsh Samiti are eager to bar Muslims from offering Namaaz in open spaces. This committee consists of Banjrang Dal, Biswa Hindu Parishad, Shiv Sena, Hindu Jagran Manch and 12 other groups.
However. there are two sides to this story. While members of the the Sanyukt Hindu Sangharsh Samiti claim that the boys only ‘requested’ them to offer namaaz in the mosque, the viral video shows otherwise.
On the other hand, Wajid Khan has claimed that they do not intend to trouble anybody in the area.
The Muslims in the area are living in constant paranoia that their families can be harmed at any time.
After all the controversy over offering namaz in the open, the Haryana government has put up a board and the muslims have stopped offering the Friday prayers in the area
Now this raises a big question, Can’t Muslims pray in the field peacefully in the absence of the police?
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