The difficulty of India’s Muslim minority to find a place for Friday prayers, the facts are terrible

NEW DELHI – Every Friday, Najis Mohammad used to offer Friday prayers in a public place near his barber shop in Gurugram, which is still popular with his old name Gurgaon. It is a satellite city on the outskirts of the Indian capital, New Delhi.

However, last Friday, he had nowhere to go for Friday prayers. “Today, I’m not sure if I can pray anywhere,” he told Al Jazeera on November 5, 2021.

The reason is that right-wing Hindu groups have set up a large tent to carry out religious activities on the same land in the Sector 12A area of ​​the city that Nazim used to use for Friday prayers.

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The Hindu event was attended by a number of Hindu politicians and priests, including Kapil Mishra, who is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led by Indian Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi.

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Mishra, 40, was accused of inciting religious violence in New Delhi last year. It was the city’s worst religious violence in decades when 53 people, most of them Muslims, were brutally killed.

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Friday’s Hindu event came days after officials in the northern Indian state of Haryana revoked permits for congregational Friday prayers in eight of Gurugram’s 37 public places.

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