Elderly people oppose Namaz in Gurgaon society’s public area. Media calls it “communal”

It has been four consecutive weeks since around a hundred Muslims assemble every Friday in Sector 47 of Gurgaon to offer Namaz. Considering the safety aspect, a group of residents, with most of them belonging to the senior citizen category, are protesting against them for offering Namaz in a public place. However, leftist media, in a bid to run their propaganda to promote hatred and bigotry, is once again portraying the whole incident as “communal”.

Elders opposed Namaz in Gurgaon society’s public area

It was a few weeks back when approximately a hundred Muslims began assembling in Gurgaon society’s public area every Friday to offer Namaz. However, after a group of residents protested against those offering Namaz in a public place, Gurugram police asked them to shift their prayers to a site around 200 metres from the original spot.

Despite the elderly people’s opposition, the prayers were offered yesterday amid heavy police deployment. Police created a security cordon to stop those carrying placards and raising slogans. However, after the police did not take any action against those offering Namaz in a public place, the residents gathered near the site and sang religious songs using a mic and a portable speaker. In addition to that, slogans were also raised to stop the prayers in public places.

While some claimed that sector 47 is one of the designated sites where prayers could be offered in the open as ‘negotiated’ by the administration in 2018, the residents claimed that the arrangement was not permanent and permission was granted only for a day.

Sunil Yadav, President of the residents’ welfare association of Sector 47, said, “Every week, hundreds of people gather in this area to offer namaz on government land. Due to this, the vehicular movement gets affected as the plot is next to a private school, and the Namaz timings clash with the time when school ends and our children return home. They (Muslims) should offer prayers at mosques or in their religious institutions. We had raised the matter with the district administration earlier also and have submitted a letter on Friday as well. The administration assured us that they will look into the matter and find a solution.”

Leftist media running propaganda to call the protest “communal”

Where the whole development revolves around the problems which the residents have to go through and their security concerns, the leftist media is leaving no stone unturned to portray the whole incident as “communal”. In an article published by news laundary, the media house wrote, “Jumma namaz in Gurgaon’s Sector 47 is turning into a communal hotspot.”

In a tweet, NDTV journalist Mohammad Ghazali stated, “Ya wala grp subah park mein alom vilom kerte hue oxygen k sath zahar bhi khub ugalte hain.” 

A Twitter user also jumped into the bandwagon to give a communal angle to the incident and wrote, “They did this last Friday in Gurgaon (same sector) and doing it again today. These are planned protests with a vicious agenda. They are spreading hate and fear in their neighborhoods and no one is calling them out on it.”

Communalisation efforts by liberals and leftists

The same liberals who accuse Hindus and right-wing activists of communalising any crime incident in which the accused is identified as Muslims, themselves blatantly communalise the cases where ‘Hindus’ or ‘Brahmins’ are the accused.

Earlier reported by TFI, a nine-year-old girl was allegedly raped and murdered by four people named Radhe Shyam, Laxmi Narayan, Kuldeep, and Salim. However, ignoring the fourth name in the list of accused, the liberal media began communalising the crime to target the other three. 

Read more: How does it matter if the accused is a Salim or a Pujari – the horrible communalisation of Delhi Cantt Rape

Arfa Khanum Sherwani, a woke and liberal journalist, had tweeted, “9 year old Dalit girl allegedly gang-raped, murdered and forcibly cremated at Delhi Cantt crematorium. The accused is said to be an upper caste Pujari. The sheer absence of outrage on my timeline gives away the story. Now tell me again we aren’t a Casteist society ?”

The attempts made by liberals to give a communal angle to this incident is, indeed, despicable. It is high time that the Indian liberals stop playing victim cards and get over their fixation on communalising every incident.