After an official ban on Muslim prayers at open places in India’s Gurugramcity near New Delhi, a local organisation taking care of gurdwaras, holyplaces of the Sikh religion, has announced opening the doors of a gurdwarafor Muslims.
Hindu extremists have been protesting against the Muslims’ act of offeringFriday prayers at open places outside mosques for the last several weeks.As Muslims in larger numbers swarm mosques to say their weekly Fridayprayers, mosques mostly cannot accommodate these big numbers of worshipersand they have to use the open places outside the mosques to say theirprayers.
Keeping in view the protests by Hindu extremists, the local authorities inGurugram city have stopped the Muslims from using the open places outsidethe mosques to offer their Friday prayers and cancelled the permissionletters issued earlier in this regard.
Hindu extremists have also been disrupting the Muslim Friday prayers atopen places by raising their religious slogans.
Last week, Hindu extremists filled an open place with cow dung whereMuslims were going to say their Friday prayers the next day. They said theywanted to turn that place into a volleyball court.
Against this backdrop, an organisation associated with gurdwaras of theSikh religion has come forward and announced opening a gurdwara in Gurugramso that Muslims can offer their Friday prayers there.
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Harteerath Singh, Community Development Director at Hemkunt Foundation,wrote on Twitter, “Gurgaon’s Sadar Bazaar Gurudwara is now open for ourMuslim brothers to offer their daily namaz keeping in mind the recentevents that took place in the city.”
And then he also talked about the threats that Hindu extremists werehurling at him and his family. He wrote, “You may give me countless deaththreats, abuse and troll me and my family but humanity will always prevail.Will always stand up for truth and sewa.”
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The Gurdwara Singh Sabha Committee, which runs five gurdwaras in Gurugram,says it will ask the local authorities to allow Muslims to offer theirprayers in these gurdwaras. Committee member Harry Sandhu said it wasunfortunate that Muslims were not being allowed to offer their prayers atthe open places.
