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Campaign to ban Fajr Azan in India
May 28, 2014
Hindutva outfit launches campaign to ban Fajr Azan in India
MANGALORE: In a controversial demand that may spark widespread uproar, a less popular Hindutva outfit has called for a strict ban on dawn Azan (Fajr prayer call from Masjids)across India.
Recently, dozens of Hindutva activists including a controversial swamiji, who had earlier tried to commit suicide, staged a protest in front of the office of Deputy Commissioner in Mangalore to pressurize the authorities concerned to strictly impose ban on Azan during early morning.
The protest was held under the banner of Rashtriya Hindu Andolan and some of the protesters were displaying the banner of Hindu Janjagruti Samiti, an extremist Hindutva outfit. The protest comes a day ahead of Prime Minister-designate Narendra Modi’s swearing-in ceremony.
Speaking on the occasion, Sanatan Sanstha activist Vijayalakshmi said that even though India has granted religious freedom for all the people, followers of one religion should not misuse this freedom to disturb the followers of other religions in the society.
Using a derogatory word for Azan, she said that when Muslims shout using loudspeakers every morning they should know that it would disturb sleep of a majority of people in the society.
Hindu Janajagruti Samiti activist Vivek Pai said that the right to sleep peacefully is also comes under the ambit of fundamental rights of every Indian citizen. “The use of loudspeakers should not be permitted from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. The supreme court also had directed to impose ban on playing loud music or making any type of noise between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. However, this ban has not been applied to the early morning Azan,” he said adding that in some places Muslims deliberately cause noise pollution through loudspeakers in the early morning.
He said that those who use loudspeakers for Azan before 6 a.m. in the morning should be arrested and punished.
Rashtriya Hindu Andolan activist Ramesh Nayak said that many Masjids are located in the area of schools, colleges, hostels and hospitals. Loudspeakers used by such Masjids will always cause problems for students and patients, he added.
1. For non-Muslim readers: The adhan is the Islamic call to prayer read out from a mosque.
Fajr is the dawn prayer, the first of the five daily prayers Muslims must pray.
2. Indian Muslims are as Indian as the Hindus.
They are Indians who embraced the Muslim faith.
So whereas in western Europe, right-wing racists can say to Muslims "If you don't like it here, get out!" or "This is our country, follow our laws/culture!" this is not applicable in India.
Italian police operation oNeo-Nazi hate site "Stormfront", where hatred of Jews and Muslims is rife and the above sentiments would be expressed.
3. The world is concerned with the rise of Hindu fascism (though I myself have opposed "Islamic" extremism e.g. terrorist groups like the Jamaat e Islami) and its hatred of non-Hindu minorities such as Christians and Muslims.
What is particulary sad about the story above is that it is in much more progressive southern India, which if it broke away from the north (which they thought of prior to the 1965 war) would become almost first world in a decade or two.
Hindu fascists in India.
May 28, 2014
Hindutva outfit launches campaign to ban Fajr Azan in India
MANGALORE: In a controversial demand that may spark widespread uproar, a less popular Hindutva outfit has called for a strict ban on dawn Azan (Fajr prayer call from Masjids)across India.
Recently, dozens of Hindutva activists including a controversial swamiji, who had earlier tried to commit suicide, staged a protest in front of the office of Deputy Commissioner in Mangalore to pressurize the authorities concerned to strictly impose ban on Azan during early morning.
The protest was held under the banner of Rashtriya Hindu Andolan and some of the protesters were displaying the banner of Hindu Janjagruti Samiti, an extremist Hindutva outfit. The protest comes a day ahead of Prime Minister-designate Narendra Modi’s swearing-in ceremony.
Speaking on the occasion, Sanatan Sanstha activist Vijayalakshmi said that even though India has granted religious freedom for all the people, followers of one religion should not misuse this freedom to disturb the followers of other religions in the society.
Using a derogatory word for Azan, she said that when Muslims shout using loudspeakers every morning they should know that it would disturb sleep of a majority of people in the society.
Hindu Janajagruti Samiti activist Vivek Pai said that the right to sleep peacefully is also comes under the ambit of fundamental rights of every Indian citizen. “The use of loudspeakers should not be permitted from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. The supreme court also had directed to impose ban on playing loud music or making any type of noise between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. However, this ban has not been applied to the early morning Azan,” he said adding that in some places Muslims deliberately cause noise pollution through loudspeakers in the early morning.
He said that those who use loudspeakers for Azan before 6 a.m. in the morning should be arrested and punished.
Rashtriya Hindu Andolan activist Ramesh Nayak said that many Masjids are located in the area of schools, colleges, hostels and hospitals. Loudspeakers used by such Masjids will always cause problems for students and patients, he added.
1. For non-Muslim readers: The adhan is the Islamic call to prayer read out from a mosque.
Fajr is the dawn prayer, the first of the five daily prayers Muslims must pray.
2. Indian Muslims are as Indian as the Hindus.
They are Indians who embraced the Muslim faith.
So whereas in western Europe, right-wing racists can say to Muslims "If you don't like it here, get out!" or "This is our country, follow our laws/culture!" this is not applicable in India.
Italian police operation oNeo-Nazi hate site "Stormfront", where hatred of Jews and Muslims is rife and the above sentiments would be expressed.
3. The world is concerned with the rise of Hindu fascism (though I myself have opposed "Islamic" extremism e.g. terrorist groups like the Jamaat e Islami) and its hatred of non-Hindu minorities such as Christians and Muslims.
What is particulary sad about the story above is that it is in much more progressive southern India, which if it broke away from the north (which they thought of prior to the 1965 war) would become almost first world in a decade or two.
Hindu fascists in India.
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