There is a very strange news which is making rounds these days. In Noida, UP, Muslims are offering Namaj by encroaching and capturing public parks. It is surprising that this practice was going on for so many years until finally administration has tried to stop it:
Noida Muslim employees working at offices in Noida’s Sector 58 on Tuesday said it was convenience that led them to offer namaz at a public park in the area. The workers said that for the past five years, the public park in the middle of Sector 58 is visited by over 300 men every afternoon to offer namaz. On Fridays, over 800 people turn up for the ‘juma ki namaz’.
It is interesting to note how the culprits do not find anything wrong in this act. Public behavior and good citizenship is so rare in India that sometimes a simple thing appears to become a monumental task.
Capturing a public park for religious purpose like this where a large crowd of Muslim men gather in a park and pray together is a shameful act of encroachment. This also scares other visitors to the park and they would soon start avoiding visiting the park. This defeats the purpose for which such parks are created and maintained by the government. Greenery is getting destroyed all around and if we start allowing greenery to be encroached upon by such religious people, it would be a shame.
Muslim individuals must offer prayer at their respective office desk or prayer room if allowed by company policy or else they should take half day leave and go to a proper place for offering namaz. Encroaching public property like this is not right. Also, accusing government or the local administration of religious bias is again bad attitude.
This practice of capturing public roads and parks by Muslims must stop and they should start caring about the inconvenience they are causing to others in this manner.
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