“We are not safe,” Foreign Students Say After Hindutva Group Attacks Them for Praying Taraweeh at Hostel
Ghazala Ahmad | 17 March 2024 | MaktoobMedia
A Hindutva mob attacked Muslim international students studying at Gujarat University, one of the public state universities in Gujarat’s Ahmedabad, over offering Taraweeh prayers at their hostel on Saturday night, March 16th. Videos of the attack are viral on social media, triggering widespread outrage. Taraweeh prayers are special prayers offered in the congregation by Muslims during the holy month of Ramadan, once a year.
The students claim that the mob was chanting Islamophobic and Hindu religious slogans ‘Jai Shri Ram’ and also carried knives, cricket bats, stones and, other weapons which they used to attack them. The police had arrived at the spot but students alleged that ‘Police let the goons go and did nothing.”