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In the backdrop of his claims, right wing groups threatened Muslims who had gathered to pray in a house in Mianwala village on last Friday. Accompanied by police, they created a ruckus accusing the Muslims of turning their house into a mosque. All pleas by the Muslims fell on deaf ears and the Mussoorie Dehradun Development Authority (MDDA) sealed the building for alleged violations of building by laws. Members of Muslim Sewa Sangathan, a body of minority community held a dharna in front of the office of MDDA but to no avail.<\/p>\n
A saloon being run by a Muslim was shut down on the allegations that he has been running his business on a Hindu name. \u00a0A woman right wing member notorious for her attacks on Muslims was also seen confronting a Muslim youth employed in a dairy owned by a Hindu. She as the Hindu owner to sack his Muslim employee who refused to oblige her. She kept on shouting at him for being \u2018Un-Hindu\u2019 and favouring Muslims.<\/p>\n
In Rudrapur town, the Muslim community was agitated following a move by the local authorities to seize the local \u2018Idgah\u2019 which they claimed as government land. A court stayed the proceedings on a plea by the Muslims. Interestingly, throughout the state there has been none to espouse the grievances of the Muslim community. The media particularly the national English Media and the main opposition Congress party has completely failed the Muslims in highlighting the villification and targeting of Muslims in Uttarakhand.<\/p>\n
The six Muslim corporators of Rudrapur Municipal Corporation appealed to their local, state and national level leaders to intervene and even threatened to boycott the \u2018Vote Chor Gaddi Chhod Rally\u2019 held in New Delhi last Sunday but without any success.<\/p>\n
Even the Van Gujjar, a pastoral Muslim tribe living in the forest have been targeted. In recent incident, sone Van Gujjar families staying in a makeshift hut on a private land were evicted in Sahaspur area of Dehradun district. Their hut was demolished with a bull dozer.<\/p>\n
Uttarakhand Chief Minister Dhami spearheaded the campaign against \u2018Madrassas\u2019 and closed several of them. The state government also demolished more than 250 religious structures including \u2018Mazars\u2019 as part of campaign against \u2018Mazar Jehad\u2019. Many of the Muslims doing small time work or shops in the hilly areas have been kicked out and force to leave in the past three years. The state government also claim to have\u00a0 brought in Uniform CivIl Code (UCC) and Uttarakhand Minority Education Bill, 2025, basically aimed at Muslims. In February 2024, six persons were killed in violence that followed demolition of a mosque in Banphoolpura area of Haldwani city. The predominant Muslim area also saw police atrocities reported by many independent human rights groups and bodies. The people of the area who are living in Banphoolpura area are scared and await their fate as Supreme Court has to give it\u2019s verdict on their alleged illegal encroachment on railway land.<\/p>\n
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Muslims face relentless \u2018Jehad\u2019 by Hindutva forces in Uttarakhand S.M.A. KAZMI Dehradun, Dec 19 A relentless anti- Muslim \u2018Jehad\u2019 has been unleashed by the Hindu right wing groups having the patronage of ruling BJP and RSS dispensation on the minority population. Although, the Muslim community has been at the receiving end of the ire of …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,3201,33,1284,91,56,59],"tags":[1193,3167,3165,2300],"class_list":["post-7792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-himachal-pradesh","category-international","category-international-political-national","category-national","category-politics","category-uttarakhand","tag-islamophobia","tag-muslim-sewa-sangathan","tag-targetting-of-muslims-in-uttarakhand","tag-uttarakhandchiefministerpushkarsinghdhami"],"yoast_head":"\n