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Maulana Rashidi condemns violent Kanwariyas, claims 70-75% use intoxicants
All India Imam Association president Maulana Sajid Rashidi has condemned Kanwariyas accused of drinking, attacking police, damaging a school van and stopping an ambulance. Siasat.com reports that Rashidi said such people could…
The Story in Brief
All India Imam Association president Maulana Sajid Rashidi has condemned Kanwariyas accused of drinking, attacking police, damaging a school van and stopping an ambulance. Siasat.com reports that Rashidi said such people could not be called devotees of Lord Shiva, while stressing that his remarks did not apply to all Kanwariyas. He claimed, without presenting evidence, that 70-75 per cent of them engage in intoxication and violence. Rashidi also criticised religious activities that disrupt roads and referred to a video he said showed a Kanwariya offering a cigarette to a Lord Ram statue.
Rashidi separately said former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina should be handed over to Bangladesh, where its people should decide her future. These comments were also reported by Siasat.com.
The Indian Opinion
The lazy narratives here run in opposite directions: one paints every Kanwariya as violent, while another dismisses every complaint as an attack on faith. Both evade the real issue. Assaulting police, harming children or blocking an ambulance is criminal conduct, whatever the religious identity of the accused. But Rashidi’s 70-75 per cent claim is a sweeping assertion, not established evidence. The useful test is simple: how many verified cases did authorities record, and how many arrests or prosecutions followed?
Source: siasat.com
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