According to the Times of India, Muslim vendors and businesses met with Rinchen Lhamo, a member of the National Commission for Minorities, on Friday, April 8, are to file a complaint against the Muslim community allegedly claiming to being targeted in Karnataka.
The meeting took place in the midst of a social media campaign warning a Hindu ice-cream shop owner in Mangalore to remove the Halal certification from their products within a month or face a boycott.
Muslim businessmen felt threatened and targeted as the message began to circulate on social media sites. They sought assistance from the National Commission for Minorities.
Members of the Muslim community sought protection from Rinchen Lhamo during a meeting with officials at the DC office on Thursday.
They informed her that some time ago, concerns were raised about hijab and post the hijab controversy, the Muslim community is allegedly targeted on a daily basis, which has worried community members. Members of the community, they claim, are closely affiliated with people of various faiths. They asked the Commission to order the state government to protect the Muslim minority in the state.
Since Muslim shopkeepers forced Hindu traders to close shops in protest of the Karnataka High Court’s judgement prohibiting the wearing of hijab in educational institutions, Hindu temple administrations have taken a firm stance against non-Hindus participating in the yearly fairs.
After some Muslim retailers joined protests against the Karnataka High Court’s hijab judgement and shut down shops in response to a political call for a strike, multiple temple committees in Karnataka decided that they would not lease shops on their temple grounds to non-Hindus.
Members of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad followed suit, calling for a ban on non-Hindu traders near the Chamundeshwari temple on Chamundi Hill.
Following a series of issues involving hijab, halal meat, and the use of loudspeakers in mosques, the Muslim businessman expressed fears that they were being targeted in Karnataka.
Karnataka’s people have heroically rejected extreme Islamists’ attempts to Islamize the state in recent months.
Kannadigas have demonstrated this by standing hard against the Hijab debate in colleges and launching a campaign against Halal meat.
The sellers claim that business continues as usual, with no decrease in client traffic, and that 90% of the customers are Hindus and Christians.
A vast crowd of people can be seen surrounding the meat merchants in the city’s ‘Frasor Town’ market. The vendors and shop owners also stated that the dispute has had no impact on their business, which is currently operating normally.
According to Mohammed Samaruddin, a local shop owner, he has a considerable number of Hindu and Christian customers, and the controversy over ‘Halal’ meat has had no impact on his company. He sounded sure that his regular customers would continue to patronise his establishment.
“We have been running the same business since the independence of the country. We have never had any issues thus far. Nearly 90% of clients are Hindus and Christians, with barely 10% being Muslims. “This ‘Halal’ meat propaganda will have no impact on my company,” the shop owner stated.
Published By :- Shubham Agarwal
