India is always facing the Hindu-Muslim rivalry since historical period. Whenever Eid is celebrated in India no Muslim objects them from doing so but during a Hindu festival there will one place where you will heard about some disputes created by the Muslim community. The so-called liberals often take the pride by saying the Ganga-Yamuna tehzeeb but continuing this tehzeeb is only in the hands of Hindus.
It is usually the ‘secular and liberal’ Hindus who would gleefully participate in Eid celebrations and sing paeans about the biryani and sevaiyan, but the ‘secular and liberal’ Muslims would hardly attend Pujas of Hindus, bow their head before the deity, or even respectfully eat the prasad you serve them because for a ‘believer’, idol worship is the biggest sin as per their holy books and participating in festivals of such idol worshippers is shirk.
Whenever someone is talking about this things or pointed out the secular liberals will undoubtedly call you communal and bigoted. But talking against a Muslim community is like walking on a fire because they will never heard anything about their religion.
Eidgah/Idgah is an open land where usually the people of Muslim community congregate to celebrate Eid, for Ramzan and Bakri Eid. On other times, the land is used for playing cricket, football and other such activities. In the recent past, it has been used as the ground for protests by Islamists where anti-India ‘Azaadi’ slogans are chanted. In an Idgah ground at Deoband, a 43-day-old child was allowed to die by ‘protestors’ back in March 2020 while protesting against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).
But then there are some Islamists like financial fraud accused Washington Post columnist Rana Ayyub who would rather not have the idol worshippers to celebrate their festival on a ground which is currently not hosting any festival or protest, both of them usually end up in violence.
So the basic problem of a country is we forget to respect those who deserve it. When a Hindu can respect Muslim festival or their way of celebration than a Muslim also can respect Hindu festival without creating any problem. And those comments also create an unarmed war between people which is not good for people.
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