INDIA: A group of youths from different communities got together to save a 120-year-old mosque in order to promote communal harmony.
Saumen Roy Chaudhury, Fayaj Khan, Imran Khan and Aritro Banerjee were the names of the young people who accomplished this feat.
According to the The Echo of India they didn’t even sleep when they heard about an impeding mob attack on the mosque since the mosque is the pride of the village. “The mosque had to be protected at any cost. We were ready to shed our last drop of blood to save it from vandalism,” Roy Chaudhury told the newspaper.
Chaudhry’s friend Imran Khan added saying, “We formed a vigilante group to protect this mosque. It was a combined defence.”
They did face trouble keeping the temperature down after a local Muslim cleric tried to create problems in the area. “We told him if he did not stop the hate campaign we will just kick him out of the village. He had no business destroying communal harmony that we are so proud of,” another resident, Feroze Khan told the newspaper.
However, schools, shops, markets and business establishments remained shut in West Bengal’s Baduria after the incident.
