Trinidad and Tobago: Islamist group objects to Hindu murtis displayed at grocery store, asks for elimination

Real Street Jamaat, department of the Anjuman Sunnatul Jamaat Association (ASJA) of Trinidad and Tobago on Friday wrote to Price Club Supermarket elevating objections to the show of Hindu murtis and different Hindu gadgets which have been up on the market.
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In a purported letter dated December 3, 2021, Haji Imtiaz Ali expressed ‘deep regret’ that one of many college students of Haji Ruknudeen Institute of Islamic Studies went to a grocery store along with her husband and was stunned to see Hindu murtis and different Hindu gadgets up on the market. Haji then requested the second vice chairman to get this stuff faraway from show shelf. “May Allah Azzawajall save us from the wrath,” he wrote.
However, Price Club Supermarket has refused to take away the ‘Hindu murtis and Hindu items’ from show which appeared to have offended the Haji.

In a Facebook put up, Price Club Supermarket mentioned that since previous 27 years they’ve supplied a household oriented setting for all creeds and races. Accusing the Haji of getting private enmity in opposition to one of many administrators of the grocery store, it mentioned, ‘The Price Club shall not entertain the utterances of any individual who devises to create disharmony and disunity of this cosmopolitan, harmonious rainbow nation that we all call HOME.’.
“We note through our investigations that the author of the document serves on the board of the Inter Religious Organisation, acts as the Muslim Prison Chaplin at the various prisons in Trinidad and Tobago and was appointed on the special committee to guide on the SEA and Concordat.It is disconcerting and ironic that such a divisive individual serves in the capacity of one who is charged to create harmony, tolerance and understanding in our society.We trust that good sense shall prevail in this matter and expect that a public apology shall be forthcoming from Mr. Haji Imtiaz Ali.We stand resolute in our service and support of all communities in our blessed nation as we have done for the past 27 years,” the grocery store mentioned in its put up.
As per World Atlas, based on the 2011 census, Protestant Christians comprise 32.1% of the inhabitants of Trinidad and Tobago whereas Roman Catholics comprise of 21.6% of the nation’s inhabitants, making Christianity the most important faith on this planet. Hindus comprise of 18.2% of the inhabitants, and are therefore the most important minority neighborhood in Trinidad and Tobago.