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I have visited this mall several times with my muslim friends as well. i never found anything like this discrimination you have mentioned..In yet another case of discrimination against Muslims in Mumbai, Muslim children on Eid holidays were on Sunday denied entry and forcibly stopped from entering a mall located in the city's suburbs, a media report said.
Yusuf Parmar, Vice President of Gujarat Muslim Sapai Samaj, said he was passing through Goregaon's Oberoi Mall Sunday evening when he saw Muslim children being stopped from entering the mall, according to a report published by local daily Urdu Times.
"The G4S security guards posted on the entrance were forcibly stopping the Muslim children from entering the mall", he alleged.
He said he enquired with the security guards why he was doing so, but he could not give any satisfactory reply.
He said he lodged the complaint with the mall authorities. In his complaint he also said that if the malls did not want Muslims, they should close the malls during Eid.
Parmar has also sent a copy of the complaint to Additional Police Commissioner Sunil Pawaskar.
"If suitable action is not taken, we will take the matter to higher authorities. If needed, we will also go to the court against the move", he said.
Parmar's allegations came a day after a National English daily reported that a mall in Gujarat's Ahemdabad was charging entry fee from Muslims.
Cases of discrimination against Muslims are not new to Mumbai, a city considered as cosmopolitan. Earlier, quite a few cases were found when Muslims were not allowed to purchase homes in housing societies run by non-Muslims.
- See more at: Muslim children barred from entering Mumbai's Oberoi mall | ummid.com
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Were the authorities being too heavy handed in preventing these Muslim visitors from entering the mall? Possibly
Was there a religious bias by security personnel against Muslims? Possibly
Would I be hurt if I were a Muslim denied entrance to a mall on Eid? Definitely
Were the security people wrong in preventing so many Muslim men and women from entering the mall? Maybe not
Let me explain why. Posh suburban malls, you see, work very similar to discos, pubs and classy restaurants. They are not a social institution like hospitals or schools, their only existence is to make money. Now what happens when thousands of people wearing certain clothing (Islamic skullcap, burq'as etc.) arrive one after another on a special occasion like Eid. And it's easy to assume most of them belong to a lower strata of society with not too much spending power.
So when these guys take over, it drives away Good customers, urbanites with Gucci bags and Carl Zeiss optics. It also affects cool image of the mall...once word spreads out that "these kind of people are roaming all around", it will affect business negatively. Most teenagers who are high value spenders in these malls will be simply scared away.
You see these hipster places thrive on attracting classy sophisticated people - that is their bread and butter.
And yes these malls are as likely to shut their doors on a thousand Hindu pilgrims wanting to celebrate Janmashtami in their traditional clothing, saffron dhotis and red tilaks. It's not about religion, it's about clothing, appearance.
It doesn't matter what religion you are, when you enter a classy mall, you gotta look your best and have a lovely arm candy girlfriend by your side.
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it should be taken to task .
by the way its funny to force customers to buy