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No place to pray: Muslim worshippers under pressure in India / V000_9UZ22U
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Gurgaon is a modern satellite city of India's capital New Delhi. Around 500,000 Muslims either live there, have migrated to the area for work or labour there during the day.
The city has 15 mosques to cater for them, but the local government has refused permission to build more -- even as the number of Hindu temples has grown.
This has forced the community to hold their customary Friday "namaz" prayers in open spaces.
In recent years, with Hindu groups spraying cow dung at prayer sites and calling Muslim devotees Pakistanis and terrorists, the local government has steadily cut the number of approved outdoor worship sites.
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