I am yet to see any logical, scientific argument from you two on why closing down Mosques or limiting the numbers of those allowed inside to pray is not necessary as part of the measures to control the spread of COVID-19.
Attacking those arguing in favor of mosque restrictions/closures instead of posing your own rational counter-arguments suggests an emotional, irrational knee jerk approach to the issue.
I am actually in favor of closing down mosques.
I should have clarified. What this government is doing is not really doing a lockdown but selective lockdown. Like that Sikhs celebration i posted. Like barber shops and construction being opened. Then people on ground actually see how nobody is really following the lockdown and go about their business.
If you're an agnostic then i don't expect you to understand the belief we Muslims have in power of prayers. To the non-religious, it's dumb. Science will save us. But Muslims think otherwise. Prayers will save us and science will be a mean of it. So we give extreme importance to prayers, Islam gives extreme importance to prayers. So when people see the lockdown all this hypocrisy of government in allowing certain groups and activities, they feel they should be allowed to perform more important duty i.e prayers.
What i have a problem with is how Muftis and Mullahs are treated by the government and media. Oh these are dumb and stupid people who don't know how to breathe even. You've people like Behoodaboy invited next to Maulvis on TV so he can really pull their pants down and make a mockery of them.
That's what i have a problem with. At this point, these religious scholars simply feel attacked and rightly so. They are being attacked. Talk to them with respect, if you hate and loathe them, send a delegation of other people who will talk to them.
These Mullahs aren't inviting people to child molestation and rape parties but mosques and prayers. You're going to lose severely if you think you can treat every Maulvi like you did Khadim Rizvi and Fazlu. KR had a filthy mouth and was political and not really liked by that many, so was Fazlu.
To many, it feels like mosques are being targeted and rightly so. In Peshawar, there's no lockdown except on TV. You can do anything except attend mosques? If the government wasn't so indecisive, this wouldn't be an issue.
Either do a lockdown or don't. Coronavirus isn't going to spare construction workers and barber shops because they're poor people and feel sympathy. That's so stupid. If coronavirus feels that way, maybe it would spare mosques too because they're good religious people