A Muslim football fan from Kerala displays ‘Rebuild Babri Masji’ poster at World Cup in Qatar

Doha: A Keralite football fan held a banner in favour of the Babri Masjid’s reconstruction at the Lusail Stadium in Al-Wakrah during the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.

Saifudheen Zaif, a young man from Kerala, held up a banner during Tuesday’s match between Portugal and Switzerland that read “Rebuild Babri Masjid,” “30 Years of Injustice,” and featured a drawing of a mosque’s layout.

“Saifudheen Zaif, a friend and movement colleague,” Yasar Moidu wrote alongside a photo of a young person holding a banner in Kerala.

The Babri Masjid, one of India’s most famous and iconic mosques, was destroyed 30 years ago on Tuesday, December 6, 2022, in Uttar Pradesh.

Thousands of Hindu karsevaks toppled the Babri Mosque in Ayodhya on December 6, 1992. They believed it was built by the Mughal emperor Babar over the ruins of a Hindu temple that marked the birthplace of Lord Rama, an incarnation of the Hindu god Vishnu.

Since the 1950s, several Hindu and Muslim petitioners have been contesting the land on which the Babri Masjid was built. In 2019, the Supreme Court awarded the disputed piece of land. Ram Mandir is currently under construction there.

With the Supreme Court judgment in 2019 ending the Ram Janmabhoomi land dispute, people from both communities appear to be yearning for peace.

Muslims alleged that demolishing the structure was injustice, and it should be rebuilt so that ‘injustice could be ended’.