Aga Khan Followers Being Exploited by Priests
Aurangabad, 8 th November, 2016: In many religious communities, the priestly class exploits the common people , who are powerless to speak out. Take the instance of about 80 Khoja families ( Ismaili muslims from Gujarat who are followers of Aga Khan ) who are fighting for their fundamental right to worship peacefully in Aurangabad. Their oppressors are Aziz Abdullah Surani who is a local priest called Mukhi and Samir Ramzanali Moti, who is a local priest called Kamadia . The previous Mukhi Ramzan Sher Mohammad Charaniya, and some others who are higher-ups in the Ismaili community, are also part of this religious-economic scam. (Incidentally, Aziz Abdullah Surani is the co-producer of a recent Bollywood release called Chalk N Duster starring Juhi Chawla and Shabana Azmi.) In December 2015, the priests locked the decades-old Fazalpura jamatkhana or community prayer hall, in order to force Aurangabad's Khoja families to worship at an unauthorized under-construction stru...