Chennai flood: Mosques show the way in relief activities

“While the entire nation is debating on the “non­sense” called “intolerance”, there is humanity at its best in Chennai. I can tell this for sure because; I stay in Qatar and my family (wife and 2 kids aged 11 and 7) are in Chennai. With all the floods and problems, I am getting the message from them, “We are safe”. In the wake of calamity, Chennai is “One”,” reads a Facebook post by Biju Vargheese, an expatriate from Chennai.

The mosques in Chennai, which are more than 500 in number, as per the figures with the Indian Union Muslim League Tamil Nadu state committee, too have opened their doors and have emerged as critical shelters particularly for poor flood victims, irrespective of their religious beliefs.