Hyderabad, May 30 -- All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) president Asaduddin Owaisi on Friday alleged that issues related to festivals and Namaz are raised deliberately to target Muslims, and said the community will not give up prayers.

Addressing an Eid Milap event, Owaisi said whenever festivals like Bakrid or Ramzan approach, "they just start creating issues".

"Problems with the Azaan, problems with Namaz after all, what has happened to you people?" he asked, and recalled that Islamic scholars fought against the British from mosques and issued fatwas for the struggle. "Figures like Allama Fazl-e-Haq Khairabadi and Allama Kaifi, hundreds and thousands of such scholars sacrificed their lives. Today, you are lecturing us, mak...