East Indians retain many traditions, including the celebration of Hindu and Muslim religious festivals.

The town is famous for Muslim festivals.

It is not a purely Muslim festival and people of all religious backgrounds participate in it without discrimination.

The demonstrations also coincide with a major Muslim festival and a Hindu festival.

Almost all major and minor Hindu and Muslim festivals are celebrated here.

Muslim festivals are timed according to local sightings of phases of the moon, and fall about 11 days earlier each year.

The Guinean community participates in Muslim festivals and informal social events throughout the year.

The Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha happened around this time.

The last such attack was on government politicians during a Muslim festival.

On Muslim festivals, Hindi movies were used to be screened.