Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind: Terror attacks by extremist outfits in name of Islam will not be tolerated

NEW DELHI: Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind, one of the leading Islamic organisations in India and affiliated Muslim outfits will converge at Jantar Mantar near Parliament Street on Wednesday to protest attacks by “extremist outfits” and condemn the terror strikes in Paris and other countries like Turkey and Lebanon in the name of Islam.
* Coming to the fore to express angry over “extremist forces” “misusing Islam” to terrorise people.Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind, general secretary and Maulana Mahmood Madani without naming ISIS send out a strong message for rejecting terrorism and appealed for “tolerance”. He said that despite the many problems including “poverty, illiteracy and communalism” that India was struggling with, it still remains the best country for the Muslims as it is here that one finds the culture of “harmony”. However, Madani did express serious concern about the current atmosphere in the Country where “language and expressions” being used by certain quarters were not acceptable. Madani clearly refrained from directly attacking the controversial and much condemned statement of Samajwadi Party MLA and minister in the Uttar Pradesh cabinet minister Azam Khan who had on November 15, stirred a controversy when he said that global superpowers must realize that the Paris terror attack was a 'reaction' to their 'action' in Syria and Iraq.
Without naming him, the Jamiat, however, in a statement made its view on Khan’s statement known. “We completely discard the action-reaction theory propounded by some persons as results of the recent terror attacks. Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind and its affiliate organisations in every part of the country will organise on November 18 demonstrations for expressing their solidarity with the innocent victims of terror attacks,” the statement reads.
Madani an ex-member of parliament did said that he was of the view that in times such as these where terror attacks must be condemned no such statements or remarks must be made by anyone that can divert attention from real concerns like the urgent need to reject any act of terror. “Even the right thing said at the wrong time can be disastrous. So our message to everyone is of tolerance and caution with language and expression. We are very clear that we are against any outfit trying to misuse of Islam for killing people,” Madani added. Madani, asserted, “mindless killings of innocent persons by extremist forces has no place in a civilised society.”