We condemn radicalization whether by ISIS or by Hindutva Senas of Western UP – Nusrat Ali, Acting President JIH

February 6, 2016

We condemn radicalization whether by ISIS or by Hindutva Senas of Western UP – Nusrat Ali, Acting President JIH

New Delhi – Acting President of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind – Nusrat Ali said today in the monthly press conference of Jamaat at its central headquarters in New Delhi that – “JIH condemns radicalization whether by ISIS or by the Hindutva Senas in Western Uttar Pradesh. However a few stray individuals cannot be representative of an entire community and it is wrong to portray only Muslims as sympathetic or prone to carry out terrorist activities.

 

Jamaat would like to remind the Central government that all Muslim social bodies and Muslim religious organizations including JIH consider the ISIS to be a terrorist organization and declare that the activities of the ISIS are un-Islamic. Nusrat Ali expressed skepticism at the recent blanket arrests of Muslim youth on charges of terrorism in different parts of the country.

 

He reminded the Central government and its security agencies that the Prime Minister and the Home Minister both had unequivocally declared that the ISIS does not have any existence in India and Indian Muslims would never fall prey to ISIS propaganda. However, now Muslim youth are being arrested arbitrarily on charges of being associated with the ISIS. Merely surfing the atrocities committed by the ISIS through the Internet does not make someone guilty.

 

When someone commits a terrorist act, only then can one be held guilty and liable for arrest and punishment Jamaat firmly believes that the recently held Muslim youth have been framed unjustly and would be later acquitted by the courts in the same manner as many Muslim youth who were arrested previously on charges of terrorism but were released subsequently thereby destroying their professional careers and ruining their lives in the prime of their youth. JIH demands that the Central government should withdraw all charges and immediately release all those Muslim youth who have been arrested without any solid evidence and incarcerated merely on the basis of suspicion.

 

On the recent controversy around the minority status of AMU and Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) he said that: the U-turn of the Central government in the Supreme Court pertaining to the minority character of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) is a negation of a well-known fact that that the AMU was established by the Muslim community to improve its educational status in India. Jamaat expresses serious concern at the government’s position (to deny minority status to AMU) and feels that it is a deliberate neglect of the constitutional rights given to minorities.

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