Created on Wednesday, 05 December 2012 07:13
By Mumtaz Alam, MuslimMirror.com,
New Delhi: Jamaat-e-Islami Hind is seriously considering legal action against Praveen Swami of The Hindu English daily for his baseless and hateful propaganda against the Jamaat for quite some time. In recent instance, Swami has termed Jamaat as part of Jihadist network in India while giving a lecture to trainee civil servants at Sardar Patel Institute of Public Administration in Ahmedabad, Gujarat.
“Praveen Swami has been regularly writing without proofs against Jamaat-e-Islami Hind. Directly or indirectly he is trying to damage the image of Jamaat,” said Mr. Mohammad Salim Engineer, National Secretary, Public Relations, Jamaat-e-Islami Hind.
“Now we are seriously mulling over legal options, we can file a lawsuit in court to keep in check him and such journalists who are using lies to spread hatred among communities,” Mr. Salim said adding the Constitution of India has provision for such legal recourse.
Mr. Praveen Swami, Senior Associate Editor and Chief of National Bureau of national English daily The Hindu recently gave a lecture at Sardar Patel Institute of Public Administration in Ahmedabad. The topic of his Power Point Presentation was “Islamists in India and the Global Jihadist Movement”. His PPT had a subtitle ‘The Jihadist Network’ wherein he presented several institutions that included Jamaat-e-Islami and individuals as part of the Jihadist network in the country.
Mr. Salim said Swami’s writings cast aspersions over his own professionalism and journalism. They often seem to be based on dossiers of intelligence agencies. Several national and international intelligence agencies are hell bent to destroy the image of Islam and create hatred for the Muslim community. Swami’s articles and ‘exclusive’ stories on terrorism – which have fallen flat after proper probes of terror blasts – appear to be part of the design of intelligence agencies and thus require proper investigation.
Mr. Salim Engineer said that the baseless writings of Praveen Swami have damaged the image of The Hindu paper. Such irresponsible stories will dent its impartial image. He demanded the management of The Hindu to put some check on Swami or remove him to save its image.
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As-salaam. There are many others who are trying to defame Muslims and Islam and we became so lazy that we don’t have time to take action against such criminal minded people. It is too much we have to wake up and take serious actions against such people by taking them to law. And we should unite so that nobody dare to blame and divide us.