By Mohammed Siddique, TwoCircles.net,
Hyderabad : United Muslim Action Committee (Muttaheda Muslim Majlis-e-Amal), a platform of all major political parties in Andhra Pradesh has warned that the atrocities of police against the Muslim community will throw cold water on all the good steps the state government was taking for the welfare of the minorities.
A meeting of the Majlis-e-Amal, chaired by prominent religious scholar Moulana Hameeduddin Aauqil Hussami was convened to discuss the situation arising out of the recent arrest of a Muslim youth Muqeemuddin Yasser in Hyderabad on terror linked charges.
Yasser, son of an imprisoned scholar Moulana Naseeruddin, was picked up by the police and tortured throughout the night before the police announced his arrest next day saying he was involved in criminal conspiracy case and two other cases dating back to 2004.
A statement issued after the meeting condemned the manner of the arrest and expressed its surprise that the youth was arrested now in connection with the cases registered four years ago and in which his name did not figure earlier.
“For last many years the police have been creating such an atmosphere and baseless apprehensions in the minds of the people just before the Ganesh festival that the Muslims were going to attack the Ganesh process. There had never been any such incident in the city in the past. On the contrary in 1984 the processionists had targeted the shops and properties of Muslims and caused communal riots”.
The committee decided that a delegation will meet the Chief Minister soon and apprise him of the situation. “We will tell the Chief Minister that a group of police officers is carrying forward the RSS agenda of spreading hatred towards Muslims and discouraging the Muslim youth”, a spokesperson of the Majlis-e-Amal said.
The committee was of the view that this group of police was out to make the Congress party and its government unpopular among the Muslims.
The meeting was attended by Abdul Raheem Qureshi (president Tameer-e-Millat), Mohammed Azharuddin (state secretary, Jamat-e-Islami), Syed Ahmad Pasha Quadri (MLA of MIM), Raheemuddin Ansari, Chairman Urdu Academy and Moulana Taqi Raza Abidi and Moulana Masood Hussain Mujtahidi.
The committee also condemned the incidents of police visiting the Madarsas and mosques in different parts of the state and collecting information about the Imamas, Moezzins and the organizers. “Those from outside are being directed not to go to any other pace with out informing the local police”, the statement said.