By Mumtaz Alam Falahi, TwoCircles.net,
New Delhi: “Involvement of politics is clear in all these cases (terrorist bombings). Some parties are using it for their purposes. This will not be in the interest of the country. If you are doing this to victimize an entire community, that will not be good for the country,” said Maulana Jalaluddin Umri, Ameer (chief) of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind today.
He was addressing a gathering of Muslim journalists at an Iftar party hosted by JIH at its headquarters.
“Correct story should be published by media, true culprits should be identified, it should not be that a person is declared guilty and then evidence should be collected,” he said.
He urged the Urdu media and Muslim journalists to give prominence to the forces of peace and those who are demanding fair probe of the terrorist bombings.
“Some parties and organizations from the majority community have pressed on finding out the truth. RJD leader Lalu Prasad Yadav, LJP leader Ram Vilas Paswan, SP leader Mulayam Singh Yadav and CPI (M) leader Brinda Karat have demanded fair enquiry into terrorist bombings” said the Ameer to the journalists.
JIH Iftar to Muslim pressmen
Muslim press and Muslim pressmen should highlight those voices and strengthen their voice. If those voices were not given exposure and due recognition, then there will be no chance of justice in the country, he warned.
He also urged the Muslim press to be united in their approach to terrorism and they should talk in one voice.
He also said that everyone should not open their mouth on issue related to Islam. Rather they should consult those who are expert on the subject and publish their views.
On the victimization of the minority community, the JIH chief said that a country cannot progress by alienating a community of 20 crore people. The community also cannot survive on its own by keeping itself aloof from other communities. For overall progress of the country, mutual cooperation between the communities is must.
He demanded a high-level enquiry into all cases of terrorism in the last 4-5 years. He called upon Muslim journalists to use their contacts to pursue non-Muslim journalists to highlight true picture of a story.
Those who attended the programme included Zia Haq, Assistant Editor of Hindustan Times, Khalid Anwar, Editor of Urdu daily Hamara Samaj, Seema Chishti, formerly with BBC, Sikandar Azam, Assistant Editor of Radiance Viewsweekly and Parwaz Rahmani, Editor of Sehroza Dawat. Many journalists from Door Darshan, Rashtriya Sahara, Akhbar-e-Mashriq also attended the programme.