By TCN News,
Bangalore: Popular Front of India has demand Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram to clarify his position on Jihad forthwith and immediately tender a public apology to Muslims “for having hurt their feelings by reportedly equating Jihad with terrorism.”
“Popular Front of India strongly condemns the irresponsible statement of the Home Minister Mr. P Chidambaram where he equated Jihad with terrorism. Such a statement by the Home Minister shows his ignorance about Islam. This outrageous comparison of the two has hurt the feelings of millions of Muslims in India to the core,” K.M. Shareef, General Secretary, PFI, said in a statement today.
PFI has termed it as a policy of double standards of the Congress-led UPA Government betraying the Muslims.
“The UPA government which came to power with the support of Muslims has again betrayed them with policy of double-standards. A few months back he had praised Islam in high terms while addressing the gathering of Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind in Deoband and said that terrorism has been wrongly attached with Islam which preaches peace. However, now addressing police and intelligence officials last week he has equated Jihad with terrorism,” Shareef said.
The party has also condemned the Congress for not punishing the Babri culprits and allowing harassment of Muslim youth.
“On one side the UPA government has betrayed the Muslims by not showing the political will to punish the culprits of Babri Masjid and on the other side continued the harassment of Muslim youth in the name of terrorism. It’s high time that the UPA government should understand that repeatedly ridiculing the Muslim community will only result in exposing its double-facet politics and it will not be accepted by the Muslim masses,” Shareef said.