By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter,
New Delhi: The All India Muslim Majlis-e Mushawarat (AIMMM), the umbrella body of Indian Muslim organisations, has condemned the continuous hate-mongering indulged in by BJP leaders.
AIMMM President Dr Zafarul-Islam Khan said here in a statement that after the disgraceful flop of their fake “Love Jihad” plank, BJP leaders are now raking up their old false claims about madrasas teaching terrorism and that meat export income is being used to finance terror. The first claim has been made by a BJP MP from Unnao Sakshi Mahraj, known for his hate utterances and activities while the other is made by a BJP minister Menaka Gandhi.
Maneka Gandhi and Sakshi Maharaj
Both these claims, Dr Khan said, are false and libelous. He added that under the previous NDA government, BJP leaders made such false claims against madrasas but utterly failed to pinpoint a single madrasa and close it down as a result.
The Sangh’s communal elements are feeling emboldened again to raise this issue only to divide Indians on religious lines and to polarize society for their narrow political gains, the AIMMM statement added.
Dr Khan reiterated his earlier offer in such a case that he is ready to take at his cost the said BJP leader to any madrasa in any part of India where the said leader can check the textbooks being taught to madrasa students.
He further said that the BJP minister’s claim about the use of meat export income to finance terrorism only speaks volumes about her government’s utter inefficiency since till date no such case has been filed in the length and breadth of the country.
Dr Khan added that the meat export is a monopoly of some big business houses since only owners of modern slaughter houses, which cost hundreds of crores each, can export meat and the owners of these slaughter-houses include Hindus, Sikhs and Jains and not only Muslims contrary to the intended message.
He said rabid elements in the Sangh Parivar feel emboldened by the advent of the Modi government and they have started low-intensity communal violence in all parts of the country while the Union government looks the other way.
Dr Khan added that this low-intensity violence cannot go hand-in-hand with the development plank of Modi government. Modi has to choose between hate and development as the twain cannot coexist.
Welfare Party of India (WPI) also took strong objection to the outrageous utterances being made by leaders of the ruling Saffron party and urged to rein in them.
Party General Secretary Dr. S.Q.R Ilyas in a statement said while the Sangh leaders were away from the freedom struggle, the Ulemas (Islamic scholars) of the madrassas were actively involved with the independence movement and freedom struggle.
Dr Ilyas said that Sakshi Maharaj and his Sangh companions owe clarification to the nation why it took about 52 years to host the national flag at the RSS headquarters for first time in 2002.
He also took strong exception to the allegation made by Union Minister for Women and Child Development Maneka Gandhi that profits made through “trade of slaughtered animals goes into terrorism.” The Union Minister while calling for total nationwide ban on slaughter of animals had said, “Money through trade of slaughter animals goes into terrorism and therefore into killing us. Why are we allowing this?”
He termed her statement most outrageous. Dr.lyas said that it is not one particular community that is associated with animal slaughtering and meat business. “Lakhs of people from all castes and communities are directly and indirectly involved with this industry. Total ban on animal slaughter will forfeit crores of the countrymen a nutritious diet from their menu. It will devastatingly collapse the rural economy also,” Dr. Ilyas continued.
Dr. Ilyas said it has become a practice for the Sangh Party leaders and ministers to make communal and polarizing statements every now and then. “Through such divisive and polarizing politics, dividends and profits can be made. But finally it will be detrimental to the whole nation,” he added.