By TCN News,
New Delhi: An anti-terrorism conference will be held in Delhi’s Constitution Club on April 19. The conference will be presided by senior Islamic Scholar, Maulana Yaseen Akhtar Misbahi, Founder-President Darul Qalam, Delhi.
Maulana Misbahi was briefly interrogated by Delhi Police in January, but was released within hours after furore.
“Regrettably, any act of terrorism perpetrated in India or any part of the world today is conflated with Islam and Muslims in common. Thus, an obnoxious concept of Jihad is created by misinterpreting and cherry-picking the Qur’anic verses and injunctions, with an aim to defame Islam, Qur’an and Jihad,” a statement issued by the organisers said.
At a time when Islamophobes and anti-Muslim elements are actively engaged in demonising Islam and Muslims on the pretext of Jihad, some groups of misguided Muslim youths in different Muslim countries falsely and quite wrongly attribute their militant goals and violent acts to Jihad, the statement further said, adding that they are actually playing as tools in some hands to serve their vested interests.
“Even in the state of defensive war, Islam did not permit the killing of women, children, innocent and non-combatant civilians. How, then, Islam can sanction the grave brutalities of a terrorist outfit or an individual in the name of Jihad?” it continued.
Calling an act of terror “Jihad” or declaring Jihad as “Terrorism” is the gravest form Jihad in the 21st Century, the organisers believe.