By TCN News,
Washington (USA): Even as it condemned the killing of Farkhanda by a mob in Afghanistan, the Association of Indian Muslims of America has condemned the silence of Muslim organizations in India and elsewhere on this ghastly atrocity.
Farkhanda, a 27-year-old devout Muslim woman, a student and a teacher at an Islamic school in Kabul, was falsely accused of burning pages of the Holy Quraan and attacked by a mob of Taliban sympathisers extremist Muslims, who beat her viscously and burnt her alive.
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“This terrible act happened due to a totally false rumour that she had torn some pages from Quran. This young woman always dressed in head to toe hijab and was a student of Islamic studies. This atrocity is not only shameful but worse than shameful,” Kaleem Kawaja, the executive director of the Washington-based Association of Indian Muslims of America, said in a press release here.
Kawaja said, “What is surprising is that Muslim websites, Muslim media, Muslim organizations in India and other Muslim countries are totally silent on this ghastly atrocity. In India, the same leaders of Muslim organizations who every single day protest loudly at injustice to Muslim community in India, Burma, Palestine, Israel, China, western countries etc. are keeping their mouths shut.”
The Association statement said that it shows that most Muslim leaders and organisations lack courage “to be just” and protest atrocities committed by extremist Muslims on fellow Muslims, especially Muslim women.
“Similarly, it is noticed that when Sunni and Shia zealots bomb each others’ mosques during prayer and kill hundreds of fellow Muslims, the Muslim organisations either remain silent or blame the carnage on non-Muslim countries. This silence of Muslims is a matter of shame,” Kawaja added.