By TwoCircles.net news desk,
Patna : British Indian Muslims have demanded the British Government to declare the Chief Minister of Gujarat Mr Narendra Modi persona non grata and refuse him visa for Britain.
Modi, who had allowed and supported the ethnic cleansing of Muslims in the state in 2002, has reportedly accepted an invitation to address “India Summit 2009” being organized by Dow Jones Financial News in London in May 2009.
Opposing this step and conveying the Muslims’ outrages on the matter to British government, Mr Mohammad Munaf Zeena, who is the chairman of Council of Indian Muslims (UK) wrote a letter to British Home Secretary Ms Jacqui Smith, in which he declared Modi as responsible for Gujarat anti-Muslim violence in which members of Hindutva brigades raped, slaughtered, burned alive innocent men, women and children, and destroyed Muslims’ properties millions of pounds worth.
Mr. Mohammad Munaf Zeena also wrote that Modi’s visit is danger for inter-communal relations in the UK. Referring to revocation of Modi’s visa by the US in 2005 as an example he reminded that following US example in 2005 the British Government had also advised the Indian government to cancel Modi’s trip to London.”
Referring to Genocide Convention 1957, Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court 1998 and a number of resolutions by the United Nations Security Council and General Assembly to which Britain is a member, he demanded that United Kingdom is obligated under international law to ensure that a person who has committed international crimes is subject to arrest, trial and if found guilty, to punishment, particularly if he is found in UK soil.
This obligation is even more compelling if victims of the crimes are British citizens and in this case two members of the Dawood family; both British citizens have been killed.
Mr. Mohammad Munaf Zeena also criticized some of the British MPs who have shown support for Modi in past and says that British Muslims are outraged to witness a mass murderer being allowed to be welcomed on British soil and even see the disgusting rather shameless behaviour of 17 British MPs signing an Early Day Motion (EDM) in the House of Commons initiated by Barry Gardiner praising ‘Vibrant Gujarat’. Mr Gardiner followed this up by attending the Vibrant Gujarat summit on January 12-13 last where Modi was hailed as ‘the lion of Gujarat’.
He also asked that how justified would British Government’s stand be on asking British Muslims to oppose extremism and terrorism in all forms while allowing a terrorist and a mass murderer to be welcomed on British soil.