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Message: <blockquote data-quote="diamonddrago" data-source="post: 7566718" data-attributes="member: 243828">Muslim leaders condemn Gujarat temple  killings, appeal for harmonyBy Danish A  Khan         New Delhi, September 25: Muslim  organisations and leaders have widely condemned the Swaminarayan temple  killings in Gujarat's political capital, Gandhinagar. Muslim leaders  have appealed for the restoration of sanity and mutual brotherhood.            The western Indian state of Gujarat had recently witnessed  anti-Muslim pogroms after a train car burning incident which carried  Hindu pilgrims returning from the temple town of Ayodhya last February.  Hindu nationalists have vowed to build a temple in memory of the  mythical god-king Rama at the site where the historical Babari Masjid  once stood, and which was demolished by Hindu nationalist zealots in  December 1992.            The temple incident started Tuesday, September 24, when two  terrorists stormed into the vast temple complex despite strong security  arrangements. The terrorists who were in the prime of their youth  started firing indiscriminately with assault rifles and hurled hand  grenades. At least 30 worshippers were killed and dozens grievously  injured.            The operation to flush out the terrorists continued till day-break  Wednesday. Three security personnel, including one from the elite  commando National Security Guards (NSG), were killed. The terrorists  were also gunned down.            Muslim organisations were unanimous in unequivocally condemning  the Gujarat temple killings. Maulana Rabey Hasani Nadwi, president of  India’s apex Muslim religious body, All India Muslim Personal Law Board  (AIMPLB), came out with a strong condemnation of the killings. Maulana  Nadwi said in a message emailed to MG, “Terrorist attack on the  Akshardham temple of Gujarat is an inhuman act which I strongly condemn.  Killing innocent citizens and attacking religious places of worship is a  hateful and dastardly act which must never be permitted.”            “This is a conspiracy to destroy India’s secularism, democracy,  mutual understanding and brotherhood. It is the duty of all of us to  exercise utmost restraint on this tragic occasion and foil the unholy  intention and plots of enemies of the country,” Maulana Nadwi's  statement added.            In a special statement prepared for MG, India's top Muslim scholar  Maulana Wahiduddin Khan            said that "What is happening in Gujarat and elsewhere has nothing  to do with religion. Rather, it is an exploitation of religion for  political purposes. Moreover, it is not even politics in the real sense  of the word. Politics is a noble profession. This kind of religious  exploitation degrades politics."            "Those who indulge in such politics are not true servants of the  nation. They cannot even be described as serving even their own  political interests. For this kind of practice will ultimately lead to  disaster, for both the nation and the exploiter. The ultimate weakness  of violence is that it begets the very thing it seeks to destroy.  Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it," Maulana Khan said in his  statement.            Syed Ahmed Bukhari, imam of Delhi’s historic Jama Masjid, put the  onus of the crime on state chief minister Narendra Modi. Blaming him  squarely, Imam Bukhari said that the outrageous statements against  Muslims made by Modi during his gaurav yatra (pride march) “could have  provoked a retaliatory act.” Bukhari has termed the act as  “anti-Islamic” and said, “Islam does not permit killing of innocent  civilians. I appeal to Muslims and our Hindu brethren to join hands to  wipe out terrorism from the country’s soil.”            Maulana Jameel Ilyasi, president of the All India Organisation of  Imams of Mosques, in his scathing remarks said that the attack was most  condemnable. “It is a conspiracy to defame Islam and Muslims. The attack  is against the teachings of Islam and this kind of anarchy is  unacceptable to Indian Muslims,” he said.            Terming the act as “anti-social,” Abdul Wahab Khilji, a senior  funtionary of Muslim representative body All India Milli Council, said  that such acts of disruption were only aimed at further weakening the  secular foundations of the nation. He said, talking to MG, that forces  inimical to the country had hatched a conspiracy to widen the  Hindu-Muslim gulf and destroy harmony. “The time has come to expose  these forces and deal with them sternly before the nation is brought to  ruins,” he told MG.             Maulana Khilji also demanded a thorough and impartial probe to  bring out the whole truth. He regretted that it had become a practice  with the present-day rulers to link every terrorist activity with  Muslims, and that too when they were not directly involved.            Prof. Iqbal A Ansari, secretary general of Minorities Council of  India, a human rights organisation, said that this heinous and  deplorable act should be widely condemned. The temple killings had been  deliberately targeted to spread chaos across the nation. “This brings  into focus dangerous implications for retaliatory violence continuing  for the last 20 years. Action-reaction theory has begun and is likely to  continue for the next 20 years,” he said speaking to MG.            Prof Ansari lamented that Muslims were labelled "terrorists," but  what about Sangh Parivar [RSS family] terrorists who had been left  scot-free to spread a reign of terror. He demanded that “VHP  terrorists”, “Shiv Sena terrorists”, “Bajrang Dal terrorists,” “RSS  terrorists,” and other Hindu nationalist terrorists should also be  brought to book and accordingly dealt with under the law of the land.  Speaking to MG, Prof. Ansari said, “If terrorists like Narendra Modi,  Bal Thackrey, Praveen Togadia, Ashok Singhal, Vinay Katiyar, Giriraj  Kishore, Lal Krishna Advani and others are not arrested and severely  penalised this process of retaliatory violence is not going to stop for  years to come.”            Dr. S. Qasim Rasool Ilyas, chief editor of Afkar-e-Milli magazine  and spokesperson of AIMPLB, said that the temple killings were  “unfortunate.” Places of worship should not become targets of attacks,  but it was none else than Narendra Modi himself who allowed brazen acts  of violence against Muslims and wanton destruction of Muslim mosques,  graveyards etc during the two-month long anti-Muslim pogrom in Gujarat.  After February 28 attacks on places of worship had become rampant.            Upon being asked by MG whether suicidal attacks were permitted by  Islam, Dr. Ilyas said that Ulama hold divergent views on the issue. As  such, one group of Ulama permitted the logic of suicidal attacks when no  option was left for seeking justice like in the case of Palestinian  struggle against the Zionist occupiers. However, in India things were  different. Efforts should be made for seeking justice within the  parameters of the Constitution and judiciary. The stage had not come  when suicide attacks in India could be justified, he added. This is the whole story......i don't have shocking images like you....to try and fake the truth with emotions.....source > <a href="http://www.milligazette.com/dailyupdate/20020925.htm" target="_blank">http://www.milligazette.com/dailyupdate/20020925.htm</a></blockquote>

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