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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ibnanv" data-source="post: 17159969" data-attributes="member: 218596">Indian PM dismisses Al-Qaeda's plan to set up South Asia branch<img src="http://www.arabnews.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/galleryformatter_slide/2014/09/19/7067949352730793_2.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />NEW DELHI: India’s new prime minister has dismissed Al-Qaeda’s plan to  set up a South Asia branch, saying it was “delusional” to think the  country’s Muslim minority would follow orders to wage jihad in the  region.“They are doing injustice toward the Muslims of our country,” Narendra Modi said in an interview with CNN broadcast on Friday.“If  anyone thinks Indian Muslims will dance to their tune, they are  delusional. Indian Muslims will live for India, they will die for India — they will not want anything bad for India.”It was Modi’s first  reaction to Al-Qaeda chief Ayman Al-Zawahiri’s announcement this month  that the group would set up a new operation to take the fight to India,  which has a large but traditionally moderate Muslim population, as well  as Myanmar and Bangladesh.Millions of Muslims fled India for what is  now Pakistan in 1947 when the British Empire partitioned the two  countries at independence, and tensions persist between those who remain  and the Hindu majority.Indian Muslims have also been the victims of  violence led by Hindu extremists. Hundreds died during the 2002 Gujarat  riots, at a time when Modi was the state’s chief minister.But there  have been relatively few reports of young Indian men leaving to fight  Islamist causes abroad, which experts say is because local grievances  have kept them at home.Modi said the threat from Islamist extremist  groups was “a crisis against humanity, not a crisis against one country  or one race.“We have to frame this as a fight between humanity and inhumanity, nothing else,” he added.Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party was accused during the election campaign of trying to polarize votes along religious lines.Party president Amit Shah faces charges of inflaming tensions in a speech during the campaign.But  in a widely-praised Independence Day speech in August, Modi said  communal violence was “stalling the growth of the nation” and had gone  on for “too long.”</blockquote>

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