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Can OIC do anything about this? Muslim lives obviously are not safe in India:
Muzaffarnagar riots: Violence part of bigger design, Muslim leaders say - The Times of India
Muzaffarnagar riots: Violence part of bigger design, Muslim leaders say
Pervez Iqbal Siddiqui, TNN | Sep 10, 2013, 02.16 AM IST
LUCKNOW: Enraged over the complacency with which the Akhilesh Yadav government handled the Muzaffarnagar riots, Muslim leaders, top clerics and Islamic academicians from Darul Uloom Deoband (DuD) see a bigger conspiracy behind incidents of communal riots in UP. They believe the time is not far when Muslims in Uttar Pradesh will have to reassess their political preferences for a more secured future.
Islamic academic at Deoband insist that violence in Muzaffarnagar was merely a part of a much bigger conspiracy to stroke communal violence at a much bigger level. Scores of seminary students travelling by trains being signaled out and thrashed unprovoked in the last week of August too was a part of this very design, feels Ashraf Usmani, spokesperson of Darul Uloom.
"It appears that there is an organized attempt to pump up communal passions ahead of the 2014 general elections," says DuD spokesperson Ashraf Usmani. "One can now see a link between the unprovoked attacks on DuD students on board trains connecting Saharanpur, Muzaffarnagar and Deoband with the rest of the state in the last week of August," says Ashraf. The DuD students were signaled out, robbed of their skull caps and assaulted in moving trains, he said, adding: "We took up the matter with the state government and opted not to go to town with the issue as it could have triggered communal passions. Still no action was initiated against those behind the attacks."
National President of Jamiyat Ulema Hind Maulana Arshad Madni is curious to know why chief minister Akhilesh Yadav did not take note of his alerts that he passed on to him personally when he talked to him during the latter's visit to Delhi on Friday. "I told him that the situation on the ground was much in contrast with what his officials believe it to be in Muzaffarnagar. This was almost 24 hours before the first violent incident took place in Muzaffarnagar on Saturday afternoon," says Arshad Madni.
Madni, who has a strong hold on the community across the state in general and western parts of the state in particular, said he took up the issue with Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) president and Union minister Ajit Singh as well on the issue. "RLD leader Kaukab Hameed came over to meet me .... I asked Ajit Singh to visit the areas where tension was brewing and try to defuse the crisis. But no one bothered," Madni said. Now that 26 persons have lost their lives, they want to visit the violence-hit areas, he said. Ajit Singh and his son and sitting MP Jayant Chaudhary were stopped from entering Muzaffar Nagar on Monday as authorities believed that their visit could deepen the crises.
Leading Sunni cleric and Imam of Aishbagh Eidgah in Lucknow, Maulana Khalid Rsheed, said Muzaffarnagar incidents have prompted the common 'Musalman' to reconsider its approach towards the political parties. "After every communal riot, chief minister Akhilesh Yadav said stringent action would be initiated against DMs and SSPs in case of any communal clashes in their respective districts still so many incidents took place and innocent human lives were lost but the spate has refused to end it seems," says Maulana, who is also a member of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board.
Ashraf Usmani says that the government could have had averted the communal clashes if it waned to. "No matter what the government wanted to do, the fact remains that innocent Muslims and even children were brutally attacked and no one could do anything about it. Arshad Madni too insists that if these things continued in the days to come, the Muslim community will have to revisit their political preferences and find out a better alternate," he said.
Muzaffarnagar riots: Violence part of bigger design, Muslim leaders say - The Times of India
Muzaffarnagar riots: Violence part of bigger design, Muslim leaders say
Pervez Iqbal Siddiqui, TNN | Sep 10, 2013, 02.16 AM IST
LUCKNOW: Enraged over the complacency with which the Akhilesh Yadav government handled the Muzaffarnagar riots, Muslim leaders, top clerics and Islamic academicians from Darul Uloom Deoband (DuD) see a bigger conspiracy behind incidents of communal riots in UP. They believe the time is not far when Muslims in Uttar Pradesh will have to reassess their political preferences for a more secured future.
Islamic academic at Deoband insist that violence in Muzaffarnagar was merely a part of a much bigger conspiracy to stroke communal violence at a much bigger level. Scores of seminary students travelling by trains being signaled out and thrashed unprovoked in the last week of August too was a part of this very design, feels Ashraf Usmani, spokesperson of Darul Uloom.
"It appears that there is an organized attempt to pump up communal passions ahead of the 2014 general elections," says DuD spokesperson Ashraf Usmani. "One can now see a link between the unprovoked attacks on DuD students on board trains connecting Saharanpur, Muzaffarnagar and Deoband with the rest of the state in the last week of August," says Ashraf. The DuD students were signaled out, robbed of their skull caps and assaulted in moving trains, he said, adding: "We took up the matter with the state government and opted not to go to town with the issue as it could have triggered communal passions. Still no action was initiated against those behind the attacks."
National President of Jamiyat Ulema Hind Maulana Arshad Madni is curious to know why chief minister Akhilesh Yadav did not take note of his alerts that he passed on to him personally when he talked to him during the latter's visit to Delhi on Friday. "I told him that the situation on the ground was much in contrast with what his officials believe it to be in Muzaffarnagar. This was almost 24 hours before the first violent incident took place in Muzaffarnagar on Saturday afternoon," says Arshad Madni.
Madni, who has a strong hold on the community across the state in general and western parts of the state in particular, said he took up the issue with Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) president and Union minister Ajit Singh as well on the issue. "RLD leader Kaukab Hameed came over to meet me .... I asked Ajit Singh to visit the areas where tension was brewing and try to defuse the crisis. But no one bothered," Madni said. Now that 26 persons have lost their lives, they want to visit the violence-hit areas, he said. Ajit Singh and his son and sitting MP Jayant Chaudhary were stopped from entering Muzaffar Nagar on Monday as authorities believed that their visit could deepen the crises.
Leading Sunni cleric and Imam of Aishbagh Eidgah in Lucknow, Maulana Khalid Rsheed, said Muzaffarnagar incidents have prompted the common 'Musalman' to reconsider its approach towards the political parties. "After every communal riot, chief minister Akhilesh Yadav said stringent action would be initiated against DMs and SSPs in case of any communal clashes in their respective districts still so many incidents took place and innocent human lives were lost but the spate has refused to end it seems," says Maulana, who is also a member of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board.
Ashraf Usmani says that the government could have had averted the communal clashes if it waned to. "No matter what the government wanted to do, the fact remains that innocent Muslims and even children were brutally attacked and no one could do anything about it. Arshad Madni too insists that if these things continued in the days to come, the Muslim community will have to revisit their political preferences and find out a better alternate," he said.
