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Joint Statement of Indian Muslim leaders on the attacks and burning of Christian properties

New Delhi, 14 September 2010: Indian Muslim leaders issued the following statement today:

"We disapprove disrespect to any religion or desecration of any sacred scripture or vilification of any religious personality or attack on any religious place, anywhere in the world, and consider it a despicable and uncivilized act. Islam specifically prohibits such acts and behaviour. Therefore, whatever the provocation, we strongly condemn the attacks on Christian properties and institutions in some places in Kashmir and in Maler Kotla in the Indian state of Punjab. We urge the authorities concerned to take stern legal action against the culprits.

"We also appeal to our Muslim brethren in India, in particular, and elsewhere, in general, to show restraint in such situations and limit their disapproval and protest against such incidents to peaceful demonstrations, press statements and memoranda to the authorities concerned."


Issued by:

Syed Shahabuddin, President, All India Muslim Majlis-e Mushawarat

Nusrat Ali, Secretary General, Jamaat-e-Islami Hind

Asaduddin Owaisi, MP, Leader, Majlis Ittehadul Muslimin

Dr Zafar Mahmood, President, Interfaith Coalition & Zakat Foundation of India

Navaid Hamid, General Secretary, Movement for the Empowerment of Muslim Indians (MOEMIN)

Dr Zafarul-Islam Khan, Editor, The Milli Gazette & ex-President, AIMMM

New Delhi, 14 September 2010