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“First you pointed fingers at us, saying that we divided the country. Then you told us that we are communal, and now you tell us we are terrorists,” one of Malegaon’s most prominent clerics, Mufti Mohammed Ismail, said as he led 1.5 lakh people at namaaz at the Idgah Maidan in the textile town. And then he broke down in full public view, after condemning Monday night’s blast which hit the town after Muslims had broken their fasts.
His words struck a chord with many in the crowd and brought tears in their eyes too. While urging Muslim youth to have “better sense and a conscience”, the imam asked the government and the police to ensure that innocent people were not rounded up as suspects.
Speaking of “secular politics”, he said, “Kaan khol ke sun lo, jo qaum tumhe takhto taj pe bitha sakti hai, wohi qaum tumhara janaaza bhi nikaal sakti hai.” (A community which can place you on a pedestal can also take out your funeral procession).
Hundreds of policemen guarded the venue as the imam touched on “callous investigations”, “innocent Muslims identified as terrorists” and of the lack of justice for the 2006 serial blasts which killed 37 people.
The idea of “an educated Muslim”, the imam said, was lost today as educated young men were picked up without evidence and then shown as involved in terror activities. The prayer session ended with the imam asking the community to remain alert and help a “just investigation” if they get leads.
Meanwhile, the Collector visited the families of the five killed in the blasts and handed them compensation cheques of Rs 5 lakh each.


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I suspect all the bomb blasts are conspiracy against Congress and Muslims. BJP must be behind it. Police should not harrash any minority member for any reason. Educated Muslims have started becoming terrorists after watching the movie Fanaa. A glorified terrorist Amir Khan has become their icon.
MALEGAON BLASTS. IT IS CERTAINLY NOT THE CASE. WE ALWAYS GO INTO THE DEPTH OF THE MATTER AND THEN UTTER. IT IS EVERY BODY'S DUTY PROTECTTHE COUNTRY FROM TERRORISM. HAVE YOU SEEN ANY TERROR FROM ANYBODY ELSE OTHER THAN MUSLIMS AS VIRUS HAS ENTERED INTO MUSLIM COMMUNITY AND IT HAS TO BE TAKEN CARE OF BOTH BY MUSLIMS AND HINDUS AS BRETHERNS OTHERWISE IT WILL PROVE FATAL TO OUR CHILDREN. WITHOUT PREJUDICE.
If you observe recent and past happenings around the world,you can understand that the cries that muslims are targeted cannot be justified.If you take the regions which are involved in recent strifes like kashmir,chechnya,bosnia,kosovo,phillipines,thailand,nigeria,sudan,somalia,pakistan,afganistan,algeria,lebanon,egypt,morroco,iraq ect,you can see that one of the parties involved are muslims.How come only muslims mostly see slights against them most often when in reality in islamic countries nonmuslims does not have equal rights.Punishment for conversion in many islamic countries is death.When islamists are exploiting secular,civilized laws in nonislamic countries to fullfil their goal,which is to islamise the whole world,they are blind towards injustice towards nonmuslims in islamic countries.The peak of hypocricy is when many selective secular organisations see and hear only what islamists are telling them and not what is legitimate.Shame on all selectively secular organisations.
Not all muslims are terrorists only the misguided muslim youth takes to terrorism brain washed by their senior people the government should try to stop this by providing job to atleast one person in a family in states like U.P,Bihar etc the government should also provide the villages with all the basic amenities like Drinking water, electricity, roads,schools, hospital drainage system etc the first and foremost should be job to atleast one person in a family.
First Of All: Muslims have been blamed because blast are being done by them only(As simple as that). Second: We can also blame for biased attitude as Hindus get 2lakhs and muslims get 5lakhs (With FREE home delivery by collector). Third: The malegoan blast realized you what it feels like when your loved ones dies. Hindus have survived many blast, why are you becoming so aggressive with just one? Its the Muslims community which justifies KK's 100% fact dialogue in shaurya.
Hats off to all Imams and Maulavis for pointing out the problem of Hindosothan. Look at neibouring Paksitan and Bonglades, there is no problem of muslim oppression. Why is it only happening in India? Because when partition happened, India ended up in the hands of a communal community that is blaming everything on muslims after false promise to them by Congress and their showboys and Hindvi muslims. If India had been ruled by Imams there will be no tears in Imam sahib's eyes because then it will be false priests who will be crying tears of blood as the brave real secular commuinity will be carrying their janajas at the slightest sign of communalism, as is proved by the fate of temples and gurudwaras and other signs of communalism in Paksitan and Bonglades and the fate of Chakmas and Hindu communities in bonglades. Muslims should give takhto taj to their true friends and secloolars, the Bamponth, moreover only mighty Secloolar Chin is real friend of their brothers in Paksitan too.
In Rabodi, Thane several Hindus were brutally injured and help extended by the government was far less than the Muslims. Why this partiality? Is Indian Express sleeping?
In India, minorities are targetted by BJP/VHP in a phased manner and we ask for equal rights for our Hindu brothers in other countries. Even some media has a biased attitude towards minorities. When we see this paper, we see almost all offensive writings published against minorities. We should behave like a civilized society and protect minorities so that we are protected elsewhere in the world.
where is the question of getting BJP in the picture..r u saying that investigating the some suspects is targeting Muslims.. by this basically you want to save suspects by making this arrests communal..
and Mr Paninder what is your opinion on attacks on christians in Orissa and Karnataka where BJP has been staunchly supporting Bajrang Dal
Sir Looking at the problem from a holistic angle, it is wrong to call whole of the muslim community as consisting of terrorists. Whenever any explosion or bomb blast occurs, it is again wrong to conclude right on the spot that it was a case of Islamic terrorists. Why to drag Islam in any act of terrorism as terrorists have no religion.The media and the police,all of a sudden, become hyperactivce and with out any proof or investigations it is concluded as the act of muslims. No doubt all the muslims are not terrorists but, unfortunately, people arrested for the act happen to be muslims. So it is wrong to condemn the whole communityfor the act of few people. There is no doubt that muslims do not come in the open to condemn the terrorism because of either self guilt or because of getting intimidated by the active jihadis. The same was true with sikhs when every sikh was seen with suspicion. The country had to pay a heavy price for that . Let us not repeat the same mistake again.
You may be right,Dr Anand,but then what about us who worry every morning when we set out to work.We are not sure whether we would see our homes and families in the evening.Frankly speaking we are terrified.And I would like you to speak in the same goody goody way if you or your dear ones were the victims of one such attack.The terrorists are not insane folk,they are doing exactly what their religion tells them to do.Leave that and they are as sane and normal as you or me.That is the problem....the ideology of the terrorists is to blame,the perpetrator himself/herself is small fry.
Muslims in what is now India were more fervent about partition than the ones in what is now Pakistan. They gave us their word that they would go to Pakistan once they had it. Then they refused to go. Once they keep their word and leave India much of this violence we see now will disappear.
We need inter-religious dialogue to solve the menace of terrorism.
Please find a solution that will make the life our brothers and children SAFE. Do we agree that blasts and killing is bad? What is happening to stop it?Do we want a volatile and unpredictable future for us?
Deeds speaks louder than words. Past proves 100% that the whole world is under trouble due to the Muslim World. All the bomb blast investigations always pointed towards almost 99.99% muslim involvement. No more proof needed. Its time to act stronglyj.
if u ll see, in each religion, all communal violence occur due to fault of some grp of people ..but the victims r innocent common men.in christ, due to some converters ,in islam n hindu,its due to xtremists.but they get escaped 4m this complexity..so der shud b a mutual understandin betn all religion in order to hv a peace leaving.
No innocents should be harassedle. People say violence is never condemned by muslim clerics. Malegaon Imam condemned the blasts. But why blame the muslims for all the trouble. Whats happening in Orissa is for everyone to see. Why dont we have any Hindu leader or preists condemning the violence and killing of innocent people. These news never make important headlines.
I despise bigotry of all sorts, be it Hindu or Muslim or Christian. Also I believe that Jesus Christ did not say this "Convert your neighbour into Christianity and then only love him". So it is no one's right to convert any one. Could you please tell why these Christian missionaries are not active in Muslim dominated areas as well as Muslim countries? And if they come there what will be the reaction? Let me conclude with these words of my mentor : "Let man belong to any caste or religion; what matters is his/her inner purity and character". Do you accept this?
Do you know that your question at the end of the passage is as attempt to convert. We believe in outer purity also. Christ taught to love. Why do you kill them, because they do not accept you views. Tell your mentor to mentor you little more before you try to make converts for him.
u r rite...its just fault of dat stupid missionaries..wen i was@kandhamal in my childhood,i hv witnessed such conversions in the name of god.so in this behalf such converters r resposible for on goin communal violence al over india.
The imam should not have stopped just at shedding some tears. He should have also declared that the likes of Bin Laden, Al Zawahiri, and those who issues fatwas against the established laws of the land as "Khafirs", traitors and enemies of all humanity. Having said it I also admit the fact there is a crying need for speedy trials, especially in cases of suspected acts of terrorism. Innocents should not be arrested anc confined endlessly. If speedy trials and justice are ensured everyone will and will have to co-operate.
These Muslim clerics instead of preaching about Quran principles are sowing enemity seed in muslim hearts and enrage them to declare war on other religion people in the name of allah. Quran will say the same as in Bhagavadgeetha that killing people in the name of god is not the thing to do. Muslim clerics should go through the Quran and try to imbibe in their life first before preaching to others
hindu fanatics should have the honesty to condemn these blaststrageting minorities has become fashionable in indiachristians are facing gebocide in orissa
Do the Indian christians have the honesty to admit that they convert poor hindus by offering them money and other benefits? Till that happens, please keep your appeal to yourself. At least majority of the hindus do not support prosecution of minoroties but unfortunately, I am yet to come across a muslim or a christian who accepts their share of the blame.
and will hindus take responsibility for mistreating the dalits for centuries and even after 60 years of independence there are places where a dalit can't enter , why blame others for conversion lets first set our house in order and I'm sure people won't convert
Look at the history of conversions to Christianity in Goa and parts of Kerala by the Portuguese a few centuries ago.Forcible conversions were the order of the day else choose banishment from your homeland!Large numbers chose to convert and saved their lives and lands.But wait a minute....for those who chose to go back to the Hindu faith,special treatment was the norm....those who went back to the Hindu faith after conversion were labelled 'revertidos' and were practically sought out,imprisoned and burnt at the stake as an example to other new converts to toe the line.So much for the love and holy nature of this religion!Haaaah!!!!
So many bombs have exploded in the past couple months where were these Imams. Not one of them condum this. Now they are feeling the head.Wht do you mean by innoncent muslim? Unless they are questiond how will you wether they involved or notLet us give craps to such staged managed dram
I respect the emotion and real anger/anguish shown by the Imam.He is right in saying that Police have a habit of taking many-including innocents- to jail for interrogation etc wheneveran attack happens.With great respect may I point out to the noblecleric that it is his and the community's duty toguide the young onesand the little ones away from negative thinking about India and that it is only through real education they can achieve progress in the country.Dr.Kalam rose against all prejudices and weak financial back ground androse to become an International Authority on rocketry and nuclear energy and became the President of the Nation.He lived in a Brahmin dominated place-a fact which did not deter him inhis pursuit for glorytheir goals of
What is the press talking about.......instead of trouble,the police got to see tears? Read the article carefully,Mufti Mohammed Ismail said,'the community that can put you on a pedestal can also take out your funeral!' These are threatening words by any stretch of imagination.And what does he have to say about innocent citizens being killed by terrorists who profess his faith?He is worried only about terror suspects from his community being picked up by the police.What does he expect,an equal number of the majority community should also be picked up?Fact is the authorities are cowed down by such blatant one sided statements and end up releasing even those against whom there is strong evidence.This leads to even more terror attacks since the perpetrators are emboldened to do anything and the more gory and heinous the better.Looks like the minority is going to take revenge for the Guj riots in perpetuity till there is no India left or an Emirate of India is established!
Their threatening tone reflects their medievalists mindset. Why don't these folks leave for their land, which they created for themselves in 1947?Pakistan really deserves these people of "peace."
Is it any wonder India is suffering today? U are more communal than the terrorists!! When "your" people go to Islamic lands to earn their living are they discriminated against because of being Hindu? Or when they go to Christian lands to settle
Let us clarify one point at at time...is it not true that the vast majority of Muslims had voted for Pakistan in the interim govt prior to 1947?After Pak was a reality,most chose to stay on,citing Nehru and Gandhi's reassurances as an excuse.However,I say the present generation of Indian Muslims have been born after 1947 and it would be unfair to target them on this point,but facts cannot be altered.As far as the allegation of being communal is concerned,it is a fact the minority community always thinks in terms of 'us' and 'them' further contributing to the alienation from the mainstream.The us and them ideas are drilled into the head of every child at home which is a fact.Lastly, is it not a fact that 99% of those involved in terror acts belong to the minority community.Tell me large numbers of Christians,Hindus,Buddhists,Sikhs too have serious grievances against the govt,but the overwhelming majority of them choose to use legal and civil means to rectify the problems.Think again!
Muslims are the culprits for most terrorism - its in their religion - simple.But on the other hand, our police is useless. Whenever there is a bomb, they just seem to round up the closest few people they can find. They dont show any evidence, and just try to drum up some people they can pin the crime on and look efficient.And whats more, the interrogation they use would make Guantanamo look like a holiday. And of course even if you were arrested, you would say anything for them to stop. So they can claim lots of confessions and success, while the real terrorists are escaping and bombing repeatedly. The police should be required to produce evidence before and arrest, and there should be 24 hour cc tv on all terrorism cells so we know any evidence is ligit.
Muslims should come forward and say no to terrorism. It is easier to kill Muslims.
The bias of the anti-Hindu electronic English media is evident in the hyper excited reporting of the church attack. The likes of Girish Karnad, U R Ananthamurthy and Mahesh Bhatt Teesta Shabana Azmi Barka Dutt Sardesai know which side of their bread is buttered. Their selective amnesia is amusing. Did these raise any voice in support of amaranth pilgrims protest or against durga pooja protestThey never react on lakhs of Hindus being displaced from Kashmir or innumreous atrocities on hindus. These opportunists are no better than traitors of the past who are ready to sell the dignity of the country for their selfish gains.Do you know AP CM Rajashekar Reddy is a Christian
Hahaha, I thought Rajashekhar Reddy was a human being who has an Indian Citizenship. Thanks for the correction- but you should go to a correction centre.
The names of theworthies mentioned are nothing but pseudoseularists and are more dangerous than snakes in the grass. They know by being on the side of party in power, they can aspire to hold lucrative and sinecure posts with the blessing of Sonia gandhi.
and who according to you is a secularist in this country.What is your opinion on Mr. Thackeray's tirade against everyone(60s it was south indians now its north indians) except Marathis what sort of nationalism is that.
Kudos to our national newspapers both IE and TOI for posting such events in their headlines. A similar story of Muslims performaing Ram Leela has been posted by TOI on their websites. This is classic case of constructive jornalism. Such stories help in dousing the flames of vengeance and highlight the secular and peace loving attitude that majority Indians harbour. I heartily congratulate you for taking up this mission of spreading peace. Jai Hind
What is happening in many islamic countries is an answer to the questions. we in India are only trying to save innocent citizens irrespective of their religion.