Protect Assamese Muslims, Jamaat leader tells Delhi

NEW DELHI: Indian Jamaat-e-Islami has urged the New Delhi government to ensure the security of Muslims in Assam and other parts of the country and take punitive action against those who spread communal hatred.
“Communal parties are openly making false propaganda that Assamese Muslims are Bangladeshis,” said Syed Jalaluddin Umari, president of the organization.
“It is very unfortunate that Assam government has failed to stop violence which has been continuing for the last more than one month. The number of people being killed is increasing daily,” the Jamaat leader told reporters.
He added: “This dangerous situation has created a feeling of insecurity among the linguistic minorities especially Muslims of Assam and other parts of country.”
He said communal elements and those parties that believe in spreading hate to achieve political benefits are spreading hatred and fear in the whole country.
“These political parties are openly making the false propaganda that Assamese Muslims are Bangladeshis or foreigners and through this they are stoking the fire of hatred in the whole country,” he added.
In this respect anti-social and communal elements misused the social media sites and succeeded in creating fear psychosis and a sense of insecurity in Bangalore and other cities which affected hundreds of thousands of people and a large number of them became the victims of hate and misunderstandings. “This false propaganda should be stopped and the life, honor and property of every citizen should be protected and rehabilitation of about 500,000 displaced people should be expedited,” the president said.
He also demanded that the sum of Rs. 3 billion sanctioned by the central government should be utilized judiciously to win the confidence of Muslim minority. “Those who played the nefarious game of bloodshed, arson, and uprooting of innocent people, should be brought to justice and punished,” he said.
Welcoming the special court’s verdict on killing 95 people in Naroda Patiya in 2002, Umari said, “This has increased the confidence of Indian Muslims in the country’s judicial system. But we feel that the criminals should have been given more stringent and deterrent punishments. After this judgment the Narendra Modi government has lost its moral ground to govern. It is expected that this judgment will strengthen the foundations of justice in the country and help in stopping communal riots,” the Jamaat leader said.
Umari decried growing corruption cases in India. “Corruption has spread like cancer. Our laws and judicial system have failed to solve the problem,” he said citing scams related to Commonwealth Games and 2G Spectrum. He appealed the country’s intellectuals and religious people to come forward to fight the cancer of corruption.
The Jamaat leader denounced the massacre of innocent Syrian people by Bashar Assad’s forces and demanded Bashar’s resignation.
“Syria is in the grip of bloodshed because of one man’s lust for power, hereditary rule and atrocious behavior,” he said, and called for quick implementation of the resolutions taken by the Makkah Islamic Summit on Syria.