Mangalore: Media Biased Against Muslims - Zaid Patel
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Daijiworld Media Network - Mangalore (MM/CN)
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Mangalore, Oct 28: Whenever a bomb blast takes place in the country, the media labels it an act by Islamic Jihadis. This creates hatred in the society. A total of 25 bomb attacks have taken place in the country since 1993 and only four people have been convicted in connection to these so far. A majority are blaming the entire Muslim community for these attacks, said Zaid Patel, president, IIC Mumbai.
Speaking on ‘Terrorism and Jihad’, organized by the South Karnataka Salafi Movement at Town Hall on Monday October 27, he said that the majority community had also started terrorism in the country. In two places in the country, bombs exploded while being made. A Hindu activist has been arrested in connection to the Malegaon bomb explosion, but nobody calls it ‘Hindu' terrorism’, he said.
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It is said that all Muslims are not terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims. If it is true, what about the Naxals who kill hundreds of people everyday or the Malegaon bomb blast suspects, queried Patel. Quoting from the Holy Quran he said the killing an innocent is one of the major crimes. If someone commits a crime, that person should be held responsible. No other person can be held responsible for another’s life, he opined.
It is true that injustice has been committed against Muslims in India, but terrorism is not an answer for injustice because, Islam means ‘peace’, he added. Jihad is allowed only to fight oppression, within a certain limit. Even women and children should not be killed on the battlefield. Terrorists, who fight in the name of ‘jihad’, do not fit into Islam. How can it then be called ‘Islamic Jihad,’ Patel queried.
Former MP H T Sangliana, Alvas Education Foundation chairman Dr Mohan Alva and others also spoke on the occasion.
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