At Friday prayers, imams to slam terror
The fight against terror is now going to get a Quranic stamp and clerics are going to raise their voice at Friday prayers.
By TNN |
LUCKNOW: The fight against terror is now going to get a Quranic stamp and clerics are going to raise their voice at Friday prayers.
The Movement Against Terrorism (MAT), a new front of moderate clerics, will exhort imams at mosques across north India to use the Friday prayer to speak out against the murderous Islamic groups.
It also attempts to answer the oft-heard criticism that Muslim clerics, even the more moderate ones, aren���t seen as doing enough to condemn terrorism.
"Quran does not endorse terrorism in any way. And so we must make it a point to propagate this during speeches everywhere, including Friday afternoon prayers," said Maulana Khalid Rasheed Firangi Maheli, the Naib Imam of Eidgah Aishbagh and a member of the executive committee of All-India Muslim Personal Law Board.
Rasheed is a founder-member of MAT, which is leading a jihad against terrorists giving the wanton violence and bloodshed an Islamic veneer and Quranic legitimacy. "Introducing the issue in our speeches is part of our programme under MAT," he said.
Rasheed said the recently launched campaign is already getting under the skin of terror groups.
He pointed out that the Indian Mujahideen email sent to news agencies to claim responsibility for the Jaipur serial blasts minced no words in condemning the men behind MAT programmes across UP and beyond as anti-Islamic, ridiculing them as cowards and non-Muslims. This, he said, explains all.
"MAT, as per it charter, is a fight against terrorism. A fight against the international conspiracy to paint the entire Muslim community as terrorists. A fight against those who justify bombings and blasts as a ���revenge��� under Islam," he said.
Rasheed said the group would not be cowed down by threats from terrorists.
The Movement Against Terrorism (MAT), a new front of moderate clerics, will exhort imams at mosques across north India to use the Friday prayer to speak out against the murderous Islamic groups.
It also attempts to answer the oft-heard criticism that Muslim clerics, even the more moderate ones, aren���t seen as doing enough to condemn terrorism.
"Quran does not endorse terrorism in any way. And so we must make it a point to propagate this during speeches everywhere, including Friday afternoon prayers," said Maulana Khalid Rasheed Firangi Maheli, the Naib Imam of Eidgah Aishbagh and a member of the executive committee of All-India Muslim Personal Law Board.
Rasheed is a founder-member of MAT, which is leading a jihad against terrorists giving the wanton violence and bloodshed an Islamic veneer and Quranic legitimacy. "Introducing the issue in our speeches is part of our programme under MAT," he said.
Rasheed said the recently launched campaign is already getting under the skin of terror groups.
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He pointed out that the Indian Mujahideen email sent to news agencies to claim responsibility for the Jaipur serial blasts minced no words in condemning the men behind MAT programmes across UP and beyond as anti-Islamic, ridiculing them as cowards and non-Muslims. This, he said, explains all.
"MAT, as per it charter, is a fight against terrorism. A fight against the international conspiracy to paint the entire Muslim community as terrorists. A fight against those who justify bombings and blasts as a ���revenge��� under Islam," he said.
Rasheed said the group would not be cowed down by threats from terrorists.
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