ALL INDIA MUSLIM
MAJLIS-E-MUSHAWARAT
[Umbrella body of the Indian
Muslim
organisations]
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New Delhi-110025 India
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All India
Muslim Majlis-e Mushawarat
Central Working Committee meeting
27 December 2012
Press Statement
New
Delhi,
27 December 2012: The Central Working Committee (Majlis-e Amla)
of the All
India Muslim Majlis-e Mushawarat (AIMMM), the umbrella body of
Indian Muslim
organisations, met here today. The meeting was chaired by the
AIMMM National
President Dr Zafarul-Islam Khan and attended by the following
members: Janab
Syed Shahabuddin, Janab Nusrat Ali, Janab Muhammad Ahmad, Dr
Jawed Ahmad, Janab
Amanullah Khan, Janab Shahid Sharif Shaikh, Janab Abdul Khaliq,
Janab SMY
Nadeem and Janab Abdul Qayyum Khan.
The meeting offered condolences to the millat and families of prominent leaders of the
community who
passed away recently and prayed for their souls, especially:
Dr. ABDUL HAQ
ANSARI, Ameer of
Jamat Islami-e Hind from 2003 to 2007 and former Professor of
Philosophy
at Shantiniketan and other universities died in Aligarh
on 3 October;
Dr. SAQIB RIZVI,
retired professor
of Udaipur University and former chairman of Rajasthan Urdu
Academy, Jaipur
died in Delhi’s AIIMS on 1 October at the age of 80 years;
AKBAR HAIDARI,
noted author and
researcher died in Delhi
on 30 September;
JAVED HABIB, milli
leader,
journalist, former President of AMU Students Union and founder
of Babri Masjid
Action Committee, died in Delhi
on 11 October at the age of 62;
MAULANA ABDUL KARIM
SALFI, head of
Delhi’s Jamiat Ahl-e Hadees, a
member of Markazi
Jamiat Ahl-e Hadees’ Majlis-e Shoora, died in Delhi
after a prolonged illness on 5
November;
MARYAM JAMILA, a
great
intellectual died of heart attack in Pakistan
on 31 October at the age
of 78 years;
Dr. AKBAR HYDARI,
prominent
litterateur, researcher and critic of Kashmir died in Srinagar
recently at the age of 83 years;
Prof. SHEES
MUHAMMAD ISMAIL AZMI,
poet, scholar of Arabic and Islamic studies
and head of Jamia Millia’s Department of Islamic
Studies died in Delhi
on 12 November;
Mufti of Sambhal City
and patron of Ulama wa Mashaaekh Board
MAULANA ZAMEER HUSAIN
alias Maulana
Nausha died of heart attack on 19 November;
MAULANA AFZAALUL
HAQ JAUHAR QASMI,
a great religious scholar and journalist, president of Markazi
Jamiatul Ulama-e
Hind and Abna-e Qadeem, Darul Uloom Deoband died at his home
town in Azamgarh
district on 30 November at the age of 89 years;
Dr. (Nawab) KAZIM
ALI KHAN, a
leading researcher, a man of letters and literary critic died
of heart attack
in Lucknow
on 3
December at the age of 74 years;
MAULANA ABU RAIHAN
AHMAD NOORI, a
Kannad writer and translator of the Quran into Kannada died
recently in Bangalore
at the age of
92 years;
Prof. K. A. JALEEL,
former Vice
Chancellor of Calicut University, a renowned academician and
author died at Kozhikode
(Kerala) at the age of 90 years;
MUHAMMAD AMIN, a
former VC of
Jamia Hamdard, a distinguished historian and educationist who
taught medieval
Indian history at St. Stephen’s College for more than four
decades died in
Delhi on 15 December at the age of 86 years;
PROF
HANEEF NAQVI, noted Urdu critic and former head of Urdu deptt,
BHU, died on 22
Dec. 2012
The meeting also
prayed for the
souls of AKHILESH MITHAL, a noted columnist, historian, lover
of Urdu and
secular values who passed away on 21 Nov. 2012 in Delhi
at the age of 86; and former Prime
Minister Inder Kumar Gujral, who died on 30 November. He was a
great friend of
the Muslim community and a lover of Urdu.
The meeting
discussed a gamut of
milli, national and international issues affecting the Muslim
community and
passed the following resolutions:
RESOLUTIONS
Terror in the
name of fighting terror
The AIMMM
condemns with full force at its
command the ongoing war on the Muslim community in the name of
“fighting
terror”. The AIMMM holds the central and state governments
directly responsible
for faking this war of terror in which innocent Muslim youths
are implicated by
manufacturing evidences and forcing detainees to make false
confessions
extracted through the use of third degree torture which is
illegal under the
international covenant signed by our government. The wholesale
acquittal of
Muslim youths after spending long years in jails is a proof of
this fake
campaign masterminded by communal elements in the IB, Home
Ministry and Police
who should be purged if India is to remain a secular
democracy. The Central and
state governments should pay a proper compensation to the
acquitted “terror”
victims commensurate with their lost years and destroyed
careers and these
should be deducted from the salaries and PF accounts of the
officers who falsely
implicated them. Such officers should also be suitably
punished and dismissed
from service for committing these crimes against innocent
youths destroying
their lives and careers and in the process defaming a whole
community.
UAPA amendment
The AIMMM
condemns the new amendments
appended to the new avatar of UAPA which raised the ban period
of a banned
organization from two to five years and treats economic
offences as
“terrorism”. This will open this terrorist law to further
misuse by the inept and
communalised police and intelligence agencies. The UPA was
voted to power on
its promise to repeal the much-misused POTA, but very soon
after election it
fortified the old UAPA as a Super POTA and has since continued
fortifying it
with one amendment after another in order to further
strengthen this terrorist
law which is being used to continue the war on the Muslim
community which was
started by the previous BJP-led NDA regime. AIMMM demands the
repeal of this
terrorist law and affirms its belief that existing laws are
enough to deal with
the scourge of terrorism provided they are fairly and
judiciously applied to
all accused.
U.P. Govt. and
terror cases
The Samajwadi
govt. in Uttar Pradesh had been
elected to power on a promise to release Muslim youths in U.P.
jails on fake
terror charges. Once in power, it first indicated that it will
wait for the
report of the Nimesh Commission appointed by the previous
Mayawati government
to probe into the Khalid and Tariq arrests. The Nimesh
Commission report has submitted
two months ago and reports leaked to the media about its
contents suggest that
they are innocent and everything about their arrest was
fabricated but the U.P.
govt. is stalling the issue and has unnecessarily sought the
opinion of
district collectors and deputy commissioners. AIMMM demands
U.P. govt. to
redeem its electoral promise, respect the Nimesh Judicial
Commission and
release Khalid and Tariq forthwith. It should also release
many other Muslim
youths in U.P. jails on fake and manufactured charges.
Minority
schemes
AIMMM registers
its displeasure at the
lethargic pace and limited scope of govt schemes announced in
the wake of the
Sachar Report which by and large are now reduced to
“scholarships” and even 60%
of the scholarships budget was returned unutilised last year
due to the
callousness and inefficiency of the Union Ministry of Minority
Affairs. AIMMM
hopes that under the new Minority minister, a more vigorous
effort will be made
to uplift the Muslim community in a variety of ways and that
the schemes for
the so-called Muslim-dominated districts will be implemented
in Muslim areas of
those districts in order to honour the spirit and purpose of
these schemes.
Reservation
The AIMMM
reminds the Union government that
action over Misra Commission Report is long overdue. Likewise,
the central
govt. is sitting on its overdue reply to the Supreme Court
about the inclusion
of the Muslim and Christian Dalits in the SC/ST reservation
list. Exclusion of
Muslim and Christian Dalits from the SC/ST quota since 1950 is
a fraud on
the Constitution of India, which should come to an end at the
earliest.
Crimes
against women
The AIMMM
registers its full sympathy with
the hapless female victims of violence and rape crimes,
especially the young
lady brutalised by beasts on a moving Delhi
bus in the night of 16 December which has rightly agitated a
large section of
Indians. All such crimes against women and weaker sections,
especially
minorities, Dalits and Adivasis are highly condemnable and
show the whole
country in extremely bad light. It is time people, police,
judiciary and
government agencies stood up to discharge their duties to
protect the weak and
vulnerable sections of society. The AIMMM urges the government
to introduce
deterrent punishments for such brutal crimes. It should also
hasten with the
overdue Police reforms to liberate the police force from the
British Raj rules
and make it capable and accountable to protect all citizens,
human rights and
honour of ordinary people.
FDI
The AIMMM
rejects and condemns the central
govt’s impatience to open the Indian markets to foreign
companies and capital
which will very negatively impact our national economy and
will stifle our
growth. Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in the retail sector
will be a catastrophe
as it will adversely affect lakhs of households whose shops
and small
businesses will be forced to close. We believe that our
country has ample human
and financial resources to achieve the required rate of
economic growth. We
should unshackle our local markets and offer incentives to
local industry and
businesses under a stable legal regime in order to instill
confidence and
enable them to outperform others.
Meat industry
AIMMM takes
note of the difficulties faced by
people involved in the meat industry across the country.
Abattoirs are being
closed down, trucks transporting cattle are hijacked by
saffron goons with
police support, hurdles are placed in the face of opening of
new abattoirs and
meat shops. These activities harm a certain section of the
Muslim community
which is traditionally engaged in the meat trade. AIMMM looks
at these hurdles
as a subtle economic war against a section of the community
and calls upon the
central and state governments to wake up and stop these
illegal activities by
saffron goons, Police and some communal elements in the
government.
Karnataka cow
protection bill
The AIMMM
opposes the new cow protection bill
passed by the BJP-dominated Karnataka Assembly which is highly
objectionable as
it enlarges the definition of the “cow” family in an
unprecedented way and
enhances punishments in an unnatural fashion. AIMMM appeals to
Hon’ble Governor
of Karnataka and Hon’ble President of India to reject this
bill which is
clearly against the interests of minorities and all others
whose source of
protein is meat of cattle other than cows.
Gujarat Muslims
AIMMM salutes
Gujarati Muslims who have shown
their maturity and resourcefulness by improving their lot with
self-help
despite the criminal neglect by the Modi government. AIMMM
also notes with
satisfaction the Gujarati Muslim resilience and wisdom in
denying Modi the
landslide victory he was dreaming to achieve in the recent
elections by showing
vacuous gestures to the Muslim community and by launching a
fake Sadbhavna march.
AIMMM reiterates that Modi will remain an untouchable for
secular forces and
the Muslim community within and outside Gujarat
as long as he does not apologise and makes good the losses of
Muslim victims as
a result of his administration’s omission and commission
during the 2002
pogroms.
Waqfs
The AIMMM urges
the government to hurry the
Waqf bill through Parliament taking into account the
suggestions made by Muslim
organisations. It is high time to safeguard and redeem waqf
properties and to
unshackle them from the archaic rent control so that these may
attract market
rates. Many Muslim problems will be solved if waqfs are put to
good and
sensible use according to the intentions of the people who
established those
waqfs.
Managed peace
in J&K
The year 2012 is
being touted as a “year of peace” because 12.5 lakh tourists
and 6.5 lakh
Amarnath yatris visited the state during this year. But the
fact is that this
“peace” is managed by state oppression. Thousands of youths
are in jails on
frivolous charges. Every now and then undeclared curfew is
clamped on various
areas. On several Fridays this year, prayers were not allowed
in the Jama
Masjid of Srinagar.
Muharram processions were also not allowed this year.
Separatist leaders like
Mir Waiz Umar Farooq, Yasin Malik and Shabbir Shah etc were
frequently arrested
during this year. Another separatist leader, Syed Ali Shah
Geelani, remains
under perpetual house arrest and has not been allowed to offer
Friday prayers
during the last three years. In spite of the assurances of
Chief Minister Umar
Abdullah, AFSPA remains in force. A total of 150 persons are
in jails under the
draconian Public Safety Act and 840 political prisoners remain
incarcerated.
AIMMM calls upon the Union government to take a bold step to
talk to the
separatists. A remarkable gesture will be to lift AFPSA which
has no relevance
now in view of the official statements that only a few hundred
militants remain
in J&K.
Amarnath
Trust
AIMMM shares
the uneasiness of the Kashmiri
brothers over the increasing activities and infrastructure
building by
J&K’s Amarnath Trust. A new fait accompli is
being attempted at the
expense of the area’s environment and people’s sentiments. The
ever-growing
number of pilgrims to Amarnath, from a few thousand in
pre-1990 days to around
six lakh this year, is disastrous to the area’s fragile
ecology as well as it
sends a political message to the Valley’s Muslim majority. The
state government
should stop any measures to build permanent infrastructure on
the Amarnath
route and should limit the visitors to what the area’s ecology
permits. Moreover, Kashmiri Pandits should be appointed on the
Amarnath Trust and
no land should allotted to it as it will lead to permanent
infrastructure
Illegal
shrines at Muslim monuments
The recent
attempt to
build a full-fledged temple on the north-eastern corner of
Charminar in
Hyderabad under the title “Bhagyalakshmi Temple” should awaken
the whole
community and make it conscious of a common practice
throughout the country
from Ayodhya to Delhi, Hyderabad and Baba Budhan in Karnataka
of building a
“Hindu Shrine” adjacent to a Muslim heritage site or shrine,
then slowly expand
it and finally take the site over. In Hyderabad,
it all began with a corner mile-stone placed to save the
monument from traffic
damage. Later it received vermillion marks, then a small idol
was placed there and
a platform was quietly built as a
regular mandir.
The Muslim community in every village and town must,
therefore, keep an eye on
the placement of an idol, picture or even a piece of stone
near a Masjid or in
a Qabristan or a shrine or monument, followed by Hindu rituals and puja. In some places
when it was brought
to the notice of the authorities, the matter was looked into
with the help of
old maps and land records,
the
mischief was nipped in the bud and the revenue or the
municipal officer
performed his duty to remove the accretion forthwith. In MP,
the then
Chief Minister Shri Arjun Singh himself once protected the
Tajul Masajid in Bhopal
in this
manner. Near Delhi
in Sikandarpur, a young district magistrate after summary
inspection removed
the idol from the Qabristan with his own hands. But in many
villages and towns,
Hindu shrines are springing up by the road-side or under a
tree, even in Delhi.
These are ignored by
the municipal authorities and the police. It is, therefore,
suggested that in
all villages and mohallas the community should keep an eye on
such developments
on graveyards or near masjids
or
heritage sites and immediately file a complaint with the
authorities and make a
move for its removal. This practice is very common even in
protected places
which are in the care of the Archaeological Survey of India.
The law does
not permit any construction within 100 meters of any protected
monument but even
in Delhi
there
are many cases of Hindu shrines being built next to the walls
of a masjid or
monument. Today temples occupy the outer walls of Purana Quila
and
Qutb
Minar. Earlier a Sikh
temple had been built next
to
the Puran Qila. AIMMM appeals to the
Muslims to
wake up to the situation and press local authorities and the
waqf committee to
take necessary action immediately.
Muslim
political parties
The AIMMM
welcomes the emergence of new
political parties with Muslim initiative. Muslim masses should
prefer winnable,
reliable and trustworthy candidates of such parties so that
the community has a
free and independent voice in the state and central
legislatures to raise its
issues.
Babri Masjid
AIMMM rejects
the current hush-hush efforts
to find an out of court solution for the Babri issue. AIMMM
reiterates that
with the unjust demolition, long litigation and the current
appeals pending
with the Supreme Court, the matter is now beyond such efforts
and only a final
Supreme Court verdict will be acceptable to the Muslim
community.
Hizbut Tahrir
AIMMM notes
with dismay that efforts are
being made these days to export Hizbut Tahrir to the
Subcontinent. It is a
secretive, dubious and destructive neo-Kharijite society
banned in all Arab
countries but is allowed to openly flourish in Britain.
Muslim masses in the area
should be alert to this menace which will only further divide
the community
and add to confusion and chaos.
Rohingyas
AIMMM condemns
the Burmese authorities’
continued persecution of the Rohingya Muslim community in Burma which is deprived of
its natural rights as
citizens of Burma
and forced
to live as refugees in its own country or to flee to
neighbouring countries
like Bangladesh,
Malaysia, Thailand
and India.
Such behaviour is a source of utter shame in the twenty first
century. Burma
authorities should rethink their erroneous
and racist policies, should allow Rohingyas to return to their
villages and
hamlets and should repatriate those who have fled outside Burma
due to
persecution. AIMMM urges the Indian government to put pressure
on Burma
govt. to
start behaving in a civilised manner and honour the civil,
political and human
rights of the Rohingyas.
Egypt
The AIMMM
congratulates the Egyptian people
for courageously passing a new democratic constitution despite
the efforts of
the pro-Israel and pro-west vocal minority which does not wish
to see a stable
and democratic government in Egypt.
The AIMMM lauds the efforts of President Mursi to wisely deal
with the
challenges posed by western stooges and remnants of Mubarak
regime.
Syria
The AIMMM is
pained by the continued war
waged by the sectarian Baathist dictatorship in Syria
against its own people,
causing unprecedented casualties in life and properties never
seen before in
any similar situation. It is time for the Assad regime to go
and allow genuine
Syrian patriotic forces to take over in order to spare Syria the wages of an
American-led western
intervention which will further complicate the problems and
result in further
destruction of Syria.
Palestine
The AIMMM
forcefully condemns the Israeli war
against Gaza last November
which ended rather
abruptly due to the brave resistance of the people and the
support of
neighbouring countries especially Egypt
and Iran.
Israel
has to learn to live like a normal country of the area
foregoing its
imperialist and expansionist designs. It will be cast in the
dustbin of history
like the South African apartheid regime if it fails to learn
lessons of
history. Israel
has to
respect the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people in
their homeland
including the right of the Palestinians
to
have their own sovereign and viable state and the right of the
Palestinian
refugees to return to their homes and lands, and restore Jerusalem
to its rightful owners. Without
such real measures there will be no place for Israel
in the Middle East.
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