Muslim Condemnations

Salam/Peace:

Mumbai, Dec. 7: Condemning terror attacks in Mumbai which claimed at least 183 lives and injured more than 300 people, Muslim organisations today held a peace march from the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus(CST) Railway station to the Trident-Oberoi hotel.

About 5,000 people assembled near Trident-Oberoi hotel and expressed regrets that Islam is being wrongly interpreted by the maulanas and that is why patriotism of Indian Muslims is being questioned. Noted lyricist Javed Akhtar who participated the march said “All people from this (Muslim) community want to say enough is enough. They want to warn terrorists that they do not belong to our community.”

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Salam/Peace:

MUMBAI, India — Throngs of Indian Muslims, ranging from Bollywood actors to skullcap-wearing seminary students, marched through the heart of Mumbai and several other cities on Sunday, holding up banners proclaiming their condemnation of terrorism and loyalty to the Indian state.

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Muslim leaders have refused to allow the bodies of the nine militants killed in the attacks to be buried in Islamic cemeteries, saying the men were not true Muslims. They also suspended the annual Dec. 6 commemoration of a 1992 riot in which Hindus destroyed a mosque, in an effort to avert communal tension. Muslim religious scholars and public figures have issued strongly worded condemnations of the attacks.

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(Editor's note: see bottom of article for reference to the protest).

New Delhi: Indian Muslims are feeling that their patriotism is being questioned again following the Mumbai terror attacks by Pakistan-trained terrorists.

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The community is angry at terrorists’ spreading terror in the name of Jihad.

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"Persons believing in Islam and committing atrocities and killing other people are not following the teachings of Islam," says Wasi Ahmad Nomani, senior advocate of Supreme Court.

A cross section of the community believes that the larger purpose behind the 26/11 strikes was to trigger communal violence. And so they feel Muslims have a greater responsibility now to reach out to people from other communities.

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On December 9, the Bakr-Eid celebrations will be sober. Muslims from all walks of life will organise a black ribbon protest.

Former Indian cricket team captain Mohammad Azharuddin in an interview to a newspaper has said, "The protest will send out a strong message to the world. Everyone wants to live in a safe environment, and terrorism in the name of Islam has gone on for too long."

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