Author: PTI
Publication: The Hindu
Date: May 30, 2005
URL: http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/000200505300301.htm?headline=Jamiat~seeks~reservation~for~minorities~in~Parliament
[Note from Hindu Vivek Kendra:
See two quotes from an earlier article,
attached below.]
The Jamiat-Ulama-i-Hind on Sunday
demanded reservation for Muslims in Parliament, Legislative Assemblies
and Government jobs and extended support to the 'model nikahnama' prepared
by the All India Muslim Personal Law Board.
At the end of its 28th All India
General Session held here, the Jamiat adopted a series of resolutions,
which included demand for removal of restrictions on reservations based
on religion, passing a Riot Prevention Act and immediate release of those
arrested under POTA.
Claiming that minority people are
being harassed in Assam, the meeting, chaired by the Jamiat president Maulana
Asaad Madani, termed the backlash against illegal migrants in the State
as "plan to turn the State into another Gujarat."
During the two-day General Session
of the Jamiat, Ulamas from all parts of the country held talks on various
matters concerning the community, which included protection of women's
rights, constitutional status to Minority Educational Commission, compensation
to the victims of communal riots, sacrilege of holy Koran by the US forces.
Quote One
"The sixth All-India Conference
of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, held in Hyderabad in 1980, was a watershed in
the history of Islam in India. The then Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi,
who only five years earlier chose fit to ban the organisation, extended
her greetings for its programmes, and Mr P V Narsimha Rao, who was then
the Minister of External Affairs, congratulated the city of Hyderabad on
providing leadership to the Muslims of India. The avowed objective of Jamaat-e-Islami,
founded in 1941, was to establish Hukoomah-e-Ilahi, a non-secular theocratic
State in the country. It was therefore not surprising that one of the papers
circulated during the two-day conference, attended by about 50,000 delegates
from all over the country and fraternal delegates from the Islamic world,
advocated the formation of a separate State proportionate to the Muslim
population in order to 'save the Muslims from being looted and slaughtered
and to protect the honour of their women'." Muslims in Tamil Nadu - The
Rise of Fundamentalism, Sam Rajappa, The Statesman, May 21, 1998. Quote
Two Let me end this with the narration of an incident when Mr PV Narasimha
Rao was the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh. A Muslim delegation, led
by Syed Salahuddin Owaisi, (the leader of MIM, the inheritor of Kasim
Razvi's Razakar movement) gave a long list of demands to be met with by
the Government to do justice to the minorities. Mr Narasimha Rao
patiently read the entire list and at the end is reported to have said:
"Owasiji! you have forgotten to include one most important demand".
Owasi asked what it was. Mr Narasimha
Rao said: "You forgot to include the demand to restore the Nizam's
rule in Hyderabad."
K Srinivas, "Perspective mustn't
be lost", The Pioneer, 26 January 1998.
