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India’s Darul Uloom Deoband Accused of Double Standards in Its Declaration against Terrorism
India’s prominent institute of Islamic learning Darul Uloom Deoband has been accused by the Hindu organization Rashtriya Swayam Sevak Sangh of taking a biased view of terrorism in its recent declaration against terror, approved by a gathering of thousands of Indian Islamic clerics.
The Urdu newspaper Roznama Siasat quoted the Organiser weekly, a mouthpiece of the Rashtriya Swayam Sevak Sangh, as saying it had no differences with the assertion of Darul Uloom Deoband in the first part of the declaration that Islam condemns all types of terror.
According to the report, the Organiser however noted in its editorial that the second part of the declaration spoke of state terrorism and terrorism of Western nations against Islam but did not mention the terror attacks in India.
According to the report, the declaration mentioned the West’s terror in Palestine, Iraq and Afghanistan but there was no mention of the terrorist attacks on the Indian parliament, Delhi’s 17th-century Red Fort, Mumbai’s trains, Hindu temples of Delhi and Varanasi, and the markets of Delhi, etc.
Source: Roznama Siasat, Hyderabad (India), March 9, 2008
Posted at: 2008-03-11
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