Blog Details Seminar Topic: Jihad is Not Terrorism, It is Defense Against Atrocities An Islamic organization based in India’s southern city of Hyderabad has invited Pakistan’s prominent Islamic scholar Syed Ataullah Husseini to deliver a speech on the subject of ‘‘Jihad is not terrorism, it is a defense against atrocities.’’ The Urdu-language newspaper Roznama Munsif quoted the president of All India Majlis Tamir-e-Millat Maulana Abdur Rahim Qureshi as confirming that Syed Ataullah Husseini will be chief guest at the seminar to be held on March 23, 2008. According to the report, Maulana Qureshi said the objective of the seminar is to make people aware of the conspiracies being hatched against Islam at the international level. He said Islam is a religion of peace and it has no relationship with terrorism. The All India Majlis Tamir-e-Millat was formed in 1950 as a non-political organization to spread the message of Islam. Source: Roznama Munsif, Hyderabad (India), March 20, 2008 Posted at: 2008-03-21

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