The Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind on Saturday urged the Centre to put a leash on the Hindutva forces, and stop the ‘Ghar Wapsi’ movement and the ‘Love Jihad’ campaign against Muslims across the country.
On the concluding day of the two-day 32{+n}{+d}General Session of the organisation at the Ramlila Grounds, Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind president Maulana Qari Syed Mohammad Usman Mansoorpuri said since the formation of the new government at the Centre, the two agendas – Ghar Wapasi and Love Jihad - had been going on full steam,vitiating the communal harmony in the country. People over the centuries had been forced to convert due to untouchability and victimisation of the oppressed classes, not owing to inducements, he said.
“There are several books in Persian which make it clear that the Muslim Sufis and the business classes never resorted to inducements to woo people to convert to Islam in the medieval period. Had this been the case then Muslims would not have remained a minority in this country,” he said. The Hindutva elements in the name of ‘Ghar Wapsi’ had been following a divisive agenda, ignoring appeals against it even by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, he said.
Dwelling on the ‘Love Jihad’ campaign, he said that the communal forces had launched a massive propaganda that Muslim youths had been converting Hindu girls under this campaign. Police investigations and judicial inquiries into alleged ‘Love Jihad’ cases had proved that all such marriages were not motivated by religious conversions.
He demanded passage of an anti-communal violence law and enactment of a law on the patterns of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act to provide protection to the Muslim community from communal violence.
Police investigations and judicial inquiries into alleged ‘Love Jihad’ cases have proved that all such marriages were not motivated by religious conversions
