[GJM] Fatwa Against Tasleema Nasreen by a 'Lunatic Indian Maulvi' : Dr.M.K. Sherwani

[Sherwani Mustafa]

Lucknow, Mar 15 (UNI) A Sunni cleric of the hardline
 Bareillvi sect today announced a bounty of Rs five
 lakh on the head of acclaimed Bangladeshi author
 Taslima Nasreen, who is already facing threats at
 home by fundamentalists.
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                                      March,16,2007
                 PRESS STATEMENT

   The Indian press would be busy magnifying the
matter as if this so-called 'fatwa' has come as a bolt
from the blue and reflects the sentiments of the whole
community.Let me set the issue in true perspective
before it is blown out of proportions  and the process
of actions and reactions starts.

    There is nothing serious about it. As found
everywhere, such 'maulvis' are  lunatic fringes of
Muslim  community. Occasionally they attempt to
establish their idiotic credentials through their
stupidity - sometimes they measure the dress of Sania
Mirza, sometimes issue perposterous 'fatwas' against
Imrana and so on. They have become extremely crazy for
TV shots and so these foolish actions fulfil their
ambitions as the media of the country flashes them
every where. The UP elections are round the corner,and
,therefore,in all probability they have been released
from the camps of some political party on certain
meagre payment to embarrass the Congress because
granting the citizenship lies within the domain of the
central government.

   India is a multi-cultural society. There is nothing
wrong if it gives citizenship to Tasleema Nasreen,
who is nothing more than an ordinary woman, but is
being glorified by these stupid 'maulvis' and their
ilk. May be she must have mistakenly treated the
character of such  ' MAULVIS' as the model of Muslim
society, and on that basis would have come out with
her imbecile utterances against Islam.Let these
'maulvis' understand, if they have got the sense to,
that at this time when the whole community is
besieged, they must not fritter away their energy in
these fatuous matters. 
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Dr. Mustafa Kamal Sherwani,LL. D.
Former President, All India Muslim Forum
Sherwani Nagar, Sitapur Road, Lucknow, India

Presently ,Dean Faculty of Law and Shariah
Zanzibar University, Tanzania
Mobile: +255-777-420360
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--- Kisan <mailbhejna at yahoo. co.in> wrote:

>
http://www.deepikag lobal.com/ ENG3_sub. asp?ccode=
ENG3&newscode= 154310
> 
> Sunni cleric announces bounty on Taslima's head
> 
> Lucknow, Mar 15 (UNI) A Sunni cleric of the hardline
> Bareillvi sect today announced a bounty of Rs five
> lakh on the head of acclaimed Bangladeshi author
> Taslima Nasreen, who is already facing threats at
> home by fundamentalists.
> 
> Maulana Tauqeer Raza Khan, Imam of Ala Hazrat Dargah
> and chairman of All India Muslim Personal Law Board
> (Jadid group) announced the fatwa against Nasreen at
> Bareilly.
> 
> Talking to mediapersons, the Maulana said the Centre
> should deny her a permanent citizenship.
> 
> He announced a cash reward of Rs five lakh for
> beheading her.
> 
> The Iman said it is the duty of clerics to punish
> those who are trying to ''insult'' Islam.
> 
> Firebrand Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen is
> staying in West Bengal for the last 12 yrs.
> 
> The author's works that have created controversies
> in Bangladesh and India include 'Lajja' (shame) and
> autobiographical 'Aamar Meyebela' (my girlhood
> days). Recenetly, her new book Dwikhandita was also
> banned by the West Bengal government.
> 
> Earlier, in February 2006, UP Haj Minister Haji
> Yakoob had announced a bounty of Rs 51 crore on the
> head of the Danish cartoonists for lampooning
> Prophet Mohammad in a publication.
> 
> Later, the minister was reprimanded by the UP
> Assembly Speaker for his remarks.
> 
> 
> 


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