Click to play videoNew Delhi: Islam is taking on its worst enemy – terrorism. Following the recent terror attacks in India, the Muslim clergy has declared its own war on terror by issuing a fatwa against terrorism and declaring it the "most inhuman crime".
Leading Islamic seminary Darul Uloom came together to tell the world that Muslims in India are neither silent nor in a state of denial when it comes to decry terrorism.
In a never before gathering of Muslims in India on an anti-terrorism platform, over one lakh Muslims gathered at Delhi's Ramlila Maidan to hear the fatwa on terror.
The organisers of the conference, the leaders of Jamiat-ul-Ulmea of India, said that Muslims are ready to take to the streets to defeat terrorism.
“This is a historic moment because it is the first time ever in the world that a mass mobilisation has been done on the issue of anti-terrorism,” Mahmood Madani of the Jamait-ul-Ulema said.
However, many present at the gathering also hit out at the state for unfairly targetting Muslims.
“Every time there is a blast Muslims are picked up. We feel that after this fatwa things will change,” cleric at the Firangimahal Seminary Maulana Khalid Rasheed said.
Whether the fatwa by India's most influential seminary will prove to be a deterrent against terrorism still remains to be seen, but it will certainly go a long way in changing the perception about Islam and its followers in the country.
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