We, the undersigned express our solidarity with Dr Zafarul Islam Khan, renowned scholar, journalist and presently Chairman of the Delhi Minorities Commission.
We strongly condemn the continued media trial and targeting of Dr Zafarul Islam Khan for his Facebook post thanking Kuwait for expressing solidarity with Indian Muslims. In his Facebook post, he mentioned the appalling deterioration of human rights of Indian Muslims who have been targeted by Hindutva bigots. A few politicians with ulterior motives and news channel anchors known for spreading bigotry and Islamophobia have mischievously sought to misinterpret his statement and ridiculously label him as anti-Hindu and anti-India.
He has only reiterated what many citizens of India, public figures, international institutions, various European governments, the United States of America and United Nations human rights mechanisms have repeatedly underlined their concern at the increasing human rights abuse and violations of religious minorities in India.
Dr Zafarul Islam Khan is a man of integrity. He is a scholar who is known to stand up for constitutional freedoms and values.
His work as the Chairman of Delhi Minorities Commission has been warmly applauded by human rights activists and NGOs across different faiths. His timely interventions on problems of minorities in Delhi have made him a respectable figure among not only Muslims but Sikh, Christians, Jains and Parsis. He is a humanist in the truest sense of the word.
The hateful propaganda against Dr Khan is one more illustration as how certain Indians fail to differentiate between Hinduism, a religion and Hindutva which is a supremacist political ideology.
Dr Zafarul Islam Khan is a leading Indian intellectual whose niche area is Islamic studies and Arab world. He enjoys great respect in the Arab and Muslim world for his understanding and knowledge. He is an alumni of the esteemed Jamia Al-Azhar and Manchester University.
Dr Khan is known for taking bold public positions. He was the first Muslim scholar in the world who denounced ISIL, which later became IS or ISIS. He issued a statement opposing the barbaric crimes of ISIL (IS or ISIS) and Boko Haram against minorities. He takes strong stands against extremism of all sorts. That makes him a prominent critic of RSS.
Dr Khan is a scholar ambassador and earned international prestige for the India. Any attack and targeting of him, is actually an insult to Indian constitution and ethos.
We demand the appropriate authorities of the Government of India take strong legal action against those who are distorting Dr Khan’s Facebook post, and spreading vicious false propaganda against him.
Signed by:
Swami Agnivesh
Mohammad Adeeb
Arun Kumar (Prof)
Zafar Jung
Kamal Faruqui
Annie Namala
Kavita Krishnan
Subhash Gatade
Jawed Naqvi
Indu Pratap Singh
Avinash Kumar
Iftikhar Gilani
Anil Chamadia
Xavier Dias
Denzil Fernandes (Dr)
Irfan Engineer
Faisal Khan
John Dayal (Dr)
Mujtaba Farooque
Ravi Nair
Abubakr Sabbaq (Adv)
Gopal Menon
Bilal Khan
Ashok Choudhury
Jaffer Latief Najar
Mujahid Nafis
Aseem Sundan
Poojan Sahil
Ankur Otto
Mariya Salim
Tanweer Alam
Juned Khan
E M Abdul Rahiman
Aditi Dutta
Devika Prasad
Ameeque Jamei
Suhaib Ansari
Gurminder Singh
A C Michael
Neelima Sharma
Aftab Alam (Dr)
Dhruva Narayan
Syed Saif Ur Rahman
Tanweer Fazal (Dr)
Thouseef Madikeri (Dr)
N.D. Jayaprakash
Salahuddin Ansari
Satyajeet Nambiar
Suhail KK
Abu Sufiyan
Sujata Madhok
Tariq Khan
Violin Mathew Benjamin
Shamsul Islam (Prof)
Sreedhar Ramamurthi
Mohd. Shahid (Prof)
Anand Vivek Taneja (Dr)
Kush Kumar Singh (Dr)
Mangla Verma
Vipul Kumar
Waquar Hasan
Braham Prakash
Abdul Rashid Agwan
Fawaz Shaheen
Guman Singh
Mohammed Hafeez Ulla
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Mushfique Raza Khan
Partha S Banerjee
Gautam Majumdar
S.Q. Masood
Aiman J Khan
M. K. Faizy
Tasleem Rehmani (Dr)
Mohammed Shafi
Lenin Raghuvanshi (Dr)
Malik Motasim Khan
Kripal Singh Mandloi
Labeed Shafi
Qamar Intakhab
Raees Ahmed Siddiqui
Laeeq Ahmed Khan
Anthony Arulraj
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Biju Gopidasan
George Pulikuthiyil
Mohd Abdullah
Mohd Sorab Hussain
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Sandeep Pendse
Paul Newman
Ovais Sultan Khan
Mr Shah, who launched the first of four Parivartan Yatras that will cover all 403 UP constituencies in the next 50 days in Saharanpur on Saturday, spoke about a host of issues — from surgical strikes and the Kairana exodus to development, triple talaq and crime in the state.
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B J P = Baharthiya Jhoothi Party
R S S = Rashtriya Shaitano Ka Sangh
V H P = VIOLENCE HATE PROMOTERS
He Himself is a Accuse in Several Murders, Fake Encounters, Gujrath Riots 2002, He is calling others as Goondas, Kya Din Agaye Bhai.
Goondas will identify other goondas easily... same breed
Rajesh,in india only ISI ageant work doing only RSS and chaddi parivar and ramshene manki parivar,se the history of amith he only doing ageant of communal riots and robbring musslims property,
It's like looking up and spitting,
Definitely Amaranath Shah now real Hero of Criminal Looters RSS, \Experience makes a man perfect\" These means only Criminal Looters knows who is Goondas, because on the way both are Friends so Master Shah Knowing Who is Who???"
Goondas can identify other goondas .....
Yes he is right ...UP all goondas..But in BJP all are HIJDAS....HIJDAS...HIJDAS... from back side they attack & attack poor and handicapped people & killed innocent
Yes these are goondas, but BJP party has terrorists....which one is better
Yes they don't have Goondas .But they have Terrorist
100% right Mr. Shah
Like Yogi
Rajesh i guess u dont see mirror in the morning see urself and justify urself how gd ur to point out others and justify urself wht wrong u do frm morning till nite how people get hurt bcoz of u
if u cant live as a frnd then don't ask other to live like u at list the people who are good to there frnds let them live there life don't spoil the others mind like vegetable spoils in market.
how could u say tht to muslims to go pakistan y we shld go u hve prblm with use y don't u go brother
its not your mistake whn ur geting younger family members shld explain the truth of life tht u didnt got to knw abt truth of life
u hve some fake histroy in ur mind abt muslims tht u blive u shld go deep in ur history as well u will get to knw abt it
he is right , SP Muslim MP had ISI agent as his PA , they sent classified informations to their pakistan .
Look who is saying what,one who is the main conspirator of many riots is saying other goondas.
Please go and look at mirror....you will see your reflection....don't you think that muslims are stupids....we are not in 19th century....
Yes. they dont have only goondas... but they have Goondas, Deceivers, LIARS, Killers and hatemongers...
Dont just think cheddis have only Goondas ? All round evil institution
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