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
Kp Sasi
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
Sadiq Zafar
Biju Gopidasan
George Pulikuthiyil
Mohd Abdullah
Mohd Sorab Hussain
Mukunda Kattel
Sandeep Pendse
Paul Newman
Ovais Sultan Khan
Mangaluru, Feb 28: In a shocking incident, an engineering student has committed suicide on the railway track at the Someshwara railway station near Ullal on the outskirts of the city.
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Feeling deeply hurt while reading such news about this Genius, Brilliant and highly knowledgeable person. What was his mistake ?that he called people toward truth? made them spend proper life and to lead a peaceful life which may benefit mankind in both the world?? he spoke the truth publicly is the terrorism??is he provoked anything which made his team to kill anyone. Many people in the world appreciating about his deeds but same time many people talking bad about PM Modi so who is what here. His Allah is with him and he is a strong believer. May Allah protect him from this calamity Aameen.
Islam says Suicide is an unforgivable SIN...
ALLAH gave us this LIFE, and QURAN is the manual to understand what is LIFE...
Non-Muslims should read the QURAN (U can check online thequranproject) to understand better, How ALLAH created Life and death and What is the purpose of this life...
QURAN is not just for the Muslims... it is a GUIDANCE from our CREATOR To the whole of UNiverse... Please look into it... U will be enlightened.
Those who are HONEST in looking for the CREATOR... ALLAH will Guide them... thats the trust we should have.... God is GREAT (ALLAHU AKBAR)
NA TASYA PrATIMA ASTI... there is no image of God....
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IS this not enough for HINDU brothers & Sisters to stay far away from the real Killers of our society. if U dont use your intellect and recognize the real culprits in our society... We will all dome our society with the liars and killers in disguise.
Whatever ways U want to block , ISLAM will grow with Zakir naik or Without HIM...
Enemies of ISLAM plan, But ALLAH has a plan...
Everything happens with the will of ALLAH. ALLAH's plan will Succeed..
Non Muslim should use their God given intellect to VERIFY what wrong thing Dr. Zakir naik says... If he is bringing near to the one LORD ALLAH to U guys then accept it (Even vedas says NA tasya pratima Asti - There is no image of GOD) Dont U think as Human beings are the smartest creation of ALLAH who can analyse and reason when they use their INTELLECT.
Why dont U guys think and PONDER on the lives we were created by ALLAH... Y We only believe the LIARS when we know the authorities caught lying many times...
Wake up guys... and PONDER on what ZAKIR NAIK says and Stop believing whatever LIARS want U to believe.
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