Indian Muslim clerics reject terror despite threats
LUCKNOW: Senior Muslim clerics in India rejected terrorism as anti-Islamic on Wednesday.
Khalid Rasheed, the head of the oldest madrasa in the northern city of Lucknow, said the militant group Indian Mujahideen had accused him and his colleagues of apostasy over their pacifist stance.
Indian Mujahideen threatened Rasheed last week in an email sent to local media channels in which they also claimed responsibility for last week's blasts in Jaipur that killed 63 people.
"The reaction of terrorists to our stand against terror has shown that we are moving in the right direction," Rasheed told reporters. "We will continue not only to raise our voice against terror but also educate Muslim masses about the grossly un-Islamic practices adopted by terrorist bodies."Rasheed said they had received support from the influential radical Darool-Uloom Deoband madrasa in northern India. "Islam is a religion of peace," madrasa vice chancellor Ahmad Khazir Shah said in a statement on Wednesday. reuters
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