Muslims Opposing Ram Mandir Should go to Pakistan, Says UP Shia Waqf Board Chief

Mangalore Today News Network

New Delhi, Feb 3: Muslims who are against the construction of Ram Temple in Ayodhya should go to Pakistan and Bangladesh or join ISIS in Syria, Uttar Pradesh Shia Waqf Board Chairman Waseem Rizvi said.

 

Stirring up a controversy, Rizvi stated,”Those who are opposing the Ram Janmabhoomi temple in Ayodhya and want to build the Babri Mosque there, people having such fundamentalist mentality should go to Pakistan and Bangladesh. Such Muslims do not have any place in India.”

“Those who want to spread Jehad in the name of the mosque must go and join the forces of Abu Baqr Baghdadi, the ISIS chief in Syria,” Rizvi added.

The  Shia Waqf Board chief also offered Friday prayers at the disputed site in Ayodhya and also met the chief priest of the Ram Janmabhoomi, Acharya Satyendra Das.

Hitting out at Rizvi’s remarks, Shia clerics demanded that he be arrested for trying to communalise the atmosphere. Talking to PTI, President of Shia Ulema Council Maulana Iftekhar Hussain Inquilabi alleged, “Rizvi is a criminal involved in grabbing and illegal selling of Waqf properties.”

“During the rule of the Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh, he was patronised by Mulayam Singh Yadav and then minister Azam Khan. Now, during the BJP government, he wants to be spared,” Inquilabi said.

However, this is not the first time Rizvi had stirred controversy.  Earlier also he had courted row by saying that children studying in madrassas turned into terrorists. He had asked the state and central governments to ban all madrassas and initiate inquiries into them.


Courtesy: India.com