The Hindu : Muslim forum flays RSS resolution

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Muslim forum flays RSS resolution

LUCKNOW MARCH 18. A Muslim forum today criticised the RSS for cautioning Muslims that their security could not be guaranteed in India unless they earned the goodwill of Hindus and demanded that cases be registered against all those who indulge in such rhetoric.

Urging the RSS to stop making statements which created a fear psychosis among Muslims, the Minorities Forum of India president, Mohd. Azam Khan, said the statement issued on Monday at the RSS meet at Chennenahalli was an indication of the Sangh's future agenda.

Such statements would lead to insecurity among Muslims, Mr. Khan, who is also a Samajwadi Party MLA, told reporters here. If the present laws were not effective to deal with such forces, new ones should be enacted. He called for the setting up of a special court to try cases relating to the Godhra carnage.

Christian leaders criticised the RSS resolution as having the ``seeds of a great future tragedy'' and demanded that the Prime Minister should condemn it immediately.

``The statement must be a cause for grave concern not only among Muslims and other minorities, but also to civil society. The Prime Minister must lose no time in condemning it,'' the All-India Christian Council secretary-general, John Dayal, said in a statement here. ``The RSS statement only vocalises utter contempt and disregard that the Sangh Parivar, including its units such as the VHP and Bajrang Dal, hold for the very concept of democracy based on equity, fraternity and justice, and the institutions created to ensure these values in society,'' the statement said — PTI

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