Religious leaders welcome Supreme Court verdict on Article 377 and warns Govt from any move which legalizes homosexuality

New Delhi, 19 Dec 2013: Hindu Muslim, Christian, Sikh, Jain religious leaders welcomed Supreme Court verdict on Article 377 and warned Govt from any move which legalizes homosexuality.   

Full text of Joint Statement

The decision of the Supreme Court on Article 377 is not only in line with the eastern traditions of this country, moral values and religious teachings but it also removes apprehensions about invasion of western culture and disintegration of family system and fabric of social life – the inevitable fallouts of the Delhi High Court order of 2009 wherein it decriminalized homosexuality.

Our India is a religious country whose overwhelming majority believes in religion and upholds traditions of the east. All religions emphasize on construction of a family through marital relation between men and women, on which depend not only the existence of human race and lasting peace and tranquillity in the society but it also establishes the respected and central position of woman in the society.

The Constitution of the country has rightly described homosexuality as a punishable offence. It is because homosexuality not only prevents evolution and progress of human race but also destroys family system and social relations. Moreover, it is a great danger to public health. Medical research has also found it as a basic reason for the spread of AIDS.

As leaders of different religious organizations, we welcome the decision of the Supreme Court (delivered on 11 Dec 2013). With this historic decision, the apex court has kept the country from going on to the path of destruction. We are concerned that lovers of western culture, in the name of individual freedom, minority rights and other lame excuses, are putting pressure on political parties and governments for amendment in the law so that this shameless and criminal offence could be legalized.

We warn the government and political parties that we will never accept it if they do it ignoring religious teachings, eastern culture and opinion of the overwhelming majority of the people. Such filthy experiments have destroyed human society and violated the rights of women at a large scale in the west. We should learn from it.

We the leaders of different religious organizations appeal to the government and all political parties to accept this revolutionary and wise decision of the Supreme Court with open heart. We urge the supporters of western culture to take homosexuality as a crime and come forward to save the society of the country from this heinous act.

Signatories:

Maulana Syed Jalaluddin Umari - (Amir (National President), Jamaat-e-Islami Hind

Maulana Mufti Mukarram Ahmed  - Shahi Imam, Fatehpuri Masjid

Jagat Guru Swami Omkaranand,

Gyani Ranjit Singh, Chief Priest, Bangla Saheb

Fr. Dominic Emmanuel 

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JIH chief strongly condemns execution of Bangladesh Jamat Islami leader Maulana Abdul Qadir Molla

New Delhi 13 Dec 2013: Ignoring all protests from the civilized world, the government of Bangladesh on Thursday night executed Maulana Abdul Qadir Molla, Assistant Secretary General, Jamaat Islami Bangladesh. Maulana Syed Jalaluddin Umari, Ameer (National President) of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, has strongly condemned this step of Bangladesh government.

In a media statement on Friday, JIH chief Maulana Umari said that opposing any effort or tendency of secession and making effort for maintaining integrity of a country cannot be described as treason. Criminalization of the efforts of Maulana Abdul Qadir Molla and Jamaat Islami Bangladesh and leaders of other parties and convicting them for death or life imprisonment is brazen barbarism, which cannot be justified.

Maulana Umari said it is a fact that none of these leaders were prosecuted and charge-sheeted during the regime of Shiekh Mujib and even after the independence of Bangladesh, Jamaat Islami Bangladesh has been a renowned political party of the country and played constructive role both as a ruling and opposition party. In the age of democracy it is unthinkable that a ruling party, just for revenge, would level wrong heinous charges against political opponents ignoring all the requirements of justice. He urged the Bangladesh government to keep from such acts in future and appealed to the government of India and governments and people of entire world to raise voice against the oppression and brutality.

Ameer-e Jamaat described the death of Maulana Abdul Qadir Molla as martyrdom and expressed deep sympathy with his family members and colleagues of his organization. He prayed to Almighty Allah to pardon his sins, raise his place in the paradise and bestow patience to his family members and strength to all who are on the right path.

مولانا عمری نے بنگلہ دیش جماعت کے لیڈر مولانا عبد القادر ملاکو پھانسی دئیے جانے کی پر زور مذمت کی

نئی دہلی ،۱۳؍ دسمبر ۲۰۱۳: مولاناعبد القادر ملا، اسسٹنٹ سکریٹری جنرل جماعت اسلامی بنگلہ دیش کو مہذب دنیا کی مخالفت کے باوجودبا لآ خر حکومتِ بنگلہ دیش نے پھانسی پر لٹکا دیا ۔ مولانا سید جلال الدین عمری امیر جماعت اسلامی ہند نے حکومتِ بنگلہ دیش کے اس اقدام کی پر زور مذمت کی ہے ۔ موصوف نے اپنے بیان میں فرمایا کہ کسی ملک کے ایک حصہ کو ملک سے الگ کیے جانے کے رجحان اور کو شش کی مخالفت کرنا اور ملک کی سا لمیت کو برقرار رکھنے کی کو شش کو ملک سے غداری پرمحمول نہیں کیا جا سکتا ۔ مولانا عبدالقادر ملا اور جماعت اسلامی بنگلہ دیش اور دیگر پارٹیوں کے رہنماؤں کی ملک کی سا لمیت بر قرار رکھنے کی سعی کو جرم قرار دیکر انہیں عمر قید یا موت کی سزا دینا سراسر ظلم و ذیادتی ہے، جس کا کوئی جواز نہیں ہے ۔
موصوف نے فرمایا کہ یہ بھی ایک حقیقت ہے کہ ان میں سے کسی کے خلاف شیخ مجیب کی حکومت میں کو ئی فرد جرم عائد نہیں کی گئی اور خود بنگلہ دیش کی آزادی کے بعد جماعت اسلامی بنگلہ دیش وہاں کی ایک معروف سیاسی پارٹی رہی ہے اور حکمرانی اور اپوزیشن دونوں ہی میں اپنا تعمیری رول اداکرتی رہی ہے ۔اپنے سیاسی حریفوں پر بے جا اور گھناؤنے الزام لگاکر اور عدل و انصاف کے تقاضوں کو پس پشت ڈال کر اس طرح کی انتقامی کاروائی کرنا آج کے جمہوری دور میں نا قابل تصور ہے۔موصوف نے حکومت بنگلہ دیش کو متوجہ کیا کہ وہ آئندہ اپنی حرکتوں سے باز آئے اور حکومتِ ہند اور دنیا کے تما م ممالک کی حکومتوں اور عوام سے اپیل کی کہ وہ ظلم و زیادتی کے خلاف آواز بلند کریں۔
محترم امیر جماعت نے مولانا عبدا لقادر ملا کی موت کو ایک شہید کی موت قرار دیا اوران کے پس ماندگان اور ان کے تحریکی ساتھیوں کے ساتھ ہم دردی اور غم گساری کا اظہار کیا ہے ۔اللہ تعالیٰ مرحوم کی مغفرت فرمائے ، ان کے درجات کو بلند کرے، ان کے پس ماندگان کو صبر جمیل عطا فرمائے اور سب کو راہِ حق میں استقامت عطا فرمائے۔

شعبہ میڈیا ، جماعت اسلامی ہند

Dharna to demand for punishing the guilty of December 6 and for an end to state organized communal violence and terror

Dharna to demand for punishing the guilty of December 6 and for an end to state organized communal violence and terror

Venue: Jantar Mantar, 11 am-1 pm

December 6, 2013

To mark 21 years since the demolition of the Babri Masjid, Lok Raj Sangathan, together with nearly various organisations held a protest dharna on 6 December 2013 at Jantar Mantar in Delhi. The organisers and participants included the Communist Ghadar Party of India, Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist), Lok Raj Sangathan, Association for Protection of Civil Rights, Purogami Mahila Sangathan, Hind Naujawan Ekta Sabha and the Mazdoor Ekta Committee, Jamat Islam-e-hind, People's Front of India, AIUTUC..

The site of the dharna was decorated with banners that carried the following slogans –“Unite to demand that the guilty are punished!”, “Carry forward the struggle for the empowerment of the people and for deep going reforms for the renewal of India!”, “Communalism and secularism are two aspects of the policy of the rulers!”, “Both Congress Party and the BJP are responsible for the destruction of the Babri Masjid, a historic monument!”, “An attack on one is an attack on all!”, “The Indian State is communal and not the Indian people!”, “Those responsible for the communal massacres in 1984, 1992-93, 2002, Odisha, Assam and UP, should be severely punished!”, “Down with state organised terrorism!”, “Unite against state organised communal violence”, “Communal violence is the favorite weapon of the state to divide the people”, etc.

Representatives of various organisations put forward their views.

Addressing the meeting, the spokesmen of CGPI Com Prakash Rao said that the destruction of the Babri Masjid showed once again, that organizing communal violence and terror remains the preferred weapon of our rulers, to divide the toiling people and divert them from the real issues facing them. In November 1984, the assassination of Indira Gandhi was used by the Congress party and government to unleash genocide against people of the Sikh community.  Similarly, in 2002, people of the Muslim community were the target of brutal communal violence organised by the BJP government in Gujarat.  Targeted communal violence and massacres have been organized time and again, against the Christian community in Orissa and other communities as well, the latest being the bloody communal violence organized last month in Muzaffarnagar, UP.

Events over the last 6 decades and more confirm time and again that the Indian state is communal to the core, as are all the political parties representing the interests of the ruling bourgeois class. Spokespersons of the Indian state continue to divide the polity between "secular" and "communal" and confuse people about the real source of communalism and communal violence.

President  of Lok Raj Sangathan, S. Raghavan pointed out that the demolition of the Babri Masjid exposed to our people their complete powerlessness under the existing political system. People were outraged that the two biggest parties in Parliament can get away with any heinous crime to expand their vote banks and to divert and divide the people and we have no power to prevent this. The police and state authorities fully facilitate these crimes against the innocent people while the guilty, those who masterminded these crimes not only go unpunished but are even rewarded with promotions or even ministerial posts. This realisation among large numbers of people gave a huge impetus to the movement for people’s empowerment. Our organisation was founded as part of this movement, as the Committee for People’s Empowerment, following the historic rally at Ferozeshah Kotla in February 1993. We issued a call to all men and women of conscience, in which it was highlighted that as long as the present political process continues, our people will be subjected to more calamities like the events of December 1992.  The challenge before all people of conscience is to ensure that people should have political power in their hands, to set the agenda of society in the interests of the vast majority and deal the harshest punishment to all those who inflict such crimes on our people.

Leader of Mazdoor Ekta Committee, Santosh Kumar spoke of how in the last 20 years, the political representatives of those in power have been increasingly resorting to the politics of communal violence and terror in order to achieve their political aims.  What the last 20 years have confirmed is that the state and its organs – including the legal and judicial systems, the various commissions of inquiry, and so on – cannot be relied on to get justice for the victims of communal violence.  The Indian state uses communalism and secularism to split and divert the people.  The aim is to prevent the people from understanding the real source of their exploitation and oppression under this system and from coming together to fight it.

Others who addressed the meeting included speakers from the Pratap Samal of Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist), Sucharita of Purogami Mahila Sangathan, Inam Ur Rehman of Jamat Islam e ehind, Lokesh Kumar of Hind Naujawan Ekta Sabha, Jasim Mohammad of Central Univercities Research Scholar Association, Syed Akhlaq Ahmad of Association for Protection of Civil Rights and others. Participants in the dharna raised slogans against state organised communal violence and terror and expressed their resolve to carry forward  the movement to punish the guilty.

 

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