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Indian Muslims browbeat US lobbyists
By Ghulam Muhammed,
Mumbai, Inputs: M Ahmed Kazmi
In an exercise to gauge Indian Muslim
intellectuals' reaction to the bombings in Afghanistan, and to call upon
the services of some of the US Muslim leaders to interact with their
brothers worldwide to clear up US position on Afghanistan war, US Embassy
in New Delhi arranged a teleconference on 30 October between George Town
University, Washington's Imam Yehya M. Hindi and American Muslim Council's
director, Aly R. Abuzaakouk (of Libyan origin) on the US side and Jamia
Hamdard Chancellor, Saiyid Hamid, former editor of Radiance Viewsweekly,
Aminul Hasan Rizvi, Syeda Sayyedain Hamid of Muslim Women's Group, Media
Star's Mohammed Ahmed Kazmi and others from New Delhi.The purpose of the
interaction was ‘engaging Muslim Indians in a discussion on Islam in
America and India and the American response to the September 11
tragedy.’
The planned duration for the interaction was one hour which was to be
extended if need arose. It was taken up mostly by Imam Hindi, giving out
the history of Muslims in the United States and their present condition. A
much shorter time was made available to the Indian side, which was
characterised by sharp reaction against the moral and legal basis of the
American bombing of innocent civilians in Afghanistan. It was pointed out
that both Al Qaida and Taliban were sponsored, nourished and exploited by
the US as per its strategies in the past. Now that differences have
cropped up, the argument is being settled through force that involves the
whole nation of Afghanistan which cannot be punished for the supposed and
unproved guilt of its government. As Afghanistan's Taliban government was
not an elected government, why innocent Afghanis should become the victims
of America's internal policy changes, an Indian interlocutor asked.
Both the US interlocutors evaded the questions raised by the Indian side
and as it was felt that the going was becoming unpalatable, the
teleconference was abruptly disconnected. The New Delhi embassy staff had
drawn faces and they were fully convinced that nobody, even Indian
Muslims, will accept the wanton death of defenceless innocent Afghan
civilians, through the relentless, illegal bombings by a superpower
supremely oblivious of all the norms of international rules, regulations
and morality. All the genuine sympathies that were coming voluntarily to
the US for the carnage of September 11, have evaporated all over the
Muslim World in particular, and the silent protesting world in general,
which is at a loss to understand as to how a superpower can be controlled
if its leaders became as ruthless as Nazis. q |
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