New Delhi, Thursday, 18 December 2008: The All India Muslim Majlis-e Mushawarat (AIMMM), the umbrella body of the Indian Muslim organisations, is dismayed by the chorus of condemnation and protests faced by the Union Minority Affairs Minister AR Antulay who dared to speak out what is in the minds of almost all Indian Muslims who think that the terrorist attack on Mumbai had to do something with the investigations being carried out by ATS chief Karkare and his dedicated team which was eliminated in the early hours of the attack on Mumbai. It seems that the elimination of the ATS chief was the only goal of the terrorists who, surprisingly, made no demand. The AIMMM itself has passed a resolution during its central committee meeting on 13 December 2008 demanding “a separate high-powered investigation…into the murder of Hemant Karkare and his colleagues in the ATS”.
Dr Zafarul-Islam Khan, President of the AIMMM, said that it is strange that in the world’s largest democracy people, especially Muslims, are not supposed to speak out their minds. A very slight expression of unpalatable facts and ugly ground realities, like the statement of actress Shabana Azmi on how she failed to purchase a house of her choice in Mumbai because of her faith, is enough to send you to the doghouse.
Dr Khan added that he saw no reaction to another statement made same day by the head of a political party represented in our Parliament that the arrested terrorist should be hanged in public without waiting for his trial but there is no uproar against this demand for jungle raj in our country.
Dr Khan said that the margin of democratic freedoms is increasingly shrinking in our country which is a bad omen for democracy and secularism and only strengthens fascist forces whose sinister designs were being uncovered by Shaheed Karkare and his team.
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