After PM Modi’s appeal Barelvi Sufis hit out against
Wahabism in India
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DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi appealing to the clerics of Barelvi sect
among the Muslim Sunni community to step up their efforts to counter extremism,
the clerics have raised a clarion call against the Wahabi ideology and demanded
the government to clear the Waqf Boards across the country off the control of
Wahabi elements.
An
anti-terrorism Sunni conference organised by All India Tanzeem Ulama -e- Islam
(AITUI) in the national capital on Monday spewed venom against the Wahabi
ideology and cautioned the community against the radicalisation being funded by
the Saudi and Qatar petro-dollars.
"AITUI
clearly states that this radicalisation is being spread within Muslim community
like a virus by Wahabi elements funded by Petro dollars of Saudi Arabia &
Qatar ... AITU wants to highlight the fact that ISIS is active in Indian under
different names and banners. These ISIS fronts are organising conferences, and
programmes to show their presence in India to their Saudi and Qatar-based
funders and to assure them that they are present in India and working for the
vested interests of Wahabis Monarchies of Saudi Arabia & Qatar,"
declared the conference of Barelvi clerics at Talkatora Stadium in the national
capital while demanding the government to ban organisations promoting Wahabi
and Salafi objectives.
"We
want to say that these radical organisations are working for Wahabi and Salafi
objective of radicalising youth in the name of social revolution. AITUI demand
that the activities of these extremist organisations be banned as they are
working against national security," the conference demanded, asserting
that "Wahabism is part of dirty politics and has nothing to do with
Islam". The impressive gathering of Sufi Sunni Muslim community members in
the national capital, in this backdrop, also pitched its battle against the
dominance of Wahabi or Deobandi followers in the affairs of Waqf Boards and
minority educational institutions and prevalence of their teaching through
various forms in the country.
The
gathering holds significance in wake of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's appeal
to members of Barelvi sect to counter extremism by way of Sufi version of Islam
"In his remarks during a meeting with a delegation of 40 Barelvi Sufi
Scholars from various parts of the country this evening, the Prime Minister
said that forces of extremism are attempting to weaken the Sufi ideology today.
He added that it is essential for Sufi saints and scholars to counter these
forces through various avenues including on social media, so that the ideology
of extremism does not take root in India," a government communique had
revealed about Prime Minister's appeal to the community of Barelvi Sufi
scholars in their meeting in August last year.
While
the August communique by government did not refer to Wahabi ideology, the
gathering of Barelvi Sufi clerics in the national capital today launched a
tirade against the Wahabi ideology and sought government action to contain the
followers of Wahabi sect in Waqf Boards among other things.
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