NEW YORK, NY: A demonstration was held in front of the Indian Consulate by the Council of Muslim Organizations to highlight the “deteriorating law and order situation and the widespread killing of Muslims in India” on November Enlarge number of Muslim men, women and children attended the rally and shouted slogans demanding justice for the Muslim minority in India.
A press release by the organization said, The issue of the destruction of the Babri Mosque, a 500 year old house of worship and its replacement by a temple on November 9 is the most explosive issue today.”
”The Nehru Gandhi dynasty has persistently refused to afford hearing to Muslims who have suggested that such claims should be examined by the Supreme Court,” it added. (The confrontation was temporarily averted in India and the Hindu fundamentalists have Jail the foundations stone of their temple a few yards from the Mosque).
Talking to the World Sikh News, Dr. A. Q. Muhammad Coordinator of the CMO said, “terrorist organizations like the Vishva Hindu Parishad are the real enemies of India. They are killing ‘Muslims and whipping up a mass anti-Muslim hysteria. If the 120 million Muslims of India adopt extra legal means of settling the disputes then a civil war will erupt in India.”
In a letter to Prime Minister Gandhi through the consulate, the tallit’s referred to the communal frenzy which has taken the toll of hundreds killed and thousands in juried in towns of Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Bengal, and Gujarat and the penalization of the Indian government in combatting Hindu extremism.
“The Muslims in India are living in fear and rejection as a result of recurring massacres, rape, illegal occupation, or desecration of mosques and other places of worship, destruction or seizure of property, routine discrimination in economic opportunities and state sponsored culturacide,” the letter said.
A number of Sikhs including Dr. Satwant Kaur Dhamoon, President Sikh Women’s International Organization, were present. Talking to WSN Dr. Dhamoon said that her organization stood against the violation of human rights of all the communities, as the Gurus had taught the Sikhs to do. As she lead the crowd, cries of Bole So Nihal, Sat Sri Akal and Allah Hu Akbar mingled to proclaim the Almighty’s name.
Article extracted from this publication >> November 17, 1989
