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Ayodhya Issue: Shia leaders reject VHP's
proposal
Wednesday, October 06, 2010 10:33:06 PM,
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Lucknow:
Prominent representatives of the Shia sect of Muslims here
Wednesday rejected Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) chief Ashok
Singhal's offer to hold talks on the Ayodhya issue.
In a statement issued earlier during the day in Mumbai, Singhal
had said that since the high court had dismissed the Sunni Waqf
Board's suit staking a claim to the disputed Ramjanmabhoomi-Babri
Masjid land in Ayodhya, the VHP would now hold talks with Shia
organizations.
The VHP supremo said: "Mughal emperor Babar's army commander Mir
Baqi, who built the Babri Masjid was a Shia, therefore we have
decided to hold talks with representatives of the community."
Reacting sharply to Singhal's statement, widely acclaimed Shia
scholar and cleric Maulana Kalbe Sadiq, who was also senior vice
president of All India Muslim Personal Law Board, said: "We are
not interested in any move initiated by Singhal, who only believed
in playing the politics of hatred."
He said: "It is quite apparent that after failing to forge a
divide between Hindus and Muslims, the VHP was now trying to
incite a confrontation between Shias and Sunnis; but we will not
play into their hands."
Expressing similar views, another well-known Shia cleric Maulana
Kalbe Jawad said: "There was absolutely no logic in Singhal's
explanations, which were clearly aimed at bringing Shias at
loggerheads with Sunnis."
"A mosque is a place of worship which cannot be restricted to a
particular sect of Muslims," he said.
Maulana Mohammad Athar, who heads the All India Shia Muslim
Personal Law Board, also flayed Singhal for his remarks.
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