Hyderabad: Reiterating his stand against the ISIS, Hyderabad MP and MIM president Mr Asaduddin Owaisi on Friday said that there was a need to crush the ideology of the ISIS.
While interacting with media persons in the city, Mr Owaisi said he hoped that the ISIS would be crushed militarily in the next few months. Recalling that it was him and his party that had raised the first voice from India against the brutalities of the ISIS, he said that he was planning to invite scholars like Al-Yaqoubi and Hamza Yusuf to Hyderabad to inform Indians about the reality of ISIS and its inhuman acts, and also prove that the ISIS had no connection with Islam.
Physical elimination of the ISIS will not serve the purpose, its ideology too needs to be crushed, he added.
Reacting to queries re-garding the arrest of the five alleged ISIS sympathisers, Mr Owaisi said the NIA needed to provide evidence to support its charges. He added that the families of the arrested men had met him and informed that they had nothing to do with the ISIS.
Recalling an instance when Muslim boys were suspected for throwing meat in temples to incite communal violence but the involvement of two Hindu boys was later proved, Mr Owaisi said, “Without there being concrete evidence how should I believe? Let us wait for the matter to reach the courts and for the NIA to place some evidence against our boys.”
Earlier while addressing a gathering at Mecca Masjid on the occasion of Jumma-Tul-Vida he described the ISIS as murderers, goondas and an anti-Islam force. He alleged that the ISIS was also responsible for destroying of graves of the prophets of Islam.
