It is the sacred duty of Islamic religious leaders to isolate the terrorists who claim the right to kill

Kufirs as per the tenets of Islam. Hindu religious institutions, is extremely concerned about the
relentless attacks on India by terrorists who openly claim to be inspired by the Islamic faith and
the Islamic Holy Texts. The e-mails which were proved to have been sent at the instance of the
terrorists clearly make it out that the terrorists are motivated by what they interpret to be their
religious duty. Such emails came ahead of the blasts in Bangalore, Jaipur and Delhi and the media
had carried them. Some extracts from the email sent by the terrorists who described themselves
as Indian Mujahideen [IM] before the terror attack on Gujarat in September brings out their
reliance on their religious edicts for their act of 'Jihad' against the unbelievers [Kufirs]. "Wait only
for five minutes from now! Wait for the Mujahideen and Fidayeen of Islam who will make you feel
the terror of Jihad. And stop them if you can. Feel the havoc cast into your hearts by Allah, the
Almighty, face His Dreadful Punishment, and suffer the results of fighting the Muslims and the
Mujahideen. Await the anguish, agony, sorrow and pain. Await, only for 5 minutes, to feel the fear
of death." "O Hindus... Haven't you still realised that the falsehood' of your 33 crore mud idols and
the blasPhemy of your deaf, dumb, mute and naked idols of ram, krishna and hanuman are not
going to save your necks, Insha-Alla, from being slaughtered by our hands? Nor is your fictitious
faith in monkeys, pigs and nude statutes going to save you from the Wrath of Allah and His
Humiliating Punishment. Know that it is only the true confession of the Oneness of Allah Alone,
with no associates, that can save your blood from being spilled on the streets of your own cities.
We call you, O Hindus, O enemies of Allah, to take an honest stance with yourselves lest another
attack of Ibn-e-Qasim sends shivers down your spines, lest another Ghauri shakes your
foundations, and lest another Ghaznawi assacres you, proving your blood to be the cheapest of
all mankind! Have you forgotten your history full of subjugation, humiliation, and insult? Or do you
want us to repeat it again? Take heed before it is too late!" "Yes! We - the terrorists of India - THE
INDIAN MUJAHIDEEN, - the militia of Islam whose each and every Mujahid belongs to this very soil
of India - have returned, to execute the compulsion of Allah: 'Fight them (the disbelievers), Allah
will punish them by your hands and bring them to disgrace, and give you victory over them and
He will heal the hearts of those who believe.' (Qur'an 9: 14). It goes on to quote: 'Fight those
disbelievers who are near you and let them find harshness in you'. (Qur'an 9: 123). 'Go forth light
armed or heavy armed and fight with your wealth and your lives in the way of Allah'. (Qu'ran 9:
41]. The terrorists' claim is this: one, the Hindus are Kufirs; the Holy Koran ommands the faithful
to kill them; whatever they do constitutes religious war, the Jihad. So they are only obeying the
command of the Allah as proclaimed in their holy text. The Dharma Raksha Manch is extremely
concerned at the religious motivation for the terror. We are also concerned that the terrorists
view of Islamic holy text has the potential to motivate many fellow Muslims not only to support
their acts but also turn them into terrorists. Despite this explicit and brazen invocation of the
Islamic text for violence, the Islamic religious institutions have kept total silence on the terrorists
that their holy book commands them to kill non-believers [namely, Kufirs] in Islam. Instead there
is an attempt by some to explain away the phenomenon of terror as due to illiteracy,
unemployment and other socio-economic causes. The Dharma Raksha Manch is of the firm
opinion that the Islamic theological institutions and their leaders owe it to their very faith and its
adherents to come forward and comprehensively deny, with appropriate Fatwas as per Islamic
tradition, the claims of the terrorists. But egrettably there is no such thought or move by the
Islamic religious leaders even though most of them have expressed themselves against terror and
asserted that Islam is a religion of peace. The Dharma Raksha Manch therefore appeals to the
Islamic religious Institutions and scholars to come forward with an appropriate Fatwa to declare in
unequivocal terms that: - The Hindus are not Kufirs, that the Hindus are not non-believers; -
Therefore there can be no Jihad [or war] against the Hindus; The Dharma Raksha Manch also
appeals to the Islamic religious leaders to issue a proper Fatwa according to their tradition to
further declare that: - India is not Dar-ul-Harab, that is, India is not a land against which Islamists
have to wage a war; - India is a Dar-ul-Amen, that is, India is a land of peace as Muslims could
practice Islam without any impediment. Such an unequivocal declaration alone will deny the
terrorists the legitimacy to use Islamic religion for their violence, and isolate them within the
Islamic community. The Dharma Raksha Manch recalls that in the year 1992 the Dar-ul-Uloom
Deoband, a respected Islamic school did issue a Fatwa saying that Hindus were not Kufirs, India
was not Dar-ul-Harab, but, Dar-ul-Amen. But, unfortunately, many other Islamic institutions had
issued Fatwa against Dr. Abdul Raza Bedar, the then director of Kuda Bhaskh Library in Patna,
who had said that Hindus were not Kufirs. But now even the Dar-ul-Uloom Deoband has kept
silent on this vital claim of the terrorists, even though it has held large conventions against terror
and has declared that Islam is against terror. The Dharma Raksha Manch therefore appeals to all
Islamic religious institutions and particularly, the following, namely: 1. All India Milli Council 2. All
India Muslim Majlis-e-Mushawarat 3. All India Muslim Personal Law Board 4. All India Ofganisation
of Imams of Mosques 5. Al Jamea Tus Saifiyah 6. Al Jamiatul Ashrafia 7. Darnl Uloom Deoband,
India 8. Darul Uloom .Nadwatul Ulama, Lucknow 9. Darul Uloom Manzar-e-Islam 10. Islamic Figh
Academy (India) 11. Tabligh Jamaat (Known as a Markaz) 12. Jamaat-e-Islami Hind 13. Jamiat
Ulama-i-Hind to come forward to declare, as mentioned earlier, - that Hindus are not Kufirs, - that
India is not Dar-ul-Harab, - that it is Dar-ul-Amen, and - that there can be no Jihad against India or
Hindus.