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Condemn terrorism
by tka on May 20, 2008 01:03 PM

Well, to be honest, this is a good move by leaders of the muslim community. It is important that muslims are educated on this subject and ensure open communication so that some of them do not get lured away.

I do believe that a large section of ordinary muslim citizens are suffering because of a few in their community, but untill recently, all muslims would only caste aspersions on others, or would be defensive stating that islam is about peace and that not all muslims are terrorists. Very few condemned the acts of terrorism and pretty much no one would accept that most terrorsts are muslims (I am not at all stating that most muslims are terrorists). But over the last 6 months, this is the second incident where muslim leaders are taking initiative and doing something to condemn terrorism and educating people in their own community. It gives a positive signal to all people that muslim leaders are serious about terrorism.
Muslim leaders should also help the govt. in identifying illegal bangladeshi immigrants and help them get deported back. That would be a good thing because bangladeshi immigrants indulge in all sorts of crime all over India and indian citizens (muslims) get a bad name because of that. Further, bangladeshi muslims try and get jobs which makes indians (both hindus and muslims) suffer because we already have a lot of unemployed youth.

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Imams to keep Muslims away from terror