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Wednesday, Mar 16, 2005

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`No party untouchable for Muslims'

By Our Staff Reporter

MALAPPURAM, MARCH 15. The Samastha Kerala Sunni Yuvajana Sanghom (SYS), the youth wing of the Sunni faction led by Kanthapuram A.P. Aboobaker Musaliar, has said that there is no political party that could not be voted by the country's Muslims.

Addressing presspersons here on Monday, Wandoor Abdurahman Faizi and Koottampara Abdurahman Darimi, State secretary and district president respectively of the SYS, said no political party, including the Indian Union Muslim League, was following the ideals of Islam in their entirety.

Lashing out at the leadership of the E.K. Sunni faction led by Cherussery Zainuddin Musaliar, the SYS leaders said the Sunnis could never justify or support anti-Islamic ideologies. Religious leaders who work for the promotion of any political party cannot be respected, they said.

Pinarayi's visit

Asked about the CPI(M) State secretary, Pinarayi Vijayan's visit to Markazu Ssaqafathi Ssunniyya, the headquarters of the Sunni faction, during its anniversary celebrations recently, the SYS leaders said it was not Mr. Vijayan alone who visited Markaz. Several political leaders, including those of the BJP, had visited Markaz in the past. Mr. Vijayan's visit, they said, was not part of any scheduled programme. He had come on his own.

They criticised the Muslim League for taking recourse to the controversial Islamic cleric Yousuf El-Qardawi's fatwa on communism. Mr. Qardawi's is a solitary view, they said. Will the Muslim League subscribe to Mr. Qardawi's views on jihad that glorify terrorists as `shuhada' or martyrs, they asked.

Conferences

They said the SYS would organise a series of conferences at the zonal level spreading the message of the `invincible Ahlu-Ssunnath' in April and May. The campaign will begin with a two-day conference at Kottakkal on April 14 and 15.

Meetings will be held at Pulikkal, Wandoor, Edakkara, Tirurangadi, Tanur, Nilambur, Melattur, Kolathur, Areekode, Tenhipalam, Kuttipuram, Tirur, Edappal, Perinthalmanna, Manjeri, Kondotty, Ponnani and Malappuram, they said.

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