Lucknow (PTI): Ulemas and Muslim scholars on Saturday expressed serious concern over attempts to associate "Islam with terrorism" and said that the arrests in cases pertaining to terrorism should be made only on the basis of "hard evidence".

"Islam disapproves killing of innocent people... According to the Holi Quran, killing of an innocent man amounts to killing of the humanity," senior All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) member and Imam of Idgah Maulana Khalid Rasheed Firangimahali said at a convention on 'Allegations of terrorism and Islam' organised by All India Milli Council here.

"It is absolutely wrong to associate Islam with terrorism which should be dealt with like any other crime," Firangimahali said.

Another board member Zafaryab Jilani said that the police should arrest people in cases of terrorism only after they have "hard evidence".

A resolution denouncing attempt to club "Islam with terrorism" was also adopted at the convention.

Speakers also referred to recent arrests in cases of terrorism in some parts of the country in which the accused were later let off by the courts.

AIMPLB Chairman Maulana Rabe Hasan Nadwi, who chaired the convention, and several noted Muslim scholars expressed their views in the seminar.