New Delhi, Sept 08: Major Muslim organisations, including All India Muslim Personal Law Board, Jamaat-e-Islami Hind and All India Milli Council, today protested against the Indian government's invitation to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
Accusing Sharon of being a "war criminal", the
organisations in a statement here alleged that the visit
"provided symbolic support for violence and expansionism
which Sharon personifies and for the Zionist objective to
occupy the whole of Palestine and push out the Palestinians".
Terming the visit as an "official seal on the reversal of
India's traditional support for the ...Palestinian people",
they claimed there could be no meeting point between India- a
secular democracy and Israel- "a racist theocracy".
"We protest Sharon's visit because it cannot be
rationalised except in terms of the envisaged strategic
alliance between the USA, India and Israel," the statement,
also signed by the All India Muslim Majlis-e-Mushawarat,
Jamaat Ulama-e-Hind and the Jamiat Ahl-e-Hadith, said.
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