[Reader-list] Imams call for black ribbons on Bakr-Eid

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Imams call for black ribbons on Bakr-Eid
4 Dec 2008, 0345 hrs IST, TNN

NEW DELHI: Close on the heels of Mumbai's Muslim Council refusing
burial space to the Pakistani terrorists killed in the Mumbai attacks,
a group of imams here has come out strongly against the attacks and
asked the Muslim community to wear a black ribbon on Bakr-Eid as an
expresion of solidarity with those killed in the outrage.

The imams, under the banner of All India Organisation of Imams of
Mosques, called for subdued Eid-ul-Azha (Bakr-Eid) festivities across
the country, scheduled for Tuesday.

The imams described the Mumbai carnage as an attack on the nation, as
it appealed to all the mosques, muftis and madrasas to reiterate in
this week's Friday prayers that Islam forbids the killing of innocent
people and is against any form of terrorism.

"We are deeply aggrieved by the loss of human lives and especially by
the brutal killing of Jews," they said in a statement.

"We have to think above caste, class, region and religion. It's an
attack on India and all true Indians should come forward and salute
the martyrs who sacrificed their lives for the sake of the country,"
it said.

Prominent clerics from both Shia and Sunni sects on Wednesday called
for decisive action against Pakistan. A joint communique signed by
Maulana Khalid Rasheed Firangimahali, the naib Imam of Idgah, Maulana
Mohammad Mushtaq, president of All India Sunni Board and Maulana
Naimurrehman, president of the Ulema Council of India, demanded firm
action against terrorists in order to restore faith of people in
effective governance.

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