[Reader-list] Antulay's theory finds many takers

[taraprakash]

A lot of MPs whose names do not Muslim have also sided with the Congress 
cabinet minister. The issue is being communalized by the media you read. I 
forgot to remind you in my previous mail in response to your mail that 
wrongly said that nonmuslims are not taking Antule's theory. There are lots 
of liberal Muslims who have rubbished Antule's outburst as mere bull shit. 
Javed Akhtar finds this embarrassing and unnecessary, even though he did not 
call it bull shit. On the other hand, I can think of Digvijay Singh and Amar 
Singh who I believe are nonmuslims who have gone with Antule.
Also in your previous mail you incorrectly said that Congress is hounding 
Antule. A minister of cabinet rank should have thrown out immediately for 
speking against his onw party's government according to our political 
tradition, but the old Antule is still there. Doesn't sound like any 
hounding happening as yet. Yes a BJP mp who has a Muslim name has been very 
vociferously vocal against Congress veteran Antule. So madam, it seems the 
writers of the two mails you forwarded either did not consider all the 
facts, or chose to ignore them. I think they like to communalize the 
situation and I don't think this helps anyone.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fatima फ़ातिमा" <fatimaschool45 at gmail.com>
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Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2008 10:28 AM
Subject: [Reader-list] Antulay's theory finds many takers


> Sorry for bombarding your mailbox with many messages on this subject.
> But this is the last one.
>
>
> Antulay's theory finds many takers
> 20 Dec 2008, 0531 hrs IST, TNN
>
> NEW DELHI: Minority affairs minister A R Antulay might have deeply
> embarrassed his own party but the throng of the faithful that welcomed
> him at a mosque near Parliament where he went to offer afternoon
> prayers reflected a groundswell of support in his community.
>
> Antulay's stand on Mumbai anti-terrorism squad chief Hemant Karkare's
> killing — that it was linked to the officer investigating Hindu
> radicals accused in the Malegaon case — has earned him the
> overwhelming support of opinion-makers in the Muslim community who
> feel that the concerns are valid.
>
> Muslim organisations and members of Parliament have pointed a finger
> of suspicion at the "mysterious circumstances" under which Karkare and
> his two other officers — Ashok Kamte and Vijay Salaskar — were killed
> just when the ATS was making sensational disclosures regarding the
> alleged involvement of Hindu extremist outfits in the Malegaon blast
> case.
>
> JD(U) MP Ejaz Ali said the question raised by the minister was a
> timely one. "The circumstances around Hemant Karkare's death are
> suspicious. He was getting threats to his life and his wife has
> refused compensation offered to her. We demand a probe by the CBI or a
> joint parliamentary committee on the issue," he said. The MP added
> that national interest must be given precedence over religious and
> political concerns.
>
> Similar reservations on Karkare's killing were raised by Mohammed
> Adeeb, independent member of the Rajya Sabha from UP who felt the
> "sudden" deaths of the three officers were on everyone's mind. "It is
> a question that should not be politicised," he said. At pains to
> disassociate himself from the Congress, Adeeb said he was neither an
> admirer of the Congress party nor Antulay. "People with secular
> credentials have wanted to know about this (the circumstances around
> Karkare's death). I don't understand what the fuss is all about? This
> is a democracy and we have every right to ask for a probe," he said.
>
> Jamiat-e-Islami-Hind president Jalal Umri alleged that the government
> was trying to brush the issue under the carpet. "Up till the Malegaon
> probe, only Muslim names were being named in every blast as suspects.
> But after the ATS investigation, things that we had suspected for long
> since the Nagpur blasts would have been backed by hard evidence
> finally," he said.
>
> Umri added that Antulay was not wrong but to condemn him was wrong.
> All India Muslim Majlis-e-Mushawarat (AIMMM) said it was relevant to
> note that no demands had been made by terrorists. "It was as if the
> terrorists had intended to kill the three and they accomplished this,"
> Zafarul Islam Khan, AIMMM president, said.
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