[Reader-list] Fatwa issued against 'Vande Mataram'

[Javed]

Why should we listen to such a fatwa. All Muslims should condemn such
a fatwa and ask these maulvis to mind their own business. We cannot
allow them to be the spokespersons of all Muslims.

(This is not to say that the Muslims should listen to the saffron
brigade to sing Vande Matram necessarily). We have to oppose both the
extremes.

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Fatwa issued against 'Vande Mataram'
Times Now 3 November 2009, 11:41am IST

Jamait-e-Ulema Hind or the JEU on Tuesday issued a fatwa against
singing national song 'Vande Mataram'. According to a resolution,
Muslims should not sing 'Vande Mataram' as its reciting is against the
Islam.

The resolution, which was passed at the Deoband national convention
meet, says that Muslims should not sing 'Vande Mataram' as some verses
of the patriotic song are against the tenets of Islam. The JEU leader
said that the some of the line in the song is against Islam.

Meanwhile, home minister P Chidambaram addressed a Jamait-e-Ulema Hind
conference in Deoband today.

Meanwhile, the Muslim Law Board justified the decision saying that
(Muslims) can’t offer prayers to anyone but Allah. Kamal Farooqui, a
prominent leader of the Board said, "We love the nation but can't
worship it."

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