British Indian Muslims Celebrate the Defeat of Hindutva fascism

From: Council of Indian Muslims UK
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Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 12:13:01 +0100
Subject: PRESS RELEASE: British Indian Muslims Celebrate the Defeat of Hindutva fascism

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17 May 2009

British Indian Muslims Celebrate the Defeat of Hindutva fascism

British Indian Muslims have welcomed the defeat of BJP led fascism in India. “We salute the wisdom and political maturity of Indian voters who, we hope and pray, have said goodbye forever to the philosophy of supremacy, hatred and sectarianism of the BJP.” Chairman of Council of Indian Muslims—UK (CIM) has said in a statement issued today.

“Despite facing the ongoing harassment and detentions of Muslim youths, especially in Uttar Pradesh, Muslims have played a major role in bringing Congress back to power. They have shown confidence in Dr Manmohan Singh’s honesty and have believed his assurance that being a Sikh he understood how Muslims were harassed in the name of prevention of terrorism.” Mr Zeena said.

“Although Muslim community is facing a number of injustices, Dr Singh’s first priority should be to rein the police and stop the ongoing marginalisation of Muslims in general and harassment of Muslim youths in particular and bring under control the freehand of the police in doing so.”