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Shiv Sena to Indian Muslims: For special treatment, go to Pakistan

Shiv Sena demands government to file case against Indian Muslim leader who called for more rights for Muslims

Web Desk March 03, 2015

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Lashing out at Indian Muslim leader Asaduddin Owaisi for demanding more rights for Muslims in Maharashtra, Shiv Sena said on Tuesday if Owaisi wants his demands to be met on religious grounds, then he should go to Pakistan.

“Owaisi may try and get his demands based on religious grounds fulfilled in Pakistan," a Shiv Sena statement read, according to the Times of India.

Addressing a public gathering in Nagpur Saturday night, The All India Majlis-e-Ittahadul Muslimeen president Owaisi had demanded reservation for backward Muslims in government jobs and educational institutes in Maharashtra.

Terming his statement “hateful,” Shiv Sena said, “"Owaisi is insisting that Muslims should get reservation akin to the Marathas. Such insistence had caused the separation of Pakistan from India. Hatred for Hindus compelled a section of Muslims to take control over Pakistan.”

Shiv Sena further demanded government should file a case against him and start legal proceedings.

It added that Muslims would have to respect India as their motherland.

"They (Muslims) will have to respect the Uniform Civil Code and stop demanding the continuation of Article 370 for Kashmir. Asking for reservations while continuing with religious rants will not work," it said.

Claiming Muslims suffered “injustice” in Maharashtra during Congress rule at the centre and the Congress-NCP and Shiv Sena -BJP governments in the state.

Hitting out at Owaisi’s statement that Muslims have suffered a lot, Shiv Sena questioned, “But will he give a count of the sufferings of Hindus due to the terrorist activities of extremist Muslims?”

“If extremists start communal violence and terrorist activities after listening to his speeches... Owaisi's speeches should be termed as hateful and action should be taken against him," Shiv Sena said.

Further, Indian President Pranab Mukherjee approved on Tuesday the Maharashtra Animal Preservation (Amendment) Bill, 1995, banning the slaughter of cows and bulls and threatening to imprison for five years anyone found to be selling the meat or in possession of it.

Read: Indian president approves ban on beef in Maharashtra

However, beef traders said they are checking if they can take legal action. The beef trade in the state is largely controlled by Muslims of the Qureshi caste.

COMMENTS (39)

Dr Priyanka | 9 years ago | Reply @zara haq: during Nizam's rule turks, arabs, african muslims etc settled in Hyderabad. That's what I meant by different nationalities. You can google info about Hyderabad. Owaisis are not nawabs. Whoever is praising them should know the truth about them. They are not exactly popular in Hyderabad.

Pity | 9 years ago | Reply @gajender: Dear Mr gajendra, why do Indians take so much interest in Pakistani affairs?

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Vish | 9 years ago | Reply @Saangar: You Nailed the hammer on their own grave mate good one.....

satinder | 9 years ago | Reply I do'nt know any Muslim in India Wants to Migrate to Pakistan, but I know lot of them want to migrate to INDIA from Pakistan.There is no restriction to Muslim to move to Pakistan,

gajender | 9 years ago | Reply Absolutely right, I don't understand why Pakistanis are taking so much interest in Indian matters. If the so called Indian Muslims want special treatment they should move to Pakistan their promised land. dreamland why not?

sugandh | 9 years ago | Reply @Raza: sir, you are not the first one and surely will not be the last one to predict India's disintegration. But I would like to humbly remind you that India's map has remained unchanged in last 66 years while pakistan fragmented into pakistan and bangladesh. India will be united because saner voices still outnumber the extremists and divergent views are still accomodated here.

zara haq | 9 years ago | Reply @Saangar: Sure, then you also leave kashmir and all our areas that were usurped by your mountbetan and nehru under radcliffe award. And as you yourself have said india welcomes hindus and sikhs so take them to india and in those vacated areas we will accomodate all muslim indians. Asap. Now stick to your word. Now i understand you ppl are such hatemongers that why make ppl like owaisis get agressive in speeches. Though asaduddin didn't make inflammatory speeches like his brother. But you love putting him in that category. Similarly, all muslim countries hosting indian hindu workers must fire them and send them back home. Watch your remittances crash.

inderjit sahota | 9 years ago | Reply best thing to do is abolish all reservations, they are used as vote banks but no advancement for the sc they are doomed to stay there,

Sid | 9 years ago | Reply @Pity: Exactly the point secular also means equal right for all. No special rights for any. So thank you.Yes this is secular face of India. And anyone including RSS if they want special treatment for their community, they will meet with same reply.

homeo butt homeo | 9 years ago | Reply shame on u shive sinha.this is the patriotic indian who is demanding his and his community rights and this is legal.This is man who spoke against pakistan and pakistani ullama defending india as a peaceful secholar country.u can re communitize jammu kashmir for hindu community but asking a muslim for rights is ilegal for u.shame on u. u dnt deserve such pearls.give us those brain and hearts we dnt mind.

zara haq | 9 years ago | Reply @Dr Priyanka: Asaddudin owaisi isn't from a nawab family or is he?? What are you trying to say? There are rich nawabs in hyderabad but asaduddin goes to poor constituencies. So. What should he do, take wealth of rich and give that to poor?? And his brother had made inflammatory speech and he got arrested. But do your shiv senas and the rest who make anti muslim and other hate speches , are they ever caught. Your whole comment is so confusing. " there are too many nawabs and rich and poor muslims of different nationalities in Hyderabad" Nationalities???? *zara's head is spinning.

Saangar | 9 years ago | Reply @Pakistani: Just Justification is not good enough, actual practical steps must be taken by Pakistan.. Its the religious and ideological duty of Pakistan and Pakistani people to extend moral support to Muslims living in India by having open door policy for them to come home to Pakistan. Indian government have done this for Sikhs and HIndus living in Pakistan. It is beyond my understanding that why can't this be answered right away by Pakistani government declaring similar privileges for Muslims stuck in India for many generations. Till Pakistan do this, the hollow claims will earn nothing but contempt.in everysense.

Karachiite | 9 years ago | Reply For their sake, I hope they don't migrate to Pakistan. Muslims are safer in India.

Dr Priyanka | 9 years ago | Reply Both Owaisi brothers command no respect in Hyderabad. They have cheated poor muslims and are now going out of Hyderabad to woo voters. The Nizam of Hyderabad was the richest man in the entire world during his time. There are too many nawabs and rich and poor muslims of different nationalities in Hyderabad. You can google and see. But Owaisis go to their constituencies where all poor muslims live and try to woo them by giving inflammatory speeches and by evening come back to their rich and posh houses where Hindus and muslims live. They are very quiet there. I know this because even my ancestral home is in Banjara hills.

hellodrsoul | 9 years ago | Reply Owaisi's demands could be rejected, but asking him to leave India is not justified. Thanks QA.

zara haq | 9 years ago | Reply @Neil: So when you say caste politics what do you mean? Politicians use caste reservation as a tool to gain votes. Secondly, when you say intended recipients dont get the benefit, i don't understand how and why? If it's a scheduled caste person,upon producing documents why he doesn't avail the opportunity. You say millions of indians want it abolished. But shiv sena has no issue with maratha quota in maharashtra which has been there for a long time. If out of the fear of reinforcement new quota for muslims is not going to be introduced then abolish current existing quotas or offer muslims for some period. And if you are going to use terms like india becoming 'Hindu Pakistan', don't expect love in return. And separate quota won't open any wounds because when people are living in debalitating state , this romanticism of past doesn't work. They want to fill their stomachs and moveon. Amd if we look into past the reason for separate electorates were same. And in case of converting to islam it won't effect, seats are fixed and if someone leaves islam it will only take away a share of muslim quota system. This isn't really an issue. Lastly, dialogue is only a way forward when it is done with intention of producing positive results. Or one could yap away for a lifetime.

Neil | 9 years ago | Reply @zara haq: Thanks for the mature response in the sea of mutual hate. Well, reservation for Scheduled Castes (SCs) was originally intended to be stopped after fifteen years. Unfortunately, caste politics in India's rural hinterland remains problematic. The clout of SC politicians and the demands of more and more castes for reservation, means that the policy has only got reinforced. But it's equally true that reservation often fails to reach the intended beneficiaries. Many millions of Indians want it to go, from the bottom of our hearts. We hope poverty eradication will completely remove reservations, one day. About reservations for Muslims, problems arise. What about converts to Islam or those leaving the religion? Will there be no regard to economic criteria? And does it not open the painful wounds of the era of separate electorates before partition of the subcontinent? About the rabid Islamophobia of some of my compatriots, I agree that some comments were in poor taste. But many others were saying what they believe to be true. They may well be deluded, but the way forward is in dialogue rather than making sweeping and facile generalisations about the other.

raider | 9 years ago | Reply to all indian we don’t want INDIA to be downhill, we want INDIA be prompt for more development and confess sincerely INDIA has made some progress in recent past, it present spur to Pakistan when India moves advance as we had achieved atomic bomb after INDIAN threat loomed but i with full content pour in a message for you trolls which like to defend modi, this is the person which i predict letting INDIA be disintegrated and propelling it toward extremist state and all gains to date with India likely to diminish otherwise modi ouster must be assured by Indian as possible

Raisani | 9 years ago | Reply @zara haq: well-said as always :).

Jag Nathan | 9 years ago | Reply Secularism means no special rights. If Muslims want special rights, they must move to Paksiatn. Jinnah founded Pakistan only for that reasons. The Islamic Republic of Pakistan anyways has no locus standi to read us what is and what is not Secularism. If you want to do that, for start being secular yourselves.

zara haq | 9 years ago | Reply @Neil: Don't you have quota reserved for scheduled castes already? And we know your communal harmony. The comments on this site alone are so toxic towards muslims of india, comments by your countrymen. And those few conflagrations are firstly not few, quite a large number and each one in its on right are so massive that even few are enough to put entire humanity to shame. Don't forget your current Pm was banned from travelling to usa for that. was that small. You can set reservations for muslims to uplift their state. Do it for a period of time, like around a decade and when they are picking up abolish the system. You can ban beef meat , you can vandalize churches, kill muslims and christians then your secularism and equality of all communal groups doesn't flash up but when uplifting of a group comes up , you instantly remember biggest seclurism.

just_someone | 9 years ago | Reply LOL, the lack of indians is deafening!

rohit950723 | 9 years ago | Reply At the same time, Pakistani media is completely silent on US blogger Avijit Roy

Raza | 9 years ago | Reply I am a Pakistani and I would like to admit India is, I mean was a great country moving towards more success until the Indian people, I do not know thinking of what chose BJP to rule over them. I am predicting the disintegration of India and extreme unrest on religious grounds to come soon. Does not look.

raider | 9 years ago | Reply Indian trolls note it, have had you any precedent of this type in Pakistan, this is the worst type of extremism and hate mongering, and it starts now fruits of modi s' Exertions to bear, organization should be banned with immediate effect and be put it on terrorist list by UNO, after having seen this scene would they not go beyond producing ajmal kasab in their country against Muslims who pronounced 'shahdi" to "sahdi"

Raj - USA | 9 years ago | Reply Though I do not like Shiv Sena, I would agree with them that there can be no reservations based on religion. Having said this, I am also pained to see how some hindu religious personalities are spewing hate speech. I was shocked to one such person addressing a huge crowd and saying that the bodies of muslim women and girls should be dug out from their graves and degraded and dishonored. Modi should not allow these insanity to continue. Both muslims and hindus are doing it to each other. Every religion should be allowed to preach the virtues of their own religion but no one should be allowed to preach against the religion of others or issue any provocative comments or statements.

shah | 9 years ago | Reply Indian Muslims are not considered Indian and have to constantly prove their loyalty.

Nadeem | 9 years ago | Reply Day in and Day out, the Two Nation Theory keeps proving correct.

Jatin | 9 years ago | Reply Secular India has to accept that Partition happened and our forefathers agreed for it and if you don't want another partition, Please complete the partition and settle all Muslims in Pakistan and all Hindus in India with respect and do it Peacefully. Everybody should be allowed to transfer their wealth legally without much fuss. This is good for all. Thanks to Jinnah I feel we are far more safe and secure in both the countries or else mega scale riots must be happening across the sub continent at a much larger and deeper level.

Neil | 9 years ago | Reply Muslims are no doubt a marginalised community in India. However, Owaisi's demand for reservations for the community is likely to foster dependency on the state, if accepted. Of course, right-wing Hindu organisations reject the demand. They would like India to become a Hindu Pakistan. Hence the comments here saying that this justifies the existence of Pakistan. However, it must be noted, for the benefit of Pakistani readers, that India has a large and expanding middle class increasingly indifferent to religion, and a long history of relative calm and harmony between communities. India is unlikely to ever become a theocracy. Yes, there are conflagrations. Yes, there are imprudent people. But so far the sane voices are far outnumbering them. As an Indian, I hope sanity continues to hold sway.

Joker | 9 years ago | Reply Indian trolls, justify it under your so called definition of secularism. It is only the Bollywood which shows only goody goody things about dark India.

Malatesh | 9 years ago | Reply Vande Matharam means all are ONE, We should treat everyone as equal, only poor people should be given reservation irrespective of their religion. Shivsena is right in this matter.

Raisani | 9 years ago | Reply The secret of largest democracy of the world reveals here. Still Indian trolls will come up n sing song of Mera Bharat Mahamaan and Jaye Bharat Maata etc etc.

Rakib | 9 years ago | Reply Shiv Sena (SS)chaps can pack off to Nepal or Fiji or Nicobar for all one cares, if they don't like living in India. No Indian Muslim is going anywhere. Fact is, SS has got mortally scared since Owaisi ,& his Party-MIM-have tasted some electoral success in Maharashtra. Now that Congress has been decimated its traditional support group is likely to move to some such like MIM. Not good development but that's what Modi-induced polarization is all about.

naeem khan | 9 years ago | Reply good advice

Pakistani | 9 years ago | Reply Thank you dear Qaid-e-Azam for giving us Pakistan.

Liberal | 9 years ago | Reply News like this reaffirms that Pakistan's creation is justified.

Pity | 9 years ago | Reply The true face of secular India. Thank you Qaid-e-Azam for giving us Pakistan.

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