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“E-mail was meant to provoke Hindu hatred”

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Prince of Arcot calls for impartial probe

CHENNAI: The Prince of Arcot, Nawab Mohammed Abdul Ali, on Wednesday said the recently published version of the e-mail reportedly sent by the ‘Indian Mujahideen’ owning responsibility for the bomb blasts in Ahmedabad and New Delhi was meant to incite the emotions of Hindus against Islam and Muslims in general.

In a statement here, the Nawab said a simple reading of the e-mail would prima facie establish that it was calculated to provoke Hindu hatred against Muslims. It was certainly not meant to give a warning of bomb blasts, purportedly in revenge for the Gujarat pogroms of 2002, he said.

“One fails to understand what conceivable benefit the Muslim community can derive from such terrorist attacks, as have occurred in Rajasthan, Gujarat, and Delhi, nor how such language as used in the purported e-mail can help bring about the uplift of the Muslim community in this country,” he said. “However, one can easily imagine who stands to benefit immensely if the Hindus in these States, which are about to go for elections both at the State and national levels, read this e-mail, believe it to have originated from a Muslim organisation, get provoked and indulge in communal violence,” he said.

“The terror attacks in Gujarat, Rajasthan, and more recently in Delhi, and the continuing attacks on Christian churches and prayer halls in Orissa and Karnataka, the communal riots in Kerala, all these have to be read in the context of Hindu fascism’s attempts to bring about a cleavage between Hindus and Muslims of India and come to power on the blood of thousands of innocents in the approaching elections,” he said.

The Nawab appealed to the Central and State governments to investigate the violence thoroughly and impartially without any pre-conceived notion, and ensure that the real culprits were punished severely.

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