By our Correspondent
Malappuram: The Kerala Muslim Jamaat has urged the Karnataka Government to appeal against the Karnataka High court single Bench’s judgment allowing Jai Sri Ram slogans in mosques.
The Kerala Muslim Jamaat has described the Karnataka High Court judgment giving ‘legal sanctity for raising Jai Sri Ram slogans in mosques’ as unfortunate and leading to grave consequences.
The Muslim Jamaat State cabinet held here on Oct 16 said that the court verdict would be misused by those wishing to destroy the existing communal harmony in the country.
The High Court of Karnataka on Oct 16 dismissed criminal proceedings against two persons from Dakshina Kannada district who were accused of shouting “Jai Sri Ram” slogans inside a mosque. The court found no substantial evidence to support the charges of criminal trespass and other offences. The judgment said that such actions did not qualify as outraging religious sentiments if they did not disrupt the public order.
The Muslim Jamaat warned that such judgments would encourage communal forces to challenge and destroy the sanctity of places of worship. “It will ultimately endanger the country’s secular ethos”, KMJ’s General Secretary, Syed Ibrahim Khaleel Bukhari who presided over the cabinet said.
He reminded that India had a legacy of respecting each other’s places of worship and not destroying or desecrating them. Allowing other religions to do whatever they wanted in the temple of another religion would lead to chaos, he added.
“It will lead to furthering the distance between religious communities”, he said.
