*BJP's Threat to Maulana Sajjad Nomani!*

✍️: Samiullah Khan

"We will pull the beards of scholars like Maulana Sajjad Nomani and put them in jail after November 23," says Sanghi Nitesh Rane. He further adds: "Maulana Sajjad Nomani is a white-collar terrorist; the same treatment meted out to Kasab should be given to Nomani as well."

This threatening statement by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA Nitesh Rane is completely criminal, shameful, and based on the insult of an elderly religious leader of the Muslim community.

Maulana Sajjad Nomani has only practiced his democratic rights and guided his community to vote in favor of the secular alliance (MVA) in Maharashtra, and in return, he is being given such threats. Have democracy and democratic rights now become a mere dream for Muslims in this country?

Why is the Bharatiya Janata Party so furious over Maulana Sajjad Nomani's appeal?

The manner in which the BJP is talking about attacking and arresting Maulana Sajjad Nomani is worrying, and this bullying is completely unacceptable and a sign of extremism. Maharashtra has a culture of respecting religious leaders of every community, but it seems that the BJP now wants to destroy this culture and establish an atmosphere of hatred and riots in the state.

The BJP and the Sangh want Muslims not just to be oppressed, but to live quietly as slaves, neither practicing democracy like free nations nor attempting to share power.

We will not remain silent on this level of threats and insults against Maulana Sajjad Nomani, who is introduced as an elderly Islamic scholar and a spiritual leader among Muslims; we stand with Maulana Nomani at this juncture.

I do not see these heinous conspiracies merely as an attack on Maulana Nomani or an attempt to silence him, but rather as an attempt to silence me and every active and dynamic Muslim. This is an attempt to weaken the influence of scholars among Muslims. Other national organizations and prominent figures must also not remain silent on the threats against Maulana Nomani in this manner, otherwise, they will consider you an easy prey, and it will be someone else's turn next. We must all show that we are one, and no government or oppressor can face our united strength.

I tell the cowardly and shameless BJP to stop its traditional cunningness, stop crying like Sanghi Brahmin cowards, and fight in the field of democracy like men. We demand the arrest of Nitesh Rane!