Modi government committing crimes against humanity: leaders of various Islamic parties
Leaders of various Islamic parties have expressed deep concern over, and strongly condemned and protested, the demolition in India’s Assam of more than 1,100 homes and more than 10 mosques belonging to Bengali Muslims.
In separate statements, the leaders said the extremist Modi government is committing widespread human rights violations by systematically evicting Muslims from their homes in Assam, Uttar Pradesh and other parts of India. By demolishing Muslims’ homes and mosques, India is committing grave human rights violations, they said. The persecution and oppression of Muslims in India, and the eviction of mosques, must stop immediately, they said, adding that otherwise India would soon be torn to pieces.
Bangladesh Khelafat Andolan: Maulana Habibullah Miazi, ameer of Bangladesh Khelafat Andolan, expressed deep concern over, and strongly condemned and protested, the demolition in Assam of more than 1,100 homes and more than 10 mosques belonging to Bengali Muslims. In a statement yesterday, he said India is carrying out widespread, systematic human rights violations against Muslims in Assam, Uttar Pradesh and other regions. By demolishing Muslims’ homes and mosques, India is committing grave human rights violations. Around 19,000 families have been displaced over the past decade.
He said a three-member US-based panel, reviewing state crimes against the Muslim community from 2022 to 2025, found substantial evidence of state persecution. A report published earlier this year said the chief ministers of Assam and Uttar Pradesh had prepared the ground for ethnic cleansing. The Hindutva-driven BJP government is engaged in a vile conspiracy to destroy Muslim heritage in India, with the aim of emptying the country of Muslims and turning it into a Hindu state, he said. As part of this, it destroyed the historic Babri Mosque in 1992 and was condemned across the world.
Flouting the protests of the international community, India continues to crack down on its minorities. The Indian government must be held accountable for planned state persecution, human rights violations and interference with religious freedom, he said.
He said the Modi administration recently ordered the eviction of a 150-year-old historic mosque near Narendra Modi’s residence in Delhi. The mosque has been government-gazetted waqf property since 1977. The historic Racecourse Mosque, which is on the New Delhi Municipal Council’s list of heritage structures, was served a notice earlier this week to vacate within six days. Its electricity and water connections have been cut since earlier this month, severely disrupting worshippers’ prayers and daily activities. With names being removed from voter lists, India’s minority Muslims are being deprived of state protection and civic rights. The ameer of Khelafat called for intervention by the international community to protect the existence of India’s Muslims. Otherwise, he said, India will one day break into pieces as a consequence of oppression. That day is not far off, and the authority of the oppressed Muslims will be established in India again, insha’Allah.
Khelafat Majlis: Khelafat Majlis expressed deep concern and strong condemnation over the eviction of 1,100 Muslim families and the demolition of many mosques in Assam. At the weekly meeting of its central executive council, it said that, in the name of clearing forest land of encroachment, Bengali-speaking Muslims are being selectively evicted from their homes on the orders of Assam’s BJP chief minister. Mosques, the Muslims’ places of worship, have been demolished. Those evicted had lived there for generations, since before India’s independence. Several of the mosques that were demolished were built half a century ago.
An attempt is under way to shut down a mosque nearly 150 years old near Narendra Modi’s residence in Delhi. In this way, an unjust campaign of extermination is being waged across India against Muslims’ lives, property, mosques and madrasas.
The communal conduct of the BJP and the RSS against India’s Muslims is in no way acceptable, they said. These activities are a grave violation of civic and human rights. Here, the Bangladesh government is extending the fullest cooperation to the minority Hindu community in observing its religious festivals. The Indian government, on the other hand, has taken to destroying the lives and property of its minority Muslims. The Indian government must immediately stop the persecution and extermination campaign against Muslims, they said, or the Indian state will have to face harsh consequences.
The leaders made these remarks at the weekly executive meeting held at the central office in Paltan the day before yesterday at night, presided over by Khelafat Majlis ameer Maulana Abdul Basit Azad and conducted by secretary general Dr Ahmad Abdul Qader. Among others present were deputy ameer Maulana Sakhawat Hossain, Maulana Ahmad Ali Qasemi, joint secretaries general Advocate Jahangir Hossain and Muhammad Muntasir Ali, Dr Mostafizur Rahman Faisal, Professor Md Abdul Jalil, Md Zahirul Islam, Shahab Uddin Ahmad Khandaker, Mufti Abdul Haque Amini, Alhaj Nur Hossain, Alhaj Amir Ali Howlader, Hafez Maulana Nurul Haque, Maulana Saifuddin Ahmad, Dr Abu Musaib, Maulana Faruk Ahmad Bhuiyan and Advocate Maulana Rafiqul Islam.
Islami Oikya Jote: Advocate Maulana Abdur Rakib, chairman of Islami Oikya Jote, central adviser of Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh and president of Bangladesh Nezam-e-Islam Party, strongly condemned and protested the eviction of minority Muslims from their homes and the demolition of their mosques in India. In a statement yesterday, he said the extremist Modi government has embarked on a mission to empty India of Muslims. Muslims’ homes are being evicted without provocation from various parts of Assam. By shutting down mosques and madrasas, the extremist Modi government is committing grave human rights violations, he said.
If the eviction of Muslims’ homes and the demolition of mosques do not stop, the Indian government will have to pay a heavy price, he said.
