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The Jama Masjid United Forum (JMUF) has plans for holding an international conference against terrorism in October. This conference is being held for put an end to the wrong notions that terrorism carries any links with Islam.
JMUF president Syed Yahya Bukhari and Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal, while addressing a "right understanding of Islam" conference disclosed this.
"With the increasing scourge of terrorism, it is high time we all think often of the means to try and eradicate the menace of terrorism from the face of the earth," Sibal said.
JMUF, an NGO set up by the 12th Shahi Imam of Jama Masjid, Maulana Syed Abdulla Bukhari in 2007, said that the conference - second of its kind - would be held Oct 27 at the Oberoi Hotel and is likely to be attended by national leaders, religious heads and luminaries from across the globe.
"Jama Masjid-Delhi has historically remained central to the Muslim polity in India. Indian Muslims look up to it for guidance in matters of socio-political importance as well as matters that concern the Ummah (the Muslim community) as a whole. Therefore, for quite some time, Jama Masjid-Delhi, has been contemplating an initiative to understand and approach the problem in a wider context beyond merely condemning it," Bukhari said.
He also mentioned that the current notion that Islam and terrorism are related are baseless, adding that Islam carries concepts which are exactly opposite to those of terrorism.
