Holding the media accountable for their ‘hate-mongering’ against a particular community, JIH vice president Moatashim Khan said that “media houses flaunting irresponsibly should face action.”
Team Clarion
NEW DELHI — The Jamaat-e-Islami Hind (JIH) on Tuesday condemned the ‘targeted shooting’ of passengers belonging to the Muslim community by a Railways Protection Force (RPF) constable on a running train. It is the continuous onslaught of organised violence against Muslims, it said.
In a press statement, JIH vice president Moatashim Khan said it was a ‘hate crime’ wherein the accused identified Muslim passengers by their beards and shot them in cold blood. “We condemn the cold-blooded and targeted shooting of three citizens belonging to the Muslim community and an RPF officer on a running train by a constable,” he stated.
“This is another chapter of the continuous onslaught of organised violence against Muslims which is becoming the new normal in our country. The radicalisation and polarisation coming from the upper echelons of the power centres have resulted in this sorry state of affairs,” he added.
The JIH official said that “perpetrators of hate crimes, especially those against Muslims, suddenly become mentally unstable. We are able to see through this fabricated hoax.”
He further raised a question of how these ‘mentally ill’ and ‘short-tempered’ individuals are armed with guns and entrusted with the safety and security of citizens.
Holding the media accountable for their ‘hate-mongering’ against a particular community, which led to such extreme hate crimes, Khan said that “media houses flaunting irresponsibly should face action.”
He called on the RPF department to compensate the families of the victims and demanded an independent, high-level judicial inquiry into this incident.
