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The chairman of the Uttar Pradesh Shia Waqf Board Waseem Rizvi has landed in soup after saying that Muslims who are against the construction of Ram temple in Ayodhya “must go to Pakistan and Bangladesh” or “join ISIS in Syria”.
Rizvi added that the people who are opposing the temple in Ayodhya have no place in India.
“Those who are opposing the Ram Janmabhoomi temple in Ayodhya and want to build the Babri Mosque there… people having such fundamentalist mentality should go to Pakistan and Bangladesh. Such Muslims do not have any place in India (sic),” news agency PTI quoted him as saying.
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“Those who want to spread Jehad in the name of the mosque must go and join the forces of Abu Baqr Baghdadi, the ISIS chief in Syria,” Rizvi added.
Rizvi on 2 February offered Friday prayers at the disputed site in Ayodhya and also met the chief priest of the Ram Janmabhoomi, Acharya Satyendra Das.
The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear the Babri Masjid-Ram Janambhoomi dispute from February 8.
According to the reports, Shia clerics reacted to Rizvi’s comments and demanded his arrest for trying to communalise the atmosphere.
(With PTI inputs)
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