‘This is terrorism and nothing else’: AIMIM chief Owaisi on Delhi blast accused Umar’s video justifying suicide bombing

All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Wednesday said that Delhi blast accused Umar Nabi’s remarks justifying suicide bombings as ‘martyrdom’ were unacceptable.

Owaisi asserted that suicide is haram in Islam, killing innocents is a grave sin, and such acts violate the law of the land. “This is terrorism and nothing else,” Owaisi added.

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Days after the Delhi blast, a self-recorded video of the Hyundai i20 car driver, Dr Umar Mohammad, surfaced yesterday, in which he can be seen justifying his malicious plan, and refers to it as “martyrdom operation”.

In a heavily accented video that went viral on Tuesday, Umar attempts to link his terror plan with religion.

He is heard saying, “One of the very misunderstood concepts is the concept of suicide bombing; it is a martyrdom operation, as it has been known in Islam… Multiple contradictions and arguments have been brought against it — martyrdom operation.”

He explained that “martyrdom operation” is “when a person presumes that he is going, for sure, to die at a particular place and time.”

Owaisi further questioned the Centre over the Delhi blast attack and demanded accountability for the “failure to detect” the terror module.

“During Operation Sindoor and Mahadev, Home Minister Amit Shah had assured Parliament that no local Kashmiri had joined terror groups in the last six months. Where did this group come from then? Who is accountable for the failure to detect this group?” Owaisi questioned.

The car explosion near Delhi’s Red Fort Metro Station on November 10 took the lives of at least 15 people and injured several others. The car was being driven by Dr Umar, a doctor associated with Faridabad’s Al Falah University.

The authorities reported that he went missing on November 9, post police raids in Faridabad that resulted in the seizure of almost 2,900 kg of ammonium nitrate from a storage facility and the subsequent arrests of several of his associates.

During the probe, law enforcement discovered that Umar and Dr Muzammil, who was apprehended after the police crippled the terror network, had travelled to Turkey, where it is believed their handlers are based.