HYDERABAD: All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) Chief and Member of Parliament Asaduddin Owaisi has said that the ‘so-called’ human rights supporters talking about injustice to women in Afghanistan were silent on the atrocities in India.
He questioned their silence on the recent Kanpur incident in Uttar Pradesh where a girl was begging for mercy when her father was being beaten up in the presence of police.
The Hyderabad MP was addressing a meeting at a mosque in the old city late Thursday on the eve of ‘Yaum-e-Ashura’ which marks the martyrdom of Imam Hussain.
Owaisi said for the last few days all TV channels were talking about Afghanistan. “When I was asked about Afghanistan, I said talk about Kanpur not Kabul. In Kanpur, a nine-year-old girl was begging for mercy when her father was being beaten up in the presence of police. These so-called human rights supporters are concerned about girls in Kabul and are talking about atrocities on women there but nobody is bothered about the Kanpur girl. They don’t talk about the widows of Akhlaq, Tabrez, Pehlu Khan and Aleemuddin Ansari,” he added referring to the men lynched by mobs of cow vigilantes.
The Hyderabad MP said according to one report, one out of nine girls die before reaching the age of five in India but nobody was concerned about it.
“There are atrocities and crimes against women here. But they (human rights supporters) are worried about what is happening to women in Afghanistan. Isn’t it happening here?,” Owaisi asked.
The AIMIM Chief said the governments of Vajpayee, Manmohan Singh and Modi invested $3 billion in Afghanistan. The Afghan parliament was built at a cost of Rs 700 crore and it was jointly inaugurated by Narendra Modi and former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani. Nobody responds to the question about the taxpayers’ money spent by India in Afghanistan, he added.
Owaisi said since 2013 he had been drawing the attention of the successive Indian governments that Taliban will reorganise and may come back to power and therefore talks should be held with them. “We have nothing to do with Afghanistan or Taliban but we drew their attention in view of the possible threat to India’s security in future to which nobody paid attention,” he added.
He said after the Taliban came to power, Al-Qaeda and ISIS terrorists started shifting to remote parts of Afghanistan. He claimed that ISI, which is India’s enemy, is controlling the Taliban and China is trying to take advantage of this situation. He reiterated that China has occupied Indian territory but those in power were not worried.
Owaisi said a Samajwadi Party MP was booked for sedition for making a statement about the Taliban but his own party chief and other leaders were silent. “We don’t agree with his statement but their double standards are unfortunate. They need votes of Muslims but they will not stand with them in the event of any injustice,” the AIMIM leader added.
He wanted to know why no sedition case was booked against those who recently raised slogans of killing Muslims in Delhi or those who killed Akhlaq, Pehlu Khan and others or those who beat up the Kanpur man.
Owaisi said Imam Hussain gave the message from Karbala that we will sacrifice our lives but will not bow to falsehood.
The holy life of Imam Hussain gives the message that we should not lose heart under any circumstances and we should never support repression, he added. — IANS
I don’t why but Owaisi never talks about his own constituency. He never talks about Hyderabad’s Old City, literacy rates and per capita income in his own constituency. BTW Old city has one of the lowest women literacy rates in India.
Anonymous Hindu gutter rat,
The usual Hindu whataboutism and other distractors, always trying to change the subject when your smelly stinky feet are held to the fire. Topic is on rape in India and you monkey worshippers want to switch to talk of literacy rate all of a sudden. This is how Hindus “debate,” nevermind the fact that Hindu cowbelt sh1t states have a far lower literacy rates then Owaisi’s constituency. Owaisi can talk about any issue he wants, he has the education and professional background to back it up unlike the criminals, rapists and terrorists Hindus elect.
I am a Muslim of old city who lives in aghappura, goshamal. Every body here has heard and even seen women from poor families, who were sold off to rich Arabs as wives and then the Arabs kept them in conditions nearing sexual slavery. But this MP never has done anything about it. Even my cousin got matches from 40 year old Arabs, whom we rejected obviously. But the life of poor muslim women in hyderabad is really not very good. Also, the education and background details are for nothing if he himself has never done anything for all of us.