An Islamic preacher from Tamil Nadu has claimed that there are two terrorist states in the world, Israel and India. Maulvi K M Iliyas Riyazi made the statement during a protest organised by Jamaats and Muslim outfits in Coimbatore against Israel on Tuesday.
A video of the speech has appeared on social media, in which the Maulvi can be heard making anti-India and anti-Israel comments without naming India. He said that there are “two terrorist states in the world, one is Israel and the other is the one we live now.”
However, he added a disclaimer that he would not call our country India because India had always stood for peace. He tried to claim that India has become a terrorist state because PM Narendra Modi visited Israel.
“In the last 70 years, India has seen several prime ministers from Nehru to Manmohan Singh, but none of them made an official visit to Israel. Only Modi has made an official visit to Israel,” he said.
He further said, “During his visit, Israel PM Netanyahu said, ‘We had to wait 70 years for an Indian PM to visit Israel’,” adding that Modi fulfilled the 70-year wish of Israel.
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There are only 2 terrorist states in this whole world. One is Israel and we are living in the other one, but I won’t call it India”, video claimed from Tamilnadu goes viral pic.twitter.com/fApNQWUmvL
A massive demonstration against Israel and supporting Palestine was held in Coimbatore on 24 October by Coimbatore District United Jamat, the Federation of Islamic Organisations and Muslim-centric political parties. Thousands of participants gathered in front of Ukkadam Valliammai Bakery in Ukkadam to voice their support for the Palestinians. The participants chanted various slogans like , “Let the Zionist group fall”, “Inquilab Inquilab, Palestinian Inquilab”, “Lal Salaam, Assalaam, Intifada Inquilab” etc.
They condemned Israel accusing it of being involved in a genocide by violating international laws and human rights. The protesters also attacked the US for extending support to Israel.
The speakers of the protest demanded that the Indian govt should not support Israel, and should stand behind Palestine. They also claimed that except for the BJP and RSS, all political parties were united in their support for the people of Palestine.
Moulbi Farooq Imamam from Jamia Masjid said, “We have taken out a procession against Israel and America. Israel is the illegitimate child of America which has occupied Palestine. It has set records in brutality and terror. It is true that children, women, elderly people and everybody else have been killed there. We hope that the Parliament will consider our plea and all the killings will be stopped soon.”
