Hyderabad: After he received heat for supporting Islamic State suspects, All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi has made u-turn describing ISIS militants ‘dogs of hell’.
Addressing a protest meeting organised by the Muslim organisations in his parliamentary constituency, Owaisi said that ‘if Muslims find them, they will cut them up into 100 pieces’.
"ISIS sent one of its suicide bombers to Medina... it is a fraud, an army of criminals... these people are dogs of hell ("jahannam ke kutte"), Owaisi said.
The Hyderabad MP also termed ISIS as the biggest threat to mankind.
"ISIS is not only a danger to the Muslims but to the entire mankind," Owaisi asid.
"We must accept the fact that ISIS is among us...but surely they are not related to Islam and it is our big responsibility to destroy them," Owaisi added.
"The day a Muslim spots you, remember you would be cut to not one but 100 pieces," he further said, referring to the ISIS chief Abu Bakr Baghdadi, asking how dare he sent suicide bombers to the holy city.
Owaisi asked Muslim youth to live for Islam and not die for it.
"I am telling you...educated youths amongst Muslims must give free tuitions to poor Muslims children. Rich among the Muslims should help in arranging marriages of poor Muslim women," he said.
He also hit out at BJP and RSS, saying while ISIS was the enemy of Islam, Sangh Pariwar was the enemy of secularism in India.
A resolution passed at the meeting said ISIS had nothing to do with Islam and its tenets, and its activities were meant to strike at the very roots of Islam.
"We, the Indian Muslims...strongly condemn this outrageous attack at Medina," it said.
The gathering also appealed to the youth to be wary of the propaganda of ISIS.
Recently, NIA had claimed to have busted an ISIS-linked terror module in Hyderabad with the arrest of some people.
With PTI Inputs
