Maulana Salman Nadwi, who had met NSA Ajit Doval, opposes to ban PFI; equates it with RSS

New Delhi, Aug 3: An interfaith harmony meeting organised by the All India Sufi Sajjadanashin Council (AISSC) in Delhi which was attended by National Security Advisor Ajit Doval. It had demanded a ban on the functioning of the Islamist organization Popular Front of India (PFI). The radical organisation is in limelight for carrying out anti-national activites as reported earlier.

 

 

However, Lucknow-based Islamic cleric Salman Nadwi who was part of the AISSC opposed the call and said that it was illogical to ban the entire organization due to the mistake of a few members. It is pertinent to mention that he also compared the organization to Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangha (RSS) and blatantly contended that the two organizations worked in a similar pattern.

 

 

Notably, AISSC is an Islamist organization set up four years and passed the resolution to ban the PFI involved in radicalism or incidents like the recent killing of tailor Kanhaiya Lal in Udaipur or the Bihar terror module. However, Nadwi made an about-face and refused to support the call for banning PFI. He has also stated that he had no idea that AISSC was talking about the banning PFI.

 

"It is not right to demand a ban on Jamaat-e-Islami, Tablighi Jamaat or the RSS, its branches, Bajrang Dal and Vishwa Hindu Parishad just because some of their members are found indulging in cruelty or making unlawful remarks," he said in a video interview that was uploaded on his Youtube channel on July 31. He added that RSS and PFI worked on similar lines. "RSS says that it works for the society. PFI also does the same. It is not good to target the entire organization", he stated.

 

Salman Nadwi had also congratulated Al-Baghdadi for becoming the Caliph and expressed excitement at the establishment of ISIS.