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Don't allow Rushdie in India: Deoband vice
chancellor
Monday January 09, 2012 06:03:28 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi:
India's top Islamic seminary Darul Uloom Deoband Monday opposed
Salman Rushdie's visit to India and asked the government not to
allow him to travel for a literary festival as the author had hurt
the sentiments of Muslims the world over.
"Rushdie should not be allowed to visit India. If he visits it
would be adding salt to the injuries of Muslims. He has hurt our
religious sentiments," vice chancellor of the seminary Maulana
Abul Qasim Nomani told IANS over phone from Deoband.
Nomani said the Darul Uloom was yet to formally write to the
government over the issue.
"We will write to the external affairs ministry, Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi if the
government doesn't cancel his visa," Nomani said.
The 65-year-old author has come under attack for his controversial
book "The Satanic Verses", published in 1988, in which he
allegedly wrote blasphemous remarks against Prophet Mohammed. The
book has been banned in India.
Rushdie has been invited to attend the Jaipur Literature Festival
this month end.
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