Gujarat Muslim leaders condemn temple attack

AHMEDABAD: Muslim leaders severely condemned the attack on Akshardham temple and asked the state government to crush all terrorist activities with a heavy hand.
The secretary of the All India Congress Committee and former MP Irshad Mirza said the killing of innocent people in a religious place was an act of cowardice and cannot be tolerated. He asked the state government to take swift action to curb terrorist activities.
Condemning the attack, Prof Abid Shamsi said terrorists have no religion.By attacking one of the most pious and religious places, they have tried to tarnish the image of the country.
The spokesman of the Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee, John Momin, standing committee chairman of the city municipal corporation, Badruddin Shaikh, and Congress corporators Liaquat Ghori, Taufiqkhan Pathan and Anisa Mirza, too, condemned the attack in a joint statement. The Union and state governments should take stern action so that such incidents do not recur, they said. They have also asked Muslims to offer special Namaz for the recovery of the injured.
Leading lawyer S H Quereshi said the entire Muslim community was with the state government.
Ganibhai Qureshi, chairman, Gujarat Minorities Development Corporation condemned the attack and asked the state government to curb terrorism in the state with a heavy hand. In a statement on behalf of Gujarat’s Muslim community, Gujarat Sarvanajik Relief Committee’s acting president Afzal Memon said, immediate and decisive action should be taken against the perpetrators of this heinous crime.