The message to avoid big gatherings was circulated after demonstrations took a
"It is the duty of every Moslem to stand together when anyone belittles Islam but at the same time it is critical to maintain peace," said Malik Aslam, a senior member of Jamaat-e-Islami
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The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka
The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an
independentbranch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores...
Hind, a Moslem organization that operates in several Indian states.
Early this month, two senior members of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party made remarks that offended Moslems. A party spokeswoman made the offending comment in a television debate and a party front man on social media.
The party suspended both of them and said it denounced any insult towards any religion, and police have also filed cases against the two, but that did not stop enraged Moslems taking to the streets in protest.
Police arrested at least 400 suspected rioters during unrest in several states and curfews were imposed and internet services were suspended in some places.
Many Moslems in India have been questioning their place in society since Modi came to power in 2014, playing down his roots in a powerful Hindu-nationalist group to which his party is affiliated.
Critics say his BJP has pursued a confrontational line, promoting the idea that India is a Hindu nation and rounded on "anti-national" opponents, which many Moslems see as an attempt to marginalise them, a community that makes up 13 per cent of India's billion plus population.
Authorities in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh on Sunday demolished homes of several Moslem men and women part of the protests, drawing condemnation of the state government, led by the BJP, from constitutional experts and rights groups.
Moslems and rights groups interpreted the destruction of the houses as punishment for protesting but state authorities said it was because it was illegally built on public land.
"We are not demolishing houses to stop Moslems from protesting as they have all the right to take to the streets," an aide to the state's hardline Hindu leader told Rooters.
Modi has not commented on the anti-Islam remarks that sparked the protests even as condemnation grew abroad.
Countries including Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
, Saudi Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century..., the UAE, Oman and Iran, important trade partners for India, have lodged diplomatic protests.