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>[bJP News] Muslims attend RSS Gurudakshina Program

>Tue, 12 Aug 2003 07:42:54 -0700 (PDT)

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>http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_336341,0008.htm

>HINDUSTAN TIMES, AUGUST 12, 2003

>Naqvi uses RSS gurudakshina programme to woo Muslims

>HT Correspondent

>New Delhi, August 12

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>It was an unusual spectacle at a RSS gurudakshina programme organized by

>BJP General Secretary Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi in Rampur, his old Lok Sabha

>constituency, on Sunday.

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>About 500 Muslim leaders turned up to salute the RSS flag and make

>offerings as a Sangh representative said the RSS did not discriminate

>against anyone on the basis of religion and considered all Indians,

>including Muslims, "sons of the soil."

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>More than 52 per cent of Rampur's population is Muslim. As a Lok Sabha

>constituency, it has the largest minority community.

>Among local Muslim leaders who turned up at the RSS function were Dr

>Shaffiur Rahman Khan and Maulana Sadir Ali, the Imam of the local mosque.

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>RSS regional leader D.L. Arora urged the gathering not to be apprehensive

>about the Sangh and consider the saffron flag as the symbol of Hindutva,

>which signified the culture common to all Indians, irrespective of their

>religion or caste.

>Naqvi later said he decided to organise the gurudakshina programme to

>remove doubts in the minority community and bring it closer to the party.

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>Asked whether the RSS was planning special functions to attract Muslims,

>Sangh spokesperson Ram Madhav said, "We consider everyone sons and

>daughters of Bharat Mata (Mother India)." He said the Sangh was not going

>out of the way to attract Muslims or any other community but wanted to

>show that it did not discriminate on the basis of religion. "We want

>Muslims to accept the Sangh in a natural way."

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>Known as the BJP's best-known Muslim face, Naqvi recently urged Muslims to

>realise they could not achieve economic, educational and social progress

>without birth control and stop thinking that a rise in population alone

>would grant them clout. Addressing a meeting of the BJP's minority morcha

>in the Capital, he had said it was the right time for Muslims to ponder

>"what positive contribution their population increase was making."

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