Deoband (Uttar Pradesh): Terrorists and Maoists were urged on Tuesday to give up arms by a mass gathering of Muslim clerics at India's oldest Islamic seminary in Deoband, prompting Home Minister P Chidambaram to applaud the move "as a call to duty ... to all right thinking people".
Addressing an estimated 500,000 followers, the clerics said the Muslim community, the country's largest religious minority, would take up their cause if the terrorists and Maoists shunned violence.
"If terrorists and Maoists agree to give up violence, they are welcome to join us. I would like to assure them that we will fight for them," said Maulana Mehmood Madni, convenor of the annual convention whose words carry a lot of weight among Muslims not just in India but even abroad.
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