Mail refers to ‘Mujahids’, scholars say it’s an insult

Mail refers to ‘Mujahids’, scholars say it’s an insult

By KRISHNADAS RAJAGOPAL

“We have carried out this attack in the memory of two most eminent Mujahids of India—Sayeed Ahmed Shaheed and Shah Ismail Shaheed—who raised the glorious banner of jihad against the disbelievers in this very city of Delhi,” reads the email transcript. But Mushirul Hasan, an Islamic historian and faculty with Jamia Milia Islamia University, does not agree. “This is an insult to the memory of two leading scholars of the 19th century. Shah Ismail was a freedom fighter who fought against the British rule.” Hasan says the “jihad” fought by the two was the war against the British Government.

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