A startling report from Kozhikode states that a Prayer Night was organised at Kozhikode Beach on the night of March 24, propagating solidarity with Palestinian terrorists. It was organised by the Solidarity Youth Movement, the youth wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami Hind-inspired Welfare Party. Anagha of Janam Malayalam TV channel reports that Jamaat-e-Islami Kerala Ameer P. Mujib Rehman inaugurated the programme.
The dais was decorated with the Palestinian flag, pictures of deceased Hamas leaders, and pro-Palestine slogans. Thousands of people, including women, were present. The programme, named Gaza Street, was a blend of speeches and prayers.
P. Mujib Rehman stated that Hamas members are fighters and that those who have lost their lives for Hamas are ‘martyrs’.
Jamaat-e-Islami Hind central Shoora member Dr Abdussalam Ahammed, Indian Union Muslim League state secretary Shafi Chaliyam, Welfare Party state president Razaq Paleri, Kozhikode District Congress Committee (DCC) president Adv. K. Praveenkumar, and P.K. Pokker attended the programme.
Special programmes were conducted for Palestine on the dais. The event commenced at 5 pm and continued until 11 pm. It was reported that special prayers were held for the killed Hamas leaders Yahya Al-Sinwar and Ismail Haniyeh.
‘Solidarity Movement’ leaders portrayed the Hamas leaders—who raped women, beheaded children, and desecrated dead bodies—as freedom fighters. They maintained that what Hamas carries out in Palestine is a freedom struggle and that those who die in it are martyrs. They even questioned whether freedom struggles have not taken place in our own country.
Undoubtedly, the idea behind the ‘Prayer Night’ was to glorify Islamic terrorism and terrorists. The massive turnout raises concerns among nationalists. At the same time, the participation of the Indian Union Muslim League in the event raises a pertinent question: Is the Indian Union Muslim League a secular party or a fundamentalist outfit like Solidarity, the Welfare Party, or SDPI? Until recently, the Indian Union Muslim League and Jamaat-e-Islami had been at loggerheads—they would not even pray at each other’s mosques or intermarry.
Critics argue that all these Islamic organisations now behave like birds of a feather, united in their solidarity with Hamas terrorists.
