Against Islam: Jamiat condemns Udaipur tailor’s killing

New Delhi : Prominent Muslim organisation Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind condemned the heinous killing of a tailor in Rajasthan’s Udaipur on Tuesday, saying such an act cannot be justified in any way and is against the religion of Islam.
Two men slit the throat of a tailor in Udaipur, saying in a video post on social media that they were avenging an insult to Islam.
In a statement, Maulana Hakeemuddin Qasmi, general secretary of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind, condemned the “brutal killing in Udaipur apparently on the pretext of the insult to the Prophet” and called it against the law of land as well as “against the religion of Islam”.
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“In our country, there is a system of law, no one has the right to take the law into his own hands,” Qasmi said.
He also appealed to all citizens of the country to exercise restraint and maintain peace in the country.