Ex-Shia Waqf leader faces fury for his PIL in SC

Lucknow, March 14 : Former Shia Waqf board chairperson Waseem Rizvi, who filed a PIL in the Supreme Court, seeking removal of 26 verses from the Quran, has landed in the eye of a severe storm within his community.
General secretary of Majlis-e-Ulama-e-Hind and well-known Shia cleric, Maulana Kalbe Jawad, and Imam of Aishbagh Eidgah and Sunni cleric, Maulana Khalid Rashid Farangi Mahali on Friday have not only condemned Rizvi’s move but have demanded his arrest for attempting breach of peace and blasphemy.
Rizvi, recently approached the Supreme Court for elimination of 26 verses of the Quran.
As per Rizvi’s petition, these verses incite violence and were allegedly added on in the Quran later in the period of the first three Caliphs.
However, both Shia and Sunni clerics have said that not a single word has been altered or tampered with in the original Quran in the last 1,400 years.
Maulana Kalbe Jawad said, “Rizvi should be arrested immediately for rabble rousing. He is an agent of anti-Muslim forces and since the CBI is investigating corruption in the waqf board, he is going out of his way to cling to support.”