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Popular Front of India (PFI), an Islamic fundamentalist organisation, in a blatant act of provocation, held a rally on 17 February, wherein thousands of Muslims, imitating the RSS ‘ganavesha’, marched in the coastal town of Ullal in Dakshina Kannada district, Karnataka.
The organisers had not sought requisite permissions from the police and the district administration to coduct the event. The march has now created a sense of fear and insecurity in the general public after the PFI managed to demonstrate its brute force, indicating a rising subscription to Islamic fundamentalism and intolerance.
After the event, the Ullal police filed two suo-motu FIRs naming 14 persons among the organisers. The FIR states the organisers had not taken prior permission to hold a route march in the town disrupting traffic and disturbing public life.
People in this area saw over 5,000 Muslims, dressed in militia uniforms, marching and raising anti-Hindu, anti-RSS slogans. This march took place after Muslims in Malappuram held a similar rally in which men donning the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh uniform were shown handcuffed and thousands of Muslim men dressed in traditional attire marched with swords in their hands.
The video of the march has gone viral on social media. The PFI is now trying to explain that they held this march to showcase the oppression suffered by the Muslims of Malabar by the British.
Following this unsanctioned march, the Home Minister of Karnataka, Basavaraj Bommai, bitterly criticised the ‘hate speech’ that was allegedly delivered by Anis Ahmed, PFI’s Karnataka General Secretary, on the occasion.
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