"I am speaking in English here because that is the language the Mumbai-based preacher uses to misguide young, educated Muslim. I have to reply to this dangerous voice."
Source/Credit: The Times of India
By Mohammed Wajihuddin, TNN Dec 23, 2012
United Kingdom|Tony Blair|Osama bin Laden|Georgetown University
After he had finished delivering an inspiring speech at a career fest last week, Dr Waqar Azmi was almost mobbed by the crowd. It seemed like the Muslim gathering had waited for a long time for someone like him.
Secretary General of the British Muslim Forum and chief adviser on equality issues to former British PM Tony Blair, the India-born Azmi is the antithesis of many polarising supremists masquerading as Islamic preachers. And he does not hesitate to knock one such in the city.
"I am speaking in English here because that is the language the Mumbai-based preacher uses to misguide young, educated Muslims," declared Azmi to the congregation of Sunni Muslims at Azad Maidan last Sunday. "I have to reply to this dangerous voice."
Without pitting Islam against other religions like the polarising preacher-who had once said that he could not call Osama Bin Laden a terrorist because he didn't know him-Azmi told Muslims to denounce the jihadists who killed innocents in the name of Islam.
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