Asaduddin Owaisi slams ISIS after two threats from rebel outfit

DECCAN CHRONICLE | S.A. ISHAQUI

Published Jan 7, 2016, 1:21 am IST

Updated Feb 23, 2016, 2:43 pm IST

Tweets came from the Twitter handle @abotalout on the wall of Owaisi.

 MIM president and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi (Photo: PTI/File)

Hyderabad: AIMIM president and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi was cautioned on Twitter on Wednesday stating, “It’s better for you to shut your mouth on Islamic State if you don’t know the truth, Islamic State will invade India soon.”

Two Tweets including the above came from the Twitter handle @abotalout on the wall of Mr Owaisi. 

 

Owaisi dubs ISIS ‘Takfiri’

The second suspected ISIS tweet aimed at MIM president Asaduddin Owaisi read: “Your Disgrace for Muslims of India. Opposing Islamic state will lead you to hell only repent before end.”

 

Replying to the tweets, Mr Owaisi wrote: “Sir you are a bloody Takfiri, if you want to debate on Evil ISIS I am ready you will not be able to counter my Theological Points.”

 

“You can dream so keep dreaming Takfiri read book on ISIS will bring y out of Darkness of ISIS Allah give Taufeeq,” he tweeted.

 

“Takfiri” is a Sunni Muslim who accuses another Muslim (or an adherent of another Abrahamic faith) of apostasy.

 

When contacted, Mr Owaisi said, “It is for the Almighty to decide who goes to heaven or hell. These IS murderers have no right to decide my final destination.”

 

He said Muslim scholars had declared ISIS as “Khawrij” (rebels of Islam) and they had no right to speak about Islam.

 

He added that there was no need to lodge a police complaint as the Tweets seemed to purely ideological and he perceived no cautions or warnings in them.

 

When asked about the tweets, a Telangana state intelligence official told this newspaper said that they had not received any complaint from Mr Owaisi.

 

He added that the tweet could be a reaction to Mr Owaisi strident anti-ISIS stand. “We were expecting threats to Mr Owaisi from ISIS,” the intelligence officer said.