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Shia Leaders to Iraq on Anti-ISIS Duty

Express News Service

NEW DELHI: To stop the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) ‘barbaric and inhuman’ propaganda reaching Indian soil and affecting lives of Indian Muslim youths, the Shia religious leaders here have planned to visit Iraq on September 29 to assess the situation over there to take necessary steps.

Stating that the ISIS people are ‘terrorists and the enemy of not only Islam but the whole humanity’, Maulana Kalbe Jawad Naqvi said on Monday in the national capital that victims of the terror acts include all the communities -- Sunnis, Shias, Christians, Kurds.

Naqvi said that a six-member delegation of Anjuman-E-Haider under his leadership will visit Iraq on September 29 and will hold high-level meeting with religious and political leaders in Baghdad, Najaf and Karbala.Kalbe criticised the hypocrisy of the terror outfit ISIS and a few countries supporting them. “The horrific killings of innocent people cannot be justified at any cost. They are in fact maligning the real peaceful image of Islam by their inhuman acts,” said Kalbe.

He also said that their acts are inhuman and barbaric and the Iraqi government should take all the steps to end such kind of terror outfits. General-Secretary of Anjuman-E-Haider, Bahadur Abbas Naqvi said that there volunteers will educate people about the inhuman activity of the ISIS. He also stated that they have recently received a letter from Nazar Al-Khairullah, Deputy Minister of Foreign affairs, Government of Republic of Iraq, expressing thanks on the behalf of Iraqi PM for offering help to stop the terror outfit propaganda.

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