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On 31 May this year, Mullahs in India issued a fatwa denouncing terrorism as against Islam and calling it an unpardonable sin. The meeting of tens of thousands of clerics and students from around India defined terrorism as any action targeting innocent people both Muslim and non-Muslim, whether committed by an individual, and institution or a government.

It might seem strange for a fatwa against terrorism to come out of India but between 2004 and 2007 an estimated 3,674 people died as a result of terrorist attacks in that country. This is second only to that in Iraq for the same period.

Guests

B. Raman
Noted security analyst and former head of the Counter-terrorism division of the Research & Analysis Wing of India's external intelligence agency; Director of the Institute for Topical Studies in Chennai.

Story Researcher and Producer

Kris Short

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