A reasonable Muslim’s library was burned by radical Muslims as a result of it contained Hindu scriptures

In a stunning flip of occasions, which present the degrees of intolerance Islamists harbour even for reasonable Muslims, a library arrange by a daily-wage labourer in 2011 was set on hearth by miscreants late on the evening of April 9, 2021. The books housed within the library, which have been largely in Kannada, have been decreased to ashes. The proprietor of the library – Syed Issaq, a 62-year-old reasonable Muslim man who goals to popularise Kannada and eradicate hatred for the regional language amongst his neighborhood says his library has beforehand additionally been subjected to assaults.Following the fireplace on Friday, he filed a criticism with the Udaygiri police over the incident. The case has been registered below part 436 (mischief by hearth) of the Indian Penal Code. The library was arrange in January 2011 by Syed to get extra folks in his space to learn books. “I didn’t read (in my childhood) and I wanted people to read. This is a slum area and I kept Kannada and Urdu books. I wanted Kannada to grow and prosper,” Syed Issaq informed The News Minute.Syed Issaq’s library was a logo of coexistence – one thing which Islamists despise. It is the inclusive message of Issaq and his noble motives that reportedly prompted radical components from inside his neighborhood to burn down the library. In the library, greater than 11,000 books together with Kannada variations of Bhagavad Gita, Bible and Quran have been housed. He has accused the miscreants of concentrating on his library due to their intolerance in the direction of the Kannada language that he, in response to them, was propagating by way of his assortment of books.Interestingly although, till lately, mainstream media retailers who work with the predisposition of all Muslims being victimised by ‘extremist Hindus’ have been insinuating that the person’s library was burnt down merely due to his religion. Among those that sought to color the mentioned image, with their headlines at the very least, have been The Quint, New Indian Express, The Federal and others. The sole motive of such media organisation appears to be to color Hindus in a nasty gentle, and with out details, to accuse the neighborhood of attacking a Muslim man’s library.As it seems, nonetheless, the assault is the handiwork of radical Islamists, who maybe couldn’t tolerate their Quran and the Bhagavad Gita being positioned in the identical library. One man who has been recognized for initiating the fireplace within the library is Syed Nasir. The accused was arrested by Mysuru Police on Saturday.