Deoband (UP): Jamait-e-Ulema Hind (JEU) issued fatwa against singing national song 'Vande Matram'. According to a resolution, Muslims should not sing 'Vande Matram' as its reciting is against the Islam.

The fatwa was issued at Deoband national convention meet. The JEU leader said that the some of the line in the song is against Islam. Meanwhile, Home Minister P Chidambaram will address a Jamait-e-Ulema Hind conference here today.

The home minister will also discuss the Sachar Committee Report and POTA issue with Deoaband leaders. Apart from Chidaqmbaram, film director Mahesh Bhatt will also attend the conference.

This is not the first time that a fatwa has been issued against the song. In 2006, after asking tennis pinup Sania Mirza to get rid of her signature T-shirts and short skirts, Muslim clerics in Hyderabad had issued a fatwa (religious edict) against the Bankim Chandra Chatterjee composition.

They asked Muslim parents in the city not to send their children to schools where they are required to recite the national song.

Source: India Syndicate