Firoze Varun Gandhi has said nothing new. He has just repeated what most BJP leaders have been publicly stating. Among others he is being pilloried and denounced by the likes of Shahnawaz Husain and other bigwigs within the BJP simply because he is a young man having family connection with Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi and with little political standing of his own. Thus he can be got rid of much easily and in the process the party will improve its image too.

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The Vishwa Hindu Parishad in a letter to 13 Muslim bodies demanded that Indian Muslim clergy declares that Hindus are not kafirs and therefore jihad does not apply to them. Also that India is Dar ul Aman and therefore no jihad should be waged against it.

Most Muslims bodies have expressed displeasure at the letter calling it illogical and malicious. Now, as Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind stated, if we take the literal meaning of the word kafir there is nothing de...