{"id":189365,"date":"2025-12-03T10:00:03","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T05:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/?p=189365"},"modified":"2025-12-03T10:05:54","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T05:05:54","slug":"juh-president-madani-vows-to-challenge-recital-of-hindu-song-vande-mataram-in-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/2025\/12\/03\/juh-president-madani-vows-to-challenge-recital-of-hindu-song-vande-mataram-in-court.html","title":{"rendered":"JUH president Madani vows to challenge recital of Hindu song Vande Mataram in court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-189366\" src=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/12\/xc.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"372\" height=\"204\" \/>Delhi: Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind Pesident Maulana Mahmood Madani said that the organisation had debated Vande Mataram extensively in 2011 and noted that forceful implementation is not the idea of India.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kashmir Media Service, Madani in a media interview in New Delhi also said that his organisation is mulling legal options to challenge the recital of Vande Mataram in court of law.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn Vande Mataram, our organisation debated a lot in 2011 and earlier as well. Now they are saying that Vande Mataram will be compulsory\u2026 Forceful implementation is not the idea of India\u2026 We will challenge it legally if necessary. First, we will talk about it and try to bring the civil society together,\u201d Madani said.<\/p>\n<p>A day after controversy erupted over Madani\u2019s remarks over the meaning of \u201cjihad,\u201d the Jamiat President, in the interview said the Modi government and state ministries have put a negative association on the word, whereas its history is actually \u201cpious\u201d and the term is actually to fight against terrorists.<\/p>\n<p>Saying that the term \u201cjihad\u201d is being used in a planned manner, he alleged that various terms, like \u201cLove jihad, land Jihad, \u2018thook\u2019 jihad, and vote jihad,\u201d are being coined to abuse Muslims in India.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe entire ministry, be it centre, or be it state, have decided that if anything negative related to Muslims comes to light, it will be called Jihad. Jihad is a pious word. We are fighting for the real meaning of jihad. The term jihad is being used to abuse Islam in a very planned manner,\u201d the Jamiat president said.<\/p>\n<p>The Jamiat President, while speaking earlier during the National Governing Body meeting in Bhopal, questioned the independence of the judiciary, citing cases like Babri Masjid and triple talaq.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delhi: Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind Pesident Maulana Mahmood Madani said that the organisation had debated Vande Mataram extensively in 2011 and noted that forceful implementation is not the idea of India. According to Kashmir Media Service, Madani in a media interview in New Delhi also said that his organisation is mulling legal options to challenge the recital &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":189366,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-189365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hindutva","tag-top-story"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/12\/xc.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189365"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189376,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189365\/revisions\/189376"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}