No bloodshed in the name of Temples and Masjids: Shafi Saadi
Milad Sneha Sangama programme
Mangaluru, December 3: Ihsan Karnataka Foundation president NKM Shafi Saadi inaugurated the ‘Milad Sneha Sangama’ programme organized at the ‘Connect-2018 Community Convention’, to mark the Karnataka Cultural Foundation’s 5th anniversary at the Nehru Stadium here on Monday.
Speaking on the occasion, he said that there should not be bloodshed in the name of temples and masjids. The Muslim community would accept the Supreme Court verdict on Babri Masjid and Ram Mandir construction. Action should be taken against those who oppose the verdict. There would be no use from bandhs and disputing statements. Ram Mandir should be constructed under the Constitutional framework. After the demolition of the Babri Masjid in 1992, then prime minister PV Narasimha Rao had constituted a committee which spent Rs 18 crore in eight years to submit its report, in which there was no reference of the idol of Lord Sri Rama, he said.
Even the Allahabad High Court had given a verdict dividing the land into three parts. In that verdict, it had not mentioned about the idols of Lord Sri Rama. The Muslim community would welcome the Supreme Court verdict, he said.
Karnataka Hajj Samiti member and SSF national committee general secretary KM Abubakar Siddique Montugoli spoke on the occasion, while SYS state president GM Mohammad Kamil Saqafi presided over it.
SYS state vice president DK Umar Saqafi Kambalabettu, State SYS treasurer Yusuf Haji Uppalli, State SYS vice president Hyder Ali Kamil Nizami Shivamogga, SYS state secretary Abdul Haqeem Kodlipet, SYS secretary Usman Abdullah Kodagu, Team Hubburasool Conference convener Ashraf Saadi Malluru, SYS district president PM Usman Saadi Pattori, SYS Mangaluru leader CH Muhammed Ali Saqafi Ashariyya and others were present on the occasion.
Sunni Coordination Committee Karnataka treasurer Syed Ismail Tangal Ujire offered prayer. SYS state secretary Yaqub Yusuf Bengaluru welcomed and SYS district general secretary Ashraf Kinara proposed vote of thanks.
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3 US troops killed, 5 seriously wounded during Iran attacks, military says
Washington (AP): Three American service members have been killed and five others seriously wounded during the US attacks on Iran, the military said Sunday, marking the first American casualties in a major offensive that has sparked retaliation from the Islamic Republic.
US Central Command, which oversees the Middle East, announced the deaths in a post on X but did not say when and where they occurred. The statement said “several others sustained minor shrapnel injuries and concussions” and were going to return to duty.
Central Command described the situation “as fluid” and said it would withhold the identities of the service members who were killed for 24 hours after their families were notified.
The US military also denied Iranian claims that the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier was struck with ballistic missiles, saying on X that the “missiles launched didn't even come close.”
President Donald Trump had warned that American troops could be killed or injured in the operation.
“The lives of courageous American heroes may be lost, and we may have casualties,” the Republican president said in a video address released early Saturday. “That often happens in war. But we're doing this not for now. We're doing this for the future.”
Following the US-Israeli strikes that killed Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and other leaders, Iran's counterattacks have struck US bases in Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates.
Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard has threatened to launch its “most intense offensive operation” ever targeting Israeli and American military installations.
Before the strikes, Trump had built up the largest US military presence in the Middle East in decades. The arrival of the Lincoln and three accompanying guided-missile destroyers at the end of January bolstered the number of warships in the region.
The world's largest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford, and four accompanying destroyers later were dispatched from the Caribbean Sea to head to the Middle East.
The Ford was part of the US raid in Venezuela that captured leader Nicolás Maduro, who was brought to New York to face drug trafficking charges. The operation in January claimed no American lives but left seven US troops with gunshot wounds and shrapnel-related injuries.
One of those injured received the Medal of Honor during Trump's State of the Union address last week. Trump said Army Chief Warrant Officer 5 Eric Slover piloted the lead CH-47 Chinook helicopter that descended on the “heavily protected military fortress” where Maduro was staying.
Trump has launched several military operations during his second term, including strikes on members of the Islamic State group in Syria in retaliation for an ambush attack that killed two US troops and an American civilian interpreter in December.
The US military has also struck IS forces in Nigeria, after Trump accused the West African country's government of failing to rein in the targeting of Christians.
