Muslim Rashtriya Manch to appeal youth not to fall for ISIS

The three-day national convention of the Muslim Rashtriya Manch (MRM) in Nagpur is expected to appeal to the Muslim youth not to join ISIS, and launch a special cell to monitor those who could fall prey to the terror group's propaganda, senior RSS leader Indresh Kumar said.

Issues such as waving of Pakistani flag and hailing that country, who should be the community's icons, how to discourage the practise of talaq, root causes of communal riots and promotion of education among Muslims would also be discussed by over 150 Muslims leaders, scholars and religious heads from across the country, Kumar said last evening.

The convention started on Saturday. On the opposition by some Muslim clerics to the chanting of 'Bharat Mata Ki Jai' slogan, Kumar said, "It is all matter of semantics. Saying Madar-E-Watan Hindustan Zindabad or Bharat Mata ki Jai is one and the same thing. But those issuing fatwa on it are fundamentalists promoting violence."

Kumar also denied MRM is an offshoot of RSS, saying it's an "independent organisation of nationalist Muslims".