Haji Yakub Qureshi

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Haji Yakub Qureshi ( Hindi : हाजी याकूब कुरैशी, Hājī Yākūb Kuraiśī ) is an Indian politician with an Islamist orientation. He is a cabinet member in the state of Uttar Pradesh .

activities

International became known Qureshi, as when he on 17 February 2006 Minister for the Muslim minority following the Islamic Friday prayers in Meerut a bounty of nearly 10 million euros for the beheading of Danish cartoonist of Muhammad cartoons in the newspaper Jyllands-Posten exposed . The minister justified his behavior on the grounds that it was lawful to kill someone who had insulted the Prophet Muhammad . It was a coordinated decision to suspend the million dollar bounty. The rival Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has requested his detention and removal.

In 2007 Quereshi was elected to the parliament of the state of Uttar Pradesh for the Uttar Pradesh United Democratic Front (UPUDF) founded by his brother Yussuf , which later merged with the Bahujan Samaj Party . In September 2011, Qureshi, a member of the state parliament from Meerut , was suspended from his party, the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), for having made derogatory comments about the Sikhs when their slaughterhouse was inaugurated in Meerut.

When he was not nominated by the BSP for the 2012 elections, he switched to the Rashtriya Lok Dal party .

On January 8, 2015, Qureishi offered the attackers in the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris 51 crore Indian rupees (the equivalent of € 7.7 million) as a reward for their deed, as he promised in 2006. He justified it by saying that anyone who treated the prophet with disrespect deserved death. The act was fully justified because the magazine had mocked Islam several times. The deputy director general of the responsible police in Uttar Pradesh announced that he would examine these statements for their criminality under Indian law. Qureishi then denied having made the statements against which he was accused.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b RLD to field MP Jayant, Haji Yakub Qureshi . In: The Times of India , January 19, 2012. Retrieved June 18, 2012. 
  2. ↑ London: Tens of thousands protest against cartoons. In: Spiegel Online . February 18, 2006, accessed February 6, 2017 .
  3. ^ Harmeet Shah Singh in Meerut: UP polls: Religion and voting patterns in Meerut. In: rediff.com. April 12, 2007, accessed February 6, 2017 .
  4. ^ Meerut MLA suspended for remarks on Sikhs - Indian Express. In: indianexpress.com. September 27, 2011, accessed February 6, 2017 .
  5. ^ Hindustan Times, accessed January 10, 2015.
  6. ^ Deccan Chronicle, accessed January 10, 2015.
  7. ↑ BSP leader Haji Yakub denies announcing Rs.51 crore reward for Paris attackers. indiatoday, January 8, 2015, accessed January 10, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Qureshi, Haji Yakub
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kuraiśī, Hājī Yākūb; हाजी याकूब कुरैशी (Hindi)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian politician
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century