Indian Muslims Will Live For India-Modi

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Militant group Al-Qaeda’s plans to recruit members in India are “delusional,” Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in excerpts of an interview broadcast Friday.

ModiThe Islamist militant group earlier this month announced it had set up a branch in South Asia and called on Muslims to “wage jihad against its enemies, to liberate its land, to restore its sovereignty and to revive its caliphate.”

“Indian Muslims will live for India, they will die for India, they will not want anything bad for India,” Modi told broadcaster CNN, in the interview to be broadcast in full on Sunday.

“If anyone thinks Indian Muslims will dance to their tune, they are delusional,” he said.

India, a predominantly Hindu country, has one of the largest Muslim populations in the world. Estimates say there are between 150 and 180 million Muslims among the South Asian country’s population of more than 1.2 billion.

Modi said Islamist militancy was not directed against a country or race, but was a fight between “humanity and inhumanity.”

Speaking to the broadcaster ahead of a visit to the US next week, Modi said “India and US are bound together by history and culture. These ties will deepen further.”

GNA

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