NEW DELHI, July 16 (TNS): A plea has been filed in the Indian Supreme Court seeking a ban on hoisting of green flags with crescent and star by the Muslim community, because it looks like a flag of Pakistan.
Hearing the petition, the court sought the government’s response after it was alleged that it was not a symbol of Islam but resembled the flag of Pakistan and the party Pakistan Muslim League that helped laying foundation of the Muslim country. The plea was filed by an activist from the Uttar Pradesh.
The court bench asked the petitioner to hand over a copy of the petition to additional solicitor general and sought government’s stance on the issue. Indian Muslims are wrongly treating it as the Islamic flag and are hoisting it in Muslim dominated areas. It is further relevant to state that the crescent and star in a green backdrop have never been a part of any Islamic practice and it does not have any role or significance in Islam,” the petition by Syed Waseem Rizvi said. The petitioner claimed the flag owed its origin to the erstwhile Muslim League founded by Mohammad Ali Jinnah. The hoisting of the Pakistani or Pakistani political party’s identical flags in our country on celebratory occasions of Muslims or even otherwise distances them from the religious majority which rightly looks at such acts as anti-national and communal,” the petition said…..AFP
