Maulana Sajid Rashidi said, "Hazrat Adam too believed in Allah. Be it Shri Ram or you take an example of any god or goddess. Every one of them is a descendant of Hazrat Adam."
Chidanand Saraswati said, "There is no point of agreement or disagreement with Madani's statement. I expressed my views in my own way. He has expressed his views in his own way."
Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind chief Mahmood Madani stated that India is the first homeland of Muslims and that believing that the religion of Islam has come from outside here, is wrong and baseless.
What we see is that Islam is there same everywhere, but Islamic protests are not. This is not to assume that the Muslims in the Gulf are not offended by or harbour the same sentiments as the subcontinent Muslims - perhaps more so.
Anil Singh, the father of the deceased, registered a police complaint on Wednesday and stated that his son was being mentally harassed and pressurised to convert to Islam.