“Fatwa issued against actor-politician Joseph Vijay for ‘inviting drunkards and gamblers’ to iftar party, Maulana Razvi says his movies portray Muslims as terrorists”, Opindia, April 17, 2025:

“Maulana Shahabuddin Razvi Bareilly, the National President of the All India Muslim Jamaat and Chief Mufti of Chashme Darul Ifta, has issued a fatwa against Tamil Nadu actor-politician Joseph Vijay Chandrasekhar, accusing him of being ‘anti-Muslim’. This comes after the Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) president hosted an Iftar party last month.

Shahabuddin Razvi claimed that Joseph Vijay invited alcoholics and gamblers to Iftar, which he deemed illicit and sinful from an Islamic perspective. The Sunni cleric went on to advise Tamil Nadu Muslims against trusting Vijay as he said that the latter is using Muslims to climb the political ladder, while in his movies, he presents Muslims as terrorists.

“Vijay Thalapathy is using Muslim sentiments to make his way into politics from the film world, when his history is full of anti-Muslim sentiment. In his film ‘The Beast’, he has linked Muslims and the entire Muslim community with terrorism and militancy. In the film, Thalapathy tries to show Muslims as ‘monsters’ and ‘devils’. And now, since he is entering politics and he wants votes, he is doing Muslim appeasement,” the Maulana said…….”

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