Hyderabad, Oct. 3 -- It has been five days since the Central Government announced a five-year ban on the Islamic organisation Popular Front of India (PFI). While many Muslim organisations and political parties heavily condemned the ban, interestingly, there has been a stoic silence from Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind, one of India's oldest Muslim organisations.

This is not the first time that the Jamiat has remained a mute spectator to atrocities against the minority community. According to an article in The Hindu their exists a soft proximity against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Central Government has been observed.

According to an article from the Hindustan Times, the Narendra Modi-led government consulted major Muslim organizations befo...