Muzaffarnagar: Hours after Supreme Court on Thursday decriminalised gay sex in India, Muslim clerics and Hindu outfits joined the cause against the verdict. While Deoband-based clerics termed it against Islam and Sharia laws, Hindu Mahasabha declared it a sinister campaign to “destroy Indian ethos and values”.Soon after the apex court passed the verdict, Deoband clerics issued a statement on homosexuals. Maulana Salim Qasmi, vice-chancellor of a seminary in Deoband said, “God provided a system for increasing the population of humanity, a relationship between husband and wife, for all communities on earth. Any other kind of sexual relationship is forbidden and illegal. Homosexuality is dirty, filthy and against nature. No right-thinking person will accept this kind of relationship. Supreme Court has the right to pass orders, and it is up to people to decide whether they want to have this kind of relationship, but Islam certainly does not permit it.”Hindu organisations have also expressed negative views on homosexuality after the verdict. Uttar Pradesh president of Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha, Yogendra Kumar Verma said, “It is a conspiracy to destroy Hindu culture and all the values important for us. We should not cross limits and accept what is unnatural. God has created men and women for each other. Homosexuality, whether between men or between women should be considered a crime.”

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