College students hold candles and placards during a vigil in Chandigarh yesterday to show solidarity with the victims of the Paris attacks.

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MIM president Asaduddin Owaisi said yesterday terror outfit Islamic State (IS) is a blot on Islam and everybody needs to condemn its activities.
The Lok Sbha member from Hyderabad said the outfit should not be linked with religion and the world should unite to fight it.
Stating that the terror group has so far massacred 150,000 Muslims, Owaisi said Islamic scholars belonging to all schools of thought have issued fatwas against the IS.
“We all need to condemn ISIS activities and world should understand that it has nothing to do with Islam,” Owaisi said when reporters sought his reaction to a controversial statement by Uttar Pradesh Minister Azam Khan on Paris terror attacks.
The Samajwadi Party leader has said that the Paris terror attacks were the result of the action of global superpowers like America and Russia and “history will decide who is a terrorist”.
“Azam Khan may be an expert on terrorism but I am not. I only believe that ISIS are a blot on Islam. All scholars have condemned them and I also condemn,” Owaisi said.
The MP, however, said wherever vacuum was created such terrorist organizations were filling it.
“The way the US intervened in Iraq and left it unstable, the same work is being done in Afghanistan.
“Wherever vacuum is created, such terrorist organisations are filling that vacuum.”