Special Report Transcript Episode 75, Section 4, Time 32:11

As far as our collaboration and resistance to the system is concerned there is the community at large. In truth, the community at large was a complacent community, feeble in its responses and going whichever way the wind was going at that particular moment. In 1979 Imam Abdullah Haron was murdered in detention, after being kept there for six months. 25 000 people attended his funeral and not a single voice in the Muslim community was raised about the nature of his death and all the injuries on his body, not a single voice in the Muslim community, from the religious leadership of the Muslim community. And this silence Mr. Chairman held for seven years nonstop at a Mosque level and in a Muslim publication level. Of course I speak with anger, by God I’ve got a damn right to be angry.

Notes: Faried Esack (Muslim Theologian)