Discord over the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) appears set to boil over within the Samastha Kerala Jamiyyathul Ulama, the biggest organisation of Muslim scholars that serves as an umbrella body for different arms of the traditional Sunni Muslims in the State.
The organisation, mononymously known as Samastha, is heading for a split if the internecine strife within it is any indication.
The Samastha and its current leaders have been tired of watching the breakaway group headed by Kanthapuram A.P. Aboobacker Musliar overgrow them since the Sunni group split vertically in 1989. As the rival Kanthapuram group gleefully watches the wrangles within the Samastha, the facts that led to the 1989 historic split still loom large over the Samastha.
