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SHOAIB DANIYAL
From apostasy laws to differential tax rules,
there is no dearth of legislation in India
based on religion. Adding these to its reform
list would make the BJPs job of introducing
a UCC that much easier.
The Bharatiya Janata Partys resound-
ing win in the Lok Sabha elections has
brought one of its pet issues back into
focus: the establishment of a Uniform Civil
Code to replace the current system by
which followers of different faiths are sub-
ject to religious personal laws relating to
marriage, inheritance and other personal
and family matters.
In theory, the argument that religion
should play no role in the laws of a secular
republic is difficult to refute and indeed the
establishment of a progressive legal code
would do much good. But in practice, the
BJPs rather high-pitched espousal of the
UCC has perhaps done more harm to the
cause than help it.
The partys portrayal of religious per-
sonal law as the single barrier standing
between India and true secularism is
hyperbolic. The situation is far more com-
plex. Contrary to common knowledge, reli-
gious personal laws in India have not been
static. Significant parts of these codes,
especially those relating to minority commu-
nities, have already been reformed as a
result of legal intervention resulting from
cases challenging these statutes.
For instance, despite Rajiv Gandhis
decision to reverse a court decision in the
1985 Shah Bano case ordering a Muslim
man to pay his wife maintenance, the courts
have reaffirmed the rights of Muslim women
to alimony. The egregious triple talaq rule
was overruled in the Shamim Ara case in
2002, which held that the husbands did not
have a unilateral right to verbal divorce when
there was no substantial evidence of the
man having pronounced the three words.
It is rarely acknowledged but there are a
number of other provisions in India that
work on explicitly religious or communal
principles, all of which are also in urgent
need of reform. On these the BJP has main-
tained a studied silence, in some cases even
propagating them. Some of these provisions
are as follows:
Gujarats apostasy law: it might come
as a surprise that India has an apostasy law,
but in 2003, a time of great communal
polarisation, the Gujarat legislature passed
the Freedom of Religion Act, a wonderfully
Orwellian name for a law that restricts reli-
gious freedom. The act made it mandatory
for a person converting to another religion to
take permission from the district magistrate
first. Only if the district magistrate is con-
vinced that the convert has undergone a
true religious transformation is the change
allowed. That an ostensibly secular state
sits in judgment of whether a persons reli-
gious choice is true or fraudulent might have
been funny, if it wasnt for the four-year jail
sentence the law carries.
Gujarats Disturbed Areas Act: In
Gujarat it is illegal for Hindus and Muslims to
enter into a property transaction unless it
has the permission of the government. As of
2013, 40% of Ahmedabad was notified
under this act. While religious ghettoisation
is a fact in most Indian cities, this legislation
makes it official government policy and
forces Muslims to part with their properties
for a pittance.
Religion-based reservations: A
Presidential Order dating back to 1950
makes all non-Hindu Dalits ineligible for
Scheduled Caste reservations, saying only
Hindu Dalits can avail of reservations in gov-
ernment jobs, higher education and legisla-
tive bodies. This was amended to include
Sikh Dalits in 1956 and Buddhist Dalits in
1990, but it has still not been extended to
the other religious groups. This also means
that Christian and Muslim Dalits are not pro-
tected against anti-Scheduled Caste atrocity
legislation.
Tax breaks on the basis of religion: A
well-known yet oddly uncontroversial meas-
ure, the Hindu Undivided Family (HUF) pro-
vides, in the words of T Ramanujam,
almost a perfect medium for tax avoid-
ance. It is open only to Hindus, Sikhs, Jains
and Buddhists whereby an income earned
by any member of the family is divided upon
all members and thereby no tax is paid. Tax
evasion worth trillions of rupees goes on
every single year under the garb of this
Hindu-only rule.
Though legal intervention is helping to
reform religious law, the process is slow
and haphazard, very often depending on the
interpretation of a single judge. In such a sit-
uation, the establishment of a standard UCC
would help by speeding up the reform and
making them available to all Indians at a
stroke. As the reform of Hindu personal law
in the 1950s showed, the benefits of such a
move would be wide-reaching.
Given the physical insecurities of reli-
gious minorities in India, however, introduc-
ing a UCC will be difficult. It is strange that
the party that is its greatest proponent, the
BJP, simultaneously champions theological
issues such as temple construction and the
mainstreaming of Hindu systems of medi-
cine. This has led to fears that the UCC will
be used to marginalise the interests of
minority communities while submitting to
majoritarian impulses.
If it is serious about introducing a UCC,
the BJP, and consequently the government,
must adopt a principled stand against all
religion-based laws, working concurrently to
remove discriminatory legislation, such as
those discussed above. In this bundled
approach lies the best chance of introducing
a uniform code. (scroll.in)
BJPs rhetoric on Uniform Code undermined
by its silence on laws favouring majority
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It is rarely acknowledged but there are a number of provisions in India that work on
explicitly religious or communal principles...A well-known yet oddly uncontroversial
measure, the Hindu Undivided Family (HUF) provides, in the words of TCA Ramanujam,
former Chief Commissioner of Income-Tax, almost a perfect medium for tax avoidance.
It is open only to Hindus, Sikhs, Jains and Buddhists...Tax evasion worth trillions of rupees
goes on every single year under the garb of this Hindu-only rule.
Shariat Courts
A two-member bench of the Supreme Court on 8 July reject-
ed a PIL filed by a Hindutva agent calling for the abolition of
Shariat Courts which, it claimed, run a parallel judicial sys-
tem in the country. The court, while rejecting the petition,
stressed that these panels had no legal powers and their
decisions could not be enforced. The apex court further
observed that Islamic judges (qazis), who interpret religious
law, could only issue a ruling when individuals submitted vol-
untarily to them and their decisions, or fatwas, were not legal-
ly binding. The judgment further said, Sharia courts are not
sanctioned by law and there is no legality of fatwas in this
country. During an earlier hearing of the case the court had
observed, These are political-religious issues. We can't
decide them. In this country some people believe Gangajal
can cure all ailments. It is a matter of belief.
While some people correctly understood the import of the
verdict, semi-lettered commentators on both sides drew illog-
ical conclusions. While some Maulvis, who speak without
fully understanding the issue at hand, started shouting that
this is an interference in Muslim personal law which cannot
be tolerated, their Hindutva counterparts blew into their
shankhs taking the verdict as a great victory which never was
since the court did not ban or abolish the so-called Shariat
Courts.
What the Supreme Court said was simply that these so-
called Shariat courts do not enjoy any status under Indian
law and that they cannot force Muslims to obey them - which
is exactly the case. No one said these panels enjoy the de jure
status of the courts set up under the Indian legal system or
that these panels enjoy any legal or even social sanctity to
enforce their verdicts. The fact is that these panels are vol-
untary arbitration committees or panchayats; people
approach them out of their free-will and they are never bound
by their verdicts. In fact, many parties reject such panels' ver-
dicts and go to civil courts for the settlement of their disputes.
The problem is with the nomenclature. These panels,
called Darul Qazas (House of Settlement), should not be
translated as Shariah courts. The correct term would be
Shariah Panchayat or Shariah Arbitration Committee. So it is a
problem of our own making. These panels are a boon for the
judicial system as they take some burden off the courts. In
fact, our judicial system encourages arbitration panels for out-
of-court settlement of disputes. Darul Qaza is an informal
forum to which people go voluntarily to avoid high costs of
seeking justice in our courts and also to get a Shariah-compli-
ant verdict. Its verdicts is just an opinion and is not legally
binding. And this is a reason for the unpopularity of these pan-
els. Muslims normally do not go to Darul Qazas because these
bodies don't have any enforcement power. Since its inception
in 1994 to 2010, Delhi Darul-Qaza settled only 341 cases.
ZAFARUL-ISLAM KHAN
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Saffronised
Historians
Poona-based
P N Oak, who still
labours under the hal-
lucination that the Taj
Mahal was built by a
Hindu king and not by
the Mughal emperor
Shahjahan
H i s t o r i a n
D N Jha has
given a tar t
rejoinder to
Arun Shouries
biased article,
How history was made up
at Nalanda (Indian Express,
28 June). His well-worded
and powerful reply, Grist to
the reactionary mill: Arun
Shouries attempt to associ-
ate Bakhtiyar Khilji with the
destruction of the university
of Nalanda has appeared in
the same paper on 9 July.
The problem with the likes
of Arun Shourie and Sitaram
Goel of Delhi (who calls him-
self a historian) is that
theyre too saffronised, a fact
corroborated by the late
Akhilesh Mishra in one of his
columns in The Asian Age in
2003. These self-proclaimed
historians tend to look at his-
tory through the prism of
Hinduism and have been rab-
idly prejudiced against any-
thing even remotely related to
Muslims and Islam. Its a well-
known fact that the Indian his-
tory is undocumented and
whatever little is documented
is in Arabic, Persian, Sanskrit
and even Rekhta (early Urdu).
Im afraid, these gentlemen
are unable to understand any
of the aforementioned lan-
guages. Yet they go by the
populist beliefs and notions of
the Hindu masses and con-
demn all thats Islamic.
Shourie is no better than the
Poona-based P N Oak, who
still labours under the halluci-
nation that the Taj Mahal was
built by a Hindu king and not
by the Mughal emperor
Shahjahan who, according to
Oak, distorted Tejo Mahal to
Taj Mahal! Bizarre, to say the
least. Fortunately, students of
history dont refer to these
bigots convoluted historical
interpretations.
But no wonder if tomorrow
they muscle their way into his-
tory books in the upcoming
Hindu Rashtra. Shourie is a
BJP-sponsored historian.
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live a life of Dignity and Self Respect. These are the role models who have shown that a better world is possible. These are the
shining stars who have enriched our efforts and have given an abiding meaning to our work. And we say this with great
responsibility: only Rahat would have picked up these Rahat children, majority of whom are orphans, whose stories we have
narrated below. There are of course hundreds of stories, but we can share only a few of these.
Madanpura, North Mumbai. This widow comes from South Mumbai. Her husband died due to Aids. She herself is suffering from
full-blown HIV+ . Her daughter, Iram, has passed her SSC exams and will shortly be going to college this year. Rahat has been
tracking this family for the past ten years. In another case this lady came from Borivali, North Mumbaishe has two daughters, both
are in college. A son is in school. Their father died due to Aids some years back.. We have no idea how this family manages or
survives. And finally on the 22nd of June we met Mehak who is in standard 8th She came with her naani.. goes to a good school.
Her mother is a HIV+ patient. The father died due to Aids. Extremely difficult to come face-to-face with such cases.
Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh. India. Many years back a man called Hasan found us. Hasan and his family were in Mumbai for
Hasan's treatment for blood cancer at the Tata Memorial Hospital in Mumbai. As some things are destined to happen, Hasan died.
Rahat has been following the family from 2. His two daughters are now going to college in Gwalior, with Rahat facilitating their
education.
Khajoor ki Galli, Lucknow. Central to Rahat's objective is to help orphans get educated and become self reliant Rahat has been
helping one such family who were once in Mumbai and now stay in Lucknow Rahat has been tracking this family from 25.
Nasreen has three children, Arbaaz Std 9, Aliya & Aafiya Std 6. We wish them all the best. We hope to see these children going to
college. Inshallah.
Behrampada, Bandra East. Lets call the boy Azan we picked him from this infamous Behrampada slum and got him enrolled to
an English Medium Boarding School in a sea-facing town on the Western line in Maharashtra. (Azan's two brothers dropped out of
school. His widowed mother got remarried). Azan is pretty much on his own. In March 25 Azan will appear for his SSC
exams. We will keep you posted on his growth and development. His annual fees are about Rs 4/-. This will be a classic case of
the efficacy of nurturing someone out of his natural environment, which in Azan's case is the sub-human slum of Behrampada.
Farzana is also from Behrampada. This young woman who is a teacher has been taking care of her family for the past fifteen years.
She has been battling an energy-sapping diseaseand has periodic relapses. Rahat has been mentoring this family for over a
decade. Farzana is also a Rahat volunteer. Well done!!!
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room in Bharat Nagar a slum locality in Bandra East. We have been tracking Abdul Rehman almost from the time he was born.
Standard th is the magical standard which will Inshallah lead Abdul Rehman to a higher level of learning, to college and to a
better life-style. Rahat will offer coaching and other enabling facilities to Abdul Rehman so that he does pass standard th in the
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Bengal Muslims under TMC:
65% unemployed, BPL
Kolkakta: Trinamool Congress (TNC) which came to power in West Bengal about
3 years ago mainly with the support of its Muslim population, with a manifesto
to implement the Sachar Committee recommendations has largely failed to
improve the socio-economic condition of Muslims. This claim is made in a com-
mon survey report by many NGOs on the social, economic and educational con-
dition of Muslims of West Bengal which is considered as the second most
important report after Sachar Committee report. This survey report is compiled
jointly by Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen Parachi Trust, Centre for Studies in Social
Sciences, assisted by Social Network for Assistance to People (SNAP), an NGO
working for the minorities, and Guidance Guild. The survey was conducted in
about 97 thousand houses of the states 325 villages, 75 urban wards, 81
Development Blocks and 30 municipalities. During the survey representation of
Urdu and Bengali speaking Muslims in Bengals mainstream political parties also
was made to find out if their representation in these parties is in proportion to
their population. This interim survey report running into 77 pages is considered
the most comprehensive among the other survey reports, about Muslims of
West Bengal for which 250 research scholars did the field work and covered
about one lakh houses (97017 to be exact). Many members of the civil society
played an important role in making this report public and it is hoped that by the
end of this year the final report of this survey will be made available.
It is stated in this interim report that even three years after the formation of
Mamta Bannerjee government there has been virtually no change in the (overall)
condition of Muslims and that 65 percent Muslims of W. Bengal are leading life
below poverty line and they are unemployed, 19.52% (?) Muslims are unedu-
cated and only 1.86% (?) Muslims are post-graduates. It is further stated in this
report that a total of 36% population of Muslims in the whole of India lives in
urban areas but in Bengal only 17% Muslims live in urban areas (cities).
Educational condition of Muslims is worst in 148. of West Bengal. Out of the
people (Muslims) surveyed, only 0.4% people have completed professional
courses in medical and engineering colleges and 52 percent have education only
upto primary level. According to this report there are a total of 26 percent
Muslims in W. Bengal of whom 90 percent Muslims are Bengali speaking and
only a small number of Muslims said that their mother tongue is Urdu.
Riot victims cheated by respectable people
Kairana: Last September, when communal riots erupted in Muzaffarnagar in
which over a hundred innocents including women, children and elderly were
killed and hundreds injured and the naked dance of death and destruction was
being staged resulting in around 100,000 becoming homeless and forced to take
shelter in make-shift camps in the biting cold, government and kind-hearted peo-
ple gave monetary help and relief material worth crores of rupees. No doubt gov-
ernment agencies and voluntary organisations sincerely worked to help those
unfortunate people but even in such critical times, when heart-rending incidents
were being reported, some respectable and religious people were not to be
outdone in taking full advantage of the situation and usurping money and mate-
rial for their personal and selfish interests. Instead of distributing relief materials
among the affected people, they used means to grab relief material for them-
selves. There were some people whose localities did not suffer in the riots but
with their impressive talk they succeeded in casting their spell on donors and got
costly blankets and other valuable items for themselves.
Repor tedly, in a village in Kairana a group of cheats in the garb of
respected and religious people made video films of riot-hit people, their burnt
and destroyed houses and their pitiable condition and sent these to rich peo-
ple to extract money from them giving their personal bank account numbers
or in the account of some fake organisation. When some organisations were
building housing colonies for riot victims who did not want to return to their
houses in affected villages, some locals presented themselves as suppliers
of building materials. They got contracts for supplying good quality building
materials but instead supplied cheap and low quality material. In this and
other ways, they minted money without the least fear of God or Hereafter.
Many sincere people and volunteers cautioned philanthropists and builders of
housing colonies to give money or contracts for supply of building materials
to honest people so that their humanitarian help could reach deserving peo-
ple. When builders and masons were urged to properly examine building
materials for its quality and reject sub-standard material, they too did not pay
any attention to such sane advice. This shows that they too were complicit
in such dir ty and dishonest deals thinking that when sub-standard materials
can be used without any checks or fear, why should good quality material be
used and that this is a good opportunity to mint money, so why should such
golden oppor tunities be lost which will never come again? (Translated from
Urdu dailies Sahafat and Hindustan Express, 31 May 2014)
Curfew imposed in MP town after communal
clashes ; seven injured, 33 held
Raisen (MP): At least seven
person were injured and cur-
few was imposed in the
night of 4 July in this town
after communal clashes
between members of two
communities broke out. A
number of shops and vehi-
cles being torched. Police
lathi-charged the rioters and
lobbed teargas shells before
being forced to fire in the air
as the situation got out of control. By next day, 33 persons had been arrest-
ed for the violence which left seven persons injured. Three of those suffered
bullet injuries but it was not clear whether they were wounded in firing by the
clashing mob or in police firing. The clash took place after two youths from
separate communities got into a heated argument over a seat on a Raisen -
bound bus. After the bus reached the town, which is situated about 50 kms
away from state capital Bhopal, the two youths called their respective sup-
por ters and the matter then soon got out of control. The mob engaged in
stone-pelting and arson. Four shops and as many vehicles were set on fire
while several other shops and parked vehicles were also damaged. An indef-
inite curfew was imposed in the town.
Respond if you care about your community
White Paper on Terrorism
The issue of fake terrorism charges and the unjust arrests and defamation of our community, especially since 2001, is
the biggest challenge facing the community ever since. A grand conspiracy hatched by the powers that be, IB, Police
and media, has sullied and defamed our community. This campaign has affected our lives, peace of mind and has
thwarted our efforts to progress and educate our children to join the national mainstream.
Our efforts so far to present our case, to bring out our innocence and force the national and state governments to
listen to our grievances have mostly failed. All we have received are a few words of solace which have no real meaning
and have not changed the situation on the ground. Our children by their thousands are still languishing in jails on the
basis of fake confessions obtained through torture and blackmail.
As a long-term solution and a serious response to this problem thrust upon us, AIMMM decided last year to bring
out a white paper on the Muslim-related terrorism in the country. The work is going on with all seriousness and many
researchers, scholars and journalists are busy preparing writeups on various aspects of this issue, covering the histo-
ry, genesis, communalism, vested interests in various related fields, analysis of various laws like TADA, POTA and UAPA,
fake encounters, narco tests, torture, acquittals, IB & Police role, media attitude, case studies, statewise surveys, SIMI,
Indian Mujahidin, Hindutva terror, individual tragedies of victims, Azamgarh, Bhatkal, Malegaon, Darbhanga modules,
some basic documents, etc., etc.
The target is to bring out this white paper during the next few months and to release it in a big convention at Delhi
as a combined effort of major Muslim and civil rights organisations, and thereafter present this huge document of over
600 large format pages to politicians, media, human rights organisations, especially outside the country, in order to
enlighten public opinion at home and abroad as well as to build pressure on our blind and deaf government.
The estimated cost of this white paper is Rs 35 lakh divided as follows: Rs 15 lakh cost of preparation and pay-
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Over one lakh suicides in
India every year: report
New Delhi: Over 100,000 people commit sui-
cides in India every year on an average. The
number of suicides in the past decade has
recorded an increase of 21.6 percent, said a
government report.
The number of suicides increased to
134,799 in 2013 from 110,851 in 2003, said
the National Crime Record Bureau report titled
Crime in India, 2013, released here last month.
The report showed that suicides rate has
declined in the country after 2011.
The population has increased by 15 percent
during the decade while the rate of suicides has
increased by 5.7 percent in 2013 over 2003
(from 10.4 percent in 2003 to 11 percent in
2013), hence showing a mixed trend in inci-
dents of rate of suicides during the decade, it
said.
The highest incidents of 16,622 suicides
were reported from Maharashtra in 2013, fol-
lowed by 16,601 suicides in Tamil Nadu. Both
account for 12.3 percent each of the total sui-
cides. Andhra Pradesh (14,607 suicides), West
Bengal (13,055 suicides) and Karnataka
(11,266 suicides) accounted for respectively
10.8 percent, 9.7 percent and 8.4 percent of the
total suicides reported in the country, said the
report.
These five states together accounted for
53.5 percent of the total suicides reported in the
country. The remaining 46.5 percent suicides
were reported from the rest of the 23 states and
seven Union territories. Among the 53 mega
cities, Chennai tops the list by witnessing 2,450
suicide cases in 2013, followed by Bangalore
2,033, Delhi 1,753 and Mumbai 1,322 cases.
These four metro cities have witnessed
more than 35 percent of the total suicide report-
ed from 53 cities, it said.
The report attributed family problems and
illness to be the main reasons for committing
suicides. The two reasons account for 24 per-
cent and 19.6 percent suicides out of the total
suicides. Unemployment, debt and drug abuse
are the other factors that compel a person to
take his life.
It pointed out that the number of married
men (64,098) committing suicide in 2012 was
double the married women (29,491).
The incidence of married men committing
suicide mainly due to family stress is on the
rise, Child Rights Initiative for Shared Parenting
(CRISP) president Kumar V. Jahgirdar told IANS
Thursday.
Studies conducted by the CRISP said mar-
ried men committed suicide mainly due to
alleged misuse of Section 498 (A) of the Indian
Penal Code (IPC) and the Domestic Violence
Act of 2005. Section 498 (A) deals with harass-
ing a married woman.
We are demanding setting up of a national
commission for men on the lines of the National
Commission of Women to look into the prob-
lems faced by married men, Jahgirdar added.
When a married man faces the domestic vio-
lence in the form of verbal abuse, mental abuse
and economical abuse, there is no provision in
law to seek justice, said Save Family
Foundation-Delhi founder member Swarup
Sarkar.
On the analogy of the Lokpal Act, which
has a special clause to punish those who mis-
use the law, there should a law to check misuse
of Section 498 (A) and the domestic violence
act, he added. (IANS)
Explain open defecation: NHRC
New Delhi: The National Human Rights
Commission (NHRC) on 1 July sought an
explanation from the Central and state govern-
ments over the lack of toilets which lead to
open defecation in the country.
We have sought reports from the secre-
tary, union ministry of drinking water and sani-
tation and the chief secretaries of all states and
Union territories within four weeks on the issue
of defecation in open and lack of toilets, said
an NHRC official.
Citing a survey which said 30 percent of
the women who defecated in the open were
sexually assaulted, the commission expressed
concern over the issue.
The notice followed suo motu cognizance
of a media report quoting the 2011 census that
more that 62 crore Indians, or half of the coun-
trys population, defecated in the open for want
for toilets. (IANS)
Maharashtra government, after facing a humiliating defeat in the recent Lok
Sabha elections, has now decided to grant 5 percent reservation to
Muslims and 16 percent reservation to Marathas in government service and
admission in educational institutions in the state. It is significant to note that
these reservations were announced by the state government firstly, when
the election results showed that Marathas, who form 32% of Maharashrtas
total population and Muslims who form about 10.5% of the states total
population, had largely deserted the Congress-NCP coalition government
and secondly, at a time when state assembly elections are going to be held
in about 4 months. In the Lok Sabha elections whereas NCP had won 4 of
the 48 Parliamentary seats, Congress had won only two seats. It is there-
fore obvious that these reservations were announced as a bribe to get their
support in the forthcoming assembly elections. Most of the remaining
Parliamentary seats were won by Shiv Sena and BJP. Maharashtras minor-
ity affairs minister Muhammad Arif Naseem Khan however described this
decision of the state government as historic and revolutionary, seeing
that Sachar Committee as well as Mahmoodur Rahman Committee
described social, educational and economic condition of Muslims as very
bad and hence this reservation will be a great help to them. However,
Jamiatul Ulama of Maharashtra Branch (Arshad Madni group)s managing
committee, not satisfied with 5% reservation demanded in its meeting held
at Haj House and attended by representatives from all over the country 20%
reservation for Muslims on the pattern of 16% reservation given to
Marathas.
Whereas opposition par ties in the state assembly, par ticularly BJP
criticised reservation for Muslims as vote bank politics and being
unconstitutional, it suppor ted 16% reservation to Marathas in accor-
dance with its anti-Muslim and pro-Hindu policy. Hindu Janjagruti
Samitis spokesman Ramesh Shinde, while criticising this steps of the
Maharashtra government said that the drama of reservation is simply to
appease the minorities.
Union minister for minorities affairs Mrs Najma Heptullah also criticised
reservation for Muslims. She also said that this was vote bank politics of the
Congress-NCP government and described it as an attempt to befool the com-
munity because the country is governed by a Constitution which does not allow
religion-based reservation. She further said that they (Congress-NCP) are fully
aware that this will never fructify because somebody will go to court again, as
in the case of reservation granted by Andhra Pradesh government a few years
ago which was rejected by the court and nullified by it She however refused to
comment on the reservation given to Marathas.
It may be stated that as regards reservation to Marathas, this appears
uncalled for. Hindu Jangagruti Samitis spokesman Ramesh Shinde said
that many Maratha organisations told him that they do not need reservation.
Meanwhile a PIL has been filed in Mumbai High Court against reservation
to Marathas wherein it is stated that Marathas are not a caste but a linguis-
tic group. They are not a backward community but a powerful and influen-
tial group and do not need reservation. This PIL will be taken up by the High
Court for hearing at a future date. (N. A. Ansari)
Maharashtra governments 5 percent reservation
to Muslims and 16% to Marathas
Snoopgate probe likely
to be given quiet burial
New Delhi: The previous UPA governments move to order a probe into the
Snoopgate affair may get a quiet burial with the Union home ministry
expected to move the Union Cabinet soon to dump the plan.
A note will be presented before the Union Cabinet to scrap the 26
December, 2013 order to set up a judicial commission of inquiry to probe
the charges of surveillance of a young woman in 2009 in Gujarat, official
sources said.
Minister of state for home Kiren Rijiju has indicated that the political-
ly-motivated decision to set up the inquiry commission will be reviewed
by the NDA government.
BJP had strongly opposed the move by the then Manmohan Singh gov-
ernment and demanded that the probe be stopped as a parallel inquiry had
been ordered into the matter by Gujarat government.
The UPA governments decision to set up the inquiry triggered a polit-
ical row as the Snoopgate affair involved Narendra Modi when he was the
Gujarat chief minister.
It was announced that the commission, to be headed by a retired
Supreme Court judge or a retired chief justice of a high court, would also
look into charges of snooping on Himachal Pradesh chief minister
Virbhadra Singh by the previous BJP government when he was in the oppo-
sition as well as the leaking of the call data records of Arun Jaitley, now
Union finance minister.
The Union Cabinet had taken its decision on the probe under the
Commissions of Inquiry Act, which the Gujarat government, too, had used
to set up a similar panel.
As no retired judge was willing to head the probe commission, the UPA
government had to abandon the plan to appoint the same days before the
Lok Sabha election results were announced. (/timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
Faulty EVMs to be phased out
Its vanaprastha time for these old warhorses of Indian elections. And
unlike some lush forest, the setting for this will probably be in a junkyard
for electronic goods. The Election Commission of India (ECI) could soon
embark on a wholesale junking exercise in which up to 900,000 electronic
voting machines, or EVMs, could be headed for the scrapyard in the next
five years, after their supposed infallibility was questioned during the
recently concluded Lok Sabha polls when some defective machines report-
edly recorded all votes in favour of just one political party.
In early April, in the run-up to the final polling day in Assam, election
officials found a voting machine in Jorhat constituency which transferred
all votes cast to the BJP candidate.
A similar incident was reported from a polling booth in Pune a few
weeks later, when voters found their votes being cast in favour of the
Congress party irrespective of the button pressed on the electronic voting
machine. Although the defective units were replaced immediately, media
reports on the faulty machines had political parties and activists question-
ing the efficacy of EVMs in general. An embarrassed EC has now decided
to embark on a major revamp - the largest ever - of its EVM stock and
abandon all 15-year-old voting machines and replace them with new ones
before the next Lok Sabha elections in 2019.
According to senior EC officials, some 900,000 EVMs are set to com-
plete 15 years of age before the year 2019. The commission has prepared
a detailed plan to get rid of them and replace them with new ones over the
next five years, said a senior EC official, who requested anonymity as he
is not authorised to speak to the media. The proposal for the exercise,
which could cost around Rs 1,000 crore, was sent to the Modi government
last month. EVMs, which are now the backbone of elections, were first
used across the country in the 2004 Lok Sabha election, making India even
ahead of several developed countries where paper ballots are still the norm.
The use of EVMs in India started in 1981, but these were mostly done
in the form of pilot programmes and were scaled up in subsequent elec-
tions. The adoption of EVMs accelerated from 2000-01 onwards and by
2004, EVMs were the norm.
In the 2014 general elections, the commission had deployed close to
16 lakh EVMs. Complaints regarding these machines, senior EC officials
say, have surfaced recently and only in those EVMs which were procured
in the year 2000-2001 at the cost of around Rs 10,000 per unit. One of the
machines manufacturer, Hyderabad-based state-run Electronics
Corporation of India Ltd, on ECs directive, found that the 2000-2001 batch
machines were acting up because of a defective part. They offered to
repair these machines, but the commission decided to not take chances
and dispose them off. There are about 1-1.5 lakh EVMs from this batch and
they will be destroyed first as soon as the law ministry (ECs parent body)
approves the proposal, the official added. The new EVMs could cost
between Rs 17,000 and Rs 18,000 per unit, accounting for the expenditure
figure of more than Rs 1,000 crore. The procurement, however, cannot
start immediately as the proposal needs the Union cabinets approval and
a subsequent allocation in the annual budget. (pressdisplay.com)
Missionaries banned from Bastar areas
Sirisguda (Bastar): An aggressive campaign by the Vishwa Hindu Parishad
has led to a ban on the entry of and propagation by non-Hindu missionar-
ies, especially Christians, in more than 50 villages of Chhattisgarhs Bastar
region in the last six months.
According to Suresh Yadav, Bastar district president of the VHP, over 50
gram panchayats in Bastar have passed orders under Section 129 (G) of
the Chhattisgarh Panchayat Raj Act banning all non-Hindu religious prop-
aganda, prayers and speeches in the villages.
The Sirisguda gram panchayat in the Tokapal block of Bastar passed
the order at a special Gram Sabha organised on May 10.
The order says, To stop the forced conversion by some outsider reli-
gious campaigners and to prevent them from using derogatory language
against Hindu deities and customs, the Sirisguda Gram Sabha bans reli-
gious activities such as prayers, meetings and propaganda of all non-Hindu
religions. In Sirisguda, the dispute started when Christian families refused
to pay donations for an annual Hindu religious festival. They refused dona-
tions and used derogatory language against Hindu gods so the Gram
Sabha banned them, claimed Sirisguda sarpanch Jamuna Baghel.
In the recent past, some Christians were attacked in the village and
have been denied ration on the orders of the village panchayat.
Its been over two months now that we have been denied ration in the
village and 10 Christians were attacked when they went to collect ration,
claimed Sonuru Mandavi, whose family converted to Christianity in 2002.
The villagers came to us with their problems. The VHP only told them
about the law. Now that the gram panchayats have passed the orders, it is
the responsibility of the district administration to implement them, other-
wise we will protest. We will also approach the CM and the Governor to get
the ban imposed, asserted Mr. Yadav.
The Chhattisgarh Christian Forum (CCF) has alleged that the ban is
illegal and unconstitutionalIt is similar to what khap panchayats do.
How can you ask us to block our religious activities on the basis of a pan-
chayat Act? asked Arun Pannalal, CCF president. He said the Constitution
guaranteed the freedom of religion to all. (Pavan Dahat, thehindu.com)
Muzaffarnagar riots: Case against
10 Muslim leaders
Meerut: The district administration filed a case against ten Muslim commu-
nity leaders, including BSP leader Kadir Rana, for violating prohibitory
orders and making inflammatory speeches that led to communal clashes
in Muzaffarnagar, ADM Indramani Tripathi said. On August 30, 2013, the
ten leaders allegedly made inflammatory speeches during a panchayat in
Khalapar locality, despite prohibitory orders being in place due to tension in
Kawal village. The case was filed in the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate
Garima and the next hearing is on July 1. However, according to
Muzaffarnagar DM Kaushal Raj Sharma, the case was filed on 10 May. The
other accused are Kadir Rana, Maulana Jamil, Noor Salim Rana,
Saeeduzamma, Asad Zama Ansari, Naushad Qureshi, Sultan Mushir,
Naushad, Ehsaan Qureshi and Salman Saeed.
Another leader, Sanjiv Baliyan, who is now a cabinet minister at the
Centre, was also held for the same violations and even slapped with nation-
al security act (NSA).
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N. A. ANSARI
New Delhi: The new government had come to power at the centre
with the promise that good days will come for the people of this
country. Only time will tell when the good days will come but as
regards Urdu teachers, it is certain that there will be bad days for
them in future, seeing that last year under the Congress govt as
many as 200 posts of Urdu teach-
ers were advertised under govern-
ments sarva shiksha abhiyan
(education for all movement). It
is however a different matter that
all posts were not filled up. Before
that i.e. in 2012, 100 posts were
sanctioned. This year (2014) only
25 posts have been advertised for
which applications have been
invited and applications (or appli-
cation forms) were to be submitted by 21 June. These 25 posts
for Urdu teachers, too are on contract basis. Though teachers who
were previously appointed on contract basis are agitating since
long to get their post regularised on a permanent basis but the
government is not paying any attention to this demand of teach-
ers. It is interesting to note that the government is very keen on
the modernization of madrasas but it is totally indifferent to their
(teachers) demand for making their posts permanent. Moreover,
there is already a great shortage of Urdu teachers in schools but
in spite of this, instead of creating more posts of Urdu teachers
and appointing more Urdu teachers the new government has dras-
tically curtailed their posts. To add to this difficulty, the compulso-
ry condition of teachers doing CTET will further disqualify them
because most Urdu teachers are non C-TET and because of this,
they are not appointed.
Last year the Congress government had advertised 200 posts
of Urdu teachers but because of not having done C-TET which is
compulsory, only 50 Urdu teachers were appointed. Now a large
number of teachers have done C-TET but government has drasti-
cally curtailed posts of Urdu teachers (only 25, as stated above).
Last year, new Urdu sections were to be opened in 55 such
schools where Urdu was not taught
earlier and 100 Urdu teachers were to
be appointed in these schools but out
of 55, Urdu sections were opened
only in 32 such schools for which
only 66 Urdu teachers were appoint-
ed. Though posts of teachers of other
languages also have been curtailed to
a small extent, the maximum curtail-
ment has been made in the case of
Urdu language teachers, as can be
seen in the following table:
From this table it can be seen that as many as 175 posts of Urdu
teachers have been curtailed, which is the maximum as compared
to other languages, and the number of existing Punjabi teachers is
much more than the sanctioned posts.


Language No. of posts this year No. of posts last year No. of posts curtailed
English 377 405 28
Hindi 361 365 4
Sanskrit 243 299 56
Punjabi 3 4 1 (It is worth mentioning that in this language
(Punjabi) number of sanctioned posts is 265
but there are 399 teachers of this language)
Urdu 25 200 175
Bad days for Urdu teachers in Modi government: posts of
Urdu teachers drastically reduced
Number of posts curtailed in other languages
SIMI leader acquitted
honourably
HAFEEZ NOMANI
On the first Friday of the auspicious month of Ramadan came a
big pleasing news that a distinguished leader of SIMI (Students
Islamic Movement of India) and four other dangerous members
of the outfit have been released on the ground that the eight wit-
nesses prepared by the police against them declared that all the
allegations were baseless.
SIMI was banned when the now heartbroken Mr L. K Advani
was the Home Minister. After that police personnel arrested at will
any prayer-offering, fast-observing youth who, from his appear-
ance looked Muslim alleging that he was spreading sectarian-
ism through pen and glib.
One need not be surprised that hundreds of SIMI members
were arrested under one charge: spreading sectarian hatred
while this hatred was never seen anywhere. Though the police
had repeatedly shown this drama on TV of a bare-headed, kurta-
pajama-clad and light-bearded youth standing in front of a mike,
waving his hands in the air and making a speech at a distance
from where he could neither be recognised nor could be heard.
The mat spread in front has no audience except a man sitting
nearby who looked like a labourer or the one who had laid the
mat or had installed the mike.
Safdar Nagori is seen waiving his hands and moving fast in
such bravado as if through his oratory he is going to overthrow
the entire NDA government but not even a single word of his
speech is audible. It is revealed only later that it was Safdar
Nagori delivering an inflammatory speech.
One important aspect about SIMI is that some years ago
High Court had lifted the ban on it saying that no charge could be
established against it. This news struck Sonia Gandhi like a bolt
and in panic she rushed to the Supreme Court and got a stay
order and thus the innocent youths were left to languish in jails.
In Ms Sonias tenure there used to be one Home Minister
called S. K. Patil, who is now the Governor of Punjab and is soon
going to become an ex. He too suffered from this whimsical
notion so much so that whenever and wherever there was a blast
the abrupt word that came out of his mouth was SIMI. Though
he didnt know anything about SIMI and hadnt read anything
about it, nor had he the time to do so because after every two
hours he had to change his clothes and during the next two hours
he used to think about which clothes to wear next.
The only crime that led to the ban on SIMI was a full-size
poster with a photograph of Babri Mosque in the middle and a
bold caption on top and below saying O Allah send a Mahmood
Ghaznavi. This was the display of a similar mindset that the
Muslim League has for provoking and irritating Hindus. Is there
anyone who doesnt know about a number of colourful stories
going around among Hindus about Mahmood Ghaznavi? But
what Muslims have been told is different. However, in India only
what the Hindu[tva] historians say will be accepted as authentic.
No matter what Muslim historians say, it will neither be listened to
nor accepted.
When I looked at this poster, I was shaken. I came to my
office and penned a very strong article. It angered SIMIs
mujahideen who came to my office to argue their case. Since I
was not in the office at that time, I was informed on phone about
the situation. I instructed that they be dealt with respect and
entertained with tea etc. until I arrive there.
Upon my arrival, I encountered, just as I was informed,
youths fuming with anger as if we had taken the sword away from
the hands of Khalid Bin Waleed. I talked to them with love and
compassion and asked them if they could tell me about the con-
tribution Mahmood Ghaznavi had made for a better future for
Muslims and if he ever comes now with his army will he be able
to capture even a single village? The fact is that I poured my heart
out to them because they were all young and talented.
I gave them my own example and told them that I had suf-
fered nine months in prison for merely bringing out a special issue
of a newspaper that had not even been read by anyone and got
confiscated by the blind Hindu Congress Government without
even knowing if there was anything anti-government in it. They
arrested me when they had no ground and no explanation of the
criminal code Section under which they had done so. They arrest-
ed me under DIR (Defence of India Rules), that was similar to
pieces of blind legislation like TADA, MCOCA and POTA because
by doing so they did not require giving the reason of the arrest of
an accused. But my dear ones, I told them. you have published
these huge beautiful posters in three languages inviting
Mahmood Ghaznavi who has been accused of dozens of attacks
on Somnath. Somehow I succeeded in mollifying and sending
them away and advised them that to do something constructive
one doesnt need to irritate and provoke anyone. However, next
morning I read in newspapers that SIMI had been banned and
hundreds of its members in Lucknow, Delhi and Mumbai had
been arrested who continue to suffer there to this date.
On 26 June, when Modi Government completed its first
month in office, it was said that Modi had asked for 60 months
and only one has gone. During this period, instead of any
improvement, the situation has deteriorated. However, one month
is not enough to pass any judgement. Our friends have forgotten
that for doing a bigger job than this, Mr Modi has asked one year,
i.e., 12 months. He had said that the cases of MPs with criminal
record would be decided within a year through special courts and
only those with clean record will remain in the Parliament and the
ones with dented record will go to prison. We are looking at 12
months, minus one, during which neither the judges of these spe-
cial courts have been appointed nor have cities and buildings for
them been designated. What we are seeing is Mr Modis darling
Amit Shah on his way to be appointed as BJPs President at a
time when a murder case against him is in the court and who,
having spent several months in jail, has been released on bail.
The souls of Shorabuddin and his young and beautiful wife are,
or God knows if she is herself, watching the appointment of 80
commandos for the protection of that very person on whose direc-
tions all that was done to them which one feels abhorring even to
mention.
In April, BJP President Rajnath Singh had announced that he
will not be holding any position in the Government and will instead
only be serving the party. But Modi was worried about Amit Shah.
He could not appoint him as Home Minister. So first he started
singing songs in praise of Rajnath Singh and then gave the
impression that without Rajnath Singh, he will not be able to run
the Government. Rajnath Singh was forced to join the govern-
ment. One month after his stay in the government, the path for
Amit Shah was made clear and he is being elevated to the post
Modi wanted for him. What has happened is exactly what had
been done by Rajiv Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi, i.e., holding two
positions. In order to silence the critics, Modi did not keep party
presidentship to himself but has put it in the pocket of the waist-
coat hanging on the wall peg and has for its protection appointed
80 commandos for whose training lakhs of rupees are spent.
If Modi wants to do some good he should also release the
SIMI boys. They are emotional, immature youths and the punish-
ment they have been subjected to is more than enough.
(Translated from Avadhnama, Lucknow, 5 July 2014 by
urdumediamonitor.com)
Hafeez Nomani is a veteran Urdu journalist and author of several
books. The story of his nine months captivity, Roodad-e-Qafas, under the
draconian DIR has been published in Urdu and Hindi
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With Modi coming to power
in the 2014 elections, vari-
ous analysts have been
arguing about the shape of
things to come in very
diverse ways. Modi himself
is being compared to the
likes of Nixon, Margret
Thatcher, Reagan on one hand and Hitler on the
other. His being compared to Hitler has met with
severe criticism by many other commentators
(Comparing Hitlers Germany with India 2014 is
odious, Marcus Pindur and Padma Rao
Sunderji, HT, 23 May 2014) have strongly come
out saying that Modi is no Hitler and India of
2014 is very different from Germany of 1930s.
The authors argue that after the defeat of
Germany in the First World War, Germany was
going through a rough patch which was wors-
ened by the great depression of late 1920s and
this created a situation for the rise of Hitler and
his genocidal politics. The second factor which
they assert is about the weakness of German
Democracy where the Nazis with just 30% of
the votes could come to power.
Its true that no two political situations are
exactly alike. What is also true is that despite the
superficial differences there are deeply embed-
ded trends which have similarity in more ways
than one. While India has not seen the type of
post-First World War ignominy which Germans
suffered, it is also true that during the last few
years, beginning with Anna Hazare movement
and later through Arvind Kejrivals AAP party, a
serious sense of mistrust in the ruling party and
the political system was carefully orchestrated.
The moving force of Anna movement was
Modis parent organization RSS. Through a
vicious propaganda and spectacle of mass pro-
grammes, Anna movement practically con-
structed a severe mistrust in the present system,
Parliament and the ruling party. Kejrival, by tak-
ing along a large section of civic society groups,
took this discrediting of the ruling party to fur-
ther heights.
As far as democracy in India is concerned,
it is a process of evolution. Some steps forward,
some steps backwards. On one hand we see
that the democratic awareness is spreading far
and wide, the keenness to participate in the elec-
toral process is increasing by the day, which is a
very positive trend. At the same time, there is the
Westminster-model of electoral politics which
totally undermines the representative character
of the Indian democracy. In Germany, Nazis
could come to power with 30 percent of the
votes. Here in 2014 India, BJP with a mere 31
percent of votes has emerged as the party with
simple majority! The other process undermining
the character of Indian democracy is the preva-
lence of caste and gender hierarchy. Due to this
graded hierarchy prevalent in the society, both
women and dalits are subjected to injustices
which are there but not perceived and projected
easily in the society. Yet another factor under-
mining the Indian democracy is the communal-
ization of the state apparatus due to which reli-
gious minorities are not only subjected to regu-
lar and repeated violence but are also deprived of
justice. Many youth have been recklessly arrest-
ed in the wake of bomb blasts, their social lives
and careers ruined before the courts exonerated
them after discovering that the evidence against
them was totally fabricated. Meanwhile the
demonization of this minority goes up and they
are relegated to the status of second class citi-
zenship at places.
While Hitler may have been an overt hater
of Jews and parliamentary democracy, Modi is
deeply rooted in the ideology of Hindu nation-
alism which regards Hindus alone to be the
ones deserving to be the citizens of this coun-
try. The people of foreign religions, i.e.,
Muslims and Christians, are regarded as threat
to the Hindu nation. Golwalkar, the RSS ideo-
logue, outlined this in his book Bunch of
Thoughts. Modis ideological foundations are
rooted in this ideology which again goes on to
model itself on the lines of Hitler. Appreciating
Hitlers genocide against Jews, Modis ideolog-
ical mentor, Golwalkar writes, To keep up
the purity of nation and its culture, Germany
shocked the world by her purging the country of
Semitic races-the Jews. National pride at its
highest has been manifested here. Germany
has also shown how nigh impossible it is for
races and cultures, having differences going to
the root, to be assimilated into one united whole
- a good lesson for us in Hindustan to learn and
profit by. (We or Our Nationhood Defined,
1938, p. 27).
Modi has shown this in practice in Gujarat,
where nearly two thousand people were done to
death by brutal methods and then large sections
of the Muslim community have been reduced to
live the life of humiliation and deprivation, con-
centrated in ghettoes. To think that Supreme
Court has exonerated Modi of this carnage is
again one of the biggest propaganda exercises
of current times. The SIT was formed by
Supreme Court. An Amicus Curiae was appoint-
ed by the same court. SIT says that there is no
ground to prosecute Modi but based on the
same SIT report the Supreme Court-appointed
Amicus Curiae says that there is enough evi-
dence in the report to prosecute Modi.
When a German delegation visited Gujarat in
April 2010, one of the members of the delegation
pointed out that he was shocked by parallels
between Germany under Hitler and Gujarat under
Modi. Incidentally, in Gujarat school books Hitler
has been glorified as a great nationalist.(
http://deshgujarat.com/2010/04/10/german-
mps-mind-your-own-business/).
The similarities with Hitler dont end here.
Like Hitler, Modi enjoys the solid support from
the corporate world. Like Hitler, Modi has deep
hatred for religious minorities and he believes in
Hindu nationalism, as per his own admission.
His attitude to religious minorities and his own
persona was best described by the psychoana-
lyst Ashish Nandy, who interviewed him much
before he presided over Gujarat I had the
privilege of interviewing (Modi)it left me in no
doubt that here was a classic, clinical case of a
fascist. I never use the term fascist as a term of
abuse; to me it is a diagnostic category com-
prising not only ones ideological posture but
also the personality traits and motivational pat-
terns contextualizing the ideology.
(http://such.forumotion.com/t17216-ashis-
nandy-narendra-modi-is-a-classical-clinical-
case-of-a-fascist).
While Germany of 1930s and India of 2014
are different, there are many similarities also.
The context of Hitler and Modi is different but the
underlying politics (sectarian nationalism) is
similar, demonization of the other is similar and
charisma created around the leader is similar.
The fate of the largest democracy is in dol-
drums, the only thing which can help it is the
rule of law, morality-laced justice, revival of
movements for democratic and human rights, to
work for the platform of social movements
which is inclusive and stands for the values of
Liberty, Equality and Fraternity in a substantive
way. (pluralindia.com)
Can Modi be compared to Hitler?
6 The Milli Gazette, 16-31 July 2014 NATIONAL www.milligazette.com
M R SHAMSHAD
One of the chapters of our
Constitution makes cer tain
duties obligatory and
fundamental. These duties
have put the citizens under
certain obligations towards the
Nation and Society. These
duties include: duty to develop
scientific temper, protect rich heritage and
composite culture, environment, National Flag
etc. This is different from the Chapter of
Fundamental Rights wherein the citizens could
claim rights against the State.
Like the fundamental rights of a citizen,
the fundamental duties can be said to have
same significance to strengthen the composite
society by placing citizens under obligation to
undertake this exercise. One such fundamental
duty is to safeguard public property and to
abjure violence.
Recently the Supreme Court invoked the
principle of scientific temperament and has
stopped the 450-years-old game called
Jallikattu, an organized Bull Fight in Tamil
Nadu and Bullock Cart Racing in Maharashtra.
For a citizen to understand the responsibility
with penal consequences, special laws have
been passed qua environmental protection,
National Flag, Ancient Monuments, for various
scientific developments, emergency provisions
to protect sovereignty and integrity of the Nation
etc. However, one of the important aspects of
fundamental duties to abjuring violence has
seen unrealistic phase on the part of the
obligated class. Though belatedly, an special
legislation was passed in 2005 to control
violence but it was kept confined to domestic
violence subjected to a woman but a very
serious type of violence on communal basis is
still being tried under the general criminal law,
i.e., Indian Penal Code (IPC) which is meant for
the crime of general nature.
From time to time, we have realized the need
to curb specialized crimes and we made special
laws like TADA, UAPA, NDPS, prevention from
atrocities of SC/ST, food adulteration, cruelty
against animals, and transplantation of human
organs etc.
An effective legal process to deal with the
perpetrators of communal violence is still a
subject matter of political quandary.
In 2008, a Supreme Court Judge (H.S.Bedi)
took a dissenting view (from the other judge)
while dealing with the criminal case arising out
of communal violence. After referring to various
reports relating to communal violence, he raised
the question as to whether a murder committed
during a communal riot can be equated with the
murder in normal course. By holding that the
two circumstances are different, the evidence of
the defence in communal violence cases needed
to be examined differently. However, the larger
bench took a different view, making the view
taken by Bedi J ineffective.
The indications are very clear that the
general Criminal Law to deal with the
circumstances in communal violence is not
sufficient and the accused takes the benefit of
lacunae in the criminal law. The low rate of final
convictions in such cases proves this.
From 1969 onwards, various commissions
of enquiry have reported as to how the local
police behave during the communal violence.
Victims complaints are not registered, evidence
is destroyed or not taken into consideration, and
a particular community is implicated in the
violence.
Ranganath Mishra Commission (1984),
reported that the riots occurred broadly on
account of the total passivity, callousness and
indifference of police in the matter and
controlling the situation and protecting the
people of Sikh community and the police
wanted withdrawal of cases against the
perpetrators of violence.
Thereafter, in the preliminary report on
Mumbai Riots of 1993, Srikrishna Commision
repor ted that police officers and men,
particularly at junior level, appeared to have an
inbuilt bias against Muslims which was evident
in their treatment of the suspected Muslims and
Muslim victims of riots.
If that be so, how the investigation process
and the enquiry on complaints would proceed, is
the matter of serious concern. The amount of
reluctance in lodging an FIR in a normal case is
known in our system.
Given the situation reflected in the reports,
the police has unlimited discretion to frustrate
the efforts to lodge FIRs against the violence
until lives have been lost and the pressure of
senior officials, and now media, works. Upon
the limited FIRs in serious matters, the police is
the sole authority to collect, ignore and discard
material evidence against the offenders and file
or not to file the charge sheet at their whim and
fancy and that is the time when loopholes are
provided with intention of providing a means of
acquittal to the accused. Even when the charge
sheets are filed in certain cases, whether
ultimately the charges would be sustained after
the judicial scrutiny or not, the police is not
affected.
The low rate of convictions in the communal
violence case, due to limited registration of FIRs,
has not been discussed to make our police
system accountable to its citizen.
The role of public prosecutors prosecuting
the offence is also equally important. How
generally cases of communal violence have
been dealt to close them by the prosecutors in
2002 Gujarat cases have recently been exposed
in the sting operation of Ashish Khaitan. The
effect of all this is no registration of FIRs and/or
no conviction after the chargesheets or very
very low convictions. In Gujarat riots cases, the
conviction is stated to be 5 percent in cases
where the prosecution was in the hands of the
state (Police) and 39 percent where the
Supreme Court intervened and kept watch on
the proceedings.
In the recent violence in Muzaffarnagar, a
total 566 FIRs had been lodged naming about
6403 persons. Out of the FIRs, 59 FIRs related
to murder cases. During the investigation, the
police decided that 48 FIRs were falsely
registered, 549 persons (516 Hindus & 33
Muslims) were falsely implicated, 3803 persons
were implicated in more than two FIRs and
hence dropped. Finally the scope of further
investigation had to be confined with only 984
accused. The arrest and surrender of the
accused is stated to be continuing. Under these
circumstances, the view of the police, which
acts by applying a general criminal law on the
issue of removal of names of the accused from
FIRs, dropping of FIRs or stating that FIRs had to
be dropped because one person is involved in
more than one FIR etc, goes unchecked. One
person could certainly be involved in more than
one offence during the same violence but why
should he face only one FIR or only one criminal
trial? Very few cases have been able to reach
the higher courts when proper cognizance has
been taken to such lapses.
Why cant our representatives move a little
ahead from the thought process which enables
the sate functionaries to ignore the issue which
ultimately infringes upon the most valuable right
to life guaranteed under Article 21 of the
Constitution? We cannot move on with this
administrative callousness on the issue of
security to life. The need of the hour is for the
political class to realize its fundamental duty to
the citizens. We have passed legislations for the
SCs/STs and dowry prohibition etc where the
onus of proving innocence has been put on the
accused. In organized violence, we still depend
upon the legislation where the evidence has to
undergo serious scrutiny and the presumption of
innocence is carried by the accused till the
conclusion of trial. What would be the rate of
conviction in the trial of Muzaffarnagar riots
case? 5 percent or 39 percent is a matter for us
to wait and watch.
The author is Advocate-on-Record,
Supreme Court of India
Due to this graded hierarchy prevalent in the society,
both women and dalits are subjected to injustices
which are there but not perceived and projected
easily in the society. Yet another factor undermining
the Indian democracy is the communalization of the
state apparatus due to which religious minorities are
not only subjected to regular and repeated violence
but are also deprived of justice. Many youth have
been recklessly arrested in the wake of bomb blasts,
their social lives and careers ruined before the
courts exonerated them after discovering that the evidence against them
was totally fabricated. Meanwhile the demonization of this minority goes
up and they are relegated to the status of 2nd class citizens at places.
Separate law needed for organized violence
LEGAL NOTES
NATIONAL The Milli Gazette, 16-31 July 2014 7 www.milligazette.com
Hindu children learn Urdu, Muslims learn Sanskrit in this madrasa
New Delhi: Various
civil rights activists,
academicians and
journalists organ-
ised a two-day con-
ference at the
Constitution Club
here on 5-6 July to
discuss several
issues such as plu-
ralism, right to dis-
sent and building
social solidarities
among several
groups and individ-
uals who are fight-
ing for the same causes across India. They
stressed that one should not be frustrated
with the current political scenario of the
country and should continue to struggle for
civil rights and work against injustice.
Par ticipants gathered from across the coun-
try in the conference which was named as
Idea of India Conclave.
Speaking on upholding Indias pluralism,
former bureaucrat, activist Harsh Mander
said that the idea of development is nothing
but rapid privatization.
He criticized the governments move
soon after May 16, when Narendra Modi
was sworn in as Prime Minister, of increas-
ing the height of the Narmada dam and
announcing full FDI in a crucial sector like
defence.
Mander who had resigned as an IAS offi-
cer posted in Gujarat soon after the riots in
2002, said that he had seen Dalitisation of
Muslims in Gujarat. The thing that worries
me is the construction of the 2nd class citi-
zenship. And Ive seen it par ticularly in what
I call the Dalitisation of Muslims in Gujarat
since 2002 We also have to talk about
what will happen if the Gujarat Model is
going to reduce the minorities to 2nd class
citizenship, he said.
Addressing the gathering, noted activist
and dancer Mallika Sarabhai said that one
should move on from the past and there is
no need to keep mourning on the failure of
secular forces in the recent election. It is
not good enough to sit here and mourn
about it and remember the past, she said
adding that it is time of action and everyone
who believes in secularism and the pluralis-
tic society of India should decide on what he
or she can do for it. All of us need to under-
stand and ask ourselves this very basic
question, what am I willing to do to actually
reach out to those that we think are misguid-
ed in wanting a par ticular view of India, a
par ticular, a very small, a very parochial, a
very anti-everything view of India? What are
we going to do to change it? she added.
Lawyer and activist Tehmina Arora
focused on creating a group of people in
each locality who are skilled with peace-
making and can mediate during communal
riots. She said that it is impor tant to identify
violent people and victims of violence. How
would we stop this (violence)? One sugges-
tion is to star t training violence-inter-
rupters, people who are trusted insiders
and even outreach workers, who are trained
in mediation skills and have deep socio-legal
understanding, she suggested adding The
idea is not to say no to conflict. There is a
cer tain amount of healthy conflict that we
must encourage, but we must say no to vio-
lence.
Other noted writers and activists such as
Ram Puniyani, Saeed Akhtar Mirza, Syeda
Hameed, Malika Sarabhai, Apoorvanand,
Seema Mustafa, Teesta Seetalvad, John Dyal
and Anand Patwardhan also addressed the
conference.(indiatomorrow.net)
Lucknow: Madrasa Anwarul Islam Salafiah in Jaunpur (UP)s
Jalalpur area which was set up in 1998 is a unique madrasa, see-
ing that whereas Hindu children of this madrasa learn Urdu,
Arabic, Persian and about the Shariat, Muslim children / students
are taught Sanskrit and religious shlokas in this madrasa. Hindu
and Muslim students in this madrasa learn about each others reli-
gion and spread the message of communal harmony and brother-
hood between the people of two communities. When this madrasa
was set up and teaching started, initially there was hesitation
among Hindus to send their children to this madrasa but gradual-
ly they star ted sending their children here. According to
Muhammad Shiyakat, Head of this madrasa, people found this
concept attractive and today we have almost an equal number of
children from both communities. He said that the only motive in
setting up this madrasa was to promote peace and harmony
between the people of two religions and today this rare sight is
what people get to see here.
This madrasa has about 500 students and 16 teachers, six of
whom are Hindus. (Ms) Savita, a teacher of this madrasa also
says that the very purpose of setting up this institution was to
forge a bond between Hindus and Muslims from a young age. If
children learn to respect each others religion, there will be no ani-
mosity between them when they grow up, she says. It may also
be stated in this connection that there are three other schools in
the neighbourhood but the number of students in those schools is
much smaller as compared to this madrasa. The land on which
this madrasa is built was bought from a local Brahmin family that
willingly gave up its land when they heard about the aim of this
madrasa.
NRIs Urged To Build
Educational Institutions
Mahbubul Hoque, Chancellor of the University of Science and
Technology Meghalaya, urged Aligarh alumni living in different
western countries to build educational institutions in India and
carry forward the Aligarh movement as envisioned by Sir Syed
Ahmed and repay their debt to their alma mater and the country.
Mr. Hoque made this appeal while delivering a talk on Role of
Alumni in Institution building at the thirteenth convention of the
Federation of Aligarh Alumni Associations, (FAAA) held in Chicago
during 20-22 June. Hoque said that Aligarh alumni are high
achievers in life and have brought laurels to themselves and to
their workplaces. Now it is time for them to contribute to the cause
of education back home and carry the Aligarh movement forward.
Hoque suggested that Aligarh alumni living in USA may convert
their Indian homes, which are lying unused most of the time, into
class rooms and open one class of nursery school with students
from neighbouring areas with one teacher and go on adding one
class each year and in the course of the next few years it will be
a full-fledged school contributing to the society in perpetuity even
when they are no more. This will be the same way AMU is con-
tributing to the development of the country even when its original
founders are no more. He said, you must recall that Sir Syed start-
ed Anglo-Oriental College in a humble way and now it is one of the
largest universities in the world. Though AMU alumni, living in
posh localities of USA, are emotionally connected to their roots,
their children are now American without much link with India. By
setting up educational institutions at their birth place, they will
ensure a link of their children to their roots back home besides
serving their community and fulfilling the expectations of their
neighbours. He suggested that if you are not able to do it, at least
you can support educational institutions in India and become
facilitators in building institutions.
Many delegates from across USA, Canada and India and other
countries participated in the Chicago convention. Members appre-
ciated the efforts of Mr Hoque in building institutions including the
university with humble beginning.
Mushawarat appeals for the release
of Indians abducted in Iraq
New Delhi: All India Muslim Majlis-e Mushawarat, the apex body
of Indian Muslim organisations, appealed on 19 June to the com-
batants in northern Iraq to release the Indian workers said to have
been taken hostage there. President of AIMMM, Dr Zafarul-Islam
Khan said here that these ordinary workers have nothing to do
with the conflict in Iraq and that they had gone there only seeking
livelihood in a legal and honourable way.
Dr Khan appealed to the forces keeping these Indians in their
custody to allow them to leave Iraq at the earliest. Dr Khan added
that India has been traditionally a friend of the Iraqi people and it
is not taking sides in the current strife in that country. Dr Khan
said releasing these Indians at the earliest will send a good mes-
sage to the whole world about Iraq and its people, and will create
goodwill for them.
Dr Khan said that all Indian Islamic organisations support this
appeal and hope that it will be favourably received at the earliest.
Sending Indian Muslim youth to Iraq
improper: Mushawarat
New Delhi: All India Muslim Majlis-e Mushawarat on 18 June,
2014, expressed its unease at the reports in newspapers that
some Muslim organizations are registering Muslim youths to
send them to the strife-stricken Iraq. Mushawarat President,
Dr Zafarul-Islam Khan said in a press statement here that we all
are sad at the blood-letting in Iraq and pray for an early return of
peace in that country but we believe it is an inappropriate and ill-
thought-out step to send our youths to Iraq to fight alongside a
party to the conflict in the name of safeguarding sacred shrines.
He said, we value the sentiments of our Muslim brothers but we
would like to advise them that in the current serious situation in
Iraq, it is not appropriate to send our youths there to certain death.
Islam does not allow us to expose ourselves knowingly to death.
Moreover, this is also against the laws and policies of our country
to go and fight in a foreign land.
Dr Khan added that Indian Muslims are facing a complicated
situation at home and as such sending our youths to die in a strife-
stricken foreign country is against wisdom and sagacity. He added
that safeguarding the sacred shrines of Iraq is a responsibility of
its government and people. We should not be swept away by sen-
timents to take a step injurious to our community. Dr Khan
expressed apprehension that after their return to India, such
youths will be implicated in the anti-Muslim campaign in the name
of fighting terror. Therefore, extra caution is needed in such sensi-
tive matters.
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rights: activists
Sarabai speaking at the conclave
MUHAMMAD ADEEB M.P. (Rajya Sabha)
Prior to the recent Parliamentary elections, a wide-
ranging restiveness and unrest among the ranks
of Muslim leadership was very much evident.
Every Tom, Dick and Harry was heard screaming
from one roof-top or the other that the prime mis-
sion of the whole Muslim Community was to stop
BJP from coming to power, at any cost.
The over-confident Muslim leadership raised
slogans against Narendra Modi at the highest pitch. One may not be
quite sure that the community heeded to their slogan-mongering or
not and whether it took the self-styled religious and social leaders
seriously or not, but as a counter effect, the majority community got
a clear message and very cleverly closed their ranks across barriers
of castes and groups to be united en masse.
The resultant outcome was unfortunate enough, as the mind-
less approach (read: the folly of the so-called leadership) had mis-
erably failed and the Muslim masses got split in sheer disgust, and
then followed an aimless exercise of desperate voting. On the other
side of the fence, Hindus joined hands to blow up the balloon of BJP
out of all proportions and voted for the instalment of Modi Sarkar, en
bloc. The strategy of Muslim leadership backfired very badly and the
counteraction of the fascist forces - now unified - worked well. The
final outcome (read: the logical end-result) of the foolish exercise
was that BJP enjoyed a cake walk, romping home to an absolute
majority, on its own for the first time, in its history of 62 two years
(including Jana Sangh years).
The Sangh Parivar, very rightly aired thankful messages and
very generously extended the credit of their unexpected victory to the
great Muslim leaders who had very stupidly made their task easy.
In most constituencies - specially, where Muslims were in good
numbers and Muslim enthusiasts had outnumbered the Hindu aspi-
rants - the BJP had not to struggle for winning at the hustings - leave
alone a real fighting. Instead, the party had smoothly walked on the
ramp, like a fashion show. And Muslims, who love to nap and snore
in air castles, found themselves in a desert with no oasis in sight and
no path to go, in any direction, around. It was quite natural and no
one was to be blamed, except the community itself and its brainless,
splintered leadership - without an iota of foresightedness. Its
shameful on all counts, the community leaders claim to be the inher-
itors of stalwarts like Maulana Azad, Sheikhul Hind and Maulana
Madani, who had predicted various events a quarter century earlier
than their occurrence. No doubt, they could foresee beyond
precincts of time while the present leaders - despite their claims of
all intellectual approach and religious enlightenment - are unable to
see even beyond the walls of their own houses and ghettos of their
speechless followers.
All said and done, now Modi Sarkar is a reality (it may be harsh
for some, but soothing for many.) Narendra Modi has ascended the
throne of Hindustan as the new Prime Minister. His grand victory,
though evident, in advance, yet astonishing, opened all eyes in India
and abroad, equally. The events have taken their natural course.
Modi is in, everybody else is out. This is not a BJP Government, its
a Modi Sarkar. Among Muslims, all hypocrites and opportunists, as
per their fate, are at the receiving end. They have seen their political
strategy (if it exists at all) nose-dive. But, such people never lose
hope. In fact, they always have hope against hope. In all circum-
stances, they have a one-point programme - to serve their interests
alone and for that to be near the throne, by any means, in any case
and at any cost. Now, in the changed scenario, their apprehensions
have crossed all boundaries. Thats why, they are queuing up to
prostrate at the thresholds of the new lord, they are anxious and
ambitious to gain access to the palace of power, as hurriedly as pos-
sible and to assure the newly crowned king of not only their support,
but to place their all out services at his pleasure. And in this mad
race of loyalty, to the new rulers, they are stampeding each other, to
prove themselves more loyal than the king.
Ironically, these time-servers have realised that the new BJP
regime has to stay, not for a five year term but for at least two con-
secutive tenures. Hence, an unconditional surrender and a shame-
less, open offer to be sold or even auctioned, and that too, without
any interest shown by the prospective buyer. They are displayed for
sale, without any willing taker. Most of the heads of the Muslim
organisations and institutions - religious, social and political - are
desperately stepping over shoulders of each other in the marathon
race for greed and lust. Evidently, this is an unsolicited and uncalled
for exercise, as BJP, being equipped with a cosy strength in Lok
Sabha and Modi, being firmly in the saddle, need no support - leave
Muslims - from any quarter, outside their fold (not even moral or
symbolic), as the RSS is very much there at their back for all patron-
age and guidance.
Making things worse than ever for themselves, Muslims during
the recent elections have lost all their vigour, vitality and even the
whims of their vote bank or being a deciding force. BJP has con-
quered the fort of Delhi, without their support, or to say more cor-
rectly, despite their loud opposition. In this vicious process, they
have lost their bargaining power at least for coming years.
In the light of these hard facts, their leaders offer of support or
solidarity for the new regime is worthless. Although, insiders claim
that at least a few Muslim factions, out of will or desperation, did
vote for BJP, yet, even this act has no value now, and their votes -
even if cast in BJPs favour - are not supposed to have made any
difference, in view of the overwhelming and all round support, the
party has enjoyed.
Now, a question arises: what message, these (non-) leaders,
without any virtual following, wish to convey and to whom? And
who is going to purchase their loyalties? Perhaps no one. Needless
to say that these irrelevant and purposeless efforts are meant to lose
whatever grace or weightage is still left with these organisations, if
any.
Prime Minister Modi, during his poll campaign had raised sever-
al issues and indicated some of his intentions regarding minorities
and particularly Muslims. But, quite expectedly, after his coronation,
any of the practical initiatives concerned with his pronounced char-
ter are still awaited. Nobody is there to remind him of what he had
professed to. With no courage to see straight into the eyes of the
new lords, the abovementioned, self-styled Muslim leaders are over-
ambitious, in competing with each other, while exhibiting their mean-
ingless enthusiasm, for offering themselves to the new master as
sheep and goats. Is it a sign of any sort of sanity or political maturi-
ty? At best, it can be termed as sheer greed and fear for survival.
This is like committing fault after fault and folly after folly. What does
all this depict. Perhaps nothing except the fateful failure of the
esteemed Muslim leadership. Most probably, they have forgotten
that Muslims are also Indian citizens, bestowed with all constitution-
al rights and that they are not supposed to beg for anything or to live
on the mercy of others for a peaceful existence...
Modiji has time and again insisted in so many words in his elec-
tion speeches that he did not represent any particular group or fac-
tion and that he was the humble servant of 125 crore Indians and
that nobody should be afraid of him. Lets ask: who is afraid of him?
No doubt, Muslims are still anguished over events like Gujarat riots
and they have every right to express their displeasure and discon-
tentment. But, certainly, they are not afraid of anyone. Why should
they be? Now, if Modiji, sincerely desires to see Muslims in peace,
leading a respectable, normal life, then he should honestly endeav-
our for proving his neutrality first and consequently solve their gen-
uine problems and rectify the mistakes, committed by earlier gov-
ernments.
The Muslim community on its part must have watched and
waited at least for some time, to observe what the intentions of the
new custodians were. But, hardly one month passed after the instal-
lation of the new team of rulers and communitys leaders began to
rush for winning favours and availing opportunities to serve their
vested interests. However, these are the so-called leaders with little
or no following and the leaderless and hapless Muslim masses have
nothing to do with it. Nobody should forget that India is not Gujarat.
Whatever happened in that state cannot be repeated in the whole
country. But, Muslims justified grudge is that Modiji, being at the
helm of affairs, must have done the needful to stop the carnage
there. Unfortunately, he did not perform well his fundamental duties,
as a ruler (Rajdharma) for which he was reprimanded by a person
not less than Atal Behari Vajpayee, the then prime minister. He was
even in favour of his removal, but the then Home Minister LK Advani
intervened and defended Modi for which he was rewarded badly a
decade later.
Muslims grievances, in relation to the Gujarat happenings, are
still fresh and nothing has really been done, so far, to heal their
wounds. Now, against this backdrop, the present attitude of the lead-
ers of various factions of Muslims seems to be senseless, Their lim-
itless flattery is sending wrong messages. Even, esteemed institu-
tions like Jamia Millia Islamia and India Islamic Cultural Centre have
extended generous invitations to Prime Minister Modi and his dur-
baris, in all humility. Jamia Millia Islamia, founded by stalwarts like
Maulana Muhammad Ali and Hakim Ajmal Khan, is a prestigious
seat of learning, purely academic and apolitical and similarly, the
Islamic Centre is solely a social (non-political) organisation aimed at
promoting Muslim culture and strengthening communal harmony. It
must have no business in seeking favours of the new political pow-
ers except serving the vested interests of the group controlling it.
Jamia Millia, compromising with its lofty ideals, has already hon-
oured Modis Muslim supporter from Gujarat who is camping in
Delhi in order to garner support for his master.
On the other hand, a few instances: the hero of Muzaffarnagar
riots has been awarded with a ministerial berth. The Prime Minister
has picked up Ajit Doval, the notorious former IB officer responsible
for scheming the arrest of innocent Muslim youth without any crime
of theirs and putting them behind bars, for years - as his National
Security Adviser. Beyond that, the former U.P. Home Secretary under
Kalyan Singh at the time of Babri Masjid demolition has been
appointed as Principal Secretary and that too through an ordinance
making fun of the law of the land. Now, it goes without saying that
with such dubious background, how these highly placed officials
would act and what advices would they offer to the Prime Minister,
particularly on minority affairs. Apparently, these acts are the
irrefutable proof of the dual scales of the new government. They say
something, but do something else. This contradictory attitude and
these indifferent practices speak for themselves.
Nevertheless, the irony of the situation is that the self-styled
Muslim leadership, very cunningly ignoring these obvious harsh
realities, seems to be in a great hurry to win favours from the new
regime at any cost and as far as the interests of the community are
concerned, they have buried them in various graveyards, long ago.
They are patient in ignoring their innocent (read: stupid) followers
and impatient in serving their own interests and for that they are
ready to make any sacrifice, particularly the sacrifice of their
declared principles and values which their elders fought for, and even
staked their lives for various causes. They have shut their eyes so as
not to see anything except sans protection and promotion of their
own self and of their kith and kin. Thats all. But, they are ignorant of
the law of nature: if they would shun their followers, on whose basis
they bargain at various levels, then, one day, they would themselves
be discarded. After all, no leader can survive without his followers.
And on the other hand, the community would give birth to new lead-
ers, sooner or later. Thats also the law of nature.
A new (real) Muslim leadership is bound to emerge from the
ashes, which would have guts to warn the new powers to be cau-
tious. If Muslims are allowed to lead a normal, peaceful life, they
would not oppose anyone, only for the sake of opposition. But, if
someone - whosoever, he may be - would dare disturb their life and
stoop to the level of snatching their democratic rights, then they
would prove that they are capable of protecting their constitutional
rights - to lead a peaceful life and protect their cultural and religious
identity - through lawful means.
The communal forces are still on the prowl and the latest exam-
ple is the brutal murder of a young Muslim IT professional in Pune
whose only crime was that he sported a beard and donned a cap,
as a mark of his Islamic identity. A communal outfit, allegedly
responsible for this heinous crime, known as Hindu Rashtra Sena, is
still unreined though, as eyewash, its chief has been arrested by the
police and dispatched to jail, yet, what would follow, is an open
secret. In a shameful manner, the Maharashtra police for several
days, restrained from touching the alleged culprit on the flimsy
ground that his arrest would invite law and order problems. What a
joke! the guardians of law refrain from bringing a known criminal to
book out of fear that the law-breakers would break the law further. In
a country, where even beasts and cattle are protected in the name of
animal welfare, the life of a human-being is supposed to be of no
worth merely because he comes from a particular community.
An eye-opening truth is that in the elections - despite a grand
victory in the battle of ballot - more than 60% of secular Hindus have
not voted for BJP or Modi. They are against the cult of Modi and his
particular style of politics. Now, Muslims, should muster courage to
tell their secular Hindu brethren that, following partition of the coun-
try, Muslims, as a community had abandoned lust for power and had
agreed to hand over reins of the nation to the majority community...
Paradoxically, the fateful state the Muslims were facing at the
time of the independence of the country, is today, the fate of secular
Hindus. They have helplessly handed over the power to the fascists.
One wonders if this country would now be run on the principles of
Mahatma Gandhi, Babasaheb Ambedkar and Ram Manohar Lohia or
on the lines of Veer Savarkar and Guru Golwalkar, in order to realise
the dreams of the nation and for good days to come. This state of
affairs does not worry Muslims alone, but all secular Hindus, as well.
Now, the only option is unity. The leaders of all secular parties
should come together - leaving all past enmities behind and winning
afresh the confidence of all secular minded people in order to face
the new, harsh realities in the changed scenario of the Indian polity.
This is the only way out, by which they may be able to build up a
pressure group, to keep at least some checks and balances to make
the new governing team to stick to the right track. Otherwise, the
same practices would persist, which have been in vogue since inde-
pendence.
What gains we have made over the last 67 years or so? Merely
sweet promises and no action at all. Various rulers have come and
gone. They have all played with the sentiments of the people,
Muslims in particular.
An ironical example of time-serving is the current attitude of
Ram Vilas Paswan, the LJP leader - who kept a distance from BJP
for years simply to establish his secular credentials, particularly in
the eyes of Muslims but has joined hands with BJP for serving his
personal interests. He has now fielded one of his stooges to make
all shameless efforts to convince Muslims to renounce all their
demands, keep quiet and shrink back to their ghettos. The hidden
message is that, in case of a confrontation with the new ruling lords,
Muslims would be ruined and crushed so as not to rise ever again.
Hence, an unconditional surrender and they should live at the mercy
of the new rulers. As per Dr. Iqbals perception, these are the
Muslims, who can easily make Jews blush.
Muslims should beware of such black sheep in the wings who
appear in the guise of well-wishers of the community and in fact they
are the new avtars of the hypocrites of Medina in the Prophets time
who posed as Muslims but were, in fact, enemies of Islam. They are
out to befool the Muslim masses and on that ploy be closer to the
powers that be for serving their own interests at the cost of the very
existence of the community.
The new guards have to prove their integrity first and then come
up with some concrete steps to solve the problems of the Muslim
community as confidence-building measures. Only then, they may
be able to establish their credibility. Muslims, on their part, should
keep patience and maintain sanity, seeing reason. They have miles
to go.
Muslim Community on the Crossroads
8 The Milli Gazette, 16-31 July 2014 NATIONAL www.milligazette.com
MG comment
This is the authors grapes-are-sour apologia after having lost
the election miserably from Bijnor securing the 11th position
polling only 1756 votes (as against BJP candidates 486913,
SPs 281139 and BSPs 230124) yet he had the gumption to
publicly accuse a certain Maulana to have turned the tables on
his chances to win that election! He hijacked a certain united
forum to bring along all small Muslim parties and unilaterally
formed a new party (Rashtrawadi Samaj Party) when he could
have fought the election as some partys candidate or even as an
independent as he indicated earlier. In the beginning he accuses
the Muslim leadership to have united all Hindus delivering an
unprecedented victory to the BJP but toward the end of his arti-
cle he conceded the two thirds of Hindus have not voted for the
BJP, He accuses the Muslim leadership to be anxious to some-
how make up with Modi but without any proof. There is no proof
that any self-respecting leader of the community is doing that.
No one is approaching Modi or sending roses to him. It is the
other way round in fact with little reciprocation. The community
is in a wait-and-watch mode and it is for Mr Modi to prove how
sincere he was with his electoral promises to uplift all and
empower all. Mr Adeeb is talking of a new leadership among
Muslims. In fact, he has been trying for years to parachute into
the Muslim leadership with little success. He raised his voice for
Muslim issues in Parliament and we thank him for it but it does
not entitle him to run roughshod over whatever leadership the
beleagured community has. (Zafarul-Islam Khan)
NATIONAL The Milli Gazette, 16-31 July 2014 9 www.milligazette.com
MUSTAFA KHAN
Intelligence Bureau and Central Bureau of Investigation became
obsequious to Narendra Modi even before he assumed office of
the PM. It is well illustrated in the personal experience of the for-
mer solicitor general of India Gopal Subramanium. On May 15,
2014 none other than the Chief Justice of India told me that there
was a complete integrity check and that the Intelligence Bureau
has given me a clean chit. Now, immediately after a new govern-
ment comes in, you find that the Central Bureau of Investigation
has been given a mandate. In the past few days, news reports
have appeared in a section of the media that the Union govern-
ment has reservations about my appointment. It has also been
claimed that the IB and CBI have submitted adverse reports
against me. I must say that these media reports are malicious
insinuation based on half-truths, and appear to be a result of care-
fully planted leaks. [1].
Widely known for his independence and integrity as amicus
curiae in the Padmanabhaswamy temple and Sohrabuddin fake
encounter cases, Subramanium became the first judicial casual-
ty. The new dispensation known as Modi Sarkar was back in
action ala Gujarat 2002. It knew the bottom truth of Amit Shah
and Narendra Modis involvement in the fake encounters and saw
the possibility of Subramanium becoming a SC judge, hence it
planted leaks as a red herring in order to scuttle his chances. In
his private life he may have been spiritual, but in his profession
and public life he was rational, the temple investigation is a case
in point. He was also independent and a man of integrity and was
the very antithesis of Judge Akshay Mehta, Additional Advocate
General Tushar Mehta and many other pliant and obsequious
judges of the Modi era in Gujarat. It is sad that some give Modi
A+ for his initial days in prime ministers post. [2] Indeed, the faux
pau of the Modi Sarkar vis--vis Gopal Subramium is of vintage
Gujarat decade-long rule under Moditva. But Subramanium
proved a Daniel to the job [3]. He said: I am not at all apologetic
about my role as the amicus curiae in the Sohrabuddin case. If I
am paying the price for the manner in which I pursued the case,
I dont regret it all. I am willing to pay the price 150 times. This
raises the question did he see the heart of darkness in Modi and
Shah.
Modi had created a fetid atmosphere by overwhelming the
social media as well as leading an unprecedented comprehen-
sive campaign in the American presidential fashion without real-
ising that India was a parliamentary system. His populist appeal
to the people of Gujarat in 2002 and of India 2014 had become
miasmic and took the susceptible as patriotism.
The first breath of fresh air came with no other than the chief
justice of India, RM Lodha: I promise 1.2 billion people of India
that independence of judiciary will not be compromised. [4] He
threw the gauntlet when he went further and remarked, I will be
the first person to leave this chair if judiciarys independence is
compromised. And without mincing words, he touched the pulse
of Subramaniums thematic constant: I fail to understand how the
appointment to a high constitutional position has been dealt with
(by the government) in a casual manner. In confronting the dem-
agogue and his decade-long demagoguery in Gujarat including
the fake encounters like the most notorious murder of
Sohrabuddin and his wife, Justice Lodha hit the nail on the head:
It was a sad thing to learn that you have resigned from the posi-
tion of Solicitor General of India. Not only that in every single case
-- in which you represent the Central Government and its func-
tionaries -- was ably conducted by you but it also reflected your
high character, sweet manners and single minded application.
If there is a central fault in Modi as Gujarat home minister dur-
ing that time it was his failure to apply his mind to the grievous
crimes committed under his nose. For this, judiciary was made to
appear as puppet or kathputli of the executive.
On the first day of Modis victory, the SC quashed the
Akshardham temple attack case and blamed Modi for not apply-
ing his mind as state home minister in recommending the prose-
cution of the accused who were totally innocent. The Supreme
Court was so outraged that in an unprecedented move it also
acquitted an accused who had not appealed against the verdict.
More disturbing part of this drama is that it was Modi who
started politicising the Sohrabuddin case. The case against
Shah was a revenge for its [Congress partys] loss in the 2007
assembly polls when it had made Sohrabuddin a hero. This was
a politically motivated action against Amit Shah and the BJP gov-
ernment in Gujarat to corner it and to put obstacles in develop-
ment work it was carrying outShah is completely innocent and
the charges against him are fabricated. The CBI is being misused
by the Congress against its political rival, said Modi. And as if the
charges against MoS Amit Shah and 15 police officers of murder,
criminal conspiracy, wrongful confinement, kidnapping and
abducting to murder, extortion and destruction of evidence, rap-
ing of Kauserbi were not enough, Modi threatened that the BJP
would go to the people along with those fighting the forces of ter-
ror. [5]
And what did Modi do on Saturday, July 24, 2010, when Shah
resigned. He refused to accept the serious nature of the above
crimes and went aggressive by observing: He was accepting it
[Shahs resignation] because under the Constitution, certain for-
malities (emphais added) have to be fulfilled. This is how Modi
can be charged for deliberately not applying his mind to the grave
crimes his closest lieutenant had committed under his watch. In
gravity, this matches what made Modi dehydrated when Karan
Thappar asked him in the 2007 interview how children and
women were massacred in the streets of Ahmadabad under his
watch and he did nothing. Omission to protect the lives of
Muslims was violation of his sworn duty under the Constitution.
So the formalities of the Constitution and not truth was the chi-
canery for which he has succeeded so far to come. It is reminis-
cent of the clean chits issued by Advani and SITs have made him
survive in power and not moral responsibility and fair justice in
Indian courts.
On July 24, 2010 Modi also said that his party would take the
matter of Shah to the people, to the streets. This clearly shows
that neither Modi nor BJP takes the law of the land seriously and
he, like a demagogue, knows how he can play on the susceptibil-
ities of the people. He maneuvered it in the post-Godhra sce-
nario, too.
These are very serious matters because the former solicitor
general Gopal Subramanium had exposed how Shah was the
kingpin in the extortion racket that he was conducting and the
staging of the murders of Sohrabuddin, Kauserbi and later of
Tulsiram Prajapati. He even opposed unconditional bail to Shah.
But the influence and shrewdness of Ram Jethmalani carried the
day and Shah was released and also given the right to canvas in
the elections. His electioneering conduct is a clear violation of the
court order because he exhorted the people of Muzaffarnagar
and other districts of western UP to take revenge against
Muslims. He insinuated that Muslims had insulted the Jats and
revenge must be taken. He also accused the Muslims for killing
and getting relief from government. As a matter of fact, with the
exception of one or two Hindus being killed in direct clash, more
than 50 Muslims were killed by the rioters. Relief distributed to
them because of death and injury and loss of houses cannot be
used as a cause of revenge. He had said badla lena hoga!
[Revenge will have to be exacted!][6]
Can any court in the world allow this to a man charged with
such grave crimes narrated above? Giving bail to Shah was over-
turning the advice that the court had sought from its friend!
Subramanium should have resigned just then to save himself
from other ignominies of Modi Sarkar.
Ignominies multiplied as Shah was declared an absconder
when he went underground after the issuance of an arrest war-
rant. PP Pandey and Narendra Amin did the same! All this hap-
pened under the watch of the chief minister who also held the
home portfolio!
Taking the totality of the Gujarat phenomenon under Modi,
that another amicus curiae Raju Ramchandran said in his report
published on 23 October, 2011 that Sanjiv Bhatt may have been
present in the late night meeting at the official residence of Modi.
Bhatt, an IPS officer, was no ordinary person. He was in charge
of the intelligence of the state and also of the personal security of
the chief minister. No court took this advice to its logical end.
MJ Akbar, now in Modi camp, expressed astonishment at the
speed with which Sohrabuddin Sheikh was hunted down and
killed amid a sense of urgency in the hunt that has absolutely no
relationship with reality. [7]
So what was there in the murder of Sohrabuddin that still can
shake the chair in which the new prime minister sits? Judicial res-
olution of the cases of murders of Sohrabuddin, Haren Pandya,
Ishrat Jahan, etc. must be a top priority. Sanjiv Bhatt says Modi
may be behind the murder of Pandya while Rajiv Ramchandran
says that Bhatt could have been present in the meeting on 27
February, 2002. Why have the courts failed to resolve these
cases for more than a decade? Who is filibustering?
Notes
[1] Asian Age, Mumbai, 29 June, 2014
[2] Aakar Patel, Asian Age, 29 June. 2014.
[3] Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice.
[4] http://www.firstpost.com/india/cji-lodhas-war-cry-supreme-cour t-
modi-sarkar-face-off-over-subramanium-1599067.html
[5] http://ar ticles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2010-07-
24/news/27624156_1_amit-shah-gujarat-minister-sohrabuddin-sheikh
[6] http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/apmaan-ka-badla-
lena-hoga-amit-shah-in-muzaffarnagar/
[7] MJ Akbar, Not very intelligent, Mr Chidambrum, Times of India, 11
September, 2011.
Parting of the friend of the court Gopal Subramanium
New Delhi: Union minister for minorities affairs
Mrs Najma Heptullah said here while talking to media per-
sons that the BJP-led NDA government will leave no stone
unturned for the welfare and progress of minorities,
including Muslims. She said that the promises made by
BJP in its election manifesto and prime minister Narendra
Modis promises in his election speeches to provide equal
opportunities to all minorities and different sections of the
countrys population to bring all of them in the main-
stream through development will be fulfilled. She advised
the people not to be misled by false and misleading state-
ments and attempts by other parties. She said that though
attempts in various ways were made by opposition par-
ties during the general elections 2014 to create misunder-
standings among minorities, particularly Muslims, people
were not influenced by their false statements and a large
majority of people trusted Narendra Modi with the result
that BJP government was formed at the centre. She said
that they were taking all steps for educational, economic
and social progress of minorities, particularly Muslims
and Muslim women. She said that in his election cam-
paigns he (Modi) addressed more or less 450 election
meetings but did not give any occasion to opposition par-
ties to accuse and defame him, though they did accuse
and defame him and Congress everywhere accused him
of practicing communalism. She said that the prime min-
ister laid emphasis on the progress of all sections of soci-
ety because all people of the country are like a body and
if any organ or part of the body is sick, the country can-
not progress.
About reservation for Muslims she said that instead
of giving reservations to them she believes in providing
equal opportunities to them, adding that she was sure
that PM Modi would do this. She said that the Constitution
does not allow reservation on religious basis but they can
be, and are, given reservation on the basis of backward-
ness, adding that some fraternities of the minority com-
munity already enjoy the facility of quota. She said that
safety of minorities is associated with the overall
progress of the country. She admitted that Muslims are
backward from social, economic and educational point of
view and said that among the priorities of her ministry is
to provide equal opportunities for them. She said that her
ministrys basic emphasis and attention is on economic
progress which is associated with education. In reply to a
question she said that among the 72 recommendations of
the Sachar Committee that have been accepted all will be
implemented. She further said that her ministry will fully
try to utilise Waqf properties for the welfare of Muslims
and added that special importance will be given to
empowering women of the minority communities and this
work was being done through various scholarship
schemes.
Regarding Waqf properties she said that the central
government wants to get the Waqf Properties (removal of
illegal occupation) Act 2014 passed at the earliest so that
these properties could be used for the welfare and
progress of Muslims. She said that all preparations have
been made to get the documents of the proposed act
approved / passed in the budget session and the govern-
ment will try to do everything so that Waqf Properties Act
2014 is passed in both houses of Parliament in the forth-
coming budget session itself which will start in July. It
may be stated that according to an estimate, total Waqf
properties are worth Rs 12 lakh crores from which an
estimated annual income of Rs 12000 crores can be
achieved but because of mismanagement and not being
put to proper use the Board gets an income of only about
Rs 168 crores annually.
There is however a hitch in it because ministry of
urban developments stand is that Waqf Boards proper-
ties are not taken on rent by government agencies and
hence under Public Law 1971, it would not be proper or
advisable to legally get such properties vacated because
these proper ties are not covered under this Act.
Moreover, ministry of law also had advised that under this
Act (of 1971) any action on Waqf Boards properties will
not be in accordance with law and in view of this, Waqf
Board Properties Act (removal of illegal occupation) 2014
has been drafted. (N. A. Ansari)
Comitted to progress of minorities: Najma
Musings
Irani & Azad: Chalk & Cheese
Isnt it ironic that Smriti Irani, HRD Minister looking after Education, is not even a grad-
uate? One can check her affidavit at ECI site, page 11. Its a matter of national shame
that a semi-educated person like her will now appoint Vice Chancellors! At least, a
graduate person should have had this important portfolio that deals with education as
well. Now BJP can counter-attack by reminding people of the independent Indias first
education Minister Abul Kalam Azads inadequate academic credentials. But one
mustnt forget that Azad and Irani are as different as chalk from cheese. There cant
be any comparison because despite Azads madarsa education, he was at home with
Urdu, Persian and Arabic (his mother was an Arab and he was born in Mecca) and au
fait with English. He appointed and established the University Grant Commission
(UGC) in 1953, established Sahitya Academy in 1954, established Indian Institute of
Technology (IIT), Kharagpur in 1951, established Indian Institute of Science (IISc),
Bangalore, founded CSIR for scientific research, elevated Vishva Bharti Shantiniketan
as a Central University in 1952, established Central Institute of Education in 1947/ He
also established Indian Academy of Dance, Drama and Music in 1953, founded Lalit
Kala Academy in 1954, National Museum in 1947, established All India Council for
Teaching and also established Sangeet Naatak Academy, et al. Till his death in 1958
at the age of 69, he was the education minister of India, who politely declined to
accept Bharat Ratna because he was on the committee to pick up the recipients for
Indias highest civil honour. It was posthumously conferred upon him. Can Smriti Irani
be pitted against this towering personality? If fiery speeches, full of rhetorics, are the
only criteria then Mamta Banerjee could also become PM of India.
Dietary highhandedness of Jains
Palitana, a town in Gujarat, dominated by ahimsavaadi Jains, will soon be declared
a veg zone. Mind you, out of 50,000 people in this sacred town, more than 15
percent are Muslims. Agreed, Jains avoid non-veg, but why should other people,
belonging to different castes, faiths and denominations also suffer? This is Jain
hegemony which must be condemned. Ive been a pure vegetarian since childhood
and I dont even take eggs. But I dont impose my dietary viewpoint on others, who
could be non-vegetarians. Here I dont want to get into the futile debate over veg ver-
sus non-veg. My point is the freedom of personal choice and volition. For some peo-
ple and their collective dietary idiosyncrasies, others mustnt suffer and compro-
mise on their food habits, that are deep-rooted in culinary psyche of some groups
and sections. But then, wheres freedom of choice for people in India? Some privi-
leged people (read Jains/Hindus) have their way and they can put their feet down to
make the government bend policies for them.
SUMIT PAUL
sumitmaclean@hotmail.com
AFSANA RASHID, SRINAGAR
In a significant development here, High Court has sought status
report on re-investigation and relief to victims in 1991 Kunan-
Poshpora mass rape case. The High Court, July 1, sought status
report of the reinvestigation into Kunan-Poshpora rape incident. It
also sought a report regarding ex-gratia relief to victims, by the
next date of hearing.
The High court directed the government to explore the possi-
bilities of payment of compensation to the victims as per the rec-
ommendations of State Human Rights Commission, within three
weeks, said a statement issued by human rights group fighting for
Kunan Poshpora survivors here July 1.
Government declined to pay the compensation to victims,
despite the Commission, in its recommendations asking govern-
ment to pay a compensation of Rs 2 lakh to each victim.
Further, taking notice of the repeated extensions sought and
submissions that no effective investigations have taken place, a
status report was sought on the investigations carried out thus far
within three weeks, the statement added.
The High Court order is an important judicial determination
that the Commission recommendations on the rapes are fully sup-
ported by evidence on record, it further added.
Compensation is beyond relief to the survivors.
Compensation paid by the government is an acceptance that
the crimes actually took place and should be followed by pros-
ecutions of the accused Army personnel and all those respon-
sible for the cover-ups over 23 years, said the group adding
that after 23 years and countless judicial and extra-judicial
attempts to cover-up the case, the High Cour t order is an
impor tant moment in the process of remembering, resisting
and ensuring that the crimes and the lies of the state are con-
tested.
Since June 13 last year, when the Judicial Magistrate,
Kupwara directed that the probe be completed within three
months, four extensions have been granted to the IO to com-
plete the investigation, said Parvez Imroz, counsel for the victim
families. On June 18 last year Judicial Magistrate Kupwara had
directed the reinvestigation of the case by a police official not
below the rank of Senior Superintendent of Police within three
months. Army subsequently filed an appeal against the order of
Judicial Magistrate in the Sessions Cour t, Kupwara.
Kunan and Poshpora, twin villages of border district
Kupwara in nor th Kashmir had witnessed the worst incidents of
mass rape during the intervening night of February 23 and 24 in
1991 allegedly by the soldiers of 4-Rajputana Rifles of 68
Brigade. Following massive public outcry against the incident,
police lodged an FIR No. 10/1991 against the Army at Trehgam
police station.
Modis J&K visit
In view of Prime Minister Narendra Modis maiden visit to the
state, separatists here called for a shutdown and restrictions were
imposed by the authorities in some parts of the old city.
Almost all separatist groups here, including both factions of
Hurriyat, JKLF, Hurriyat Conference Jammu and Kashmir and
Duktaran-e-Milat, called for a shutdown in view of the Prime
Ministers visit to the state, July 4. The strike was supported by
United Jihad Council.
Life here came to a standstill. Streets presented a deserted
look and shops and markets remained closed. Heavy deployment
of police and CRPF was made in the old city, particularly in the
areas falling under the jurisdiction of five police stations including
Nowhatta, Safa-Kadal, Maharaj Gunj and Khanyar. The separatists
were placed under house arrest.
No Friday congregational prayers were offered here at the his-
toric Jamia Masjid, said the spokesperson of Hurriyat (M) led by
Mirwaiz Umar Farooq.
Despite strict security measures, protests broke out at various
places across the Valley. Staging protests, JKLF activists released
Quit Kashmir balloons in the air from the party headquarter
here. The party had announced Quit Kashmir on June 23 and
had asked people to march towards city-centre, Lal Chowk, the
attempt was foiled by the authorities.
Security was beefed up, here, ahead of Prime Ministers visit.
Police and CRPF had set-up several check points within and out-
side the city and commuters were frisked and vehicles checked.
Personnel from Special Protection Group, who arrived from New
Delhi, reportedly took over the venues to be visited by the Prime
Minister. Three-tier security arrangement was put in place for
Modis day-long visit, reports said.
Asserting that politics was not his priority, Modi, addressing a
gathering at Katra in Jammu, after flagging off the train service
from Katra railway station, July 4, said his government wants to
win over the hearts and minds of the people of Jammu and
Kashmir. Whether or not in power, it is our wish and responsibili-
ty to improve the quality of life of people and reach out to the last
man in line. He added, people in Jammu and Kashmir have
passed through a difficult phase.
During his day-long visit, the Prime Minister also chaired a
security review meeting at Badami Bagh headquarters of the
Armys 15 Corps in Srinagar. Later, he inaugurated 240 MW Uri-II
hydroelectric power project in north Kashmirs Uri.
Reacting to the Prime Ministers visit, Awami Itihaad Party
senior leader Zeeshan Pandith, July 4, said that deserted streets
of Kashmir gave a loud message to Prime Minister that grave
issues confronting Kashmir cannot be eye washed.
Mirwaiz, July 4, stated that the strike call sends a political
message that the Kashmir issue must be resolved in its proper
perspective. JKLF chairman Mohammad Yasin Malik urged the
Modi government to use its popular mandate and initiate an early
process for a just, equitable and lasting solution to the Kashmir
issue.
Hurriyat (G) chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani, July 4, accused
New Delhi of trying to sideline the Kashmir issue. Geelani main-
tained that developmental activities cannot be a substitute to the
resolution of Kashmir issue.
Murder of youth, curfew in Sopore
Curfew was imposed in north Kashmirs Sopore town of
Baramulla district, about 55 kilometres from city-centre, June 23,
after a youth was killed and three others injured, when security
forces allegedly resorted to firing to disperse protesters in the
area. Curfew remained in place till June 26.
A police spokesperson said that curfew was imposed to pre-
vent any law and order problem in the area.
Arshad Ahmad Shah, a driver, was killed, June 23, when
security forces allegedly opened fire to disperse a group of youth,
who resorted to stone pelting on the security forces at an
encounter site at Krankshvan colony in Sopore.
A police handout said, after the completion of an opera-
tion in Baba Raza Krankshvan Sopore in which one Pakistani mil-
itant got killed; operation parties while withdrawing from the area
were pelted with stones by some miscreants. The mob swelled
and attempted to set fire to a security armoured vehicle. Security
forces used non-lethal weapons but the situation couldnt be con-
trolled. Resultantly, few shots were fired in which four people got
injured and one among them died.
Normal life was disturbed across the Valley, June 24, due to a
shutdown called by separatists to protest the killing. Markets,
business establishments, educational institutions across the
Valley remained closed and public transport went off the roads.
Taking suo moto cognizance of the incident, State Human
Rights Commission, June 24, termed it a grave human rights vio-
lation and sought reports from DGP, Deputy Commissioner and
Superintendent of Police, Sopore. Even International Forum for
Justice and Human Rights, a human rights group here, filed a peti-
tion before the Commission over the killing, June 24.
The District Magistrate, Baramulla, Dr. Farooq Ahmed Lone
has been appointed as enquiry officer into the killing. Condemning
the incident, Hurriyat (G) chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani, June
24, termed the government action as the worst kind of state ter-
rorism and lawlessness. Hurriyat (M) chairman Mirwaiz Umar
Farooq said these killings wouldnt stop until all draconian laws
including AFSPA are repealed, armed forces made accountable
and the guilty punished.
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SANJIV BHATT, IPS
We have all heard of the fairy-
tale where the frog turned into a
prince when kissed by a
princess. A somewhat similar
situation seems to be upon us
with 31 percent of the voters
and the media having kissed and
turned Narendra Modi into Prince Charming.
This means not just hailing Modi in some
abstract way, but more significantly accepting
and glamorizing what he represents.
The mainstream media has gone all over town
telling us how Modi is not a pariah anymore and
foreign powers are vying with each other to court
him. The reasons for this change in perception that
India has now become corporate worldss
favourite investment destination, and most impor-
tantly, that he is the guy who can take decisions
and not keep the nation waiting for action.
From the best known names of the main-
stream media, like Shekhar Gupta and Rajdeep
Sardesai, to international magazines like the
Economist and Time, are now churning out
reams of paper about Modis ability to take deci-
sions. Though some of them have been circum-
spect enough to mention his role in the Gujarat
Carnage of 2002, hardly anyone has focused on
the political eliminations, the fake encounters
and the ongoing subversion of the criminal jus-
tice system and the scant regard for institutional
safeguard mechanisms. Most commentators, in
their alacrity to please the new Monarch consid-
er these heinous acts of commission and omis-
sion to be insignificant blips on the radar which,
at best, should be graciously forgotten or
ignored in view of the bigger conquests and
glory awaiting him and the Rashtra.
The purpose of this piece, however, is not to
accuse these mainstream liberals of complicity
with Modi, but to look at the reasons behind why
this has happened and that too at a pace that
defies logic. There seem to be two specific rea-
sons or catchphrases that explain Modis
canoodling by the corporate groups including
the corporate media.
The first catchphrase is decisiveness, the
perception of which is predicated on the suc-
cess of the Modi-led BJPs selective interpreta-
tion of issues such as growth, governance,
peace and security, and how these have now
been mainstreamed. To come to peace and
security first, a constant projection of threat-
perception both from within and outside?-
?meaning Muslims and sometimes Maoists
from within and Pakistan from outside?-?is now
complete and mainstream. So much so that dur-
ing the last Congress-led regime we had sud-
denly witnessed a flurry of decisions confirming
capital punishment. Those in power had to show
that they were decisive just like Modi was in
2002. The perception of threat is now so inter-
nalised that government-sponsored messages
on radio constantly tell you to get the identity of
your tenant verified by police, and even encour-
age your neighbours to do that. It is in times like
these that a decisive persona like Modi scores
over a vacillating Congress.
The second magic word in this context is
governance. What does it mean under Modi?
That he cut down all bureaucratic rigmarole so
that the Tatas could set up their Nano car facto-
ry within a matter of days. Or that thousands of
investors could flock down to the green pastures
of Gujarat. Modis governance means bureau-
crats do his bidding without questioning. In
these times of the ideology of less government
this is exactly what is loved by the corporate
sector and the media. This interpretation of gov-
ernance obviously does not include the social
cost of development.
In addition to the above, Modis accession
to power is also the culmination of the middle
class frustration with the inept and moribund
Congress Party. The voters were cleverly manip-
ulated into the either/or mode by the imaginative
campaign of Modi-led BJP supported by a hap-
pily cavorting and pliant media. And the incom-
petent bungling of the Congress helped in no
small measure. The Indian middle class found
itself locked in binary-mode politics: either vote
for an apparently inefficient and inept Congress
or a ruthlessly efficient and brazenly neo-fascist
Modi. As we all saw, the Indian middle class
including the young voters preferred to choose
the efficiency of neo-fascism as any other com-
bination was thought to be unstable for the
country and hence non-conducive for their col-
lective dreams and aspirations, little realizing
that dreams and aspirations will scarcely fructi-
fy in a body afflicted with the odious gangrene of
ideology driven hate-politics. But that is how
nations learn. If at all they do.
Let us not forget that every man is defined
by his actions. No amount of sophistry can con-
ceal his true character for long. The adulating
media, the new courtiers, the overenthusiastic
bards and Modi himself will do well to remember
that the real measure of Decisive Leadership and
Good Governance is not the speed of decisions
facilitating the proliferation of corporate wealth
or the grandeur of illusory populist schemes, but
the manner in which we address the issues that
plague the underprivileged and oppressed sec-
tions of the society. The story of India is yet to
unfold. Those who take this country and its peo-
ple for granted do so at their own peril.
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J&K: High Court seeks status report on Kunan-Poshpura
Prince Charming or the Vile Conjurer
Let us not forget that every man is defined by his
actions. No amount of sophistry can conceal his true
character for long.
With due respect to the claims made by
Prime Minister Narendra Modi about his
development agenda, one is compelled to
analyze it from several factors. Modi has
promised the country that he aims to pro-
mote the Gujarat model of development
throughout the nation. During his recent
visit to Jammu and Kashmir, Modi laid
stress that his objective was to win hearts
of the people of Jammu and Kashmir through development.
Would it be fair to assume that Modis message for Kashmiris
was meant exclusively for them?
Similarly, how much political weight does Modis promo-
tion of the Gujarat model carry for the entire country?
Interestingly, issues such as these expose the regional dilem-
ma faced by Modi from several angles.
From the religious angle, compared to Muslims in Gujarat
being just one tenth of the states population, J&K is the only
state where they are in a majority. In J&K, Modi tried playing
balancing role between conveying a diplomatic message,
assuring development for Kashmiris and trying to win Hindu
sympathy from across the nation by inaugurating a train on a
new railway line to allow Hindus easier access to a popular
pilgrimage site. From the diplomatic angle, Modis Kashmir
visit was important to assert Indias stand towards the state.
He reasserted his nationalistic approach towards Kashmiris
by stating that his aim was to win their hearts through
development. This also conveys that Modi is well aware of
him and his party not being very popular in J&K.
Considering that the 2002 Gujarat carnage is strongly
linked with Modis image among Kashmiris, it will be quite a
while before he can convince them about his secular
approach towards them and his development agenda for the
state. Politically, perhaps Modi viewed it as important to con-
vey his secular stance towards Kashmiris. From the angle
of his political strategy, this was important, as a key agenda
of his Kashmir visit was linked with promoting religious inter-
ests of Hindu pilgrims going to J&K. Where Kashmiri Muslims
are concerned, their secularism has played a crucial role in
not interfering with the religious practices of Hindus from the
state and across the country. So even if Modi had remained
quiet regarding his aim to win Kashmiris hearts, Kashmir
Muslims approach towards him would have remained least
affected. The religious touch was probably deliberately added
to soothe the extremist saffron brigades concern about Modi
having begun his prime ministerial career by going almost
overboard towards Pakistan. Ironically, this also reveals that
his Kashmir visit fell short of promoting his governments
agenda towards Kashmiris, both Muslims and Hindus.
Awareness of this shortcoming probably compelled him to
talk about his aim being to win their hearts.
At the same time, no Kashmiri is likely to welcome promo-
tion of the Gujarat model of development in J&K. Even though
official statistics indicate that the poverty rate in J&K rose by
around a percent in 2011-12, compared to the rest of the
country, including Gujarat, it cannot be rated as high. The
poverty rate in J&K rose from 9.4% in 2009-10 to 10.35% in
2011-12. This rise is primarily attributed to an increase in the
number of people living below the poverty line (BPL) in rural
areas from 8.1% to 11.5%. During 2011-12, according to a
report released by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), the pover-
ty rate in Gujarat was 16.63%. The national poverty rate, for
this year, stands at 21.92%.
Statistically, Gujarat does not figure in the top 10 Indian
states with minimum poverty rate. The least for 2011-12 is
5.09% in Goa, followed by Kerala (7.05%), Himachal Pradesh
(8.06%), Sikkim (8.19%), Punjab (8.26%), Andhra Pradesh
(9.20%), J&K (10.35%), Haryana (11.16%), Uttarakhand
(11.26%) and Tamil Nadu (11.28%). More than half-a-dozen
other states/union territories have a poverty rate lower than
that of Gujarat. Indirectly, this implies that Modis hype about
Gujarat as a model for development carries little meaning
for states whose poverty rate is less than that of Gujarat. This
raises the question as to why Modi has refrained from high-
lighting their progress. Their poverty rate is a major indicator
of their being, by no means, behind Gujarat where develop-
ment is concerned.
Yes, Modi has the right to retain his love for his home
state, but it cannot be ignored that other Indians too have
their affinity and linkage for their respective home-states. If
India was not home to more than two dozen states, with each
having its distinctive regional identity, culture and also politi-
cal affiliation, Modis apparent apathy towards their regional
affinity would have carried little importance. Interestingly, the
states dominated by regional parties also indicate that reli-
gious separatism, bordering on communalism, has been sub-
stantially marginalized by peoples political leanings. Of the
36 parties represented in the present Lok Sabha, around two
dozen are regional in nature.
Till Modis national vision remains obstructed by his
Gujarat phobia, his political attitude is likely to raise ques-
tions about his regional attitude being nationalist or not.
Blocked by regional dilemma, it is not going to be easy task
for Modi to win hearts of non-Gujarati Indians, whether
Kashmiris, Keralites or of other states!
Speaki ng Out
Modis Regional
Dilemma!
NI LOFAR SUHRAWARDY
ANALYSIS The Milli Gazette, 16-31 July 2014 11 www.milligazette.com
DR JAVED JAMIL
Faizan Mustafas ar ticle on
Uniform Civil Code, published
recently in The Hindu, has rightly
pointed out that the acceptance
of Uniform Civil Code by
Muslims will not in any way help
the cause of integration or devel-
opment. But where he fails is his argument that
Muslims oppose Uniform Civil Code due to their
Minority psyche and once they are convinced
about the good intentions of the government and
become empowered, their opposition will evap-
orate. He says:
The Muslim law has been reformed in several
countries. Then why have Muslims opposed
reforms in India? The answer lies in the minority
psyche of Indian Muslims, which is tied to the
question of their identity. Let them be convinced
that a uniform civil code has nothing to do with
their distinctive identity, let them develop faith in
the new government, let them have a fair and equi-
table share in the power structure of the state and
let culprits of communal violence not be rewarded
with ministerial berths. Accepting a uniform civil
code would then become far easier. Muslims in
India should also realise that in spite of uniform
family laws in the West, Islam is growing at a very
fast pace. Thus, a uniform civil code is not a great
threat to the religion as it is perceived by many.
The truth on the other hand is that the opposition
to uniform civil code has much bigger issues
involved, which are mainly ideological and social.
Muslims are not opposing UCC just because it is
now being talked about by the new government,
which belongs to a political party considered anti-
Muslim by many Muslims. Muslims opposed it
even when Congress was in power. Even Leftist
parties have been highly supportive of UCC. In
fact, liberal ideologists have been more vocal in
support of the UCC, and their support is based on
their peculiar understanding of equality between
men and women.
Muslims will not support any change in the
laws which go contrary to the spirit of Quran and
Sunnah. The argument in favour of UCC is often
based on the concepts of equality of men and
women practiced by the current ideologies. The
modern world is ruled by the forces of econom-
ics. Their social ideology emanates from the kind
of economics they are pursuing. It is the demands
of the economics that have overriding influence in
all the spheres, including education, health, politi-
cal and social matters. It is the market-sponsored
feminism, which is trying to rewrite the roles of
men and women in society. These roles are more
often than not in sharp contrast to the roles
assigned to them by Nature. The Islamic laws, on
the other hand, are in accordance with the biolog-
ical roles men and women are destined to play;
and the social laws are designed to help them
attain their respective roles in a way that they
become complimentary to each other. Equality in
the modern world is based on artificial unnatural
notions; equality in Islam is natural.
The market-driven economy wants to cash in
on every need, strength and weakness of human
beings. The unfortunate part is that the business
of weaknesses has become so big that they try to
institutionalize and legalize many practices that
are dangerous for healthy living. Men and women
for them are commercial beings rather than
human beings. The current system wants women
in the market when they are young; their biology
wants them to remain in the safe environs of their
homes. This is where the confrontation begins.
Markets are totally ignoring the biological roles
both play, which are hugely different. The role of
man in the whole reproductive cycle is limited to
a few minutes of physical contact. As soon as
this contact results into conception, the biological
role of man ends. After that, it is the woman alone
dealing with her body and its product. She has to
keep her child in her belly for a period of at least
nine months. If she chooses to abort, it is she
who suffers. She kills her child and faces the knife
and injections. If she continues with pregnancy,
her role becomes more important after the deliv-
ery. She is biologically duty-bound to breastfeed
her child, which should ideally continue for two
years. This total duration of around three years,
from conception to the completion of breastfeed-
ing, keeps her totally occupied. It is a full-time job,
and it is an injustice to her if even during this peri-
od she has other burdens over her shoulders. Her
role does not end after three years. Her child
needs her special attention for another 10 years.
The reproductive role of the woman starts imme-
diately after puberty and continues till about 45
years. If she performs her normal, optimum bio-
logical functions during these 30 years, she
needs total support from one who is responsible
for her biological condition. It is therefore the duty
of man to look after her - physically, financially,
psychologically and socially. If he wants the
woman to share the financial burden, it is an
injustice perpetrated on her. But this is exactly
what the modern world is doing. Man has trans-
ferred half of his burden to women, and has called
this transfer of burden her financial independ-
ence. The markets need their attraction and serv-
ices, so they are helping them in averting their
biological roles. And this is done in the name of
rights: right to abort, right to use contracep-
tives, right to have sex outside marriage, right to
divorce, right to maintenance, right to work, etc.
The man-dominated market has spawned a
strange kind of feminism which, in fact, benefits
him more than her. Mans burdens are decreased
and womans increased. And to make it possible,
the whole family system is purposely destroyed.
Marriage before a certain age is illegal while sex
legal. Polygamy, which has a very low incidence,
is illegal, but promiscuity is not only legal but is
also engulfing an increasing number. Teenage
marriage is banned but teenage pregnancy is
becoming common. Both marriages and divorces
are being made difficult, so that people prefer to
have living-in relationships rather than entering into
proper marriage. The old-fashioned family system
will keep women confined to their homes for a
long period, which is not acceptable to the market.
So many industries survive on their going out. She
is being purposely kept away from her biological
functions because market cannot afford it.
Islam decides rights and duties on the basis
of respective natural rights. If woman has to bear
the biological burden, man has to bear the finan-
cial burden. Equality does not mean uniformity.
Equality means distribution of privileges and bur-
dens. The modern world wants to impose unifor-
mity in the name of equality. In Islam, if man is
responsible for financial burden, he receives a
bigger share in inheritance. Woman has the
advantage of not being under compulsion to earn
for the family, so her share is less. But if she
desires, she can earn, and in that case all her
earnings will be exclusive hers own.
The UCC demands a ban on polygamy but no
curb on extramarital relationships. Islam does the
opposite. The social fact is that promiscuity can
engulf almost everyone, but polygamy is self-lim-
iting. With hardly 1-2 percent incidence of
polygamy, it should not have been a major issue.
But the media makes it an issue. Promiscuity for
them is no issue, which has much more serious
implications. In Islam, marriage is a civil contract;
and once the marriage ends, there cannot be any
kind of relationship or contact left in between
them. But there are people who want men to give
life-long maintenance to her, despite the fact that
she is no longer performing her duty as wife...
There are of course some issues that are to
be tackled within the Islamic Shariah. One-time
divorce is against the Quranic guidance on the
matter, which fixes a three months time before
the finality of divorce. This is highly scientific, as
it helps in the rights of fetus and mother, helps in
defence against sex transmitted diseases and
gives the spouses a time to reconcile. They also
have the right to seek Khula. There is a need to
ensure that Mehr is paid at the time of Nikah, and
is not deferred, which again is against the spirit of
the Quran. There is of course absolutely no justi-
fication in denying women their rights in inheri-
tance. They have their shares in their fathers
properties (including agricultural land
and business), mothers property,
husbands property and childrens
property if they die while they (wives
and mothers) are alive. There are other rights,
which are hardly discussed. They have the right to
breastfeed their children for a period of two years.
And they have the right to choose their spouses
and reproductive rights. Their religious and social
rights are the same. In case their husbands
indulge in any of the prohibited activity, they can
seek divorce.
Islam, in addition, asks people to wage a war
against exploitation of women. Prostitution is sim-
ply not acceptable, and Muslims must start a
jihad against this. This will expose the market-
sponsored designs. How can the champions of
womens rights tolerate a practice like abortion?
There should be a campaign against abortion by
choice. There cannot be a bigger crime against
humanity than abortion. Ironically, abortion is
being defended in the name of womens repro-
ductive rights...
Education is must for women also, and they
are required in many professions such as medi-
cine, police, and teaching. But a largescale drive
for job-oriented education has resulted in many
serious side effects. It has increased unemploy-
ment for the needy, increased economic disparity,
increased crimes against women, increased
promiscuity, increasedexploitationand abuse of
women, weakened family system and has led to
the neglect of children. Womens involvement in
social affairs should be encouraged after 45.
Women need protection, security and care more
than anything else. Giving them rights at the cost
of security just for the larger interests of the mar-
ket is not helping anyone. It should be remem-
bered that every woman is a working woman; and
the noblest of all jobs is the job of a family
woman. Housewives should better be called
housemanagers.
Muslims must give up their defensive and
apologetic attitude, and must learn to challenge
the modern ideologies, which bring more disaster
than relief. Uniform Civil Code is not acceptable,
as it negates the natural needs of men and
women and makes them captives of the forces of
economics. Some communal elements argue in
its favour only because it irks Muslims. However,
if Muslims do bring the sinister designs of the
market forces in picture, followers of other reli-
gions will appreciate their position. In the mean-
time, Muslims have to empower women within
the Islamic parameters.
As far as the Uniform Civil Code is con-
cerned, any attempt to bring it, in piecemeal or
wholesale, will be resisted by the community wis-
dom through all possible means of a democratic
system. And it should be kept in mind that the
constitution of a country is never above the will of
the citizens of the country, especially the citizens
who are affected by any particular part of the con-
stitution. A constitution or any part of it is sacro-
sanct only till it has the approval of the citizens.
The author is a thinker and writer with over a
dozen books including his latest Muslims Most
Civilised, Yet Not Enough.He may be contacted at:
doctorforu123@yahoo.com
Opposition to Uniform Civil Code is ideological
It is the market-sponsored feminism which is trying to rewrite the roles of men
and women in society. These roles are more often than not in sharp contrast to
the roles assigned to them by Nature. The Islamic laws, on the other hand, are
in accordance with the biological roles men and women are destined to play;
and the social laws are designed to help them attain their respective roles in a
way that they become complimentary to each other. The equality in the modern
world is based on the artificial unnatural notions; equality in Islam is natural.
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S
rinagar: Eminent Kashmiri jurist, legal authority and for-
mer chief justice of J&K, Justice Mufti Bahauddin Farooqi
passed away at his residence at Jawahar Nagar here in
the morning of 5 July. He was 87. Justice Farooqi served
as the 12th chief justice of the state high court from 7 March,
1983 to 23 August, 1983. He is survived by his daughter, three
sons Advocate Mufti Showkat, Dr Mufti Mahmood and Dr Saadat
Mufti.
Hundreds of people including prominent social and religious
personalities participated in his namaz-e-janaza which was held
at Khanqah-e-Mulla Shrine.
Farooqi received his Masters degree in Mathematics and
then did Law at AMU. He was a topper in Mathematics. After his
studies, he started practice at the District Court of Anantnag
along with his friend and former Chief Minister of State, Syed Mir
Qasim.
He then joined the judicial service of the state and started his
career as Munsif in Subordinate Judiciary and later served as
Law Secretary to the government during the regime of Ghulam
Muhammad Sadiq.
He then became District and Sessions Judge Srinagar and
was elevated as High Court Judge in 1971. During his tenure, he
passed a number of landmark judgments and his judgment
regarding anti-defection was the first to be passed by any high
court of the country. The judgment became the basis for anti-
defection law passed by the Parliament of India.
He resigned in 1983 as Chief Justice of Jammu and
Kashmir High Court, when he was transferred to Sikkim High
Court, on the ground that Government of India had no juris-
diction to transfer a J&K High Court Judge to other parts of
the country as the state had a special status under Article
370. He recorded this observation in his written communica-
tion to the then Chief Justice of India, YV Chandrachud. He
also sent a letter to the then Governor of J&K stating that the
transfer was victimization for his ruling in the anti-defection
case which was going against the establishment in Delhi at
that time. After his voluntary retirement from service, he con-
stituted first ever civil society in the Valley.
Justice Farooqi has to his credit extensive work in document-
ing and reporting human rights violations in J&K and demanding
legal prosecution against the culprits. He has to his credit exten-
sive documenting and reporting of human rights violations in J&K
in the early phase of the militancy.
He was a powerful writer and a passionate human rights
activist. He wrote fearlessly to expose the harsh abuses against
Kashmir.
He served as Chairman of the People Basic Rights
Commission, an independent organization dedicated to the
purpose of actively investigating human rights violations com-
mitted by Indian Armed Forces in Kashmir, and seeking pros-
ecution.
He led a fact-finding mission to Kunan Poshpora. Over
the course of his investigation, he interviewed 53 women who
claimed to have been raped by army men and tried to deter-
mine why a police investigation into the incident had never
taken place.
Human rights lawyer Parvez Imroz said he was the first Chief
Justice who after his retirement went to court as a litigant to chal-
lenge the black laws like TADA and PSA in Kashmir.
Various social, religious and political organizations con-
doled Justice Farooqis demise and paid tributes to the late
Jurist for exemplary services rendered to the States Judicial
Services.
Hurriyat Conference (M) chairman, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq
expressed profound grief and regret over the demise of Justice
Farooqi. Mirwaiz stated that he was in the forefront of promoting
higher standards of justice. Justice Farooqi acted as chairman
of Hurriyat committee entrusted to write its constitution and it was
under his guidance that Hurriyat constitution was devised, formu-
lated and written in 1993, he said. Paying rich tribute to the emi-
nent jurist for his frontline role in making the Hurriyat constitution,
Mirwaiz expressed his sympathy and solidarity with the bereaved
family.
Hurriyat Conference (G) chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani
expressed grief and sorrow over the demise of Justice
Farooqi and prayed for eternal peace of the departed soul. He
paid rich tributes to Justice Farooqi for his ideological guid-
ance to the freedom struggle and his role in framing the con-
stitution of Hurriyat conference. Farooqi sahib was a staunch
supporter of freedom movement of Jammu & Kashmir and he
used to say that one day India will have to accede to demand
of the freedom by the people of J&K, he said.
Senior Hurriyat leader Shabir Ahmad Shah paid rich tributes
to Justice Farooqi and hailed his services for the ongoing move-
ment.
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and National Conference pres-
ident Dr Farooq Abdullah expressed profound grief and sorrow
over the demise, describing the late Mufti as a great legal lumi-
nary and reputed judge. Late Mufti was a pious and righteous
religious personality, man of various capabilities and a staunch
supporter of Kashmiriyat, the duo said, praying for peace to his
soul and sympathizing with the bereaved family.
His son, Dr Mufti Mehmood, who is a neurologist at
Government Medical College Srinagar, said he had multi-dimen-
sional personality.
Mufti sahib was a generous soul. He raised us with utmost
simplicity. He never used his position to benefit his children. I
used to go to college in bus. He never let me use his official vehi-
cle, he said.
Mehmood said he used to stress on following religious
teachings. He used to say that understanding of religion devel-
ops the personality of a human being. He was a religious man
and he taught us the same. (Based on reports in kashmirtimes.in,
greaterkashmir.com, risingkashmir.com and wikipedia.org)
ZAFARUL-ISLAM KHAN
JUSTICE MUFTI BAHAUDDIN FAROOQI
JUSTICE MANSOOR AHMAD MIR, a judge of Himachal
Pradesh High Court, has been appointed Chief Justice of
the same court, i.e. Himachal Pradesh High Court by the
President of India Pranab Mukherjee in consultation with
the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. His appointment
will be effective from the date he takes over his new
post.
Prof FURQAN QAMAR, Vice Chancellor of Central
University of Himachal Pradesh has been appointed
Secretary General of Association of Indian Universities
(AIU). Prof Furqan Qamar who is considered an expert
of economics and management, was earlier Vice
Chancellor of Rajasthan University, Jaipur and also an
adviser in the Planning Commission of India. He hails
from Ghazipur district of UP.
Prof JAVED AKHTAR of AMUs Business Administration Department has
been appointed Controller of Examinations of AMU in addition to his
teaching job, with immediate effect till further order. In another appoint-
ment, Mrs YASMEEN JALAL, senior-most Deputy finance Officer of AMU
has been appointed interim Finance Officer till further order. Both these
appointments have been made by the University's Vice Chancellor
Zamiruddin Shah.
ROWAIDA, an IPS officer who hails from J&Ks Kupwara area, is the fist
woman IPS officer of Kashmir Valley who has been posted in Kanya
Kumari which is outside J&K state. Daughter of Srinagar Doordarshans
former Deputy Director General, she had joined Hyderabad Police
Academy for police training, after completing which she was included in
Tamil Nadu Cadre and posted in Kanya Kumari
(Ms) LAAEBA TARIQ, in view of her ability, skill and activity has been
appointed by M/s Namaste India Milk Products (P) Ltd, a reputed private
sector company its brand Ambassador. She is the grand daughter of Prof
Masood Ahmad Khan, former Principal of Hapurs S. S. V. College.
PROFESSOR S KAFEEL AHMAD QASMI of the
Department of Arabic, AMU, has been appointed
as Dean, Faculty of Arts for a period of two years.
Professor Qasmi took over the charge of deanship
from PROFESSOR SUHAIL AHSAN of the
Department of English on 10 July. Professor
Qasmi is the recipient of the Certificate of Honour
given by President of India, and author of several
books. He has visited many countries as part of
his academic career.
MEN & WOMEN IN NEWS
OBITUARIES
Bollywood film
actor SHAH
RUKH KHAN has
been honoured
with Frances
highest award
Knight of the
Legion of
Honour in
recognition of
his cooperation
in the promotin
of cultural diversity in the world. The Award ws
presented to him by the Foreign Minister of
France (who was in India at that time) at a spe-
cial function held at Hotel Taj Palace Mahal,
Mumbai on 3rd July.
UP Urdu Academys managing committee
meeting was held on 16 June in which prizes /
awards for books published during the past 3
years i.e. 2011, 2012 and 2013 were
announced. There were 4 categories of prizes of
Rs 20,000, Rs 15,000, Rs 10,000 and Rs
5000. For the books published in 2011-12, prize
of Rs 20,000 was given to veteran litterateur
MALIKZADA MANZOOR AHMAD for his book
Shahr-e Adab (criticism). Similarly, SYED
FAZAL IMAM RIZVI, Dr MOLVI MUHAMMAD
ISMAIL, KHALID JAVED were also awarded Rs
20,000. For 2011-12, 10 books were selected
for prizes of Rs 15000, 15 books were selected
for prizes of Rs 10,000 each and 56 books were
selected for prizes of Rs 5000 each.
For the year 2012-13 authors of 5 selected
books viz QAZI OBAIDUR RAHMAN, Prof
IFTEKHAR ALAM KHAN, Dr C. Y. S. KHAN,
ATIQ AHMAD and ABUL KALAM QASMI were
given Rs 20,000 each, authors of the books
were gien Rs 15,000 each, those of 15 books
were given Rs 10,000 each and authors of 53
selected books were given Rs 5000 each.
For 2013-14, authors of selected books viz
MANZAR HANAFI, HANIF NAQVI, ANWAR
JALALPURI, NASEEM NIKHAT and MAMOON
RASHID were given Rs 20,000 each, authors of
10 selected books were given awards of Rs
15,000 each, authors of 15 selected books
were given Rs 10,00 each and authors of 46
selected books were given Rs 5000 each.
Delhi Urdu Academy has announced awards for
22 books which were considered best in the
year 2013. Nine books were selected for being
awarded first prize of Rs 9100 and 13 books
were selected for second prize of Rs 7100.
Authors of books selected for first prize are Prof
MUZAFFAR HANAFI, Dr REYAZ AL HASHIM, Dr
ADIL HAYAT, WASEEM AHMAD SAYEED, Dr
ZAHIDA SAJIDI, SYED SAJID ALI TONKI, KUN-
DAN LAL KUNDAN, Dr AHMAD ALI BARQ and
SHAHBAZ NADEEM ZIAEE. For books selected
for second prize, authors are: Dr AHMAD MAH-
FOOZ, MUHAMMAD HAYATUDDIN, Prof IQBAL
MOHIUDDIN, Dr KAUSAR MAZARI, Dr ABDUL
NASIR, VIRENDRA PATWARI, PARVEZ
AHRAFI, ASIF AZMI, INTEZAR NAEEM, ABUL
FAIZ, WALIULLAH WALI, MAJAZ AMROHVI
and SALEEM AMROHVI.
Munshi Nawal Kishore Prize for Best Publisher
(Rs 9,100) wil be given to DILLI KITAB GHAR.
In addition to each prize, each author will also
be given Urdu Academys Shield and certificate.
Dr. SHAHID NAUKHEZ AZMI, an author of about
a dozen books has been honoured by UP Urdu
Academy for his book Maulana Azad ki Farsi
Khidmaat for the year 2012. He has also been
honoured for his books by Iqbal Academy, Shibli
Academy (Kolkata), Azad Academy (Mumbai)
and Andhra Pradesh Urdu Academy. UGC Delhi
also has assigned to him a research project of
Rs 10 lakhs. He was also honoured by the
President of India with Young Scholar Award in
2012.
BEGUM NASEEMA RAZA, social worker of
Lucknow who along with her mother has been
running a school for years for providing good
education to children and imparts free educa-
tion to 25 percent children in this school has
been honoured by Drishya Bhartiya Sansthan
with Bharti Nari Award in recognition of her
work for promotin of education. The Award was
given to her by Navneet Sehgal, Principal
Secretary, ministry of information in UP govern-
ment at a function held in Lucknow in June.
AWARDS
MAULANA SHAFIULLAH KHAN, a senior religious
scholar of Kairana and one of the founders of
Madrasa Eshaatul Islam, died in a Panipat hospi-
tal 25 June at the age of 99 years. He along with
his younger brother QARI NEMATULLAH QASMI,
Rector of Madrasa Eshaatul Islam had set up
many religious madrasas and maktabs. He leaves
behind his wife, one son and five daughters.
Congress Legislature party leader of Kashmir and
former Pradesh Congress Committees President,
C H O W D H A R Y
MUHAMMAD ASLAM
passed away on 21
June after a prolonged
illness. He had held
various impor tant
posts and was also a
former minister of J&K
and an MP and Speaker
of J&K Legislative
Assembly.
Lecture on Islamic Worldview
SPECIAL REPORT The Milli Gazette, 16-31 July 2014 13 www.milligazette.com
Former Professor of Political Science at the Jamia Millia Islamia
and Secretary-General of the Institute of Objective Studies, Prof. Z.
M. Khan said the Islamic worldview is comprehensive and pres-
ents a well-knit scheme to provide knowledge and explanation
about the seen and unseen as explained in the Qur'an. It offers
ways and methods to achieve values, establish basic ethical pre-
cepts and create a balance in everything and nobody was allowed
to exceed the limits prescribed.
Delivering the lecture on the "Islamic Worldview: A
Reflection" in the Institute of Objective Studies (IOS) on 21 June,
Prof. Khan pointed out that the Islamic worldview was short,
straight and simple. He held that basically, there were two com-
ponents - faith and positive action. Arguing that all human facul-
ties should be directed to complete one's role in this world, he
noted that faith in Islam was very well defined.
While positive action signified any action committed to bring
about an improvement, the quality of action solely depended on
the intensity and purity of intention behind the action, he said. He
maintained that this aim was to be achieved by the application of
all faculties of humans, including intellect, sentiments, feelings,
etc. Islam presented the whole scheme with the provision of
adjustment with time and place, he remarked. Holding that it was
difficult to define the present day situation except that violence
and injustice were rampant, he said that there was a growing
belief in influential circles that the prevailing situation represented
an end of ideology, religion and history.
He continued that human behaviour was shaped by econom-
ic and social conditions and these were not in one's control.
Consequently, he said, the situation was beyond control and
things could not be put in order. For some people, the solution lay
in the application of violence and oppression. Exploitation of the
weak was the order of the day and humanity was in search of
effective solutions, he observed.
He insisted that Islam claimed and presented precedence to
offer solutions to the problems facing the world today. He regret-
ted that this was not happening today. He called for an effort to
define the text in line with the context of time. He said that the
Almighty had sent the message to apply and implement, and
finally this was addressing the humanity for all people and time.
He wanted to know if it did not make a call for developing faith
based on context-friendly paradigm to look at things to make the
message relevant to our times. He believed that this might safely
be achieved by defining the Islamic worldview. Explaining that the
worldview was a translation of German word "weltanschauung,"
he said that Al-'Attas had defined it as "a vision of reality as it
appeared before one's mind's eye revealing what existence was
all about."
Prof. Khan opined that the present situation testified that the
Islamic tradition had worked very
hard to keep the faith part high, but
the Islamic world had suffered as it
did not develop thought and new
ideas to cope with the changing
times. He laid stress on the urgent
need for addressing this question
and working on developing new
thought. This created the need to
define the Islamic worldview which
was a balanced combination of faith
and positive action. He reminded
the audience not to forget that God
had created this universe and
humans with a purpose and respon-
sibility. He concluded by saying that
though we possessed the herb, yet
we could not dispense it to the
patient lying on the deathbed.
Prof. Afzal Wani, Professor of
Law at the Gurugobind Singh Indraprastha University and Asstt.
Secretary-General of the IOS, called for world peace. He said that
Islam always stood for respect to human rights, equality, brother-
hood and peace. He noted that Islam touched upon almost every
aspect of human life. Senior journalist and analyst, Mr.
Mohammad Zeyaul Haque described the Qur'an as the only Book
that went into minutest details of universe and its creations. So
many scientific concepts had their origin in the Qur'an which
spoke of its infinite depths as often pointed out by the Nobel-win-
ning physicist Abdus Salam. This, Mr. Haque pointed out, was
one dimension of Islamic worldview.
The Chairman of the IOS, Dr. Mohammad Manzoor Alam
described Prof. Z. M. Khan's lecture as a "discourse with his stu-
dents". He held that process, debate and discussion were supple-
mentary to each other. He informed that a panel discussion on
the Qur'an and the current situation would be organised by the
IOS in the near future.
He especially referred to a book titled "History of the Science
of Qur'an" published by the International Islamic University,
Malaysia which deals with many scientific issues on the subject.
He observed that the Qur'an spoke of perfection of good deeds.
He opined that truth was not what one accepted but the one that
was spread through the message far and wide.
Muslim, Christian leaders meet in
Goa, discuss national issues
Panaji (Goa): Leaders of two eminent Muslim
and Christian organisations had a cordial
interaction here on 28 June discussing
issues facing the country like protection of
secularism and constitution of the country.
Mohammad Salim Engineer, National
Secretary of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, during his
two-day visit to the state for organisational
meetings, led a delegation to the head office
of the Council for Social Justice & Peace,
Goa's esteemed Christian body. He met Fr.
Savio Fernandes and other leaders of the
Christian community.
Fr. Fernandes welcomed Salim Engineer
and other leaders and had a cordial interac-
tion on issues facing the nation. Jamaat leader suggested that all social, secular and religious organisa-
tions should work with unity and co-operation to safeguard the constitution and promote equality and jus-
tice. Commenting on the Central government's decision to allow FDI in the defence sector, he said that
this will threaten the independence and security of India. He said concerned individuals and especially
organisations should act as a pressure group and keep watch over the policies and laws made by the
new government. He said the recent political victory of the BJP with only 31% of the vote share has com-
pelled the civil society to be more vigilant and any anti-people policy decision and tinkering with the con-
stitution needs to be checked democratically.
During the interaction, all agreed on the point that it is the duty of the elected representatives to come
to the people rather than for the public to be waiting at their doorsteps and begging for their problems to
be addressed.
The interaction was fruitful in cementing the idea of mutual co-operation between all peace-loving
people for the overall development of the society and to free it from hatred and conflict.
(indiatomorrow.net) Picture: Fr. Savio Fernandes (extreme left) & M Salim Engineer (extreme right)
Film Censor Board rejects
docu on Muzaffarnagar riots
New Delhi: In a clear indi-
cation of towing the line of
the new rulers, the
Central Board of Film
Certification (CBFC) has
rejected a documentary
film on last September's
Muzaffarnagar riots. The
documentary was pro-
duced by filmmaker
Shubhradeep Chakravorty
who shot to limelight after
making a hear t-rending
documentary on the
Gujarat riots of 2002. The
documentary "In Dino Muzaffarnagar" deals with the socio-political fallout of riots in the area.
Chakravorty is a filmmaker with a conscience. He was a journalist but took to documen-
tary filmmaking after the Gujarat riots. His first film was on the Gujarat violence and his second
was inspired by the murder of Mumbai-based lawyer Shahid Azmi which explored the life-
threatening conditions in which defence lawyers work on terror-related cases.
The Muzaffarnagar riots documentary, directed by Meera Chaudhary, looks into the acts of
violence before, during and after the riots with the role of the leaders of the right-wing political
parties highlighted. It also narrates stories of sanity where Jats helped Muslims and vice versa.
It also touches upon the ongoing sugarcane agitation in western Uttar Pradesh, and the impact
of the violence, given the mill owners leverage due to the split in the Bharatiya Kisan Union as
a result of the riots which led Muslims break away from BKU.
The Film Censor Board is a statutory body under Ministry of Information and Broadcasting,
regulating the public exhibition of films under the provisions of the Cinematograph Act 1952.
Films can be publicly exhibited in India only after they have been certified by the Board. (mus-
limmirror.com)
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Muffakham Jah College of Engg & Tech
Hyderabad: Muffakham
Jah College of
Engineering & Technology
conducted its annual
graduation day last
month. The guest of hon-
our Prof. S.
Satyanarayana who said
that students must exer-
cise innovation and cre-
ativity while stressing the
need to pursue internship
in a reputed company to
bridge the gap between
academia and industry.
Musharraf Ali Farooqui, a
student of ECE department from 2009 batch, who secured all India 80th position in IAS exam in
his maiden attempt, was also felicitated with a gold medal. Mr Zafar Javeed - Secretary, SUES
congratulated the students while encouraging them to set goals and thrive to pursue them.
MJCET was established in 1980. It offers engineering courses in eight branches. It has been
ranked 48th among top 75 colleges of India by Outlook Magazine for the year 2014. A total of
672 students were awarded provisional certificates this year. (Syed Khaled Shahbaaz)
NRI donates
US$50K to AMU
Aligarh: A US-based well-wisher of
AMU, Mr. Musa Dakri has donated a
sum of 50 thousand US dollars to
the University which will be used to
establish a University Museum in
Kennedy Hall and will be named
after the Dakri Family. Mr. Musa
Dakri belongs to Gujarat. He had vis-
ited the Aligarh Muslim University in
the month of January 2014. Musa Dikri at the AMU
English medium madrasa in W. Bengal
Kolkata: West Bengals first English medium High Madrasa in
Nadia districts Paninala village has become functional and teach-
ing started on 23 June for the academic year 2014-15. For KG, 1st
and above classes for the time being 5 teachers have been
appointed on temporary basis. Classes are held from 8 am to 12
noon. This madrasa has been named English Medium High
Madrasa and built by the state government on 187 acres of Waqf
land. Rs 8 crores have been spent on the Madrasa buildings and
basic infrastructure. This amount has been provided by the state
ministry of minorities welfare and madrasa education. According
to Nadias District Magistrate P. B. Saleem, separate hostels will be
built for boy and girl students for which 9641 lakh? rupees have
been sanctioned. He said that for the time being students are liv-
ing in a house and it is hoped that by the next academic year con-
struction of hostels will be completed. He (DM) also hoped that
this English medium madrasa will prove the starting point for
change in the educational system of madrasas in West Bengal. He
said that the state government is quite serious about modernisa-
tion of madrasas and steps are being initiated for this. According
to another source, class rooms of this English medium madrasa
are built in modern style and needless to say, separate loos are
built for boy and girl students.
Maulana Azad Foundation to help finance private universities
New Delhi: Maulana Azad Education Foundation (MAEF), in addi-
tion to private schools, will now provide financial assistance for
setting up private universities also. A decision to this effect was
taken in MAEFs general body meeting on 23 June chaired by
union minority affairs minister Mrs Najma Heptullah. In this meet-
ing various schemes run by the Foundation were also reviewed
and ways to improve their working to make them work more effi-
ciently were also discussed. After the meeting the minister said
while talking to media persons that the Foundation has since long
been working to provide financial assistance to such schools
already existing but now a decision has been taken that private
persons and organisations which are able to arrange land for new
schools will now be provided large financial assistance to open
new schools, colleges and even universities. She further said that
Dargah Committees proposed plan to open its school has also
been approved by the Foundation. In reply to a question she said
that my aim is to make minorities (Muslims) equal to other
advanced communities in the educational field so that Muslims
could also be able to join the national stream, adding that schemes
like scholarship scheme, schools infrastructure development
scheme and other schemes of providing financial assistance to
other institutions are being run so that educational standard of
institutions run by Muslim organisations could improve. She said
that they were also working to make the Foundation more dynam-
ic and for this purpose several meetings have been held and sug-
gestions made. She said that her whole attention was focused on
making the Muslim minority perform much better in the education-
al field and whatever steps are needed in this direction will be
taken and I am promise-bound for this. One member of the gen-
eral body said that the Foundation has also approved a proposal of
providing financial assistance for the infrastructure of universities
which some organisations or institutions want to open.
Civil services exam results disappointing for Muslims
New Delhi: It is a pity that with the selection of only 34 Muslim
candidates out of a total number of 1122 candidates, the results
of civil services examinations conducted by UPSC in 2013-14 and
declared on 12 June are again as disappointing as in the previous
years in spite of the fact that arrangements for free coaching for
these examinations, particularly for Muslim aspirants are made by
Dr Zafar Mahmoods Zakat Foundation of India, Jamia Millia
Islamia Centre for Coaching & Career Planning, Hamdard
Education Trust (all in Delhi), Haj Committee of India, Mumbai etc.
Some Muslim candidates join other coaching and training centres
also in addition to these. For the current examinations 23 candi-
dates had received coaching by ZFI of whom 13, including one
non-Muslim, were selected. The total number of successful
Muslim candidates in these examinations for the past four or five
years has been around 30 or 31 out of about 900 or 1000, and
their percentage has been only 3 or 3.5. This year (2014) the num-
ber of successful Muslim candidates has been slightly more i.e.
34 but the total number of successful candidates is also more as
compared to previous years i.e. 1122. In 2012 the number of suc-
cessful Muslim candidates was 31 out of 998. In 2011 their num-
ber was again 31. Before that i.e. in 2010 their (Muslims) number
was 21 out of 875. In 2009 the number of successful Muslim can-
didates was marginally better than subsequent years, seeing that
31 (Muslim) candidates were selected out of 791.
In the current year (2014)s UPSC-conducted civil services
examinations one Gaurav Agarwal who did B. Tech from IIT
Kanpur is the topper among 1122 candidates, he has been select-
ed for Indian Police Service (IPS). UPSC-conducted civil services
examinations are for IAS, IFS, IPS, IRS (Indian Revenue Service)
and other central government services. Among the 1122 candi-
dates selected this year (2014) 517 belonged to the general cate-
gory, 326 belonged to OBC category, 187 to SC and 92 to ST cat-
egories.
Muslim capitalists should pay attention to education
Mau: United Muslim Organisation (UMO)s general secretary
Dr Shakeel Samdani said here in a statement that Muslims them-
selves should set up standard educational institutions and these
schools and educational institutions, instead of being charitable
ones, should be equipped with modern facilities and equipment
and should be run on commercial basis. He said that capitalists
and affluent people of the community should come forward in set-
ting up such schools because neither governments are sincere
and serious about the education of Muslims nor are government
schools of such a standard where (Muslim) children could be
taught. He said there was no other alternative for removing the
educational backwardness of Muslims except creating a network
of standard schools and colleges throughout the country. He said
that while setting up schools Muslims should not keep in mind
only poor children of jhuggis and slums but should keep those
children also in mind who, in the absence of standard Muslim
schools, take admission in non-Muslim schools with the result
that mentally and intellectually their temperament and outlook
becomes different from those of the community and millat.
He said that Muslims of north India should learn a lesson from
Muslims of the south who have created a network of educational
institutions of high standard in their areas from which lakhs of
Muslim children and youths benefit and it is also a matter of pride
and pleasure that along with Muslim students non-Muslim stu-
dents also in lakhs are receiving education in those schools. He
said that in this blissful month of Ramadhan Muslims should try in
every possible way to get the children of their localities admitted
in local schools and take full advantage of Right to Education Act.
He said that products of Muslim educational institutions are
Muslims at least from a mental, cultural and spiritual outlook and
their thinking is in conformity with that of the millat throughout
their life. He made an appeal to the heads of present schools that
they must appoint at least one good and standard Urdu teacher in
their schools so that the number of Urdu-knowing students
increases and that at least one period should be for imparting
moral education to children whose basic element should be based
on Islamic teachings. Inviting the attention of authorities of educa-
tional institutions he said that Muslim educational institutions
which have not so far got minority status should get in touch with
National Commission for Miinorites Educational Institutions so as
to get the minority status. He hoped that even if some people act
on his appeal, very good results will be achieved.
Advisory Committee for Urdu IAS Study Centre constituted
Lucknow: A meeting of UP Urdu Academys Executive Committee
was held recently (on 17 June) in which some important deci-
sions regarding, constitution of the Academys Urdu IAS Study
Centres Advisory Committee members, awards and prizes on
books and their authors (which is pending for 3 years), distribu-
tion / sale of Academys publications to university / college stu-
dents through mobile vans in different cities, making students of
Urdu coaching schools subscribers of Urdu Academys maga-
zines at concessional rates etc, were taken. UP Urdu Academys
Chairman Dr Nawaz Deobandi, while giving information about the
executive committees decisions said that preparations and activ-
ities of Urdu IAS Study Centre were going on in full swing. The
entire campus would be made of modern standard and study cen-
tre will be airconditioned and will include study room, common
room, digital class rooms, conference Hall, administrative block
etc. He said that it was hoped that study centre will start function-
ing by the last week of August this year (2014).
He said that the way students and people have welcomed
the move (of star ting Urdu IAS Study Centre) has encouraged
him and hence every effor t will be made to upgrade and
improve the working of the centre and no compromise will be
made with its standard. He said that in addition to permanent
faculty members, services of good teachers and instructors
will also be obtained on contract basis. Regarding digital class
rooms Dr Nawaz Deobandi said that after recording class lec-
tures, CDs thereof will also be provided to students and other
modern facilities such as computers, internet etc will also be
provided to them.
As regards members of the honorary advisory committee
of the Study Centre, they are retired IPS officer Manzoor
Ahmad, former DGP Rizwan Ahmad, retired IAS officer Dr
Anees Ansari, retired IPS officer V. N. Rai, former VC of
Lucknow University Prof (Ms) Roop Rekkha Varma, retired IAS
officer Babu Ram, IAS officer Zaheer bin Sagheer, retired IRS
officer Aslam Hasan, Jamia Millias Prof Zikrur Rahman, M. A.
Jauhar University (Rampur)s Vice Chancellor Prof Muhammad
Yunus and Prof Waseem Barelvi. It may also be stated in this
connection that for this Study Centre (of coaching for compet-
itive examinations) UP government has sanctioned more than
Rs one crore in the initial stage.
Desolate mosque and graveyard in Mehrauli made usable
New Delhi: An old mosque and a graveyard in Islam Colony, Bagh
Mehrauli, lying desolate and unused since partition of India in
1947 has now been renovated and made usable with the efforts
of some Muslim youth where Namaz can now be offered. This
mosque, considered to be about 400 years old, has also a grave-
yard measuring more than 36 bighas adjacent to it which is con-
sidered to be Delhi Waqf Boards properties. This mosque and
graveyard is situated in Ward No. 6, Khasra No. 1659, Islampur
Colony Bagh Mehrauli. After remaining unattended since 1947, the
mosque and graveyard had virtually became a jungle, with trees
and grass growing in and around these. According to a press
release by Al Kabeer Islamic Development Trust Janta Colony,
some Muslim youth happened to see this mosque and the adja-
cent graveyard in 2010 in this condition and ever since that time
they started clearing it of grass etc, maintaining and looking after
this mosque and graveyard. When Chaudhary Mateen Ahmad,
Delhi Waqf Boards chairman and that areas MLA came to know
about the efforts of the youth, he praised their efforts and consti-
tuted a committee of 11 persons and got these properties
approved by Delhi Waqf Board and entrusted these properties to
the Boards managing committee which is working to improve the
condition of the mosque and graveyard. Recently, on the occasion
of Shab-e Barat it got the graves cleaned and white washed,
offered flowers and chadar on the graves, made arrangements for
lighting in the graveyard and mosque, for the first time after 1947.
Committees chairman Aslam Ansari and vice chairman
Shahzad Siddiqi said that Hindu brethren of the area, par ticu-
larly Shakti Lohia and Tara Chand Pandey par ticipated in the
cleaning and rehabilitation work of the mosque and graveyard
in their presence, presenting a fine example of communal unity
and harmony in the changing social and political scenario of
the country which is deteriorating with the passage of time.
Chairman, vice chairman and other members of the managing
committee while congratulating the youngmen and Chaudhary
Mateen Ahmad for the rehabilitation and improvement of the
mosque and graveyard hoped that in future also Waqf Board
will continue with such good work.
Swords out in a fight between khadims at Ajmer shrine
Ajmer: Fighting erupted between two groups of Khadims at the
shrine of Sufi saint Hazrat Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti at Ajmer on
16 June in which both groups took out swords to attack each
other which led to a panic and stampede. At least one khadim was
badly injured in this fight and three persons were arrested.
According to an officer of Dargah Thana, in this bloody fight one
finger of Anjuman Societys secretary, Wahid Angaras son, Hilal
Hasan Chishti was completely chopped off. He was taken to a
local hospital for treatment. It is said that when Hilal Hasan Chishti
along with his colleagues reached Gate NO. 4 in the morning, his
rival Tariq Chishtis men began to fight and attacked his people
with swords and subsequently more people joined the fight. This
created panic and stampede and many pilgrims began to run here
and there. Police, on getting the news rushed to the Dargah and
brought the situation under control.
It may be stated that earlier on the occasion of Khwajas
802nd urs also there was a war of words between these two
groups and firing was also resor ted to.
New Delhi: Maulana Azad Education Foundation plans to set up a
network of Maulana Azad Residential Schools, on the model of
the central governments Kandriya Vidyalayas, in Muslim majori-
ty areas. This plan was in fact initiated by the previous UPA gov-
ernment and with this aim the budget of MAEF for the year 2013-
14 was substantially increased but because of certain technical
difficulties this plan could not be implemented and was kept in the
cold storage. Now the ministry of minorities affairs, under which
MAEF works, has decided to revive this plan, according to which,
just as there is a network of Kendriya Vidyalays (there are about
1100 KVs) in the country, in the same way plans are afoot to cre-
ate a network of Maulana Azad Residential Schools in areas
where there is a fairly large population of Muslims. It is said that
the plan is to set up 10 such schools in the current financial year
(2014-15). This proposal was, in fact, to be included in the
Foundations general body and governing council meetings which
was held on 23 June. There were two proposals for this meeting
which was held on 23 June. One was for providing financial
assistance to new private schools and universities and the other
was to set up Maulana Azad residential schools in Muslim-popu-
lated areas. Whereas the first proposal i.e. assistance to new pri-
vate schools and universities was taken up and approved, the
other proposal i.e. Maulana Azad residential schools probably
could not be taken up for discussion. It is believed that minorities
affairs minister Najma Heptullah is very much interested in such
schools and hence it is hoped that this plan also will be imple-
mented.
As stated above, 10 Maulana Azad residential schools are
planned for the current financial year and for each such school the
Foundation will provide Rs 5 crores and the Foundation will be a
shareholder in each such school. As per the basic standard or con-
dition laid down by the Foundation for other schools, the first condi-
tion is acquisition or provision of 3 acres of land for each such
school, the responsibility of which falls on the NGO or the applicant
(person or organisation / institution). According to a senior officer of
the ministry, though relevant rules are yet to be laid down, the nor-
mal rules laid down for an educational institution will also be laid
down for these schools also. It is considered that the first school of
this type can be that of the Dargah Committee of Ajmers proposed
Khwaja Gharib Nawaz School. After repeated requests by Dargah
Committee Najma Heptullah has assured this Committee that under
Maulana Azad residential schools plan, financial assistance will be
provided to this school (Khwaja Gharib Nawaz School) where, as per
the plan, there will be hostel facilities also in addition to a school.
However, it is understood that initially the ministry has removed the
feature of residential i.e. there will not be hostels (for some time).
The second feature is that the name Maulana Azad may not neces-
sarily be added to such schools. Mrs Heptullah is understood to have
suggested that schools opened through MAEF should not necessar-
ily be named after Maulana Azad because if Maulana Azad is added
to such schools, it will give a particular identity which is not advis-
able. (N. A. Ansari)
Plan to launch Maulana Azad Schools on
the model of Kendriya Vidyalayas
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A fact-finding exercise was coordinated by
National Confederation of Human Rights
Organisations (NCHRO) here in the
communal attacks on Muslims last month.
The following is a slightly edited version of
the report issued on 20 June:
The team visited different places in and around
Pune where Muslims and their properties were
attacked from May 31 onwards. The team visited
Hadapsar where the Muslim techie Sheikh
Mohsin was beaten to death and places such as
Handewadi, Syed Nagar, Kale Padel, Loni, Uruli
Devaichi, Landewadi, Bosery where people were
beaten, bakeries, shops, hotels, houses and
places of worship that belonged to Muslims were
ransacked. We met the victims and their near and
dear ones, owners of the lost properties, injured
persons and religious leaders, and recorded their
statements.
We also met the district collector of Pune Mr.
Saurav Rai, deputy collector Mr. Suresh
D Jadhav, Hadapsar police senior inspector
Mr. B.K. Bandharkar and crime branch senior
inspector Mr. Gopinath Patil who is investigating
the June 2 incidents. We discussed with the offi-
cers in detail the attacks, action taken and the
general situation today in this area.
The Incidents: It all started in the last week of
May when some fringe Hindu outfits, mainly one
Hindu Rahtra Sena (HRS) led by a maverick
called Dhananjay Desai protested with road
blockade and demonstrations against a deroga-
tory facebook posting mocking the iconic king
Shivaji and the Shiv Sena leader Bal Thackeray
with morphed photographs. The agitation turned
violent from May 31. The protestors, who were
initially only targeting government properties
such as buses, later started pelting stones, loot-
ing and burning shops and religious places of
the minority community in and around Pune city.
The collector said that more than 250 govern-
ment buses were damaged.
On 31 May, in Handewadi two madarasas
and two masjids were attacked. When the attack
took place there were children working on their
lessons inside the buildings. A Masjid under con-
struction by one Salim Memon was badly dam-
aged. Masjid-e Chudeja was partly burnt and its
Imam was left with a head injury. The manager of
the Memon Masjid Mr. Mohammed Aziz
Sheikhsaid that the attackers, all youths, came on
two-wheelers shouting Jai Bhawani and Jai
Maharashtra with deadly weapons in their hands
such as cricket bats, iron bars and swords.
Between 9 and 10 pm, three such attacks took
place at half an hour intervals. In the last phase,
about 50 to 70 armed goons participated in the
attack. Though the manager called the police and
cried for help, they came only at about 12 pm
after the attackers had left safely.
More or less at the same time, about 35
armed activists of the Hindutva outfit came rid-
ing motor cycles shouting in the same manner
and attacked Rose Bakery, Bangalore Bakery
and Maharashtra Bakery in Loni. All of these
belonged to Muslims. Glass doors, fridges and
glass showcases were damaged. The owner of
Rose Bakery, Shaban Sulaiman Shaikh, said that
Rs 35,000 cash was also looted from his shop.
The nearby Alamgir masjid was also stoned.
At the same time in Landewadi Bosseri, the
Madina Masjid and the nearby Muslim qabristan
(graveyard) were attacked. The masjid was not
only attacked but also burnt using petrol which
they brought with them. About 35 children in the
age group of 12 to 17 were in the upstairs por-
tion of the masjid at that time. They jumped out
to the next building and managed to escape. The
imam of the masjid, Mohammed Alam, broke his
leg when he tried to jump out. He is still under
treatment. Four two-wheelers, which stood
before the masjid, were burnt. Even the dead
were not shown mercy. Graves and a small wor-
shipping shed in the graveyard were ransacked.
In Noor Mohalla at Bosery, about 40 houses were
stoned from outside. Glass windows and doors
were damaged. About 25 motorbikes were
attacked and broken to pieces.
All these attacks took place on a single pat-
tern. In all instances, the police came only after
the attack was over. When the Landewadi masjid
was burnt, the fire service came to the place only
after two hours when everything was already
burnt already. The fire station is situated just
below the masjid.
Even after such series attacks were made
against Muslims of the area, neither the district
administration nor the police took serious note of
it. The deputy collector said that they promulgat-
ed some prohibitary order. But they had not cared
to deploy more special forces in places where
Muslims are living in large numbers. This led to
massive attacks on June 2. In Kale Padel, Syed
Nagar and Hadapsar main market a number of
bakeries, shops and hotels were ransacked and
burnt. Not only the showrooms but also baking
machines, fridges, tempos, four-wheelers and
bicycles used to carry the products were
attacked, broken to pieces and burnt.
Patel Bakery, Welcome Bakery, Paradise
Bakery and Hotel Sahara are some of the bak-
eries and shops that our team visited. Houses
nearby Hotel Sahara, inhabited by Dalit
Buddhists, were also attacked. Neela Badukombe
and Maruthi Shinde Baba, both dalits, said that
they are living there for nearly 50 years and this
is the first time they were attacked.
In Kasbapet a clash occurred between the
Hindu extremists, who came to attack a masjid,
and Muslim youths who tried to prevent them.
Four Hindu extremists were injured, two of them
with severe injuries. In this connection six
Muslim youths are arrested.
In the Hadapsar main market area, the
Nalband Masjid was stoned. One fruit-shop
owned by Abdul Kabeer and a banana godown
owned by Abdul Rafi Bagwan were burnt. In Uruli
Devaichi, the Jama Majid was attacked. A fridge
and a water-tank and some other items weres
broken but no case was registered yet. All these
attacks took place between 9 and 11 pm. Slogan
shouting armed goons, who came on two-wheel-
ers, did all this.
It was at this time that the worst incident
happened. At about 9 pm, Mohsin Shaikh (28), a
pious young Muslim techie from Sholapur work-
ing as a manager in a textile firm in the nearby
area, left the Shine Anjuman Masjid in
Unnatinagar after saying his night prayer. His
friend Riyaz Ahmed Mubarak Shendru was on the
pillion. When they crossed a few hundred meters
from the mosque, a gang of 30 to 40 armed
goons came on bikes shouting slogans. Seeing
them, Mohsin stopped his bike and moved aside.
The armed gang seeing these young men sport-
ing beards and wearing skull caps began to
attack them with hockey sticks, wooden stumps,
iron bars and bats. Mohsins friend managed to
escape with injuries. But Mohsin, the only bread-
winner of his middle class family, succumbed to
death after he was brought to a hospital.
At the end of the street, two other Muslim
youths, Izaz Yusuf Bagwan and Ameer Shaikh,
were witnessing the attack on Mohsin with fear
and awe. The gang then targeted these men who
ran away and escaped with injuries and fractures
on their bodies. Out of fear, Izaz immediately ran
to his native village. Our team met Ameer Shaikh
who gave a graphic picture of what happened on
the other day. Ameers arm is broken. He is mar-
ried and blessed with two children. He is a scrap
merchant. But after this incident nobody is ready
to trade with him. His future is bleak.
A compensation amount of Rs 500,000 has
been given to Mohsins family by the state govt.
The collector told us that a Central govt relief of
Rs 3 lakh and another 5 lakh rupees from the
state riot-relief fund will be paid in due course.
But no compensation is paid till today to the
injured persons and to those who lost their prop-
erties in the attack. The sub-collector said that
only if a proposal for compensation is sent from
the commissioner of police, it will be considered.
But no such effort is made in this direction by the
police department. Regarding the injured, the
sub-collector told us that compensation will be
paid only to those who were in the hospital for
more than a week. But out of the seven people
injured only one was in the hospital for more than
a week. Others, out of fear, left the hospital with-
in a few days.
There are about 20 FIRs filed in Hadapsar,
Boseri, Munuva, Loni and Vagoli police stations. The
investigating officer said that 23 persons were
arrested for the June 2 incidents. In total, about 200
people were arrested. When we asked him whether
all those arrested were members of HRS, he replied
that it could not be said because that fringe outfit
never keeps any docu-
ments regarding its mem-
bership. When we asked
whether the govt has any
proposal to ban HRS, the
collector replied that only
if a proposal comes from
the commissioner of
police the govt would con-
sider it.
The maverick leader
of HRS, Dhananjay Desai,
is now behind the bars.
He is now being investi-
gated from the conspiracy
angle in the riots and the
attack on Mohsin.
The HRS first came
into focus when it carried
an attack on the office of
a Marathi television
channel in 2007 protest-
ing their coverage of an incident involving a Hindu
minor girl who had eloped with a Muslim boy.
Then they protested against the arrest of army
officers who were involved in Malegaon blasts
and other such terrorist activities. Desai has 22
cases registered against him in Mumbai and
Pune. While three of the cases are related to
dacoity and possession of arms, nearly all the
rest pertain to hate speeches made by him. It is
said that the HRS chief Dhananjay Desai has a
following of nearly 4,000 youths across Pune
district. They are well-organised and ideological-
ly motivated. Most of these youths are from poor
families and are unemployed. To tend to his sup-
porters, many of whom are from economically
weaker backgrounds, Desai brokers settlements
in disputes mainly related to land and other prop-
erties. The HRS is very active in Hadapsar and
Landewadi areas. Six months back they conduct-
ed public meetings in Landewadi in which hate
speeches were freely made against Muslims.
Our team found that in total, 40 houses and
20 Masjids were attacked and out of these 20,
five masjids were burnt. In total, 35 two-wheel-
ers and five tempos were destroyed. Twenty nine
bicycles were burnt, ten thelas were broken to
pieces. Seven people were injured and one per-
son was killed. We estimate that the total losses
suffered by Muslims amount to 4.5 crores.
Observations:
1.Maharashtra is in a sense the headquarters of
the Hindutva extremist thoughts from the days of
Savarkar. In recent times, the Malegoan and
Nanded bomb blasts, the involvement of army
people in Hindutva terrorism and the mystery
surrounding the killing of the honest police officer
Hemant Karkare, who investigated the Hindutva
terrorist activities in Maharashtra, are some of
the facts we have to bear in mind. We understand
that some peace-loving people and organisations
have attracted the attention of the Maharashtra
govt regarding the underground activities of the
terrorist organisations based on Hindutva logic,
but the Maharashtra govt has not taken this con-
cern and complaints seriously. In fact, we under-
stand that both the revenue and police officials
are very sympathetic towards rightwing Hindutva
forces and their ideologies. We feel that if such
attitude continues more such attacks on minori-
ty communities will take place in the near future.
2. Historically, Pune was the centre of the Maratha
rule. Muslims constitute twelve percent of the pop-
ulation. For the past 15 years, right-wing forces
have been very active in this area. Hate crime and
religious fanaticism are on the rise...
3. Though Hindutva terrorist organisations are
very active in Maharashtra, the state govt has not
taken enough attention of it. Most of the govt offi-
cials and police personnel and the vernacular
media are sympathetic towards them. Though
the officials as well as the home minister said
immediately after Mohsins murder that there is a
proposal to ban HRS, now they are retracting
from it. We are of the opinion that banning organ-
isations is not the solution. Instead, the govt
should be very firm against hate speeches
against certain sections of the people. Having an
organisation in the name of Hindu National
Army (English translation of HRS) is against the
fundamental tenets of our constitution.
4. The attacks against Muslims of Pune by HRS
and other such Hindutva-minded people are well-
planned. Though Mohsin was killed randomly for
sporting a beard and wearing a skull-cap, there is
a well-planned conspiracy behind his killing and
the attacks on Muslims. Both on May 31 and
June 2 at the same time -- that is, between 9 and
11 pm -- so many places were attacked though
they are separated by large distances. Just one
group could not have done all these things.
Clearly some high command had assigned duties
to different groups to target different places. So
this is a well-planned attack. There is a conspira-
cy behind it.
5. Though Mohsins murder was the worst part
of the violence, the state govt as well as the
media focused only on this incident. But behind
it, so many planned attacks against the Muslim
places of worship and on their economic activi-
ties took place. This is a very serious matter of
concern.
6. Muslim public, religious leaders and political rep-
resentatives, expressed their concern about the time
and background in which these attacks took place.
A change of government has taken place. An
extreme right-wing leader who boasts himself as a
Hindu Natioanalist has taken over the reigns of the
country. In such a background the attacks have
happened. Nobody in the Central govt has con-
demned it. The BJP member of Parliament from
Pune, Anil Shirole, spoke of how some amount of
repercussions after the posts on social media was
natural. Instead of distancing the party and the
government from such attacks, Mr. Shirole seems
to have done just the opposite. The Jamat-e Islami
leader Prof Asar Ali Warsi was very much con-
cerned about such statements. We are much wor-
ried about such a fear developing among the largest
minority in India.
7. Spreading of rumours and false propaganda
played an important role in the escalation of vio-
lence. We should not forget that circulation of
some fake vedio clips triggered violence against
Muslims in Muzffarnagar. Recently, the cyber-cell
of the Mumbai police identified 650 such hate
pages/websites.
8. We want to mention here that not all Hindus
are cultivating hate against the minorities. But the
Hindutva outfits are spreading hate among the
Hindus to polarise the majority against a particu-
lar minority. The Hindus of Bhima Kortgaon vil-
lage actually resisted the attempt of HRS when
they tried to attack a mosque there. This culture
of communal harmony should be nurtured and
developed. Writers, thinkers and politicians with
secular views should work in this direction.
Demands
1. A central special investigation team (SIT)
should be formed to investigate the atrocities on
Muslims of Pune in June 2014. Reputed officers
should be included in the team.
2. A fast-track court should be formed and a
special public prosecutor should be appointed in
consultation with the victims to try the cases .
3. At least Rs 25 lakh should be paid as compen-
sation to the family of Mohsin.
4. A committee should be formed under the dis-
trict collector which should study the actual dam-
ages incurred by the minorities and they should
be compensated accordingly.
5. We are worried about the fact that the govt
officials are oriented against the minority com-
munities. Sensitisation programmes for the
Police as well as revenue officials should be con-
ducted on issues related to minorities. In places
where Muslims are largely populated, Muslim
officers and police personal should be sufficient-
ly deployed.
6. The communal violence bill should be passed
as an Act as early as possible.
7. The police and other officials who didnt take
action against the culprits should be found out
and necessary action should be taken against
them. Action should be taken against the
Vandewadi fire service personnel for wilful negli-
gence of duty.
8.The cyber-cell should expedite investigation
and arrest those responsible for the mischievous
posts in the social media.
The following human rights activists participated
in this inquiry: 1. Reny Ayline, National
Secretary, NCHRO, New Delhi; Prof A.Marx,
Peoples Union for Human Rights, Chennai; Prof.
G.K. Ramasamy, Peoples Democratic Forum,
Bangalore; Adv. Y.K. Shabana, Committee for
Protection of Democeatic Rights, Mumbai; Adv.
Babita Kesharwani, Mumbai; Sudhir Dhawale,
Editor Vidrohi , Mumbai and Rupali Jadhav,
Kabir Kala Manch, Pune.
The report was issued on 20 June, 2014 by the
National Confederation of Human Rights Oganizations
(NCHRO) which could be contacted on
nchromail@gmail.com
Communal Attacks on Muslims of Pune: Fact-Finding Report
In total, 40 houses and 20 Masjids were attacked and out of
these 20, five masjids were burnt. In total, 35 two-wheelers
and five tempos were destroyed. Twenty nine bicycles were
burnt, ten thelas were broken to pieces. Seven people were
injured and one person was killed. We estimate that the total
losses suffered by Muslim amounts to 4.5 crores.
KHALID AMAYREH
Occupied Palestine: The Israeli army, which
can be called the Jewish Wehrmacht given its
Nazi-like behavior, continues to pound the Gaza
Strip from ground, sea and air. According to
sources in Gaza, virtually all targets hit so far
are civilian.
As many as 90 Palestinians, virtually all of
them innocent civilians, have been reported
killed so far. A thousand others were injured, many sustaining life-
threatening wounds.
The scenes of mutilated and maimed children, some of
whose bodies are seen protruding through the rubble of their
homes, destroyed by missiles fired by American-supplied F-16
fighter jets, seem to verify the view that Israel is targeting
Palestinian civilians knowingly and deliberately.
Israeli leaders and military officials are openly gloating over
the high death toll among Palestinian civilians. They blame Hamas
for the orgy of killing. However, virtually all Palestinians don't buy
the Israeli logic.
As we all know, this is not the first time Israel indulges in such
war crimes. Israel has always been a regular perpetrator of war
crimes. Indeed, one would exaggerate very little by arguing that
Israel itself is a war crime or a crime against humanity.
I am not going to spend time refuting Israeli hasbara lies,
blaming Hamas for the latest conflagration. Having been a vigilant
observer of Israeli behavior for several decades, I can honestly
argue that honesty and Israel cannot really be used in the same
sentence. Israel and honesty are an eternal oxymoron.
As always, Israel violated the uneasy truce reached through
Egyptian mediation in 2012. Israeli leaders, proceeding from the
Talmudic ideology which views all non-Jews as lesser human
beings or virtual animals, don't feel bound by agreements or
treaties reached with "Goyem" (non-Jews).
People in the west, long duped and brainwashed by Zionist
propaganda, may raise their eyebrows when reading these words.
But we who live with these Judeo-Nazis and have been at the
receiving end of their murderousness and evilness know better.
We don't need and won't accept lectures about the "humani-
ty and civility" of the Nazis of our time.
Hamas and other Palestinian resistance groups don't consti-
tute an existential threat to Israel, which has one of the strongest
military machines in the world.
In fact, the claim that Gaza is threatening Israel is infinitely
ridiculous. The thoroughly- starved and hermetically blockaded
Gazans have a hard time feeding their children, let alone pose any
meaningful threat to the Nazi Germany of our time, a pugnacious
state that more or less tightly controls the most powerful country
under the sun, the United States.
It is sad and lamentable that a country of 320 million has
allowed itself to be enslaved by Zionist pressure groups, hell-bent
on prostituting America and eviscerating it of any semblance of
morality for Israel's sake.Palestinians have to resist Jewish terror
But the Palestinians cannot take their very survival for grant-
ed. They can't rely on the so- called international community to
shield them against Jewish Nazism. Indeed, if the Palestinians
don't defend themselves, who is going to defend them? Obama?
M
erkel? Or Putin? Hence, the valiant Palestinian determination
to put up a semblance of resistance to the Jewish
Wehrmacht. The Israeli assault on Gaza is not an assault on
Hamas; it is rather a nefarious aggression against the entire
Palestinian people. It is intended to break our people's will to resist
Israeli Nazism. Pure and simple.
To put the matter in a nutshell, the Palestinians are simply
defending themselves against an overwhelming evil force that is
hell bent on ethnically cleansing them and stealing their mother-
land. Our fighters don't fire their home-made missiles on Israel
because they want to spill Jewish blood. They do it because this
is the only means they possess to deter a cannibalistic enemy
that can only feel good if and when it spills Palestinian blood.
Besides, the problem with Israel didn't begin last week or last
year. Just remember that many of the people being now bombard-
ed and murdered by the Jewish Wehrmacht are actually children,
grandchildren and great grandchildren of the original Palestinian
refugees that Israel massacred or brutally expelled out of their
homes when the evil state was created in Palestine in 1948.
Hence, the Palestinians cannot really be terrorists if only
because they were never the initiator of violence and terror. The
Palestinians were living peaceably in their towns and villages,
mostly leading a simple pastoral life until
waves of Khazari Jews, who had no real con-
nection with the ancient Israelites, invaded
Palestine with the aid of Western countries,
especially the evil empire, the United
Kingdom.
Yes, it was Britain that put the venomous
Jewish snake in the bed of the Palestinian
child. Britain, as Noam Chomsky wisely said,
cannot claim innocence or argue that it didn't
know the snake was so poisonous.
Surviving by dying: Today, Palestinians
are sacrificing their lives for their freedom,
dignity and survival. This is what they have
always been doing from time immemorial. We
are very much children of martyrs who were
themselves children of martyrs. We survived
despite a harsh history of plots and conspira-
cies that aimed to eradicate us as a people
from the face of earth. We will survive the
latest Israeli blitz as well.
However, the world community ought to
feel ashamed for watching the Nazi Germany
of our time gang up on a defenseless people
whose only crime is that it is not part of "the
holy tribe."
This conspicuously immoral world, which doesn't have any
modicum of respect, will surely have a precarious future. It will
face ultimate demise.
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open-ended massacre in Gaza
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Most reactions to the farcical convictions of Australian journalist
Peter Greste, Egyptian- Canadian Mohamad Fadel Fahmy and
Egyptian Baher Mohamad express
shock and outrage at everything from
the ridiculous evidence presented to the
sentences that would have made Draco
himself blush. The strongest reactions
came from the British and US govern-
ments, with Foreign Minister William
Hague and Prime Minister David
Cameron saying they were "appalled,"
and Secretary of State John Kerry call-
ing the verdict "chilling" and "deeply dis-
turbing." Amnesty International Director
Steve Crawshaw called the sentence
"outrageous" and an "absolute affront to
justice."
This outrage is entirely justified, but
entirely misses the point. The arrest, trial
and often torture of journalists, activists and students from across
the political spectrum has nothing to do with the pursuit of justice
or security. Even comedians are harassed. These actions are best
understood as a mafia-style warning, the content of which is fair-
ly obvious: For anyone opposing the regime installed since the
2013 army coup, there is no safety in the law, nor in Western gov-
ernments, nor in the international media. The use of violence to
repress or stir up conflict useful to the regime is nothing new. The
regime wants it to be clear that it can imprison anyone, any time,
no matter how absurd the charges, how surreal the evidence or
how great a travesty of justice the trial. In fact, the absurdity of the
evidence and the Kafkaesque legal process are not an aberration.
On the contrary, the greater their absurdity, the more effectively
the new regime makes its point: Cross us at your peril; there is
nowhere to hide.
Another misconception is that the Egyptian regime is spend-
ing its political capital with Western governments by pursuing this
so-called hard line against opposition. Even if those governments'
rhetoric in support of human rights and the rule of law were gen-
uine and backed up by action, there are very good reasons why
the Egyptian regime would benefit from antagonizing them.
First and most obviously, because it is pleasing its Gulf spon-
sors -- especially the Saudis
-- who are primarily interested in marginalizing the Muslim
Brothers and in putting Qatar back in its place. These govern-
ments have not pressured their Western allies to support any sig-
nificant move toward democracy in Egypt since 2011, and will not
do so in the future. In this they are joined by Israel, which is inter-
ested in Egypt's continuing support for Gaza's closure. Second,
because such high-profile behavior helps the new regime set its
red lines with its Western backers. The sentencing of the "Al
Jazeera Three" came the day after Kerry's visit to Cairo, and with
representatives of foreign governments and international NGOs
present in court. Far from trying to avoid friction, the sentence
was clearly calculated to cause the US maximum embarrassment.
Third, because any rebuttal from Western governments plays to
the paranoid xenophobic nationalism the regime has been stoking
at home in order to isolate local opposition. Fourth, because the
"scandal" of Western protest helps conveniently paper over the
massive levels of aid the military and the state receive from those
very same governments. Finally, and probably most important of
all, because by causing such public tensions with Western gov-
ernments the regime distracts public attention from the country's
deep structural problems, particularly the country's worsening
levels of inequality and the deep authoritarianism of its institu-
tions.
The Egyptian army's goal is to stay in power or close to it in
order to defend its economic interests
and political influence, and avoid
being marginalized the way they were
under Mubarak. The army's first stint
in power after removing Mubarak in
February 2011 ended in disaster.
Having consolidated its grip on power
with a constitutional referendum in
March, the army proceeded to inept
management of both politics and the
economy that had people chanting
"down with military rule" in droves by
autumn. It was this failure that forced
the generals to concede those parlia-
mentary and then presidential elec-
tions which brought the Muslim
Brothers to power. Although the
Brothers treated them mostly with kid gloves, the army brass then
took advantage of the Islamists' own inept rule to ride popular dis-
content and return to power by removing the only democratically
elected president in the country's history.
The army's and 'Abd al-Fattah al-Sisi's long-term problem is
that the military's vast business empire places it at the heart of a
system that generates wealth for a small elite by plundering state
assets. This system has come to rely on increasing authoritarian-
ism in order to make possible the privatization and austerity poli-
cies which allow elites to grow richer. Over the past two decades,
this system has worsened the social, economic and political mar-
ginalization of the bulk of Egypt's population. It is this structural
trend that made the January 2011 uprisings possible. The new
regime's impasse is rooted in the fact that the policies it has been
pursuing for its own benefit are the very same that drove people
into the streets three years ago. To consolidate its power, the army
is relying on the oldest trick in the book -- a "war on terror" stok-
ing fear of inside traitors and outside enemies. The rhetoric of
nationalism, chaos and security will work in the short term, and
controlling or coopting most media and shutting down opposition
outlets makes the regime's sell easier. But the regime's is a risky
strategy. The regional uprisings show that, sooner or later, the
population is likely to tire of the regime's excuses, and as a tactic
intimidation eventually generates more opposition, not less.
Whether ensuing protests will lead to real change or just a switch
in regime tactics as they have done so far is open to question.
Successive regimes have tried to make instability work for them
and have often succeeded: In both January 2011 and January
1977 they seem to have failed because frustration with repressive
rule coupled with considerable economic upheaval. Since even
these instances produced little long-term substantive political
change, it seems that such change will be difficult without deep
economic rifts, and without real economic and political alterna-
tives beyond the current system (which the Brothers never
offered).
Every criminal gang worth its salt knows it needs to keep the
local population dependent and scared enough to believe there is
no alternative, and duped enough into thinking that there is at least
a veneer of morality covering what the racketeers do. But the
strategies for enrichment that the Egyptian army -- and for that
matter all Egypt's business elites, Brothers included -- have opted
for bite the hand that feeds them. How long before that hand slaps
them remains to be seen. (merip.org)
The world community ought to feel ashamed for watching the
Nazi Germany of our time gang up on a defenseless people
whose only crime is that it is not part of "the holy tribe."
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PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
Having Murdered Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria,
and the US Constitution, Washington is now
Murdering Ukraine.Thanks to Op-Ed News con-
tributor Eric Zuesse, I can bring to your attention
these photographs
(URL below) of what the Nazi Government
in Washington is doing to Ukrainians who
protest the Washington Nazis' theft of their
country. On this Fourth of July Americans need
to ask themselves just how much horror, how
much evil, and how many lies they can accept
from a government in Washington that has
established itself independently of any input
from citizens to which government in the US is
allegedly accountable. Before you wrap yourself
in the flag this July 4th, realize that "your" gov-
ernment under Clinton, Bush, and Obama has
destroyed in your name, in whole or part, eight
countries, murdering, maiming, and displacing
millions of civilians, and now is at work on
Ukraine. These massive crimes against human-
ity rival Hitler's and have been completely cov-
ered up by the presstitute American media, a
collection of whores who lie for money. How
can you be a human when you sit in front of
CNN, Fox News or read the New York Times and
submit to the brainwashing? Think about how
you are propagandized, lied to, disinformed, and
led into accepting "your" government's murder
of millions of peoples. Consider, isn't it treason
for Washington to so dishonor the flag that we
love? Why do we tolerate it? What is wrong with
us? Our duty is to the Constitution, not to the
criminals in Washington. A patriot is a person
who defends the Constitution against enemies
"foreign and domestic." While we sat sucking
our thumbs, shaking in our boots in fear of non-
existent "terrorists," our Constitution was mur-
dered by Washington.
Turn your backs and walk away from the
militarist poison that will be spewed in July 4th
speeches. Do you really want to support the
Washington Nazis in their campaign to become
known as the worst mass murderers in world
history? Is mass murder to be America's legacy
to the world?
Here are the photos of Washington's ruin of
Ukraine [http://matveychev- oleg. livejournal.
com/1224806. html]. The evil demons in
Washington and Washington's whore media tell
you that these devastated people are "terrorists."
If you believe that, you are not human.
Here is Erik Zuesse's article about the
Washington sponsored murders
[http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/07/u-
s-elite-run-ukrainian-genocide-american-public-
ignorant. html]. Read it and be so ashamed.
Everything American has been totally dishon-
ored by "our" government, which has become
the epitome of total evil.
Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of
the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate edi-
tor of the Wall Street Journal.
Washington Murders Countries, the US Constitution,
and the Presstitute Media Makes Americans Complicit
Mushawarat lauds Egyptian
people's struggle for
legality & democracy
New Delhi: All India Muslim Majlis-e Mushawarat, the apex body
of Indian Muslim organisations, lauded the continuing struggle of
the Egyptian people for legality and democracy.
Commenting on the fresh bout of arrests of anti-coup
activists in Egypt the previous day, President of AIMMM, Dr
Zafarul-Islam Khan said here on 2 July that the Egyptian people
have registered an unprecedented record in the annals of history
through their continuous protests since the military coup on 3
July last year which toppled the first-democratically-elected
President and government in Egypt's history.
The President of AIMMM said as a result of the coup, a rep-
resentative of the Egyptian military is again ruling the country
using the State's brutal powers and misusing the subservient judi-
cial system to harass its opponents so much so as to issue sum-
mary death sentences against hundreds of its political opponents
which include Muslim Brotherhood's venerable head Dr
Muhammad Badie. The military regime has imprisoned some
22,000 of its political opponents, has outlawed the most popular
movement of the country, Muslim Brotherhood and its political
wing, the Freedom and Justice Party which only two years ago
won a clear majority in the general and presidential elections.
President of the AIMMM said, trampling of democracy and
popular mandate on such a level is not acceptable. The only way
out is to set free all political opponents, start a genuine popular
dialogue and hold new free and fair elections. If a genuine attempt
is not made to arrest the deteriorating situation in Egypt, it may
soon witness a stage akin to Syria and Iraq, which will be a death
blow to the cohesive and homogenous Egyptian society and will
facilitate its balkanisation as plotted by Israel and the US.
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Collective punishment
won't weaken Hamas
Hamas is not a building that can be knocked out
by a laser-guided missile or demolished by a
huge army bulldozer, nor is it a tree that can be
uprooted anytime. Hamas is an idea thoroughly
encapsulated in the hearts of millions of people
who won't give in to oppression and brute force.
Ever since the formal appearance of the
Palestinian Islamic liberation group, known by its
Arabic acronym as Hamas, Israeli leaders have
been making recalcitrant threats against the
Islamic movement.
In 1991, in one cold night, former Israeli
Prime Minister Isaac Rabin depor ted 415
Palestinian intellectuals, college professors,
mosque preachers and other Islamic activists to
Marj az-Zuhur in Southern Lebanon.
The draconian measure, taken following the
death of a Jewish settler at the hands of
Palestinian resistance guerillas, was meant to
eradicate Hamas and deal a stunning blow to the
Palestinian society.
However, a year later, the deportees returned
home and Hamas, consequently, grew phenom-
enally stronger in terms of its popularity in the
eyes of the Palestinian, Arab and Muslim public
opinion.
Indeed, every time Israel threatens Hamas
with eradication and annihilation, Palestinians
rally around it and resiliently absorb wave after
wave of Israeli terror inflicted on mainly innocent
people. This time is not going to be any different.
Israel destroyed tens of thousands of
Palestinian homes for a variety of reasons. But
the criminal practice utterly failed to make the
people accept the fait accompli.
But Hamas itself grew stronger and more
popular whereas its Palestinian political foes and
opponents suffered by losing public support.
Palestinians simply admire those who resist
the Nazi-like Israeli occupation. Similarly, they
immensely contempt and look down on those
who compromise national dignity even for the
purpose of reaching precarious political accom-
modations with the decades-old occupation
regime. In the course of its unrelenting attempts
to subjugate Palestinians and liquidate their
enduring just cause, Israel resorted and contin-
ues to resort to every conceivable act of repres-
sion and collective punishment.
Indeed, in addition to the sinister practice of
blowing up homes, Israel routinely resorted and
continues to resort to cold-blooded murder of
Arab children, bombing civilian neighborhoods,
using state-of-the-art of the American technolo-
gy of death, and imposing hermetic blockades
on towns and entire regions for the express pur-
pose of starving people.
In the past decade alone, Israel murdered
more than 380 Palestinian children, knowingly
and deliberately. This was done by the very
country that leaves no stone unturned whenever
a Jewish settler living on a land that doesn't
belong to him is killed. This is a country whose
religious leaders declare rather unashamedly
that the lives of non- Jews have no sanctity
whatsoever. One of the most criminal forms of
repression meted out to the Palestinians in the
occupied territories is the manifestly unjustified
detention of Palestinians, occasionally for 10
years or more, without charge or trial.
The harsh practice, widely condemned by
human rights groups around the world, is intend-
ed to break the Palestinian people's will to reject
and resist the entrenched occupation.
None the less, it is amply clear that no mat-
ter how hard Israel is trying to emulate the most
nefarious regimes in the world, past and present,
the cause of Palestinian resistance remains
alive. The reason is very simple: In the final
analysis, the resistance is an "effect" not a
"cause," (the cause is the enduring dehumaniz-
ing Nazi-like occupation) and all Israel's efforts
to eradicate the "effect" while leaving the "cause"
intact have failed and are bound to fail in the
future. Today, Israeli leaders are making all sorts
of hysterical threats against the Palestinians,
regurgitating past threats which failed to make
Palestinians reconsider their rejection of the
occupation. As usual, Israel's brutal terrorism
transcends reality. It is intended to inflict maxi-
mum physical and emotional pain.
But this repression, which is directed main-
ly against innocent people, is not going to subju-
gate the Palestinians. Another home will be built
in place of a demolished one. But the immense
hatred for Israel and its diabolical policies and
practices will have a lasting place in the heart of
every man, woman and child.
I listened to Um Amer Abu Eisha, whose
home was blown up by the Israeli army yester-
day on the mere suspicion that her son may
have been involved in the abduction and subse-
quent death of the three Israeli settlers.
She said her family would rebuild their home
adding that she would make sure to inculcate the
spirit of Jihad and resistance in all her children
and grandchildren.
The woman's words are more eloquent than
all the Israeli leaders' ranting and raving about
terror. As to Hamas, it will get stronger and
stronger mainly because Israeli oppression of
Palestinians continues unabated.
Hamas is not a building that can be knocked
out by a laser-guided missile or demolished by a
huge menacing army bulldozer, nor is it a tree
that can be uprooted. Hamas is an idea thor-
oughly encapsulated in the hearts of millions of
people who won't give in to oppression and
brute force.
Israel can destroy homes and buildings as it
has always been doing; Israel can always swell
its jails and concentration camps with innocent
people like the Nazis did 70 years ago.
But neither Israel nor her guardian ally, the U.
S., can possibly control people's hearts. This is
the reason Hamas can't be destroyed.
KHALID AMAYREH
Occupied Palestine
AIJAZ ZAKA SYED
Watching the latest fun and games in Iraq and the fine mess that
the empire has made of the fabled Mesopotamia is both edifying
and sobering. This is where it all began: Civilization, society, cul-
ture, art and perhaps life itself. The home of Euphrates and Tigris,
the cradle of civilization.
This is the land of Dar Al-Hikma, the house of wisdom, from
where the light of knowledge shone across the world and saw the
Muslim civilization touch the pinnacle of its glory.
This is where the magical world of the thousand and one
nights came alive and Scheherazade spawned myriad fantastic
tales. This is where scholars like Imam Abu Hanifa taught tens of
thousands of seekers of knowledge who came from far corners of
the known world.
This is where Imam Hussain, the great martyred grandson of
the Prophet, lies buried. He went down, with the rest of his family
in Karbala, valiantly fighting in what is known as the ultimate epic
battle between the good and evil.
It remains the most tragic event in Islamic history and - that
of the world - as it saw the Prophet's grandson and almost the
entire family martyred at the hands of his followers. And it would-
n't be the first or the last time that Iraq would see the bloodletting
of Muslims at the hands of fellow believers.
Iraq is witnessing another epic battle today, perhaps to end all
battles, as they always claim.
Iraq's Grand Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani last week called for a jihad
to fight the marching hordes of ISIS fighters. It is a battle between
the good and evil, insisted his spokesperson during the Friday ser-
mon.
In response, tens of thousands of Shia men, young and old,
are rushing to enroll themselves, many of them from neighbour-
ing countries and even doctors and professionals living and work-
ing in Western climes, in what they see as the "holy war."
Given the sharp, sectarian battle-lines already drawn across
the Middle East, we may be in for an Armageddon, a free-for-all
war that threatens to consume the whole of Islamic world.
Is this indeed a battle between the good and evil though? Who
is right and who is wrong?
There are no easy, simple answers. What I see is a fratricide,
a battle between brothers. What I see is the red tide of Muslim
blood drowning and overwhelming the borders of the Middle East.
And whoever wins in this war, in the end it is the Ummah and
all that it stands for which will be the loser. It already seems to
have lost. You will have to experience the sweetness and light that
the Sunnis and Shias have been spreading against each other in
social media and from the pulpit to know what I mean.
In response to my earlier piece about Iraq, I received scores
of mails from both sides of the divide. All of them accusing me of
taking the other's side while listing the historical crimes the other
side apparently visited on their community. I didn't know we were
capable of such unadulterated hatred and spite against our own!
I wonder if they follow the same faith, the same Book and the
same Prophet? How did we end up here? Of course, much of this
mess in Iraq - comedian Jon Stewart rightly calls it Mess-o-
potamia - and extended neighborhood is a legacy of the empire.
The role the Israelis and Zionists have played in the US inva-
sion of Iraq is also well known and documented. Indeed, their
shenanigans aren't confined to Iraq. The whole of the Middle East
remains their target.
The object is not just an all-powerful Greater Israel, from the
river to the sea. The plan envisions and necessitates the dismem-
berment and dispossession of the whole neighbourhood. This is
what the Zionists and Christian extremists have long dreamed of
and have been working towards it silently and dispassionately.
I
am not a sucker for conspiracy theories. But this growing Shia-
Sunni fratricide from Arabia to Central Asia fits in nicely with the
plot. And those who promote and fuel sectarian hatred and call for
arms against each other, in the name of Sunni or Shia Islam, are
deliberately or otherwise advancing the designs and agenda of
those who see Islam as the last stumbling block in the way to their
total global hegemony.
And these so-called champions of faith, these spurious schol-
ars issuing edicts declaring each other apostate and justifying the
killing of innocent Muslims have proved themselves far more dan-
gerous and harmful than our open enemies. For they sit in our
midst to undermine us from within.
You cannot go on blaming the West and Israel for all our
woes. In this respect, our own incredible talents haven't exactly
been found wanting-from perpetually plotting against each other
to abusing power by our elites.
Despite all the resources including oil which is the lifeblood of
global economy being at their disposal all these years, if Muslim
countries remain so far behind the rest of the world on every front,
who is to blame? Look at the farce that has been going on in the
name of democracy and justice in the neighborhood. Those who
dared to bring
about the change
by way of democ-
racy and through
peaceful means
find themselves
behind the bars.
The messenger is
shot down with the
message.
And those who
lectured us ad
infinitum about
democracy, free-
dom and free
speech look the
other way as these
very ideals are
trampled upon with
an audacity that is
breathtaking. If
Orwell had lived
long enough he
would have to
invent a new lan-
guage and grammar
to make sense of the
state of affairs pre-
vailing today.
Is it any wonder
then the groups like
ISIS, Al-Qaeda and Taliban are increasingly winning? When the
voices of reason, sanity and peace are suppressed, when people
are denied their legitimate aspirations and are deprived of their
basic human dignity, extremism wins.
This is what is happening across the region, from the edge of
Africa to Arab Maghreb and Iraq and Syria (western commenta-
tors have started calling it 'Syraq'!) to Pakistan and Afghanistan
and beyond.
For far too long, Muslim intellectuals and governments have
urged-and rightly of course-the Western powers to look at the
roots of this conflict to understand the phenomenon of extremism
and violence in the region and around the world. Perhaps, it is
about time we pose the same question to ourselves.
What has been our own-both individual and collective-role in
contributing to this state of all-round chaos and corruption?
Surely, we wouldn't have come this far entirely without some of
our own efforts and double standards helping it.
Why the Middle East remains stuck in a time warp and with
absolutism, oppression and corruption in the 21st century when
the rest of the world has moved on is something that all of us --
especially our elites, intellectuals and politicians -- need to ask
ourselves.
This is certainly not something that our faith gifted us. It came
to liberate us. Those who truly embraced it transformed the world.
It is we who have invented all these chains and bonds to enslave
ourselves. It is we who chose to remain un-free and prisoners of
monsters of our own creation. Perhaps, it is about time we faced
our demons. (caravandaily.com)
What's Wrong With Us? Time For
Serious Muslim Introspection
18 The Milli Gazette, 16-31 July 2014 INTERNATIONAL www.milligazette.com
Israel has killed 1
Palestinian teen every 3
days in past 13 years
Gaza: Official statistics from the Ministry of Information in
Ramallah have revealed that 1,518 Palestinian children were killed
by Israel's occupation forces from the outbreak of the second
Intifada in September 2000 up to April 2013 - an equivalent of one
Palestinian child killed by Israel every 3 days for almost 13 years.
The ministry added that the number of children injured by the
Israelis since the start of the Second Intifada against Israel's
occupation has now reached 6,000, according to a report by mid-
dleeastmonitor.com.
"The International Day for the Protection of Children is on June
1," said a spokesman, "but Palestinian children are still subject to
attacks by the Israelis and Jewish settlers on an almost daily
basis."
Noting that 2012 saw an unprecedented rise in the number of
children arrested by Israeli forces, the report pointed out that
9,000 Palestinians under 18 years old have been arrested since
the end of September 2000. Almost half of the Palestinian popu-
lation is under 18.
Over two hundred and fifty Palestinian minors are being held
in prison by Israel; 47 of them are children under 16 years of age.
The statistics are significant as Israeli forces are engaged in
unprecedented aggression against the Palestinians ever since the
dead bodies of three of its teenagers were found outside Hebron
in West Bank.
A day after the funeral of these teens, Mohammed Abu Khdair,
a 17-year-old from the city's Shuafat neighbourhood was abduct-
ed and murdered in east Jerusalem. According to the witnesses,
Khdair was abducted around 3.45 a. m. and thrown into a car by
two or three men as he was walking to the mosque.
Following the incident, the Arab-dominated East Jerusalem
witnessed largest clashes in years with nearly a dozen people
injured.
Official: Autopsy shows
Palestinian youth burnt alive
Bethlehem (Ma'an): A preliminary autopsy report shows that 16-
year-old Muhammad Abu Khdeir was burnt alive by his kidnap-
pers, a senior Palestinian official said on 4 July.
Attorney General Muhammad Abd al-Ghani Uweili told Ma'an
Abu Khdeir's autopsy showed soot in the victim's lungs and res-
piratory tract, indicating he was alive and breathing while he was
being burnt.
Abu Khdeir also had a head injury, but died from complica-
tions as a result of being burnt, Uweili said.A final autopsy will be
released later, he added.
The autopsy was conducted at Abu Kabir Forensic Institute in
Israel in the presence of Palestinian coroner Dr. Sabir al-Aloul, the
director of the Institute of Forensic Medicine at al-Quds University.
Palestinians say right-wing Israelis kidnapped and killed Abu
Khdeir, whose body was found early Wednesday in a forest near
West Jerusalem.
The murder is thought to be a revenge attack in response to
the kidnapping and killing of three Israeli teens, who were buried
the day before. Israeli police say the circumstances behind Abu
Khdeir's killing remain unclear. (maannews.net)
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ASMA BINT SHAMEEM
1. Taking Ramadan as a ritual
For many of us Ramadan has lost its spirituality and has become
more of a ritual than a form of worship. We fast from dawn to sun-
set like a zombie just because everyone around us is fasting too.
We forget that its a time to purify our hearts and our souls from
evil... we forget to make dua, forget to beseech Allah to forgive us
and forget to ask Him to save us from the Fire. We do stay away
from food and drink but thats about all. Although the Prophet
(pbuh) said: Jibreel told me, May Allah rub in dust the nose of the
person to whom Ramadan comes and his sins are not forgiven, and
I said, Ameen. Then he said, May Allah rub in dust the nose of the
person who lives to see his parents grow old, one or both of them,
yet he does not enter Paradise (by not serving them) and I said,
Ameen. Then he said, May Allah rub in dust the nose of the person
in whose presence you are mentioned and he does not send bless-
ings upon you, and I said, Ameen. (Tirmidhi, Ahmad and others)
2. Too much stress on food and drink
For some people, the entire month of Ramadan revolves around
food. They spend the ENTIRE day planning, cooking, shopping and
thinking only about food instead of concentrating on Salah, Quran
and other acts of worship. All they can think of is FOOD. So much
so that they turn the month of fasting into a month of feasting.
Come Iftar time, their table is a sight to see, with the multitudes and
varieties of food, sweets and drinks. They are missing the very pur-
pose of fasting, and thus multiply their greed and desires instead of
learning to control them. It is also a kind of waste and extravagance:
..... and eat and drink but waste not by extravagance, certainly He
(Allah) likes not those who waste by extravagance). (al-Araf:31)
3. Cooking all day and night
Some sisters, either by their own choice or being forced by their
husbands, cook ALL day and ALL night, so that by the end of the
day, they are too tired to even pray Isha, let alone pray Taraweeh or
Tahajjud or even read Quran. This is the month of Allahs mercy
and forgiveness. So turn off that stove and turn on your Iman!
4. Eating too much
Some people stuff themselves at Suhoor until they are about to burst
because they think that this way they will not feel hungry during the day.
Some people eat at Iftar like there is no tomorrow, trying to make up for
the food missed. However, this is completely against the Sunnah.
Moderation is the key to everything. The Prophet (pbuh) said: The son
of Adam does not fill any vessel worse than his stomach; for the son of
Adam a few mouthfuls are sufficient to keep his back straight. If you
must fill it, then one-third for food, one-third for drink and one-third for
air. (Tirmidhi, Ibn Majah). Too much food distracts a person from many
deeds of obedience and worship, makes him lazy and also makes the
heart heedless. It was said to Imam Ahmad: Does a man find any soft-
ness and humility in his heart when his stomach is full? He said, I do
not think so.
5. Sleeping all day
Some people spend their entire day (or a major part of it) sleeping
away their fast. Is this what is really required of us during this noble
month? These people also miss the purpose of fasting and are
slaves to their desires of comfort and ease. They cannot bear to be
awake and face a little hunger or exert a little self-control. For a fast-
ing person to spend most of the day sleeping is nothing but negli-
gence on his part.
6. Wasting time
The month of Ramadan is a precious, precious time, so much so
that Allah calls it ayyamam madoodaat (a fixed number of days).
Before we know it, this month of mercy and forgiveness will be
over. We should try and spend every moment possible in the wor-
ship of Allah so that we can make the most of this blessing.
However, there are some of us who waste away their day playing
video games, or worse still, watching TV, movies or even listening
to music -- trying to obey Allah by DISOBEYING him!
7. Fasting but not giving up evils
Some of us fast but do not give up lying, cursing, fighting, backbit-
ing, etc. and some of us fast but do not give up cheating, stealing,
dealing in haram, buying lottery tickets, selling alcohol, etc. and all
kinds of impermissible things without realizing that the purpose of
fasting is to not just stay away from food and drink but to inculcate
piety and fear of Allah: O you who believe! Fasting is prescribed for
you as it was prescribed for those before you, that you may
become pious [al-Baqarah 2:183]. The Prophet (pbuh) said:
Whoever does not give up false speech and acting upon it, and
ignorance, Allah has no need of him giving up his food and drink.
(Bukhari)
8. Smoking
Smoking is reprehensible in Islam whether during Ramadan or out-
side of it, as it is an evil, a purposeless act and injurious to health.
This includes all kinds of smoking material, e.g., cigars, cigarettes,
pipes, sheesha, hookah etc. Allah says, He allows them as lawful
all good and lawful things, and prohibits them as unlawful all evil
and unlawful things. (al-Araf:157). It is harmful, not only to the
one who smokes but also to those around him who inhale the
smoke. It is also a means of wasting ones wealth. The Prophet
(pbuh) said: There should be no harming or reciprocating harm.
This is especially true during fasting and smoking invalidates the
fast.
9. Skipping Suhoor (pre-dawn food)
The Prophet (pbuh) said: Eat suhoor for in suhoor there is bless-
ing. (Bukhari, Muslim). He (pbuh) also said, What differentiates
between our fasting and the fasting of the People of the Book is eat-
ing suhoor. (Muslim)
10. Stopping Suhoor at Imsak
Some people stop eating Suhoor 10-15 minutes earlier than the
time of Fajr to observe Imsak (start of fasting). Shaykh Ibn
Uthaymeen said: This is a kind of bidah (innovation) which has no
basis in the Sunnah. Rather, the Sunnah is to do the opposite. Allah
allows us to eat until dawn: and eat and drink until the white thread
(light) of dawn appears to you distinct from the black thread (dark-
ness of night) (al-Baqarah 2:187). The Prophet (pbuh) said: ... eat
and drink until you hear the adhan of Ibn Umm Maktoom, for he
does not give the adhan until dawn comes.
This imsaak, which some of the people do, is an addition to
what Allah has prescribed, so it is false. It is a kind of extremism in
religion, and the Prophet (pbuh) said: Those who go to extremes
are doomed, those who go to extremes are doomed, those who go
to extremes are doomed. (Muslim)
11. Not fasting if they missed Suhoor
Some people are too scared to fast if they miss suhoor. However,
this is a kind of cowardice and love of ease. What is the big deal if
you missed a few morsels of food? Its not like you will die.
Remember, obedience to Allah supercedes everything.
12. Saying the intention to fast loud or saying a specific dua
The intention is an action of the heart. We should resolve in our
heart that we are going to fast tomorrow. That is all we need. It is
not prescribed by the Shariah for us to say out loud, I intend to
fast or I will fast tomorrow or some other phrases that have been
innovated by some people. Also, there is no specific dua to be
recited at the time of starting the fast in the correct Sunnah.
Whatever dua you may see on some papers or Ramadan calen-
dars, etc. is an innovation.
13. Delaying breaking fast
Some people wait until the adhan finishes or even several minutes
after that, just to be on the safe side. However, the Sunnah is to
hasten to break the fast which means breaking fast as soon as the
adhan starts, right after the Sun has set. Aishah (RA) said: This is
what the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) used to do. (Muslim). The
Prophet (pbuh) said: The people will continue to be alright so long
as they hasten to break the fast. (Bukhari, Muslim).
Determine to the best of your ability, the accuracy of your
clock, calendar, etc. and then have tawakkul on Allah and break
your fast exactly on time.
14. Eating continuously until the time for Maghrib is up
Some people put so much food in their plates when breaking fast
and continue eating, enjoying dessert, drinking tea, etc., and in the
process they miss the maghrib prayer. That obviously is not right.
The Sunnah of the Prophet (pbuh) was that once he broke his fast
with some dates, he would hasten to the prayer. Once you are done
with the prayer, you can always go back and eat more as you wish.
15. Missing the golden chance of having your Dua accepted
The prayer of the fasting person is guaranteed to be accepted at the
time of breaking fast. The Prophet (pbuh) said: Three prayers are
not rejected: the prayer of a father, the prayer of a fasting person,
and the prayer of a traveller. (Al-Bayhaqi).
Instead of sitting down and making Dua at this precious time,
some people forego this beautiful chance, and remain too busy fry-
ing samosas, talking, setting the food on table, filling their plates
and glasses, etc. Think about it... Is food more important than the
chance to have your sins forgiven or the fulfillment of your duas.
Some common mistakes in Ramadan
Some of us fast but do not give up lying, cursing,
fighting, backbiting, etc. and some of us fast but
do not give up cheating, stealing, dealing in
haram, buying lottery tickets, selling alcohol, etc.
and all kinds of impermissible things without real-
izing that the purpose of fasting is to not just stay
away from food and drink but to inculcate piety
and fear of Allah: O you who believe! Fasting is
prescribed for you as it was prescribed for those
before you, that you may become pious...
Continued on the next page
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Book: Inventing Terrorists - The Lawfare of Preemptive
Prosecution
Authors: Stephen Downs and Kathy Manley
Publishers: Project SALAM and National Coalition to Protect Civil
Freedoms, Albany, NY
Year: 2014. Pages: 178
(Available online at http://www.projectsalam.org/Inventing-
Terrorists-study.pdf)
KEVIN GOSZTOLA
Nearly ninety-five percent of individuals on a Justice Department
list of terrorism and terrorism-related convictions from 2001-
2010 included some elements of preemptive prosecution, accord-
ing to a study by attorneys which they say is the first to directly
examine and critique preemptive prosecution and its abuses.
The study is called Inventing Terrorists: The Lawfare of
Preemptive Prosecution. It was released by Project SALAM, which
stands for Support and Legal Advocacy for Muslims, and the National
Coalition to Protect Civil Freedoms (NCPCF), a coalition of groups that
oppose profiling, preemptive prosecution and prisoner abuse.
While Mother Jones has already published extensive work on
the entrapment and prosecution of terrorists since the 9/11
attacks examining the Justice Departments list, this study is note-
worthy because it advances the journalism to outline how the
government has perverted the criminal justice system through
practices that have become popular especially against Muslims.
Stephen Downs and Kathy Manley, authors of the study, were
defence attorneys for Yassin Aref, an imam of a mosque in Albany,
New York, who was targeted for his ideology. The government
deployed an agent provocateur, Shahed Hussain, to entrap the
iman by accepting a loan that Hussain claimed consisted of
funds from the sale of a missile to terrorists. So the authors pro-
duced the study with the experience of having defended someone
who was a victim of this kind of prosecution.
The concept of preemptive prosecution is defined as a law
enforcement strategy, adopted after 9/11, to target and prosecute
individuals or organizations whose beliefs, ideology, or religious
affiliations raise security concerns for the government. The
authors acknowledge that the practices bear resemblance to tac-
tics used by the FBI as part of COINTELPRO.
Criminal charges are a pretext. For example, someone
charged with material support for terrorism may be charged
with that to criminalize free speech, free association, charity,
peace-making and social hospitality. Someone may be charged
with conspiracy for having friendships or simply being part of
an organization the government doesnt like.
Agents provocateur may be sent in to entrap a target into par-
ticipating in a plot manufactured and controlled by the government
every step of the way. The government may also choose to use
minor technical crimes, such as errors on immigration forms,
an alleged false statement to a government official, gun posses-
sion, tax or financial issues, etc., to go after someone for their
ideology.
The study broke down each case into three separate cate-
gories: preemptive prosecution; elements of preemptive prose-
cution, meaning the defendants may have committed non- ter-
rorism-related crimes that the government inflated into a terror-
ism charge; and terrorism-related charges that were legitimate
and not the result of preemptive prosecution.
The Justice Departments list only contained 399 cases. The
study concluded the number of preemptive prosecution cases is
289 out of 399, or 72.4%. The number of elements of preemptive
prosecution cases is 87 out of 399, or 21.8%.
Combining preemptive prosecution cases and elements of
preemptive prosecution cases, the total number of such cases on
the DOJ list is 376, or 94.2%, according to the study.
Nearly 25 percent of the cases contained material support
charges. Nearly 30 percent were cases with conspiracy charges.
Over 17 percent of cases involved sting operations. More than 16
percent of cases included false statements or perjury charges,
and around six percent of cases involved immigration-related
charges.
The study concluded that there were only 11 cases where
threats had been potentially significant to the United States.
Only three were successful (the Tsarnaev brothers and Major
Nidal Hasan), accounting for 17 deaths and several hundred
injuries.
Out of hundreds of cases, the authors were only able to come
up with 23 individuals who they believed ever posed a threat and
were not preemptively prosecuted. But, as is noted in the study,
nine of these people were inexplicably listed even though they
committed non- terrorism related crimes.
Thus, the study clearly demonstrates how resources for fighting
terrorism have mostly been used to target individuals who are suspi-
cious and easier to prosecute because they practice a certain religion
or have an ideology the general public will resent. And if most of
these people were not people of colour with Arabic-sounding names
that could be used to promote a fear of foreigners in the criminal jus-
tice process, their crimes would be given the same light treatment
other members of the general public typically receive.
Through preemptive prosecution the government can discour-
age Muslim Americans from supporting charities abroad, even
when those charities have no nexus at all with groups committing
violence. For example, Dr. Rafil Dhafir, an oncologist who was
born in Iraq and later became a US citizen, founded the Help the
Needy Charity in 1990 and for thirteen years fought to raise
money for Iraqis most affected by the Gulf War and UN sanctions.
He donated $1.4 million of his own money, according to the US
government. He was particularly concerned about the effects of
depleted uranium on Iraqis. But his charity was criminalized and
he was arrested just weeks before the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
Preemptive prosecution may lead to a terrorism enhance-
ment being applied during sentencing, which opens one up to
being placed in a Communications Management Unit (CMU), as
the government did to Aref. CMUs are solitary confinement units
and involve a set of highly restrictive detention conditions that limit
contact with family and the outside world.
There are also several prosecutions where the government
criminalizes the advocacy of what the study calls non-specific
violence. While it may seem controversial, this speech is protect-
ed under the Constitution.
Free speech includes the right to use violent and hate speech,
and it is not charged as a crime when right-wing terrorists or domes-
tic hate groups engage in it. Charging only Muslims or other targeted
groups is discriminatory and preemptive, the study contends. (The
case of Tarek Mehanna is one clear example.)
Simply being a member of a group, or being associated with
certain individuals, should not be a crime unless there is evidence
of specific intent to become involved in a given criminal action or
conspiracy, the study argues. However, the study adds, A num-
ber of material support and conspiracy cases included individuals
who were friends of others who were charged, and this associa-
tion was the main evidence against them, with little or no addition-
al evidence. (For example, the case of the Fort Dix Five.)
Additionally, the study takes the even more bold position of
defending those who go to foreign lands to defend Muslim com-
munities and prevent them from attack.
All prosecutions of defendants who expressed a desire to go
to a training camp, or who unsuccessfully tried to find one, or who
attended one and failed to act on the training, are considered pre-
emptive prosecutions unless the circumstances indicated that the
defendant actually intended to engage in violence against civilians
or the United States. Many defendants were drawn to attend train-
ing camps out of a desire to defend Muslim communities in
Bosnia, Chechnya, Sudan, or other countries where there was/is
conflict. However, cases in which the defendants actually intend-
ed to commit acts of violence against American soldiers or
against civilians are not included as preemptive prosecutions
While the study does not draw any conclusions, hypotheses
are put forward on why there are so many more preemptive pros-
ecutions of Muslims for terrorism or terrorism-related offenses.
The first hypothesis is that the FBI truly believed there was a
domestic network of ideological Muslims to dismantle. Another
hypothesis is that preemptive prosecutions are designed to scare
Muslims from criticizing US foreign policy abroad. And yet anoth-
er is that this is how the government must go about prosecuting
these individuals because, if they did it any other way, they would
be running up against constitutional prohibitions.
In other words, preemptive prosecutions represent the gov-
ernments best efforts to take advantage of all the loopholes in the
criminal justice system and neutralize the ability of those prose-
cuted to put on a defence allowing the law to be used by prose-
cutors to control a population. (dissenter.firedoglake.com)
Inventing Terrorists: How US Government
Uses Preemptive Prosecutions
16. Fasting but not praying
The fasting of one who does not pray WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. This
is because not praying constitutes kufr as the Prophet (pbuh) said:
Between a man and shirk and kufr there stands his giving up
prayer. (Muslim). In other words, prayer is the boundary that keeps
one away from kufr. Said the Prophet, Whoever does not pray Asr,
his good deeds will be annulled. (Bukhari)
17. Fasting and not wearing Hijab
Not wearing the Hijab is a major sin as it is obligatory for Muslim
women. (Surah Nur, Surah Ahzab). So fasting and not wearing hijab
certainly takes away enormously from the rewards of fasting, even
if it does not invalidate it.*
18. Not fasting because of exams or work
Exams or work is NOT a valid excuse allowed by the Shariah not to
fast. You can do your study and revision at night if it is too hard to do
it during the day. Also remember that pleasing and obeying Allah is
much more important than good grades. Besides, if you will fulfil your
obligations to fast, Allah will make it easy for you and help you in
everything you do: Whosoever fears Allah, He will appoint for him a
way out and provide for him from where he does not expect, Allah is
Sufficient for whosoever puts his trust in Him. (Surah at-Talaq:2-3).
19. Mixing fasting and dieting
Do NOT make the mistake of fasting with the intention to diet. That is
a big mistake some of us sisters make. Fasting is an act of worship
and can only be for the sake and pleasure of Allah alone. Mixing it
with the intention of dieting may do away its blessings.
20. Fighting over the Rakahs of Taraweeh
There is no specific number of rakahs for Taraweeh prayer. It is per-
missible to do a little or a lot. Both eight and 20 are alright. Shaykh
Ibn Uthaymeen said: No one should be denounced for praying
eleven or twenty-three (rakah) because the matter is broader in
scope than that, praise be to Allah.
21. Praying ONLY in the night of the 27th Ramadan
Some people pray ONLY in the night of the 27th day of Ramadan
seeking Lailatul-Qadr while neglecting all other odd nights, although
the Prophet (pbuh) said: Seek Lailatul-Qadr among the odd-num-
bered nights of the last ten nights of Ramadan. (Bukhari, Muslim).
22. Wasting the last part of Ramadan preparing for Eid
Some people waste the entire last few days of Ramadan preparing
for Eid, shopping and frequenting malls, etc. neglecting Ibadah and
Lailatul Qadr. although, the Prophet (pbuh) used to strive the hardest
during the last ten days of Ramadan in worship (Ahmad, Muslim)
and not in shopping. Buy whatever you need for Eid before Ramadan
so that you can utilize the time in Ramadan to the maximum. Aishah
(RA) said: When the (last) ten nights used to begin, the Messenger
of Allah (pbuh) would tighten his waist-wrapper (i.e., strive hard in
worship or refrain from intimacy with his wives), stay awake at night
and wake his family. (Bukhari and Muslim).
23. Iftar parties
Although inviting each other for breaking fast is something good and
encouraged, some people go to extremes with lavish Iftar parties
with all sorts of disobedience to Allah, from flirting, mixing of the
sexes and hijab-less women, extravagance paying little heed to salah
and Taraweeh prayers.
* Hijab is not niqab. Hijab means covering whole body except face
and hands. Niqab is an innovation borrowed from other nations - see
Al-Albanis Hijab al-marah al-Muslimah (Ed.).
Zakat is a pillar of Islam
One cannot imagine Islam without Zakat. It means setting aside a
portion of an individuals wealth for the needy and poor. Zakat
purifies our wealth. One may have Halal earnings but it can have
Haram mingled in it. It can be impure. So a portion set aside for
the poor and needy purifies the wealth. Zakat teaches us to sac-
rifice for others. It makes our heart and soul clean because Zakat
means purity and cleanliness of soul.
Alms-giving is important in all religions. The Quran says,
With my punishment do I smite whom I will; but My Mercy
embraces all, and I shall ordain it for those who are aware of Allah
and give the Zakat and who believe in Our Message - (7:156).
Islam says that those who have no faith and do not adhere to
Prayers and fail to pay Zakat, will never receive guidance nor
achieve success in this life or the Hereafter. Zakat is the sign of
faith. It fills our heart with love, mercy and humility. It connects
the individuals with one another. It makes the society healthy.
Increased love and compassion will help the Muslim community
to progress and prosper. Regular prayers and fasts have their own
place. Without them one cannot say that he is a servant of Allah.
Zakat has its significance. A person who does not pray and
does not fast is not a real Muslim. It is paying zakat that makes
you a true believer of Allah. Zakat reminds you of your duty
toward society and the less advantaged. It makes you a respon-
sible and a humble individual. Zakat is in service of Allah. One
cannot be narrow-hearted and niggardly and yet be good Muslim.
Zakat shoud be given with a smile on your face. It should give
happiness to both the giver and the taker. Ones faith must be
strong that whatever is spent in the cause of Allah is never wast-
ed. Allah gives without limits in the Hereafter. Zakat is beneficial
to the society. It uplifts the society by making hungry healthier
and self-sufficient. (Nazneen O. Saherwala, Surat)
Continued from page 20
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Khilafat
According to theory they should obey and support the Khalifa of Islam
Abubaker Alboghdadi. It is more indispensable for the Muslims who are
living in un-Islamic countries like India. They can support subject to the
condition that they will not do anything against the interest of the country
where they are living Now as president of Majlis-e Mushawarat you should
call a meeting on this development and take joint decision on this
important issue. Other organisations such as JIH, Jamia ulama, Jamiat
Ahle Hadith etc should sit together and take a joint decision. Muslim
personal Law Board may also come forward boldly and guide the Millat.
There should not be any inhibitions in making the decision.
Dr AH Maqfoomi, Hyderabad
MG: It is not necessary to take notice of everything that happens
anywhere. Do you take notice if someone in your own city who claims
to be the Maseeh and prophet? This organisation is terrorist. Its
exploits are there on the youtube for anyone to see - slaughtering and
curcifixing people like animals without any judicial process, extorting,
kidnapping, executing POWs by their hundreds, blowing up a building
full of POWs, are some of its recent exploits. Now it comes with this
claim of declaring Khilafat. Who gave them this authority; who is their
hiding amir, is their choice acceptable to the Ummah, do they really
control the areas they claim?, is there any possibility that such a blood-
thirsty unrepresentative group will ever be acceptable to the world, let
alone Muslims. Already its associates on the field have rejected this
declaration and soon they will fight each other instead of their declared
enemy. Didn't you see that Taliban regime in Afghanistan was
recognised by only three states and these too hastily derecognised it at
the American dictate? There is a certain agreed civilised and
democratic behaviour for any regime to be acceptable to people and
world and this small group lacks it completely. The spectacular results
on ground in northern Iraq are not only its making. There are two bigger
stakeholders, the Naqshbandis [Baathists] and the 'Ashaa'ir [tribals]
who have been fighting the Maliki regime much before the arrival of
this small group. Even these forces have not been taken into
confidence. Such an event will not find mention even in the footnotes of
history and will frustrate the very purpose for which they are fighting.
ISIS is a pawn of CIA and the Gulf rulers, especially Saudis, and it will
be ditched once its usefulness is over. (Zafarul-Islam Khan)
II
It is mandatory on Muslims to recognise, certify and support the new
Caliph of Islam Khaifa is the man who enforce the Islamic laws or divine
laws where in interest, wine, pork, gambling debauchery are strictly
banned. zakat(poors due) ushr are made compulsory Hajj once in life is
mandatory. Amputation of arms for theft. for rapist stoning to death are
few cardinal and detterrent punishments. Initially or apparently look
barbaric but after some days the criminals stop doing crimes due to scare
of severe punishment in India there are 20 thousands Muslims morally and
spiritually they cannot neglect The holy Quran has clearly instructed
Muslims to carry out triple obediences God, Prophet Mohammad and
caliph After the demise of prophet Sahaba(followers) took 48 hour to elect
the Khaifa and then took the rituals of burials of the prophet. Such is the
importance of the successor of the Prophet Till the years 1924 khilafat
regime continued It was abolished byTurkish National Assembly NOW IT is
necessary a delegation of Muslim Scholars proceed to Iraq to examine the
reality of the claim of AbuBaker Al Boghdadi And decide to support him or
not AH Maqdoomi, Hydeabad
MG: Where is "caliph" mentioned in the Qur'an??? The Quran uses the
term "Uli al-amr" which means rulers and this word too is used in the
plural. What was abolished in 1924 was "khilafat" in name only -- in
fact it was a simple monarchy and a very bad one at that. The Arabs
who revolted against this fake khilafat during the First World War had
some reason to do so. Read Al-Kawakibi's Taba'i al-Istibdad to know
what that khilafat had plummeted to. After the first four caliphs, only
Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz could be described as "khalifah" -- the rest were
mere autocratic kings. The world and the international system has
since so much evolved that no government is acceptable which does
not demonstrate popular support through the ballot. Even during the
Omayad period, when a second caliph appeared in Andalus, it was
agreed that there could be more than one caliph at a time. Todays'world
is much more complicated with strict boundaries, international laws
and treaties that cannot allow a gang of a few thousand armed to
change universally accepted rules. (Zafarul-Islam Khan)
Where we lag?
Patna, Lucknow, etc. were Muslim Tahzeebi shahar where Muslim nawabs
and zamindaars lived. Lucknow is famous for its shaams (evenings).
Nawabs developed areas for dancers and tawaifs to live. The evening is
famous due to the mujra, dances etc. Patna city where nawabs and
zamindaars lived and here too they helped a famous tawaif mohalla
flourish. What is the Muslim condition? It is not hidden: destitution, lack of
all sort of civic amenities, dilapidated houses, and taat ka parda hanging
on doors, kids involved in illegal activities, women working as house
maids. Why? An English newspaper published that 24 of Patnas best
schools secured best CBSE results. Out of these 24 best schools, there is
not a single Muslim school or Muslim-owned school. This is the reality of
Patna which was Azimabad dominated by nawabs and zamindaars.
S. Haque, Patna
Shia-Sunni Divisions
The divisions between Shia and Sunni sects of Islam are creating, or
adding, strife in so many parts of the world.While Indian and Bangladesh
Sunni and Shia Muslims may not be in conflict with each other openly,
they are not truly united either. If some 500 million Muslims (more than the
entire population of Middle east Muslims) of the Indian subcontinent
became more unified they could do much more to bring peace to troubled
parts of the world by their good example. Muslims have been gathered
over the years from different countries and different strands of Islam to
different countries and to the Asian subcontinent. If the subcontinent
Muslims can unify, can leave behind their historic and outdated baggage
and become one, they will send out a powerful sign to Muslims living in
other parts of the world. They will provide an example by living together in
peace side by side. Mohamed Ameen
pakma19@gmail.com
Startling revelation about Jinnah
The general impression about Mr. Jinnah is that he was a strict
constitionalist and could never tolerate anything unconstitutional, but the
following revelation made by no less than a person Ch. Khaliquzzaman - a
prominent league leader demolishes this myth. Says he, "in March 1940
at its annual session held in Lahore the Muslim League adopted the main
resolution which became its goal that no constitutional plan would be
acceptable to Muslims unless it was designed on the following basic
principles viz., that geographically contiguous units are demarcated into
regions which should be so constituted with such territorial adjustments
as may be necessary that the areas in which Muslims are numerically in
a majority as in the North-Western and Eastern Zones of India should be
grouped to constitute Independent states. When the British cabinet
mission arrived in India in March 1946 to negotiate with Indian leaders
about the transfer of power, a convention of Muslim League's legislature
was held in Delhi in April 1946 which demanded the acceptance of
Pakistan not on the basis of two states but on the basis of one state. When
Mr. Abul Hashim, the secretary of Bengal Muslim League, raised the
objection on the radical alteration from "States" to "State", Jinnah ruled out
the objection on the ground that "states" was misprint. Nawab Ismael Khan
and other prominent Muslim League leaders who stayed in India after
partition wrote to Ch. Khaliquzzaman, how can a chairman disregard the
phraseology of the written constitution. If the word had been a misprint,
how was it that this was not rectified at the open session of the League as
according to constitution any change or amendment in the constitution
could be made only at the open session. In the subsequent additions of the
constitution of the League which were published under the direct
supervision of Liaquat Ali Khan, the General Secretary of the League, same
words were repeated. I hae a copy of the latest edition of the constitution
before partition and in that the word "the States" occurs (Pathway to
Pakistan by Khaliquzzaman, pp. 344-5).
Dr. M. Hashim Kidwai, ex-MP Delhi - 110091
Inclusive Governance
In what are the priorities of the government the proposal of 5,800-crore
Prime Minister's Reconstruction Programme, the rehabilitation package
that includes providing security and jobs for the returning of kashmiri
Pandits and repair of their houses that were burnt or destroyed when they
migrated from the valley is a welcome step but had not the similar steps
been taken for the victims of 1984 Anty sikh riots, post Babri demolition
riots and 2002 post Godhara riots in which many lost their lives,
thousands displaced, there properties were captured and there business
units and homes were burnt and destroyed leaving them with no source of
the livelihood? Surely the belief of the people in democracy would have
been strengthen many fold and hence it could have proved the inclusive
approach of the government "Justice to all, appeasement to none".
Mohd Anas, AMU Aligarh-202002
mohdanasamu@gmail.com
Riot cell
It was massive and devastating 1989-90 anti-Muslim riot of Bhagalpur
which led to the start of the Congress debacle in which Congress leaders
were involved (see book Meri Yadein Meri Bhulein). Many commissions
were instituted and still justice could not be done. In June 2014, i.e., afater
25 years, riot cell publishes a notice for payment of compensationat Rs
3.5 lakh for deaths, Rs 1.25 lakh to the injured. The notice published
included four non-Muslims with their addresses who were not located.
Amazing, it was an anti-Muslim riot and many Muslim organisations
protested for justice. But government is searching non-Muslims to pay
compensation to them. Muslim organisations and media must publish the
dead and missing persons list and collect FIRs so that the real riot victims
could get justice. Muslim orgs and NGOs should file RTI to RTI Cell, Zila
Aapda Prabandhan Shakha Bhagal Pur Bihar to know the list.
S. Haque, Patna
Shariat courts
In view of Khap & other Panchayats, President ought to ask AG and SCI
about court judgment related to Shariat court. As per media reports, the
Supreme Court ruled that Shariat courts have no legal sanction and no one
is bound to accept a fatwa or diktat pronounced by them. "No religion is
allowed to curb anyone's fundamental rights," the court said, adding that
the Shariat court can issue a fatwa only if approached willingly, and that
too, will not be legally binding] On the face of it looks an innocuous
judgement but given the pernicious influence it will have in emboldening
Panchayats in villages (including Khap Panchayats around Delhi in
Haryana, U. P. etc which have been harassing and persecuting brutally the
young boys and girls who wanted to marry against the wishes of these
Khap & other Panchayats) who will draw parallel between Shariat Court
and Panchayats (including Khap Panchayats). Hence this Court judgement
needs to be reviewed and suitably reversed. Hem Raj Jain, Bengaluru
jainhemraj59@gmail.com
AMU
VC Zameer Uddin Shah had dreamt of taking the University to number one
position among the Indian institutions of higher learning. He is working
really hard to make his dream a reality. In the recent years, performance
of Aligarh Muslim University has improved tremendously as it can be seen
from the rankings of Universities. Recently, AMU has secured 9th position
among the top ten institutions of higher learning in India in a survey
conducted by the Times Higher Education Supplement, UK. This is an
amazing feat. Last year, AMU was ranked 5th among the top ten Indian
Universities in India Today-Nielsen Best Universities Survey. Indeed in this
endeavour, teachers and students have also contributed tremendously. We
still have a long way to go. Insha Allah, the positive mindset will take
Aligarh Muslim University to the top most position. main kahan rukta hun
arsh-o-farsh ki awaz se mujhko jaana hai bahut door had-e-parwaz se
M. Yunus Khan
khan_yunus123@rediffmail.com
M. J. Akbar
M. J. Akbar was a successful editor for many years. He was a
spokesperson of the Congress, a close aide of Rajiv Gandhi and even
became a Congress MP. Now this worthy has made a complete flipflop. He
sees everything wrong and disgusting in the Congress. He is all for Modi.
But he forgets that he himself lambasted Modi ten years ago, in an article
that made him very popular with the Indian Muslims. Where is the real M.
J. Akbar? Does he really exist? Or is he just a sycophantsearching for his
place in the sun? Suppose Modi loses in 2019, and Rahul wins, shall we
see one more flip flop?
Dr. J. S. Bandukwala Vadodara; Farooq Abdul Gaffar Bawani Rajkot
bawanifarooq@gmail.com
Low Birth Rate And Crisis
In late 60s a neo-Malthusian theory came into fashion. According to this,
if the population growth had continued the pace of recent years, it would
have caused a phenomenon that in those years it was considered
terrifying: before the year 2000 hundreds of millions of people would have
died of hunger because of lack of resources. These theories widely
disseminated by leftist sectors became fashionable by proposing once
again the catastrophic prophecies of P. R. Ehrlich. This argued that the
world population growth rate was too high and we had to stop it, otherwise
before the year 2000 tens of millions of people would die of hunger
especially in Asia, China and India. The reality is that they not only have
not died of hunger, but they have begun to be richer than us holding up our
economy. In the 80s, the developed world blocked the population growth
from 4.5 % to a progressive fall to 0% in Europe, the United States, Canada
and Japan. A zero population growth does not mean having no children,
but means having two children per couple, which is the replacement rate.
Isabel Costa, Fraga, Spain
antonio@aplicaciones.info
People's rep, life of kings
It refers to Central Public Works Department (CPWD) providing under RTI
response a list of fixtures and equipments installed at official residence of
the then Delhi Chief Minister Shiela Dixit revealing amongst others as
much as 31 air-conditioners, 15 dessert-coolers and 25 heaters installed
at official residence 3, Motilal Nehru Marg, New Delhi of the then Delhi
Chief Minister Shiela Dixit. Consumption of electricity and expenses on
such a large fleet of electrical equipments can be well imagined that too at
a time when 'austerity-drive' was there in existence with shortage of
electricity for commoners having been a common phenomenon. Our
elected representatives should be role-model citizens adopting austerity in
their personal lives especially when it is at cost of tax-payers' money.
Enquiry should also be made if former Delhi Chief Minister was entitled for
such princely facilities, and necessary action may be taken against
concerned ones responsible for allowing expenses more than permissible
limit. Subhash Chandra Agrawal, Delhi 110006
subhashchandraagrawal@gmail.com
Transparency and accountability
Resentment is brewing among the intellectual and academic circles of
Muslim society in state over the government intervention in Muslim
medical colleges. It is the duty of the every Govt to ensure Transparency
and Accountability in every Institution ,even in working of purely private
business houses. So the Community shall be happy if Health Minister
Janab Ahmad Hhsain sb take some harsh steps in this direction. The
scope of this beginning should be broadened to all other Educational
Institution. Minority Institution tag does not mean licence for corruption.
Minority Institutions are expected to be be more transparent than others
but unfortunately that is not the case. Majority of these Institutions have
nothing to do with the promotion of the Education among Muslims and are
deeply involved in all type of malpractices. FMSA is no doubt is a
registered body but it has no licence to speak on behalf of the Muslim
intellectuals and community as a whole. Threatening Govt to launch
agitation on this issue and claiming support of the community is
misleading. Prof. Shamim Ahmad, AMU
profshamim@gmail.com
Are Muslims of Bhajanpura deceived?
With much publicity government of Bihar published information about
solving the Bhajanpura police firing which killed four innocent Muslims and
resolving the BIADA land dispute upon which a factory is going to be
constructed. The villagers claim that NMC did not meet them and if the old
public road is closed and justice is not done to the dead and wounded they
would start agitation because they fear that they are deceived and before
commissions report and without punishing the erring policemen and a job
to deceaseds dependent. Payment of some amount cannot be fair justic.
S. Haque, Patna
Pak PM Visit to Delhi
PM's visit to Delhi was a foregone conclusion from the moment the
invitation was received and it was a wise decision. The drama of "to go or
not to go" was staged to throw the onus of the blame upon others if and
ever any untoward repercussions arose subsequent to the visit. The one
to one meeting between the PMs, cleverly thrown in to give the yatra some
semblance of a business tour, is not likely to yield anything as it would be
too much to expect form only a day old Prime Minister of India and on the
top of it from a person like Modi, to take some reconciliatory position on
Kashmir ! My only fears are that our High Commission in Delhi might not
allow the Gaddi Nashins of Ajmer Sharif and its likes an otherwise innocent
looking five minute audience with the MNS which could cost the poor
Pakistanis another million dollars in Nazrana as was proffered by the
superstitious Zardari and Raja Ashraf a few years ago! Please PM, beware,
we! as a nation are already under heavy debt and cannot afford any such
'luxury' any more. Col. Riaz Jafri (Retd), Rawalpindi 46000
jafri@rifiela.com
Modi
Good politician is one who feels the pulse of politician. I have no words in
my lexicon to appreciate Narendra Modi who proved his rhetorical ability
and stamina by holding more than thousand meetings in the loksabha
election. He raised emotive issues such as Pakistan, abrogation of 370
article, besides cow meat. BJP encashed in on congress indulging in
scams and scandal and charged of sky rocketing prices lof essential
commodities. A part from it, NaMo wave and ab ki bar Modi sarkar
reverberates in media fraternity. Narendra Modi also had effect on regional
parties Now the same Naredra Modi the prime minister of India took soft
stand to invite Nawaz Sharif on his oath taking ceremony.
Wakeel Ahmad, Gaya.
Iraq
Cheney destroyed Iraq. In similar manner the French and the British
destroyed Libya and Syria. These countries had oil and / or strategic
location. Their leaders could not be controlled by the West. They had to be
taught a lesson. But let us not forget that they had support from the Saudis
who in a most stupid self goal in geo politics were desperate to spread
their Wahabi Islam unmindful of the consequences. The end result is the
rise of militant ISIL that may destroy , not just the Saudis and the Gulf
states; but even pose a major challenge to the US Britain and France. Yet
we grieve for the millions of Muslims who have and will continue suffer
horribly in the coming years. A look at Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and
Syria, makes us weep. Why is Allah so unhappy with us?
Dr. J. S. Bandukwala Vadodara; Farooq Abdul Gaffar Bawani Rajkot
bawanifarooq@gmail.com
Muslims ; The outcastes in this last election
Modi succeeded in marketing and selling an impossible dream to the
Indian electorate. His weapons were a totally captive media, unlimited
resources from the corporate sector and foot soldiers of an aggressive
Hindutva. Rich Hindus fell for development, The middle class responded
to the subtle anti Muslim tenor, of the RSS / BJP. The deprived sections
were euphoric that they will be treated as equals by the upper castes. The
only outcastes in this election were Muslims. Yet it is not the end of the
power play. Muslims have awakened. A community having deep faith in
Allah, and equally assertive of its rights, can never be pushed into the
outward fringes of society. This is the time when we must not bend before
Modi or the RSS. They will treat it as a surrender. Just do our duty of
educating our children to the best possible. Let us generate wealth and use
it for the larger good of our poor. They have to be saved from the curse of
untouchability. J. S. Bandukwala
drbandukwala@yahoo.co.in
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