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Secret service agencies are govt. tools

suspicion they can get away with abducLucknow: Secret agencies, Police
tions, torture in custody, extracting conand security organisations started
fessions, forcing Muslim youth to work as
troubling Muslims after the demoliinformers, falsely implicated in crimes,
tion of Babri Mosque, said known
and then made to rot in jails for years.
journalist Gautam Navlakha while
Although in most cases trials end in acquitspeaking at the press club here on
tal, the damage done to the person and
Communalist politics and secret
his/her kith and kin is staggering. And
agencies held on the sixth anniverwhen the personnel of agencies are hauled
sary of the Batla House encounter.
up in courts, the government comes to their
He said the fake encounters are a
rescue saying that any action against them
part of this chain which includes the
will affect their morale. Even the Supreme
obvious example of Batla House
Court has bought this logic.
encounter.
Speaking on the Batla House encounter,
Navlakha further said that intelliNavlakha questioned how Inspector Mohan
gence and investigating agencies
enjoy such arbitrary powers that it The term Muslim terrorism was coined after the Chand Sharma reached the place without
enables communal bias and preju- Babri Masjid demolition under which the victim has wearing a bullet-proof jacket? This is a big
question, he said, adding that police has
dices to enjoy unfettered sway. As a
been made the criminal.
become greedy due to the awards doled out
result, fake encounters take place as
chised work force. It is to stem this from taking
by the government and this creates competition
do filing of fake cases. The fact that no judicial
on a shape of widespread discontent that politics
between different forces for reward and promoinvestigation was ordered into Batla encounter
of reducing Muslims to second class status fits
tion. So did he rush to Batla House in a hurry to
despite the passage of six years, shows that the
in. The old hatred resurfaces to converge with
outfox the Mumbai ATS? We know that to win
rule is to protect the agencies.
the interests of the rich and the privileged.
such awards, police is committing so many
Navlakha said in fact fake encounters startTherefore, the threat held out by Sangh Parivar
encounters in Kashmir.
ed much before Batla House. It has an old histoand its cohorts is of fascism where an enemy in
Navlakha said, today the work of the secret
ry going back to the Emergency period when
the shape of a community comes in handy to
service agencies is totally suspect. It was set up
most encounters took place in Andhra Pradesh
carry out a vicious economic policy which is
not by Parliament through a law but set up by the
and Naxalites were killed while in custody and
meant to enrich the rich and impoverish the poor
British Raj through an executive order in 1880s.
passed off as encounters. It carried on in
even as hypocritical obeisance is paid to incluThey remain unaccountable to everyone but
Punjab and elsewhere in the name of fighting
sion.
MHA. Its accounts remain unaudited and
Khalistani terror which resulted in enforced disNavalkha said we fail to realize that while
unavailable. There is no oversight, as such this
appearance of thousands of youth in order to
Indian Constitution speaks of equality before
body has acquired impunity to do as it wills. One
crush the movement. Navlakha said terrorism
law, in fact there are different laws and unequal
wonders if the government controls them or they
entered the lexicon in India in 1980 with a bid to
application of laws and laws enacted which tarcontrol the government by playing on fears,
finish off the Khalistan movement. Indira Gandhi
get specific groups to varying degree. For
exaggerated fears at that? IB must be made
resorted to lies and committed atrocities on a
instance, if a Hindutva group plants a bomb in a
accountable to Parliament, he demanded.
large number of youth. Some were incarcerated
cinema hall, it is not considered a terror crime
Navlakha said that the term Muslim terrorin jails on trumped up charges while others were
because Hindus, it is claimed by agencies and
ism was coined after the Babri Masjid demolikilled in fake encounters and the government
government (all of them and not just BJP), can
tion under which the victim has been made the
took no action against top police officers who
never be anything but at worse extreme nationcriminal. Demanding the abolition of the UAPA,
committed these crimes. Then after the demolialists. This allows Hindutva terror groups to
Navlakha said the secret service agencies contion of the Babri Mosque, youth of a particular
escape ban, persecution of the type faced by
trol the government; therefore the latter does not
community became targets of police and adminMuslims, Naxalites, Kashmiri Muslims, Meiteis,
muster courage to repeal certain laws.
istration. However, what is different now is that
Nagas etc. Thus Constitution makes a claim of
Navlakha said BJP is dangerous not only for
encounters and cases are meant to terrorise the
equality whereas, in reality, laws have been
Muslims but for the whole country. We have to
Muslims.
enacted in such a way that it targets everyone
come together to unite against this threat of fasNavlakha said, BJP and Hindutva politics
except Hindutva terror groups. Thus, whereas
cist takeover of our country. Demanding equality
may have received a jolt in UP by-elections but
Muslims as a whole become suspect and with
before law must be made part of this effort, he
their divisive politics still continues. Sangh
passage of laws like TADA, POTA and now UAPA
said.
Parivar and VHP are steadfast on this political
-grandmother of all draconian laws - the laws
Rihai Manch leaders advocate Muhammad
path. They are ruling a number of states and they
have brought about a dangerous change. For
Shoaib and SR Darapuri also spoke on this occaare helped in the implementation of their policies
instance, such is the ambit of UAPA that SIMI,
sion. A five-point memorandum was released on
by the local administration and police. The police
which has been challenging the ban imposed on
this occasion. It demanded judicial enquiry of the
force raised by Congress is now dancing to the
it since 2001 before Tribunals, automatically
Batla House encounter, secret agencies be made
BJP tunes. Thus those who believe that Modis
becomes guilty and those appearing before
accountable to Parliament, action against offiinclusive development runs contrary to diviTribunal can be jailed for upto 10 years!
cers involved in fake encounters, and rehabilitasive politics of Sangh Parivar are wrong because
Police and secret service agencies have
tion of youth falsely implicated in terror cases
the economic policy itself generates divisions so
been given enormous powers where on mere
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Blaming Muslims for Hindu problems

If four lakh Muslim boys have married Hindu girls, it means that four lakh
Muslim girls have been denied married life. At a time when polygamy among
Muslims has become almost nonexistent due to social and economic factors,
this would be a big blow to the family system in the community.

DR JAVED JAMIL
India is being given a daily dose
of poison. The dose given by
Maneka Gandhi and Sakshi
Maharaj may prove to be the
most lethal. Hindutva Brigade
seems to have gone amok. It is
true that they are in a hurry, considering the fact that BJP is in power, and they feel
that it is right time to take their agenda of hatred to
its peak. It is also true that they are facing the
worst internal crisis of the last century in the form
of Sai-Shankarachraya confrontation which threatens the unity of Sanatandharmis. It is also understandable that they are concerned about the
decrease in the population of Hindu females on
account of ever-increasing femicide. What is,
however, deplorable is that they are trying to put
the blame of all their problems on Muslims. They
are on the warpath against Muslims even despite
the fact that Muslims are neutral on all these
issues. The truth is that many issues that are troubling Hindus are a cause of even bigger concern
for Muslims.
The statement by Menaka Gandhi is specifically dangerous because she, being an important
part of the government, is also eying the chair of
UP chief minister for her son. Till now, it appeared
that the central government is concentrating on
developmental issues, and the communal statements from regional BJP leaders may be part of
their strategy to corner Modi. But with the continuing silence of the Prime Minister, and now a
Union minister making a highly provocative claim,
it signals ominous times ahead. Her statement is
particularly dangerous, as in one go, she has put
a question mark on the very survival of the meat
industry and the patriotism of the Muslim community. Linking the meat industry to terrorism is too
clever a move to have been masterminded by her
alone. Sakshi Maharajs comments linking terrorism to madrasas are an additional hint to the strategy of linking terrorism to Muslims, particularly the
community of meat businessmen. They forget that
terrorism in India is a massive problem, and the
major part of Indian terrorism has nothing to do
with Muslims. As I have detailed in my previous
articles, out of more than 40,000 deaths in terrorist attacks in the last two decades, the alleged
killings by Muslim terrorists do not number more
than 1500. Terrorism in India is primarily a Hindu

problem with Naxalites, Maoists, Sikhs, Ulfa and

Bodos being among the major culprits. Elsewhere
in the subcontinent, (Hindu) Tamil terrorism in Sri
Lanka killed more than one hundred thousands.
Linking madrasas to terrorism is another
example of blaming and throttling Muslims for
what are primarily Hindu problems. Madrasas are
certainly giving bigger lessons of peace and amity
than any other educational institutions of the country. They also forget that throttling the meat industry would be an enormous blow to Indias economic development, as this involves huge export
incomes and a workforce of hundreds of thousands. Even though the beneficiaries of the industry as well as meat consumers belong to both
communities, its downfall would cause a big harm
even if it would have bee an exclusive one community affair. The country can simply not progress
till the purchasing capability of all the countrymen
goes up. The argument of preserving pashudhan
(animal wealth) is simply stupid; as the meat
industry would not only ensure but also augment
cultivation of this wealth.
Another example of blaming Muslims for the
problems of the Hindu society is Love Jihad. If
the figures being quoted by Hindutva campaigners, which talk of more than four lakh Hindu girls
having been married in one year to Muslim boys,
it should a matter of much bigger concern to
Muslims themselves. If four lakh Muslim boys
have married Hindu girls, it means that four lakh
Muslim girls have been denied married life. At a
time when polygamy among Muslims has become
almost nonexistent due to social and economic
factors, this would be a big blow to the family system in the community. Every single Muslim boy
married to a Hindu woman means denial of marriage to one Muslim girl. The increase of unmarried
girls in society is bound to lead to many complications. Further, Hindu girls would obviously marry
good Muslim boys; if well-educated Muslim boys
marry Hindu girls, who will marry educated
Muslim girls? Moreover, Muslims cannot afford to
support such marriages because inter-religion
marriages even if the Hindu wives pretend to have
converted to Islam, would lead to dilution of
Islamic faith and traditions in the coming Muslim

Disturbing
Trend
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OHAMMAD

ANZOOR

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Recent media reports about

Muzaffarnagar are disturbing, to
say the least. Stray information
about last years anti-Muslim
violences victims making distress sale of their lands have
been coming in regularly.

This is nothing but slow ethnic cleansing of some areas. These villages have
been emptied of Muslims as the riot-hit villagers are
afraid of entering the villages where they lived till last
year.
According to one report, as many as 20,000 riot
victims are still living in the camps around Kairana in
Shamli district. As the victims are frightened of getting back to their villages, they are forced to sell their
lands at prices much lower than the on-going market
rate, or even the circle rate.
This may sound like a localised phenomenon,
but it is not. Similarly stories are heard from Assam
where large number of Muslims have frequently been
thrown out of their homes and lands in frequent outbursts of anti-Muslim violence almost on a regular
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generations. With such an enormous chain of

events and issues, are Muslims so stupid that they
will promote or fund such marriages?
Hindutva ideologues and political leaders are
busy proving that the number of Muslim boys marrying Hindu girls is much higher than the number
of Hindu boys marrying Muslim girls. This may be
true. But the reasons are not what they are trying
to prove. If Muslim boys are marrying Hindu girls,
the reason is simply that Muslim boys come into
contact with greater number of Hindu girls than
Muslim. In my college, King Georges Medical
College of Lucknow, for example, there were nine
Muslim boys in my batch out of a total number of
170 students. There were around 40 girls, with
only two being Muslims. If none of my Muslim
batch mates happened to marry a Hindu girl, it
was not because they did not get the opportunity.
If they had chosen, at least some of them would
have easily married Hindu class fellows. But they
preferred to marry within their own community on
account of obvious reasons. The Muslim community and an overwhelming majority of Muslim parents dismiss the idea of inter-religion marriages
altogether. In India, marriages are not simply
between two individuals but between two families.
Not only Hindu girls are more in number, they
tend to be more open to love marriages. Muslim
families resist love marriages more than Hindus.
Muslims also tend to have stronger religious convictions than Hindus. With the popularity of Muslim
heroes in films, and Muslim boys being a little better in communication skills, their knowledge of
Urdu being one of the reasons, girls find Muslim
boys attractive and smart. Moreover, love marriages with Muslim boys more often than not are
solemnised without any dowry, and this may be
one of the major reasons why Hindu parents tend
to accept these marriages.
As far as the issue of converting to Islam is
concerned, I know many Hindu men and women
who have converted to Islam without a love affair.
I know some Hindus who did not convert to Islam,
despite the fact that they loved it, only because of
the social complications it created. The truth is that
if any Hindu is accepting Islam in India, this is not
due to any pressure from Muslims but inspite of

basis.
These may look like random episodes, but these
are well-planned and organised. The idea is not just
to kill and wound Muslims but to empty entire villages
of Muslim presence. Anywhere large-scale antiMuslim pogrom takes place, there are a lot of people
who are never allowed to return, their property taken
away from them at throwaway prices.
Such plans are in action right from the 1940s. At
the time of the Partition, UP chief secretary Madhav
Godbole had seized trunks full of maps of Western
UPs Muslim areas marked for ethnic cleansing. Last
years Muzaffarnagar killings should be seen in that
context. The original plan is still in place.
It is worthwhile to remember that during the campaigning for parliamentary poll one partys workers
had been telling Hindu voters in certain areas of
Bihar that if they voted the party they would make
sure that Muslims were driven away from the villages
and their lands allotted to them. This is an important
point to consider. (iosworld.org)
MG: The unnamed party mentioned above is the
BJP whose agents told voters in parts of Bihar that
if they voted for the party, they will be allowed to
drive away Muslims and take over their lands as
has happened in Muzaffarnagar. This has been
reported in some Urdu papers of Bihar and complaint lodged with authorities (Zafarul-Islam Khan).

the pressure by Hindu organisations and families

against converting. Further, there have been several drives by Hindu organisations, especially in
Rajasthan, to take back Muslims to their fold. If
Hindutva lobbyists are really concerned about the
changing demography, they would better launch
an effective campaign against female foeticide and
dowry. Rather than blaming Muslims, they should
concentrate on the problems within their own
community.
Muslims have already clarified in no uncertain
terms that if there are any cases of fraudulent marriages involving Muslims, they do not support
them and all these cases must be dealt with in
accordance with the law of the land. Fraudulent
marriages are increasingly becoming the order of
the day in the country, and an overwhelming
majority of these marriages has nothing to do with
religion or caste.
Continuing with this blame game, strangely,
Muslims are now being openly blamed even for
the Sai-Shankaracharya confrontation. The
spokesmen of Sahankaracharya group are now
openly blaming Arab dollars for the rise of Sai cult
in India. Their insecurity complex has compelled
them to distort the whole issue and give it a communal twist. The whole emphasis by the supporters of Shankaracharya appearing in TV debates is
on Sai Baba being a Muslim, a Muslim not being
worthy of sainthood and worship, his being the
son of a Muslim traitor, and now the funding of Sai
temples by Muslims living in Arab countries has
been added to dissuade Sai followers from mobilising their supporters. Again, the truth is that
Muslims have nothing to do with Sai Baba, his
worship or his worshippers. Sai Baba enjoys no
support or veneration in the Muslim community.
This is purely a Hindu issue. Muslims are hardcore
monotheists and can never support a polytheistic
activity, morally, socially or financially.
Instead of communalising Indian society,
Hindus must work along with Muslims to eradicate
vices that are considered dangerous by both communities on account of similarities in their traditions and social attitudes. These include campaigns against alcohol, drugs, smoking, prostitution, pornography, live-in relationships, nudity,
gambling, economic disparity, poverty and corruption. These are enough to unite the whole
nation and ensure development without destruction of moral and social values. Is Mr Prime
Minster listening or he will continue with his
silence?
The author is Delhi-based thinker and writer. He
may be contacted at doctorforu123@yahoo.com.

Love jihad backfired

Yogi Aditynaths concocted love-jihad backfired in UP, Rajasthan and Gujarat in the recently held assembly by-polls. You cant keep spewing venom and fabricating facts at your will.
This eventually boomerangs and youre hoist with your own petard. This oxymoronic loveJihad was a political and electoral metaphor for the BJP to use it against the minority. But
fortunately, people could see through this nefarious design and made Adityanath eat the
humble pie. Its time, the politicians focussed on issues that are of greater interests and
have a direct bearing on people and politics. They cant take the masses for a ride all the
time by such juvenile concoctions.

Dont give it a religious colour

I feel nauseous when I read in newspapers that garba/dandiya during Navratri are now out
of bounds for Muslim youths for fear that they may woo Hindu girls and elope with them.
Ludicrous idea, to say the least. Whore these extremely fanatic (Hindu) elements who can
go to the extent of slamming the doors of Hindu festivals to the faces of Muslim youths?
First of all, festivals are neither Hindu nor Muslim. Every year I wait for Eid to have sheerkhurma at my numerous Muslim friends place and many of them are overjoyed to see me
at their threshold, uninvited!
Despite belonging to no religion, region and community whatsoever, I used to take my
Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi Muslim friends to Bengali associations Durga Pooja in
Edinburgh (UK). Our only aim was to have the tasty prasad and of course, appreciating gorgeous Bong females with absolutely no mala-fide intention. No one ever stopped a nonbeliever like me or my multi-religious friends. Festivals are the most appropriate time to
enjoy and are above all religious concerns and considerations. Dont degrade them by giving religious colours and hues. Let all visit garbas and play dandiya, irrespective of faiths
and (religious) beliefs.
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Muzaffarnagar riot victims

return to village mere drama
MUHAMMAD SHAHZAD

The present condition of the mosque at Lisadh where the meeting was held
Kandhla: Lisadh village was the first and most affected village during the
Muzaffarnagar riots which erupted on 7 September last year. This village falls
under Phugana police station. Here 13 Muslims were martyred, all Muslim
homes were first looted then torched. As a result, all Muslim survivors fled the
village and took shelter in refugee camps.

Now some Jats and some Muslims of this village are trying to bridge the gulf
which was created by the violence. But a group of Lisadh Muslims who live outside say this return-home exercise is a drama in which money and pressure on
victim families to withdraw cases is involved.
The Muzafarnagar riots had started from Lisadh after a Jat panchayat was
held in this village on 5 September last year in which inflammatory speeches
were made. In its wake a Muslim youth was stabbed to death. The village had
500 Muslim homes with 2800 Muslim inhabitants.
The village has four mosques, one Eidgah, a madrasa and a graveyard.
After the riots all Muslims left the village and Muslims of Lisadh alone registered
some 300 cases against the Jats of the village. But with passage of time, most
of these cases have been withdrawn and now only 40 cases remain.
Some Muslims of Lisadh say that money has played an important role in the
withdrawal of the cases. As a result, some Muslims have returned to the village
while its Muslim homes even today offer a terrible spectacle that would make
even a stone-hearted person to cry. Perhaps those who have returned are not
concerned. Perhaps those who were killed did not belong to their families.
Perhaps they have been compensated for their looted and burnt houses but
how the violated honour will be compensated?
There are Muslims of this village for whom these questions have a meaning. They may have sold their houses and are living somehow elsewhere. They
say: how can we live in a village where the honour of our sisters and daughters
was violated. The wounds inflicted by these people will not heal even in a hundred years. We now hate this village and will never return to it alive, they say.
But some Muslims of this village have now returned to the village. They sat
in the same mosque which was burnt and held a meeting with Jats requesting
their help to return to the village. Jats too want these Muslims to come back so
that the cases against them could be weakened if not withdrawn.
Others, who do not want to return, say that we are safe where we live now
and there is no need for us to go back to the village.
We spoke to Rashi Pal, a Jat of this village, and asked him: why they
caused such a big riot? He said: we did not do it; it were people form outside
who did it. When we asked the Muslims who have chosen to return: why they
did so. They said: we have come back because of our mosques. We told them:
these mosques were there during the riot, then why you left the village in the first
place? Now they kept silent. Those who have returned include Yaseen,
Yameen, Iqbal Darzi, Aslam, Rashid, Jameel and Zaheer. They are part of
dozens of Muslim families now living in the village. (Translated from Akhbare Mashriq
Urdu daily, Delhi, 21 Sept 2014)

After Love Jihad comes Love Trishool

Bareily: Shiv Sena, UP Branchs president Anil Singh said here on 9 September
that now his party will constitute Love Trishool gang to counter Love Jihad. He
said that as and when his gang comes to know about any case of love jihad, it
will swing into action to prevent any incident of love jihad. He said that this
movement will, be started from Bareliy and will soon spread to the whole state
(of UP) so that Hindu girls could be protected from the trap of relationship and
the resultant forced or voluntary conversion (to Islam). He (Anil Singh) says that
Love Trishool will work as Brahmastre against love jihad.
It may be stated that this propaganda or drama of love jihad was started by
communal organisations and their activists first in Kerala in 2009 and thereafter
in Karnatak when some incidents of voluntary conversions to Islam had taken
place. Communal organisations and elements had described these incidents as
forced conversions and unleashed the propaganda of love jihad. In view of this
propaganda the Kerala government had set up a body to enquire into the truth of
this propaganda. This body, after investigations submitted its report in which it
had described it as mere propaganda. Subsequently, in Karnataka also the government body investigating these incidents had described love jihad as non existent. The same communalists have now again started the bogey of love jihad.
Inter-religious marriages are no doubt taking place but these are not forced ones
but based on mutual consent. It is quite possible that there might have been
some very rare cases of conversion to Islam after marriage of Hindu girls
because of moral pressure from the boys family members but there are no such
cases on a large scale. It also happens that some Muslim girls choose to marry
Hindu boys but in such cases these communalists become quite dumb but raise
hell and great hue and cry when a Hindu girl, of her own free will marries a
Muslim boy. They call this love jihad which is totally preposterous.

MG

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 history, 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 payments to contributors plus six months salaries to researchers and experts; Rs 15 lakh for designing and printing the
document in a world-class format; while the grand convention at Delhi will cost at least 5 lakh. Effort will be made to
release the White Paper in some state and world capitals also.
You can help this effort in four ways,
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Those who preach

and spread
communalism are
traitors

Kolkata: Former Chief Justice of Qrissa High Court Dr

J. M. Quddoosi while speaking in a seminar sponsored by
Human Rights Protection Association of Hoogli district and
describing religious extremism as the biggest hindrance in
the progress of the country said that those who play politics in the name of religion in the country are traitors of the
country and such people need to be socially boycotted. He
urged the human rights activists to come forward against
communalism and extremism because without promoting
communal harmony and brotherhood we cannot progress.
He said that merely by legislation the county cannot
progress because its enforcement is also necessary.
Speaking about right to life he said that Supreme Court
NEWS DESK while defining this law said that right to life of every citizen

in this country means that every citizen should live

respectably and honourably but the question is do all citizens of the country enjoy equal rights and opportunities?
President of Human Rights Protection Association
Shamim Ahmad said in his presidential address that all citizens of the country had taken part in liberating India from
Englishmens slavery and every body had shed his blood in
this movement and people of the villages had taken active
part in the freedom movement but after the countrys freedom India was divided into two parts. One is India where
all kinds of facilities are available and on the other side
there are 70 percent people who are deprived of all kinds of
facilities.
Regarding introduction of bullet trains he said that running of bullet trains in a country where 40 percent households have no clean drinking water is nothing less than a
joke.
District President of Trinamool Congress and MLA
Tapan Das Gupta said that after coming to power Mamta
Bannerji gave Urdu the status of second official language
and they were promise bound to give Urdu its due and after
Puja Urdu Department would be set up in Shukanto College
and (Urdu) teachers will be appointed.

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About one lakh

children go
missing every
year
New Delhi: It is a matter of great shame and
sorrow that every year lakhs of children go
missing in the country but no body appears
to care or is worried about it. At the news of
1,70,000 missing children the Supreme
Court chastised in February 2013, not only
the administration and government but also
expressed great resentment for police but it
is a great pity that even 1.5 years after that
the position is the same and so far 1.5 lakh
children have been reported lost. The data
of missing children was presented recently
in Parliament according to which between
2011 and 2014 about one lakh children go
missing every year wheras in neighbouring
Pakistan only about 3000 children go missing every year (Indias population is about
seven times more than that of Pakistan). In
China, whose population is much more
than Indias, on an average about 10 thousand children are lost. If National Crime
Record Bureau is to be believed, one child
in the country is being kidnapped or goes
missing every 8 minutes and of those lost
children 55 percent are girls. Of the children
missing till date, 50 percent are still
untraced. Hence it is feared that probably
they are killed for their body organs. Most
of the children that are lost or untraceable it
is feared that their body organs like hearts,
kidneys, eyes etc are removed and then
they are killed and most of the girls are used
in the flesh trade. Small children also are
put in flesh trade business or used as bonded labour. In many cases they are sent to
foreign countries also for flesh trade. Since
all these businesses are done in great
secrecy and in an organised manner, it is
difficult to catch them. It must however be
borne in mind that without the connivance
of police and some influential people this
organised business cannot remain secret
for ever. It also happens that many people
think that most of the children lost are
Muslims, they become somewhat indifferent and Muslims too think in the same way
i.e. most of the missing children are of
Hindus so they become indifferent to cases
of missing children. The overall result is that
those engaged in kidnapping children are
emboldened and this curse instead of being
controlled, goes on multiplying. The kidnappers or those running child kidnapping
rackets do not sell the children in nearby
areas but in far off areas. Hence it becomes
all the more difficult to control this menace.
Maharasthra tops the states, where
cases of missing children take place, seeing that during the past 3.5 years about
50,000 children were reported lost or missing whereas the figures during the same
period i.e. 3.5 years on an average in
Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Delhi
are about 25000 each but one thing common in all these places is that most of the
missing children are girls. In Andhra
Pradesh the number of missing girl children
is almost double that of boys.
According to another news, however,
Delhi tops among states where maximum
number of children are kidnapped or lost.
Taking this news seriously Delhi governments Department of Women and child
Welfare has framed a policy according to
which 3 working teams have been constituted. According to the Principal secretary
of this Department, Mrs Satbir Bedi, a timeframe has been laid down. She said that in
order to find the missing children, a network
in cooperation with police has been prepared, the responsibility of this has been
entrusted to a working team. Another team
will collect the information about the steps
taken or being taken by Baal Kalyan Samiti
and the third team will analyse the activities
of institutions working for reform and welfare under this Department of women children welfare. All these three teams will give
the report of the activities of their teams to
this Department. She said that a meeting at
state level will be held to consider ways to


expedite the working of these teams.

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Indian Muslims will live for

India, die for India: Modi
New Delhi: The patriotism of Indian Muslims cannot be questioned, asserted Prime Minister
Narendra Modi in his first ever international interview since assuming office.

Indian Muslims will live for India and die for

India. Al Qaeda delusional to think Indian Muslims
will dance to its tunes, Modi told CNNs Fareed
Zakaria in an interview which was made public on
19 September shortly before the Indian PMs visit
to the US. Modi stressed on the ties shared by
the two countries but he accepted that there have
been several ups and downs in the Indo-US relations in the past. However, he was confident that
the ties have taken a new shape in the 21st century. I am confident that India and US can develop genuine strategic alliance, he said. Here is
the full transcript:
Question: There are many people in the US and
some in India who wish that the US and India were
much closer allies - the worlds oldest democracy, the worlds biggest democracy. But somehow
that has never happened, and there have always
been these frictions and difficulties. Do you think
its possible for the US and India to develop a genuinely strategic alliance?
PM: I have a one word answer, and with great
confidence I say - yes. Let me explain - there are
many similarities between US and India. If you
look at the last few centuries, two things come to
light - America has absorbed people from around
the world, and there is an Indian in every part of
the world. This characterises both the societies.
Indians and Americans have co-existence in their
natural temperament. Now yes, for sure, there
have been ups and downs in our relationship in
the last century. But from the end of the 20th century to the first decade of the 21st century, we
have witnessed a big change. Our ties have deepened. India and the USA are bound together, by
history and culture. These ties will deepen further.
Question: So far in your talks with the Obama
administration, you have had several cabinet
members come here - do you feel there is a genuine desire from Washington to try and upgrade
the relationship with India substantially?
PM: Relations between India and America should
not be seen within the limits of just Delhi and
Washington. It is a much larger sphere. The good
thing is that the mood of both Delhi and
Washington is in harmony with this understanding. Both sides have played a role in this.
Question: The head of Al Qaeda has issued a
video and an appeal trying to create an Al Qaeda
in India/South Asia - he says he wants to free
Muslims from the oppression they face in
Kashmir, Gujarat. Do you worry that something
like this could succeed?
PM: My understanding is that they are doing injustice towards the Muslims of our country. If anyone
thinks Indian Muslims will dance to their tune, they
are delusional. Indian Muslims will live for India,

Mushawarat condemns BJP

leaders hate-mongering
New Delhi: The All India Muslim Majlis-e
Mushawat, the umbrella body of Indian Muslim
organisations, condemned the continuous hatemongering indulged in by BJP leaders.
AIMMM President Dr Zafarul-Islam Khan said
here in a statement on 14 September that after the
disgraceful flop of their fake Love Jihad plank,
BJP leaders are now raking up their old false
claims about madrasas teaching terrorism and
that meat export income is being used to finance
terror. The first claim has been made by a BJP MP
known for his hate utterances and activities while
the other is made by a BJP minister whose prefrence for stray dogs over poor humans is wellknown.
Both these claims, Dr Khan said, are false and

Quote, Unquote

Indian Muslims
and Al Qaeda call
Will Indian Muslims heed [Ayman al] Zawahiris
call? The al Qaeda leader is gambling on the fact
that the recent election of Narendra Modi -who
has a history as a Hindu hardliner-will propel
young Muslim men into al Qaedas embrace. To

they will die for India - they will not want anything
bad for India.
Question: Why do you think it is that there is a
remarkable phenomenon that you have 170 million Muslims, and there seem to be almost no or
very few members of the Al Qaeda, even though
Al Qaeda is in Afghanistan, and of course there are
many in Pakistan - what is it that has made this
community not as susceptible?
PM: Firstly, Im not the authority for doing a psychological and religious analysis on this. But the
question is whether or not humanity should be
defended in the world. Whether or not believers in
humanity should unite. This is a crisis against
humanity, not a crisis against one country or one
race. So we have to frame this as a fight between
humanity and inhumanity, nothing else.
(ibnlive.in.com)

Not Jai Hind, say Ram

Ram and Jai Mata di:
officer tells army Maulvi

was posted in Delhi but in revenge he was transeferred to Bikaner in Rajasthan. He had pleaded not
to post him in Bikaner but he be allowed to remain
in Delhi because only two years were left of his
service and his wife being a heart patient, her
treatment is going on in Delhi hospital and cannot
accompany him to Bikaner because there are not
good facilities for her treatment there. Moreover,
her husband had stated that her daughters are
reading in Delhi University and hence he may be
allowed to remain in Delhi. She said that her husband was also asked to vacate the army quarter
allotted to him. Hence they were compelled to
approach High Court against rejection of all their
requests, against posting to Bikaner and against
vacation of their quarter. She said in her letter that
his petition in the High Court against all this will be
taken up for hearing on 12 September.
Reacting to this news published in newspapers, Imam of Fatehpuri Masjid, Delhi, Mufti (Dr)
Mukarram Ahmad in letters to President of India
Pranab Mukherji and prime minister Narendra
Modi has requested that the old system of saluting officers in the army by saying Jai Hind may be
allowed instead of compelling army employees to
say Ram Ram or Jai Mata di. He also requested
them to get the above notice issued to Subedar
Ishrat Ali withdrawn and Muslims may be exempted from following the new system of saluting or
greeting in the army and the statement that Jai
Hind represents religious hatred and extremism
may be rectified.

New Delhi: An army Commanding officer, Major

Lalit Sherang issued a notice to Subedar Ishrat Ali
saying that as long as you are in this Battalion,
you will have to salute your officers by saying
Ram Ram and Jai Mata di. The notice said that
when you are outside the battalion, you can very
well say Jai Hind but when you are in the battalion, as per the custom, you will salute your seniors by saying Ram Ram and Jai Mata di. The
notice further said that you are a religious teacher
and your duty is to create and promote the feeling
of patriotism, enthusiasm and unity among
jawans. Your saying Jai Hind gives the message
of religious hatred and extremism. This also
shows your limited education which will not be
tolerated. Hence you are advised to rise above
narrow mindedness and promote the feeling of
patriotism, bravery and unity by saying Ram Ram
and Jai Mata di otherwise we will be compelled to
take disciplinary action against you.
Subedar Isharat Alis wife, Shahnaz Bano sent
a written complaint to the National Minorities
Commission saying that he (her husband) has
always been saluting his officers by saying Jai
Hind and since we are Muslim it is not good for
us to say Ram Ram or Jai Mata di but at this, the
Commanding Officer Maj Lalit Sherang issued a
notice dated 31 July to him directing him to salute
or greet his seniors by saying the above words.
She further said that her husbands Commanding
Officer Col Chatur Sen also told him that as long
as he is in his regiment he will have to salute his
officers in above mentioned manner. Hence her
husband has, reluctantly and under compulsion
has to say Ram Ram and Jai Mata di because of
which not only he but his whole family is victim of
mental tension. She further said that her husband

Jagdalpur: Seventeen jawans of CRPF who had

fled the Naxalite attacks in Chhattisgarhs Jheram
Valley instead of fighting the Naxalities and foiling
their attack, have been suspended. They are
accused of running away from the place of attack
by Naxlites instead of fighting and protecting their
colleagues. It may be stated that on 11 May 2014
on receipt of information about the presence of
large number of Naxalites in Bastar Sambhag area
CRPF jawans of 80th battalion were posted there.
Twenty jawans of this 46-member team were lying
in wait for Naxalites but were trapped by Naxalites,
14 of whom were killed by the Naxalites. In this
Naxalite attack one villager Vikarm Nishad was
also killed. If the 17 jawans who were walking
behind and were out of reach of the Naxalites
would have tried to help and protect their colleagues, many of them could probably have been
saved and many lives would not have been sacrificed. One of the injured jawans whose hand was
hit by the Naxalites bullet later told his officers that
in a two-pronged attack Naxalites had surrounded
and targeted them. CRPFs DIG, K.K. Sinha confirmed the suspension of 17 jawans and said that
those who indulge in such gross carelessness
MG NEWS DESK
would not be spared.

libellous. He added that under the previous NDA

government, BJP leaders made such false claims
against madrasas but utterly failed to pinpoint a
single madrasa and close it down as a result.
Now Sanghs communal elements are feeling
emboldened again to raise this issue only to divide
Indians on religious lines and to polarise society
for their narrow political gains.
Dr Khan reitrated his earlier offer in such a
case that he is ready to take at his cost the said
BJP leader to any madrasa in any part of India
where the said leader can check the textbooks
being taught to madrasa students.
Dr Khan further said that the BJP ministers
claim about the use of meat export income to
finance terrorism only speaks volumes about her
governments utter inefficiency since till date no
such case has been filed in the length and breadth

of the country.
Dr Khan added that the meat export is a
monopoly of some big business houses since
only owners of modern slaughter houses, which
cost hundreds of crores each, can export meat
and the owners of these slaughter-houses include
Hindus, Sikhs and Jains and not only Muslims
contrary to the intended message.
Dr Khan said rabid elements in the Sangh
Parivar feel emboldened by the advent of the Modi
government and they have started low-intensity
communal violence in all parts of the country
while the Union government looks the other way.
Dr Khan said that this low-intensity violence
cannot go hand-in-hand with the development
plank of Modi government. Modi has to choose
between hate and development as the twain can

not coexist.

be sure, Indias Muslims, numbering a whopping

175 million, have been largely immune to jihadi
culture. Headlines were made in India when fourrepeat four-young men made their way to Iraq
from Mumbai to fight with ISIS. Muslim leaders in
India have been vehement in their denunciation of
Zawahiris call to jihad. Dr. Zafarul Islam Khan,
president of the All India Muslim Majlise
Mushawarat, the apex body of Indian Muslim
Organizations, said that Indian Muslims do not
require such meddling in their affairs by a foreign

Policemen who fled the

Chhattishgarh encounter suspended

terrorist outfit. He appealed to Indian Muslim

youth to chase away any dubious character trying to [propagandize] al Qaeda thoughts which do
not belong to the enlightened and moderate mainstream Islam. The Indian governments drive for
economic reform, here, assumes important security dimensions. A growing economy is a calming
influence-for Hindus as much as for Muslims.
India isnt Iraq. It isnt Syria. And it certainly isnt
Pakistan.

TUNKU VARADARAJAN

Daily Beast, Sept. 9, 2014

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Communal clashes in Belgaum

Belgaum: Groups of men clashed
and threw stones at Khade
Bazaar, Chavat Galli, Shetty Galli
and other areas of the city late
night on 3 September after a
youth from a particular community was beaten up hours earlier
for courting a girl from another
community. Tension gripped the

city in the evening after rumours

spread that a youth from a particular community was beaten up
at Kelkar Bag locality for having
a liaison with a girl from another
community.
Young men arrived in large numbers at Khadak Galli, Khade
Bazaar and Chavat Galli, throwing stones at passersby and vehicles. Two cars were damaged. Some police vehicles were also
damaged. Miscreants also damaged vehicles parked near
Shaniwar Khoot, Khanjar Galli and other areas. Police rounded
up some miscreants but many others managed to run away. As
night progressed, rumours of communal clashes gripped the city.
A group of women staged a flash protest at Khadak Galli, protesting the polices failure to check such incidents.
Communal tension escalated in the city on 11 September
with more incidents of stone pelting and vehicles being set on fire
in the early hours being reported in communally sensitive areas
like Chavat Galli, Khanjar Galli, Darbar Galli and Khade Bazaar.
Prohibitory orders were clamped up next day, 12 September
at midnight and more than 30 persons were arrested in connection with the incidents. House arrests continued during the day
with the police searching for the miscreants. Violence had erupted following a youth from a particular community being assaulted
by youths from another community over an alleged incident of
love jihad at Kelkar Bagh.
Arsonists set fire to vehicles and damaged them in the presence of police personnel who remained mute spectators. The
police acted only after senior officials rushed to the spot, residents said. More than 10 people, including children, suffered
injuries in the incidents of stone pelting. Shops and business
establishments in the main market areas such as Khade Bazaar,
Ganpat Galli and Shaniwar Khoot remained closed.
Eyewitnesses said that teens were instigated to throw stones
at houses and hotels at Khade Bazaar. Stones rained on the
shops and hotels from the side of Khanjar Galli. This was followed

Lives of many Muslims

have been ruined due to false
terror charges: Ajit Sahi
Mangalore: Youth wing of
Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, Dakshina
Kannada organized a seminar on
Politics of Terror: Myths and
Reality in Shanthi Nilaya hall
here on 18 September.
Addressing the gathering,
well-known senior journalist Ajit
Sahi said, Terrorism is a big
issue which threatens the country at present. The issue of terrorism itself has caused great terror
to many Muslims living in the
country. The lives of many Indian Muslims have been ruined after
being falsely accused of terrorism. There is no state in the coun-

by vehicles being damaged. Anti-socials resorted to violence after

additional police forces that had been deployed in the city for
maintaining law and order during the Ganesh festival had left the
city. Police forces from the neighbouring districts were requisitioned and the situation was brought under control.
Tension rose again in Ambedkar Nagar in Anagol area of
Belgaum on Monday, 15 September following an incident of stone
pelting on some houses. However, immediate intervention by the
police brought the situation under-control and additional forces
were deployed in the locality as a precautionary measure.
IGP North Range and In-charge Commissioner, Bhaskar Rao
visited the locality on 16 September and told media that it was a
minor incident and the situation was under-control now.
According to sources, the power supply in the locality was cut
on Monday night and a group of miscreants pelted stones on
around five houses creating tension in the area. While police
sources said it was an act of miscreants, members of BJP staged
a protest in Belgaum on 16 September seeking strong action
against miscreants. Meanwhile, there were reports about a few
people taken into custody by the police in connection with the
incident of 15 September.
Next day, 17 September, miscreants threw stones at houses
in Ambedkar Nagar damaging property, even as the city was limping back to normalcy following the recent violence. The police
brought the situation under control. Window panes of some houses were broken, two-wheelers were damaged and a few persons,
including an elderly person, suffered minor injuries. One person
was arrested according to police sources.
Meanwhile, Suresh Angadi, MP, and Abhay Patil, former
MLA, led a protest by residents of Ambedkar Nagar, mainly
women, seeking the immediate arrest of those responsible for the

attack. Mr. Angadi alleged that as the police had failed to act
against those who created problems during the Ganesh idol
immersion, the miscreants were at it again.
Deccan Chronicle reported on 13 September 13 in a report
from Belgaum that a clear case of mistaken identity by Hindutva
activists has landed Sri Rama Sene in trouble. After indulging in
violence to separate a boy and girl who the activists mistook for
Hindu and Muslim, it came to light that the girl was actually from
the Christian community. When it became evident that the girl did
not hail from the majority community, the violence in Belgaum
stopped suddenly even as the police fearing the clashes,
imposed prohibitory orders on 12 September morning in
Belgaum. The Chief Minister of Karnataka Siddaramaiah is under
pressure to ban Sri Rama Sene.
During the preliminary investigations, the police found that
the girl was a Christian and a friend of the boy for sometime. A
group of activists, according to sources, believed that the meeting of the boy and girl was a case of love Jihad and decided to
separate them by force. Among the 12 people arrested in connection with this violence, three hailed from Sri Ram Sena while others were from a minority community.
Chief Minister Siddaramaiah warned on 12 September that
people indulging in moral policing would be booked under the
Goonda Act. He said the government would consider banning Sri
Ram Sene like in Goa. The right-wing outfit has been banned in
Goa for moral policing.
The right-wing organization was in news for indulging in
moral policing in Mangalore a few years ago. Its activists were
accused of assaulting women in a pub in Mangalore in 2009. The
groups chief Pramod Muthalik had also issued warning against
celebrating Valentines Day.

try which can deny these facts. There are hundreds of cases
where Muslims have been found to be falsely accused.
Sahi went on to say, Political and media prejudice towards
Muslims, Dalits and Adivasis of India has made their life miserable. Greed for political power has led the country to be divided on
the basis of religion. Internal security is a trillion dollar industry. In
the name of internal security, weapons and warfare instruments
are bought. Just to meet individual greed and self-interest, many
create tensions within the country. As a result, a lot of money goes
into the pockets of politicians. If all start to live together in peace,
they cannot loot the people.
Sahi alleged that the police force produces false evidences to
facilitate ban on organizations like SIMI. When I started to investigate the matter, I found that every year the same evidences were
being produced. It was all a planned conspiracy. All the terrorist
organizations of the world like ISIS, Boko Haram and others have
political agenda. So far there has been no clue of the political
agenda of SIMI and Indian Mujahedeen. When the government
heard the name Indian Mujahedeen, it wanted to ban the organization but could not find its location. Nobody knew who the mem-

bers were and where the office was, he said.

Sahi blamed the system for the rise of extremist groups like
Naxalites and terrorists and said that the system itself is terrorist.
Police have killed many innocent people in the name of Naxalism
in forest areas. But our system itself is terrorist. The greed for
money and power has caused tensions in the country. The money
spent on the security of the country is way higher than we can
imagine, and at the same time people in the country are unable to
get clean drinking water. India is the second largest populated
country in the world and has the highest count of blind people in
the world. India has extremely malnourished children below the
age of five. Where are we heading? We are so busy fighting that
we have forgotten who makes us fight, he said adding, The lives
of many Indians have been ruined and their youth snatched away
in the name of terrorism. The solution for this problem is not with
the judiciary. Political campaigning is the solution. People have to
come out and voice their opinion. They can arrest hundreds but
cannot arrest 10,000 people. Violence is not the remedy. Every
Indian must fight against corruption. We have to organize meetings to spread awareness amidst people. (daijiworld.com)

No minority scheme will be closed down: Najma Heptullah

New Delhi: Urdu daily Rashtriya Saharas editor Syed Faisal Ali
had interviewed union minister for minorities affairs Mrs Najma
Heptullah. Main points of this interview are given below:
Very briefly, the sum and substance of her interview was that no
minority welfare scheme will be shut down, as some people had
feared. Rather, more such schemes would be started.
When asked about the future plans of her ministry she said
that Muslims being very backward, Modiji had stated that if one
organ of the body is sick, the entire body cannot be called healthy.
Hence he (Modi) himself told me that if minorities (Muslims) will
remain backward, the country and society will not progress.
Unfortunately, she said, after Independence the condition of
Muslims continues to be bad and has become even worse. She
said that in addition to Muslims there are backward classes in
upper castes (of Hindus) also but more attention is needed to be
given to the condition of Muslims. She said that six communities
come under minorities, of which Muslims are maximum in number. One can rightly say that among minorities Muslims are in a
majority. She said that this is what I had stated after taking over
as minorities affairs minister but there was a big uproar and my
effigies were burnt. She said that the problems of Muslims are
educational and economic backwardness, Waqf properties, provision of opportunities for artists and skilled persons.
She said that we (her ministry) have started USTAD scheme
for the maintenance and promotion of Muslims hereditary art for
which a separate budget is needed but this scheme is still in the

pipeline. She said that Maulana Azad Education Foundation has a

corpus fund which is used for different schemes and purposes
like scholarships to Muslim students, multi sectoral development
schemes, imparting technical training. For Muslim girls we have
started Roshni scheme and soon we will select 120 girls to benefit from this scheme. We have encouraged 12 students who qualified in civil services examination. In addition to USTAD scheme
we have to start the madrasa modernization scheme, digitalisation
scheme, a new Nai Manzil scheme for madrasa children to provide modern and technical education and training. Another
scheme is Dharohar under which valuable and historical heritages of Muslims will be protected. For Jains who are also a
minority, there are 80 thousand rare and valuable manuscripts
which also will be preserved and protected. She further said that
her ministery has identified hundred different professions for
which training will be imparted to Muslim children. Regarding
modernization of madrasas and some peoples accusation that
this is interference in madrasa and religious affairs she said that
madrasa education is necessary but Muslims should think that all
madrasa students should not be made only molvis, qaris, imams
etc because all these people cannot be absorbed in masjids and
madrasas. They should also acquire modern and professional
education to make their future bright.
Regarding her and her ministrys priorities she said that she
wanted to give special attention to Waqf and Waqf properties. She
said that there are 6 lakh acres of Waqf lands in the whole coun-

try, many of which are under illegal occupation. Lands which are
unoccupied and unused will be developed, adding that in Ajmer,
Khwaja Gharib Nawaz Trust has identified lands where we want to
open schools and colleges to impart technical training. In Jodhpur
our hospital project is going on where subsequently we will set up
a medical college. She further said that if illegally occupied lands
and buildings are got vacated an annual income of Rs 20,000
crores can be generated which can very well be used for progress
and welfare of Muslims and no money from government will be
needed. She said that 135 (sic) Waqf properties in Delhi were
occupied not during BJP rule but during Congress rule which
always had been harping on the Muslim cause and sympathy. If
committees and commissions recommendations were accepted
and laws passed by that governemnt neither parks, hotels nor
schools would have been built on these Waqf lands illegally. She
assured that Waqf lands and properties will be freed from illegal
occupations and they were working towards this. There is a bill in
Rajya Sabha on this which we will get passed soon. She said that
if they cannot get some Waqf lands and properties vacated, they
would at least exact rents from them on todays market rate.
In reply to a question whether she got any instruction or even
a hint to roll back minority welfare scheme/s, she stoutly replied
in the negative, saying that her Partys President and even the
prime minister assured me about that. Rather, she said, the
prime minister asked me to do maximum work for their (minori

ties) welfare.

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Tools for Divisive Politics: Hate Speech and Patriarchy

RAM PUNIYANI
ram.puniyani@gmail.com
After the last general
elections where Narendra
Modi and his party won an
overwhelming majority, the
BJP has not been doing so
well in subsequent by-elections. The Lalu-Nitish experiment is one model, but
whether it will be replicated
in different parts of the country is a million-vote
question.
The BJP appears to resort to its basic tools
of divisive politics. On one hand Yogi Adityanath,
with his venomous hate speeches, has come up
as BJPs major player; on the other the word of
mouth propaganda of love jihad is being
spread like wildfire.
This year, Adityanath began his hate attack
against Muslim minorities blaming all communal
riots on Muslims when he campaigned for the
BJP ahead of the general elections. In subsequent speeches, he went on to make similar
baseless claims such as wherever Muslims are
in majority, there is more trouble, or that when
they trigger violence then they also have to face
the consequences. None of this is grounded in
the analysis of the communal violence in India.
Referring to Love Jihad, Adityanath said
that if they convert one Hindu girl, we will con-

vert 100 Muslim girls. His unrelenting hate

speeches are going on at a time when the Prime
Minister himself has asked for a ten-year moratorium on violence. Mr. Modi seems to be deliberately looking the other way when all this hate
propaganda is on by his party leaders.
The Love Jihad propaganda is a doubleedged sword. By stating that Muslim youth are
being trained to lure Hindu girls, on one hand
they demonize Muslims and on the other they
tighten their control on the lives of Hindu women.
In this propaganda, Hindu women are projected
as gullible, easy to be lured and incapable of
deciding what is right for themselves. In a way
the communal agendas twin goals are achieved
here. Communal politics aims at marginalizing
the religious minorities at the ground level and, at
the deeper societal level, it aims to restrict the
rights and freedom of women in general.
BJP affiliates are not only indulging in wordof-mouth propaganda on this issue. They have
also started forming outfits and fronts to oppose
love jihad. Some of these have come up in
western UP, and more seem to be in the offing.
VHP has come to the forefront on this issue by

stating that Patriots will support our crusade

against love jihad that is leading the country
towards another partition. Another Sangh
Parivar organization, the Dharma Jagran Manch,
has started a similar campaign which is appealing to Hindus to oppose the threat of love
jihad.
As far as Hindu girls being converted to
Islam through Love Jihad is concerned, it is a
hoax-- there is no doubt about it. A friend wrote
from UP that he was to talk in a girls college
there. He met a young faculty member all
charged up to save Hindu girls, claiming that
over 6,000 girls have been converted in his area.
When confronted to give the names of some of
the alleged converts, he retracted, saying he has
heard rumours of it and so it must be true.
A booklet priced at Rs 15 about the Love
Jihad conspiracy has been published by some
Hindu zalots. It is titled How to Save Our
Women from the Terrorism of Love Jihad. The
booklet contains some alleged case studies.
Most of these stories feature a typical pattern: a
young Hindu woman lured into a relationship or
into marriage by a Muslim man who had alleged-

Hyper nationalism can wait,

Kashmiris need succour first
SAMEER ARSHAD
A natural disaster of apocalyptic proportions has hit
Kashmir. It is unprecedented in recent memory
across three generations and has left tens of thousands marooned besides destroying vital infrastructure.
The extent of the human toll is unclear. Reports
of floating bodies and those trapped inside collapsed houses makes it a frightening scenario.
Almost all major hospitals have been affected and
are practically dysfunctional. The ones which
worked were fast running out of life-saving drugs,
painkillers, food and water. Near total power and
communications breakdown has complicated relief
work. Even after water recedes, Kashmir would
suffer physical, economic and psychological consequences of the disaster for years to come.
Yet it seems to be business as usual - dehumanizing Kashmiris - for certain people even in the
midst of the catastrophe that has directly affected
an estimated 60% people. It is the same old good
us versus evil them subtext - based on chronic
disinformation - that is playing out even in the sections of the mainstream media.
It is much worse on the social media.
Nauseating trolling has become even more vicious
in the name of exclusivist nationalism, which has
no place for the monolithic other like Kashmiris.
Abuse and sadistic pleasure being drawn from the
colossal damage to human life and property has
been very distressing particularly for non-resident
Kashmiris, who have relied on social media to find
out the fate of their loved ones caught in killer flood
waters.
The appalling show of jingoism has added
insult to the injury. Further, the rescue operations
are being portrayed as if a favour was being done
to Kashmiris. It is as if it is being reminded that
Kashmiris are not citizens but subjects, which has
long been alleged. As citizens, it is the duty of the
state to evacuate, rescue and rehabilitate the people. It is not a favour. The Army is just doing its
moral and constitutional duty as the civilian administration has collapsed. It is perhaps the only organised, resourceful and trained organisation to deal
with such a scale of the disaster. The Army has
done such commendable work in similar situations
elsewhere in the country as well. But nowhere has
it been portrayed as a favour. Professional soldiers
are even obliged to uphold the rights of enemy
combatants under the Geneva Convention, not to
mention their obligations towards fellow citizens.
Similarly, many chose to jeer separatists
instead of focusing on the relief work and the survivors even while an entire city of over a million
people was practically sinking. Where are they
was the common refrain. One of them particularly
targeted is an 82-year-old cancer survivor with one

ly posed as a Hindu. It is claimed that those who

get married often convert to Islam and need to
be rescued and this is where the RSS affiliates
want to pitch in according to their plans.
While a lot of historical material has come
out on the issue of Love Jihad, two items in particular need to be mentioned. Many analysts
have compared the Modi politics with the politics
indulged in by Hitler, who used a similar tactic to
polarize German opinion against the Jews, who
were called the internal enemy. The Nazi propaganda held that Jewish young men had been
luring German girls and polluting the purity of the
Aryan blood with a plan to subjugate the German
nation.
Similar tactics were adopted by Arya Samaj
and Hindu Mahasbaha in India in the 1920s,
when organizations were formed to save the
honour of Hindu women and pamphlets like
Hindu Auratonki Loot (Loot of Hindu Women)
were brought out. This propaganda was a potent
weapon to polarize the communities along religious lines.
Can this be combated in some way? There
is news that some Muslim youth have planned
peace marches in their areas to create an atmosphere of amity. I hope more such marches take
place and can restore the sanity of our society
and surely members from the majority religious
community will join these marches spontaneously to boost the amity amongst communities. (pluralindia.com)

The BJP appears to resort to its basic tools of divisive politics. On

one hand Yogi Adityanath, with his venomous hate speeches, has
come up as BJPs major player; on the other the word of mouth
propaganda of love jihad is being spread like wildfire.

functional kidney. He has spent most of the last four

years under house arrest. It is well-known the man
in question has not even often been allowed to offer
the all-important Friday congregational prayers.
Those who were jeering the separatists are otherwise the same people who insist they do not represent Kashmiris and are at best outlaws. If that is
so, why waste time and energy on ridiculing them
when the focus should be to provide succour to the
residents of a city that has practically become one
giant killer lake. The separatists are not the state
with four powerful pillars. Do their opponents want
them to replace it?
Usual conspiracy theorists too have been having a field day in their dehumanisation business.
Their typical unintelligent and implausible propaganda as usual is being mistaken for gospel truth,
thanks to the level of Kashmiri dehumanisation. For
instance, ridiculous claims of disruption of relief
work in an area, where common people have no
access even during normal times, have been peddled as authentic news.
Chief minister Omar Abdullah has clearly said
flood waters practically washed away his government too. He was unable to get in touch with 90%
of his ministers and other officials, many of whom
had to be rescued. His phone lines remained
snapped.
Yet alleged attacks on rescuers are being painted as an organised conspiracy. If the highest elected official was completely cut off from the outside
world, how does one explain the planned conspiracy behind the attacks? This defies logic.
Do not aggrieved people trapped in their houses and running short of food, water, life-saving
drugs, baby food have the right to be angry even
when there are serious questions about selective
rescue? This too has given haters another stick to
beat Kashmiris with.
This has further widened the gulf between
Delhi and Srinagar, created particularly by serious rights abuses and lack of closure over the
last 25 years. The relief work is not going to
overnight whitewash the abuses even while the
security establishment zealously defends sweeping laws like the Armed Forces Special Powers
Act (AFSPA), which violate fundamental rights
including the right to life. Any attempts to reach
closure have been blocked like in the case of
Pathribal extrajudicial killings recently. Five men
were killed, mutilated and passed off as terrorists
a decade back. A watertight case against uniformed men fell through as even the Supreme
Court, under AFSPA, allowed the Army to close it
without an explanation. Crass hyper nationalism
has in this backdrop aggrieved Kashmiris further
and the state risks squandering another opportunity to make up for its series of blunders.
(blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com)

Kolkata Muslim
journalist accused by
BJP
Kolkata: BJP leaders have alleged that A H
Imran, the editor of Kolkatas Muslim community newspaper Kalom and now a Rajya Sabha
MP, supplied funds to Jamaat Islami
Bangladesh. In fact, more fierce attacks have
come on Imran from Kolkatas largest Bengali
newspaper Ananda Bazar Patrika and the second largest Bengali daily Bartaman. They are
all claiming that Imran took money from
Saradha Chit Fund and sent it to Jamaat in
Bangladesh.

Kalom has been identified as a mouthpiece of the TMC party since its takeover by a
top TMC leader and/or Saradha group 2-3
years back. It writes on Muslim issues the
way it serves the interest of the TMC. Its daily
reports suggest that Mamata has dedicated
her life to help Bengals Muslims in all walks
of life. Kalom has played a very important role
in upticking of anti-Muslim animosity among
Hindus and the rise of BJP in West Bengal.
Heres an example how Kalom is working
against the interests of Muslims in Bengal:
Recently Kalom carried a picture that showed
that Mamata is distributing bicycles to 80 Muslim
girls in Hooghly. It did not report that there were
also 200 or 300 non-Muslim girls who also
received bicycles from her. When Ananda Bazar
Patrika, Bartaman and others did not report that
70% or 80% of the beneficiaries of Mamatas
free bicycle scheme were Hindu girls, the Kalom
report makes Hindus believe that Mamata is
ignoring Hindus and helping only Muslims. BJP
headquarters in Kolkata subscribes to Kalom
and they often attack Mamata in front of her supporters showing some reports in the newspaper.
Kalom has been helping BJP win more Hindu
support and increase anti-Muslim sentiment
among Hindus.

Sikh women who dye their hair

prohibited from singing keertan

to Sikh maryada, dying of hair is wrong and

people who dye their hair are declared
tankhaiyas. Bibis who dye their hair are
banned from performing keertan in the historical gurudwara Santokhsar Saheb. He (Pratap
Singh) said that these bibis were told many
times that if they want to render keertan seva
in the historical Gurudwara Saheb, they
should not dye their hair but these bibis did not
pay any attention to Sikh maryada and hence
because of this reason restriction has been
imposed on them. If bibis give up dying their
hair, they can perform keertan, he said.

BJP suffers huge losses as

people reject its hate campaign
New Delhi: People had voted for BJP and
Narendra Modi last May as they wanted a
change for development. They had not imagined that the party with a clear majority in
Parliament will indulge in hate campaigns
instead of making efforts for development and
uniting the society for a new progressive India.
Disappointed as they did not find any succour
from inflation, corruption and unemployment,
people showed their anger through EVMs on
13 September by-elections for 33 Assembly
seats across nine states.
The BJP suffered a major blow in these
byelections losing 13 of the 23 seats held by
it. Congress was able to snatch six assembly
seats from BJP - three each in BJP strongholds of Rajasthan and Gujarat.
Considered yet another test of popularity,
of the 32 assembly seats across nine states,
BJP won 12, Congress 7 and Samajwadi
Party 8 while TDP, Trinamool Congress, AIUDF
and CPI(M) bagged one each. One seat in
Sikkim was won by an Independent. BJP won
in Antagarh in Chhattisgarh, whose result was
announced on 20 September. All the seats in
Uttar Pradesh (11), Gujarat (9) and Rajasthan
(4) were held by BJP and the bypolls were
necessitated after the MLAs were elected to
the Lok Sabha.
BSPs absence in the byelections had
made it a virtual straight fight between BJP
and SP, which has bounced back after the
drubbing in Lok Sabha polls.

Amritsar: Every body knows that Muslim religious bodies and muftis issue fatwas or directions form time to time in response to many
questions but probaVidhan
bly no one might
have heard about
Vidhan Sabha
Total
BJP
fatwa or direction of Assam
3
1
Sikhs.
Shri
Gujarat
9
3 (-3)
Harmandir Saheb
4
1 (-3)
(Amritsar)s manag- Rajashtan
er Pratap Singh has Sikkim
1
directed that keertan Seemandhra
1
can be performed in
Tripura
1
historical
gurudUttar
Pradesh
11
3
(-7)
waras in accordance
with Sikh maryada West Bengal
2
1
(convention, tradi- Chattisgarh
1
tion) only. According
Total

32

10 (-13)

Sabha-wise tally
Cong

SP

TMC

TDP

CPM Others

3 (+3)

3 (+3)

8 (+7)

1 (+1)

8 (+6)

8 (+7)

1 (+1)

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Book on Iqbal released

Iqbal was
ignored in India:
Hamid Ansari

New Delhi: Describing Allama Iqbal as philosopher, patriot and poet in one, Vice-President
Mohammad Hamid Ansari lamented that Iqabl was
overlooked in India after Independence. While
releasing a book on the world-famed poet at his
residence here on 15 September, Ansari said
Siasat ki wajah say unhein nazar andaaz kiya
gaya, unkaa falsafa aur shairi aaj bhee manawiyat rakhthi hai (He was ignored due to political reasons. His philosophy and poetry enjoy meaningfulness even today). He averred that Allama Iqbal
was misunderstood as anti-national or someone
from Pakistan even by the so-called learned
ministers in India and Pakistan.
Recalling an incident when he was the Indian
representative in UN, Hamid Ansari said he quoted
a couplet of Iqbal, but his Pakistani counterpart
objected to its saying you have taken Kashmir,
now you are taking Iqbal also.
Ansari said that the country has highly misunderstood Iqbal and his philosophy. I not only have

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a high regard for Iqbal but

also read and take lessons
from him, he said. He
suggested that the book
Iqbal Ka Harf-e-Sheerin
(Iqbals Sweet Words)
should be published in
English, Hindi and other
languages.
The author of the book
and a renowned scholar on
Iqbal, Prof Abdul Haq said
Iqbal did not get the place in
the country he deserved.
Lamenting ignorance about
Iqbal, Abdul Haq said he
was asked by an IAS officer
why Iqbal migrated to
Pakistan. Reciting many of
his couplets, he said Iqbal
was wrongly projected as
the architect of Pakistan.
Iqbal was the only poet who openly challenged
the British Empire in his verses unlike any other
Indian literary figure of his time in any language.
Prof Abdul Haq, who has been working on Iqbal
since 1965, has penned down 37 books on the
Poet of the Orient, yet he said he still considered
himself a student of Iqbal.
In his introductory speech, Iqbal Academy of

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India chairman Dr Zafar Mahmood said Allama

Iqbals canvas of philosophy is very vast as he
touched upon every aspect of human life. Quoting
his verses like khaaye kyon mazdoor kee mehnat
ka phal sarmaayadaar (why should a capitalist eat
up the fruit of a workers labour), Mahmood said it
reflected his economic philosophy that there
should be equal distribution of wealth and

resources.
The book was released in the presence of a
host of distinguished personalities and scholars
including Delhi University Vice-Chancellor Dinesh
Singh, Delhi Urdu Academy chairman Prof Khalid
Mahmood, Prof Atiqullah, Urdu Development
Organisation vice president Dr Syed Ahmad Khan
and others.

WPI calls for electoral reforms, introduction of PR

New Delhi: Welfare Party of India
held a national convention here
on 21 September calling for
urgent reforms in the electoral
system, especially introduction
of the proportional representation which allows each vote to be
taken into account while the current first-past-the-post system
allows anyone getting a simple
majority to win while the majority votes cast for other candidates
in the same constituency go
waste. WPI held internal seminars on the issue and came to
the conclusion that the present
electoral system has failed in
providing a meaningful, inclusive
and representative form of democracy. Earlier the party had suggested to the Election Commission
that Proportional Representation (PR) system should be adopted to allow democracy in real sense.
A.B.Bardan, former general secretary of Communist Party of India (CPI) inaugurated the seminar. He said that the electoral system followed in the country has failed to provide an inclusive
democracy that caters to the concerns of the poor and marginalized sections of society. He said the
poor finds it impossible to participate in elections as money and muscle power now play the real
role. The FPTP system of election being followed in our country which is also known as Geographical
Criterion Representation system is a remnant of the British Raj. Analysing various
aspects of the recent parliamentary election results, Bardhan pointed to UP where,
out of 80 parliamentary seats, not a single Muslim could win despite the fact that
Muslims constitute around 18 percent of the states population. He wondered what
message would this convey to the minority community. He expressed apprehension
over ever-increasing tendencies to polarize and divide society. Getting the support
of 31 percent of the voters who cared to cast their votes yet ruling the country with
52% parliament seats is a mockery of democracy. He said the Congress also never
had the mandate of more than 50 percent of the voters. Bardhan said a large-scale
campaign is needed to awaken the masses. He promised all possible support and
cooperation from his party in this regard.
In his keynote address, Dr.S.Q.R. Ilyas, general secretary of WPI, said the present electoral system has totally failed to provide a representative democracy and
ensure due share for various sections, regions and genders of the society. He outlined various faults of the present FPTP system and said a mixed or partial PR system will suit India.
Noted psephologist and Aam Admi Party Yogendra Yadav said the present electoral practice has failed in giving fair representation to poor, women and Muslims.
So far as the case of women is concerned, change can be brought if political par-

ties change their system of selecting candidates. Regarding the poor representation of Muslims in
legislative bodies, he said the problem lies with the present prevailing system. He said not only their
representation but their voice also has kept diminishing. Number of leaders raising voice for Muslims
is also shrinking and this is very frightening. No party is ready to field a Muslim candidate in a seat
with less than 10% Muslim population. Though there can be opposition to the FPTP, it ensures local
level social coalition, he said adding that it is a positive side when efforts are on to cause a vertical
split in the society. Regarding FPTP, he said it creates emotional affiliation of the MP with the people
of his constituency. He suggested a partial or Mixed-Member Proportional system which would be
acceptable to the Indian situation.
Jogendra Sharma of the CPI (M) said that his party has been campaigning for proportional representation since 1964 and said his party tried unsuccessfully to include it in the CMP of the UPA1. He said proportional representation might not be seen through the prism of caste and community. Simple change to PR system will not solve all our problems. It should be followed with comprehensive election reforms. The impartiality of the Election Commission also has been questioned at
many occasions. Major parties will not come in favour of such reforms because they will stand to
lose.
Khurram Anis Omer, national secretary of IUML said his party MP late Mr. Gulam Mohammed
Banatwala had introduced private bill in parliament for enacting proportional representation.
Kunwar Danish Ali , general secretary of JDS demanded for setting up separate fund under the
Election Commission to meet expenses of political parties. He said the corporates must contribute
to this fund instead of giving it to parties,
Mujtaba Farooq , national president of the party in his presidential remarks said issues have to
be viewed from the national perspective. When people of the country face so many acute problems,
we cannot claim to be a real democracy. Muslims of the country have been reduced to a mere votebank and no one is concerned about their real welfare.

Help ood affected

people of Kashmir

Kurdistan-bound Muslim worker

detained at Delhi Airport
New Delhi: An Indian Muslim worker travelling to Kurdistan autonomous region of Iraq
was stopped from travelling in the morning of 14 September while two of his Sikh cotravellers working in the same company were allowed to proceed.
Alam was taken to the Delhi Airport Police Station where he was interrogated by
various agencies until late night. The 31-year-old passenger, identified as
Mohammad Mukhtar Alam, was proceeding to Irbil, the capital of Kurdistan, after
spending his holidays in his home state of Bihar. Alam works in Irbils Amirco company as a crane operator sine 2011. As he operates heavy machinery, he gets 28
days leave every six months which he regularly spends in his native place.
Allegedly, he was stopped due to an anonymous phone call received by the airport
claiming that he works with the ISIS in Iraq. The fact is that Alam has been working in
Iraq since 2011 when ISIS did not exist. Moreover, he worked in Kurdistan which is outof-bound for ISIS. In fact, Kurdistan is at war with ISIS and is part of the US-led campaign against ISIS.
Dr Zafarul-Islam Khan, President of the All India Muslim Majlis-e Mushawarat,
umbrella body of Indian Muslim organizations, intervened in the matter and alerted media
and human rights organizations as well as arranged legal help which apparently was the
reason behind the police decision to allow him to go with his brother who works in Delhi
but Alam was ordered not to leave Delhi for a week while investigations continue. After
a week he was allowed to proceed to Iraq though he had to pay for the fine levied by the
airlines for failing to board the original flight. Timely intervention thus saved the career of
another Muslim youth from being destroyed at the hands of the security agencies.

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Independence of judiciary
is the most cherished goal
of any legal system

Prof. Faizan Mustafa, Vice-Chancellor of NALSAR University of

Law, Hyderabad, delivered a lecture on Judicial Independence
and Appointment of Judges at the Institute of Objective Studies
on 7 September. Prof. Mustafa argued that the good work being
done by the present government at the Centre in any field must be
appreciated. He especially referred to the initiatives in the manufacturing sector.

He, however, opposed the enactment of the new labour law

by the Rajasthan government and termed it as anti-labour and
pro-capitalist. He pleaded for a strong leftist lobby to oppose the
anti-people measure of the Rajasthan government.
Commenting on the assumption of office by the former Chief
Justice of India, Justice P. Sathasivam, as Governor of Kerala,
Prof. Mustafa said that it would have an adverse effect on the
independence of judiciary. While admitting that the existing system of collegium to select judges of the Supreme Court and high
courts was not working well, he cited the case of the senior advocate of the Supreme Court, Mr. Gopal Subramaniam, who failed
to be recommended for appointment as a Supreme Court judge.
Referring to the former judge of the Supreme Court and present Chairman of the Press Council of India (PCI), Mr. Justice
Markanday Katjus argument that merit, not seniority, should be
the sole criterion for appointment as Chief Justice of India (CJI),
he noted that Justice Katju wanted to give too much power to the

Government fails to
prevent hatred
against minorities:
Nariman
New Delhi: Amidst the
increasing cases of
hate mongering and
venom
spewing
speeches
against
minorities in the country Fally S. Nariman,
noted legal expert has
strongly criticised the
central government which got an absolute
majority and accused it of failing to stop
venom spewing against minorities. Making an
appeal to National Commission on Minorities
(NCM) to protect the minorities he asked it
(Commission) to ensure the safety of minorities by using its constitutional authority.
Speaking at a function organised by NCM he
said that every day we come across news that
many groups and personalities of the country
are spewing poison against the people and
organisations belonging to religious minorities
but the central government appears to be totally helpless in preventing them from doing so.
He further said that National Minorities
Commission should itself be fully alert and
conscious about its powers and responsibilities because there is a strong government at
the centre with an absolute majority. He said
that in view of the bitter experience of a government that had an absolute majority during
the sixties and seventies of the last century,
many doubts are arising in my mind. Clarifying
his statement he said that Congress government which too had an absolute majority in
1975, by declaring Emergency had suppressed fundamental rights of the people.
Expressing great concern over the increasing
trend of intolerance and extremism in
Hinduism he said that Hinduism was traditionally the most tolerant religion as compared to
all other religions of the world but in recent
times extremism and hate mongering feeling
and speeches have shown that tolerance is
being brought to an end. He also expressed his
fear that Hinduism will continue to lose its
kindly face because those metamorphosing its
face have reached the corridors of power.
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new government, including power to appoint a person directly as

CJI.
He remarked that conceding unlimited power to the government posed a huge challenge to constitutionalism and limited
government. Justice Katjus suggestion for government appointing new CJI in a weeks time or so only on merit, ignoring seniority, was amazing as the new bill seeking to set up a judicial
appointments commission had not yet become law and even the
new law did not give this right to the government. In view of
Justice Katjus earlier secular views, his conviction and faith in the
impartiality, objectivity and fairness of the new government was
intriguing, he pointed out.
Expressing his views on the application of federalism and the
principle of separation of powers in India, Prof. Mustafa pointed
out that India is a federal state with subsidiary unitary features.
He said that in a federal form of government, states were not subordinated to the Centre, but had mutual relationship with the latter. Regarding separation of powers between the three branches
of government, he opined that no such separation of powers
existed in India. He explained that bills were cleared by the cabinet and then sent to the legislature for enactment. Since the passage of the bill was ensured by the government of the party that
commanded majority in the House, there was no separation of
powers in the true sense of the term.
Though the Supreme Court had ruled that the separation of
powers was the basic feature of the Constitution, there was
inconsistency in the rulings of the apex court. This was due to the
constitution of division benches which delivered different judgments at different times in cases of same nature. This, he said,
was due to the non-existence of the system of the constitution of
full court.
Tracing the history of federalism, Prof. Mustafa observed that
if Congress had accepted the proposals of the Cabinet Mission
Plan, creation of Pakistan would have been avoided and India
would have adopted a federal Constitution with a true powersharing formula between the Centre and states. He believed that
the Constitution provided for a parliamentary democracy and in
such a system there was majoritarnanism and it was the majority
will that prevailed.
Referring to the power of judicial review of the laws passed
by Parliament and assented to by the President, he said that they
could be declared ultra vires of the Constitution by the Supreme
Court and the high courts.

He held that the independence and impartiality of judiciary

were not private rights of judges. They were the rights of citizens.
Ultimately, judicial legitimacy (and power) rested on public confidence in courts, in the judges themselves and in their decisions.
He opined that the independence of judiciary was the most cherished goal of any legal system and the process of appointment of
judges was rightly seen as a crucial mechanism to achieve this
goal. Judges must be independent of executive, senior judges
and their own ideology. Even in mature democracies, there was a
widespread public concern that judges had been appointed
through cronyism and secret soundings, he remarked.
He pointed out that Indias past experience of government
appointing CJI on merit had not been emulative. It was an open
secret that in the past, with government help, several pliant and
submissive judges did make it to the highest court. He held that
nothing impacted the outcome of cases more than the constitution of benches. In a democratic society, it was no longer acceptable for judicial appointments to be in the hands of the executive.
Government was the biggest litigator in our country and its say
in judicial appointments was a cause for concern and did give birth
to many apprehensions, he said. He held that the appointment system must be, and must be seen to be, independent of the government. It must be transparent; it must be accountable. He emphasised
that the fundamental principle in appointing judges must be selection
on merit adding that it was dangerous to believe that the government
would always correctly and fairly decide on merit.
He pleaded that seniority should remain the sole yardstick for
elevation of a judge as chief justice. He, however, listed the
names of several judges who had merit but were brought to the
Supreme Court not on the basis of merit. They were appointed as
judges of the highest court on extraneous considerations.
Commenting on a committed judiciary, Prof. Mustafa said
that it was a distinct possibility. He held that a judge must remain
committed to the Constitution as it was supreme unlike Britain
where the supremacy of Parliament was the first principle of
British law.
With the assertion of a particular ideology by the RSS and
other leaders and complete silence from the otherwise vocal
Prime Minister on these outbursts, the new dispensation in judicial appointments posed dangers to the seniority norm. In order
to maintain judicial independence, he suggested that the last pay
drawn by a retired judge should be treated as pension.
(iosworld.org)

Flooded Kashmir A Fortnight Later

DR SYED ZAFAR MAHMOOD
Kashmir has once again been vitiated - now by
the Nature. There has already been recent history
of adversities of different hues. The poor
Kashmiris somehow continue to be at the receiving end: from the times of the Maharajas selfcentered rule to the couldnt-care-less attitude of
the successive chief ministers to the demoralizing
militancy since 1988 to the hurting earthquake of
2008 to the drowning floods of 2014.

For centuries the societal actors have only

been enjoying Kashmirs cool and panoramic
beauty but have hardly invested into the infrastructure, basic amenities of life, educational
facilities, connectivity. There has always been a
feeling of an unfortunate inherent bias at the
other end.
As per general perception, out of 5.5m of the
people in Kashmir Valley, about 1.5m have been
adversely affected in different ways by the floods ZFI team going to deliver relief to stranded people in Srinagar
of September 2014. At the peak of the adversity,
As the efforts of the Government agencies had limitations of time,
during 8-15 September, water level in the capital city of Srinagar hovered human imagination, internal coordination and financial constraints - yet
around 14 feet and much higher in the southern parts of the Valley. Loss of hundreds of thousands desperately needed help every moment - we at
human life due to inability to rescue oneself in time is anybodys guess. The Zakat Foundation of India sprang into action since September 8 itself. We
Government says it is about 300 but that too must be a guesstimate as real scouted around Indias coastal cities and were able to purchase nine inflatsurvey can be possible only after some time when the water fully drains off able rubber boats that could accommodate 10 persons each and got them
everywhere. Similarly, as per the state government announcement, the airlifted to Srinagar where our team had arrived in advance. We also got airnumber of persons who got stuck on upper floors of their houses began lifted 100 life saving jackets. We recruited about 30 local volunteers and
from 600,000 and kept on going down in later days as the Defence Forces provided 18-hour rescue support daily for 15 days.
choppers and boats kept on rescuing them.
Thus, ZFI has been instrumental in saving about 6,000 persons life
On September 10, Zakat Foundation of India [ZFI: ZakatIndia.org] had and shifting another 9,000 out of helpless loneliness. Besides, ZFI has
realized that the Central Government needed to directly supervise the res- been airlifting about 20 cartons of supplies daily from New Delhi to Srinagar
cue and relief operations rather than leaving them to the state government and distributing these among the people that remained trapped for two
as the former is in a higher command and is better equipped; also the num- weeks or so. These cartons have been carrying drinking water, torches,
ber of choppers and boats deployed by the Government had to be raised batteries, candles (the valley had no electric supply for ten days), cereals
several fold. ZFI members and others staged a sit-in demonstration near and oil, milk, sugar, tea, dates, medicines and surgical items, sanitary napthe seat of Government in New Delhi on 10 September and submitted their kins, chlorine tablets for cleaning water, phenyl, blankets, etc. Physicians
memorandum to the prime minister. That was covered by electronic and too have been deployed. ZFI has been working in these colonies of
print media. It paid off. Within 24 hours, both the demands were accepted Srinagar: Tangpur, Hamdaniya, Numbrish, Firdausabad, Sarsadbad,
by the Central government.
Qamarwari, Batmaloo, Bal Garden, Kiran Nagar and many more. Weve
For ten days to two weeks the ground floors of all houses in around 60 also gone to South Kashmir.
percent of different areas of the Valley were fully under water and in many
Now the work of rehabilitating half a million people who have practicalcases even a portion of the first floor was inundated. Now, after two weeks, ly become internally displaced persons (IDPs) is a huge challenge. The valaround 80 percent of the water has drained out and about 2-3 feet high ley needs to be cleaned up and disinfected. Most of the houses have to be
water still remains in different areas. When the ZFI truck laden with supply re-built or reinforced. In the intervening period alternate accommodation
bags reaches these areas and wades through the waters the waves so cre- and plastic sheets/mattresses/quilts/blankets are to be organized for tens
ated, at times, are sufficiently forceful to fell the walls of the adjoining hous- of thousands of people. Cleaning up and restoring the normal utility of
es that have become brittle due to remaining inundated for 10 days or places of worship is ZFIs priority. ZFI teams are still working in Kashmir
more. Animal carcasses have been adding to the pollution woes. Later, and will continue to do so till needed.
many of these have been dissolved through chemicals under specialized
The author is President, Zakat Foundation of India (ZakatIndia.org).
government supervision after ZFI advocated this at high level.
He may be contacted at info@zakatindia.org

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Police Encounters: SC sets standard procedure

New Delhi: In a far-reaching judgment announced on
23 September, the Supreme Court of India set out a detailed procedure for thorough, effective and independent investigation into
police encounters which result in death or grievous injury. The
apex court, in its 32-page judgement, said that such police
encounters must be probed by CID and a judicial magistrate and
an FIR must be filed immediately after the incident. The SC bench
comprising Chief Justice of India R.M. Lodha and Justice
Rohinton Fali Nariman said, No out-of-turn promotion or instant
gallantry rewards shall be bestowed on the concerned officers
soon after the occurrence (encounter). It must be ensured at all
costs that such rewards are given/recommended only when the
gallantry of the concerned officers is established beyond doubt.
The SC verdict said that the time had come to bring to justice the
perpetrators of the crime who took law in their own handsThis
was necessary to restore faith of the people in police force.
The apex court set the guidelines in its judgment on the three
writ petitions filed by Peoples Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL)
questioning the genuineness of nearly 99 encounters between the
Mumbai police and alleged criminals resulting in deaths of about
135 persons between 1995 and 1997. Below are the main points
of the standard procedure set by SC:
(1) Whenever the police is in receipt of any intelligence or tip-off
regarding criminal movements or activities pertaining to the commission
of grave criminal offence, it shall be reduced into writing in some form
(preferably into case diary) or in some electronic form.
(2) If encounter takes place and firearm is used by the police party
and as a result of that, death occurs, an FIR to that effect shall be registered and the same shall be forwarded to the court under Section 157 of
the Code without any delay.
(3) An independent investigation into the incident/encounter shall be
conducted by the CID or police team of another police station under the
supervision of a senior officer. Among others, the inquiry team will seek to
identify the victim; recover and preserve evidentiary material, including
blood-stained earth, hair, fibers and threads, etc., related to the death;
identify scene witnesses with complete names, addresses and telephone
numbers and obtain their statements (including the statements of police
personnel involved) concerning the death; determine the cause, manner,
location (including preparation of rough sketch of topography of the scene
and, if possible, photo/video of the scene and any physical evidence) and
time of death as well as any pattern or practice that may have brought
about the death.
(4) A magisterial inquiry under Section 176 of the Code must invariably be held in all cases of death which occur in the course of police firing.
(5) The injured criminal/victim should be provided medical aid and
his/her statement recorded by the Magistrate or Medical Officer with certificate of fitness.
(6) It should be ensured that there is no delay in sending FIR, diary

entries, panchnamas, sketch, etc., to the concerned Court.

(7) After full investigation into the incident, the report should be sent
to the competent court under Section 173 of the Code. The trial, pursuant
to the chargesheet submitted by the Investigating Officer, must be concluded expeditiously.
(8) In the event of death, the next of kin of the alleged criminal/victim
must be informed at the earliest.
(9) If on the conclusion of investigation the materials/evidence having come on record show that death had occurred by use of firearm
amounting to offence under the IPC, disciplinary action against such officer must be promptly initiated and he be placed under suspension.
(10) As regards compensation to be granted to the dependants of the
victim who suffered death in a police encounter, the scheme provided
under Section 357-A of the Code must be applied.
(11) The police officer(s) concerned must surrender his/her
weapons for forensic and ballistic analysis, including any other material,
as required by the investigating team, subject to the rights under Article 20
of the Constitution.
(12) No out-of-turn promotion or instant gallantry rewards shall be
bestowed on the concerned officers soon after the occurrence. It must be
ensured at all costs that such rewards are given/recommended only when
the gallantry of the concerned officers is established beyond doubt.
(13) If the family of the victim finds that the above procedure has not
been followed or there exists a pattern of abuse or lack of independent
investigation or impartiality by any of the functionaries as above mentioned, it may make a complaint to the Sessions Judge having territorial
jurisdiction over the place of incident. Upon such complaint being made,
the concerned Sessions Judge shall look into the merits of the complaint
and address the grievances raised therein.

The apex court has directed these norms and standard must
be strictly observed in all cases of death and grievous injury in
police encounters by treating them as law declared under Article
141 of the Constitution of India.

Ban on SIMI extended for 5 yrs

New Delhi: Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on 12 September
announced that the ban on Students Islamic Movement of India
(SIMI) has been extended for five more years. The announcement
came months after a report claimed that SIMI may again be
regrouping to launch its operations to gather funds for terror acts.
According to reports, Indian Mujahideen commanders, who
are based overseas, including in Pakistan, have asked their underground operatives in India to involve SIMI activists in regrouping.
SIMI was first banned in 2002 as an extremist organisation.
More than 1,200 SIMI members were arrested after the ban. It
was dubbed terrorist in subsequent bans. Former members of
the group appealed to the Supreme Court against each ban since
but the apex court has not found time to hear the appeals but it

was extra-fast to renew the ban the very next day on an oral submission by the Govt advocate when it was lifted by Justice Geeta
Mithal Tribunal on 5 August, 2008.
Police claim they have evidence to prove that SIMI was
involved in the February 2005 blasts in Varanasi, the Shramjeevi
Express blast in July 2005, the Varanasi blasts of March 2006,
and serial blasts in courts in Lucknow, Faizabad and Varanasi in
2007.

Govt taps over 1 lakh phones in India yearly

More than one lakh phone tapping orders are issued by the central government every year, but the total number of such interceptions can be of a staggering scale after taking into account the
directions from state governments, a new study has found.

The study, Indias surveillance state, prepared on the basis

of RTI replies given by the government, also found that 26 companies including foreign firms expressed interest in setting up
Internet monitoring systems for the government. These included
companies offering far more potent surveillance technologies
including phone interception, social media network analysis and
data mining and profiling.
The study was conducted by Software Freedom Law Centre,
a non-profit legal services organisation, and was released at
recently held Internet Governance Forum in Istanbul. on an
average, more than a lakh of telephone interception orders are
issued by the central government alone every year. On adding
the surveillance orders issued by the State Governments to this,
it becomes clear that India routinely surveils her citizens communications on a truly staggering scale, the 68-page report said.
The state surveillance of citizens private communications is
authorised by legislative enactments such as the Indian
Telegraph Act and the Information Technology Act, which allow
Indian law enforcement agencies to closely monitor phone calls,
texts, e-mails and general Internet activity on a number of broadly worded grounds.
The issue of phone tapping has often led to controversies in
India including in 2010, when tapped conversations of corporate
lobbyist Niira Radia with businessmen, politicians and journalists
got leaked. Only a few agencies in India are authorised to tap
phones and a rigorous screening process is said to be in place for
grant of such authorisations.
As per the report, Network Traffic Analysis (NETRA) storage
servers will be installed at more than 1000 locations across India.
The Controller of Certifying Authorities uses Section 28 of the IT
Act, an ambiguous provision, to collect user data from technology companies. An RTI request revealed that they have made 73
requests under this provision in 2011. (PTI, 5 Sept 2014)

The Journey from Hidayatullah to Sathasivam

S.M.A. KAZMI
Just a few days after of the formation of the new
Union government, its refusal to go by the recommendations of the collegium of the Supreme
Court in appointing former Solicitor General of
India Gopal Subramaniam as a Supreme Court
judge had pitched the judiciary and the government against each other.
Subramaniams humble maturity and Chief
Justice of India Justice R M Lodhas dignified
behaviour had diluted to a great extent the possibility of any lasting bitterness.
This has been a hotly debated topic in the
media that as a Supreme Court appointee as
amicus curiae, Gopal Subramaniams report
against Amit Shah in Sohrabuddin encounter
case had been the reason behind the
Governments non-cooperation. In the next few
days this very collegium committee of the
Supreme Court recommended the appointment
of one such legal expert who had acted as a
lawyer defending Amit Shah. This time round the
Governments immediate cooperation also
remained in the news with the same fervour [as
was its refusal to follow previous recommendations].
The attitude of the Government of ready
cooperation at times and sudden cold-shoulder
to the judiciary at other times has become a regular practice. During the last month, former Chief
Justice P Sathasivam and UPs former Chief
Minister Kalyan Singh, the leader of the saffron
family known for his role in the demolition of
Babri Mosque, were sworn in as governors in
Kerala and Rajasthan respectively.
The similarity in both the swearings is that
both appointments, with regard to the prestige of
the judiciary, have given a cause for debatable
topics.
Dr Zakir Hussain died while he was still
president of the country. Vice President V.V. Giri
was installed as the acting President. Since he
was going to contest the by-election for presidency, he was in a dilemma as to whether he
should resign from the post of acting president
or to quit as Vice President before contesting the
election. Faced with this dilemma, he contacted

Hidayatullah

Giri

Sathasivam

Kalyan Singh

When future historians will write the biographies of the Chief

Justices of India of 1969 and 2014, they will find it hard to
fathom the long span of journey we have covered in terms of
deterioration of our political and social values during these past
45 years.
the then Chief Justice of India Mr Hidayatullah.
Justice Hidayatullah in his well-known autobiography My Own Boswell has offered the dialogue between the acting President and the Chief
Justice verbatim.
The dignified manner, in which Justice
Hidayatullah had reminded V.V. Giri of the importance of his position and the prestige of the
office of the Chief Justice, is, perhaps, not only
a lesson but also a precedence that should be
followed by every chief justice of India.
Referring to his friendship with Justice
Hidayatullahs late father, the acting President
made an informal remark and said that after
resigning as the acting President to be able to
participate in the election for Presidency, he
would want to make Hidayatullah as Acting
President. Displaying a rather disinterested but
extremely dignified posture, Justice Hidayatullah
replied, You do what you want to do, the law
will find its course itself.
The acting Presidents second question was
Who should my resignation be addressed to?
To this, Justice Hidayatullahs response was:
To give legal advice does not come within the
ambit of my duties as Chief Justice of India.
Therefore, in this connection you should contact
Attorney General.
I am sure this famous book will have passed
through the sight of Justice P Sathasivam. Had

he given thought to this dialogue before accepting Governorship, he would have, perhaps, displayed some reluctance. The hidden message in
this dialogue would have made him realise that
in the absence of President and Vice President,
the Chief Justice of this country, Hidyatullah, had
worked as the countrys President for 40 days.
This is a clear precedent and a solid proof of the
fact that, as per protocol, on a non-political post,
after the President and Vice President, Chief
Justice is the third most important personality
and to confine him to the level of a state governor is not his promotion but will be seen as a
sign of his demotion.
Mr Kalyan Singh is a convict who, in Babri
Mosque demolition case, had been sentenced
by the Supreme Court for contempt of court.
The sectarian hatred that he was accused of
leading and for which the apex court had sentenced him has neither ended nor has he
stopped leading this hatred. The proof of this
came to the fore when at his swearing-in ceremony he was greeted by the slogans of Jai Sri
Ram that at the time of Babri Mosque demolition had become the hallmark of the saffron
family. In an interview given after taking the oath,
instead of criticising his supporters and party
members with regard to this unconstitutional
action, he declared that Expression of emotions
cannot be curbed. In just a matter of seconds it

had become clear that there has been no change

between Kalyan Singh the Chief Minister of 1992
and the Governor of 2014.
Within 24 hours of such an appointment and
such an unconstitutional incident the acceptance by a former Chief Justice of the post of a
governor of a state, under the patronage of that
very saffron family and that very Union government, will definitely be viewed as inappropriate if
not below required standards.
Judiciary is the last hope for 125 crore people of this country. Protection of the sanctity of
this institution is the responsibility more of those
whose recognition is associated with this and
who have been benefitting from this association
than the common man.
There is a lot in common between Justice
Markandey Katju and Justice A.P. Shah. Both
have been Chief Justices of Madras and Delhi
High courts. Both have earned a mark of distinction for their extraordinary style and controversial judgements. Justice Katju has refused to
accept as inappropriate the acceptance of the
post of a Governor by the former Chief Justice
while Justice A.P. Shah has called such an
appointment and the acceptance of it detrimental for the prestige and stability of the judiciary.
Although both have given arguments in support
of their stand, what needs to be remembered is
that the question of the prestige of an institution
should not be determined by logic but in the light
of historical precedents.
The dignified expression of disinterest by
Justice Hidayatullah in Presidency and in contrast the eager acceptance of Governorship by
Justice Sathasivam claiming that after his retirement he could not go back to his village and do
farming and because he did not know anything
else, is enough to prove the fact that when future
historians will write the biographies of the Chief
Justices of India of 1969 and 2014, they will find
hard to determine the span of journey we have
covered in [terms of deterioration of] our political and social values during 45 years.
(Translated from Inquilab Urdu daily,
11 September 2014 by urdumediamonitor.com)

The writer is a senior Advocate and former

Advocate General of Uttar Pradesh

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Eye-witness account and photos by Our Srinagar Correspondent

How floods devastated Jammu & Kashmir

AFSANA RASHID
Srinagar: Devastating flood hit Jammu and Kashmir
early September bringing the normal life to a grinding
halt. About 300 people lost their lives and properties
worth hundreds of crores lost. Thousands of people
got displaced and infrastructure worth billions was
damaged in the worst-ever floods in the state.
The roaring waters of river Jhelum overflew its
embankments, breached them and flooded almost the
entire Srinagar city including the business hub Lal
Chowk, Poloview, Amira Kadal, Abi Guzar, Maharaja
Bazar, Hari Singh High Street, Kara Nagar and posh
localities like Raj Bagh, Jawahar Nagar, Gogji Bagh,
Tulsi Bagh and several adjoining areas.
Fear and chaos gripped the entire city as flood
water started entering these areas. People ran for safer
places leaving behind their houses and belongings.
Many decided to stay back in the upper stories of their
houses and got trapped. Many were rescued by locals,
Army and police; still several preferred to stay back.
Certain incidents of house collapse in the flood hit
areas too have been reported, which consequently
resulted in more deaths.
Within minutes, the entire part of the city was
flooded with waters on September 7. Incessant rains
for three consecutive days led to sudden increase in
the water level of river Jhelum. In Srinagar, Jhelum
crossed the record 23 feet mark at Ram Munshi Bagh,
five feet above the danger mark, while the water level at
Sangam in south Kashmirs Anantnag was recorded at
over 33 feet, nine feet above the danger mark.
As Jhelum crossed the danger mark, the state government sounded flood alert in Kashmir and issued a
weather advisory asking people living in flood-prone
areas and on embankments of rivers and streams to
shift to safer places.
Flood waters damaged all belongings while people
shifted to the first and second floors of their houses. All
the stocks piled up in shops were destroyed. Several
houses and shops either collapsed or got damaged.
Kashmir remained cut-off from the rest of the
world for several days amid total breakdown of the
electrical grid and telephone systems. As a result
mobile towers and Internet also collapsed. Roads got
damaged, vehicles inundated and hospitals became
defunct. Almost all major hospitals in the city, including
G B Pant, Shri Maharaja Hari Singh (SMHS),
Government Medical College Srinagar and Bones and
Joints Hospital were inundated in floods.
Civil Secretariat, the highest seat of governance
and High Court too were inundated in floods.
Bureaucrats dealing with relief measures worked from
Hari Niwas. Subordinate courts of the Srinagar district
started working from Faculty of Law, University of
Kashmir, from September 21.
Offices of Radio Kashmir Srinagar and
Doordarshan too were inundated in floods and stopped
transmission for the first few days. Later, Radio
Kashmir Srinagar restarted its operations from a
makeshift transmission station on Shankaracharya Hill
and aired flood-related messages of the affected populace to maintain a communication link for the masses.
Telecommunications networks too were severely
hit as all mobile and fixed lines operations stopped
working. Severe communication breakdown added to
the woes of the people as they lost contact with their
near and dear ones and it became hard for them to
trace their whereabouts. For several days people had
no communication with each other.
Fear and panic gripped the entire city and rumours
spread far and wide. Hundreds of thousands of people
fled their places for safety. About 200 relief camps,
mostly by people and private organizations, were
established in educational institutions, religious places,
marriage halls and open spaces in the non-flood areas
of Srinagar city. Mohalla committees arranged free langars (community kitchen).
Many people, who preferred to stay back within
their houses in the flood-hit areas, as there were
reports of their belongings being stolen, were provided
drinking water and other eatables by local volunteers.

A view of the posh locality Gogji Bagh in Srinagar as flood water recedes

Flood waters, as it recedes, in Srinagars commercial hub Lal Chowk

Displaced people living in makeshift tents on the footpaths of the National Highway

A view of the inundated Jammu and Kashmir High Court

The roaring waters of river Jhelum invade Kursoo Raj Bagh, Srinagar

There were still people who lived within their houses

in the flood-hit areas and faced acute drinking water
shortage.
Vehicles ran out of fuel as there was dearth of
petrol. The 300-km long National Highway connecting
Srinagar with the rest of the country remained cut off
for several days. Later, petrol was brought to the Valley
through Manali-Leh-Srinagar highway. Many tourists
left the Valley through this route as it wasnt possible
to reach Srinagar airport. All Haj flights were postponed. Later, they resumed on September 20.
National Highway was reopened after 13-days, on
16 September, after Border Roads Organization and
Army Engineers restored the 50-meter washed away
road patch near Ramsu. Many helicopters hovered the
sky and occasionally air-dropped eatables at few
places. Local people alleged that state and Central
government failed to come for their rescue.
Many families from Jawahar Nagar and Mehjoor
Nagar put up in the relief camps at Rainawari claimed
that there was no rescue operation from the Army and
it was the local people who brought them out. Few
families putting up at Bhagat said that they were rescued by the Army four days after they got trapped
within their houses in flood-hit areas of Gogji Bagh
and Padshahi Bagh.
Indian Air Force and National Disaster Response
Force and others claimed that they carried out a massive relief operation in flood-hit areas of Jammu and
Kashmir and rescued more than one lakh people.
Eighty-six transport aircraft and helicopters of Indian
Air Force and Army Aviation Corps were pressed into
rescue and relief operations, the Defence Ministry
statement said on 13 September.
Locals were the first to carry out relief distribution
in the flood-hit areas that brought relief to many. There
were instances of chaos and confusion as the relief
was being distributed. Duplication of relief material
took place at many places while many families were
left out high and dry. Truckloads of food grains distributed by the state government witnessed scenes of
jostling.
Amidst all this, black marketing was at its peak. A
flood-affected family putting up in a local hotel here
was provided cooking gas by the hotel management
for 2000 rupees. Similarly, another family in the old
city was provided powdered milk for 400 rupees per
kg.
As the flood-waters started receding, people
started cleaning their residential houses and shops.
The layers of slit left behind in the flood and decomposed goods and animals have given rise to unbearable stench in the flood-affected areas.
The financial loss to business in the main business hubs of the city is estimated to be in hundreds of
crores. Kashmir Traders Federation has reportedly
said that there was massive loss of Rs 300 crore to
the business in Srinagar alone and it would be much
higher if the losses are calculated across the Valley.
An outbreak of water-borne diseases is apprehended in the city and doctors have already raised an
alarm that numerous people who survived floods have
fallen prey to infectious diseases and have cautioned
about more health-related problems in the coming
days. Even Health Department could be seen making
announcements in the city through public address
system fitted on vehicles asking people to consume
boiled water.
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on 13 September
confirmed that all records of Jammu and Kashmir
Bank, the states premier financial institution, are
safe and people need not worry about their
deposits.
The helpline centre set up by the state government
at Jammu to trace people missing in the floods has
reportedly registered about 350 people untraceable till
19 September. Chief Minister Omar Abdullah,
September 19, put the death toll across the state at
277 with 74 in Kashmir and 203 in Jammu. He dismissed the rumours that dogs were eating bodies of
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N I L O FA R S U H R AWA R D Y

Modis Stand on
Indian Muslims
Patriotism
What should be assumed from Prime
Minister Narendra Modis comments regarding patriotism of Indian Muslims? Laying
emphasis on their patriotism, Modi also
stated that they will live and die for India.
Prospects of their positive response to an
earlier call of Al-Qaeda leader for joining
this terrorist group, according to Modi, are
delusional.
Has Modi really finally acknowledged and accepted the
national status of Indian Muslims? Or has he made these comments out of diplomatic and political necessity to promote,
that is advertise, this perception regarding his stand towards
Indian Muslims?
This implies, Modi does not really hold this stand regarding Indian Muslims but at present he is more concerned about
the rest of the country and world into presuming that this is his
stand.
Irrespective of whether there has been a change in his
attitude or not, Modi has taken a shot at convincing others
that this is his view regarding Indian Muslims patriotism.
This naturally demands an analysis of the factors that
have probably compelled Modi to indulge in advertising his
stand towards Indian Muslims patriotism. Equally important
is the timing of Modis indulgence in such campaign.
It may be recalled, while campaigning for parliamentary

polls, Modi certainly went overboard in propagating his secular image. At the same time, he did not make any special
effort to display his approach regarding patriotism of Indian
Muslims, similar to that displayed recently. Besides, Modi did
not react immediately or even within a few days after an Al
Qaeda leader displayed his intention to open a branch of his
group in India.
Interestingly, Modi expressed this stand in his first exclusive interview given to an international TV channel after his
assuming charge as the Indian prime minister. This also draws
attention to the approach maintained by Modi towards media
after his success in parliamentary elections. Ever since, he
has preferred keeping a distance. This exclusive interview
was reportedly preceded by some hard bargaining. This
probably implies that Modi agreed to give this interview only
after reaching an agreement on questions he would be asked.
Out of roughly 16 questions asked, two referred to Al-Qaeda
and Indian Muslims. The crux of the interview was on Indias
economy, foreign policy and whether it can emerge as an
important rival to China.
Nevertheless, soon after the interview maximum importance and coverage was accorded to Modis comments on
Indian Muslims and his stand on Al Qaeda leaders approach
towards them. The full transcript was officially released in
Hindi later in the week on September 21 by the Indian government through the Press Information Bureau (PIB).
On one hand, a media-wing played its role in taking
Modis interview just ahead of his trip to US. Modi apparently
agreed to give this interview only after reaching an agreement
and being fully confident that this media-move will help promote his image along the lines he desires. Modi had earlier
been denied visa to US because of the 2002-Gujarat carnage,
targeting Muslims in this state when he was the chief minister. During the interview, this point was highlighted by CNN
interviewer Fareed Zakaria. From this angle, irrespective of

Love Jihad: Selective Outrage

Embracing Islam for the sake of marriage is the worst form of munafiqat (hypocrisy) and
violates the Prophets edict that intention is decisive for judging the validity of every action.
cases of bigamy through the conversion route would entail
TAHIR MAHMOOD
Ever heard of a Hindu religious leader or
politician protesting against the practice of
married men within their community deceitfully becoming Muslims to be able to wed
again? Those raising the bogey of love
jihad should put their own house in order
before raising a hue and cry at Cupid-stricken unmarried girls and boys who dare go for
inter-religious marriages that are absolutely valid under the
countrys Constitution and law.
On 27 February, 1978, Jitender Mathur married Meena
Kumari and over the next decade, she bore him three children.
Then, in January 1988, Jitender secretly married one Sunita
Narula. To facilitate the second marriage, both he and Sunita
quietly converted to Islam under the mistaken belief, wholly
unwarranted under true Islamic law, that this would give him a
licence to indulge in bigamy and escape the anti-bigamy provisions of the Indian Penal Code. Within four months, Jitender
reconverted to Hinduism and returned to his first wife.
Sunita later bore him a child and had to turn to the court to
secure subsistence for her newborn.
Embracing Islam for the sake of marriage is the worst
form of munafiqat (hypocrisy).
In a second case, in November 1988, Pradeep Kumar
married Geeta Rani. Three years later, he eloped with Deepa.
Both he and Deepa converted to Islam and instantaneously
became husband and wife through nikah. In a third case, one
G.C. Ghosh married Sushmita in May 1984. Eight years later,
he decided to marry Vanita Gupta. To avoid prosecution for
bigamy, he too announced conversion to Islam.
These are not fairy tales or hearsay but legally proven
facts recorded in Sarla Mudgal vs Union of India, decided by
the Supreme Court in May 1995. All three women involved in
these cases had approached various lower courts for relief.
Meena and Geeta had discovered the facts after their husbands second marriages and wanted them to be declared null
and void. Sushmita, on the other hand, had learned of her husbands intentions beforehand and sought a court order
restraining him from marrying again. Unsatisfied by the judicial verdicts up to the high court level, all three, along with a
social welfare organisation, appealed for justice to the apex
court.
The SC decided that Jitenders marriage to Sunita and
Pradeeps to Deepa were illegal and constituted an offence
punishable under the provisions of the IPC. On Sushmitas
plea, the courts verdict was that, despite his pretended conversion to Islam, her husband could not marry again without
legally dissolving his marriage to her, and that if he did, the
second marriage would be void and penal. The ruling conformed to Islamic teachings. Embracing Islam for the sake of
marriage is the worst form of munafiqat (hypocrisy) and violates the Prophets edict that intention is decisive for judging
the validity of every action.
Ghosh then mustered the support of some Muslim religious bodies by assuring them that his conversion was genuine and truly for the love of Islam. With them, he approached
the SC for a revision of its Sarla Mudgal ruling on the ground
that it adversely affected the citizens fundamental right to freedom of religion. The court only reaffirmed, in Lily Thomas vs
Union of India, that the Sarla Mudgal judgment held and that all

penal consequences.
Meena, Geeta and Sushmita were not the first to be treated badly by their husbands. The Hindu Marriage Act prohibited bigamy in 1955, which Hindu religious law did not, and
made the IPC provision on anti-bigamy applicable to Hindus.
Ever since, married men covered by the act have been fraudulently converting to Islam under a mistaken belief that this
would rescue them from the penalties prescribed by law.
The SC rulings in Sarla Mudgal and Lily Thomas have not
stopped the horrendous practice of married men committing
fraud. Cases of bigamy under the shelter of false conversion
continue unabated. The law laid down by the court continues
to be shamelessly violated even by lawyers and state dignitaries. The 2008 case of a deputy chief minister of Haryana,
Chander Mohan, duping his Hindu wife to marry his assistant
advocate general, Anuradha Bali - with both converting to
Islam and becoming Chand Mohammad and Fiza - is still
in the public consciousness. In this case, while Chand
Mohammad soon returned to being Chander Mohan and to his
first wife, Anuradha alias Fiza apparently committed suicide.
While the practice of married men wedding again under
the camouflage of conversion is punishable under Indian law,
conversion is legally quite unnecessary for unmarried boys
and girls of different faiths wishing to inter-marry. We do have
a law for civil marriage, under which two persons following
different religions can become husband and wife without hindrance. Conversion must be discouraged in cases when a person converts not voluntarily but to satisfy religious-minded
and tradition-bound parents. (indianexpress.com - 19 Sept 2014)
The writer is a former chair of the National Minorities
Commission and ex-member, Law Commission of India

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whatever his actual stand be regarding Indian Muslims, Modi

used this platform to convince the world about his having no
doubt about their patriotism.
There is a possibility that failure of some BJP extremists
communal campaign in the recently held by-polls made it
politically important for Mr Modi to convince India and the rest
of the world about the apparent distance he is keeping from
communal extremists linked with the saffron brigade. Saying
a few lines on the patriotism of the Indian Muslims was probably viewed politically and diplomatically as the most convincing move in this direction. This also explains as to why before
releasing the full transcript of the interview and before its telecast, the released excerpts and related news gave undue
emphasis to Modis comments on Indian Muslims patriotism.
If he was not scheduled to visit US and if assembly elections were not round the corner in Maharashtra and Haryana,
there may not have prevailed any diplomatic or political reason compelling Modi to agree to this interview and ensure that
it had a positive impact in promoting his secular image.
It is as yet too early to assume whether Modi has totally
succeeded in having the political and diplomatic impact that
he desires. He has certainly succeeded in propagating what he
wants India and rest of the world to believe, that he has no
doubts about Indian Muslims patriotism. Yet, propagation of
this nature is likely to remain confined to certain political,
diplomatic and media circles. Certainly, dominating the
media-world and trying to reach out to several political and
diplomatic circles have been Modis key motives behind his
decision to give an exclusive interview to an international
channel.
From this angle, the bubbles blown by Modi have been
effectively delivered by concerned media wings as well as
political and diplomatic sections. Now, it is to be watched, for
how long do these bubbles remain afloat? Will they burst in air
or actually have a definite impact on targeted sections?

Fools Trophies recommended

I was never a supporter or sympathizer of B.J.P. But the fact remains that
my frustration with Muslims vote bank slavery under the garb of Defeat
BJP syndrome gave me great delight over the Parliamentary verdict, and
for that, many times, I had to earn the wrath of my community. As earlier, I
still hold the view, that it was neither the rise of fascism, and nor any Modi
wave. Instead, it was simply the reaction to the incompetence of scamsridden Congress rule, coupled with the badly ruptured political parties,
which are called secular, and at the national level BJP was the only alternative.

Anyhow, as the maxim noblesse oblige, i.e., people of high rank must
accept responsibilities of their position which in Hindustani may be translated as phal daar ped jhuk jaayaa kartaa hei, I was convinced that once
in power, BJP will prove to be a mature party, knowing fully well the external and internal challenges, and will fulfill the collective aspirations of the
nation. But I was ruthlessly shocked when immediately its low-rate politicians started the same old disruptive agenda. Even RSS Chief Mr. Mohan
Bhagwat kicked up the controversy by saying that all Indians are Hindus.
Now the by-poll results have fully demonstrated that the vast majority
of the country wants development which is possible only in an atmosphere
of communal harmony. It is not the endorsement of the incompetent
Akhlesh Yadav government, under which the criminals enjoy maximum
freedom, but the reaction against the communal agenda of BJP leaders
who were competing with each other as to who will emerges the best fool.
No doubt, the credit for the victory of Samajwadi Party goes to these
fools of BJP, and so I strongly recommend to the U.P. government to award
three fools trophies to the following leaders for their outstanding performance in the fields mentioned against their names.
1. First prize: Mr. Yogi Aditya Nath (for inventing Love-Jihad theory);
2.Second prize: Mr. Sakshi Maharaj (for rediscovering the phenomenon of
madarsas teaching terrorism);
3. Third prize: Mrs Maneka Gandhi (for her wonderful research that beef
export is going to terror groups).
Besides the above, I also recommend consolation prizes for many others
who played their noteworthy roles. They all must be encouraged so that
their perpetual foolishness may render tremendous help to the Samajwadi
Party in 2017 Assembly elections.

Indias Press
Under Siege
The following editorial appeared in New York Times on 27 July,
2014. LK Advani famously had said that the Indian media during
Emergecny was merely asked to bend but it chose to crawl.
Today under Modi, this media is in complete prostration. Underhand dealings and paid news played havoc with the mainstream
media in recent years, now entry of big business into media has
made matters worse.
When Indira Gandhi, Indias prime minister, declared a state of
emergency on June 25, 1975, she immediately imposed strict censorship of the press. With defiant exceptions, much of the press
caved in quickly to the new rules, prompting L.K. Advani, one of the
founders of the Bharatiya Janata Party, who was jailed during the
emergency, to comment later: You were merely asked to bend, but
you chose to crawl.
Press censorship seems to be back with a vengeance in India,
this time imposed not by direct government fiat but by powerful private owners and politicians. First, there were the phone calls recorded by tax investigators in 2009 between Niira Radia, a lobbyist for
some of Indias most powerful corporations, and members of the
media elite that revealed a dismayingly cozy relationship between
the two. Last year, the Parliaments Standing Committee on
Information Technology issued its report on the scandal of paid

DR. MUSTAFA KAMAL SHERWANI

news, in which political parties buy coverage.
More recently, media owners are bringing direct pressure on
journalists to curb reporting or change editorial direction. Several
prominent journalists have been pushed out of their jobs or have
resigned in protest because they refused to go along. In October,
Siddharth Varadarajan left The Hindu after the newspapers owner
took over editorial direction. Hartosh Singh Bal was fired by Open
magazine in November over the protests of his editor, Manu Joseph,
who himself resigned in January.
The newspaper DNA pulled an article off its website this month
by Rana Ayyub that was critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modis
appointment of Amit Shah to head the Bharatiya Janata Party, citing
the charges of murder, among other crimes, for which Mr. Shah is
still technically on trial.
The world of Indian television was shaken by the resignations
this month of Rajdeep Sardesai and Sagarika Ghose after their
employer, TV18 Broadcast Ltd., was purchased in May by Reliance
Industries Ltd., headed by Indias richest man, Mukesh Ambani.
TV18 has partnerships with the global media operations CNN,
CNBC, Viacom, A&E Networks and Forbes magazine.
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India is promising that it
will release recommendations on regulating media cross-ownership
next month. The aim should be to make ownership of media companies in India transparent to the public, which is not the case now.
In February, Reporters Without Borders ranked India as one of
the most restrictive countries in the world for press freedom. Indias
government has a responsibility to act to protect the free press
before corporate consolidation and private censorship further erode
citizens right to know. (nytimes.com)

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OBITUARIES

MEN & WOMEN IN NEWS

MAULANA MUHAMMAD SALIM QASMI, Rector of Darul Uloom (Waqf),
Deoband has been unanimously appointed President-Rector or Head
Rector, in view of his advanced age and the resultant weakness and in
his place, Naib Mohtamim or Deputy Rector Maulana Muhammad Sufian
Qasmi has been unanimously appointed Rector of Darul Uloom (Waqf),
Deoband.
ILYAS AHMAD (Engineer) was honoured with UP Ratn Award at a function of All India Conference in Lucknow on 13 September for his valuable services of 15 years in the fields of agriculture, tree plantation, controlling air pollution and social service. He helped in building national
highways, many bridges, development of Delta village at much lower
costs with the employment of new techniques. He also rendered useful
service to people affected by Uttarakhands unprecedented floods and
earthquakes last year. The award consisted of certificates, medals,
wearing of pagdi (turban) of honour.
Prof AQEEL AHMAD, President of AMUs Department of Urdu who was
appointed Director of Delhi Urdu Academy has assumed the additional
charge of his new post on 3 September. It may be stated that he is not
the full time Director of Delhi Urdu Academy but this is his additional
responsibility
REKHA KALINDI, 16-year old girl of poor parents from Purulia district of W. Bengal who
raised voice against child marriage and child
labour has now acquired international fame
along with Malala Yusufzai (who started a
movement in favour of education of children,
particularly girl children) and Anne Frank (who
wrote Holocaust Diary regarding extermination
of Jews in Germay on a mass scale by Hitlers
government). Her name in now included among
the 20 brave and daring children (boy and girl) in a book Children who
changed the World which will be brought out on 20 November which
has been declared as International Childrens Rights Day by UNICEF. Her
parents wanted to marry her off because of poverty when she was only
9 but she, seeing the wretched condition of her elder sister who was got
married by her parents when she was only 10, revolted and started a
movement against child marriage and in favour of their going to school.
It is said that because of the movement started by her, about 10 thousand young girls of Purulia alone started going to schools instead of
being forced to get married at tender age.
Delhi Urdu Academys Governing Council was reconstituted by Delhis
Lt Governor Najeeb Jung under Delhi governments order of 28 August

AWARDS
ABU ZAR KAMAL, a student of New Horizon
School, an English medium School run by a
Muslim Society, won first position / prize in an
Islamic Board Game Competition based on 5 pillars of Islam sponsored by India Islamic Cultural
Centre and Noble Education. There were 750
objective types of questions in this competition.
As an Award for winning first position or prize,
he was given a free ticket for to-and-fro Journey
to perform Umrah.
MASTER ISLAMUDDIN, Arabic teacher and
MUHAMMAD TAIYYAB, Persian teacher of
Delhis oldest and historical school of Delhi,
Anglo-Arabic Sr Sec School, Ajmeri Gate have

2014 after the term of previous Governing Council ended on 19 July

2014. There are about 25 members of this Governing Council, with Prof
KHALID MUHAMMAD as Vice Chairman of the new Governing Council
(GC). Among other members are two new members Mrs KAMNA
PRASAD and Prof SHAHZAD ANJUM, Prof ABDUL HAQ, Dr DHARMENDRA NATH, Prof IBN KANWAL, Prof KHWAJA IKRAMUDDIN, HAJI
MIAN FAIYYAZUDDIN, Mrs MANORMA DIWAN, Dr SHABANA NAZEER,
MASOOM MURADABADI etc. Principal Secretary (Finance ministry) and
Secretary, Department of Arts, Culture will be ex officio members of the
Council. L. G Najeeb Jung will the chairman in the absence of chief minister of Delhi.
According to Maharashtras minister for minorities welfare, MUHAMMAD ARIF NASEEM KHAN, MAULANA GHULAM MUHAMMAD
WASTANVI, prominent religious scholar and former Rector of Darul
Uloom Deoband, MAULANA ZAHEER ABBAS RIZVI, noted Shia religious
scholar and MUHAMMAD MAHBOOB SHEIKH have been appointed
members of Maharashtra Waqf Board. NIZAMUDDIN RAEEN (Congress
Party member) and Ms NIGAR SULTANA BARSKAR (of Pune) have
been appointed in Maulana Azad Financial Corporation. Similarly,
GULZAR AZMI, chairmn of Jamiatul Ulama (Maharasthra Branch)s
Legal Cell, MAJID QURAISHI, LIAQAT ANSARI and RAO SAHEB JAGNANDA PATIL have been appointed members of Maharashtra State
Minorities Commission.
MUFTI SHAAN-E ALAM QASMI of Gangwar village who lost both his
hands in fodder cutting machine when he was only 9 has now qualified
for PhD from Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi and became a research scholar. In spite of being physically handicapped and facing economic difficulties he continued his education and studies in his village madrasa,
Darul Uloom Deoband, BA, MA from Maulana Azad National Urdu
University and Jamia Millia. Though a Hafiz and Research scholar and
well versed in Urdu, Hindi, English and Arabic he is keen to join administratie service and serve the country. He has received financial help
from Himaliya Drug Cos Director Dr Syed Farooq. Uttarakhand Governor
Aziz Quraishi had given him an award in the form of Rs 25000 in 2011.
He does all his personal work himself.
Dr SHER AFGAN KHAN, has been appointed and taken over the charge
of Principal of AMUs Zakir Husain College for Engineering & Technology
on 10 September in place of Prof Mohibbullah. Dr Sher AFgan held many
important posts in countrys reputed educational and technological institutions of the country, including AMU itself. Another appointment in AMU
is that of Prof Mazhar Abbas who has been appointed new President of
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery in AMUs JN Medial College.

been honoured as the best Arabic and Persian

teachers respectively on the occasion of Indias
Teachers Day observed on 5 September, the
birthday of Indias philosopher statesman and
former President of India, Dr Sarvapalli
Radhakrishnan. They are among the countrys
357 best teachers who were honoured on this
occasion by President Pranab Mukherjee at a
function held in Vigyan Bhavan. Master
Islamuddin belongs to Delhi and Muhammad
Taiyyab belongs to Shahjahanpur
Prof (Ms) SAYEDA JAFAR, prominent intellectual and former President of Osmania University
(Hyderabad)s Department of Urdu and Prof
SHAMIM HANAFI, noted litterateur have been
selected for being honoured with Delhi Urdu
Aademys All India Bahadur Shah Zafar Award

(2013) and Datatriya Kaifi Award (2013) respectively. Both these Awards carry Rs 1,50,000,
Certificate and Memento each. In addition to
these Awards six more awards have been
announced by Delhi Urdu Academy. These are:
Dr KHAWAR HASHMI, (award for research and
criticism), fiction writer NIGAR IQBAL MEHDI
(Creative prose Award), FARHAT EHSAAS,
prominent poet (Poetry Award), SUHAIL
ANJUM, journalist and author (Urdu Journalism
Award), Dr (Ms) ARJUMAND AARA of Delh
University (Urdu translation Award), SHAHID
ANWAR, dramatist (Urdu Drama Award). These
six awards carry Rs 50,000 each along with certificates. Date on which these prizes will be
given will be announced later.
Ms MUNIBA, a 12-class student of Urdu

PAKEEZA SULTAN BEGUM

Pakeeza Sultan Begum

PAKEEZA SULTAN BEGUM, daughter of Princess Qamar Sultan
Begum, the great-grand-daughter of the last successor of the

Prof SYED MUHAMMAD RAZA MOOSVI, noted

poet, author and man of letters of Kashmir Valley
died in Kashmir Medical Institute on 3 September
after a brief illness. Belonging to Badgam district of
Kasmir he wrote in Urdu and Kashmiri languages in
almost all genre of poerty like hamd, naat, Salam,
Ghazal, noha (Elegy), nazm etc. His works in both
these languages are considered of great value in
Urdu and Kashmiri literature. He was an excellent
calligraphist also.
SHAMIM AKBARABADI,
Urdu teacher and noted
poet of Deoband died here
on 9 September after a
brief illness at the age of 75
years. He rendered valuable
service to Urdu literature
through his inspiring poetry. He leaves behind his
wife, four sons and one
daughter.
QARI MAULANA MUHAMMAD QASIM MADRASI,
religious scholar and a member of Darul Uloom
Nadwatul Ulama, Lucknows Majlise Shoora died
of heart attack on 13 September in his home own
in Bhopal. He also took part in Qirat competition in
Makka as well as Madinah and won many awards.
He was around 60 years and left behind his wife,
two sons and one daughter. He also served as
Imam of Madrass historical mosque for about
three decades because of which he is also known
as Qari Muhammad Qasim Madrasi. Another Qari
of almost same name i.e. QARI MAULANA QASIM
ANSARI too died of heart attack. He was a
preacher of Islam and
also an exegetic writer.
MAULANA
NAFEES
AKBAR OWAIS FATEHPURI Shaikhul Hadees and
jurist of Jamia Arabia
Hatora (Baanda), UP died


on 11 September.

throne of Mughal
dynasty Mirza
Fatahul
Mulk
Bahadur
alias
Mirza
Fakhru
(who was killed
by the British
after 1857), thus
the
direct
descendent of
the last Emperor
of
Hindustan
Bahadur Shah
Zafar, left for her
heavenly abode
on 20 September
2014. She was
born
on
Begum Qamar Sultan with her younger
13 November
1937. She was
brother Hamid Shah in 1963
married to the
senior advocate of Supreme Court of India late Danial Latifi who
had died on 17 June 2000. She was educated at AMU and taught
for some time at Lady Shriram College. Later she joined as librarian in the Indian Council of Cultural Relations under the Ministry
of External Affairs where she worked at the Africa desk and retired
as director of the foreign cultural centres in the capital. She had
moved to Noida a few years back to live with a relative. Princess
Qamar Sultan Begum was recognized by Government of India as
a direct descendant of the last Mughal emperor. She used to be
invited to attend official functions in that capacity. Qamar Sultan


Begum died in June 1993.

medium school Govt Girls Sr Sec School at

Chashma Building in Old Delhi who secured
maximum marks in Urdu in the whole of Delhi
(99%) was honoured with Nishan-e Rifaat
Sarosh Special Award which consists of a
trophy, certificate and cash prize of Rs 5,100.
In this function which as held at India Islamic
Cultural Centre, New Delhi 32 boy and and girl
students who had secured 85% marks in Urdu
were also given awards of rs 1500 each along
with certificates.
AFSAR AGHA LUCKNAVI, Rampurs senior poet
was honoured this year by Muzaffarnagars
Pasha Urdu Library Associaiton (Regd) with Mir
Taqi Mir Award 2013-14 which includes a commendation certificate and a cheque of


Rs 11,000.

Indian Muslim student

scores 100% in Genetic
Engineering in French Uni
SYED NOORUZ-ZUHA, son of Syed Noorul-Huda from Bhatkal
district of Karnataka, scored 100% in the final semester exams of
Genetic Engineering in the INSERM - Institute National de la Sant
et de la Recherche Mdicale or the French Institute of Health and
Medical Research. He has been nominated for Rs 50,000 cash
award for his research on epigenetics and cancer. He had scored
85 percent in the last three years as a topper in the whole university besides scoring 100 percent in the final semester. Syed
Nooruz-Zuha said that his research on epigenetics and cancer will
be published in some leading medical journal of the world.
Nooruz-Zuha did his schooling from Anjuman High School
and Pre-University Course from St. Louis College, Mangalore,
scoring very high grades. He completed his B.Tech and first
semester of M.Tech from SRM University securing 95 percent.
Based on his grades and potential, he was awarded a scholarship
and was nominated for INSERM University of France for further
studies.
His research on epigenetics and cancer was commended and
he was awarded "Scientist of the Year" award by INSERM. Syed
Nooruz-Zuha attributes his success to only Allah, for making his
success possible, without Whom he says it wasnt possible at all.
He does not involve himself in vain talks, gossiping, or even
watching movies.
Syed Nooruz-Zuha is a devout Muslim offering his five-times
daily prayers punctually, fasting in Ramadan, helping poor and
spending time in seeking Islamic knowledge from authentic
scholars. His friends admire him and his example is often cited as
a person who has been bestowed with worldly and religious
goodness. (abutalhazahack.com based on Urdu report in SahilOnline)

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IOS organises Lecture on Islamic Research Methodology

New Delhi: The Institute of Objective Studies (IOS), organised a
lecture on "Islamic Research Methodology" here on 20 September.
Delivering the lecture, Prof. Shamim Ahmed Ansari, director of the
Centre for Promotion of Educational and Cultural Advancement of
Muslims of India (CEPECAMI), Aligarh Muslim University, said that
research was an art of scientific knowledge which was careful
investigation or enquiry, especially through search for new facts in
any branch of knowledge. Explaining Islamic research methodology, he said that it was very much related to the methodology of
social sciences research. Islamic research methodology must be
Islamic in nature and should focus on social problems. It should
begin with exploring the problem and then identifying it. The application of knowledge in the process was important. He said that a
research that failed to benefit society was an exercise in futility.

Prof. Ansari stressed that research methodology kept on

changing because of change in the value systems with the passage of time. Listing eight steps in conducting research, he held
that these research steps were generally undertaken in social sciences in which sometimes new issues were explored. But sometimes there were ex-post facto researches too. In ex-post facto
researches, he said, there was no control over the variables as
only after happening some casual factors were identified. So far
as Islamic research methodology was concerned, it was like expost facto research, because it was based on revealed knowledge, he noted. Pointing out that our knowledge was limited and
incomplete, but revealed knowledge was absolutely perfect and
complete, he emphasised that it was necessary to have good
knowledge of Islam and only then the quest for developing strategies would take place to help people develop qualities as also the
ways of life as demanded by Islam.

ond step was a command not to offer prayer in a

drunken state and thirdly, when the ground was prepared, consuming liquor was absolutely prohibited.
He contended that the strategy offered by Islam for
attitude and behaviour was required by the
researchers to gauge its efficacy. He insisted that the
three-step strategy had been found to be very effective in changing attitudes and behaviour. Contrary to
this, he maintained, if anyone was forced to suddenly accept something or to bring about a change in
him, there was every possibility of resistance to
change which might reflect in any form at a later
stage. In this connection, he cited the example of
forceful sterilisation during the Emergency.
Prof. Ansari opined that Islam never favoured a
strategy of using force to change individual behaviour. However, he noted that there was no specific
Prof. Shamim Ahmed Ansari delivering his lecture Islamic research methodology. He held that Islam
always opted for strategies and methods for behavioural change leading to social change that fitted well
According to Prof. Ansari, the steps for research include
defining research problems, reviewing concept and theories, with psychological principles.2
In his presidential remarks, the Chairman of IOS,
reviewing previous research findings, formulating hypotheses,
research design, including sample design, data collection, analy- Dr. Mohammad Manzoor Alam informed that the IOS had been
sis and testing research hypothesis and interpretation. He said organising lectures on a variety of subjects that were relevant to
that good values and qualities were universal and accepted by all Islamic ethos, adding that this would continue in future as well.
religions, adding that Islam, being flexible, demanded attitudes Comparing the methodology of social sciences research with that
and behaviour within the limits of injunctions of the Qur'an and of Islamic research, he explained that while the scope of the forHadith. He remarked that Islam used three steps in changing atti- mer was not confined to a particular method, the latter was limittudes and behaviour with regard to drug addiction. In the first ed as it was related to the Creator of the Universe and
step, he said, taking liquor was regarded a social evil. The sec- indomitable faith in Him as the only master. (iosworld.org)

Lecture on civilizing Islam

Aligarh: "Civilization is
more than a shibboleth for
religious claims or cultural
irredentism; it is also an
inescapable part of the
efforts to forge a ranking
of cultures, and even to
claim the superiority of
one over rival others," said
Prof. Bruce Lawrence of
Duke University, USA. He
was
delivering
a
University
Extension
Lecture on "Civilizing
Islam across Time and
Space: From Ibn-eKhaldun to Marshall Hodgson" at AMU's
Centre for Advanced Study at the Department
of History, on 17 September.

Yusuf/MG

Prof. Lawrence said that civilization rested on a taxonomic contrast that pitted dyadic
opposite against one another. He said that
even before the civilizing mission of British
and French and, more recently, even
American, missionaries in Asia and Africa,
there was a distinction between civilized folk
and barbarian "others", just as there was also
a ternary division of time into corresponding
social units.
He said that desert tribes or agrarian
communities were deemed to be primitive,
major pre-modern empires; classical, while
modern was reserved for democratic.
What characterized the superiority of
modern civilization, that is Euro-American
and Japanese, from earlier stages of social
development was a society of civility in the
sense of gentle manners, opposed not merely to the wildness and violence of primitive or
warlike people, but also to the great volatility
caused by the passions of military aristocrats
or conquering rulers.
Prof. Lawrence said that a more robust

Seminar on Indian Muslim Economy

Hyderabad: As a part of series of

seminar "Road map to future -India
2047," Rehab India Foundation
organised a seminar on "Indian
Muslim Economy" here on
8 September. K M Sharif, chairman
of Popular front of India, made the
introductory speech explaining the
need for such series of seminars.
Ilyas Thumbe spoke on the current
situation of Muslim in India.
Academicians, social activists and
leaders of welfare organisation
addressed teh seminar speaking on
various aspects of the Indian
Muslim economy and also offering
suggestions about how to empower
the community in this field. Advocate Shafiq Muhajir, Dr. Prof. Abdul Qayyum of MANUU, Aariz Ahmed, economist Lubna Sarwath, Dr. Syed Najiullah of MANUU), Srinivasan Rao spoke on different aspects of Muslim


economy and challenges before the Muslim community.

analysis of civilizational discourse requires

not just a look at the present but also a review
of the past. One must explore routes not
taken, meanings not explored and also pioneers not acknowledged, especially in the
realm of Islam and Muslim subjects. He said
that his lecture followed the route via two
major historians of Islamic civilization Ibn
Khaldun and Marshall G. S. Hodgson.
In his presidential remarks, AMU ProVice Chancellor, Brigadier S. Ahmad Ali highlighted the achievements of Muslims and said
that most of the discoveries and inventions
were made by Muslims. He said that 600
years before Galileo, Al-Biruni discussed the
theory of Earth rotating on its own axis.
During the 9th century, Al-Kindi and the great
mathematician, Thabit Ibn Qurra, working in
Baghdad, were among the first scientists to
develop the spherical geometry, which greatly helped astronomers to predict Moon's
phases.
Prof. Bruce Lawrence is a Professor of
Islamic Studies Emeritus at Duke University,
USA. He has also taught at Darmouth
College and University of Chicago. Presently
he is teaching at the Fatih Sultan Mehmet
Vakf University, Istanbul.

Guwahati: North Eastern Universities should take lead to start courses like Disaster Management in order

JMI VC visits USTM

School of Education inaugurated

to tackle the problems of floods and earthquakes and to deal effectively with such natural disasters, said
Prof Talat Ahmad, Vice Chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia while inaugurating Prof. Qoumrul Hoque School
of Education of University of Science and Technology, Meghalaya (USTM). He said, NE states are full of
potentials and opportunities which must be explored to the maximum extent. The development of a region
depends upon its educational system. More importance must be given to the primary and basic education
for which qualified trained teachers must be appointed. Government must emphasize on the right kind of
practical training for the teachers, he said.
Prof Ahmad further said that he had personally seen brilliant NE students doing well in the University
of Delhi, Jamia Millia Islamia and other universities. He said he was delighted to see the efforts of a single person, Mr. Mahbubul Hoque the Chancellor of USTM, to make such a huge contribution in the field of
education in the north-east region. This old boy of Aligarh Muslim University is doing wonders for the
development of the region and the country as a whole.
Prof Talat assured that Jamia Millia Islamia will be in full collaboration and association with USTM in
terms of manpower and other academic and research-related activities. He wished for its bright future.
Earlier Mr. Mahbubul Hoque, Chancellor of the University while welcoming Prof. Talat Ahmad, said that
"We are trying to associate with the great institutions of the nation as well as abroad in order to make
USTM one of best Universities of the world."
USTM's School of Education has secured the approval of the National Council for Teacher's Education
(NCTE), ERC, Bhubaneswar, to run B.Ed. courses with an intake capacity of one hundred which has been
already filled up in the maiden year itself. USTM has plans to double the intake next year. During this visit,


USTM's Centre for Innovation and Rural Development was also inaugurated by Prof Ahmad.

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Nine members of family embrace Islam

Shivpura: Tila Ram Janoo and eight other members of his family
of a village in Khania Dhana went to the Collectorate office to submit an affidavit for change of their religion. There were five men
and four women in his family. When they reached the Collectorate,
Collector Raju Dubay said that he had to go for video conferencing and went away. After that these people met ADM, JDU Sheikh.
After meeting him when they came out, BJP leader Ashutosh
Sharma met them and asked them the reason for them to want to
change their religion. Not happy with their reply, Ashutosh along
with two other persons went in the collectorate office and many
police officers also came there and sent Tila Ram and Mani Ram
to Kotwali. Some youth also reached there and tried to damage the
vehicle in which these people had come form Shivpuri but police
foiled their efforts. ADM, JDU Sheikh said that under 2 and 3 format of Madhya Pradesh Religious Freedom Act 1968, application
(for change of religion) has been obtained and after 7 days necessary action will be taken. These people (who wanted to change
their religion) submitted, in addition to the affidavit, an application
stating therein that they want to embrace Islam but, they have
been told that for this Collectors permission is required. So we
have come here. He made it clear that they have neither been
compelled by any body nor any money etc has been offered to
them and that they want to embrace Islam of their own free will
after seeing good points and qualities of Islam. They also confirmed that they are neither drunk nor have they been compelled
or bribed to embrace Islam. Mentioning their previous names they
also wrote in their affidavits that under Art. 25 of the Constitution
it is their fundamental right to follow and practice the religion of
their choice. They however faced some difficulty in getting a
notary to certify their affidavit. Many of the notaries refused to certify their affidavits. However, one notary agreed and he certified all
the affidavits.
Administrative Council competent to appoint Principal in a
minority institution
Lucknow: Justice Sudhir Kumar Saxena of Lucknow branch of
Allahabad High Court said in his verdict, in response to a petition
by Dr Nuzhat Jahan, interim Principal of district Hamirpurs
Rahmania Inter College, that the Administrative Council or
Management of a minority educational institution is the competent
authority to appoint a Principal of such an institution and that the
state government cannot interfere in this matter and if it interferes,
it will be unconstitutional. It may be stated in this connection that
the Principal of this college had retired on 30 June (after reaching
the age of superannuation). The managing committee or administrative council of this College had written several time to DIOS
(District Inspector of Schools) to appoint a new Principal in his
place but it took no action on this colleges many requests. After
the silence of DIOS the Colleges managing committee, in its
meeting for this purpose when no representative of DIOS again
attended it, appointed senior teacher Dr Nuzhat Jahan as interim
Principal and informed DIOS about it. When the DIOS office
received this letter about the appointment of Dr Nuzhat as interim
Principal, it woke up from its slumber to various requests of the
college regarding the appointment of its Principal or deputing its
representative to attend the managing committees meeting, it
declared in its letter of 27 August 2014 to the College management the appointment of Dr Nuzhat Jahan as illegal. Against this
order of DIOS declaring her appointment as interim Principal as
illegal, she (Dr Nuzhat) filed an appeal in the High Court through
her lawyer, advocate Mushtaq Ahmad Siddiqi who argued as has
been stated above (i.e. retirement of former Principal, several letters to DIOS regarding appointment of Principal in his place, no
reply or action by DIOS or sending its representative in the managing committee meeting to decide on the appointment as interin
Principal etc) before Justice Sudhir Saxena.
Advocate Mushtaq Siddiqi also argued before the court that
the Supreme Court, central and state Minority Commissions have
accepted this college as minority educational institution but DIOS
and its biased officers refuse to recognise it as a minority educational institution. After hearing the arguments of Dr Nuzhat Jahans
lawyer, Justice Sudhir Kumar Saxena ruled that DIOSs 27th
August letter itself is ultra vires and that the managing committee
of a minority educational institution is fully authorised to appoint
its Principal and that the sate government cannot interfere in any
way in this matter.
Maharashtra Waqf Boards notice to 23000 institutions
New Delhi: Maharashtras Waqf Board, in order to improve its
working, has issued notices to about 23000 managers and
responsible authorities of mosques, madrasas, dargahs etc in different districts of the state asking them to send detailed statements of their annual income and expenditure at the earliest to the
Board. These institutions include those which have not got themselves registered with the Board. It is said that so far only about 7
thousand religious institutions and bodies have got themselves
registered with this Board and have sent accounts of their annual
income, expenditure and other relevant information to it.
According to a source in Two Circle Dot Net Agency there are
about 23 thousand Waqf institutions, anjumans etc which have not
got themselves registered with the Maharashtra Waqf Board and
are trying to avoid giving detailed information about their income
and expenditure etc. Warning of drastic action against these institutions the Board has warned the trustees of these institutions that
if they fail to abide by its instructions within the stipulated time,
they will be fined Rs 10 thousand each. In addition to this the
Board has further warned that it will start a wall poster campaign
against such unregistered institutions and anjumans asking the
people in these posters not to give any funds, financial help or

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Balance-sheet of Modi governments 100

days: Jamaat-e Islamis bouquet and brickbats
New Delhi: BJP-led NDA government headed by Prime Minister
Narendra Modi completed 100 days on 2 September. Jamat-e
Islami Hinds (JIH) general secretary Nusrat Ali in JIHs monthly
press-meet, reviewing the plus and minus points, of 100 days
of Modi government said that a period of 100 days to judge the
achievements of a government is too short. In any case, he said
Modi government has no doubt done some good work and also
made some good announcements during this short period which
should be lauded. For example, restrictions on purchase of new
cars by ministers, restrictions on frequent foreign tours by ministers and officers, Jan Dhan scheme i.e. opening of bank accounts
of common and poor people on a large scale, arrangements of
building loos in every house and school, restriction on appointing
of relatives and friends as their secretaries by ministers etc are
worth appreciating. His tour to Japan also appears to be successful from the national point of view. However, the general
campaign by BJP and almost all other outfits of RSS of targeting
minorities particularly Muslims, spewing poison against them
through false and baseless propaganda of love jihad etc and
prime ministers and other responsible ministers etc almost total
silence on such harmful and divisive statements and activities
which amounts to covert support from them in their nefarious
activities is causing fear and concern among them (minorities).
He said that Jamat-e Islami believes that talks of progress
and development plans and at the same time total freedom to
make poisonous, inflammatory and divisive speeches and activities cannot go together. Moreover, during these 100 days there
are no indications of prices of essential commodities of daily use
coming down, no action appears to be or being taken against
hoarders, black marketers who are creating artificial shortage of
essential commodities leading to high prices. Also, prime ministers promise of ushering in a clean and efficient government and
administration is far from satisfactory, seeing that he has included many people in his cabinet who have been accused of serious
crimes. It is also worth consideration that Amit Shah, who had
been chargesheeted for his involvement in fake encounters in
Gujrat and who also played an important role in spreading communal hatred for polarisation of votes on religious lines in UP and
other places during the recent Parliamentary elections has been
made President of BJP. Also, during the past two months of BJP
rule in Gujrat, IPS officers like G. L. Singhal and Abhay
skins of sacrificed animals etc to them.
Waqf Board claims that there are hundreds of mosques,
madrasas etc in different districts and places in the state, which
have an annual income of more than one lakh rupees but they do
not want to give details of their income and expenditure to the
Board. It is also said that Waqf Board is compelled to take such
drastic action and issue such notices to them because the states
finance secretary has refused to give any fund or budget for
minorities development,
Earlier, Maharashtra government had announced an amount of
Rs 340 crores for the welfare of minorities and subsequently had
announced another additional amount of Rs 140 crores but now it
has refused to give any amount or budget. According to Waqf
Board offices, this Board had made a demand of at least Rs 200
crores and appointment of 770 employees but both these
demands were rejected by the government in spite of several
requests and hence the Board was compelled to issue this notice
to 23 thousand institutions.
Notification for reservation for Muslims issued in Maharashtra
Mumbai: Maharashtras minister for minorities affairs, Muhammad
Arif Naseem Khan said here on 30 August while talking to media
persons that for granting 5 percent reservation to Muslims in
Maharashtra and for providing caste certificates to them for this
purpose easily, the state government formally issued the necessary GR, under which caste certificates will be given to them very
easily and without much botheration, with the help of which they
can get reservation for admission in schools and colleges and for
jobs in government departments. He said that the state government had no doubt issued orders for reservations to them
(Muslims) but in view of the difficulties for getting caste certificates a high level meeting between the minister for minorities and
social welfare, Shivaji Rao Maghe and other top officials was held
in which difficulties in issuing and procuring caste certificates
were discussed. It was decided in this meeting that to give reservations to 50 different fraternities of Muslims, minimum documents and proofs should be needed. According to this GR, simply
an affidavit will be needed for granting caste certificates to people
belonging to these sub-castes in order to entitle them for reservation.
Promise to make Urdu second official language in
Maharashtra
Mumbai: Maharashtras minister for minorities affairs Arif Naseem
Khan said here while speaking on the occasion of prize distribution function 2013 of Maharashtra State Urdu Sahitya Academy in
Mumbais Anjuman-e Islams premises on 7 September that
Maharashtra is the only state in India where there are maximum
number of Urdu medium schools and maximum number of poets,
litterateurs and Urdu-speaking people. Hence their effort will be
that if Congress Party comes to power Urdu be given the status of
second official language in this state. He further said that this
states Urdu Academy has become the most dynamic Academy of

Chudasamma who were sentenced after being found guilty by

court in fake encounters of Sohrabuddin Sheikh, Ishrat Jahan etc
and kept in jail for several years have not only been releaed but
also reinstated to their former posts. Politicians like Sangeet Som,
BJP-MLA who was the main accused in Muzaffarnagar riots of
last year (2013) has not only not been arrested but also provided Z plus security by government. There are also news that supporters of saffron ideology are being appointed to important academic and research posts like chairman of Indian Council of
Historical Research. Government is also interfering in the affairs
of judiciary. Jamaat-e Islami feels that by actions like appointment of retired Chief Justice of India to the post of governor within only two months of his retirement the relationship between
executive and judiciary will be upset and with inclusion of union
law minister in the National Judicial Appointments Commission
way will be cleared for governments interference in judiciary.
Nusrat Ali further said that Jamat-e Islami is concerned that
after the formation of BJP government at the centre hate and
demonization campaign against minorities particularly Muslims is
being encouraged and hate mongers are being covertly encouraged by the government because no action has been taken
against any hate monger with the result that these hate mongers
and promoters of divisive activities are encouraged and communal riots and violence have become order of the day even in
places where no communal riots had ever taken place earlier.
Time and the again activists of RSS outfits and holders of responsible posts are raking up sensitive and controversial issues like
abrogation of Article 370 of the Constitution (which gives a special status to J&K), uniform civil code etc. RSS chief Mohan
Bhagwat is repeatedly describing India as a Hindu nation and all
those living in India as Hindus) which are in open violation of the
Constitution which clearly describes India as a secular and democratic country and guarantees complete religious identity and
freedom to all its citizens. Hence Jamaat-e Islami demands that
drastic action be taken against all such people who openly preach
hate and fissiparous activities and talk against the Constitution.
He also said in reply to a question that Jamaat is waiting for a
suitable time to meet the prime minister and apprise him of the
problems and difficulties of minorities particularly Muslims and
steps that government should take to redress of their grievances.
(N. A. Ansari)
the country and that when this portfolio came under the ministry
of minorities affairs, its annual budget was Rs 20 lakh only but
with his (Arif Naseem Khans) efforts and because of personal
interest of chief minister Prithvi Raj Chauhan, Urdu Academys
budget today has reached Rs 1.20 crores. He further said that his
ministry has sent a proposal of Rs 2 crores for this years budget
for the Academy.
Speaking about Urdu and states official language Marathi he
said that Urdu Acdemys activities are multifarious and through
this language (Urdu) effort has been made to bring Marathi language also closer to Urdu. He also said that chief minister Prithvi
Raj Chauhan has always shown his concern for the progress of
Urdu literature and because of this the Academy is working actively in the whole state. He said that all people in the country use
Urdu as it is the most commonly understood language and hence
future of Urdu is bright.
Earlier, Joint Secretary of Urdu Academy (Maharashtra),
Farooq Ansari said that ever since Urdu Academy has come under
minorities affairs ministry, its activities have increased many fold.
He said that the amount of awards given by the Academy is small
and hence every effort will be made to double these amounts. At
the end of the function four persons including journalists and men
of letters were given awards consisting of mementos, shawl, and
certificates by Muhammad Arif Naseem Khan.
Propaganda of love jihad proved false in Anjali-Parvez case
Muzaffarnagar: Anjali-Parvez matter took a new turn when Anjali
clearly said in court that Parvez is her good friend and that both of
them had gone to Nepal for sight seeing. She strongly contradicted the accusations (by Hindu extremists) of her religious conversion and use of force against her. The backgroud of this fact is that
one Narendra Saini of Muhallah Brahampuri, Civil Line Thana area
had filed a case in a police station that Parvez, a youth of Muhalla
Ladhawala, had persuaded this minor girl, 17-year old Anjali and
kidnapped her and that Parvezs mother Parveen, his brother,
Shahvez, his friend Abhishek etc were also complicit in this crime
of kidnapping or elopement etc. On the day of alleged kidnap her
(Anjali) family members and residents of the locality had gathered
at the police station and indulged in slogan shouting, subversive
activities etc demanding strong action against the accused persons, claiming this to be an incident of love jihad. The Thana
Incharge / Darogha and Narendra, after studying call details came
to know the location of Anjali and her friend which was somewhere in Nepal. Both of them were recovered from there (Nepal)
by police, a case was filed and the girl presented in court where
she made the statement mentioned above.
After the complaint made by the girls father and residents of
the locality police had registered the case (of kidnapping etc)
under section 169 but after her (Anjalis) clear statement in
court, she was entrusted, on courts order, to her father and
family members. Police also filed its report in the court, recommending the release of Parvez and other persons who were


falsely implicated.

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Advisory Council constituted in Darul
Uloom (Waqf), Deoband
Deoband: Majlis-e Mushawarat (advisory council) was constituted in Darul Uloom (Waqf) Deoband the first session of which was
held on 3 September in Imam Qasim Library. All members of
Majlis-e Mushawarat and ulama from different parts of the country were present on this occasion and the constitution of Majlise Mushawarat was described as historic. On this occasion
Deputy Rector of Darul Uloom (Waqf), Maulana Muhammad
Sufian Qasmi presented a detailed report on Darul Uloom
(Waqf)s administrative and academic activities and achievements and thereafter heads of different departments also presented annual reports of their respective departments.
Members of Majlis-e Shoora unanimously agreed that under
the supervision of Darul Uloom (Waqf) such schools should be
set up where modern education should be imparted to students
in an Islamic environment. For this purpose a committee headed
by Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama, Lucknows Rector, Maulana
(Dr) Sayeedur Rahman Azmi was constituted which will submit
action programme in the next meeting of this institution. It was
also unanimously agreed, including the Rector, that a permanent
English Department should be set up in this institution (Darul
Uloom Waqf). Subsequently, Shoora and executive member
Maulana Qamruzzaman and Mufti Fuzailur Rahman Helal Usmani
suggested that in view of the advanced age and ill health of
Maulana Muhammad Salim Qasmi and at the same time his long
and valuable association with this institution, he (Maulana Salim)
may be made Head Rector (Sadar Mohtamim) and Maulana
Muhammad Sufian Qasmi deputy Rector in view of his long association and looking after the affairs of the institution, may be
appointed Rector (Mohtamim) of Darul Uloom (Waqf) Deoband.
Both these suggestions were approved by the Shoora Members.
Accordingly, Maulana Sufian Qasmi took over as Rector of this
institution on 3 September 2014.
Innovation Council constituted in AMU to promote research
Aligarh: AMU has constituted an Innovation Council headed by
Pro-Vice Chancellor Brig (Retd) S. Ahmad Ali for the promotion of
research and creative activities. The University has also decided
to institute two awards as incentive to promote research activities and for this purpose one of the teachers / professors each of
Science Faculty, Life Sciences Faculty, Inter-Disciplinary
Biotechnology Unit, Faculty of Engineering & Technology, Faculty
of Medicines, Faculty of Unani Medicines and Faculty of
Agricultural Sciences who have done creditable work in the field
of research will be honoured every year with Outstanding
Researcher of the Year Award each of Rs one lakh. Similarly,
another Award of Rs one lakh will be given to a teacher / professor of Arts Faculty, Social Sciences Faculty, Faculties of Law,
Commerce, Management Studies and Research and Theology
Faculties who has done creditable research work in these fields
will be honoured with Outstanding Researcher of the Year
Award.
Convener of Innovation Council, Prof S. Mehdi Abbas Rizvi
said that the University has framed requisite rules for these
awards and a time frame within which their research work should
be completed. He said that 2014 Award will be given for 5-year
educational semester from 2009-10 to 2013-14 and the Deans of
these Faculties can send 5 names from these Faculties upto
30 September 14. As regards Womens College, concerned
Facultys Dean can send the name of teacher / professor who has
done creditable research work. The Awards will be given to those
who have been selected by a committee of 3 experts constituted
by the Vice Chancellor and these experts will be those who have
never been employees / teaching staff of the University. These
Awards will be given every year on Sir Sayyad Day.
The Innovation Council has also decided that Sir Sayyad
Innovation Festival will also be held every year and two Best
Innovation Awards will also be given, one of which will be given
to a University student and the other will be given to a student of
University School and the Best Innovation Prize (for the University
student) will be ofRs 50,000 whereas the same (Best Innovation
Prize) for University School student will be of Rs 25000. This
year the Innovation Festival will be held from form 10 to
12 October. Further information regarding these can be obtained
from Innovation Councils office or its website
www.amu.ac.in.innovation.job.
Insensitivity of social and milli organisations responsible for
non-availability of scholarships
Patna: Pre-matric, post matric and merit-cum-means scholarships started by the central government for the educational
progress of minorities have started bearing fruits but because of
ignorance and lack of awareness about such scholarships
minorities do not benefit from these scholarships. Examples of
these are recent advertisements for pre-matric scholarships and
number of applications received so far. Under these scholarship
schemes, scholarships to 2,12,000 boy and girls students are to
be given, advertisements for which were issued by the
Department of Minorities Welfare in the beginning of August and
the last date for receipt of applications from students was
31 August but in spite of all possible facilities and sources of
information like advertisements in newspapers and pamphlets
etc only about 30 thousand applications for scholarships from
boy and girls students were received till the last date i.e. 31
August. In addition to applications sent by post and personal
delivery, these were to be received online also. It is shocking that
there is still a gap of 1,82,000 in the quota of 2,12,000. In view
of such a small number of applications and also because of devastating floods in Bihar, in response to Minorities Welfare

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MPLBs emphasis on Sharaee laws

New Delhi: All India Muslim Personal Law Board has now started a campaign to deal with the courts various controversial and
disputable verdicts regarding problems of Muslims which are
totally or partially at variance with Shariat laws or principles. For
this purpose, MPL Boards special unit, Shariat, Understanding
Committee (Tafheem-e Shariat Committee) (TSC) is carrying on
a campaign calling upon Muslims to respect the courts verdicts,
but act and lead their daily life in accordance with laws or principles of Shariat (without amounting to contempt of court).
Boards secretary Dr Qasim Rasool Ilyas said that Boards TSC
is laying emphasis on the importance and necessity of following
Shariat laws and for this purpose special programmes and meetings are being held to apprise Muslims of Shariat laws and
impress upon them the need to follow and practice Shariat principles in their daily life in the back drop of court verdicts.
In this connection a function was recently held in Law
Institute wherein Maulana Khalid Saifullah Rahmani, general secretary of MPL Board presented various view points on the problems of Muslims facing Muslim and non-Muslim lawyers, ignoring which may tantamount to direct attack on Muslim problems.
For example regarding adoption, which has been supported by
the Supreme Court but about which Shariat laws are somewhat
different, Maulana Rahmani explained that from the Shariat point
of view a child can be brought up but he cannot be given the sta-

tus of real or biological son because Islam, no doubt supports

bringing up and helping helpless and unclaimed / orphans children but it doesnt mean that he should be given the status of real
child and the person who takes care or adopts him should be
given the status of real or natural (biological) father. In support of
his arguments he gave the example of Zaid Ibn Haarsa and Bu
Hazifas slave Salim. He said that there are many fundamental
reasons for not giving blood relationship to an adopted child
which are directly related to familial rights. Giving an example he
said that if some one has no son and only daughters and he
adopts some child as his son and he is treated as real son, there
will be a feeling of hatred in other children. When a child is adopted, he does not understand what will be his position when he
grows up and becomes mature. He will think that his real identity has been suppressed and he may start blaming his real parents. This is a great psychological worry and problem which
concerns familial rights and hence it cannot be ignored.
Mufti Ashraf Ali Qasmi, Qasim Rasool Ilyas and Supreme
Court advocate Mushtaq Ahmad also expressed their views on
this problem and the point was stressed that lawyers and educated people should understand Sharaee laws and principles so
that while dealing with such cases (adoption) in courts, they
should keep in mind Islamic and Sharaee principles.
(N. A. Ansari)

Departments request for extension of last date, this date (last

date) has now been extended to 31 October but even then the
response from scholarship seekers is poor, seeing that after
31 August the number of applications for scholarships is not
more than two or three thousand. In other words there is still
shortage of about 1,80,000 from the quota of 2,12,000 boy and
girl students belonging to minority communities to whom giving
of scholarships is planned. It may be clarified that in addition to
Muslims, other minority communities like Christians, Sikhs,
Parsis, Buddhists also are included for these scholarships. These
scholarships are meant for boy and girls students of classes one
to ten of government schools, government madrasas and private
schools.
When an effort was made to find out why such small number of students from minority communities have applied for
these scholarships, it was found that most of the students or
their parents are not at all aware about such schemes nor do
their teachers help them in any way in filling up their application forms and sending them to the concerned department.
One teacher of a government school said on condition of
anonymity that most school teachers do not want to inform
their students about these scholarships because they will start
approaching them for filling up their application forms because
it will mean additional work for them (for which they will not be
paid). According to Rabta Committees general secretary, Afzal
Husain, in addition to lack of knowledge about this facility
(scholarships), insensitivity of social and milli workers, leaders to inform students and their parents about these scholarships is also an important reason for such poor response.
Moreover, availability of residential certificates and difficulties
in getting other documents in time is also responsible for this.
This scheme was started in 2007 and it was in the year 201011 that maximum number of pre-matric scholarhisps were
given to about 2,81,000 students. The reason for this was that
on the recommendation of minorities welfare departments
secretary the condition of giving or obtaining certificates of
residence was made easy and many conditions for other
requirements were also removed.

Thackerays Maharashra Nauniramaan Sena (MNS), Haji Arafat

Sheikh, vice President of MNS alongwith Mumbadevi Units president Sharif Deshmukh and thousands of their followers, disenchanted by the attitude of senior and common members, left
MNS in disgust. In a press conference at his residence in Kurla
on 27 August while accusing Raj Thackeray and his party workers of indifference towards problems and difficulties of Muslims
he said that party president and workers do not pay any attention
to Muslims and their problems. He said that whenever he tried to
meet the Party President (Raj Thackeray) along with a delegation
of his Muslim followers, not to talk of listening to their problems,
he didnt even want to meet them. He said with grief that he is
associated with Raj and his party right from its founding 18 years
ago but during this long period, his eye opening, bitter and sad
experience is that there is no respect for Muslims and no concern
for the problems and difficulties of Muslims in MNS. He further
said that recently he was made president of Maharashtra Muslim
Khatik Samaj which includes about 30 lakh people of this samaj.
He said that when this Samaj members organised a big function
in Shanmukhanand Hall and Raj Thackery was invited, he did not
come but one important party member who attended this function said that Haji Saheb, if we attend your meetings, our Marathi
voters will maintain a distance from us for attending Muslims
meetings and programmes. Hence with reluctance, disgust and
disgruntled I decided to leave it along with all our members and
supporters.
Another important member of MNS, Faheem Mahmood of
Maharashtras powerloom city Malegaon along with all his important
members and supporters of Malegaon also left MNS in disgust and
disenchantment and joined Awami Vikas Party of former police officer Shamsher Khan Pathan. His complaint against Raj Thackery and
his party leaders also was exactly the same as that of Haji Arafat
Sheikh i.e. no respect for Muslims in MNS and no sympathy for the
problems and difficulties of Muslims. He said that no one in the party
is prepared to raise the problems of and consider the difficulties of
Muslims and whenever an effort was made to raise problems and difficulties of Muslims we were prevented from raising such issues and
problems. He said that when this is the attitude of the President and
members of the party towards Muslims and their problems, what is
the use of being its member and supporter. He said that in Shamsher
Khan Pathan he sees a leader who is sympathetic to the difficulties of
Muslims and desirous to solve them. Therefore he along with all his
supporters joined it.

Who wrote the famous revolutionary poem sarfaroshi ki

tamanna..?
this incident dates back to the days when I was a research
student in Jamia Central University. We were busy in making
preparations for the Martyrdaom Day on 19 December. There
was some discussion on the posters to be displayed on this
occasion. As soon as a mention was made of the nazm (poem)
sar faroshi ki tamanna, one of the students said that this poem
was written by my grandfather. I was surprised to hear this from
him because this song of freedom was known and written almost
everywhere by Pundit Ram Prasad Bismil. Out of sheer curiosity and interest I wanted to know the truth about as to who is or
was its real author. My curiosity was subsequently answered by
Patnas Khuda Bakhsh Library. Some books and documents etc
were needed which were published by this Librarys Publications
Department. I happened to get all these things there. From there
I set out for my friends, i.e. his grandfather Bismil Azimabadis
residence in Patna. There I met Bismil Azimabadis son Sayyad
Shah Hamid Hasan in the veranda of the house who, after retirement from service in Bihars Vidhan Parishad (Legislative
Council) was passing his days at home. Sayyad Shah Hamid said
that abba had written this revolutionary poem in 1921. The place
from where this poem was published was not only confiscated
by the British government but the arrest warrant of his abba was
also issued. Pundit Ram Prasasd also used to write/compose
poems under the pen name (takhallus) of Bismil. On
19 December, 1927 when Pundit Ram Prasad Bismil was to be
hanged in Gorakhpur Jail, he recited this poem and by doing so,
he made it amar and people began to associate this poem with
his name (Shah Alam, Hindustan (Hindi) daily, 16 August, 2014)
Two senior Muslim members of Maharashtras MNS resign
Mumbai: Two senior and important Muslim leaders of Raj

Gadkari accepts three demands of Jamiatul Quraish

New Delhi: Union minister for road transport and highways Nitin
Gadkari, while speaking at the annual conference of All India
Jamiatul Quraish at India Islamic Cultural Centre, Delhi, accepted
three demands regarding difficulties being faced by the people
belonging to Quraish fraternity. He said that he would try in all
possible ways to remove the difficulties being faced by the people associated with meat business and trade. He also said that of
the demands made by Jamiatul Quraish President Sirajuddin
Quraish in a memorandum given to him three demands have
been accepted. The three demands accepted by him are: the
licence issued by one stae for transporting cattle from one place
to another or from one state to another will be acceptable in all
states, secondly, patrol magistrates will be appointed to settle or
tackle the cases about number of cattle being transported in
trucks and deal with and stop alleged excesses or harassments
(by police or people) and thirdly, arrangements will be made to
remove the difficulties being faced while transporting cattle for
slaughter.
He also made an appeal to expedite decision taking / making
process and another appeal to all people in general to cooperate
in governments effots to completely do away with peoples habit
of open defecation, either under compulsion (because no loos in
houses) or otherwise, during the remaing about 4 years of the
present government. He also made an appeal, particularly to
state ministers and government officials to fully cooperate in a
federal spirit in fulfilling the dream project of swachchh Bharat


of the prime minister.

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American Muslims 13 years after 9/11

Boko Haram kidnappings of schoolgirls in
Nigeria, and now the so-called Islamic State
The seven-million-strong Muslim American terrorists are rampaging through Iraq and
community remains under pressure, 13 Syria. The beheading of two Americans by
years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. the IS terrorists further fueled the antiAlarmingly, mainstream American opinion Muslim feelings.
The Muslim American communities are
of Muslims is getting worse. According to
the July survey of Arab American Institute target of sweeping surveillance. The New
(AAI) there has been a continued erosion in York Police Department (NYDP) has conthe favorable ratings Americans have of ducted widespread surveillance of entire
both Arabs and Muslims. For example, in Muslim neighborhoods in New York and
2010 favorable ratings for Arabs were 43 secretly labeled entire mosques as terrorist
percent. They have now declined to 32 per- organizations. This type of classification
cent. For Muslims, the ratings dropped from allows police to spy on members of the
36 percent in 2010, to 27 percent in the Muslim community without any evidence of
wrongdoing. In the years following 9/11,
2014 survey.
Not surprisingly, a direct consequence the NYPD's Demographics Unit has infiltratof this disturbing downward slide can be ed mosques and student groups, spied on
seen in the substantial number of the private lives of Muslims everywhere
Americans (42 percent) who say that they from their place of business to their homes,
support the use of profiling by law enforce- and systematically trampled their civil liberment against Arab Americans and ties - without any evidence of wrongdoing...
In February this year, a federal judge
American Muslims and a growing percentage of Americans who say that they lack dismissed a lawsuit challenging the New
confidence in the ability of individuals from York City Police Department's broad sureither community to perform their duties as veillance of Muslims in New Jersey...
In April, the New York Police
Americans should they be appointed to
important government positions. Thirty-six Department disbanded the unit that mapped
percent of respondents felt that the deci- New York's Muslim communities, their
sions made by Arab Americans would be places of worship, and businesses they freinfluenced by their ethnicity, while 42 per- quent - based on nothing but their religious
cent of respondents felt that American beliefs and associations...
In July the American Muslim communiMuslims would be negatively influenced by
their religion. To borrow Paul Craig Roberts, ty was alarmed at the revelations that the
in the post-9/11 era "a new generation of National Security Agency (NSA) covertly
Americans has been born into disdain and spied on leading American Muslims, including lawyers, and civil rights activists. In
distrust of Muslims."
What is the impact of this negative per- Glenn Greenwald's article published in The
ception? Hate crimes and harassment. Just Intercept, it was revealed that thousands of
two examples of this year. In March, community leaders, organizations, and
Hassan Alawsi, was shot dead in parking activists were targeted by the NSA...
lot in Sacramento CA. Detectives were According to documents provided by NSA
quoted as saying that his alleged killer, whistleblower Edward Snowden, the list of
Jeffrey Caylor, did not know Alawsi, 46. But Americans monitored by their own governthey believe he had a "severe hatred" of ment includes:
(1) Nihad Awad, the executive director
people of Middle Eastern descent. In June
in New York, a hate-filled taxi passenger of the Council on American-Islamic
smashed a Pakistani cabbie in the face with Relations (CAIR), the largest Muslim civil
a skateboard after asking the driver his rights organization in the country. (2) Dr.
nationality. The driver suffered a fractured Agha Saeed, a former political science pronose and facial cuts. In June also, Amayan fessor at California State University who
Shiha, an Egyptian native who manages a champions Muslim civil liberties and
halal food cart in New York, was stabbed Palestinian rights; (3) Faisal Gill, a longtime
15 times... And earlier this month, Linda Republican Party operative and one-time
Sarsour, a hijab-wearing civil rights activist, candidate for public office who held a topwas attacked on the streets of New York secret security clearance and served in the
City by a man who shouted that he wanted Department of Homeland Security under
to behead her and then chased her into traf- President George W. Bush; (4) Asim
Ghafoor, a prominent attorney who has repfic...
Hate attacks on mosques, harassment resented clients in terrorism-related cases;
of hijab-wearing Muslim women and bully- (5) Dr. Hooshang Amirahmadi, an Iranianing of Muslim students in schools is not American professor of international relauncommon. According to the Muslim Civil tions at Rutgers University. These individuRights Report for 2014, 933 incidents were als appear on an NSA spreadsheet in the
reported to the four offices of the Council Snowden archives called "FISA recap"on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in short for the Foreign Intelligence
California in 2013. Among other issues, Surveillance Act. The spreadsheet shows
complaints involved: employment discrimi- 7,485 email addresses listed as monitored
nation, federal law enforcement question- between 2002 and 2008.
There are reports that American
ing, excessive and intrusive travel delays,
Muslims are sometimes are coerced to
hate crimes, and school bullying.
A 2013 report identifies a network of become informers for the security agen37 organizations that systematically pro- cies. In April last, four Muslim-American
mote anti-Muslim sentiment in America men filed a lawsuit against the FBI, chargthrough prejudice, fear and hatred. ing that the bureau placed them on the "noAccording to tax filings, this network had fly list" in retaliation for their refusal to
access to nearly $120 million between inform on their communities and then
2008 and 2011. The report's title, denied them the chance to clear their
"Legislating Fear," comes in part from the names. "I do not want to become an
proliferation of so-called anti-Sharia bills in informant, but the government says I must
recent years. According to the report, 78 in order to be taken off the no-fly list," said
bills with negative implications towards Awais Sajjad, a plaintiff in the lawsuit.
How difficult it is to remove your name
Islamic religious practices were introduced
in 29 states between 2011 and 2012. As of from the no-fly list? The case of a
2013, seven states have made these bills Malaysian professor on a student visa is a
vivid example: Malaysian college professor
into law.
Undisputedly the horrible acts commit- Dr Rahinah Ibrahim, was removed from the
ted by few Muslims, in the name of Islam, no-fly list after seven years court battle. Dr.
have contributed to the anti-Muslim senti- Ibrahim sued the government back in 2006,
ments. In the last year alone we've seen the after her name mistakenly ended up on a
federal government
no-fly list...
U.S. Has Illegal
Muslim
'Blacklist,'
according to the
ACLU. In July longtime legal-resident
Muslims filed a case
in a Federal Court in
Los Angeles saying
that the United States
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Citizenship and Immigration Service has

consistently denied their applications for
citizenship and lawful permanent residence
after secretly blacklisting them as "'national
security concerns,'" though they pose no
threat to the United States...
While Muslims remain on security
radar in the post-9/11 America dozens of
Muslim bank accounts were closed without
any explanation in several US states. None
of these individuals have been charged with
any crimes or engaged in any transaction
that violates US law. The only thing these
individuals have in common is that they
have Muslim names.
The Los Angeles Times reported on
September 7, "From Washington state to
Florida, surprising letters from banks have
turned up in the mailboxes of at least a
dozen people. The message in each case:
Your bank account is being closed. What
frustrates the recipients is not only that they
are all of Middle Eastern descent - leading
them to suspect discrimination - but that
the banks refused to provide the reason for
kicking them out." The L. A. Times has verified about a dozen closures involving
Muslims, immigrants from the Middle East,
and groups such as Council on AmericanIslamic Relations chapters, but activists say
scores more have been affected...
In Washington State, the account of the
Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) was
closed without any explanation...In April
this year, the Minnesota chapter of CAIR
reported the systematic closure of
accounts held by Muslims at Chase,
SunTrust and TCF Bank...
In the post-9/11 America, all citizens
have witnessed a gradual erosion of their
civil rights. According to Paul Craig
Roberts, a generation of Americans has
been born into a police state in which privacy and constitutional protections no longer
exist. He wrote on the 13th anniversary of
September 11 tragedy: "9/11 was used to
fundamentally alter the nature of the US
government and its relationship to the
American people. Unaccountable executive
power has replaced due process and the
checks and balances established by the US
Constitution. In the name of National
Security, executive power knows no
restraints. Essentially, Americans today
have no rights if the government targets
them. Those Americans born after 9/11
were born into a different country from the
rest of us. Having never experienced constitutional government, they will not know
what they have lost." Perhaps, Georg
Orwell's worst nightmare has come true in
the wake of NSA whistle blower Edward
Snowden's revelations...
Thanks to NSA surveillance, Americans
are now more worried about civil liberties
than terrorism. A Pew survey in July last
year finds that "a majority of Americans 56% - say that federal courts fail to provide
adequate limits on the telephone and internet data the government is collecting as
part of its anti-terrorism efforts." And "an
even larger percentage (70%) believes that
the government uses this data for purposes
other than investigating terrorism." But the
most striking finding is this one: "Overall,
47% say their greater concern about government anti-terrorism policies is that they
have gone too far in restricting the average
person's civil liberties, while 35% say they
are more concerned that policies have not
gone far enough to protect the country. This
is the first time in Pew Research polling that
more have expressed concern over civil liberties than protection from terrorism since
the question was first asked in 2004."...
Prof. Gary Orfield of the UCLA Civil
Rights Project wrote in May 2003: "The
loss of civil rights often begins with the
reduction of rights in a time of crisis, for a
minority that has become the scapegoat for
a problem facing the nation. The situation
can become particularly explosive in a time
of national tragedy or war. But when civil
rights for one group of Americans are
threatened and the disappearance of those
rights is accepted, it becomes a potential
threat to many others."
Prof. Orfield wrote this while commenting on the plight of Arabs and Muslims who
were the immediate target of the Patriot Act
provisions and other legislations in the
aftermath of 9/11. However his prediction
proved correct about the erosion of civil
rights of all citizens. In the last thirteen
years we have seen a steady erosion of the
fundamental rights and civil liberties, all in
the name of national security.
Abdus Sattar Ghazali is the Chief Editor of
the
Journal
of
America
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The End of History?

The short, strange era of human civilization would appear to

be drawing to a close says NOAM CHOMSKY
It is not pleasant to contemplate the thoughts that must be passing
through the mind of the Owl of Minerva as the dusk falls and she
undertakes the task of interpreting the era of human civilization,
which may now be approaching its inglorious end.
The era opened almost 10,000 years ago in the Fertile Crescent,
stretching from the lands of the Tigris and Euphrates, through
Phoenicia on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean to the Nile Valley,
and from there to Greece and beyond. What is happening in this
region provides painful lessons on the depths to which the species
can descend.
The land of the Tigris and Euphrates has been the scene of
unspeakable horrors in recent years. The George W. Bush-Tony Blair
aggression in 2003, which many Iraqis compared to the Mongol
invasions of the 13th century, was yet another lethal blow. It
destroyed much of what survived the Bill Clinton-driven U.N. sanctions on Iraq, condemned as "genocidal" by the distinguished diplomats Denis Halliday and Hans von Sponeck, who administered them
before resigning in protest. Halliday and von Sponeck's devastating
reports received the usual treatment accorded to unwanted facts.
One dreadful consequence of the U.S.-U.K. invasion is depicted
in a New York Times "visual guide to the crisis in Iraq and Syria": the
radical change of Baghdad from mixed neighborhoods in 2003 to
today's sectarian enclaves trapped in bitter hatred. The conflicts ignited by the invasion have spread beyond and are now tearing the entire
region to shreds.
Much of the Tigris-Euphrates area is in the hands of ISIS and its
self-proclaimed Islamic State, a grim caricature of the extremist form
of radical Islam that has its home in Saudi Arabia. Patrick Cockburn,
a Middle East correspondent for The Independent and one of the
best-informed analysts of ISIS, describes it as "a very horrible, in
many ways fascist organization, very sectarian, kills anybody who
doesn't believe in their particular rigorous brand of Islam."
Cockburn also points out the contradiction in the Western reaction to the emergence of ISIS: efforts to stem its advance in Iraq along
with others to undermine the group's major opponent in Syria, the
brutal Bashar Assad regime. Meanwhile a major barrier to the spread
of the ISIS plague to Lebanon is Hezbollah, a hated enemy of the U.S.
and its Israeli ally. And to complicate the situation further, the U.S. and
Iran now share a justified concern about the rise of the Islamic State,
as do others in this highly conflicted region.
Egypt has plunged into some of its darkest days under a military
dictatorship that continues to receive U.S. support. Egypt's fate was
not written in the stars. For centuries, alternative paths have been
quite feasible, and not infrequently, a heavy imperial hand has barred
the way. After the renewed horrors of the past few weeks it should be
unnecessary to comment on what emanates from Jerusalem, in
remote history considered a moral center.
Eighty years ago, Martin Heidegger extolled Nazi Germany as
providing the best hope for rescuing the glorious civilization of the
Greeks from the barbarians of the East and West. Today, German
bankers are crushing Greece under an economic regime designed to
maintain their wealth and power.
The likely end of the era of civilization is foreshadowed in a new
draft report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC), the generally conservative monitor of what is happening to
the physical world. The report concludes that increasing greenhouse
gas emissions risk "severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts for
people and ecosystems" over the coming decades. The world is
nearing the temperature when loss of the vast ice sheet over
Greenland will be unstoppable. Along with melting Antarctic ice, that
could raise sea levels to inundate major cities as well as coastal
plains.
The era of civilization coincides closely with the geological epoch
of the Holocene, beginning over 11,000 years ago. The previous
Pleistocene epoch lasted 2.5 million years. Scientists now suggest
that a new epoch began about 250 years ago, the Anthropocene, the
period when human activity has had a dramatic impact on the physical world. The rate of change of geological epochs is hard to ignore.
One index of human impact is the extinction of species, now estimated to be at about the same rate as it was 65 million years ago
when an asteroid hit the Earth. That is the presumed cause for the
ending of the age of the dinosaurs, which opened the way for small
mammals to proliferate, and ultimately modern humans. Today, it is
humans who are the asteroid, condemning much of life to extinction.
The IPCC report reaffirms that the "vast majority" of known fuel
reserves must be left in the ground to avert intolerable risks to future
generations. Meanwhile the major energy corporations make no
secret of their goal of exploiting these reserves and discovering new
ones. A day before its summary of the IPCC conclusions, The New
York Times reported that huge Midwestern grain stocks are rotting so
that the products of the North Dakota oil boom can be shipped by rail
to Asia and Europe.
One of the most feared consequences of anthropogenic global
warming is the thawing of permafrost regions. A study in Science
magazine warns that "even slightly warmer temperatures [less than
anticipated in coming years] could start melting permafrost, which in
turn threatens to trigger the release of huge amounts of greenhouse
gases trapped in ice," with possible "fatal consequences" for the
global climate.
Arundhati Roy suggests that the "most appropriate metaphor for
the insanity of our times" is the Siachen Glacier, where Indian and
Pakistani soldiers have killed each other on the highest battlefield in
the world. The glacier is now melting and revealing "thousands of
empty artillery shells, empty fuel drums, ice axes, old boots, tents
and every other kind of waste that thousands of warring human
beings generate" in meaningless conflict. And as the glaciers melt,
India and Pakistan face indescribable disaster. Sad species. Poor
Owl.
Noam Chomsky is Institute Professor & Professor of Linguistics (Emeritus)
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the author of dozens of
books on U.S. foreign policy.

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ISIS and the American Way of War: The New Enemy Creation
STEVE BREYMAN
What better gift for the War On TerrorIndustrial-Complex (WOTIC) than the rapid
rise and initial success of the Islamic State,
formerly known as ISIS? A patchwork of
brutal know-nothing thugs, IS militants can't
wait to impose a twisted version of
"Shariah" on their unwilling victims, and to
terrorize actual and potential opponents
through mass executions and videotaped
beheadings. Just as eagerly, IS's selfdeclared 'enemies'-neocons in DC and
NATO warriors in London and Brussels-can't
wait to escalate their budding war against
these people, the inevitable and horrifying
collateral damage be damned.
Reality has not been kind to the WOTIC
(inside-the-Beltway fantasy is another
matter). US troops left Iraq several years
ago. Most US military personnel are slated
to depart Afghanistan before long. The
growing US military role in Africa is
potentially juicy but too muted at present to
excite much (Joseph Kony and abducted
Nigerian girls?). The toppling of Ghaddafi
proved a disaster (though don't look for an
admission of this from official Washington
or its hangers on). Obama hasn't yet made
all the same mistakes in Syria (just some of
them), though not for lack of
encouragement and needling by the War
Party.
Extrajudicial executions by drones are
sweet (take that al-Shabab!), but like eating
candy, the satisfaction is fleeting (how many
times can you whack the "leader" of the
Pakistani Taliban and still get the same
buzz?). The latest Israeli crimes against the
imprisoned inhabitants of Gaza were fun to
watch, but like televised sports, also not
wholly fulfilling. The ongoing conflict in
eastern Ukraine provides ample opportunity
for Putin-baiters and Russia-haters, but it's
not like unleashing the Joint Special
Operations Command.
Groups like ISIS, as Patrick Cockburn
and Tom Engelhardt, have made clear, don't
just appear out of thin air. They're built,
constructed out of wrong-headed Western
(especially US) foreign policies stretching
from the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq
(along with irresistible assistance to
warlords and sectarians) to the failure to
enthusiastically support Arab Spring
democrats. Add the waging of indefinite
counterterrorist and counterinsurgency
wars and we have the New Enemy Creation
Process.
Al-Qaeda was insufficient, US elites
needed to war against the Talibans in both
Afghanistan and Pakistan. Saddam Hussein
was not enough, George Bush's "bring 'em
on" engendered new and revitalized old
Sunni and Shia militias. The PLO was an
inadequate boogieman, American policy
demonized Hamas too. Columbian drug

runners were inadequate, Washington

added the FARC. When Muammar Ghaddafi
had to go, NATO got tribal gunmen (and
"Benghazi") in the bargain. When Bashar alAssad's time was up, the jihadis poured
forth.
Propagating an endless steam of new
enemies transforms war into a permanent
enterprise that generates trillions in debt,
billions in profits, and millions of security
clearances. New bureaucracies are built.
Old ones are strengthened and expanded.
Militarization transforms formerly civilian
police forces and once quiet international
borders.
No doubt war-mongering politicians and
pundits have plagued humanity since the
Peloponnesian War. American war
profiteering is older than the American
Republic. Imperial interventions began with
the War of 1812 (if counting the slaughter of
Natives, American colonists have been at it
since one of their first forays on to Cape
Cod). Perennial preparations for war have
been a central feature of American life since
the Truman administration.
What's changed is that the American
way of war-once subject to the constraints
of time and space-has been liberated from
its earthly shackles. American war has, like
much of the US economy, gone digital,
global, untethered by democratic control.
US foreign and defense policy has become
a New Enemy Creation Process: always
hungry, ever alert. The Islamic State is
almost too good to be true for the War on
Terror-Industrial-Complex.
Obama will reportedly "declare war" on
the Islamic State on September 10. (It's
somewhat surprising his advisors didn't
suggest waiting an additional day to
maximize historical resonance). Unnamed
"senior administration officials" and "military
planners" tell the New York Times that the
campaign against IS may last "at least 36
months."
The CIA spent most of the 1980s
across the border in Pakistan in support of
armed groups that would later become alQaeda, the Haqqani Group, and the Taliban;
the US military has been in Afghanistan
since 2001. US military forces and
intelligence agencies have been in, over, and
around Iraq-with varying degrees of lethal
intensity-since 1990. There is no reason to
believe the ongoing war against IS won't be
as boundless or last as long, that is, without
limits in time or space.
US peace groups are profoundly familiar
with the institutional, political-economic,
and ideological changes necessary to stop
creating new enemies. The American public
is dog-tired of endless war. If only the
former could energize the latter.
(Countercurrents.org) Steve Breyman is a
former grassroots environmental health
organization executive and US State Department
Fellow. Reach him at breyms@rpi.edu

Another pretext,
another American war
DR JAVED JAMIL
Another pretext. Another attack on yet another
Muslim country. America goes again, pounding targets in Syria, apparently to destroy ISIS, the latest villain created by West.
The Nobel Laureate of Peace is doing it without
even caring to take Congressional approval, and
without even proving that there was an "Imminent
Threat" from Syria, the technical term used to justify
American military engagement in another country
without Congressional approval.
It is another matter that Bashar-al Assad, the person West has loved to hate for years, must be laughing. The country, and its regional allies, that sought
to destroy him are now set to destroy his opponents.
This remains the inside story of all American
invasions in the Middle East. They achieve just the
opposite of what they intend to achieve in the long
term. They may feel sadistic pleasure in temporary
victories showing to the world how devastating their
air power have been. Of course, in the end, this time
too, they would end up killing much bigger number of
civilians than a Baghdadi could do, the same way
they killed much more in Iraq than Saddam could
ever have done. The champions of human rights
almost always end up killing humans and then they
have the audacity to call these totally unnecessary
deaths as "collateral damage". The 2000 odd people
including more than 500 children that Israel killed in
the latest attacks on Gaza were also "collateral damage" in the eyes of Obama. Obama deserves anoth-

er Nobel for Peace, this time preferably in partnership

with Netanyahu and Kerry. Alternatively, a group of
regimes - Saudi, UAE, Qatar and Egypt can be chosen for Peace this year along with of course the US
and Israel.
Thanks to the US-Israel interventions, the Middle
East is much more Islamised now than it used to be
about four decades back, even much more than it
was a decade back. Increased hostility towards West
is the ultimate result. More attacks by America, and
there will be greatrer hostility. It appears that both US
and Middle East rulers, not the people, are enjoy the
engagement.
What an irony that for the last several years,
West has been trying to foment Sunni-Shia hatred to
the hilt to achieve its grand objectives, and has
instead ended in pitting Sunnis against Sunnis. What
a wonderful demonstration of the wisdom on the
part of the Sunni World!
The Arab kingdoms have learnt the art of keeping the clerics all over the world in good humour
through lucrative grants, and they continue to rule
without much trouble. If America is on their side,
they believe, and the clerics, their kingdoms are safe.
Even if a "Spring" succeeds for the time being, they
feel, the US will restore them.
The attacks on Syria have just begun. What will
they achieve, remains to be seen. But America
should rest assured; it will not help its cause. Policy
of hostilities, invasions, creation of villains on regular
basis and then targeting them will not help for long.
They will have to learn better ways to perpetuate their
hegemony. Only if they rule the hearts of the people
and not the skies, they will exert their true power.
Otherwise, every confrontation will ultimately
boomerang towards them.
The author is Delhi-based writer with over a dozen books.
He may be contacted at doctorforu123@yahoo.com

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Is Another Desert Storm in the Making?

KARAMATULLAH K. GHORI
k_k_ghori@yahoo.com
One may be forgiven, after listening to President
Obamas latest 9/11 anniversary-eve speech,
this September 10, from the Oval Office, for
believing that both Senior and Junior Bush had
resurfaced at the helm of US in the guise of
White Houses present occupant.
Obamas rhetoric in the speech where he
unfurled his global programme to combat the
menace of Islamic State, variously known as IS or ISIS or even
ISIL was vintage George W. Bush. Just as Dubya Bush had thundered, in the wake of the cataclysmic 9/11, to give no quarters to
those whod unleashed terror on American soil, Obama, too,
warned his IS quarries that they will find no sanctuary anywhere
after challenging the might of US. Articulating typical neo con rhetoric, Obama set the degrading and ultimately destroying ISas
thegoal of his military campaign.
The only thing different in Obamas war plan was that he
desisted from deploying the Dubya Bush rhetoric of launching a
crusade. But his Vice-President, Joe Biden, had earlier served
notice-while presiding over a Senate vote-that US would be prepared to chase the throat-slitting vandals of IS to the gates of hell.
While Obama may have been carried away, emotionally and
inadvertently, in rehashing the Dubya Bush elocution in the heat of
the moment generated by the IS savagery of decapitating an
American journalist, James Foley, his plan to assemble a grand
coalition of nations in sync with his initiative sounds as good as
resurrecting Bush Sr.s 1990-91 Operation Desert Storm.
George Bush (Sr.) was the architect of that modern-day armada of Western powers-generously bankrolled by oil-affluent monarchies and sheikhdoms of the Gulf-that came sailing to the waters
of the Gulf and put paid to Saddam Husseins occupation of tiny
Kuwait. Of course Bush Sr. had Iron Lady Margaret Thatcher of
Britain standing squarely behind his every move ( and proving true
the old dictum that behind every successful man stands a woman)
and fortifying him with her words-of-steel not to wobble or wimp.
But much as Obama may feign to have the gall of Dubya Bush
and the gritty resolve of Bush Sr. there are marked differences
between the original Desert Storm and the one Obama is flexing
his muscles-much too late and meekly, according to his hawkish
critics-to conjure up in the face of IS challenge.
For one, there was, then, a known and identifiable enemy in
Saddam Hussein who was the leader of a state whose territory and
boundaries were also well-known. It was, in military terms, easy to
go after him. He was, in military parlance, a sitting duck. And
George Bushs grand coalition of the willing did indulge in duckshooting to its hearts content once the guns had stated blazing.
Here, in this case, IS may have proclaimed itself as a state
but there are no takers in the world-at least not yet-of its claim of
statehood. It may have poached, violently and ruthlessly, on territory in both Syria and Iraq-and is occupying large swathes of land
in both these countries-but the boundaries of the putative state
are neither defined nor recognisable.
For all intents and purposes, IS is an ephemeral and illusory
state which cant be identified, or described, by known yardsticks
of statehood. Even the strength of its army of zealots-in numbersis murky. Western sources were initially dismissing its fighterstrength at around ten thousand. However, on the heels of Obamas
announcement to take them on, militarily, CIA and other Western
intelligence agencies have ramped up the number up to 30,000plus. It will be nothing short of a nightmare for Obamas generals
to prepare their battle plans with the kind of certainty that guided
them against Saddam.
For another, international ambience-particularly in the traditional bastion of US support in Europe-is far from being that friendly
it was at the time of the first Desert Storm.
The Berlin Wall had come crumbling down a year before
Saddam indulged in his ill-advised adventure. European allies of
George Bush were in an elated mood, and Soviet Union was on its
last throes. The world had become unipolar in favour of US and its
Western minions. There was no rival super power backlash to fear.
Washington had a free hand to tackle Saddam whichever way it
liked.

Today, a rejuvenated Russia under Putin is up and running and

ready to call the Western bluff. Ukraine has become a thorn in the
European side, in particular, and its murky situation is becoming
murkier by the day to keep the European gaze riveted on it. Under
Americas goading European powers may be inclined to slap sanctions on Russia for its alleged meddling in Ukraine but they cant
help shuddering at the thought that Russia has within its ken the
means to tighten the screws on them, especially on the sensitive
Russian gas supplies to Europe. One can already sense the lack of
warmth in European response to Obamas clarion call to help him
beat back IS assault. The approaching winter alone can sap any
enthusiasm among Washingtons European allies an give them visibly cold feet.
The wealthy Arab potentates are ready, as in the past, to loosen
their purse strings as much as demanded from their American
mentors. They may hold off much needed socio-economic benefits of their wealth from their own nationals but they dont fail their
masters whenever commanded to chip in. Their territories and air
spaces will also be available as launching pads. But thats about
all; they dont have the armies to become foot-soldiers of Western
interests. There shouldnt be too much enthusiasm in the Western
camp for Arab armies in action after witnessing the ignominious
performance-retreat, in fact-of the Iraqi army in the face of IS
assaults. And the new Iraqi army had been trained by US at the
cost of billions of dollars.
Obama himself is clearly wobbly and diffident as far as a credible military strategy to face off the ISIS menace is concerned.
Conscious of the debacle of Dubya Bushs Iraqi adventurewhich primarily is responsible for spawning the monster of ISISObama is understandably shy of using his army to be the boots
against the scourge.
Obama has said so, categorically, that theres no intent to have
a combat mission of US in the plans to crush IS. But he has already
been publicly contradicted on this score by the Chairman of Joint
Chiefs of Staff-Obamas principal general-General Dempsey, who
wouldnt be shy of using American troops on Iraqi soil, once again,
if circumstances so warranted.
General Dempsey and others of his ilk may flex their muscles
to earn Brownie points from the hawks in Congress-such as a warmongering Senator John Mc Caine who would be satisfied with
nothing less than a permanently militarily occupied Iraq-but blowing hot and cold is insufficient to convince a war-weary and skeptical world that US and its motley allies have a workable strategy to
rid Iraq and Syria-and the region around-of the terror epitomised by
IS.
A look at the strange chemistry of the grand new alliance
Obama seeks to assemble to take on IS would suffice to prompt
many more questions than it may answer.
European powers, such as France and Britain, would of course
pitch in with their air power to join US aerial combat against IS.
However, theres no guarantee that aerial bombing would produce
desired results against an elusive target and an enemy that has
gathered a lot of battle-hard experience over the past three years in
fighting the Assad forces in Syria.
But in the region around Iraq and Syria, heavy lifting-by way of
providing billions of dollars in funds and also opening up their
ground facilities and bases for Desert Storm-II-will be furnished,
principally, by Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Arabi is in the alliance largely for two reasons: it wants
the Assad regime in Syria destroyed; and it also wants, now, to
make sure that the monster, ISIS, that its wealth and patronage
helped spawn, is degraded to the extent where it poses no threat to
Al-Sauds dynastic choke-hold over Saudi Arabia.
But the destruction of ISIS is sought, in equal measure if not
more, by Assad regime. Would the Saudis be prepared to be in bed
with Assad on reaching this target? Would the old adage of the
enemy of my enemy is my friend bond the Saudis with Assad
regime or would they still prefer to follow their agenda against
Assad?
The Americans also know for good-and Kerry has guardedly,
though not eloquently, articulated this obvious reality-that they cant
hope to win the war against the vandals of IS without active support and co-operation of Iran. Irans role and input would be crucial
notwithstanding Kerrys boast, after the recent Paris Conference,
that Desert Storm-II has already enlisted 50 countries participation. Many of these 50, especially those from EU, would be as good

as sleeping partners and of little help at the brass tack level.

However, despite Irans lynchpin status in the equation, it was
kept out of the Paris conclave just because of Saudi Arabia exercising its virtual veto on Iranian participation.
Iran may have fumed, privately, at the affront but maintained,
publicly, a cool posture of nonchalance. It was tantamount to be
saying Iran couldnt-care-less at the Saudi perfidy that kept it
away from Paris. Iran has been engaged in Syria ever since its ally,
the Assad regime, came under assault from forces equipped and
supplied by Saudi Arabia, Qatar and a clutch of private, wealthy,
donors from several other countries of the Gulf. Iran may not have
its own soldiers involved in the combat-its adversaries maintain
that it does-but its proxies, such as Hizbollah of Lebanon, have
been filling the need actively.
The same dilemma confronts Obama and his random crowd of
allies in regard to the role of Assad regime in the military mission
to finish off IS. The regular Syrian army has the experience and
necessary wherewithal to tackle the menace with resolution and
success. None of the US allies could fit the bill as effectively as the
Syrian army. But Obama is not only shy of enlisting Syria, formally, as an ally in the fight against IS but is threatening to bomb the
Syrian territory-without Assad regimes concurrence-in the intended mission to hound IS out of Syria.
The bombing of ISIS targets has, in fact, already started. As
these lines were being written, television channels have come up
with the breaking news of US cruise and other missiles hitting IS
targets inside Syria in a surprise attack. Obama is apparently intent
on his own Shock and Awe campaign, just the way Desert Storm
was launched in early 1991 against Iraq. Clearly, Syrias concurrence in this air raid hasnt been sought. Obama says he doesnt
need any authorisation from anyone, including UN and US
Congress. The Lone Ranger is going to do it alone. Interestingly,
Obama is scheduled to address the UN General Assembly on the
inauguration day of its annual session in New York. Imperial hubris
has presaged that address with a loud bang.
There is, in short, a bewildering and mind-boggling array of Ifs
and Buts bedeviling the plans to combat IS under a US-led grand
military alliance that may look impressive on paper but is full of
glaring contradictions and fault lines inherent in it are hard to
escape even a cursory look at it. Obama, awakening tardily to the
grave threat from a marauding IS, is at best tying up knots of convenience that would be tenuous if not outright ridiculous and
absurd.
Earlier, it was on US prompting that Saudi Arabia and Qatar-and
other unnamed donors with bulging coffers-presided over the birth
of extremists tasked with the mission to topple the Assad regime.
Failing in that mission, the blood-thirsty murderers turned upon
their patrons who, in fright, are now ready to finance a US-led
scheme to destroy them. Does it not beg the obvious question why
anyone should trust US and its unthinking allies the mission to
annihilate monsters of their own creation?
But the rise of ISIS, the birth of IS under its flag and, now, the
virtual rebirth of the 1990-91 Operation Desert Storm opens up a
vast new field of opportunism for the Bush-era neo cons and their
multiple followers in a growing number of Western countries to
indulge, with impunity-and in fact under a new license-in their
favourite sport of Muslim -baiting. Islamophobia has been given a
shot in the arm-a hefty dose of it at that-by Obamas unfurling of
his and his allied flags to indulge in military combat, once again,
with force in Muslim lands.
A new dragnet, a vigorous witch-hunt, of suspected aficionados of IS among the Muslim youth has already been kicked off in
countries as far apart, physically, as Australia and Canada. The latter country has armed its cabinet ministers to cancel the passports
of not only those Muslim nationals of theirs fighting alongside IS
terrorists in Syria or Iraq but also of those suspected of harbouring
intent to join them. Its all being done in the name of security.
On cue from the latest venture, European countries, like
Germany, France and Britain, are witnessing a new wave of antiMuslim propaganda on the excuse that anti-Semitism is on the rise
among European Muslims because of IS activities.
It shouldnt take long for Muslims across the Western world to
come to the conclusion that ISIS is playing a leading role in making their lives miserable. They dont need other enemies when there
is the blood-thirsty and head-chopping IS to compound their suffering.

US-UK Killed 3.3 Million, including 750,000 Children in Iraq during 1990-2012
SHERWOOD ROSS
Approximately 3.3 million Iraqis, including 750,000
children, were exterminated by economic sanctions and/or illegal wars conducted by the U.S. and
Great Britain between 1990 and 2012, an eminent
international legal authority says.
The slaughter fits the classic definition of
Genocide Convention Article II of, Deliberately
inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in
whole or in part, says Francis Boyle, professor
of international law at the University of Illinois,
Champaign, and who in 1991 filed a classaction complaint with the UN against President
George H.W. Bush.
The U.S. and U.K. obstinately insisted that
their sanctions remain in place until after the
illegal Gulf War II aggression perpetrated by
President George W. Bush and UKs Tony Blair in

March, 2003, not with a view to easing the over

decade-long suffering of the Iraqi people and
children but to better facilitate the U.S./U.K.
unsupervised looting and plundering of the Iraqi
economy and oil fields in violation of the international laws of war as well as to the grave detriment of the Iraqi people, Boyle said.
In an address last Nov. 22 to The
International Conference on War-affected
Children in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Boyle tallied
the death toll on Iraq by U.S.-U.K. actions as follows:
# The slaughter of 200,000 Iraqis by
President Bush in his illegal 1991 Gulf War I.
# The deaths of 1.4 million Iraqis as a result
of the illegal 2003 war of aggression ordered by
President Bush Jr. and Prime Minister Blair.
# The deaths of 1.7 million Iraqis as a
direct result of the genocidal sanctions.
Boyles class-action complaint demanded

an end to all economic sanctions against Iraq;

criminal proceedings for genocide against
President George H.W. Bush; monetary compensation to the children of Iraq and their families for deaths, physical and mental injury; and
for shipping massive humanitarian relief supplies to that country.
The grossly hypocritical UN refused to terminate the sanctions, Boyle pointed out, even
though its own Food and Agricultural
Organizations Report estimated that by 1995
the sanctions had killed 560,000 Iraqi children
during the previous five years.
Boyle noted that then U.S. Secretary of State
Madeline Albright was interviewed on CBS-TV
on May 12, 1996, in response to a question by
Leslie Stahl if the price of half a million dead
children was worth it, and replied, we (the U.S.
government) think the price is worth it.
Albrights shocking response provides

proof positive of the genocidal intent by the

U.S. government against Iraq under the
Genocide Convention, Boyle said, adding that
the government of Iraq today could still bring
legal action against the U.S. and the U.K. in the
International Court of Justice. He said the U.S.U.K. genocide also violated the municipal legal
systems of all civilized nations in the world; the
1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child; and
the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949 and its
Additional Protocol 1 of 1977.
Boyle, who was stirred to take action pro
bono by Mothers in Iraq after the economic
sanctions had been imposed upon them by the
Security Council in August, 1990, in response to
pressure from the Bush Senior Administration.
He is the author of numerous books on international affairs, including Destroying World
Order (Clarity Press)

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The Delight of Selflessness

ABU MUHAMMAD YUSUF
Sacrifice is part of nature. The excruciating pain a mother
endures patiently at childbirth, the years a teacher spends in
educating children, the medical personnel who attend to accident scenes in the dead of night, the police who patrol the
streets during odd hours and extreme weather, the guards
who protect the borders, the patience of innocent civilians
under oppressive regimes are just but a few examples of sacrifices for humanity.
Great achievements and happiness are borne out of sacrifice and not out of selfishness
Sacrifice may vary in degree and form. Sometimes it may be
little and at times it may be immense. It could mean surrendering some of our wealth, time or even health for the benefit
of others. Sacrifice is an important part in our contribution to
society and humanity.
Sacrifice always brings joy to both the beneficiary and the
giver. Sacrifice is a part of life. Its supposed to be. Its not
something to regret. Its something to aspire to, to be proud
of.
Allah taala promises to reward you for your sacrifices
and most certainly He will increase it manifold. He The
Almighty says:
Say, Indeed, my Lord extends provision for whom He
wills of His servants and restricts (it) for them. But whatever
you spend (give), He will compensate it; and He is the best of
Providers (The Quran, 34:39).
The Noble Messenger of Allah, Muhammad (pbuh) is
reported to have said: No one of you is a believer until he
loves for his brother that which he loves for himself. (Bukhari
& Muslim)
There is an incident about a little girl named Ameena who
was suffering from a rare and serious disease. Her only
chance of recovery appeared to be a blood transfusion from
her 5-year old brother Abdullah, who had miraculously survived the same disease and had developed the antibodies
needed to combat the illness. The doctor explained the situation to her little brother Abdullah carefully, and asked the little
boy if he would be willing to give his blood to his sister
Ameena who needed it urgently to survive.
Abdullah hesitated for only a moment before taking a
deep breath and saying, Yes, Ill do it, if it will save her. As
the transfusion progressed, he lay in bed next to his sister

Learn From
Allahs Patience
DR. HAZEM SAID & MAHA EZZEDDINE
Abu Musa Al-Ashari (may Allah be pleased
with him) narrated that the Prophet (pbuh) said:
None is more patient in the face of offence than
God. People say He has a son, but He continues to protect them and provide for
them.(Bukhari)
This hadith tells us about the kindness and
patience of God in response to the offence of
His servants. When we learn of a characteristic
of God, part of our worship is to aspire to exem-

Daily we all face a challenge to what

extent will we give. If we cannot give
the ultimate, then let us at least do
whatever little we can to bring about
joy or benefit to others.
and smiled, seeing that when the blood was given, colour
was returning to Ameenas cheeks.
After some time Abdullahs face grew pale and his smile
faded. Then Abdullah looked up at the doctor and asked with
a trembling voice, Will I start to die right away?
Being young, the little boy had misunderstood the doctor;
he thought he was going to have to give his sister Ameena all
of his blood in order to save her life.
This is the ultimate in self-sacrifice where a person is
willing to give his life. Daily we all face a challenge to what
extent will we give. If we cannot give the ultimate, then let us
at least do whatever little we can to bring about joy or benefit to others.
Value and appreciate the people who sacrifice something
for you as maybe their something was their everything
Piety, sacrifice and giving are all inter-related. Allah Taala
says: Never will you attain righteousness until you spend
(give) from that which you love. And whatever you spend
(give), indeed Allah is Knowing of it (The Quran, 3:92).
Sacrifice is usually accompanied by difficulty and our sincerity is put to test. Its easy to sacrifice and give to those
who give back. The real test is to give to those who can give
you nothing in return. This reality is often very difficult for
people to grasp -- that whatever one gives or sacrifices for in
a good cause is not at all lost. When you sacrifice something
precious, youre not really losing it. Youre just passing it on
to someone else and hoping for a reward from your Creator.
In fact, there is a huge source of reward for the giver both
in this temporary world and much more in the Hereafter. The
Messenger of Allah (pbuh) is reported to have said:
He who removes from a believer one of his difficulties of
this world, Allah will remove one of his troubles on the Day of
Resurrection (Muslim).
Let us sacrifice our little for humanity today. Remember
drops form puddles and puddles form rivers and rivers form
oceans!

plify that value in our lives.

Compassion and forbearance in the face of
harm is essential to peace, because flaws and
weaknesses will always exist among people.
Only when we can transcend the hurt that we
may receive from others and respond with compassion are we truly committed to peace.
In facing offence, one should resort to
patience before thinking of revenge. Patience
gives us time to cool down and think through the
situation before we do something that we may
regret afterwards. Patience is a virtue of those
who enjoy the inner strength, and with patience
we acquire respect and the ability to control any
situation we are in.
Verses and sayings that encourage forgiveness do not imply that we should not
seek justice and solutions to the harm com-

ISLAMIC PERSPECTIVES
My Friend and His Pen
I had known a friend of mine who used to say that he misplaces and loses his pen very often. He said, now he will use
only very cheap pens so that he need not worry about losing
them. He was worried about his carelessness habit.
I suggested to him to buy the costliest pen he could afford
and see what happens. He did that and purchased a 22 carat
Cross pen. I met him after nearly six months and asked him
if he continues to misplace his pen?. He said that he is very
careful about his costly pen and he is surprised how he has
changed!
I explained to him that the value of the pen made the difference and there was nothing wrong with him as a person!
This is what happens in our life. We are careful with
things which we value most.
If we value our health, we will be careful about what and how
we eat;
If we value our friends, we will treat them with respect;
If we value money, we will be careful while spending;
If we value our time, we will not waste it;
If we value relationships we will not break them;
If we value our parents love, we will not break it.
Carefulness is a basic trait all of us have and we all know
when to be careful! Carelessness only shows what we dont

value...

Stay Patient in Hard Times

One of the best remedies for tough times is to be patient. State of
patience requires that we not resort to complaining, and remember Allah often. We take this lesson from the story of Prophet
Yusuf (upon whom be peace) who went through various ordeals
in life only to be rewarded with a large kingdom in his later years.

Allah tells us in the Quran: They said: Are you indeed

Yusuf (Joseph)? He said: I am Yusuf (Joseph), and this is my
brother (Benjamin). Allah has indeed been gracious to us. Verily,
he who fears Allah with obedience to Him (by abstaining from
sins and evil deeds, and by performing righteous good deeds),
and is patient, then surely, Allah wastes not the reward of the
good-doers. (The Quran, 12:90)
The Quran also says, Thus did We give full authority to
Yusuf (Joseph) in the land, to take possession therein, when or
where he likes. We bestow of Our Mercy on whom We will, and
We waste the reward of the good-doers. (The Quran, 12:56)
The Prophet (pbuh) said, Jibreel recited the Quran to me in
one way. Then I requested him (to read it in another way), and
continued asking him to recite it in other ways, and he recited it
in several ways till he ultimately recited it in seven different
ways. (Sahih Al-Bukhari and Muslim).(Adam Mohamed Sait)

mitted by others. To the contrary, there are

many teachings encouraging, even requiring,
us to do so.
There is a methodology for resolving problems and seeking restitution. However, there is
another aspect that goes hand in hand. While
we are working out the problem, we can continue to practice kindness and fulfill our duties to
people even in the face of harm. When we are
wronged, it does not give us licence to abandon
someone or attack him or her with similar injustice. Rather we should resort to the proper
methodology for resolving conflict. Meanwhile,
the compassion continues. Kindness and basic
respect should transcend all social and legal
systems.
In order to practice this level of benevolence, we need to invest in our own spirituality

and connection with God. It may be difficult to

extend kindness to those who harm us-until we
remember that we are doing it for God.
The individuals with whom we are conflicted also belong to God. Among Gods names is
the Most Merciful, and He is also The Just. So
when we extend kindness to those who harm
us, we are in fact reaching out to the kindness
of God. (Excerpted from the authors Seeking Peace onislam.net).

Dr. Hazem Said has been active in the Muslim

community in America for over 10 years and held
many leadership posts. He is an associate professor
of Information Technology at the University of
Cincinnati; Maha Ezzeddine has a bachelor degree
in Journalism and History from the University of
Maryland - College Park and a Masters degree in
History from Stanford University.

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Book: HOW AMERICA WAS LOST - From 9/11 to the
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The tragedy of September 11, 2001, goes far beyond the deaths
of those who died in the towers and the deaths of firefighters and
first responders who succumbed to illnesses caused by inhalation
of toxic dust. For thirteen years a new generation of Americans
has been born into the 9/11 myth that has been used to create the
American warfare/police state.
The corrupt Bush and Obama regimes used 9/11 to kill,
maim, dispossess and displace millions of Muslims in seven
countries, none of whom had anything whatsoever to do with
9/11. A generation of Americans has been born into disdain and
distrust of Muslims. A generation of Americans has been born into
a police state in which privacy and constitutional protections no
longer exist. A generation of Americans has been born into continuous warfare while needs of citizens go unmet. A generation of
Americans has been born into a society in which truth is replaced
with the endless repetition of falsehoods.
According to the official story, on September 11, 2001, the
vaunted National Security State of the Worlds Only Superpower
was defeated by a few young Saudi Arabians armed only with box
cutters. The American National Security State proved to be totally
helpless and was dealt the greatest humiliation ever inflicted on
any country claiming to be a power.
That day no aspect of the National Security State worked.
Everything failed. The US Air Force for the first time in its history
could not get intercepter jet fighters into the air. The National
Security Council failed. All sixteen US intelligence agencies failed
as did those of Americas NATO and Israeli allies. Air Traffic
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Instead, the White House resisted for one year the 9/11 families demands for an investigation. Finally, a collection of politicians was assembled to listen to the governments account and to
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history resulted in not a single firing. No one was held responsible. Washington concluded that 9/11 was possible because
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The PATRIOT Act, which was awaiting the event was quickly
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White Houses story. Osama bin Laden became the only human in
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machine in what was said to be bin Ladens hideaway. The
numerous obituaries of bin Ladens death in December 2001 went
down the memory hole. And the SEAL team died a few weeks later
in a mysterious helicopter crash in Afghanistan. The thousands of
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have been dumped into the Indian Ocean all wrote home that no
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Obamas nomination for a second term. It also freed the war on
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known not to have organizations, and the succession of faked bin
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less believable.
The case made by independent experts is now so compelling
that mainstream media has opened to it. Here is Richard Gage of
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persistence a group in New York has secured the necessary number of valid signatures to put on the ballot a vote to investigate the
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episode stinks to high heaven. Justice is something that exists

outside the borders of the United States. Never expect to find justice within the United States.
Most Americans are unaware of the extent to which the federal government owns the experts who can contradict its fairy tales.
For example, no competent physicist can possibly believe the official story of the destruction of the three WTC buildings. But
physics departments in US universities are heavily dependent on
federal money. Any physicist who speaks his mind jeopardizes not
only his own career but also the career of all of his colleagues.
Physicist Steven Jones, who first pointed to the use of thermite in
the destruction of the two towers had to agree to having his university buy out his tenure or his university was faced with losing
all federal financing.
The same constraints operate in the private sector. High rise
architects and structural engineers who express doubts about the
official explanation of the collapse of three skyscrapers are viewed
by potential clients as Muslim apologists and conspiracy kooks.
The clients, of course, have no expert knowledge with which
to assess the issue, but they are indoctrinated with ceaseless,
endless, repetition that 9/11 was Osama bin Ladens attack on
America. Their indoctrination makes them immune to facts.
The 9/11 lie has persisted for 13 years. Millions of Muslims
have paid for this lie with their lives, the destruction of their families, and with their dislocation. Most Americans remain comfortable with the fact that their government has destroyed in whole or
part seven countries based on a lie Washington told to cover up
an inside job that launched the crazed neoconservatives drive for
Washingtons World Empire.
Even as the view of America as a rogue state consolidates
abroad, Americans appear largely bystanders at the spectacle of
their government running amok. People forget the myriad
instances of their governments flouting of the Constitution and
international legal norms--if ever they were aware of them in the
first place--accepting to live in the increasingly pernicious new
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This remarkable anthology of columns documents and
reminds us of the extraordinary developments that, in their accumulation, have led to the destruction of accountable and moral
government in the US.
Few American commentators have cut more clearly through
the deepening deceit, hypocrisy and outright criminality that has
infested official Washington since 9/11 than Paul Craig Roberts.
His scathing critique sheds much-needed light on the countrys
impending nightmare-economic collapse, internal repression,
ongoing wars, and rising rejection by friends and foes alike.
How America Was Lost marks Roberts as one of the most
prescient and courageous moral commentators in America today.
Americas fate was sealed when the public and the anti-war
movement bought the governments 9/11 conspiracy theory. The
governments account of 9/11 is contradicted by much evidence.
Nevertheless, this defining event of our time, which has launched
the US on interminable wars of aggression and a domestic police
state, is a taboo topic for investigation in the media. It is pointless
to complain of war and a police state when one accepts the premise upon which they are based.
These trillion dollar wars have created financing problems for
Washingtons deficits and threaten the U.S. dollars role as world
reserve currency. The wars and the pressure that the budget
deficits put on the dollars value have put Social Security and
Medicare on the chopping block. Former Goldman Sachs chairman and U.S. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson is after these protections for the elderly. Fed chairman Bernanke is also after them.
The Republicans are after them as well. These protections are
called entitlements as if they are some sort of welfare that people have not paid for in payroll taxes all their working lives.
With over 21 per cent unemployment as measured by the
methodology of 1980, with American jobs, GDP, and technology
having been given to China and India, with war being
Washingtons greatest commitment, with the dollar over-burdened
with debt, with civil liberty sacrificed to the war on terror, the liberty and prosperity of the American people have been thrown into
the trash bin of history.
The militarism of the U.S. and Israeli states, and Wall Street
and corporate greed, will now run their course.
The author, Paul Craig Roberts, iis a former Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury, and associate editor and columnist for
the Wall Street Journal. He has held academic appointments in six
universities, including the William E. Simon Chair in Political
Economy, Center for Strategic and International Studies,
Georgetown. His latest books are The Failure of Laissez Faire


Capitalism and How America Was Lost.

clever to frame the issue in terms of public safety and not in terms
of 9/11 truth.
New York authorities, of course, continue to oppose the initiative. The question now rests on a judges ruling. It is difficult to
imagine a judge going against the government in such a major
way, but the group will have made the point that the government
has no confidence in the truth of its own story.
Over these 13 years, physicists, chemists, architects, engineers, pilots, and first responders have provided massive evidence that completely disproves the official account of the failure
of the three skyscrapers. The response to experts has been for
non-experts to call experts conspiracy theorists. In other words,
the defenders of the governments story have no scientific or factual basis on which to stand. So they substitute name-calling.
9/11 was used to fundamentally alter the nature of the US
government and its relationship to the American people.
Unaccountable executive power has replaced due process and the
checks and balances established by the US Constitution. In the
name of National Security, executive power knows no restraints.
Essentially, Americans today have no rights if the government targets them.
Those Americans born after 9/11 were born into a different
country from the rest of us. Having never experienced constitutional government, they will not know what they have lost.
The anthrax attacks of October 2001 have been forgotten, but
Professor Graeme MacQueen in The 2001 Anthrax Deception
(Clarity Press, 2014) shows that the anthrax attacks played an
essential role in setting the stage for the governments acquisition
of unaccountable police state power. Two Democratic Senate
committee chairmen, Thomas Daschle and Patrick Leahy, were
disturbed by the Bush regimes overreach for carte blanche
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by a US government military facility.
The response to this monkey wrench thrown into the governments propaganda, was the FBIs frame-up of a dead man, Bruce
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Muslim community in particular. We would be guilty of gross
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rights.
Dr. Hayath Ismail, Bangalore
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Please continue. Good Work.
Abdul Rashid, Taj Enclave, Delhi- 110031
III
Extending hearty compliments to MG Editor for selection of important
issues/problems pertaining to Muslim community, important
judgements of courts acquitting innocents.
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I pray for long life of MG for the service of the community and humanity.
Prof Ishtiyaq Ahmad Zilli, Aligarh
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Today my father received the Milli Gazette newspaper which I had
ordered few days back. He appreciated Milli Gazette a lot. He is saying
that this newspaper presented facts and covered almost all the things
which biased media never want to show us. Also he had given a few
suggestion for this newspaper. 1. Publish more local news; 2. Publish
a matrimonial page also so that Muslim parents can search good
Muslim brides and grooms; 3. Also publish various instances where
Muslims had done good social deeds like helping poor, helping flood
victims, excelling in their academics, doing scientific innovation.
Farhan, Kareli, Allahabad 211016
Today's India - An Assessment of an Indian Muslim
(With profound apologies to Rabindranath Tagore)
Where the mind is full of fear and the head is bowed down,
Where employment is scare,
Where the land is broken up into fragments by narrow communal walls,
Where corruption is bliss and honesty has taken a backseat,
Where the clear stream of peace has lost its way into the dreary desert
sand of communalism,
Where lives, honour and properties of minorities are In the hands of the
majority,
Into that hell of superficial aazadi, o Lord, thou hast taken the Indian
Muslim minority community!
S. M. Pasha, Chennai
valimuhammad777@gmail.com
Malaria of Islamic Fundamentalism
Being a Brit. I could not help noticing this article and comments
herewith and I only have to say this. Islam is often misunderstood for a
religion and ppl who follow it are mistakably given equal rights. If we
pull up history 1000 years ago, from Europe to Asia including India,its
says it lock stock and barrel- Islam has relied on forced conversion and
fundamentalism. So Mr. Thackery is NOT the only person who shares
these views. Such views exist as a direct reaction to the Non
conformance and parasitism exhibited by Islam as a religion. There are
genuine exceptions and those have to be respected - but generally
speaking- Pakistanis are the same parasites be it UK India Belgium
France or Sweden. They all suffer from the malaria of Islamic
Fundamentalism ( real ly its t he same word same twice ! ) transmitted
by the Pakistani / Arab breed of mosquitoes. I heard that Mr Bal
Thackery is no more. Bless his soul in peace and hopefully it will
peacefully carry out the mission of Putting Peace in Pakis (=moving
them away from Islam ) or putting Pakis in the Pit, peacefully.
Golden Baruch
gearing.guy@gmail.com
MG: Are you aware of your own history? Read any pre-1948 Jewish
history book and you will know that Islam and Muslims were
extremely kind to your people. Your "golden age" according to your
own historians was in Muslim Spain. You found refuge in all Muslim
countries neighbouring Europe from Morocco to Turkey when you
were butchered, burnt at stake and persecuted in Europe for
centuries... And how you paid back that debt? Think for a minute. You
may not have time to go researching, therefore I am pasting below
an article by a Jewish scholar in a very Jewish publication
[http://www.thejc.com/comment-and-debate/comment/68082/sowhat-did-muslims-do-jews]. Kindly read and ponder. By the way,
your English betrays you are not Brit. (Dr Zafarul-Islam Khan)
Love Jihad
Mr. Rajnath Singh is reported to have said that he knows nothing about
"love jihad". A Home Minister of India who does not know of something
that has filled the newspapers for several days -- and of course the
publications of the RSS -- is, I suggest, more suited to the Off-Shore
Fisheries portfolio. Ms. Najma Heptulla, Minister for Minority Affairs, is
reported to have said that "... Modi had told her that Muslims had been
'deprived' of their basic rights all these years". We must thank her for
revealing something of which no one had an inkling. Presumably the
lady will be responsible for doing fine things for all of India's Muslims
as her great leader has done for those in Gujarat. How is the word
"disingenuous" spelt?
Mukul Dube, Mayur Vihar 1, Delhi 110091
uthappam@gmail.com
ISIS
If Islam means submission and surrender to the will and the law of
Almighty God; it is clearly stating that what God Almighty says in the
Holy Quran has to be followed in full even if it contradicts one's own
ideas, thoughts and desires. This principle is clearly mentioned in the
Holy Quran: "It is not fitting for a believer, man or woman, when a matter
has been decided by Allah and His Messenger to have any option about
their decision: if any one disobeys Allah and His Messenger, he is
indeed on a clearly wrong Path" (Quran 33: 36) Another Islamic
principle is explained in this verse "And no soul, as a bearer of burden,
bears the burden of another; and if one who is weighed down by his

burden, calls to (another for help to) carry it, nothing of it will be carried
by that other, even if he be his near of kin" (Quran 35:18). And
according to this verse, Islam freed all human beings from the original
sin that Prophet Adam committed when he was in Paradise and ate from
the forbidden tree. On the other hand, the Holy Quran explains itself by
itself and by the Prophet's tradition (Hadith) and the practice of the
companions of Prophet Muhammad and the next two generations
confirmed a clear understanding to the religion of Islam. Therefore, for
groups (like ISIL and Qaidah) who come with their own interpretation of
the Holy Quran that contradict the Quran itself; their interpretation will
make them no longer Muslims or represent Islam. And when ISIL has
chosen to kill the captured American journalists and British aid worker
in revenge to the actions of Western administrations, they acted
contrary to the Holy Quran because the Holy Quran praises those who
look after the captives "And they feed, for the love of Allah, the indigent,
the orphan, and the captive, (Saying),"We feed you for the sake of Allah
alone: no reward do we desire from you, nor thanks" (Quran 76: 7-8),
and, they acted contrary to the above mentioned Holy Quran principle
that no soul is responsible for the actions of another soul. This is why,
we and all Muslims who understand the Holy Quran and Prophet
Muhammad's tradition condemn strongly the killing of the two American
journalists and the British aid worker in Syria.
Dr Issam Ghannam, MD,
Solihull, B90 4LE, UK
There Is Only One Islam
The enemies of Islam have discovered a new terminology of
Fanatic/Fundamentalist Islam and Moderate Islam. According to them
Saudi Arab and Egypt belong to Moderate Islam. It is just to create
division among Muslim Ummah to serve their own interest and fulfill
their Agenda. In Middle East, their top priority is to ensure safe and
secure Israel. So their every action there is to fulfill this objective. After
victory of Hizbollah against Israel US decided to eliminate it. As
Hizbollah was getting Military and financial support from Iran through
Syria and then Hizbollah was supporting Hamas, an excellent example
of Shia and Sunni Co-operation, so US in consultation with other
western Powers hatched a conspiracy to dislodge Assad and replace
him with their Agent. To achieve this goal America prepared a group of
fighters which included Syrian rebels and Foreign Fighters, trained them
and provided Sophisticated Arms and Financial support even assured
the them of Air cover and bombardment on selected targets.Hundred of
thousands of innocent people were killed in this operation. Later on
America got the feed back that these fighters belong to Extremist
Islamic Organizations such Al- Qaida so in case of fall of Hafiz
Assad,the replacement may also not be favourable to US interest. So for
more than a year there was no effort to dislodge Assad. Then ISIS came
into picture and America allowed them to take over the territory in Iraq
and Syria they wanted so that these fighters could not get time to
involve in Gaza - Israel conflict. Now after Israel has finished its agenda
to destroy Gaza, US has renewed its old agenda to finish terrorists from
world map. So in the name of atrocities by ISIS it is preparing for full
scale Military intervention in Syria and Iraq. In Syria,the strategy of US
and its allies including some of Arab States is to create division among
Muslims and then replace Assad by a leader belonging to so called
Moderate Islam loyal to them. Their next target may be Iran?
Prof. Shamim Ahmad, AMU
profshamim@gmail.com
Love Jehad and our foolishness
RSS leader Mr. Bhagvat says that we are all Hindu then why can't we
get Hindu girls as wives ? Amazing ! This Love Jehad is a media hype.
There is nothing like Love Jehad. Love has no boundaries. You cannot
stop people from falling in love. There are certain boys and girls who
behave in foolish manner. But they are very few. We are trying to create
peace among communities here from Surat (India). It seems 1400
years have passed after our beloved Prophet Mohammed. He said that
he will be believed for 1400 years. We have gone crazy and we kill our
own people in different countries now. We are fighting among our own
selves. I think the world is waiting to have a new Prophet with freshness
in eternal truth.
Nazneen O. Saherwala, Surat
nazsita@yahoo.co.in
Statement of Modi
As prime minister Modified has given a fairly good statement about
Muslims of India but the the intellectuals may ask him when he was CM
of Gujarat his opinion about. MUSLIMS was entirely deferential. Can he
explain how this volt face took place ? But only verbosity is not
sufficient He knows pretty well how the Muslims youths were treated in
the UPA regime Thousands of them were apprehended and put in jails
in TADA&PO TA. MANY numberof them were not even given the Charge
Sheets Some of them were mercilessly killed in high security cells of
jails Batla House encounter was one out the fake encounters Modis
remark is purely personal just to erase the previous impressions of the
world media, Modi was denied the US visa. One particular caste of
Hindus are still dead against Muslims and Islam. Muslims can damage
the belief of their superiority over other castes Islam is the champion of
equality and fraternity of Mankind.This belief of that caste is slowly
losing ground. The practical implication of this statement is to release
all innocent Muslim youths languishing in Jails since years together.
Dr AH Maqoomi, Hyderabad
II
Yes, you are right ! Dear Mr. Narendra Modi! We are Muslims: We live
and die for our nation; As we know the standards of life and death, For
us, to betray our land is the greatest sin. A country always suffers at the
hands by those, Who cry hoarse to show their excess of love for it;
They hide their deceit and fraud under the slogans, " We are patriotic
and nationalist" "Others are not"
Dr. Mustafa Kamal Sherwani, Lucknow, India
sherwanimk@yahoo.com
Secularism & Indian Muslims
Our country's Constitution has two cardinal policies viz., (1) Nonalignment in foreign policy and (2) secularism on the home front. It was
our first Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru who was mainly
responsible for the incorporation of those policies, This was done,
without any doubt, to enhance abroad the prestige of India. The multi
billion dollar question is: has this helped and is this helping the Muslim
minority community? The answer, to my mind, is NO. The Hindus
constitute the majority and naturally they are the major element in the
body politic. Hence, it is but natural that whatever be the form of
Government, the Government is bound to tend to reflect the majority
opinion. It is possible to under such a secular set-up, any Muslim to rise

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up to the highest office but on that account can it be taken that the
occupier of the lofty position is in a position to help his fellow
religionists? No. He or she can't. Assuming for argument's sake that
secular form of Government is an ideal one, it will be one only if and
when the masses imbibe the true spirit of secularism. The Hindu
majority community is yet to imbibe the spirit of secularism completely
and so it is not yet full fledged secularism minded. Secularism is yet to
mature and blossom in India. The linguistic division of the various parts
of the country is a terrible blow to secularism. When Muslims declared
that it will be impossible to adjust themselves in an undivided India, their
assertion was condemned, But when Maharashtrians and Gujrathis
could not adjust themselves, the Andhras and the Tamilians et el no
objection is raised but their demand for the bifurcation of the State is
hailed. Likewise, the Punjabis got their State divided into Punjab and
Haryana. Be that what it may, none can deny that the Muslim minority
community in India is a section which has given an excellent account of
itself, It does nothing which goes against the interests of the country,
Muslims never demand any special rights, All that they want is that they
should be allowed to live without fear keeping its head high. Their plea
has been and is: " Don't give us anything special because we are
Muslims but don't refuse anything because we are Muslims." If
secularism can ensure this, well and good or else it is high time the
form of Government is changed to one in which the minorities get their
due share even without their asking,
SM Pasha, Chennai
valimuhammad777@gmail.com
Tall talks of Khursheed
The former foreign minister Mr Salman Khursheed has claimed that
whatever they had developed in the last ten years should not be
dismantled by an over-aspiring prime minister. As a matter of fact
basically no change has taken place in the in the Modi government
Enmity with Pakistan and appeasement of China is. The intrusion of
China in an umpteen manner is being continued. Salman Says Pakistan
is a difficult country.But it has been made more difficult by the caste
Hindus Modi is as incompetent as was Man Mohan Singh so far the
foreign policy it is framed by big heads of a particular community They
are more worried about the superiority of their caste, They need a
permanent foe for their unification.
AH Maqdoomi, Hyderabad
Mahmud Ghaznavis commander was a Hindu
Contrary to the general belief that Mahmud Ghaznavi was a Hindu-killer
or destroyer of Hindu religious places, he was extremely liberal towards
them. His army consisted of a large number of Hindus and some of the
commanders of his army were Hindus. Sonday Rai was the
Commander of Mahmud's crack regiment and took part in several
important campaigns with him. The coins struck during Mahmud's
reign bore his on the one side and the figure of a Hindu god on the other.
Not only Mahmud Ghaznavi but his successors also were great patrons
of Hindus. In fact some of the historians of the early period feel that the
main cause of the fall of the Ghaznavid Empire was their excessive
reliance on Hindus and the appointment of Hindus to positions of great
responsibility. When in 1034 A.D. - 426 A.H., the Governor of Lahore,
Ahmed Nial Tagin was suspected of rebellion, Sultan Masud Ghaznavi
sent General Nath, a Hindu, to crush him. When Nath was killed in the
fighting, Masud sent another of his Hindu generals, Tilak, who
succeeded in killing Nial Tagin by treachery. This is the story of the
Ghaznavids who are generally considered Hindu-killers. Lets have a
look at History of Mahmood Ghaznavi who not only Demolished Hindu
Temples but also Slaughtered Kalima Reciting Muslims and before
Demolishing Somnath Temple, Mahmud Ghaznavi fought against his
own brother and also slaughtered Thousands of Muslims,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqUqNecYa1M
Dr Mohsin Raza, moderator, "Worldofaligs"
drmohsinraza1@yahoo.com
Yes, you are right, dear Mr. Narendra Modi!
Yes, you are right ! Dear Mr.Narendra Modi!
We are Muslims: We live and die for our nation;
As we know the standards of life and death,
For us , to betray our land is the greatest sin.
A country always suffers at the hands by those,
Who cry hoarse to show their excess of love for it;
They hide their deceit and fraud under the slogans,
We are patriotic and nationalist Others are not
Dr. Mustafa Kamal Sherwani, Lucknow
sherwanimk@yahoo.com
India's Intel Agencies Should Be Investigated For Terror Attacks
This seems like Muslims in India are being targeted and recently another
muslim travelling to Mideast for his job was arrested in Delhi airport.
Dr Imran Khan
imran700usa@yahoo.com
Lethargic response to Kashmir Floods
Indian administration is busy in depicting photos and videos of army
posing as saviours of Kashmiris, when the reality is that locals help
each other.
Ovais
ovaismanzoorallaie@yahoo.in
BJP leaders' hate-mongering
Hate is being termed and promoted as nationalism. Its time we stop
"mainstreaming" everything which is communal, castist. Let the Hindus
keep their religion at home. Its time Hinduism which has been made
default culture be purged and secularised. Bumi pujjan, lighting of
lamps and presence of pandits must be banned as is the case with
other religions.
M Naqqaad
naqqaad@gmail.com
II
As long as people do not remove hatred for one another, there is always
somebody to take advantage of that.
AlDossary Ahmad A
ramanujam_armu5@yahoo.co.in
Al-Qaeda must keep away from Indian Muslims: Mushawarat
Great message zafar sahab. Al qaeda is not invited. Indian Muslims are
well capable of tackling the saffron al kaida of India. We bow down to
Allah s. w. t and seek his help in crushing the back bones of anti
Muslims in India. Ameen.
Sheikh
shumsparvez@gmail.com

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