DRACONIAN LAWS WPI, APCR Plan Nationwide Campaign to Repeal Them
Vol. LI No. 04
Date: April 28, 2013
90%riot-hit People Returned Home In Assam: Jih
The Jamaat-e-Islami Hind started its relief work within a week of the communal riots in Assam. The aim of Jamaat was to rehabilitate those who were misplaced during the riots…
4th Annual Conf. And Caravan Of Aiem Resolve For Quality
All India Educational Movement (AIEM) New Delhi, founded by Sayyid Hamid, has been working for promotion of education among Muslims for over last two decades. To achieve its objectives, AIEM…
Muslims Responsible For Their Vulnerability?
This is apropos to your Editorial (Radiance 14-20 April). It is a fact that many of government policies have amounted to the vulnerability and deplorability of Muslims. But should the…
B’lore Blast Vote Prank Of Bjp?
The blast in front of state head office of BJP in Bangalore is highly condemnable. It shows the courage of the blasters who dared penetrate into any part of the…
Adopt Fair Policies
This refers to the Moditva of ‘BJP before LokSabha Polls’ (Radiance 14-20 April). The expectant Prime Ministerial candidate of BJP, Narendra Modi, is becoming dictator with every sun rise especially within…
Take Strong Notice Of Fallacious Propaganda
This refers to the column “GIO Slur” (Radiance 14-20 April). It was 30 March when a Mumbai based Marathi daily, Samna, the mouthpiece of Shiv Sena, published a report regarding GIO…
Muslims Open Free Health Clinic In Iowa
These days, healthcare issues are becoming more complex and expensive. The cost of having private insurance for a family with two children can be more than $1000a month. There is…
‘arabish’is Harming Arabic
Writings by youth occupy a wide space on the Internet and smartphone applications. Often young people communicate through using a common language that mixes Arabic with English words.
Rohingyas’ Plight: Suu Kyi Breaks Silence
Myanmar democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi has lamented restrictions and estrangement of Muslims. Addressing a press conference in Tokyo, she called for reforming citizenship laws to help the sizable…
Torture Report Shows Need To Stop ‘erosion Of American Principles’:
The Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) on 17 April said that a nonpartisan, independent review of post-9/11 interrogation and detention programmes, which concludes that “it is indisputable that the…
Release Shaker Aamer, The Last British Resident In Guantanamo Bay
On 11 April, over 100,000 people signed a petition calling on the UK government to undertake urgent and new initiatives to achieve the immediate transfer of Shaker Aamer from Guantanamo Bay to…
Syria Brotherhood Seeks Broad Consensus
Syrian Muslim Brotherhood held a press conference on 15 April in which it rejected as false information that alleges presence of extremist groups in liberated areas of Syria.Mohamed Riad Al-Shaqfa,…
Hosni Mubarak Ordered Back To Prison
Ousted former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was ordered to be transferred back to prison from a military hospital on 18 April on the recommendation of a medical team after he…
Musharraf On The Run After Bail Cancellation, Arrested
Former President of Pakistan General (retd) Pervez Musharraf on 18 April escaped from the premises of the Islamabad High Court after the cancellation of his bail application by Justice Shaukat…
Dr. Masroor On Bhaba Pesticides Project
Dr. Masroor Akhtar Khan, associate professor at department of zoology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, has been given a project by the Bhaba Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, to develop some pesticides…
Frame Five-year Plan For Haj: Sc
The Apex Court on, 16 April, asked the government to frame a five-year policy for Haj pilgrimage which will replace the existing annual plan. “We accept the suggestion of the…
Dalit Marries Upper Caste Girl, Forced To Leave The Village
Around 13 persons all belonging to the so-called upper caste have been arrested for harassing and attacking the people of “lower caste” in Pabnawa village of Kaithal district in Haryana.…
Muslims Voice Concern Over Conversion In Kashmir
Kashmiri people have voiced concern over the activities of missionary people coming to Kashmir as tourists and luring innocent people, especially orphans, towards Christianity. The Ulema have decided to write…
Court Censures Advocates For Not Representing Muslim Accused
The Bombay High Court, on 13 April, censured the advocates for not fighting the cases of Muslim accused and said the Right to Defence is a constitutional right of every…
Madrasa Training Students For Jihad: Yogi
Known for his anti-Muslim image, Yogi AdityaNath, BJP MP from Gorakhpur, on 10 April said the Madrasas are the training centres of Mujahideen and these are promoting extremist Islamic values…
Zakia Moves To Court Against Sit Clean Chit To Modi
ZakiaJafari, the widow of former MP Ehsan Jafri who along with 68 others was killed in Gulbarg Society genocide during Gujarat communal riots in 2002, filed a petition in a…
Adolescents Take Drugs To Abbreviate Sense Of Fear: Survey
A recent survey of All India Institute of Medical Sciences claims that 42 per cent of youngsters take drugs to abbreviate the sense of fear while 32 per cent use…
School Asks Nursery Student To Remove Scarf
In a ridiculous move, the management of a school in Assam has asked a four-year-old girl to remove scarf or, alternatively, be ready to face expulsion from the school. The incident…
Draconian Laws At A Glance
The conviction rate under TADA was less than 1 per cent and 98 percent of the cases never reached trial stage. From 1984 onwards at least 75,000 people were detained…
‘bangladesh Jamaat-e-islami Would Fight Against Ict Verdicts Legally And Politically’
Bangladesh has been rocked by weeks of turmoil over trials of leaders of the country’s largest Islamic party, on charges of alleged war crimes during the 1971 independence war.Opposition sees…
A Hundred Deir Yassin And Counting Beit Daras And The
Few with any sense of intellectual or historical integrity would still question the bloody massacre that took place in the village of DeirYassin 65 years ago, claiming the lives of…
Congress Salvo Against Jih But For What?
There has been a pattern of vilifying campaign by the Congress against Jamaat-e-Islami Hindandits affiliated wingsfor one or the other reason. Does this onslaughthave any political implications oris it simply…
Jd-u And Bjp Virtually On The Edge Inbihar Over Modi
The political compulsion and understanding between Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and his ally in Bihar is getting murkier by the day and subsequently the diatribe on one another has intensified…
Sack Modi, Ban Vhp Demands An Indian American Advocacy Group
Indian Minorities Advocacy Network (ImanNet), the oldest advocacy organisation of Indian Americans for pluralism and democracy, has demanded that Narendra Modi be sacked as the Gujarat chief minister and the…
A Fictional Development Model
Last week, I had a chance to interview a distinguished academician, who is also currently serving as the vice chancellor of a central university in the Capital. Apart from the…
Muslim Group Urges Not To ‘further Demonise Islam’
The Muslim Peace Coalition, an advocacy group in the New York metro area, called for mosques to dedicate their Friday prayers to victims of the Boston tragedy and cautioned in…
Boston Tragedy Some Are More Equal
While the world grieves for the innocents killed in Boston, spare a thought for hundreds of children killed in America’s war in Pakistan and Afghanistan, suggests AIJAZ ZAKA SYED.
Painting Pictures
Ibn Umar reports Allah’s Messenger (peace and blessings of Allah be to him) having said: “Those who paint pictures would be punished on the Day of Resurrection and it would…
The Truth From Thy Lord
And proclaim: This is the truth from your Lord. Now let him who will, believe; and let him who will, disbelieve. We have prepared a Fire for the wrong-doers whose…
Our Seriously Sick Society
Yes, it is a fact being borne out by spate of six crimes in the country. India burst into protests in mid-December last year on the shameless gang rape, ghastly…
Draconian Laws Wpi, Apcr Plannationwide Campaign To Repeal Them
MOHAMMAD NAUSHAD KHAN reports how the misuse rather abuse of draconian laws like UAPA, MCOCA and AFSPA has compelled the Welfare Party of India and Association for Protection of Civil…
