MIDNIGHT MASSACRE of Hefazat Protestors
Vol. LI No. 07
Date: May 19, 2013
Tazkiyah Key to Everlasting Success
He indeed shall be successful who purifies himself” (Al-Quran 84:14) This was the central theme of the talkof Maulana Muhammad Farooq Khan, an eminent scholar whose Hindi translation of the…
AMU-VC Names Proposed Centre for Strategic Studies after Tipu Sultan
The Vice Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University, Lt. Gen. (Retd.) Zameer Uddin Shah announced that the proposed Centre for Strategic Studies will be named Tipu Sultan Centre for Strategic Studies.…
Combating Violence against Women
Even after so much of turmoil on Delhi gang rape which had taken place five months earlier, the spate of such incidents is increasing day by day. Recently, the whole…
British Muslims Stand United, Resist Divisive Sectarian Rhetoric
And hold fast, all of you together, to the rope of Allah, and do not separate.” Quran, Surah Ale Imran, 103 The Muslim Council of Britain on 12 May affirmed…
Human Rights in B’desh
Apropos to your Cover Story “Human Rights in Bangladesh” (Radiance Viewsweekly, 5-11 May), I feel Bangladesh is fast turning into a society messed in chaos and anarchy.
Can We Afford to Ignore It?
The Supreme Court’s appreciation to the FDI in multi-brand retail is surprising. The three-judge bench’s observation that farmers will be benefited from the direct sale to retail giants may not…
Curb Online Abuse of Women
In the current era of social media, the online abuse too has reached to a different level in our Indian society. Online abuse, particularly aimed at women, seems to be…
Research Arabic Influence on Tamil
Prof. U. Muhammad Iqbal’s article “Linguistic Links between Arabic and Tamil) (Radiance, 14-20 April) made for a delightful reading. Prof. Iqbal has brought to focus a relatively neglected area of…
CAIR SEEKS HATE CRIME CHARGES FOR ATTACK ON MASS. MUSLIM
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) on 5 May urged state and federal law enforcement authorities to bring hate crime charges against two suspects who allegedly verbally and physically assaulted…
EGYPT RESHUFFLE: 9 NEW MINISTERS TO HELP MORSI
Nine new Egyptian ministers took oath of office on 7 May. Bringing two new members of his Muslim Brotherhood into top economic posts in the Cabinet shuffle was said to…
MALAYSIAN OPPOSITION RALLIES AGAINST ELECTION LOSS
At least 50,000 Malaysian opposition supporters rallied at a stadium on 8 May to protest what they say are fraud-marred election results that enabled the long-ruling coalition to cling to…
SYRIA BROTHERHOOD CALLS FOR ARAB AND IT’L ACTION AGAINST ASSAD
In a press statement, the Muslim Brotherhood in Syria on 7 May asserted that Bashar Al-Assad’s brutal regime is in fact accelerating the pace of vengeful massacres against the Syrian…
WORLD ‘SILENCE’ ON SYRIA TO BLAME FOR ATTACKS: TURKEY
Turkish Foreign Minister AhmetDavutoglu on 12 May blamed the world community’s inaction on the Syrian conflict for the “barbarian act of terrorism” that claimed dozens of lives near the border…
ISRAELI GOVT OFFICIALLY STARTS DIVIDING AL-AQSA MOSQUE
NajehBakirat, director of Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, said the Israeli government has officially adopted the project to divide Al-Aqsa Mosque, and started discussing legislations to increase number of Jews who…
ISRAEL WARNED OF CONSEQUENCES OF IRRESPONSIBLE ACTS
Muslim Brotherhood, in a statement on 8 May, condemned the continued Israeli aggression in the region. It said, “Days ago, Israel took advantage of ongoing battles in Syria, launching two…
AL-AZHAR, EGYPT PROVINCES RISE UP IN SUPPORT AND SOLIDARITY FOR
Thousands of Egyptians on 10 May gathered at Al-Azhar Mosque in Cairo as well as public squares in a number of governorates across Egypt, together with members and leaders of…
A Clarion Call from Karnataka!
Reacting to the Karnataka Assembly election results, which decimated the BJP and gave the Congress absolute majority, Fr. Cedric Prakash S.J., Director Prashant, a Centre for Human Rights, Justice and…
MUSLIMS NOT BE COMPELLED TO SING VANDE MATARAM: MP
When Speaker Meira Kumar lost her temper over an MP walking out of Parliament during the playing of Vande Mataram, everyone wondered who he was. Now BSP MP Shafiq-ur-Rehman Burq has…
‘BJP CONSPIRACY BEHIND GOA BEEF SHORTAGE’
After a scathing attack by the Goa church, both the Congress and the NCP on 9 May blamed the BJP-led government of Goa for the ongoing beef shortage in the…
UP GOVT ‘SHELVES’ MEAT GODOWN DEMOLITION DRIVE
A day after Mehmood Madani, president of Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind, warned the Samajwadi Party government against demolition of meat godowns and bone extracting units at Hapur road in Meerut, the local…
JAMAAT HOLDS BOTH LEFT, TRINAMOOL RESPONSIBLE FOR CHIT FUNDS SCAM
Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, West Bengal accused both the Trinamool government and the previous Left government
SUITABLE LEGISLATION CAN CREATE SPACE FOR ISLAMIC BANKING: RBI
Reserve Bank Governor D Subbarao, on 8 May, said the present laws do not permit Islamic banking in the country, but a suitable legislation can create space for this important…
TRADE FAIR TO HELP CORPORATES ON ISLAMIC BRANDING IN THE
Ahmedabad is set to host a first-of-its-kind trade show that seeks to help local and national brands tap into the potential of 18-lakh-strong Muslim consumers through the relatively new concept…
WPI TO TRY ITS LUCK IN AP POLLS
The Welfare Party of India (WPI),Andhra Pradesh, will organise its first state-level conference on26 Mayto announce its assembly election plans, party’s state unit president Malik Moatasim Khan said on 6…
3 ‘BANGALDESHI’ YOUTH JAILED ARE INDIAN CITIZENS
Three teenaged youth, arrested for being Bangladeshinationals, are actually Indian nationals, says the department of Health and Family Welfare, government of West Bengal. The three youths, aged between 17 and…
Why Muslims can’t Sing Vande Mataram
The novel [Bankim chandra Chatterjee’s novel Anand Math] was not anti-British, either. In the last chapter, we find a supernatural figure persuading the leader of the sanyasis, Satyananda, to stop…
Two historians’ views on Vande Mataram
The song ‘Vande Mataram’ occurs in Bankim chandra Chatterjee’s novel Anand Math published in 1882. In his Autobiography of an Unknown Indian, Nirad C. Chaudhuri has aptly described the atmosphere of the times…
Bankim Chandra Chatterji on British Colonialism: An excerpt from Anand
The novel [BankimchandraChatterjee’s novel Anand Math] was not anti-British, either. In the last chapter, we find a supernatural figure persuading the leader of the sanyasis, Satyananda, to stop fighting. The…
Where Only Singers are Patriots!
Shafiqur Rehman Barq – an MP of Lok Sabha – made a terrible mistake. No doubt he has proved that Muslims are bigots and do not love their country.
Google Recognises Palestinian Statehood
Google recognised Palestine on 1 May. It did so on its homepage. Earlier it referred to “The Palestinian Territories.” On 4 January, Abbas’ presidential decree acknowledged the State of Palestine.…
The Pain of Bangladesh T-shirts Made with Blood and Tears
As they spoke to a BBC correspondent in their run-down room which they call home in Dhaka, Bangladesh, a man sobbed as his 12-year-old daughter sat close to him.His face,…
BJP’s Only Citadel in South Crumbles Thumbs Down for Modi
BJP has lost its gateway to the South and can be said to have been reduced to a party of North India. The rhetoric of Narendra Modi magic has failed…
The Relationship between Religion and State – I
This topic is quite problematic in the sense that it deals with the Islam’s relationship to secularism. Is this relationship one of conflict and disaccord or one of harmony and…
KAMARUZZAMAN CONVICTION ‘The prosecution had clearly failed to prove its
The International Crimes Tribunal-2, Dhaka on 9 Mayconvicted Muhammad Kamaruzzaman, the Assistant Secretary General of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami of committing crimes against humanity in 1971. He is the 3rd such leader…
Keep Trust and Promise
Anasibn Malik reports that hardly did the Holy Messenger (peace and blessings of Allah be to him) addressed us without saying: “There is no Iman in him who cannot hold…
Allah Wrongs No One
And then the Record of their deeds shall be placed before them and you will see the guilty full of fear for what it contains, and will say: ‘Woe to…
New Sunshine over Pakistan
Pakistan, after recent elections in the centre and the states, has entered a new phase of stronger democracy. It is a good omen for the 18 crore strong Muslim nation…
Global Forum for Islamic Parliamentarians condemns massacre in Dhaka
The Global Forum for Islamist Parliamentarians (GFIP) on 8 May expressed strong condemnation of the heinous massacre of unarmed peaceful demonstrators in Dhaka.In a press statement, Hussein Ibrahim, Chairman of…
MIDNIGHT MASSACRE of Hefazat Protestors Hundreds ofinnocent people killed in
SK. ENAMUL HOQUE reveals the fascist face of Sheikh Hasina government that allowed its joint forces to kill rather ruthlessly about 3,000 protestors of Hefazat-e-Islam Movement who had gathered there in Dhaka…
Combined Police Operation at Night Can’t be Defended
The New Nation, a national daily of Bangladesh, comments on the massacre of the protestors belonging to the Hefazat-e-Islam Movement:
13-point Demand of Hefazat-e-Islam Movement
The long march of Hefazat-e-Islam to Dhaka on 6 May turned violent, claiming about 3,000 lives. But what are the demands of this movement? The text of the 13-point demandput…
