BODH GAYA BLASTS Terrorist Violence and Political Agenda
Vol. LI No. 16
Date: July 21, 2013
Two-Day IIIT Conference on Nurturing Youth for Nation-Building a Grand
The Nigeria office of the IIIT (International Institute of Islamic Thought headquartered in Herndon, USA) through its Sister’s Directorate organized a 2-day national conference on Nurturing Youth for Nation-Building focusing…
Aajeevika Skill Development Programme to Empower Rural Youth
The significance and the challenges before the Aajeevika Skill Development Programme (ASDP), which is being carried out under the direction of Ministry of Rural Development, were presented by Abu Osama…
Dr. Ansari re-elected to medical staff position
Dr. Anis Ansari, a Nephrologist at Medical Associate who has been practising in Clinton for the last 14 years has added another feather to his repertoire. During election of all…
Denial of Admission
The denial of admission to a 14-year old girl, Sidhra Malik, by several government schools in Delhi (“Muslim girl denied admission in Delhi”, Radiance Viewsweekly, 7-13 July) without any reason is…
Letter from a Real Indian Muslim Youth
I, being a real Muslim youth, feel that instead of suggesting affirmative action Chetan Bhagat has only disappointed us (Letter from an Indian Muslim Youth, The Times of India, June 30).…
Stern Action Needed
The article “IB Role in Encounters Exposed” by Syyed Mansoor Agha (Radiance Viewsweekly, 7-13 July) has done a great service by presenting the fact that IB’s involvement in fake encounters…
It’s Shocking
That as many as a dozen top police officers in Gujarat were involved in a series of fake encounters to satiate the ruling class is shocking. But this dark chapter…
SUDAN’S FORMER SPY CHIEF FACING COUP CHARGE FREED
The former chief of Sudan’s powerful intelligence service, who faced a possible death sentence for his alleged role in a coup plot, was freed under an amnesty on 10 July,…
IRAN DENIES OPPOSITION CLAIM OF HIDDEN ATOMIC SITE
Iran on 12 July denied claims by an exiled opposition group that it has built a new hidden nuclear site deep beneath a mountain near the town of Damavand in…
NWC DOUBLES ZAMZAM PRODUCTION
The National Water Company (NWC), which operates the King Abdullah Zamzam Water Project, said it is ready to double daily production to meet demand during Ramadhan. Project Director Saeed bin…
TURKEY REOPENS ISTANBUL PARK
Turkey reopened an Istanbul park at the heart of last month’s demonstrations against Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan and protest leaders called a rally there in defiance of the city governor.…
MYANMAR COURT JAILS BUDDHISTS IN ISLAMIC SCHOOL MASSACRE
According to State media in Myanmar, a court has sentenced seven Buddhists to between three and 15 years in jail for their role in a massacre at an Islamic boarding…
US WANTS EGYPT TO FREE MORSI
The US has reportedly urged the Egyptian military and interim leaders to free deposed President Mohamed Morsi for the first time since he was detained over a week ago. US…
EGYPT’S CONSTITUTIONAL DECLARATION UNCONSTITUTIONAL, NULL AND VOID: FJP
Dr. Essam El-Erian, Egypt’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) Vice-Chairman, said on his Facebook page that the constitutional declaration issued on 9 July usurps legislative authority from the Council elected…
MB LEADERS, MORSI SUPPORTERS UNDER MILITARY COUP REPRESSION
The illegitimate coup government continues its heavy-handed crackdown on leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood, its political wing (the FJP) and supporters of elected President Mohamed Morsi, who reject the military…
OVER 70 KILLED IN CAIRO REPUBLICAN GUARD HQ MASSACRE: FJP
The Egyptian people and the whole world were deeply shocked and dismayed on 8 July as they heard eyewitness accounts of live bullets killing and injuring thousands of peaceful protesters…
GOVT. SLAMMED ON SNOOPING ISSUE
The government, particularly External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid, has come under fire for asserting that United States’ surveillance activities did not amount to “snooping” and it was “only computer analysis…
GOVT DELETED KEY PORTIONS OF MY REPORT ON J&K MASS
Wajahat Habibullah, chairman National Commission for Minorities, has said that the government “deleted important portions of his confidential report” on the Konanposhpora mass rape case in which he had recommended…
RIHAI MANCH DEMANDS PROBE INTO ROLE OF IB IN BODH
While condemning in unambiguous terms the Bodh Gaya serial blasts, Rihai Manch (Forum for the Release of Innocent Muslims imprisoned in the name of Terrorism) has demanded a probe into…
PEACE ACTIVISTS SLAM LINKING BODH GAYA BLASTS WITH MYANMAR MUSLIMS
Religious heads and peace activists on 7 July condemned the blasts in Bodh Gaya. In a statement issued here the activists condemned the “heinous terror attack” on a place of…
COURT ACQUITS EIGHT ‘SIMI ACTIVISTS’
Twelve years after Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) was declared a terror outfit and banned, a Vikhroli magistrate court on 8 July acquitted eight alleged members, including Abdul Wahid…
MP GOVT MOVES BILL TO MAKE ANTI-CONVERSION LAW STRINGENT
The BJP government in Madhya Pradesh has come out with an amendment to the anti-conversion legislation. Titled Madhya Pradesh Freedom of Religion (Amendment) Bill, 2013, the Bill was tabled in…
MASJID IS NOT JUST A PLACE OF WORSHIP
The Muslims in Masjide Azizia in Humayun Nagar, Hyderabad begs were in for a surprise on 5 July when they saw speakers waxing eloquent about the changing trends in education.…
HIZMET MOVEMENT through the Eyes of an Indian
On 21 June I returned to Delhi from Turkey, after spending three weeks in some 6 cities including Konya, Bursa, Ankara and Istanbul. It was my second trip to Turkey.…
Emergency of 1975 and the Judiciary
Nations which do not remember their immediate past are in danger of repeating the same tragedy. This thought came to me on 26 June, 2013 (the Emergency day of 1975)…
Neo-Fascism Challenges Pro-Morsi, Pro-Democracy Egyptians
Egyptian elite and intellectuals calling for reconciliation and defence of the democratic process in Egypt are being subjected to a fierce, unfair and unjustified campaign of slander and intimidation these…
UP To Review Implementation of Welfare Schemes for Minorities
Minorities take centre stage in the political arena whenever elections are on the card. Be it in a state, or at the centre, political parties have their own way to…
BASAUD Once Zero Ground of Freedom Struggle, Now Struggling for
To earn fury and wrath of the power-that-be has never fetched any good to a community and the easiest way to dodge their wrath or alternatively to continue availing facilities…
Malala Deserves Kudos but Let a Malala Fight Prostitution and
A Muslim Pakistani girl is given an unprecedented honour in the United Nations. Nobody should take away the adulation she deserves for her enormous courage for a noble cause while…
ElBaradei’s Democracy How Egypt’s ‘Revolution’ Betrayed Itself
“The revolution is dead. Long live the revolution,” wrote Eric Walberg, a Middle East political expert and author, shortly after the Egyptian military overthrew the country’s democratically elected President Mohamed…
Calls for ElBaradei Nobel Award to be Revoked
The Arabic Organisation for Human Rights in the UK (AOHR) on 11 July called on the Board of the Nobel Peace Prize to revoke the award given to Mohamed ElBaradei…
POST-COUP EGYPT Unfolding of Likely Scenario
The military coup d’état that has overthrown Egypt’s first democratically elected president and led to the arrests of Muslim Brotherhood (MB) leaders across the country poses an enormous danger not…
Non-Payment of Zakat
Abū Hurairah reported Allah’s Messenger (peace and blessings of Allah be to him) as saying: “If an owner of gold or silver does not pay what is due to him,…
Heads of Zakat
The alms are meant only for the poor and the needy and those who are in charge thereof, those whose hearts are to be reconciled; and to free those in…
Counter-Terror Measures Let the Truth Prevail
That democracy in India has been in peril for decades as the neo-fascists have been onto the Machiavellian path quite brazenly and steadily is nothing new. What is new is…
Muslim Task Force Calls for Dialogue on Rohingya and Peace
Burma Task Force USA, in a statement on 8 July, expressed that it is “deeply troubled” to learn of the recent bombings at the Mahabodhi Temple in Bodh Gaya, India.
Jumping the Gun after Every Blast Distracts Terror Probe
Jumping the gun or floating conspiracy theory after every blast has set a wrong precedent which usually undermines the angle and the direction of the investigation. Some aired point or…
BODH GAYA BLASTS Terrorist Violence and Political Agenda
RAM PUNIYANI analyses the stereotype after every blast and suggests that in the recent Bodh Gaya blasts a professional, unbiased investigation should be undertaken and guilty punished, and that the…
