LGBTs Hell Bent upon Thrusting HIV on Society
Vol. LI No. 38
Date: December 22, 2013
Make Your Own Strategy
This refers to the news item “Gujarat says Sachar panel unconstitutional in its affidavit before Supreme Court”.
Mobile Book Van a Welcome Step
This is apropos of the report about launching of a Mobile Book Van (Radiance 8-14 December). This is a welcome step by the Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, Delhi & Haryana zone.
Take Care of Your Own Privacy
This refers to the Interview with Ravi Nair (Radiance 8-14 December). With our every step towards a new technological invention, the privacy of a man receives a new blow. Snooping, e-mail…
AAP Redefining Indian Politics
The impressive debut of AAP in Delhi polls displays that the common man of India is now more interested to put their trust on Gen-X politics. The poll results display…
Islam Banned in Angola out of Enmity?
This is apropos of your Cover Story (Radiance, 8-14 December). The intention of Angolan government is yet not very clear as to what it aimed at by putting ban on…
IRAN DEAL BOOSTS TURKEY’S TOURISM SECTOR HOPE
The historic deal on limiting Iran’s nuclear activities between Tehran and P5+1 has raised hope among Turkish tourism circles that demand from Iran will increase which was damaged due to…
KARZAI WARNS AGAINST ‘INTIMIDATION’ ON US DEAL
Afghan President Hamid Karzai on December 14 shrugged off U.S. talk of a total military withdrawal from Afghanistan if he didn’t sign a security agreement as brinkmanship and said he…
UN ALARMED BY RISE IN DISAPPERANCES IN SYRIA
Syrians continue to fall victim to a callous indifference to human life and disregard for safety, exemplified by the increasing trend of abductions and enforced disappearances, United Nations High Commissioner…
SUPPRESSED NIGERIAN MUSLIMS SPEAK OUT
Speaking out their fears for the first time, Muslims across Nigeria have said they are victims of ‘suppression, blackmail and undeserved intimidations’ in their quest to practice their faith, adding…
MUSLIM SCHOLARS DECRY JEWISH SETTLER ATTACKS
The International Union for Muslim Scholars (IUMS) has called on mosque preachers worldwide to denounce assaults on Muslim places of worship and insults to Islam’s Prophet Muhammad by extremist Jewish…
HEADSCARVED WOMEN CAN BECOME TURKISH AMBASSADORS
With the official lifting of the headscarf ban in Turkey after the announcement of the ‘democratisation package’ on September 30, headscarved Turkish women are now able to work for the…
A NEW MASS GRAVE FOUND IN SERBIA
Human remains believed to be the bodies of hundreds of Albanians killed during the 1998-99 war in Kosovo have been found just inside the Serbian border, a Kosovo official said…
ISLAMOPHOBIC INCIDENTS SWEEP THE UK
On November 30, a Muslim scholar in Britain Hafiz Salik was attacked by unknown assailants who pulled over his vehicle while he was driving with his family in the city…
INDIAN ADVOCATE TO FIGHT FOR ROHINGYA MUSLIMS
Deeply moved by the sad plight of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, Advocate Ajay Virmani of Punjab has taken up the issue of the oppressed with the government of Myanmar. The…
ANTI-SUPERSTITIOUS BILL PASSED IN MAHARASHTRA
The Maharashtra assembly, on 13 December, passed the much-awaited Bill that seeks to curb black magic and other superstitious practices. The Bill was waiting since the cold blooded murder of Narendra…
NCP FOR POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY
The Nationalist Congress Party has demanded from the government to fix responsibilities of the members of the law enforcement agencies in the wake of mounting complaints against them. Syed Jalaluddin,…
MUSLIMS DESTROY DRUGS WORTH RS 21 LAKH IN MANIPUR
A civil society in Manipur namely Anjuman Islahe Muashara, on 8 December, seized and destroyed party drugs worth Rs 21 lakh in the Grey Market at Lilong in Thoubal district…
RSS TO ‘TEACH ISLAM’ THROUGH TV CHANNEL
The RSS is planning to launch a new television channel to educate Indian Muslims about Islam. The Paigham TV Channel, as the RSS has decided to name the channel, is to be…
CENTRE HAD FILED A DICTATED AFFIDAVIT IN ISHRAT KILLING
In yet another revelation in the fake encounter of Ishrat Jahan and others in Gujarat in 2004, a telephonic conversation recorded by suspended officer of the Indian Police Service, G L…
NO WITHDRAWAL OF CASES WITHOUT CENTRE’S NOD: ALLAHABAD HC
The Allahabad High Court, on 12 December, said that the Government of Uttar Pradesh is liable to withdraw cases lodged against terror accused but for all these to take place it…
COURT ACQUITS TWO IN AHMEDABAD BLAST
A local court in Ahmedabad, on 12 December, acquitted two persons including a police official for want of evidence in the 2006 Kalupur bomb blast case. Additional Sessions Judge B…
Impossible Dialogue The Choice in Yemen
Chances are dim that elections will be held in Yemen next February. Yet without elections, the push for reforms and change that were inspired by the Yemeni revolution would become…
Towards Defining a Scripture
When confronted with the question of what a ballad is, a critic gave the titles of a few ballads like “Chevy Chase” and concluded that in those examples the definition…
Political Significance of Muslim Votes
In the recently concluded assembly elections, Muslims have proved that by tactical voting they can easily help their choice candidates to win from minority concentration constituencies despite all odds. In…
How Credible is the Claim of the Failure of Political
Whenever the Islamists suffer a setback, or even a small decline in votes, some western experts monitoring the Islamic Movement’s path rush to proclaim to the world that political Islam…
Human Rights Day a Time for Renewed Resolve to Uplift
Indian American Muslim Council, an advocacy group dedicated to safeguarding India’s pluralist and tolerant ethos, December 10 called on people of all faiths to come together on the occasion of…
20 Killed in Bangladesh after Mollah’s Execution
The execution of the Assistant Secretary General of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, Abdul Quader Mollah in Bangladesh sparked violent protests on December 13 and 14 throughout Bangladesh, leaving at least 20 people…
Execution of Abdul Qader Mollah Earns Worldwide Fury
The execution of a top leader of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami on 12 December has earned fury from many national as well as international organisations as his funeral prayers in absentia in…
UNESCO Sultan Qaboos Prize for Environmental Preservation
The UNESCO Sultan Qaboos Award for Environment Preservation for 2013 has been jointly awarded to the National Forest Holding State Forests in Poland and the Wild Life at Risk Protection…
Familiar Games in Afghanistan
Why are Afghanistan’s “security and future” Washington’s concern, if it is indeed “withdrawing” from the Central Asian country? wonders AIJAZ ZAKA SYED So this is how the cookie crumbles. The…
Do Not Commit Oppression
Abū Dharr reported Allah’s Messenger (peace and blessings of Allah be to him) as saying that Allah, the Exalted and Glorious, said: “My servants, I have made oppression unlawful for…
Dispute about the Lord
These two groups [the believers and the unbelievers] are in dispute about their Lord. As for those that disbelieve, garments of fire have been cut out for them; boiling water…
Save Bangladesh from Turmoil
Since the formation of International Crimes Tribunals (ICTs) in Bangladesh over two years ago to try the members of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami and other political parties for their alleged involvement in…
LGBTs Hell Bent upon Thrusting HIV on Society
Hailing the recent Supreme Court verdict which rejects the Delhi High Court move to decriminalise homosexuality, DR. S. AUSAF SAIED VASFI takes stock of the natural corollary of the filth…
Muslim Leaders Hail SC Verdict on Homosexuality
The All India Muslim Majlis-e-Mushawarat, the umbrella body of India Muslim organisations, on December 13, welcomed the verdict of the apex court criminalising homosexuality.
