THE 3M PHENOMENA Modi, Modify and Media
Vol. LI No. 49
Date: March 9, 2014
Curbing Social Menace Kampala Shows the Way
Enjoining good (amr bil ma’roof) and forbidding evil (nahi anil munkar) are obligatory upon every believer. Concerned believers do care to fulfil these obligations at individual and collective levels. However,…
JIH Releases Public Manifesto for Lok Sabha Elections 2014
A public manifesto for 2014 Lok Sabha polls was released by Maulana Syed Jalaluddin Omari, Ameer, Jamaat-e-Islami Hind at a press conference held at JIH headquarters in the national capital…
‘Muslims also Responsible for Their Deprivations’
Before the World War II, Britain, Germany and France were big brothers of the world. But, the United States of America superseded them because of its advancement in science and…
3 Mutawallis Suspended for Irregularities
AP State Wakf Board (APSWB) on March 1 suspended mutawallis (managers) of three dargahs, including the prominent Dargah Hazrat Yusufain in Nampally.
Fifa Lifts Ban on Head Covers
Fifa has officially authorised the wearing of head covers for religious reasons during football matches. The ruling was made following a meeting of the International Football Association Board (external) (IFAB)…
AK’s Welcome Move
This is apropos to the Cover Story of the Radiance (23 Feb-1 March). Arvind Kejriwal’s move to resign from his post is welcome.
No Contribution of Muslims in Near Past
This refers to the ‘Islam’s Contribution to World Civilization’ (Radiance, 23 Feb-1 March). Islam or rather Muslims has contributed a lot to the world civilisation and their contribution to the…
Anti-Conversion Law Unconstitutional
This refers to your Editorial (Radiance, 23 Feb-1 March). The issue raised therein needs heed of all. In fact, choosing a religion and practising it in life is completely a…
‘Allah’ Not Limited to Muslims Only
Nafees Akhtar in his letter (Reader’s Pulse, Radiance, 23 Feb-1 March) has opined everything out of context, and even two verses of the Qur’ān have been irrelevantly referred to.
AAP Should be Drawn in Third Front
The Left must be applauded for trying to bring as many as 11 political parties to come together as a third alternative in the 2014 general elections.
AZERBAIJAN’S 22 YEARS OF MOURNING THE KHOJALY MASSACRE
Azerbaijan has been commemorating the infamous Khojaly massacre this week, marking the 22nd anniversary since Armenian troops slaughtered 613 Azeri civilians during the Nagorno-Karabkh war, which began upon the fall…
HEZBOLLAH TO RESPOND TO ISRAELI STRIKE
Hezbollah will respond to an Israeli air strike on February 26 that hit one of its bases. “The new aggression is a blatant assault on Lebanon and its sovereignty and…
FJP COMMENTS ON ‘CRIMINAL COUP’ GOVERNMENT RESIGNATION
On the resignation of Egypt’s prime minister and his cabinet on February 24 ahead of presidential poll, Egypt’s Freedom and Justice Party said in a statement that the resignation of…
EGYPT SENTENCES 26 PEOPLE TO DEATH FOR SUEZ CANAL ATTACK
A court on February 26 slapped 26 people with the death penalty after convicting them of forming a “terrorist cell” that targeted Egypt’s strategic Suez Canal. The court sentenced 26…
JORDAN TO EXPEL ISRAELI AMBASSADOR
The Jordanian parliament on February 26 voted to expel the Israeli ambassador following an Israeli Knesset debate on proposals to impose Israeli oversight of Al-Quds (occupied East Jerusalem).
SYRIANS LARGEST REFUGEE POPULATION: UN
Syrians are about to replace Afghans as the world’s largest refugee population, fleeing a conflict where barrel bombs leave bodies in pieces and a generation of children is physically and…
WORLD HAS FAILED SYRIA: TURKEY
Turkey’s foreign minister said Syria’s worsening war now posed a danger to all countries because President Bashar al-Assad’s government had been allowed to continue its “crimes” while radicals from around…
TURKEY MARKS 17 YEARS SINCE ‘POST-MODERN’ COUP
On February 28, 1997, the military effectively deposed the duly elected prime minister, Necmettin Erbakan, who had been in office less than a year, leading to the collapse of Erbakan’s…
COMMUNAL TENSION IN AZAMGARH
Communal tension prevailed in Muhammadpur town of Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh on 24 February.
RUC ON OPEN ENDED DHARNA AGAINST ARTICLE 341
The Rashtriya Ulema Council is staging an open ended sit-in at Jantar Mantar in the national capital demanding reservation for Dalit Muslims under Article 341 of the Constitution.
UPGRADE AMU’S MURSHIDABAD CENTRE TO UNIVERSITY: AMU WRITES TO CENTRE
The Aligarh Muslim University has recently written to the Union Ministry for Minority Affairs to turn the AMU Centre at Murshidabad into a full-fledged central university. The university also plans…
DOCUMENTARY ON TAMIL MUSLIM DIASPORA
In an attempt to spread the message of Islam and remove the misconceptions regarding it, S Anwar has prepared a documentary which throws light on the history and heritage of…
COMMUNALISM BIGGER THREAT THAN CORRUPTION: KEJRIWAL
Former Delhi Chief Minister of Delhi and Aam Aadmi Party convener, Arvind Kejriwal, said, on 24 February, that communalism is a bigger problem in the country than corruption. Addressing a…
SC DISMISSES PIL SEEKING BAN ON FATWAS
The Supreme Court, on 25 February, expressed its unwillingness to delve into the legality of the parallel Shari’ah courts or examine the merit of the Fatwas issued by them. All Fatwas are not irrational per se and…
MIZORAM CHURCH PRAYS FOR CONTINUED BAN ON ALCOHOL
The Mizoram Presbyterian Church has asked its members to pray for the continued implementation of ban on alcohol in the state. In a statement, the largest church organisation in the state,…
RETIRED ARMY MAN HELD SPYING FOR ISI
The Anti Terror Squad of Uttar Pradesh has recently arrested a retired Army Subedar in Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh, on charges of passing sensitive Army document to Pakistan’s Inter Services Intelligence…
PRINCIPAL ASKS MUSLIM BOY TO SHAVE BEARD, FIR LODGED
A First Information Report has been filed against the principal of Wilsona College in Mooradabad in Uttar Pradesh for allegedly refusing to give a Muslim bearded boy his admit card…
Women’s Empowerment in Islam
The Qur’ān states that both men and women are equal, but also, as in 4:34, that “Men are the protectors and maintainers of women, because Allah has made one of…
Women’s Empowerment in Islam
The Qur’ān states that both men and women are equal, but also, as in 4:34, that “Men are the protectors and maintainers of women, because Allah has made one of…
A Clarification
Mr. Nafees Akhtar [Reader’s Pulse, Radiance 23 Feb.-1 March 2014] says that in my opinion, others have no right to use this word (Allah) to mean God. May I draw…
OPPORTUNISTIC POLITY Degrades Political Morality
MOHAMMAD NAUSHAD KHAN takes stock of the fast changing political scenario in the country wherein opportunistic politics is being played at the cost of political morality.
The Fall of AAP Government
The fall of the AAP government in Delhi is a bolt out of the blue for Indian electorate in general and for common people in particular. It has shattered their…
Because I’m a Human
I go in search of the people who need me
‘Service Charges can’t be a Source of Profit’
The 11th meeting of the Forum for Group Discussions on Economic Issues (FGDEI) jointly organised by Sahulat Microfinance Society and Radiance Viewsweekly was addressed by Dr. Mohiuddin Ghazi Falahi Madani,
Bleak Future Stares at Afghanistan
It’s time for the authors of the 2001 Afghan invasion to eat crow as their pyrrhic victory is turning into humiliating defeat after a 13-year battle that sent home 1,788…
Helping the Muslim
Whoever does not come to the rescue of a Muslim who is being dishonoured and disrespected, then Allah also does not provide him with succour in time of his need.…
The Criterion par excellence
Most blessed is He Who sent down this Criterion on His servant, to be a warner to all mankind
How Not to Apologise
That the BJP is making desperate attempts to realise its dream of crossing the magic number of 272 in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections came to light once again on…
Justice for Gujarat Victims Pivotal to Save India’s Secular Tradition:
The Indian American Muslim Council on February 28 joined human rights activists, survivors and people of conscience across the world in commemorating the Gujarat pogrom of 2002 on the occasion…
Bring Modi to justice, Urges meeting hosted at UK Parliament
Two of Yusuf Dawood’s brothers, on holiday in India twelve years ago, were brutally killed during horrific communal violence against Muslims in Gujarat in 2002. Over 1,500 died (including three…
THE 3M PHENOMENA Modi, Modify and Media
SYED KAZIM analyses the lies, contradictions and Machiavellian strategies of the prime ministerial candidate of BJP, Mr. Narendra Modi and the role of media in furthering this Saffron cause or…
TWELVE YEARS NOW The Wait for Truth and Justice!
It is Sunday, 23rd February 2014: the UN Special Rapporteur of Freedom of Religion or Belief, Prof. Dr. Heiner Bielefeldt was visiting Ahmedabad listening to eye witness accounts from the…
