HOW CLEAN IS IT to Give a ‘Clean Chit’ to Mr. Modi
Vol. LII No. 03
Date: April 20, 2014
Post-Demolition, Foundation Stone of Mosque Laid
A delegation of eminent Muslims under the leadership of SQR Ilyas, General Secretary Welfare Party of India, gathered at the site of demolished mosque in Mehrauli area of Delhi on…
Dawat Sehroza Launches English Blog
In order to spread its message to people with English background, Urdu biweekly Dawat launched its blog, in the national capital on 7 April. The new blog www.dawatblogs.com has been…
Poisonous Remarks
This refers to the news item “Malhotra Statement Irresponsible, Criminal Defamatory: Mushawarat” (Radiance, 6-12 April). The BJP in its manifesto has assured safe and secure environment for Muslims but on…
Anxiety in the BJP camp
The recent statement made by Murli Manohar Joshi that there is no Modi wave and the Gujarat model cannot be applied elsewhere in the country is remarkable and reveals the…
Conspiracy behind Arrest of Innocent Muslims
This refers to the story “External, Internal Conspiracy behind Arrest of Muslim Youth” (Radiance, 6-12 April). Advocate Mahmood Pracha has rightly said that there are external and internal conspiracies behind…
Tactical Voting is the Real Answer
The ongoing Lok Sabha elections are very important for the country. Muslims have to play an important role by not allowing the BJP to capture power, or actually blocking Modi…
Muhammad Qutb (1919-2014)
Prominent Egyptian Islamic scholar and thinker Muhammad Qutb breathed his last at Jeddah International Medical Centre in Jeddah on 4 April. He was 95.
PHILIPPINES’ MORO MUSLIMS FORM POLITICAL PARTY
The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) in the Philippines on 8 April announced it had formed its own political party just two weeks after signing a peace deal with the…
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY WITHDRAWS HONOUR FOR ISLAMOPHOBE AYAAN HIRSI ALI
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) on 9 April welcomed a decision by Brandeis University to withdraw its invitation to notorious anti-Muslim extremist Ayaan Hirsi Ali to receive an honorary…
HAMAS CALLS ON ABBAS TO TERMINATE ISRAEL TALKS
Palestinian resistance faction Hamas on 9 April called on the Palestinian Authority (PA) to terminate its ongoing talks with Israel after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered his government to…
DIGGING STARTS AT SUSPECTED MASS GRAVE IN BOSNIA
Excavation of a suspected mass grave of victims from the Bosnian war began on 9 April as prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, Serge Brammertz, arrived…
KENYA DEPORTS SOMALIS, ARRESTS HUNDREDS IN CRACKDOWN
Kenya on 9 April said it had deported 82 Somalis and rounded up hundreds of others without proper documents, part of a security crackdown launched after repeated attacks claimed by…
TURKEY WANTS TO EXPAND FREE-TRADE DEAL WITH BOSNIA
Turkey and Bosnia and Herzegovina have been working to expand their bilateral free trade agreement, Turkey’s Economy Minister said on 10 April. Nihat Zeybekci was on a visit to Bosnia…
INDONESIA POLL SHOWS RISE IN ISLAMIC PARTY SUPPORT
Indonesians voted for a new parliament on 9 April with initial counts showing the main opposition party ahead but less convincingly than expected, meaning it might have to make deals
299 SYRIANS STARVE TO DEATH IN CIVIL WAR
A report on 9 April from the Syrian Network for Human Rights has claimed that at least 299 Syrians have died from starvation because Bashar al Assad’s regime is purposely…
EGYPTIAN FEMALE ACTIVISTS FORM ‘ANTI-COUP’ COALITION
Nine Egyptian anti-coup women’s groups have united to form a coalition with the stated aim of stepping up efforts to end what they describe as last summer’s “military coup” that…
TURKEY SLAMS EGYPT DEATH SENTENCES
Turkey’s Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has criticised the death penalty issued against 528 people in Egypt, saying it would cause “deeper polarisation”. In a televised interview on 9 April, Davutoglu…
TDP MUSLIM LEADERS, CADRES QUIT PARTY OVER BJP ALLIANCE
Trouble is brewing within the Telugu Desam as many Muslim leaders and workers resigned en masse on 8 April, protesting the party’s rekindled friendship with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
‘MUSLIM AREAS’ VOTER LISTS FAULTY’
Some Muslim NGOs have complained to the Maharashtra Election Commission about alleged widespread discrepancies in the voter lists in Muslim-dominated areas such as Mumbra, Mira Road, Nala Sopara,
MUSLIM LEADERS CONDEMN ARREST OF MUSLIM YOUTHS, SCHOLARS IN FALSE
In a joint statement issued on 4 April, Muslim leaders strongly condemned the arrest of educated innocent Muslim youths and Ulema (scholars) in false cases in different states of the…
HC ACQUITS 6 PERSONS ACCUSED IN TERROR CONSPIRACY CASE
A division bench of the High Court at Hyderabad on 7 April set aside the conviction of six persons in the infamous 2005 Arms Procurement Case related to terror outfit…
MUSHAWARAT ISSUES LEGAL NOTICE TO BJP’S MALHOTRA OVER HIS SLUR
The All India Muslim Majlise Mushawarat, the apex body of India Muslim organisations, issued a legal notice on 4 April to the BJP head Mr VK Malhotra who had recently…
BJP MANIFESTO DAMAGING FOR THE COUNTRY: JIH
Jamaat-e-Islami Hind has described the election manifesto of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) as destructive for the identity of minorities and other social groups and contrary to the requirements of justice.…
HINDU CONVERTED TO ISLAM DOESN’T LOSE BACKWARD CLASS STATUS: MADRAS
The Madras High Court has ordered the Tamil Nadu government to instruct its officials to issue backward class (BC) community certificates to people who embrace Islam, categorically saying that a…
Muhammad Qutb on Islam, Capitalism and Communism
Muhammad Qutb, one of the most prominent Islamic scholars of the 20th century and brother of the great Islamic thinker Sayyid Qutb, died in Jeddah on 4 April.
US Congressional Hearing Highlights Plight of Minorities in India
Coalition Against Genocide, a broad alliance dedicated to justice and accountability for the Gujarat pogroms of 2002, on 4 April welcomed the Congressional hearing on the subject of minorities and…
Has Manifesto Lost Its Essence
Manifesto is a political promise before the electorate to be fulfilled after assuming power or forming government. It is more or less a guideline or a framework of the political…
Vote for AAP, Congress: AIMMM
The All India Muslim Majlis-e- Mushawarat, the umbrella body of Indian Muslim organisations, released an advisory and asked to vote for AAP or Congress at the national level and other…
Vote Carefully and Defeat Communal, Fascist Forces: AMUTA
The Aligarh Muslim University Teachers’ Association (AMUTA) has appealed to all Muslim and secular voters to vote carefully and defeat communal and fascist forces in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections,…
Faith in Allah
Arvind Kejriwal, at the close of a recent interview in Varanasi to NDTV 24×7-TV, was asked: “What you will do if you are defeated?” He answered: “God will show us…
Violence is in BJP’s Genes
BJP watchers were flabbergasted to see the Hindu nationalist party cringe and whinge at the Cobrapost sting operation on the Babri Masjid’s demolition and its request to the Election Commission…
Gujarat Development Model Fact or Fiction
In his book, Gujarat Development Model: A Reality Check, Santosh Kumar has made an objective analysis of the claims on ‘Gujarat Development Model’ with available facts and figures. His analysis has…
How Not to Barter Faith
It is narrated on the authority of Abu Hurairah that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be to him) observed: “Be prompt in doing good deeds (before…
The Garden of Eternity
Ask them: ‘Is this state better or the Garden of Eternity which the God-fearing have been promised?’ It shall be their recompense and the end-point of their journey; the Garden…
Kagal ‘Bomb Making Factory’ Let the Police End Double-Dealing
The 8 April headline “Police discover bomb making factory in Kolhapur, four Hindutva terrorists held” on coastaldigest.com should have sent shockwaves across the country rather across the peace-loving world. But,…
HOW CLEAN IS IT to Give a ‘Clean Chit’ to
The claims of the Government of Gujarat are hollow and the Corporate houses and the media owned by them have put up this “Development” mantra as a façade to hide…
