Struggling to Surrender
Vol. LII No. 04
Date: April 27, 2014
New Year Day has No Sense
Bangla new year day has been observed in Dhaka and elsewhere with much festivity. I did not see such festivity on this day in my childhood. Business interests and secular…
Vote for AAP
This refers to report “Vote for AAP in 3 Delhi Constituencies: JIH” (Radiance, 13-19 April). It was absolutely the right thing to do at the right time because there has…
Free and Fair Polls
This refers to editorial “Ensure Free, Fair polling” (Radiance, 13-19April). If we compare the election process and its fairness from the polls conducted a couple of decades ago, then without…
Blatant Diatribe
The Bihar BJP leader Giriraj Singh’s blatant diatribe that those opposing Modi as India’s Prime Minister should go to Pakistan is a reflection of the Hindutva ideology. Though the taunt…
TURKEY SEEKS FREE TRADE DEAL WITH IRAN
Turkey has started to work on a deal with Iran to ease business between the two nations with the ultimate goal of having a full free-trade agreement, Turkey’s Development Minister…
TURKISH CHARITIES REACH OUT TO CAR MUSLIMS
Two Turkey-based charities are starting a campaign to help the crisis-hit Central African Republic. The Central African Humanitarian Aid Campaign was launched by the State of Disaster and Emergency Board…
POLITICAL DEBATE SURROUNDS ATHENS MOSQUE PROJECT
Athens today is the only European capital without an official mosque for its Muslim residents, and although there are plans to build one, the issue has attracted much controversy and…
IRAQ CLOSES INFAMOUS ABU GHRAIB PRISON
The infamous Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, which became the focus of abuses carried out by invading US forces during the occupation of the country, will now be closed. Citing…
INT’L COURT UPHOLDS CHARGES ON BOSNIA ‘BUTCHER’ MLADIC
The International Criminal Tribunal has upheld charges against the Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic, who faces war crimes charges for the slaughtering of around 8,000 Muslim civilians in the…
UK SECRET SERVICE BLACKMAILS BRITISH MUSLIMS
Muslims in the UK have complained that the British MI5 secret service has been blackmailing them into spying on other Muslims, threatening to put them on the list of terror…
SYRIAN OPPOSITION ACCUSES ASSAD’S FORCES OF NEW POISON GAS ATTACK
Opposition activists accused President Bashar al-Assad’s forces of a new poison gas attack in the Syrian capital on 16 April, posting footage of four men being treated by medics. They…
PALESTINIANS TO APPEAL TO ICC AGAINST ISRAEL
The Palestinian leadership plans to resort to the International Criminal Court (ICC) if Israel continues to “punish” the Palestinian people and violate the rights of Palestinian detainees, a Palestinian government…
NEW YORK POLICE DISBAND UNIT THAT MONITORED MUSLIMS
The New York Police Department has disbanded a surveillance unit that targeted and monitored Muslim communities, The New York Times reported on 15 April. The unit, which began in 2003,…
JIH CHIEF CONDOLES THE PASSING AWAY OF SHEIKH NADIR NURI
“Sheikh Nadir Nuri was among those eminent members of the world Islamic movement who rendered invaluable welfare services in Muslim countries and particularly in those countries where Muslims are in…
SLEUTH PROBING GUJARAT ENCOUNTERS SHIFTED, PROBE HIT
Is the investigation into the serial fake encounter cases of Sohrabuddin Shaikh, Tulsiram Prajapati and Ishrat Jahan being pushed to the back burner? A change of guard in the CBI…
MUSLIM BODY SLAMS SALIM KHAN, SALMAN KHAN FOR PRAISING NARENDRA
The Forum for Muslim Studies and Analysis has slammed Bollywood actor Salman Khan and his father and film writer Salim Khan for praising Narendra Modi for “pure commercial gains”. FMSA,…
FIR FILED AGAINST GIRIRAJ SINGH, GADKARI, OTHER BJP LEADERS
An FIR was filed on 20 April against Bihar BJP leader Giriraj Singh, former BJP chief Nitin Gadkari and some other party leaders following a controversial remark by Mr. Singh…
AMU FRATERNITY ACCUSES EC OF BIAS AGAINST AZAM KHAN
The Aligarh Muslim University fraternity has accused the Election Commission of discrimination in lifting the ban on Amit Shah, but continuing with the prohibition of Azam Khan for making inflammatory…
NARENDRA MODI SENT EMISSARIES TO OPEN TALKS ON KASHMIR: GEELANI
The chairman of Hurriyat Conference, Syed Ali Shah Geelani on 18 April claimed that the BJP’s Prime Ministerial candidate, Narendra Modi, had sent emissaries to him seeking help to resolve…
NIA REJECTS MALEGOAN ACCUSED PLEA
The National Investigating Agency (NIA) has sought rejection of the application filed by an accused, an alleged member of a Hindutva group, in the 2006 Malegoan blast case opposing the…
ONLY ONE MUSLIM MP FROM RAJASTHAN SINCE 1952
The Muslim community’s representation in Lok Sabha from Rajasthan has been negligible since the first general election held in 1952. Among the 317 MPs elected from the State in the…
Beacon of Hope Hospice Extends Compassionate Care into Clinton County
Hospice care plays an essential role in the services made available by a hospital to their patients. When the time comes to consider end-of-life care for yourself or a loved…
Political Overreach by EC, RBI
All parties have broadly agreed on various aspects of Model Code worked out by the Election Commission for a certain period before the elections. It has worked quite satisfactorily.
Muslim Minorities and Islamic Solidarity – III
The problem faced by Muslim Minority in East Turkistan and in Myanmar has one painful common factor. At both places, people are suffering at the hands of those who swear…
The Other Shades of Elections
Elections in India have become a mammoth exercise and Lok Sabha polls a mega political event. The euphoria, the support of crowd, cheers for their leaders, hope and desperation to…
Misleading Appeals
Some Muslim-looking leaders have appealed, particularly to the Muslims, to come out of the vote bank era and vote for Modi. They stated, in their appeal, that Muslims are very…
Sacrificing Values for the Sake of Secularism
In February 2011, when the National Commission for Minority Educational Institutions granted Jamia Millia Islamia the status of minority institution, the university became a hot cake for one and all.
Hindu American Foundation Exposed as Foe of Human Rights, Religious
The Coalition Against Genocide (CAG) on 7 April condemned the Hindu American Foundation for opposing the Congressional hearings on the plight of religious minorities in India and for obfuscating the…
The Rejuvenation of Awqaf in the Balkans
A Google search on “awqaf in the Balkan countries” yields little that may be termed as informative content. A search in Wikipedia says no pages on the subject exist. Yet…
Beef and Pink Revolution in Elections 2014
This time around (2014) the practitioners of sectarian politics have projected as if they will harp only on the issues related to development and governance. But that surely is for…
Appropriation of Right
It is narrated on the authority of Abu Umama that the Messenger (peace and blessings of Allah be to him) observed: He who appropriated the right of a Muslim by…
Was it you who…?
On the Day when He will muster together all the unbelievers as well as the deities that they worship beside Allah, and He will ask them: “Was it you who…
Why Not to Exercise the Franchise
When Darul Uloom Deoband banned the entry of politicians in the premises of the Islamic seminary till the end of elections for the 16th Lok Sabha, it was considered a…
Struggling to Surrender
SYED KAZIM takes stock of the Muslim society to find that the Muslim youth today stand too much enchanted with the glare of the world to be Muslims, and urges…
