Muslims and 1857 War of Independence
Vol. XLIV No.28
Date: December 31, 2006
Muslims urged to come forward To ameliorate the situation
On the occasion of the UN’s Minorities Day on December 18, a seminar on Prime Minister’s 15 point programme for the welfare of Minorities was organised by Delhi Minorities Commission…
Siddha Mosque Faces Demolition or Relocation
While the UPA government at the Centre is storming the political arena with its talk of development measures for the Indian Muslims, about a century old Siddha Mosque in West…
Sachar Committee Report Makes Ripples
In a symposium organised by Sir Syed Awareness Forum of Aligarh Muslim University to discuss the findings of the Sachar Committee Report, Maulana Fazl-e-Rahim Mujaddidi, Rector Jamia Hedaya, Jaipur emphasised…
Grand Rally Greets New SIO President in Calicut
A mammoth rally of Students Islamic Organisation (SIO) of India on December 18 rocked Calicut city with slogans against commercialisation of education. The SIO activists were marching to greet the…
Legal Services Programme
Congratulations to the Radiance team for publishing “Legal services programme: towards promoting social justice” by Dr. Shakil Ahmed. Dr. Ahmed successfully demonstrates the need for a better access to the…
Schemes for Urban Renewal
All urban areas in independent India have been plagued by slums for sound economic reasons. Hence, the problem has refused to go away despite public demand for action and repeated…
Stop Inhumane Treatment of Animals
Islamic law demands humane treatment of animals that are to be butchered! The video http://www.petatv.com/tvpopup/Prefs.asp?video=live_transport3 illustrates that some Muslim countries are violating Islamic law in the handling of the animals they…
Unique Democracy
Mr. Robert Mugabe, the Zimbabwean President, who is to step down in 2008, has been granted rights by the ruling party to govern the country up to 2010 ostensibly to harmonise Presidential…
Anatomy of an Apology: An Eleven-Point Formula
Auron ka hai Payaam aur, mera Payaam aur hai / Ishq key dardmand ka tarz-e-kalaam aur hai! (Iqbal)
Political Turmoil in Bangladesh
The recent resignation of four advisers to the caretaker government, the first such incident in the history of caretaker governments, over President and Chief Adviser Iajuddin Ahmed’s unilateral actions on…
Hong Kong to Get First Woman-only Mosque
Hong Kong is likely to get its first woman-only mosque by next year, believed to be the only of its kind in Asia outside of China, reports said on December…
Malaysia Calls for Global Muslim Food Standards
Malaysia on December 19 urged international makers of halal foods, or acceptable under Islamic rules, to standardise guidelines in an effort to reach a larger market.
5,460 Crores for Muslim Education uplift
The latest debate on Muslim uplift is whether a huge amount of money should be vested to lift the standard of Muslims or not. Indeed, a tough job. But, considering…
Muslims Getting Marginalised in Gujrat
Heard about concentration camps of the Nazi force in Germany? Yet not about the ghettos made for Gujarati Muslims in Narendra Modi’s regime where Muslims are being marginalised in a…
Female Population Falling in India: UNICEF
A UNICEF State of the World’s Children Report says that boys are outnumbering girls in India. It informs that against the global sex ratio of 954 girls to 1,000 boys,…
Qur’an the Most Selling Book at Patna Book Fair
The day is not so far when the non-Muslims would be lining up for the Holy Qur’an; the Patna book fair confirmed it recently. The Holy Qur’an was the most…
Ashraf Ali Thanvis and others graves demolished
The grave of Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanvi, popularly known as Hakim-ul-Ummat, and those of his wife, his brother Khan Bahadur Mazhar Ali and his friend Maulana Zahoorul Hasan were leveled…
HT ‘I’d Broken the Chains of Physical Enslavement’
I grew up near a small town in South Dakota. The only religions I was exposed to were various denominations of Christianity. My family and I occasionally attended a Lutheran…
Its Another New Year… Whats to Celebrate?
The calendar says this is going to be a festive season: Eid al-Adha, Christmas, New Year and many other festivals in many lands will be celebrated in late December, followed…
Islam and Indian Media
With television presenting direct potent images, the role of the media has assumed greater significance. V.A. MOHAMAD ASHROF presents a critical study of how the mainstream print and electronic media…
Muslims Facing Islamophobia in Europe
The significance and valuation for human rights and dignity can be found throughout the Qur’an. In matters of faith, the language is explicit and unequivocal: “There is no compulsion in…
Iran Hosts Holocaust Conference
Iran on December 11 opened a conference to examine the Holocaust and question whether Nazi Germany used gas chambers to kill Jews, drawing condemnation in the West and criticism from…
The Oil Connection in the Iraq Study Group Report
A group of Iraqi politicians and ministers is close to finishing a draft of a national oil law that, if enacted, would be the most significant legislation passed by the…
Hijab Unveiled
After the storm…the lull. It’s amazing, the amount of din, a piece of cloth – the scarf, could generate. But like other controversies, this has also subsided, but not without…
Female foeticide stirs DU girls
While the Parliament was passing the Bill to prevent child marriages, students of Delhi University raised their fears and concerns about the vanishing girl child in India. A group of…
The child marriage law gets more teeth
It is not uncommon to see children – more often girls who have still not reached puberty – being married off to men much older than themselves in villages in…
The Other Christmas Gospel
You may be familiar with the Gospel accounts presented by Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, but are you aware of the other Gospel account that one-fifth of the world’s population…
Indian Wakf Service Mooted To Protect Wakf Properties
Hyderabad: Justice Sachar Committee, which went into the social and economic status of Muslims, has suggested creation of Indian Wakf Service on the lines of civil services to ensure protection…
Time Constrain Factor and Mission of Our Life
Practically, every human being on earth is subject to time-constrain as the art is long and time is short and fleeing fast. In consequence, the life of most of us…
Why is US Blind to Israels Apartheid?
President Carter’s book has poked into a hornet’s nest primarily for the US political elite. Carter has accused Israel for “worst than apartheid” treatment of the Palestinians and admits that…
Rabbi makes Seattle Airport XMas-Treeless
The Seattle airport took down 15 Christmas trees that have been displayed at this time of year for the past 10 years. Airport authorities removed them after an ultimatum from…
Evangelical Video by Top Pentagon Officers
The Military Religious Freedom Foundation, a watchdog group led by retired Air Force lawyer “Mikey” Weinstein has asked the Defence Department to investigate whether seven Army and Air Force officers…
The Lost Mughal
History writing is a funny business. The mid-1940s writings of the British, French or Russian historians on the World War II may be much different from those of their counterparts…
Our First War of Independence
The great Indian revolt of 1857 was actually our first war of independence. It was an attempt to overthrow the yoke of British colonial exploitation. Though this failed but succeeded…
Muslims and 1857 War of Independence
ABUL KALAM analyses the various factors that led to 1857 war of independence, and concedes that for Muslims, it was but a continuation of the campaign by Syed Ahmad that…
