BHAGALPUR 1989 Delayed Justice Denies Justice to Victims
Vol. XLIV No. 52
Date: July 1, 2007
Patil’s Disparaging Remarks -I
One wonders how it was possible for Ms. Pratibha Patil to make disparaging remarks about the veil, distorting historical facts. She did not even think of the secular and pluralistic…
Patil’s Disparaging Remarks -I
The Shariath Protection Council of Tamil Nadu vehemently condemns the baseless and sacrilegious assertion of the Presidential candidate Ms. Pratibha Patil that the “purdah system” came into vogue to save…
Politicisation Mars Growth
India may be lagging behind China in terms of economic growth or becoming a global manufacturing hub, but it has outpaced in creating the maximum number of jobs among the…
Western Hypocrisy
When Palestinians voted Hamas to power two years back, no less a person than the former President of United States of America, Mr. Jimmy Carter hailed the electoral process as…
Qur’an TRANSLATED INTO GEORGIAN LANGUAGE
The presentation of the first ever translation of the Holy Koran into the Georgian language was held in Tbilisi at the Caucasus House nongovernmental organization. The central religious book of…
SAUDI RELIGIOUS COURTS TO TRY TERROR SUSPECTS
ligious courts had been established in the Kingdom – one in Riyadh and one in Jeddah – to speed up the trials of terrorist suspects who have been apprehended in…
ARABIC CALLIGRAPHY BY A JAPANESE EXPERT
For Kouichi Honda, writing a beautiful line is what life is about. The 61-year-old professor of international relations at Daito Bunka University in Saitama Prefecture is Japan’s leading authority on…
JAMIAT DEMANDS REHABILITATION OF BHAGALPUR RIOT VICTIMS
Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind has demanded from the government to ensure rehabilitation of the family members of 116 Muslims killed in the anti-Muslim riots that shook the village Logai in Bhagalpur district…
MUSLIMS URGE UPA TO CHANGE ITS PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE
Muslim leaders on June 19 demanded the United Progressive Alliance withdraw its candidate from India’s presidential race after she said Muslim women should stop wearing their headscarves.
JAMAAT FLAYS PRATIBAH PATIL’S STATEMENT ON VEIL
Jamaat-e-Islami Hind Rajasthan zonal president Er. Mohammed Salim has opposed the statement made by Rajasthan Governor and UPA Presidential candidate Pratibha Patil that the purdah (veil) system was introduced in…
MINORITY WELFARE PLANS SUFFER IN UTTARAKHAND
The Bharatiya Janata Party government of Uttarakhand is busy highlighting its achievements during the first 100 days since assumption of power in the State but all the welfare plans aimed…
rface Islamists Need Not Apply
Decades ago a cartoon showed a sign “Muslims Need Not Apply” on the front doors of the Islamic Studies department of a US university. Almost the same is true about…
Stem Cell Research: Boon or Bane
President George W. Bush has vetoed legislation for the second time that would have allowed the use of federal funds to support embryonic stem cell research. “Destroying human life in…
My Veil Is My Shield, My Maidservant
Pratibha Patil’s education is not under dispute. What is under dispute is her commonsense, knowledge, scholarship and erudition, which Dr. S. Radhakrishnan or Dr. Zakir Husein had, to an extent.
Northeast: A Tale of Apathy-II Thousands Living under Open Sky
The Bodo community comprises the majority in Kokrajhar district. It also has a sizeable Rajbongshi and Santhal population in addition to Muslims, whose fast increasing population is generally attributed to…
Darfur Crisis, Causes and Possible Solution
Earlier this month the European Parliament undertook a discussion on the Darfur crisis. Among those invited to participate in the discussions were Desmond Tutu and Jody Williams, both Nobel Peace…
Old Wine in a New Bottle?
Pardon the cliché, but well, this time it’s Pratibha Patil – forerunner for President of this great, multicultural country – who has come up with ‘revolutionary’ ideas for ‘zenana liberation’.
The Purdah Debate: Need to Pull Veil off from History
No Mughal, Arab or even for that matter Taliban asked hundreds of thousands of young modern non-Muslim girls and women of Pune to entirely cover their face and head. They…
Palestine – A House Divided Within
There seems to be no end to Palestinians woes. Two million Palestinians in the West Bank and 1.5 million in Gaza, and further two million scattered all over neighbouring Arab…
Attempt to Divide Muslims on Quota Decried
The Andhra Pradesh government’s move to provide reservations for Muslims in professional educational institutions and government jobs by dividing them on the lines of castes has evoked strong reaction from…
Arabs Back under British-U.S. Jackboot
The brutality of the civil war – that has divided the Palestinian Hamas, under Prime Minister Ismael Haniyeh, and Fatah led by President Mahmoud Abbas – has not only subverted…
BHAGALPUR RIOTS Guilty Brought to Justice
The communal riots of Bhagalpur which took place on October 27, 1989 and continued about two months, finally culminated in the 14 accused having been found guilty by a court…
