Saffron Modus Operandi in Serial Riots Deserves Notice
Vol. XLIX No. 29
Date: October 16, 2011
BadruddinAjmal Condemns Violence, Calls for Justice to the Victims
In a letter to PM Manmohan Singh on October 4, Maulana BadruddinAjmal, Member of Parliament (LokSabha) and President All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF), condemned the flare-up of communal violence…
When Anna Keeps Mum
Anti graft crushed, Anna Hazare’s free, fair and fearless vow to fight against corruption and bringing a strong Lokpal has left a significant impact on the socio-political environment of the…
Modi, Bhatt and Anna
Not too long ago Anna Hazare praised Narendra Modi’s governance. Modi was so tickled by Anna’s gesture that one morning at 5 a.m. he poured out his “heartfelt feelings” in an…
Yet Another Episode of Justice Denied
The arrest of IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt has exposed the vindictive character of the Gujarat government. Any layman can say that Mr. Bhatt’s suspension from service followed by his arrest…
Fast & Yatra: 4G Scam
The Chief Minister of Gujarat, Narendra Modi is now engaged in a new tamasha. After the end of Anna Hazare’s fast, it seems, this Gujarati is going on what is called…
UN QUARTET TO REVIVE MIDEAST TALKS
Mideast negotiators will seek ways to restart the moribund Israeli-Palestinian peace process during a meeting planned for this weekend, the European Union said on October 7.
‘ISRAEL BOMBING KILLED CAPTIVES IN LEBANON’
Israeli bombardment killed two Israeli soldiers whose capture by Hezbollah began a war in 2006 and whose bodies were returned to Israel two years later, a Lebanese minister said on…
SECULARISTS FORCE TEL AVIV TO CHANGE ‘JEWISH’ CLASSIFICATION
In its troubled peace talks with the Palestinians, Israel has demanded that it should be recognised as a Jewish state, but there is deep domestic division on what that means.YoramKaniuk,
GAZANS TAKE TO STREETS IN SHOW OF SOLIDARITY WITH STRIKING
While the hunger strike of the Palestinians prisoners entered its 12th day on October 7, thousands of Gaza residents took to streets after Friday prayers across the coastal enclave in…
MYANMAR CENSORSHIP CHIEF CALLS FOR PRESS FREEDOM
The director of Myanmar’s state censorship board has said his own department should be abolished to allow greater press freedom in the Southeast Asian nation.
ANKARA PILES PRESSURE ON SYRIA
Turkey is piling pressure on Syria with border military exercises, economic sanctions and the harbouring of Syrian opposition groups and army defectors.Turkey has shifted, in the space of six months,
YEMENI WOMAN AMONG NOBEL PEACE WINNERS
Africa’s first democratically elected female president, a Liberian campaigner against rape and a woman who stood up to Yemen’s autocratic regime won the Nobel Peace Prize on October 8 in…
NO DRINKING WATER IN RAMPUR, PROBLEMS PILE UP
It must be admitted that two Indias exist within India, one is the shining India, which is sending shivers down the spine of many rising global economies, and the other…
DARUL ULOOM STUDENT BEATEN TO DEATH, OTHERS TORTURED BY POLICE
Yet another incident of police brutality came to surface. And this time again, Muslims remain at the receiving end of police barbarism. The shocking part of the story is that…
JAMIAT-E-ULEMA CONDEMNS BIASED ATTITUDE OF GOVERNMENT
The recent Rudrapur killing once again has unveiled the biased and communal nature of the police. Hafiz Furqan, Secretary Jamiat-e-Ulema Hind U.P., said “Rudrapur incident is not a communal riot,…
PROTEST IN MUMBAI AGAINST MODI’S DIABOLISM
The arrest of the suspended IPS officer of Gujarat, Mr.Sanjiv Bhatt, caused furore in Mumbai, when many Muslim organisations came forward and slammed the arrest, claiming it as a punishment…
COALITION AGAINST GENOCIDE FOR ACTION OVER SANJIV BHATT ARREST
In a letter addressed to President PratibhaDevisinghPatil, Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh, and Chief Justice of India Justice S.H. Kapadia, the Coalition Against Genocide (CAG) on October 5 sought their…
RUDRAPUR RIOTS: JIH EXPRESSES GRIEF, DEMANDS ACTION
Jamaat-e-Islami Hind has expressed intense grief and distress over the incident of desecration of the Holy Qur’ānin Rudrapur, Uttarakhand. While vociferously condemning the incompetence of administration and barbarism of police,…
I Saw a Muslimah atPeace with Herself
You can ask me what I had for dinner yesterday, and I will stop and think. But ask me at any time, on any day, when I reverted to Islam……
THE SYRIAN UPRISING US Follow a Failed path
United States ambassador to Syria Robert Ford is quite a feisty diplomat. He shows up unannounced and uninvited at various hot spots in the country, greeted with varying degrees of…
Striving for Solution of National and Community Issues Using RTI
Right to Information is the right of the citizens of the country, under which the citizens can obtain any information from any government body or governmental institution. Many countries in…
A Money-Making Industry
Education, these days, has become a costly affair. Educational institutes are making profits in thousands and lakhs. This sounds shocking, doesn’t it? Educational institutes have become so professional that for…
Preventing Sectarian Violence Need for a Bill to Prevent Communal
RAM PUNIYANI terms the communal and fascist forces’ argument that to define the targeted minority is to divide the nation as a mechanistic one, and underlines the need of debate…
What It Means to Be a Woman in Kashmir?
WIDOWS AND HALF WIDOWS Saga of extra-judicial arrests and killings in Kashmir Afsana Rashid Pharos Media & Publishing Pvt Ltd, D-84 Abul Fazl Enclave-I, Jamia Nagar, New Delhi – 110…
Messenger’s Love for Humanity
Jabir relates that the Holy Messenger (peace and blessings of Allah be to him) has said: ‘I and you are like a person who ignites a fire and moths and…
They’re Indeed Transgressors
Those who accuse chaste, honourable women (of unchastity) but do not produce four witnesses, flog them with eighty lashes, and do not admit their testimony ever after.
The Politics of Blasts and Riots
The history of India, more so of Independent India, is replete with communal clashes. The question is why the sons and daughters of Adam and Eve are tortured, subjugated, maimed…
Saffron Modus Operandi in Serial Riots Deserves Notice
DR. S. AUSAF SAIED VASFI analyses the recent communal flare-ups in Bharatpur, Rudrapur and Pratapgarh, and throws considerable light on the Saffron modus operandi in these serial riots, which have…
