Saffron Fascism Touches a New Low
Vol. XLIX No. 30
Date: October 23, 2011
DNA: A Glorious Marvel of Creation
Each person has an average of 100 trillion cells, each of which contains a DNA molecule. DNA is an acronym for deoxyribonucleic acid. Just one of these contains information regarding 3 billion…
ABU BAKR SIDDIQ (May Allah be Pleased with Him)
Role models are of paramount importance and play an important role in shaping an individual’s personality. The crisis we face these days is that children are imbibing and following those…
Education Remains a Top Priority in Civilized Society: Dr. S.Q.R.
For quite a long time a strong need of a library had been felt by many in the thickly Muslim concentration area of Zakir Nagar, New Delhi. On October 8,
HWF Distributes Academic Excellence Awards
Human Welfare Foundation in coordination with PM Foundation Kerala and Fatima Health Care Group, on October 9, organised an award distribution ceremony and felicitated 100 meritorious students belonging to the…
Inflict a Blanket Ban on Wine: JIH
Alcohol has always been seen as a social evil and is very much responsible for disintegration of families, road accidents and increase in crimes. The Holy Qur’ān describes alcohol and…
Lokpal with Constitutional Status
Union Law Minister Salman Khurshid expressing Union government’s intention to make Lokpal a constitutional body though apparently seen as a move towards strong Lokpal,
Anna’s ‘My Way or No Way’
Anna first asked for a joint draft committee which would consult his team and give due consideration to his own Jan Lokpa bill. The UPA agreed. In the meetings of…
Attack on Prashant Bhushan
The attack on Supreme Court lawyer Prashant Bhushan is an attack on fundamental rights of the Indian citizens. Prashant said the attack on him was “fascist” and it will not…
Donning Political Robe doesn’t Behove Thee
Anna Hazare got a massive response to his demand for the Jan Lokpal bill as everybody was vexed with the scourge of corruption that was eating into the vitals of…
The Islamic Miracle of Defying Death
Islam places in the hands of all of us a most personal and intimate miracle: How to defy death every time it strikes.
HAMAS, EGYPTIANS MEET ON ISRAELI SOLDIER HANDOVER
A Hamas official says that the Palestinian group is meeting with Egyptian intelligence officials to discuss how to transfer a captive soldier to Israel. Hamas-backed militants have kept
RECONSTRUCTION OF GAZA MOSQUES BEGIN
An increased flow of essential building material – primarily cement, steel and aggregates entering the Gaza Strip via underground tunnels along the Gaza-Egypt border – has allowed reconstruction of hundreds…
DEATH TOLL IN SYRIAN UPRISING TOPS 3,000: UN
Thousands of Syrian protesters on October 14 called on soldiers to abandon President Bashar Assad’s regime and join a dissident army numbering in the small thousands, as the top UN…
KHAMENEI CALLS US ACCUSATIONS MEANINGLESS
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on October 15 said US accusations that two Iranians planned to assassinate the Saudi Arabian ambassador to Washington were “meaningless,”
IPU TO REVIEW ROLE IN ARAB AND ISLAMIC COUNTRIES
Shoura Council Chairman Abdullah Al-Asheikh has said a key Inter-Parliamentary Union meeting will review its role in Arab and Islamic countries in maintaining peace and security in the region
FRESH BLOW TO MIDEAST PEACE
Israel plans to build more than 2,600 housing units in a new urban settlement in East Jerusalem, an anti-settlement group said on October 14, angering Palestinians who want a halt…
EGYPT PROTESTERS URGE MUSLIM-CHRISTIAN UNITY
Hundreds of protesters marched from Egypt’s state mosque toward Cairo’s Tahrir Square to denounce a bloody attack on Coptic Christian protesters, only to be stoned by a crowd of onlookers…
TWO HOLY MOSQUES TO HAVE RESERVE IMAMS
The General Presidency of the Affairs of the Two Holy Mosques is considering the appointment of reserve imams in the Grand Mosque in Makkah and the Prophet’s Mosque in Madinah…
AMU STUDENTS AWARDED WITH SATYENDRA KUMAR KASHYAP SCHOLARSHIP
Zishan Akhtar, Muhammad Muaz and Mohammad Owais received the Satyendra Kumar Kashyap Merit Scholarship for the year 2011 at a function organized at Aligarh. All three are engineering students studying in Zakir…
AISF COMDEMNS SANJIV BHATT’S HARRASMENT
All India Secular Forum (AISF) strongly condemned the harassment of IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt by the Government of Gujarat. Bhatt was not allowed to meet his family members and even…
SC ISSUES NOTICE TO BIHAR ON FORBESGANJ FIRING
Admitting the petition filed by Association for Protection of Civil Rights (APCR), the Supreme Court of India issued notice to the State of Bihar and others to present report in the…
MUSLIMS BANNED FROM OFFERING PRAYERS IN SHOLAPUR
The right to preach, practise and follow the religion of one’s choice has been ingrained in our Constitution, but it seems that flouting Constitutional laws has become easier than following…
UPCOMING FUNCTIONS BY DAWAT DEPARTMENT OF JIH TO BE HELD
The Department of Dawah, Jamaat-e-Islami Hind is organising two important programmes to be held in the month of October in the capital. The details of the programmes are as follows.
JIH FINDS SERIAL RIOTS FISHY, URGES GOVT. TO TAKE IMMEDIATE
The Jamaat-e-Islami Hind has expressed serious concern on and raised doubts about the recent communal tensions which arose at different parts in the country and disrupted the peaceful environment.
Chilling Story of a Kashmiri Youth Police Implicated, Court Discharged
SYYED MANSOOR AGHA paints graphic details of a chilling story showing how brazenly the police weaves a web of lies to implicate a Muslim youth, especially when he happens to…
Violence Unreported
I asked some of my friends, including some media students, what happened in Rudrapur, Uttarakhand, on October 2, 2011. Most of them expressed ignorance, stretching their eyebrows. However, when asked…
AFGHANISTAN Ten Years of Tragedy and Misguided Policy
Even Ten years after the war on Afghanistan, there is no apology. It is almost as though the sons and daughters of Afghanistan are mere numbers, dispensable and extraneous, laments…
Ultimate Guidance
Abu Musa relates that the Holy Messenger (peace and blessings of Allah be to him) said: “The case of the guidance and knowledge which Allah has endowed me with (and…
Repent for Thy Lapses
Believers, turn together, all of you, to Allah in repentance that you may attain true success.
Afghanistan’s Decade of Destruction
History, the great teacher, repeats its lessons; but man, the poor learner, constantly refuses to learn. Big powers and their big follies are a living example of this truth.
CONDEMNATIONS POUR IN ON BHUSHAN’S ATTACK
The recent brutal attack on Mr. Prashant Bhushan, senior lawyer of Supreme Court and one of the senior members of Anna Hazare team against corruption
