NANDIGRAM Left Puts Saffron to Shame
Vol. XLV No. 19
Date: November 25, 2007
Communal Politics Causes Threat to Secular India
The most serious threat to democracy is religious extremism and its growing roots in a country like India. In fact, India is a country of democratic and secular values. Multicultural…
What a Pity!
The armed entry of the CPI(M) cadres into Nandigram is indeed comparable to the Congress party letting their goons free post-Indira Gandhi assassination and Modi letting his thugs out during…
Wage a Real ‘Jihad’
The Special issue (Radiance, October 14-20, 2007) on “Justice and the World Today” makes a wonderful reading. However it is useless to expect justice from the institutions created by human…
Legacy of Columbus
Today’s situation in Iraq is not unlike the legacy of Christopher Columbus. Nearly five years after the American invasion, more than 20 per cent of Iraqis have been killed, wounded,…
Science: A Matter of Reality
Auron ka hai Payaam aur, mera Payaam aur hai, / Ishq key dardmand ka tarz-e-kalaam aur hai! (Iqbal) If to most people, religion was, and continues to be, a jumble…
FOUR MUSLIMS ENTER DANISH PARLIAMENT
Four Danish Muslims of immigrant roots, including two women, won seats in the new Danish parliament, one seat more than what Muslims had in the outgoing legislature. Naser Khader, the…
EU WARNS KOSOVO OVER INDEPENDENCE
EU ministers meeting in the Belgian capital Brussels on November 19 warned Kosovo against any unilateral declaration of independence following weekend elections that revived local hopes of seceding from Belgrade.…
BANGLADESHIS CRAVE FOR CYCLONE RELIEF
After losing thousands of loved ones to a devastating cyclone that smashed through impoverished Bangladesh, thousands of traumatised, stranded and hungry survivors are craving for much-need help. “I lost six…
CANADA HIJAB PHOBIA SPREADS TO JUDO
After several Muslim girls were banned from playing with their football teams for donning hijab, the controversy was spreading to a new sport after 11-year-old girl was thrown out from…
600 MUSLIMS AND DALITS KILLED AT NANDIGRAM
President All India Confederation of Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes, Dr. Udit Raj has claimed that more than 600 Muslims and Dalits were killed in Nandigram during the last…
FOLLOW-UP ACTION ON SACHAR PANEL FINDINGS HAILED
Forum for Faith and Fraternity (FFF), a Cochin based voluntary organisation, has warmly welcomed the recent announcement by the Government of Kerala that an 11-member committee has been appointed to…
MODI NOT INVITED TO WEF’S MEETING IN DAVOS
Indian Muslim Council – USA on November 18 announced that WEF had not invited Chief Minister of Gujarat Narendra Modi. The World Economic Forum (WEF) issued their statement in response…
‘DELINK RELIGION FROM SCHEDULED CASTE NET’
Ranganath Misra Commission for Linguistic and Religious Minorities in its report sent to the Government of India in May 2007, advocated to the Government to delink religion from caste net…
REHABILITATE VIOLENCE, FLOOD VICTIMS OF ASSAM: IUML
Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) president G.M. Banatwalla has written to Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi urging him to undertake on war footing relief and rehabilitation measures for the unfortunate…
ABDULLAH MUGHAISI RE-ELECTED MILLI COUNCIL PRESIDEN
All India Milli Council, in its general body meeting concluded here Monday, unanimously re-elected Maulana Hakim Abdullah Mughaisi as its president for the next consecutive term.
Setusamudram Project Another Ayodhya in the Making
The Central Government’s filing of affidavit on the Setusamudram Project on September 10-11, 2007 provided enough ammunition for the BJP and its associates, who had been sitting idle without any…
Democracy as Dictatorship
By early December, Venezuela seems to start an extraordinary experiment in governing a third world country through “centralised socialism” similar to what India experimented but failed for lack of natural…
Scientific Achievements-I From1946 to1996
In the late 1890s a conference of physicists was held in Paris, France, wherein the discussion ended in proclaiming that there was nothing left to be discovered.
Empowerment through Accountability
The Sachar Committee Report has dispelled the myth of minority appeasement and revealed the utter state of backwardness of the Muslim community in all spheres of life due to systematic…
Suicide Epidemic The Invisible Enemy of US Army
Sometimes armies lose war without actually facing the real enemy. The defeated nation then fails to make out as to what led to their rout in the battlefield. We had…
Jagjiwan Ram, Hassan Aly and a Bitch
A 470-word story on November 12 informed our billion-strong nation that (Mr) Selvakumar, 34, from Tamilnadu’s Sivangana district has at last, after a long bride-hunting, tied the nuptial knot with…
Between Ballots and Bullets Two Sides of Islamists in Pakistan
There are four provinces in Pakistan, besides Federally Administered Tribal Area (FATA) of Waziristan and Pak-Occupied Kashmir. In two out of these four states an alliance of Islamic parties, Muttahida…
Why Muslims Lag Behind
In the Hindustan Times of November 3, 2007 Mr. Khushwant Singh’s assertion that the entire Muslim community of India is lagging behind just because some of its women observe purdah,…
New Struggle for Justice
Wherever it may be and whatever may be the nature of atrocities, it is the poor and the downtrodden who suffer. Unfortunately the majority of Muslims fall in this category.
NANDIGRAM Left Puts Saffron to Shame
DR. S. AUSAF SAIED VASFI comments on Nandigram violence and concludes that the Left has put the Saffron to shame in many respects.
