New Year’s Gift from Mumbai
Vol. XLV No. 26
Date: January 13, 2008
Mumbai Molestation
The incident near JW Marriott Hotel, Mumbai was indeed tragic and awful and the culprits should be brought to book and handed over the maximum possible punishment as per the…
Modi’s Victory
The main reason for Modi’s victory in 2007 is that Congress under the leadership of Sonia Gandhi contested these elections on single issue that Modi is responsible for massacre of…
Benazir’s Assassination
The assassination of Benazir Bhutto is highly condemnable. History bears testimony that for the sake of truth, Aristotle was forced to drink the goblet of poison, Jesus had to face…
Artificial Insemination
With respect to the article, “Test-tube baby? It’s a sin” (Hindustan Times, Mumbai edition, December 21, 2007),
A New Year’s Resolution
Auron ka hai Payaam aur, mera Payaam aur hai, / Ishq key dardmand ka tarz-e-kalaam aur hai! (Iqbal)
HONG KONG’S FERVOUR FOR SHARI’AH
Hong Kong Chief Executive Donald Tsang and his financial secretary John Tsang will visit India,
CHINESE WOMAN EMBRACES ISLAM
The Muslim community in Brunei welcomed another Chinese convert into its fold as 25-year old Siti Khadijah Abdullah, known as Melly, formally converted to Islam at the residence of Hj…
ATTACKS ON SAUDIS AT UK UNIVERSITY INCREASE
A spate of attacks on Saudi students has occurred in the University of East Anglia (UEA). President of the UEA’s Islamic Society,
UK CHARITY COMMISSION DENIES DISCRIMINATION
The Charity Commission has vehemently denied suggestions made by Prime Minister Gordon Brown that the objective of its new Faith and Social Cohesion Unit will be primarily to stop Muslim…
NASRALLAH SEEKS VETO
Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on January 2 said that the opposition acquiring veto power in the next government was the only solution to the 13-month old political standoff in…
QUAKE HITS INDONESIA
A 5.4-magnitude earthquake struck Indonesia’s Aceh province triggering panic among residents but there were no immediate reports of damage.
MUSLIM WOMAN BARRISTER WINS HUMAN RIGHTS AWARD
A young Muslim woman barrister received the Human Rights Lawyer of the Year Award as part of the Human Rights Awards hosted by the organisations Liberty, Justice and the Law…
BIHAR WANTS DEATH PENALTY FOR BHAGALPUR RIOTS CONVICTS
Patna High Court on January 4 issued a notice to the convicts of Bhagalpur riots, undergoing life imprisonment on why they shouldn’t be given death sentence for their role in…
SLOW TRACK TO JUSTICE IN MUMBAI RIOTS CASES
Nearly four months ago, the Maharashtra government had promised to scrutinise the Mumbai riot cases and select 30
DO NOT BLAME MUSLIMS: DIGVIJAY
The Uttar Pradesh police have totally failed to get any solid evidence of whose hand was there in the January 1
JHARKHAND TO RECRUIT 4931 URDU TEACHERS
Bandhu Tirky, State Minister for Cultural and Human Resource Development, Jharkhand,
INCLUDE EVILS OF DOWRY IN SCHOOL SYLLABUS: PRESIDENT
President Pratibha Patil has suggested that school curriculum should include a section on dowry and its evils, child marriage and gender discrimination.
TASLIMA SHOULD APOLOGISE TO MUSLIMS: DASMUNSI
Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi on January 6 said controversial Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen should apologise with “folded hands” for hurting the sentiments of Muslims of the…
CBI TO BOOK TODI, 4 TOP COPS FOR RIZWANUR DEATH
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has readied its report to the Calcutta High Court on the Rizwanur Rehman case. The report recommends charging at least seven persons with abetting…
GHT … Allah Answered My Wish
On July 30, 2006 / Rajab 4, 1427, with Allah’s will, I declared my Shahadah.
ORISSA VIOLENCE Fact-Finding Mission Says It was Preplanned
Emerging facts indicate that India’s largest spate of anti-Christian violence, which has rendered thousands homeless in Orissa’s Kandhamal district, was preplanned.
Assamese Muslims on the Move to Assert their Identity
The Assamese speaking Muslims or the indigenous Muslims of Assam are today asserting that the government has overlooked them, and their identity has been threatened by the migrant Bengali Muslims,
Idle Pursuits
What are idle pursuits or lahwal hadith? The Qur’an does not specify what pursuits to consider worthless. Allah has blessed us with consciousness and wisdom to find out what vain things…
Limits of Benazir Bhutto’s Moderation
Since religion and politics is not separate in Islam, all secularists in Muslim countries call themselves ‘Moderates’. Musharraf has named his secularism as ‘Enlightened Moderation’.
Soft-Hindutva is Corroding the Congress
DR. S. AUSAF SAIED VASFI says that Congress Party should reinvigorate itself by acting as a truly secular party. It should take on BJP’s Hindutva directly and not act softly…
Shocking and Shameful
The shameful molestation of two women by a big gang of unruly new year revellers in posh Juhu area, Mumbai, has shocked every decent person. We need to take a…
New Year’s Gift from Mumbai
SOROOR AHMED lambastes the hypocrisy of high-ups and media persons regarding the shameful incident of molestation of two young women in Mumbai.
