RED MOSQUE SELLS BETTER THAN RED MAOISTS
Vol. XLV No. 3
Date: July 22, 2007
Use Thy Precious Sleeplessness
This is to very much appreciate the venerable Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for his priceless words to the effect that he could not sleep that night when the TV screens…
Practise Gandhian Principles
U.N. General Assembly decided to observe Gandhi Jyanti, October 2, as “International Day of Non-Violence” each year. This is a tribute to Mahatma Gandhi and India by the world body.…
What Team India Needs
With India’s early departure from the 2007 Cricket World Cup, reams and reams of paper and airtime worth crores have been spent debating who should be India’s next coach.
LEBANESE REMEMBER WAR
July 12 marked the first anniversary of the war with Israel. Lebanese remembered the day. Israel unleashed its killing machine against the tiny neighboring Arab country on the claim of…
WARS COSTING US BILLIONS OF DOLLAR
The United States has spent well over half a trillion dollars on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to independent congressional analysts who say the boost in troop levels…
ISLAM A RELIGION OF PEACE: BRITONS
The majority of Britons view Islam positively as a religion of peace despite the adverse publicity following recent failed car bombing in London and at Glasgow airport, according to a…
HAMAS BOYCOTT PREVENTS PARLIAMENT SESSION
A Hamas boycott prevented the Palestinian Parliament from convening. The boycott deprived the Parliament of the required quorum, preventing the Hamas-led legislature from voting against the new emergency Cabinet that…
URDU CLASSES IN OMAN
rdu classes for beginners have commenced in Oman. In a determined bid to promote the language of Urdu, the Urdu Wing of the Indian Social Club took this initiative.
ISLAMISTS SLOWLY WINNING IN MOROCCO
Beyond the army, there are other clear signs of the rapid Islamisation of Moroccan society. Nowhere is this more apparent than in women’s dress. In just a few years, Moroccan…
AMERICANS SAY IRAQ ‘SURGE’ A FAILURE
Nearly two out of three Americans believe President George W. Bush’s plan to send 30,000 extra troops to Iraq has been a failure, according to the latest Newsweek poll.
MUSLIMS URGED TO RESOLVE FAMILY DISPUTES IN DARUL QADAS
The Executive Council of All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) has resolved to file a petition in the Supreme Court for review of its judgements that have went against…
1857 WAS NOT THE FIRST WAR OF INDEPENDENCE
Naib Ameer Imarat Shariah Bihar, Jharkhand and Orissa Maulana Wali Rahmani, in an edit-page article in the Urdu daily Hindustan Express (July 10), has turned the pages of history to…
MILLI FOUNDATION ASKS MEDIA TO BE FREE FROM BIAS
All India Milli Foundation president Maulana Muhammad Ilyas has advised the media fraternity to keep their editorials unbiased and unprejudiced as editorially maligning a particular section of society is beyond…
Torture Doctors — 1
Skepticism over the detention and charges against one of the 8 detained bomb-plotters, Mohammed Haneef in Australia for the foiled attempt in Glasgow, U.K., in early July raises far deeper…
Why BJP Opposes ‘Sethusamudram Ship Channel Project’
The Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) suffered a big jolt when its opposition to the Sethusamudram Project could not be sustained on geological enquiry and scientific investigations. In fact, RSS had…
Shrinking Democratic Alternative Helps Extremist Forces
At the very outset it needs to be made very clear that there is no scope whatsoever for terrorism in any society. But since a handful of people have resorted…
Save Me from My Grandchildren
I have my own doubts coupled with confusion-cum–suspicion about two divine deities. But as both are hit, popular and according to their devotees, powerful also, I, being coward to backbone,…
The Hidden Persuaders
Think tanks are organisations that serve as centres for research and analysis of important public issues like social or economic policy, political or defence strategy, science or technology, industrial or…
Sophisticated Geometry in Islamic Architecture
Islamic art traditionally uses a mixture of calligraphy, geometric and floral designs because of a prohibition on the portrayal of the human and animal forms. The medieval Islamic artists produced…
Lecturer’s Anti-Islam Remarks Spark Protest
Hyderabad: A lecturer’s anti-Islam remarks during a class at a Christian missionary women’s college here has sparked angry protest from the Muslim students of the college and organisations and individuals…
Features of Secularism in India
The word pluralism is preferable to secularism as the former denotes the happy harmonious existence of multiple religions, opines VINOD KUMAR SONKAR
Massacre in the Mosque
The illegal seizure of Red Mosque in Islamabad by frustrated clerics, its prolonging by Musharraf and final assault which resulted in more than 100 deaths has attracted worldwide attention. It…
Reddening the Minars of Lal Masjid
The Pakistan army has finally succeeded in conquering Lal Masjid. Hundreds of hardcore ‘terrorists’ holed up inside the Masjid were slaughtered in the process. The 10 ‘brave’ soldiers who lost…
Islamic Revolution Sprouts from Grassroots Level
There is no shortcut to Islamic renaissance. There is no shortcut to Islamic revolution. It is a patience-trying and nerve-wrecking job, as we see in the holy Sunnah. There lies…
