Guilty until Proved Innocent
Vol. XLV No. 4
Date: July 29, 2007
JCMOE Formed, Issues Charter of Demands on Sachar Report
With the overall objective of empowerment of Indian Muslims through recognition as a Backward Class with a separate sub-quota for reservation, several national Muslim organisations, including Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind, Jamaat-e-Islami Hind,…
The Plight of Firdaus
It is high time our women organisations came to the rescue of Firdaus and her daughter. They are worst sufferers. Further detention of Dr. Haneef seems biased and prejudiced. The…
For Bouquets Sake Alone
I am a supporter neither of Musharraf nor of the Lal Masjid Ulama. This battle was between two parties where none of them was right. Lal Masjid had become a place…
Inner-Wear or Only-Wear
A prominent Hindi news-channel made a half-an-hour coverage of fashion-show Triumph-2008 at Bangalore depicting female-models in show of their semi-nude bodies in ‘attractive’ inner-wears. What is the meaning of ‘inner-wear’…
An Unpleasant Reading
The write-up “Al-Azhar, Dar-ul-Uloom and Nadwah” by Mr. Ausaf (Radiance, 24-30 June, 2007) makes an unpleasant reading to say the least to readers like me. It does not serve any purpose.…
FATHER OF CONJOINED TWINS EMBRACES ISLAM IN KSA
The father of the Cameroonian Siamese twins, Phambom and Shefbou, who were separated at King Abdul Aziz Medical City (KAMC) in April this year, embraced Islam at a simple function…
VIOLENCE CONTINUES IN THE MUSLIM SOUTH IN THAILAND
Thirty-one injured and one dead is the tally of the double bomb explosions in Yala, one of the three predominately Muslim provinces of Thailand, where bloody and secretive insurgent groups…
OFFBEAT CANDIDATES IN TURKISH POLLS
Turkey’s upcoming legislative election is featuring unusual candidates. Nil Demirkazik is campaigning in Diyarbakir on donkey-back to defend the rights of Kurds. Folk song superstar Ibrahim Tatlises is running on…
VANDALISM SUSPECTED AS HATE CRIME
San Antonio police are investigating vandalism to a local Muslim family’s vehicles as a hate crime, while the FBI also plans to look into the matter. During a news conference…
LONDON CARTOON PROTESTERS JAILED
Four young British Muslims were jailed for a total of 22 years at the Old Bailey for their role in a protest outside the Danish Embassy in Sloane Street on…
THE FOCUS ON TOURISM IN KSA
The Supreme Commission for Tourism (SCT) in Saudi Arabia has announced plans to build a full-fledged tourism information centre and establish three new tourism projects along the Red Sea coast…
BALL IN EU COURT OVER MEDICS FATE: LIBYA
Libya said that the ball is in Europe’s court over the fate of six foreign medics reprieved from a death sentence for infecting children with the AIDS virus but who…
‘WHY NO PUNISHMENT FOR BABRI MASJID DEMOLISHERS AND RIOTERS?’
Imam Shahi Masjid Jama Masjid Delhi Maulana Syed Ahmad Bukhari has demanded that all those responsible for demolition of centuries old Babri Masjid and causing communal flare-ups in different parts…
URDU PAPER LAMENTS LETHARGY IN MAKKAH MASJID BLAST PROBE
In a scathing editorial, the Etemaad Urdu daily on July 20 lashed out at the apathy of the government and the judiciary in spurring the investigations of the Makkah Masjid…
POLICE HARASS MUSLIM GIRL STUDENTS
In another blatant display of communal fascism, Sayeedabad police harassed five female students by arresting them on charges of “preaching Islam”. These students of a respectable Islamic school in Hyderabad…
MAGISTRATE FACES SUSPENSION FOR COERCED FAMILY PLANNING
In a pro-minority move Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Mayawati on July 17 suspended the District Magistrate of Gorakhpur Rakesh Kumar Goel for allegedly forcing members of the minority community…
AMARNATH PILGRIM EMBRACES ISLAM
An Amarnath pilgrim from Haryana came to the fold of Islam at Sonamarg hill resort in Ganderbal district of Jammu and Kashmir on Friday. He is said to have undergone…
ARSHAD MADANI RE-ELECTED JAMAIT ULAMA PRESIDENT
Maulana Syed Arshad Madani has been re-elected president of Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind for the term 2007-08, the organisation’s general secretary Maulana Mahmood Madani said in a statement released on July 19.
Winning Europe
What is El Emara? asks my Belarusian friend and journalist with a beatific smile that never seems to touch his deep-set, sad blue eyes. Andrej Dynko has had a far…
Torture Doctors – II
On June 16, 2007 Queen Elizabeth II of England rewarded her British subject Salman Rushdie with a knighthood for “services” to the Crown, thus insulting the Muslim world across the…
For Muslim Presidents, Vice Presidents
Either you are at the ‘top’ or you are nowhere. This seems to be the predicament of the Muslims of India. Even at the bottom of the ladder their representation…
Tamil, Telugu, Hindi and Urdu
The first Editor of the Radiance Viewsweekly, launched in July 1963, was a Tamilian. But the late Mr. A.A. Ravoof (read Ayapillai Abdur Ravoof) spoke and wrote chaste Urdu. He…
Towards Ensuring Women’s Rights
In a meeting on July 14 All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB), comprising enlightened Muslim women also on it, decided to set up a ‘Moaashira Committee’ to look at…
Pratibha Patil, the President of India the history that follows
Pratibha Devisingh Patil, 72, former Governor of Rajasthan and senior Congress leader, became the first woman President of the Republic of India, and was yet the first controversial figure in…
Education is My Eyesight
Story of the heroic struggle of a child who became completely blind at the tender age of three, whose indomitable spirit and strenuous efforts helped him become a professor of…
Musharraf’s Lost Legitimacy
SOROOR AHMED wonders whether Pak Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhary’s reinstatement would help restore people’s government or just end up in a give-and-take compromise between him and Musharraf.
Morality in Indian Politics
Politics, by definition, is the battle of ideas. However, in India the definition has drastically changed during the last 50 years. Politics in India has become the battle of self-interest.…
Tough Task Ahead for Erdogan
At a time when the champions of imperialism do not hesitate in strangulating democracy as the world witnessed in the case of Algeria’s Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) being thwarted in…
Guilty until Proved Innocent
Citing Dr. Mohammad Haneef’s illegal detention in Australia on one hand and award of capital punishment for six in the ’93 Mumbai serial blasts case in contrast with indefensible delay…
