Trial of Muslims and Islam by media and intelligence
Vol. XLVI No. 20
Date: August 17, 2008
Mushawarat Urges Govt. to Form a Panel to Oversee Investigations
The All-India Muslim Majlis-e Mushawarat has urged the central government to constitute a high level panel of retired judges, human rights activists, top lawyers and journalists to “to oversee the investigations…
Economic Blockade in the Valley
Obviously, the BJP is adding fuel to fire in Jammu to derive political mileage in the ensuing elections. But the main opposition party in the country is oblivious to the fact…
Probe Saffron Outfits’ Actions
The fact that no single evidence could be produced by the government to the anti-terror tribunal to justify the ban on SIMI, is highly shameful. The pet theory that is…
Make Joint Efforts to Fight Terrorism
Recent address of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in the 15th South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Summit is quite significant.
Niketa’s Dilemma
The Bombay High Court’s refusal to allow the termination of pregnancy of Niketa Mehta on the ground that it was not convinced that to be born child would be abnormal,…
Wonder of Wonders: A Qur’an Literacy Camp
Auron ka hai Payaam aur, mera Payaam aur hai, / Ishq key dardmand ka tarz-e-kalaam aur hai! (Iqbal) The 2nd National Qur’an Literacy Camp is under way in the West…
Prof. Moiz Manzar (1929-2008)
Professor Abdul Moiz Manzar, an eminent Islamic scholar and economist, breathed his last at a hospital in Patna on August 2 following a brief illness. He had developed blood clotting…
ITALY’S TOP CARDINAL DENOUNCED ANTI-ISLAM MP
Italy’s top Cardinal has denounced a far-right lawmaker for making anti-Islam statements in a church planned to host interfaith prayers in the northern city of Genoa. “(I express) total disapproval…
OIC SLAMS GERMANY ANTI-ISLAM MEETING
The Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) has deplored an anti-Islam conference to be held in Germany next month, urging all segments of the German society to take a firm…
INCREASED PUBLIC IMAGE OF MUSLIMS
The public image of Muslims in Holland has improved in the last two years with some 20%
ANWAR PLEADS INNOCENT TO SODOMY CHARGE
Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim walked out of a court on RM20,000 personal bond without surety after he pleaded not guilty to a charge of sodomising his former aide Mohamad Saiful…
CHINA TO HOLD INTERNATIONAL HALAL FOOD FESTIVAL
China will hold a 4-day international festival for Halal Food and Muslim Commodities. According to the organisers of the festival, the 3rd China (Ningxia) International Festival for Halal Food and…
INDONESIAN PEACE ACTIVIST WINS MAGSAYSAY AWARD
An Indonesian Muslim who preaches religious tolerance and a crusading governor from the Philippines are among the winners of this year’s Ramon Magsaysay Award. A Thai man who makes prosthetic…
FLORIDA MUSLIMS GET INVOLVED
Muslim leaders in South Florida Metropolitan are meeting to discuss motivating Muslims for more involvement in civil life. “We are encouraging people to get more involved in their communities,” Altaf…
MUSLIM PROTEST HALTS FORUM ON RELIGION IN MALAYSIA
Protesters forced lawyers in Malaysia to abandon a conference on religious conversion decrying it as an effort to challenge the official status of Islam in this Muslim-majority country.
27 US LAWMAKERS WANT MODI’S VISA BAN EXTENDED
Washington D.C. based Coalition Against Genocide (CAG) which is widely campaigning on Capitol Hill has bagged support from 27 more US lawmakers in urging the State Department to continue the…
MODI RESPONSIBLE FOR SURAT BOMBS: SANKARACHARYA
The Sankaracharya of Puri Swami Adhokssjananda Devtirth on August 4 alleged that all unexploded bombs found in Surat were design of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi. Talking to newsmen in…
STAY ON TRIBUNAL’S ORDER TO LIFT BAN ON SIMI IS
Mr Nusrat Ali, Secretary General Jamaat-e-Islami Hind described the government’s hastily approaching to Supreme Court for staying Delhi High Court Tribunal’s ruling that had lifted the ban on the Students’…
MUSLIMS URGED TO AVAIL THEMSELVES OF CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS
Former Chief Justice of India A.M. Ahmadi said Muslims have let down the constitution by not availing of rights enshrined therein. “We have let down the constitution, the constitution hasn’t…
THACKERAY, SHIV SENA, BJP, ABVP FUNDED NAXALS ?
The narcoanalysis report of suspected Naxalite Arun Ferreira has thrown up sensational revelations about the funding of Naxal activities. So far two narco tests have been conducted on Bandra resident…
JIH EXPRESSES GRIEF OVER TEMPLE STAMPEDE INCIDENT
Mr Nusrat Ali, Secretary General Jamaat-e-Islami Hind expressed shock and grief over the stampede at the Naina Devi Temple in Bilaspur district of Himachal Pradesh in which over 145 people…
The Richest and the Biggest
I do not want to join the government. But workers of Samajwadi Party (SP) think we will benefit if I join the government.
Greece Vs China Olympian Heights of Civilisational Games
The game, which is played in Olympics, is not always synonym to sport. Instead of the sheer power and talent of the weight-lifters, wrestlers, boxers, athletes and other sportspersons we,…
Tell Me the Truth about Prisoner 650
The FBI lost much of its credibility when its chief J Edgar Hoover was revealed to be a transvestite who preferred to be called Mary. Hoover, probably the most powerful…
Dollar Raj
In a widely circulated and quoted article “Dollar Hegemony has to go” in the Asia Times, American analyst Henry C.K. Liu described how the US maintains its pre-eminent position in the…
WHY ALWAYS SUSPECT MUSLIMS?
Why the trend of investigation in bomb blast cases is always the same? Why Muslims are targeted after some untoward happenings like the recent Bangalore and Ahmedabad serial blasts? Is…
SIMI the Long Wait for Justice
Students Islamic Movement of India, which had been working among students and youth since 1975, had been under a ban since February 2001. First this ban was imposed in the…
Combating Terrorism
The sufferings of the country are worst compounded with the occurrence of acts of terror. Every such act not only inflicts bodily blow to the innocents but also acts as…
TERRORISM How to Get Rid of It
In the movie Dhoom-II, the ‘protagonist’ in real and ‘villain’ in virtual sense – Hritik Roshan – forewarns the police about the next robbery. Despite the beefed up security, ultra modern precautions…
Trial of Muslims and Islam by media and intelligence
DR. AUSAF SAIED VASFI examines the biased attitude of media towards Islam and Muslims, by citing a popular magazine, which blames them for acts of terrorism. He demands that this…
