Obama Reaches out to Global Muslims, Latino Christians
Vol. XLVII No. 11
Date: June 14, 2009
Save AMU from Getting into Disrepute
South Asian Minorities Lawyers Association (SAMLA) organised a symposium on “Recent developments at AMU – Repercussions” at Indian Law Institute in the Capital on on May 29.
SIO Wants Quick Action from Australian Government
In spite of Australian government’s assurance that it would not tolerate any more violence, another Indian student was found unconscious and bleeding after being attacked in Australia on June 8,…
RTI Awards from PCRF
Public Cause research foundation (PCRF) should be complimented for instituting National RTI Awards from the year 2009 to provide a much desired boost to ‘Right-To-Information Act’
Equal Opportunity, Not Reservation
Sharad Yadav may have his own reasons for so strongly opposing the Women’s reservations bill which seeks to reserve 33% of seats in parliament for women.
Whither the Waqf Board?
The Prince of Arcot, Mr. Mohammed Abdul Ali is right in saying that a very great injustice has been done to the Chief Qazi Mr. Salahuddin Mohammed Ayub by the…
Atonement of Holocaust
Obama seems to be greatly concerned with the denial of Holocaust by Iranian President Ahmedinejad. Holocaust, whatever its nature and enormity,
Whither Indian Muslims
Auron ka hai Payaam aur, mera Payaam aur hai, Ishq key dardmand ka tarz-e-kalaam aur hai! (Iqbal)
Late Ms Kamala Surayya (1931-2009)
Iconoclast bilingual writer and poetess Kamala Surayya, earlier known as Madhavikutty, breathed her last on May 31 at Pune. She was suffering from chest infection and respiratory problems. She was…
HATE PAYS IN NETHERLANDS
Geert Wilders’ anti-Islam party PVV emerged as the big winner in the European elections in the Netherlands taking almost 17% of the vote. With 92% of the votes counted,
MUSLIM WOMAN AS AMBASSADOR IN PHILIPPINES
A Filipino Muslim woman made history in the diplomatic service when the Commission on Appointments confirmed her as ambassador to Bahrain. Corazon Yap-Bahjin, who was confirmed on May 20,
IRAN TO SELLS OIL TO CHINA
Deputy Oil Minister Seyfollah Jashnsaz of Iran said Iran is going to sell 450,000 barrels oil a day to China.
AUSTRALIAN MUSLIM DELEGATE IN INDONESIA
Some young Australian Muslim leaders have participated in a bilateral exchange programme in Indonesia aimed at strengthening links and understanding of Islam in both countries, an Australian Embassy media release…
MUSLIM UNITY IN MALAYSIA
Political differences should not be a stumbling block to efforts to promote unity among Muslims in the country, Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said.
BURIAL OF NON-MUSLIMS IN KSA
Sources from Saudi Aramco have said that the bodies of unburied victims of the 2007 Al-Hawiya gas pipeline fire will finally be laid to rest following a fatwa from the…
MUSLIMS IN BRITAIN
As the debate continues within the British government on how to win the hearts and minds of Muslims and why, according to them, Muslims have problems integrating, the facts on…
IRAN CLOSES BORDER
Iranian authorities have closed the zero point along the Pak-Iran border following a bomb explosion in a mosque in the border city of Zahedan.
URDU SCHOOLS MAKE THEIR MARK DESPITE LACK OF BOOKS, TEACHERS
Shortage of teachers and unavailability of translated NCERT textbooks haven’t come in the way of Urdu school students from making a mark in the CBSE examinations this year. T
HRD MINISTER FOCUSES ON SACHAR RECOMMENDATIONS
Union Minister of Human Resource Development Kapil Sibal on June 1 held a meeting to discuss the implementation of the Sachar Committee recommendations in the education sector and to chart…
HANG THOSE GUILTY IN DOWRY DEATH CASES: SC
The Supreme Court on June 1 strongly condemned dowry deaths and bride burning,
GUJARAT CONMAN DUPES PEOPLE OF RS 2000 CR: POLICE
Master conman Ashok Jadeja might have cheated the entire members of Sansi community, a denotified nomadic tribe spread over north and western states of the country,
SIT ALL SET TO QUESTION MODI ABOUT GUJARAT RIOTS
The Special Investigation Team (SIT) is all set to question him and 61 others who have been ordered to be probed by the Supreme Court for their alleged complicity in…
ANTONY FREEZES ISRAELI FIRM
Union Defence Minister A.K. Antony on June 7 froze all business with a major Israeli military firm and six other companies alleged to have bribed the former Ordnance Factories’ chief,…
Political Prudence Lies in Fostering Cordial Relations with Pakistan: Rajinder
“This is absolutely a misplaced and unjustified allegation of the Executive on the Judiciary”.
Trends of Reform in Muslim Education in Egypt
Since the landing of Napoleon on the Egyptian shores in 1798, the renaissance of Muslim education and Arabic literature started.
Cong must Honour Its Commitments to Minorities
“Plans for minorities, particularly Muslims, must have the first claim on resources, so that benefits of developments reach them equitably.”
AMU Urged to Play Role in Exploring Deprived Sections
The Governor of West Bengal, Mr. Gopalkrishna Gandhi on June 7 urged the Aligarh Muslim University to play an important role in ‘exploring the deprived sections of society including women…
Yes, Obama Can… If America is Willing
Barak Obama’s Cairo speech, directed towards the Muslim world, is being hailed as indicative of a paradigm shift in American policies towards Muslim countries, which have been a source of…
Gaddafi Fears Obama Assassination
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi on June 7 called US president Barack Obama a “flicker of hope in the middle of the imperialist darkness,
Evaluation of Obama’s Cairo Speech
There were a lot of expectations from President Barak Obama’s speech, especially in the Muslim world. However, he could not go beyond the “eternally” fixed agenda of the USA to…
Cycle of Suspicion and Discord
US President Barack Obama asserts that “violent extremists” have bred the “cycle of suspicion and discord” between the United States and the Muslim world. In his keynote speech at Cairo…
Can Obama Work His Magic on Arabs?
Among many major misconceptions pertaining to Arabs and Muslims is the common belief that they are a weak-willed, irrelevant collective, easily influenced and effortlessly manipulated. This mistaken assumption underscores the…
EXTINGUISHING THE BUSH FIRE Obama Reaches out to Global Muslims,
In many ways – certainly not all – Aurangzeb and Gorbachev were much better rulers than their predecessors. They failed because things were too rotten. Similar is the case with…
