RELIGION AND CIVILIZATION
Vol. XLVII No. 24
Date: September 20, 2009
US Rights group, British Muslims call upon fDi Magazine to
Indian Muslim Council – USA, an advocacy group working towards safeguarding India’s pluralist and tolerant ethos, called the decision of fDi magazine not to honour Narendra Modi the Asian Personality of…
Now CJI under RTI
Justice S Rabindra Bhatt of Delhi High Court deserves full compliments for his bold and historic judgement upholding CIC verdict about Chief Justice of India coming under purview of RTI…
The Tragic Death of YSR
The tragic death of Dr. Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy comes as a bolt from the blue.
Genetic and Psychiatric Patients
Apropos of the recent judgement on Section 377 of IPC, I wonder how the Judges of the Delhi High Court argued with the word ‘sex’ in Article 15 of the…
Perversity Exported from the West to the East
The Delhi High Court recent verdict, officially legalising homosexuality clearly exposes the fatal weakness of secular democracy which refuses to respect anything as sacred,
Change Character, You Will Change People
Auron ka hai Payaam aur, mera Payaam aur hai, / Ishq key dardmand ka tarz-e-kalaam aur hai! (Iqbal)
VICES IN INDONESIA EVEN IN THE HOLY MONTH
Indonesian officials have warned radical Muslim groups not to attack nightclubs and other businesses deemed sinful in Islam during the Ramadan fasting month.
MUSLIM AUTHOR TO RECEIVE GERMAN CULTURE PRIZE
An ongoing controversy over a German culture prize has been resolved. A Muslim writer is set to get his part of an important award for intercultural understanding, despite initial opposition.
MUSLIMS WRITING IN BRITAIN
Creative writing courses and groups have mushroomed in Britain in recent years. But as far as the novelist, poet and creative writing teacher Zahid Hussain knows, Manchester Muslim Writers (MMW)…
EU TO ENGAGE IRAN
The Swedish EU presidency is ready to talk to or confront Iran over its nuclear programme, characterising as a “provocation” the appointment of a “terror suspect” as the country’s defence…
LACK OF FULL OIL DATA THREATENS SUDAN PEACE
A failure to provide full oil production figures in Sudan threatens a fragile north-south peace deal, the advocacy and investigative group Global Witness warned.
INT’L MUSLIM CONVENTION IN KUALA LUMPUR
Rochdale based Muslim campaigning group Ramadhan Foundation has announced the date for its second International Muslim Unity Convention.
SHARI’AH IN THE NETHERLANDS
Attempts to practise aspects of Shari’ah (Islamic) law in the Netherlands which involve compulsion, pressure and a misuse of power will be clamped down hard by the government, justice minister…
AMU LECTURER NAMED FOR PRESIDENT AWARD
Dr. Asad Ali Khurshid, Senior Lecturer of Persian at Aligarh Muslim University has been nominated for President’s Award for his outstanding contribution in the field of Persian language and literature.
HUBLI COURT BLAST ACCUSED MURDER A MYSTERY
The death of Nagaraj Jambagi, the main accused in the Hubli court bomb blast and Singanahalli bomb-planting cases at KIMS hospital in Hubli, left several questions unanswered.
SC GRANTS BAIL TO MAULANA NASEERUDDIN
The Supreme Court of India granted bail to Hyderabad-based Maulana Naseeruddin who had been languishing in Gujarat’s Sabarmati jail for the last six years on unproven charges.
INDIA’S FIRST ISLAMIC BANK TO FUNCTION IN KERALA
India’s first Islamic Bank is going to function in Kochi, Kerala by the next year with active involvement of the state government. The bank’s registration formalities are being fulfilled on…
PRIEST REFUSED TO PERFORM SAME SEX MARRIAGE
The sexually perverted may advocate and plead for same sex but our plural society is not accepting it.
Palestine Quagmire Revisited
Israel has destroyed Gaza with the stated goal of creating a new reality on the ground:
Do not Legalise Homosexuality
PURUSHOTHAMAN MULLOLI is General Secretary of the Joint Action Council, Kannur, Kerala, India (JACKINDIA), a 35 years old organisation working for the health and rehabilitation of HIV-AIDS affected people.
‘There’re More Similarities than None in the Thoughts of Nehru
Born in Jaunpur (Eastern UP) in 1953, Jalalul Haq grew up in a very modest background. Recalling his father’s interests in reading fiction, Haq relates how he developed a keen…
A Book that Hurts Muslim Sensibilities
This book, a collection of 22 essays, including two by Muslim-sounding names, is not a documented history of prevalence of homosexuality in Muslim societies, as it claims, but a brazen…
Dangerous Perversion For Religion and Civilization
We are in difficult times indeed when established moral principles are being questioned, criticised and rejected. The saving grace is that it is being done not by general masses but…
HOMOSEXUALITY Satanic Face of Consumerism
Sexual topics of any kind are avoided in public conversation in India and any talk concerning homosexuality is altogether not possible freely.
FAMILY SYSTEM and HOMOSEXUALITY
ARSHAD SHAIKH quotes figures to show that this reprehensible aberration destroys society.
The Issue of Civilization in the Writings of Maulana Maudoodi
Issues relating to Civilization have been extensively discussed in the literature of the Islamic movement in India. Maulana Syed Abul Ala Maudoodi, while discussing different topics that had bearing upon…
HOMOSEXUALITY Genesis, Motives and Effects
The attempt to legalise homosexuality is nothing but the continuation of the same series of worldwide developments in which every human susceptibility is first given a legal and social sanction,
Atheistic Psychology vs. Mindset of a Believer
The belief that there was nothing and nothing happened to nothing and then nothing magically exploded for no reason, creating everything and then a bunch of everything magically rearranged itself…
Real Gay Rights
By LINDA “ILHAM” BARTO If any two men among you are guilty of such [lewdness], punish them both. If they repent and amend, leave them alone. Allah is the Most Forgiving and…
The Rape of the Law of Sodomy
Individual opinions can never be called judgment. Nor can the obiter dicta – verbal observations of a judge – be a part of any ruling of the court.
The Vicious Circle
Even as this write-up was being written, the Union Law Minister Mr. Veerappa Moily said that the UPA government would not challenge the Delhi High Court judgement of decriminalising homosexuality.
Homosexuality: Divine Chastisement
PROF. JAMIL FAROOQUI discusses the objective of creation of opposite sexes, the institution of marriage and its utility, and brings to light the destructive effects of perverted homosexuality on man, woman,…
How Religion Cures Social Ills
AFZAL AHMAD KHAN discusses how religions promote humanity and develop society and how homosexuality can destroy the whole social set-up and the society itself.
Let the Apex Court Save the Nation
What is the percentage of homosexuals in our over-a-billion strong plural Bharat? This is the zillion-dollar question to be answered succinctly and coolly by the practitioners of the sleaze as…
Religion and Social Change
Religious convictions, experiences and feelings constitute a very basic aspect of an individual’s psychology and often play a crucial role in determining that individual’s total behaviour.
Homo – A Perverted Human Behaviour
Whether one believes in God or Nature, in the theory of Evolution or Creation, originating man from Ape or made out of clay, human genes carry three very undeniable and…
Civilization and Sexual Propriety
Swami Harshananda distinguishes between culture and civilization in these words: External progress leads to a better standard of living, i.e., civilization.
HOMOSEXUALITY Queer or Outrageous?
OMAR AFZAL traces the incidence of homosexual tendencies in the past, presents the Islamic view regarding this abomination, and brings out the dangers in its legalisation.
