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What a moderate Muslim is to do?

FIRDAUS AHMED
Proclaiming Its not moderate Muslims fault
(http://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Theunderage-optimist/its-not-moderate-muslimsfault/), in an uncharacteristically generous
moment pop-pundit of Hindutva, Chetan
Bhagat, lets moderate Muslims off the hook,
even as he sets the stage characteristically for
reviling their religion alongside. To quote him in
full flow: religion (Islam) gets associated with
terror, hate, intolerance and violence. Even
though people from other religions dont say it,
you (Muslims) can feel their prejudice towards
you. With every incident, your religion gets
more tainted.
With a typical sleight of hand, that
somehow always escapes his presumably
loyal following of his column The underage
optimist in a national daily, he absolves the
moderate Muslim, resignedly sighing:
What is a moderate Muslim to do?
Before answering the question, lets first
turn the question round and ask Mr. Bhagat, in
the context of what is happening in India under
the champion he has been cheer leader for,
What is a moderate Hindu to do?
Your religion, Mr. Bhagat, is increasingly in
danger of being hijacked by extremists. Absent
intervention by Mr. Bhagats champion, can it
be taken that this takeover of Hinduism by a
narrow, right-wing philosophy has government
imprimatur? The assault on minorities is the
obvious part of what is happening.
What is actually happening is the
subversion of Hinduism from the inside. Its
tolerance and broad philosophical streams
within are being slowly and surely
contaminated.
What is a moderate Hindu to do? Is he to
keep up his political support for Mr. Modi who
is presiding over all this in the hope that
economic dividend will sweep such social
costs under the carpet? Or is he to speak up,
stand up and be counted, before his religion is
distorted? While Mr. Bhagat believing people
associate terror, hate, intolerance and
violence with Islam, thinking people will
never ascribe distortion resulting from cultural
nationalism to Hinduism, one of the
humanitys great succours. They will place
the blame where it rightly belongs, at politics
door.
Mr. Bhagat will be well advised to use his
prolific pen introspectively to sermonise for the
moderate Hindu, who has handed over power
to Mr. Modi, to rethink timely. It is not only
Hinduism at stake; it is over time the nation.

The relatively greater power that moderate

Hindus have to preserve Hinduism - in contrast
to the moderate Muslims ability to preserve
Islam from extremism within and Islamophobia
without - implies that they can do much more
and should do so. Should the silent majority of
moderate Hindus remain silent, leaving the
defence of their faith to a minority of active,
courageous, secular-minded Hindus alone?
Can these stalwart guardians of Hinduism
match the government-backed politico-cultural
formations running rampage across India? Mr.
Bhagat, do answer: What is the moderate
Hindu to do?
Leaving Mr. Bhagat with a taste of his own
medicine, it is worth dissecting his answer. He
believes that moderate Muslims cannot reclaim
their faith. It requires the UN and NATO and
an organisation equivalent to the UN for all the
worlds religions, backed by world leaders.
Since the NATO is part of the problem, Mr.
Bhagats referring to it as a knight in shining
armour reveals his lack of political sense, easily
attributable to his IIT-IIM, and therefore
technical as against political, background. As
for the UN, it is indeed doing all it can. Since a
UN of world religions makes little sense perhaps his allusion to inter-faith dialogue - we
shall let it pass here.
Clearly, then Mr. Bhagat has no answer to
his question: what can be done? Which
brings one back full circle to the beginning: to
the aim behind his article.
It is apparent that it is Mr. Bhagats
smoke-screen to cover what is happening in
India by alighting on what happened in
Pakistan, and then typically riding off on his
favourite hobby horse, minority-bashing.
But then, since he has raised the question
of significance for readers of this journal, the
answer bears an attempt on two levels: one is
internal to India in relation to the onslaught on
Hinduism and India, and the second, external,
in relation to the problem that defies Mr. Bhagat.
Internally, Indias moderate Muslim
majority has to stay engaged with moderate
Hindus, strengthening them strategically
against their rabid counterparts. The first ones
to take a hit will be this, vocal secular Hindu
minority. Once they are silenced, Hinduism
would be up for grabs with the secular Hindu
majority bought off with the economic sops
that they voted Mr. Modi into power for. Since
Muslims will be next in the queue, the
majoritarian nationalists will rely on
provocations to gain an excuse to tamp down
the minority to second class citizenship.
Moderate Muslims have their task cut out.

MG/Yusuf

Dont bring
them here,
send them
there

They are to in the interim emerge as the

leadership of Muslims so as to prevent such
an outcome over the middle term. They are to
work in tandem with the secular Hindu vocal
minority in arousing the secular Hindu silent
majority to deploy its vote, this time to
overthrow the pretender who has taken over
their faith and country in their name.
Externally, Mr. Bhagats reliance on the
NATO as an answer suggests that moderate
Muslims need to dispel the argument for a
military solution, an oxymoron if ever there
was one.
The heinous act in Peshawar that set Mr.
Bhagat off on his article was not without a
context. Part of the context has been
persistence of colonialism in the form of
external interference and military presence in
Muslim lands in general and in the region in
particular.
Clearly, while there is every call for the
terrorists who planned and perpetrated this
crime, and such likes crimes in the region
including in India, need to be administered their
just deserts, other measures than military ones
need highlighting and pursuing alongside.
Ending the militarised environment in such
lands is the answer. Take for instance the AfPak
region. This crime originated partially in lack of
the peace surge accompanying Mr. Obamas
military surge. If the former had kept pace in
terms of developmental and educational efforts
in the ungoverned space between Pakistan
and Afghanistan, such crimes would have been
prevented. To wit, firstly, moderate Muslims
world-wide have to fight this notion that
terrorism has only a military solution. Secondly,
moderate Muslims in India need to weigh-in
against cultural nationalism-inspired strategic
and intelligence pro-activism on Indias part.
And finally, back to Mr. Bhagats
platitudinous comparison, that Hindu radical
groups dont have as much power as Muslim
radical groups do around the world at present.
Unlike Muslim radical groups that are pursued
and hunted by respective states across Muslim
lands, Hindu radicals instead have the power of
a nuclear armed state being placed at their
disposal by its very government! They have
fulfilled the epitome of Tzun Tsus art of war:
taken over the government of a nuclear power
and without a fight, democratically empowered
by the secular, but silent, Hindu majority, sadly
bought off by the mere promise of acche din!

This madness can

and must stop

Once again some self-styled warriors of Islam are in the

news. The insane attack on a Paris magazines office has
been condemned by all sane Muslim scholars and leaders and rightly so. No faith or culture sanctions such violence, let alone Islam which itself means peace. There
is no precedent in the Prophets own life or during the
long centuries, when Islam held sway over large parts of
the old world, of anyone being killed only for insulting
Islam or the Prophet. What we see these days is a modern phenomenon.
No amount of condemnation is going to stamp out
this scourge. Out there, there are thousands of angry
young men who see Muslim countries occupied, devastated, bombed, Muslim women raped in Abu Ghreib kind
of prisons in many parts of the world. They see how
prosperous countries like Iraq and Libya were smashed
for no reason or rhyme. They see Palestine occupied and
Palestinians caged, attacked and humiliated with total
impunity thanks to blind US support. They see how
besieged Gaza is periodically raped and wrecked with full
western support. They see the US and its European allies
making a second comeback to Afghanistan and Iraq. On
top of this they see senseless cartoons, articles and
books making fun of their faith and heritage. This boiling
anger comes out in bursts of futile violence.
We condemn this violence with all our force and without reservation. We pray for the victims souls and seek
their families forgiveness. But will this stop another mad
group from repeating this somewhere else in its deranged
perception that it is avenging the insults heaped on the
Prophet, Islam and Muslims?
West alone can stop this. It has to reconsider its
insane policies, stop its wars against Islam and Muslims
to demoralise Muslims and thereby control their societies
and plunder their resources. West should stop its insane
crusade against Islam and Muslim societies which is
described as Islamophobia these days. West has to
withdraw its forces from Muslim countries. It has to stop
its slander and coups against legitimately elected governments. West has to honour democracy in Muslim countries just as it honours it in its own lands. West has to
stop supporting the Israeli occupation, humiliation and
illegal settlements. This is the only key to achieve lasting
peace and this is the only way to douse the fires burning
in the hearts of thousands of Muslim youth across the
world. Aircraft, missile and drone attacks only spread this
Firdaus Ahmed is author of Think South Asia fire. In short, the message to the Western powers is: be
and Subcontinental Musings that can be our friends, not masters as Ayub Khan had had said over
downloaded from his blog half a century ago.

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Terrorism

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Education

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Ghar Wapsi: A ploy to push anti-conversion

bill and second round of privatisation
DR. JAVED JAMIL
Ghar Wapsi programmes are
being organised with fanfare all
over the country. It is claimed
hundreds of Christian and
Muslim families are returning to
their ancestors religion. Amid
reports of conversions through
offers of money and other rewards there is also
a possibility of inflated claims about the number
of converts. There is also no proof that those
paraded as converts were really Muslims or
Christians.
Are Hindutva organisations really interested
in Ghar Wapsi? The dominant possibility is that
they are not. They very well know that if such
open methods of attracting people towards their
religions are adopted by Muslims and Christians
the chances of Hindus converting in big numbers are even higher. The Ghar Wapsi movement
is a well-thought out attempt at bringing a new
law which would make conversion almost
impossible, and through expected nationwide
tumult, to silently roll through the second round
of privatisation. The anti-conversion law, they
believe, would ensure that the ratio of Hindus
and other communities will not change in favour
of other communities. By making Ghar Wapsi
movement a big issue they seek to force
Christian and Muslim leaders to accept the anticonversion bill. Already some Muslim panellists
appearing on TV debates can be seen favouring
the idea of the proposed Act.
Muslim and Christian leaders need to recognise the hidden motive and oppose any such move
because it will be against the very essence of the
Constitution, which recognises Freedom of
Conscience as a Fundamental Right of every citizen, and an anti-conversion law will amount to
snatching this right away from him or her. What is
to be ensured is not that no conversion takes place
at all, but that no conversion takes place through
force or allurement of any kind.
The larger motive, however, is more sinister
and chances are that even some secular parties may be privy to it. With the Ghar Wapsi
movement gaining momentum, the communal
bomb seems set for a huge explosion. This is the
kind of trigger which can detonate the bomb
within no time with a devastating effect on the
country. When privatisation was sought to be
introduced in the 1980s, a simultaneous communal agenda was set into motion with the
launching of the Ayodhya movement. The country forgot about what was boiling at the economic front and the political and social organisations,

With the Ghar Wapsi movement gaining momentum, the communal

bomb seems set for a huge explosion. This is the kind of trigger which
can detonate the bomb within no time with a devastating effect on the
country. When privatisation was sought to be introduced in the 1980s,
a simultaneous communal agenda was set into motion with the
launching of the Ayodhya movement. The country forgot about what
was boiling at the economic front and the political and social
organisations, including the Leftists, busied themselves with combating
the monster of communalism. This continued till privatisation got fully
entrenched.
including the Leftists, busied themselves with
combating the monster of communalism. This
continued till privatisation got fully entrenched.
The situation was then allowed to settle down.
Now, the second round of corporatisation seems
to have begun. Privatisation is again in full
swing, and every government scheme - good as
well as bad - is being tuned in to suit the interests of big business.
Economic forces, including the corporate and
the government supporting them, know the likely
effects of the move on public mind. They fear that
the forces that are more concerned about the common people can embark upon a nationwide campaign against corporatisation. It is therefore necessary that the public mind is kept busy somewhere
else. What else can be the best option other than
using the time-tested card of communalism? With
hatred engulfing the nation, the social forces and
political parties like Congress, Janata Parivar and
communists will again be busy countering communalisation. Economic forces can play their card
without attracting public attention. Once the second
round is finished, the situation will be eased again
for some years in wait for a suitable time for the
next round.
According to the following report, the key
areas which are being described as reforms
by the industry -- remembering that reforms
almost always means the ways by which big
industrial giants can monopolise the wealth of
the country - are as under:

inflows into insurance.

FDI in Insurance
The government needs approval during a parliamentary session ending on December 23 to
allow overseas investors to hold a 49 percent
stake in insurance companies, up from the current 26 percent cap. The law would also raise
the cap for the pension industry. The opposition
has not yet promised support needed to pass
the law in upper house. The industry expects
that raising the cap would result in $2 billion of

Asset Sales
The government plans to raise nearly $9.5 billion
by selling stakes in state-run and private companies including oil explorer ONGC (ONGC.NS) and
Coal India <COAL .NS> by March. Analysts
doubt whether the target will be achieved.
Market valuations are high and Modi seems
determined to overcome labour union opposition
to the Coal India sale, but the government has
started the sell off late in the financial year.

Unconstitutional
Antics
MUJAHID I MUGHAL
he Constitution is the best book that the Indian society has
ever produced. It is a gospel of human rights. It is indeed
the reflection of aspirations of a multi-cultural, multi-religious and a multi lingual society. It takes into consideration
the diversity of Indian society which no other Indian book can parallel. It is thus the only book that makes India a nation. It is indeed
the only book which every Indian would feel proud to call the
National Scripture of India.

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Land Purchase Rules

The government by issuing an ordinance on land
wants to make it easier to buy land for infrastructure and industrial projects. Road projects
alone worth $10 billion face delays over land
disputes and other clearances.
Labour Reforms
Modi has moved to amend archaic labour laws,
reducing regulatory interference while coaxing
employees with more benefits. Last month, parliament approved a bill to simplify the process of
complying with 16 labour laws for small companies employing up to 40 workers by placing the
forms online. The government will have to overcome union resistance to move forward on
relaxing restrictions on hiring and firing.
Goods And Service Tax
The government wants to move a constitutional
amendment in the ongoing session of parliament, then win the consent of state assemblies
to implement Indias first nationwide service tax
union by April 2016. If successful, economists
say the measure could add 2 percentage points
to GDP growth. Most state governments are on
board, but the main opposition, Congress, has
still not given its backing. Consensus is still
missing on the final GST tax rates - recommendations vary from 16 percent to 27 percent.

The Indian Constitution guarantees certain fundamental rights in

Part III, to the Indian citizens, which is indeed our own version of the
Magna Carta. Fundamental rights are justifiable. They manifest the
beauty of freedom that the Indian Constitution pledges to every individual. They constitute the Basic Structure of the Indian Constitution.

Article 25 of the Indian Constitution makes freedom of conscience and free profession, practice and propagation of religion
a fundamental right guaranteed to all citizens. It makes it very
clear that every citizen has the right to practise or not practise any
religion subject to public order, morality and health and to the
other provisions of this Part. The Indian Constitution guarantees
individual freedom to the fullest.
A person henceforth can practise any religion. He or she can
also practise the teachings of more than one religion. He or she
can practise different religions at different times. A citizen can
also practise and preach non-belief in a civilised manner. If any
individual changes his or her belief system, that is very much con-

DISTRIBUTORS: (Alphabetical - statewise and then citywise)

Separately, the government has reiterated its

commitment to lowering its stake in public sector banks, while retaining a majority holding. It
has not given a timeline.
Subsidy Reforms
The government plans to cut wasteful subsidies on
fuel, fertiliser and food, estimated at over 21 percent of total estimated revenue receipts in 2014/15.
It has ended diesel subsidies and is waiting for a
panels report to announce next steps, possibly in
the annual budget in February. Finance Minister
Arun Jaitley has suggested subsidies on cooking
gas could be slashed for the well-off.
Coal
Coal fields are due to be auctioned by February,
followed by plans to allow commercial coal mining for the first time, and to invite in foreign miners. The government used an executive decree
to bring about the changes. Now it needs parliamentary support.
Mobile, Radio Spectrum
The government is planning the sale of mobile
telephone and FM radio spectrum in early 2015.
(http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/11/28/indiae c o n o m y - m o d i - r e f o r m idINKCN0JC18T20141128)
Except for the Left parties, the present
Indian political set-up, including the so-called
Samajwadis, are agents of the corporate, the
difference being in degree. The BJP, of course,
remains the extreme right political group in India.
The Leftist movement has become too weak to
withstand the onslaught of privatisation. They
had made a historical blunder by forgetting the
economic agenda in the communal Strife of the
late 1980s and the early 1990s. There is hardly
any possibility that they will not repeat the blunder. They would not understand that the biggest
antidote to communalism will be to counter the
monopolisation of national wealth. Even if they
want, they are hardly in a position to mobilise the
masses. Congress suffered defeat in the last
elections primarily because the corporate world
had lost faith in its leadership. It is likely that they
would opt for winning the faith of the corporate
rather than mobilising the masses against the
steps that will accentuate economic disparity to
new heights. Power, after all, is what everyone is
aiming for.
The author is Delhi-based thinker and writer
with over a dozen books including his latest Quranic
Paradigm of Sciences & Society (First Vol: Health).
He can be contacted at
doctorforu123@yahoo.com

stitutional. It is indeed the individuals own choice to practise or

not practise any religion to any extent subject to what is mentioned in Article 25.
Conversion or reversion has to be examined in the light of
Article 25 of the Constitution alone. First of all, let us make very
clear the fundamental difference between Willing conversion
and enforced conversion. Keeping in mind Article 25 of the
Constitution, nobody should have any objection to wilful conversion of any person belonging to any religion or ideology practising any belief system. Enforced Conversions however must be
treated as a heinous crime and should be dealt with strictly
according to the law. Last, but not the least, keeping in mind
Article 25 of the Constitution, making any anti-conversion law or
stopping people from practising any faith they wish to, amounts to
violation of basic structure of the Indian Constitution.
The writer is a research scholar
in the Department of Geography, AMU

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Muslims & Sikhs lay

mosques foundation

A goodwill gesture was seen on 25 December 2014, when Muslims and Sikhs
joined hands to lay foundation-stone of Abu Bakar Masjid in Patiala and prayed
for peace and harmony. There are only 25 Muslim families in Devgarh village
where the foundation-stone of the mosque was laid with the help of thousands
of Sikh people living in the village, projecting religious harmony and national
integrity. This is the only mosque within an area of 59 kilometers from the village.

During a ceremony on the occasion, head of Jamiat Shah Waliullah,

Maulana Kaleem Siddiqi said that Masjid is house of God, whoever participates
in the construction of a mosque will be rewarded by Almighty. He added that the
leaders of Akali Dal showed a great example of religious goodwill and national
integration. Akali Dal leader, Tejender Pal Singh, said that this mosque is for our
Muslim brothers and this is the identity and tradition of this country. Sarpanch of
the village, Major Singh, assured Muslims of every possible help. The stone-laying ceremony was started with Quran recitation by Maulana Mohammad Noman
Qasmi.

Temple for all

A Shiv temple in Barnala district of Punjab provides space for all religions. The
temple is situated in Bhador town. Recently, Muslim ritual of Fateha Khawani
was performed at the temple. The temple administration not only provided space
but also made arrangements for the ritual. This ritual was organised in the memory of Shaukat Ali who was killed in a road accident while his father has been in
jail for the last three years. After 1990, the temple administration has permitted
the rituals of other religions at its premises. A big hall within the campus of the
temple was constructed three years ago to facilitate such rituals. The town has a
population of 20 thousand, out of which 250 Muslim families live here. In
December, three functions of Muslim community and 10 programmes of Sikh
community were held in this hall. The manager of the temple said that they allow
rituals of other communities at the temple premises to promote universal brotherhood and to break the boundaries between communities.

Muslims being targeted: Adv.

Delhi High Court lawyer, MS Khan, said that earlier Muslims were arrested on the
allegations of having association with Lashkar-e Toiba and ISIS, but after coming
of ISIS, the excuses of arrests have also been changed. Now educated Muslim
youth are being targeted. Mehdi Masroor, a Bangalore-based engineer, has been
arrested under this new excuse. Khan said that before this incidence, Areeb
Majeed, from Mumbai, was arrested. If Mehdi Masroor handled an ISIS Twitter
account, why the police had been silent for a long time, the lawyer asked. Now
can police tell us how many people he had sent to join ISIS? Khan said that there
was information of only four people joining ISIS and those were from Mumbai.
Police are now targeting educated Muslim youth. Masroor has been implicated
by hacking his account. Having fought the cases of around 350 Muslim youth
who were arrested in the alleged cases of terrorism, Khan said that he knew how
police framed charges against innocent people and when they did not have evidence against them, the accused were acquitted. But after spending years behind
bars, when these youth come out, their lives are ruined and even the government
does not care for them, said SM Khan.

Probe into Mahasabha, Godse docu.

Police registered a
case against general secretary of
Akhil
Bharatya
Hindu Mahasabha
(ABHM), Acharya
Madan, for performing bhoomi
pujan on a plot of
land on Sharda
Road, Meerut on 24 Dec. 2014 in preparation for erecting a statue of Nathuram
Godse, killer of Mahatma Gandhi. Acharya Madan reportedly praised Godse calling him a true patriot. He criticized Narendra Modi over the issues of Ram
Temple and revocation of Article 370. Police took notice only when this matter
was highlighted by media and registered a case against Madan under Sections
504 and 505. Police also seized a video-tape of the objectionable comments
which can be used as evidence in the court. District administration of Meerut is

planning to take strict steps against those who were involved in the planned
erection of a statue of Godse. The ABHM had earlier announced that it would
erect several statues of Godse across the country alongwith one at Meerut. The
administration has been maintaining strict vigil to stop any untoward incident.
Meanwhile, demands have been made to ban the release of ABHMs upcoming
documentary Desh Bhakt Nathuram Godse which is slated to be released on
30 January 2015. On the other hand, MDMK chief Vaiko slammed the ABHM
over its plans to install Godses busts across the country. He urged the Tamil
Nadu government to prevent such glorification of Godse.

Security of Babri site costs billions

Billions of rupees have already been spent on the maintenance and security of
the makeshift temple built on the site of the demolished Babri Masjid. According
to sources, crores of rupees have been spent on barricading and wiring of the
Ramjanmabhoomi-Babri Masjid disputed complex. Camping sites, monitoring
tower and construction of barracks and houses for the security personnel have
cost crores. Supply of round-the-clock electricity to the complex costs rupees
three lakh a month. Besides, five generators have been purchased for constant
electricity-supply. A huge security force has been deployed and CCTVs have
also been installed at the complex after the terrorist attack on 5 July 2006. A door
with machine-control system costing lakhs of rupees has also been installed
through which the devotees have to pass while going into the makeshift temple.

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The issue of fake terrorism charges and the unjust arrests and defamation of our community, especially since 2001, is
the biggest challenge facing the community ever since. A grand conspiracy hatched by the powers that be, IB, Police
and media, has sullied and defamed our community. This campaign has affected our lives, peace of mind and has
thwarted our efforts to progress and educate our children to join the national mainstream.
Our efforts so far to present our case, to bring out our innocence and force the national and state governments to
listen to our grievances have mostly failed. All we have received are a few words of solace which have no real meaning
and have not changed the situation on the ground. Our children by their thousands are still languishing in jails on the
basis of fake confessions obtained through torture and blackmail.
As a long-term solution and a serious response to this problem thrust upon us, AIMMM decided last year to bring
out a white paper on the Muslim-related terrorism in the country. The work is going on with all seriousness and many
researchers, scholars and journalists are busy preparing writeups on various aspects of this issue, covering the history, genesis, communalism, vested interests in various related fields, analysis of various laws like TADA, POTA and UAPA,
fake encounters, narco tests, torture, acquittals, IB & Police role, media attitude, case studies, statewise surveys, SIMI,
Indian Mujahidin, Hindutva terror, individual tragedies of victims, Azamgarh, Bhatkal, Malegaon, Darbhanga modules,
some basic documents, etc., etc.
The target is to bring out this white paper during the next few months and to release it in a big convention at Delhi
as a combined effort of major Muslim and civil rights organisations, and thereafter present this huge document of over
600 large format pages to politicians, media, human rights organisations, especially outside the country, in order to
enlighten public opinion at home and abroad as well as to build pressure on our blind and deaf government.
The estimated cost of this white paper is Rs 35 lakh divided as follows: Rs 15 lakh cost of preparation and payments to contributors plus six months salaries to researchers and experts; Rs 15 lakh for designing and printing the
document in a world-class format; while the grand convention at Delhi will cost at least 5 lakh. Effort will be made to
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Quote, Unquote

Ghar Wapsi
The monkey brigade of the Sangh Parivar
has been let loose to advance the project of
communalisation and thereby invigorate the
Parivar constituency Lies have been the
Sangh Parivars staple of propaganda
material. It fabricates history to justify its
absurd actionsIf the Muslim rulers had
converted people by the sword, would they
have spared Bhagwats forefathers? Eight
hundred years of Muslim rule was long
enough to make India a Muslim country.
That the Bhagwats and Togadias of this
world are around to spew communal
venom proves that the Muslim rulers were
not obsessed with conversion. Their sword
was the sword of rulers, quite like any of
the Hindu kings, meant to subjugate people
and amass wealth. Largely, people of the
lower castes became Muslims and that
really lies at the root of Bhagwats
brahmanic hatred. The lower castes
willingly embraced Islam because of its
egalitarianism, experienced through the
Sufis, Islams mystics, who preached love
and compassion in an idiom that appealed
to them.

ANAND TELTUMBDE
Economic & Political Weekly
3 Jan., 2015

7th ALL INDIA ESSAY WRITING

COMPETITION 2015
Idarah Ulum Al-Quran invites students of madarsas, colleges and
universities to a national level essay writing competition. Successful
participants will be entitled to cash awards and certificates.
Topic: Co-operation with Non Muslims in the Light of Quran
Ist Prize: 10,000, IInd Prize: 8000. IIIrd Prize: 6000. 10 Consolation
Prizes: 1000 each
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Those interested should get themselves registered till 31, Jan. 2015
by writing to the undersigned through letter/email with full details
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Last date for the submission of essays is 30 April, 2015.

The essay may be written in Urdu, Arabic, English or Hindi language.

The essay should be between 20-30 pages and should not contain
more than 15000 words.

The name and address on the cover page should be written in such
a way that it could be easily detached. No sign should be left inside
the essay which could reveal the identity of the writer.

The essay should be supported with Quranic Verses and necessary
references from well researched books and sources.
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Gujarat # 1 in
sexual exploitation

New Delhi: Cases of sexual assault,

exploitation and rape are daily occurrences and increasing day by day in
Delhi, nay all over the country but
according to a report in the English daily
Indian Express, maximum cases of sexual exploitation of girls take place in
Gujarat. According to a report released
by an NGO Save the Children in Gujarat
63 percent girls are sexually exploited. In
this report statistics of sexual assaults
and exploitation in other states are also
given which have come to light in a
research project started under UNCRC.
Report of this research project will be
sent to United Nations.

India ranks 4th in black

money outflow

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RSS is a terrorist organisation: American think tank

New Delhi: An American think tank (Terrorism
Watch & Warning) has included the Hindutva
extremist organisation RSS in the list of terrorist
organisations. RSSs name appears on this organisations
website
(http://www.terrorism.com/2014/04/26/rashtriyaswayamsevak-sangh-rss/) in threat group profiles.
According to this think tank which studies, watches and analyses activities, views and problems
associated with national and international terrorism, RSS is shadowy, discriminatory group that
seeks to establish a Hindu Rashtra, a Hindu Nation.
The group is considered the radical ideological parent group of Indias ruling Hindu nationalist party the Indian Peoples Party (BJP). The RSS is a Hindu
nationalist movement, a right wing group, that was
founded in 1925. Their philosophy, called Hindutva,
was termed fascist by Communists, and their main
demand of the central government was that it stop
appeasing Muslims. Hindutva has been translated
to mean variously: Hindu pride, patriotism, fundamentalism, revivalism, chauvinishm, or fascism.
The group self-justifies by asserting the natural
rights.

With a total of $439.59 billion ( Rs. 28

lakh crore), India has jumped one rank to
become the fourth largest exporter of
illicit money outflow over a ten-year period from 2003 to 2012, WashigntonThe American think tank further says about
based research and advisory organization, Global Financial Integrity (GFI), said RSS: The group maintains no membership
in its latest report. In 2012 alone, India records, no bank accounts, and pays no income

salted away $94.76 billion of illegal

wealth and ranked third after Russia
($122.86 billion) and China ($249.57 billion). The Supreme Court has appointed
a special investigation team (SIT) to
bring back black money into the country.
India needs to trace rupees 4,479 crore
in the accounts of Indians figuring in a list
of account holders of HSBCs Geneva
branch, according to government data.
The SIT has also traced unaccounted
wealth of rupees 14,958 crore within
India, which are currently being investigated by the Enforcement Directorate
and the Income Tax Department.

One in four Indians

practise untouchability
Sixty-four years after caste untouchability was abolished by the Constitution,
more than a fourth of Indians admit that
they continue to practise it in some form
in their homes, the biggest ever survey of
its kind has revealed. Going by respondents admission, untouchability is the
most widespread among Brahmins, followed by OBCs. Among religious communities, it is the most widespread
among Hindus, Sikhs and Jains, shows
the survey, which was conducted in over
42,000 households across India by the
National Council of Applied Economic
Research (NCAER) and the University of
Maryland, US (Source: The India Human
Development Survey (IHDS-2))

Surveyors asked respondents,

Does anyone in your family practise
untouchability? and, in case the answer
was No, asked a second question:
Would it be okay for a Scheduled Caste
person to enter your kitchen or use your
utensils? Across India, 27 per cent
respondents agreed that they did practised untouchability in some form. The
practice was most prevalent among
Brahmin respondents (52 per cent). 24
per cent of non-Brahmin forward caste
respondents admitted to it - lower, interestingly, than OBC respondents, 33 per
cent of whom confirmed its prevalence in
their homes. 15 per cent of Scheduled
Caste and 22 per cent of Scheduled
Tribe respondents admitted to the practice. Broken up by religious groups, data
from the survey shows almost every third
Hindu (30 per cent) admitted to the practice, followed by Sikhs (23 per cent),
Muslims (18 per cent) and Christians (5
per cent). Jains topped the list, with 35
per cent respondents accepting that they
practised untouchability.
Spatially, untouchability is most
widespread in the Hindi heartland,
according to the survey. Madhya
Pradesh is on top (53 per cent), followed
by Himachal Pradesh (50 per cent),
Chhattisgarh (48 per cent), Rajasthan
and Bihar (47 per cent), Uttar Pradesh
(43 per cent), and Uttarakhand (40 per
cent). (Excerpted from Indian Express, 29
November, 2014)

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tax. As the RSS has no corporate organization,

financial contributions are made to Sangh-affiliated
groups as charities... Violence has been a strategy
for the Sangh movement. It is often couched as a
method of self-defense against minority groups.
Hindutva has been clear about the need for violence, particularly communal riots. The Sangh has
incited rioting to cause further chasms between
religions, and thus a further separation of religions,
and to rally the Hindu community around the philosophy of Hindutva... Religious rioting broke out
after the destruction of the [Babri] mosque
between Hindus and Muslims throughout India.
And, for this reason the BJP rose in to power. In
1998, violence against Christian minorities escalated with the BJP party coming to power. From
January 1998 to February 1999, over 116 attacks
against the Christian community in India were
reported. The Gujarat Genocide of 2002, however,
is the most planned hate crime the group has perpetrated as yet. ...
The website has writeups about terrorist
organisations across the world.

Declare cow National Mother: Hindu groups

A programme was organised in Bhopal on
15 December 2014 by Bhartiya Gau Kranti Manch
(BGKM) to start a campaign to declare cow as the
National Mother and to create a separate ministry
in all states to save cows. BGKM has already been
running a campaign against cow slaughter in several states. The speakers threatened if their
demand is not accepted by 2015, they would
protest in Delhi in February 2016 with 25 lakh people and would bring Delhi to a standstill. One of the
speakers, Gopal Mani Maharaj said that he would
not keep quiet unless Mother gets its due status.
Other speakers demanded that the children upto 10
years of age should be provided free cow milk so
that they grow up as civilized people.

Speakers said Lord Rama would not have

Musings

Deaths dance
macabre @ Charlie
Hebdo
Agreed, terrorism cannot be pigeonholed as
Islamic, Christian or religion-specific but the
latest deaths dance macabre at Charlie
Hebdos headquar ters in Paris, again engenders the issue of Islamic terrorism because it
happened in the wake of Peshawar school
massacre. Rabid intolerance and extreme rigidity have traduced the image of Islam. A religion thats not open to satire is a deadwood,
aptly opined the US novelist John Updike. The
slain editor of the French weekly ((Hebdo is
French slang for weekly) may have exceeded
his editorial rights and limits, but to be gunned
down for that is too much. The car toonists,
who caricatured revered Islamic characters,
also went beyond harmless caricaturing. But to
kill them is a sign of venomous religious intolerance. All these (mis)deeds by the zealots are
not only sullying the escutcheon of Islam but
also of all religions. All faiths have suddenly
become equally intolerant.

been born if Mother Kaushalya had not eaten cow

milk pudding. Another said drinking cow milk stops
crime and corruption. A third said the 120-year-old
Lord Krishna looked like a 12 year-old boy
because he bathed with cow dung soap.
Home Minister of Madhya Pradesh, Babu Lal
Gaud addressing the gathering hoped that their
demands would be accepted. He also reminded
that when BJP came to power, it banned cow
slaughter in Madhya Pradesh. BJP MLA Vishwas
Sarang, along with Congress leaders present in
the meeting, also demanded ban on cow slaughter.
Communal clashes grip Raisen dist, MP
In the morning of 29 December 2014, riots broke
out in Raisen district of Madhya Pradesh after
some people of two communities clashed over
rumours of cow slaughter. State Intelligence chief,
Sarabjit Singh said that the cause of clash was
rumour of cow slaughter. Some people spread the
rumour that in Ghairatganj a cow was slaughtered.
This provoked people to resort to violence. A mob
burnt almost five vehicles, a shop and half a dozen
hand-carts. Police said that additional forces were
deployed in the area and curfew was imposed. This
was the third such incident which took place in
Raisen during the last two years. In July 2014,
there was clash a between two communities in
which seven people were injured. During that communal clash, mob torched four shops and some
vehicles. In June 2013, another incidence of communal clash took place in Raisen. The reason of the
clash was alleged love affair of two persons
belonging to different communities. At that time
also curfew was imposed in Ghairatganj area.
Hindu groups try to communalise UP villages
Leaders of Hindu extremist group Hindu Yuva Vahni
and BJP have been trying to communalise society
with inflammatory speeches in Sant Kabir district
of UP. These groups are targeting Muslim-populated villages with the help of police. Muslims are facing problems even in keeping cattle and oxen for
agricultural purposes as police harass them from
time to time. In Sant Kabir Nagar people buy oxen
from cattle fair for agricultural purpose. But police
seize Muslims animals and harass them in the
name of cow slaughter. Muslims of Amardobha
town blamed that police seized their cattle on the
indication of Hindu Yuva Vahni. Such cattle are later
sold in the market. Most of the Muslims in the district are farmers. They fear that if their cattle are
taken away by the police, they will not survive.
Tension due to anti-Prophet comments
A case of defamatory comment against Prophet
Muhammad (PBUH) has come to light in
Kushinagar, UP. Sangam (22) son of Santosh
Madhesia and a member of Hindu Yuva Vahni who
runs a tea stall in Hata town at Captangunj intersection posted his derogatory comments against
Muslims and Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) on
whatsapp. In his comment, he also appealed to the
Muslim community to get rid of Islam as soon as
possible. When Muslims of the area came to know
about this, they approached the local police station
to complain against the incident. A case was later

registered after the interference of Shaukat Ali, the

state convener of Majlis-e Ittehadul Muslemeen.
Though police has registered a case against
Sangam under Section 295-A, the situation
remained tense in the town after threats of a BJP
worker, Nand Kishor Nathani. Police assured that
strict actions would be taken against those who try
to create communal tension.
Hindu outfits demand ban on PK
Amir Khan-starrer PK, which takes a swipe at
organised religion and godmen sparked protests by
Hindutva organizations like Vishwa Hindu Parishad,
Bajrang Dal, Hindu Janajagruti Samiti and All India
Hindu Mahasabha while police complaints have
been filed in several parts of the country alleging
that it mocked Hindu gods and its contents were
highly provocative. Yoga guru Ramdev has
demanded that the movie should be boycotted and
all those associated with it ostracised from society. Amir Khan clarified, saying, We respect all
religions. All my Hindu friends have seen the film
and they have not felt the same. Even Raju (Hirani)
is Hindu, so is Vinod (Chopra) and so is Abhijat
(Joshi). In fact 99 of the crew was Hindu, the
actor said.

Despite its protests by Hindu right wing

groups, PK has earned fame beyond the national
boundaries and it has registered all time highestgrossing in India with rupees 214 crore in the first
nine days after its release on 19 December, 2014.
BJP against plan to celebrate Tipus birth anniv

BJP leaders have criticised the Karnataka

governments decision
to celebrate the birth
anniversary of the eighteenth century ruler
and freedom fighter
Tipu Sulatn. On 22
December 2014, during
a book-release ceremony of Tipu Sultan: A
Crusader for Change written by Prof. B Sheik Ali,
the chief minister of Karnataka, Siddha Ramaiya
said that there had been demands from different
sections of society to celebrate the birth anniversary of Tipu Sultan, and he would announce the
date very soon. This statement has enraged BJP
leaders who said that Congress is trying to
appease minorities for votes. BJP leaders claimed
that Tipu Sultan was a cruel ruler who forced the
people of Kerala, Kodagu and southern districts of
Karnataka to accept Islam. BJP leader Suresh
Kumar claimed that the personality of Tipu Sultan
was not so great that his birth anniversary should
be celebrated.
BJP state president DH Shankar Murti claimed
that Tipu was against Kannada culture and he
imposed Persian on these people. Moreover,
reacting to the views of Siddha Ramaiya in which
he said that Tipu Sultan supported and provided
funds to various temples, Shankar Murti said that
they could not neglect the demolition of temples
during Tipus reign. Tipu Sultan was the king of
Mysore. He died in May 1799, while fighting with
British army in Srirangapatnam.

Going beyond conversions

Pathological Nostalgic Syndrome

The recent conversion spree evinced by certain Hindu

outfits is an uncomfortable reminder of mankinds prehistoric clan augmentation tendency. Its a throwback
to our primitivism when every clan would try to
increase the number of its members so that it (a clan)
could stay safe from immediate external threats.
Religion came relatively late. But this hoary-old tendency, that had already become mankinds chromosomic
character and integral to its DNA, percolated down to
organised religions that came into being hardly five
thousand years ago. The followers of every religion
began to believe erroneously that by increasing the corpus of their respective faith with the help of recruiting
new members, could place their faith ahead of other
(faiths). The stress on quality was replaced with the
accent on quantity. The essence of spirituality advocates vertical conversion: The (upward) spiritual
growth of an individual, not the horizontal conversion:
The multiplication of followers.
Theres a famous episode in the life of Persian mystic poet Nizami. Once a very learned and pious disciple
of Nizami, Ibrar Shamsi, asked him, whether he could
go out and convert others to the fold of Islam? Nizami
curtly told him, Even at your level, you require centuries
to become enlightened. Grow up spiritually and leave the
idea of converting others because conversion is spiritual snobbery and religious condescension. Arent we all
in need of following Nizamis sage advice in toto?

The great sociologist MacIver (who collaborated with Page) coined an apposite
phrase,Pathological Nostalgic Syndrome in his
seminal essay, Evolving and devolving societies (re-edited by Dean Rusk, Cambridge,
1974). Its fully applicable to the asinine Indian
mindset that almost collectively believes that
the ancient India had all the knowledge but it
gladly gave away its wisdom to the west! This
sick mindset labours under the false belief that
the ancient India even knew how to fly planes
and was knowledgeable about all modern
things! What should we call it? If the Vedic India
knew everything, whyre we still so abjectly
dependent on the west in every respect? Why
didnt we spread our fantastic knowledge and
let the rest of the world avail itself of it? The fact
is, India and her people are a complacent lot.
Were veritable lotus-eaters. Weve not done
anything remarkable and when others get the
credit, we try to belittle them. This is a defeatist
mentality. Its been categorically proven that
hardly anything worthwhile was invented by the
ancient Indians. We must be largehear ted
enough to praise if someone else has achieved
something, rather than pull down the achievers.

SUMIT PAUL
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No progress of minorities during 12th 5-year Plan;

no computer centres nor skill development centres opened
N. A. ANSARI
ew Delhi: As per governments plan to
make youth belonging to minority communities, particularly Muslims, well
trained and skilled during the 12th FiveYear Plan, 11 Degree Colleges and 12,498 skill
development centres were to be opened and
computers in 1200 schools were to be provided
but the bitter truth is that neither anyone of these
could be completed nor any steps are being
taken in these respects. This information is given
by Parliaments Standing Committee on social
justice and empowerment in response to queries
made by the ministry of minorities affairs. It is
stated in its report that during the 12th 5-Year
Plan, of the plans approved for all round development programmes (MSDP) of minority majority areas in 27 states, none could be completed
and on some of these work has not even been
started. It is further stated in this report that
along with 7 Degree Colleges in UP, approval
was given for a total of 11 Degree Colleges to be
opened in the whole country but so far not a single college out of these could be opened.
Similarly, sanction was given for providing computers in 174 schools but no work in this field
also could be done. During this period 54
income generation infrastructure centres were
also to be set up but till date not a single centre
has been set up. In spite of the governments
much publicised plans approval was given for
opening 12498 skill development centres in
minority populated areas for training the youth
and making them well trained and competent,
but so far no such centre has been opened in
any part of the country. It is stated in the report
of the ministry for minorities affairs that during
all this period there has been great negligence
and very slow progress has been made in providing basic education to children belonging to
minority community (Muslims).
During this period (12th Plan) approval was
given for constructing buildings of 487 schools
of which 162 were to be in UP, 75 in West Bengal
and 131 in Bihar but of these only three school
buildings were completed and building work is
going on in 35 schools. In the same way governments plan of opening 15 polytechnic colleges
is a non-starter. In spite of approval for these, no
work has been done for opening any polytechnic
college. During this period 5 polytechnic college
were to be opened in UP of which work is going

on on 4 such colleges. In the rest of the states

no work on such colleges has been done so far.
Also, 364 hostels in these states were to be set
up during this period but so far work to some
extent has been done in respect of 15 hostels
only and work is going on for building 49 hostels. According to this report, during this period
7498 additional class rooms were to be built but
the position is that so far work has been completed on 340 class rooms only. Similarly,
approval was accorded for providing cooperation and assistance to 340 educational institutions but so far no assistance / cooperation has
been given even to a single one.

Kerala Markaz AlSaqafah Al-Sunniahs

World Conference
Calicut: A four-day World Conference sponsored
by Indias famous Islamic institution Markaz Al
Saqafah Al Sunnia was held in Calicut from 18 to
21 December in which prominent religious
scholars of the Arab world, Indias religious
scholars and political leaders participated and
expressed their scholarly views for the benefit of
more than two lakh audience. This conference is
held here every two-years. Head of the Markaz
Al Saqafah Al Sunnia, Sheikh Abu Bakar said
while speaking in this conference that for the
promotion of lofty moral values it is essential
that we should strengthen our relationship with
God and follow the path and ways prescribed by
the Prophet. He said that the solution of all the
problems of human life lies in purification of
mind and soul and remembrance of God. Hence
for success in this world and Hereafter as
Muslims we should have fear of God and His
continuous remembrance. He said that there is
no force or compulsion in Islam. It is because of
Islams universalism that people are adopting
this religion in large numbers and today there is
no part of the world where the followers of Islam
are not found, but enemies of Islam cannot
digest it and that is why wrong and baseless
propagandas are being made and efforts are
being made to seduce poor Muslims in far off
places to change their religion. The drama that is
being staged in the name of ghar wapsi is part
of a planned conspiracy. He said that those who

were demanding enactment of a law against

forced conversion of religion till yesterday are
those very people who are organising melas
today for change of religion. He demanded that
the Indian government should take strong action
in all earnest against this because it is not only a
conspiracy against Islam but also against the
Constitution. Once again he repeated his
demand to the Kerala government that in order to
make Kerala free from liquor, sale of wine should
be banned in the whole state because drinking
leads to family problems and domestic life is
ruined. Regarding Talibans massacre in
Peshawars school he said that if those beasts
and cowards had the courage they should have
faced the jawans instead of small, innocent children. He said that those brutes should know that
Islam is the religion of humanism and service to
people is the most important worship. He said
that these foolish people should know that
because of their condemnable and hateful acts
they are doing great disservice to Islam because
Islam and Muslims are earning a bad name in
the world.
On the second day of the conference Unani
Medical College was inaugurated in the presence
of Keralas health minister V. S. Shiv Kumar, MPM. I. Shahnawaz, MLA-Moin Kutty and others
who praised the efforts of the Markaz (Centre)
and said that by setting up Unani Medical
College it has fulfilled an important need of people in which in addition to teaching, research will
also be done. Among those who expressed their
views in this session included Jeddahs Mayor
Sheikh Usman bin Yahya, Bruneis ambassador
Siddique Ali, Saudi Arabias Sheikh Abdullah Al
Shibli and others.
Meanwhile, Sheikh Zaid International conference was also held in which speakers expressed
their resolve to popularise Islams universal
message of peace and brotherhood. Terrorism
was again strongly condemned in this conference, particularly Talibans brutal attack on innocent children in Peshawars school was strongly condemned and prayers were offered for
them. Keralas chief minister Oomen Chandi
while praising Shiekh Abu Bakars educational
services said that the great work he has done in
the field of education is a matter of pride not only
for Kerala but for the whole country. Special
guest Syed Faisal Ali, Group Editor of Rashtriya
Sahara said in the light of extremism and tumultuous conditions in Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan,
Pakistan and Nigeria that Daaish, Boko Haram,

Pak Boat: drama or

terror operation?
BILAL BHAT
New Delhi: While controversies contradict Ministry of Defence
(MOD) Terror Boat claim about the burning and sinking of a
small boat allegedly by its four occupants. The claim has led to a
debate about its credibility in the media amid questions raised by
the Congress whether the vessel was carrying terrorists or smugglers.
An official statement two days later had said that an intelligence based midnight operation was conducted in the night of 31
December by Coast Guard ships and aircraft to intercept a suspect fishing boat in the Arabian Sea near the Indo-Pak maritime
boundary, approximately 365 km south-west of Porbandar. The
official statement said that a Pakistani fishing boat, suspected of
carrying explosives, was intercepted by the Coast Guards in the
Arabian Sea in the early hours of 1 January but its four occupants
blew it up after a nearly hour-long chase, the government said on
2 January, adding that there was no trace later of either the boat
or the people on board. Earliest announcement by a top Coast
Guard officer on TV channels said that a rocket fired at the boat
blew it up but later the story was changed to claim that the occupants of the boat themselves blew it up.
The Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar said, The boat was in
constant touch with various authorities which are located in Pakistan
and linked with Pakistani naval maritime security agencies.
However, the National Technical Research Organisation
(NTRO) said in a 31 December message that it had picked up a
Thuraya satellite phone communication between the crew of the
fishing boat and their associates on land, but it pertained to illicit
trafficking not terrorism The conversation referred to a valuable
cargo being transferred. The NTRO report cited in media led to
serious debates about the relevance of the MOD report.
The NTRO was accused of failing to share reports with

IBN Live screen grab on 3 January:

Genuine terror op or mere hype?
Intelligence agencies like RAW and IB. Questions were raised as
to why the NTRO shared intelligence directly with the coastal
agencies and not with the Intelligence Bureaus Multi Agency
Centre (MAC) as mandated. Reports said when the IB took up the
matter with the NTRO, it was told the information was not shared
because it did not relate to terror.
We did not share the information because it related to smugglers and not to terror, a senior intelligence official told media.
Sources in the agency, however, were quoted as saying that
they did not say terror because they did not suspect terror. One
official said they had been tracking the Thuraya phone used by the
boats occupants for at least a fortnight and had put out the first
alert only when the boat veered off course and appeared to be
entering Indian waters.
According to the ministry of defence (MoD) press release,
The coast guard ship warned the fishing boat to stop for further
investigation of the crew and cargo; however, the boat increased
speed and tried to escape away from the Indian side of maritime
boundary Four persons were seen on the boat who disregarded all warnings by the coast guard ship to stop and cooperate with
investigation. Soon, thereafter, the crew hid themselves in below

Taliban and such others who present extremist

and militant Islam to the world are not well wishers of Islam of humanity. He said that the time
has now come for carrying on a strong struggle
against such extremists.
Director of Jamia Markaz, Dr Abdul Hakeem
Azhari, speaking about the activities of the
Markaz said that along with hundreds of students from foreign countries and about two
thousand from other states of the country a total
of more than 40 thousand students are studying
here and so far about 75 thousand students have
completed their education from here who are
rendering their services in different parts of the
world. He further said that construction of
Knowledge City is in progress on 125 acres of
land where Unani Medical College has been
inaugurated and approval for a Law College also
has been obtained. We are also trying to make
arrangements here for a Shariat College along
with modern education so that products of this
institution could play an important part in the
building of Islamic society with full knowledge of
religion and Shariat.
Secretary of Fatwa Board, Amman Sheikh Al
Falah Al Khalili said while speaking on this occasion that Ummat-e Muslimahs differences is the
biggest failure of this age hence we should get
united on the basis of Kalma. Uzbekistans
Grand Mufti Muhammad Yusuf Muhammad
Sadiq said that he has the good fortune of participating in Islamic conferences in different
countries of the world but nowhere else has he
seen the scene as at this grand conference held
in Calicut.
Scores of representatives from many foreign
countries were present in this conference and
the rush of people from all corners of Kerala was
so great that there were traffic jams many kilometres long, and a sea of crowd was seen at
many places. Surprisingly, there was no indiscipline and disorder anywhere in such a huge congregation even in the absence of police and
security forces. This was because of the disciplined and trained volunteers of the Markaz who
managed every thing very efficiently. Other
speakers included Saudi Arabias Sheikh Hashim
bin Saleh, International Islamic University,
Malayasias Dr (Prof) Ahmad Basheer bin
Ibrahim, Raabta Aalam-e Islami, Makkas
Advisor Dr Hashim Muhammad Al Mehdi,
Special Advisor to Prince Saud bin Abdul Aziz of


Saudi Arabia, Dr. Faaizul Aabdin etc etc.

deck compartment and set the boat on fire, which resulted in

explosion and major fire on the boat.
But as per the reports of the naval officers cited in the
national media, they had quoted that Pakistani fishing boats typically four-crew vessels, with an average length of less than
25 metres and equipped with 80-220 horsepower diesel
engines, or smaller mechanised sailboats with 30 horsepower
engines - could not outrun the Coast Guards state-of-the-art
ships, making it impossible for the Pakistani boats to escape
from the reach of the sophisticated Coast Guard ships. The
MoD press release does not mention if the terrorists had
retaliated to the gunshots, which is generally expected from a
terror boat out with a terror mission.
With no clear evidence of explosives on the said boat,
photographs released to media showed only fire damage to the
ships hull which creates doubts if it was so. There is no proof
or even mention that incendiary munitions, such as grenades
or explosives, were used. Plastic explosives do not ordinarily
explode in fires; only chemical analysis can detect if it was on
board. MoD sources quoted by media said the Coast Guard has
not retrieved debris from the area for forensic analysis. MoD press
release merely said that due to darkness, bad weather and strong
winds, the boat and persons on board could not be saved or
recovered. However, open-source meteorological data for the
Porbandar coast for the year-end shows conditions were almost
ideal right through the second fortnight of December 15, 2014 to
January 1, with cloudless skies.
The MoD press release uses the word explosion without
mentioning terror or even explosives.
Indian Express reported on 5 January that investigators in
Karachi have identified the fishing boat as one linked to a drug
mafia based in Pakistan.
Pakistan has ridiculed Indian claims over the Pak terror boat
terming it as a very silly allegation. I think this is a very silly
allegation. We have checked with our authorities, no boats from
Pakistan left, said Pakistan Foreign Office spokesperson Tasnim
Aslam. We saw the boat burn, it did not blow up. There have
been various contradictory claims, she told an Indian TV channel


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How is Ghar Wapsi Different from Forcible Conversions?

RAM PUNIYANI
ram.puniyani@gmail.com
Propaganda around conversions has been one of the major
political tools during last few
decades. It was the Niyogi
Commission report which
investigated the conversions in
Adivasi areas in 1950s. The Meenakshiipuram
conversions of Dalits to Islam, and then the gruesome murder of Pastor Graham Stewart Staines in
Orissa on charges that he was organising conversions are a few landmarks in the conflict over of
conversions.
As such the regular propaganda by communal forces that Muslim kings converted people to
Islam by sword has been made part of social
common sense by now. Around Christmas time
one saw anti-Christian violence in Adivasi areas a
decade ago, and in that context rather than
addressing the violence against religious minorities, the then Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee
called for a national debate on conversions.
In the recent conversions to Hinduism in Agra
(December 10, 2014) nearly 350 pavement
dwellers, rag pickers and other destitutes were
promised that if they participated in the religious
function they would be given ration cards and
BPL cards. This was done by Bajrang Dal activists
and the Hindu Janjagriti Samiti, both affiliated to
the RSS. This process has been called Ghar
Wapsi and not conversion.
On one hand, this is being projected as a great
achievement by RSS leaders like Yogi Adiytnath,
on the other it is being labelled as a master stroke
by RSS ideologues. According to one ideologue of
the RSS, they had been calling for a ban on conversions, which was being opposed by secular
elements and religious minorities. This new conversion Ghar Wapsi, would bring to fore the debate
to make a strict law against all kinds of conversion. If, as reported, the conversion of 350-odd
Muslims in Ved Nagar in Agra to Hinduism is the
work of RSS, it is clear that the RSS has grown
strategic.
As per an ideologue, this move is a smart
one. It seems to have triggered a debate on conversions, which it has been asking for decades,
but was evaded by its critics. While communal
elements are crying hoarse that Meenakshipuram
conversions were staged through petro-dollars
and Christian missionaries are conducting conversion though foreign money, the truth of the matter
is somewhat different. The Meenakshipuram conversion was triggered by humiliation of Dalit youth
by upper-caste people. While the propaganda is
that Christian missionaries are doing forcible conversion the fact is that no evidence of the application of force has been reported.
It is also true that while some sects of
Christians do claim that they are converting, a
majority of sects affirm that only on voluntary
request by some one a conversion takes place.
Interestingly, as many people have started
believing that missionaries are converting people,
the population of Christians has shown a marginal decline during the last few decades as per census figures (1971-2.60 crore,, 1982-2.44, crore,
1991-2.34 crore,, 2001 -2.30 crore and probably
2.20 crore in 2011) The Wadhwa Commission,
which was appointed by the then home minister,
L.K.Advani, in the aftermath of the burning of
Pastor Staines pointed out that the pastor was not
involved in conversion and that in Keonjhar in
Manoharpur of Orissa, the percentage of

The central point is that RSS does not recognise Indian nationalism
and holds on to Hindu nationalism and the manoeuvre for this
conversion is being passed off as Ghar Wapsi while dubbing other
conversions as forcible. Rather than recognizing the qualitative change
in the formation of India as the nation state, it is stuck to the pastoralfeudal-preindustrial society with the values of caste and gender...
Christians had shown either stability, or an statistical by insignificant rise in the percentage of
Christians during the time Pastor Staines was
working there.
How have conversions taken place in India?
We can examine this in two stages. In medieval
period, conversion to Islam took place mainly due
to caste oppression, as pointed out by Swami
Vivekananda, Why amongst the poor of India so
many are Mohammadans? It is nonsense to say
that they were converted by the sword. It was to
gain liberty from zamindars and priests
(Collected Works- Vol. 8- Page 330). Surely, a
small section did convert to Islam due to anticipation of reward by Muslim kings, a smaller section
due to fear and a substantial chunk due to the
social interaction as seen in the Muslims of
Malabar coast and the Muslims of Mewat.
Major conversion to Islam during medieval
time was due to the influence of Sufi saints,
whose dargahs the untouchables could also visit.
Since even today one-fourth of the population
holds to the norms of untouchablity, it is not surprising that some dominated castes do keep
deciding to leave the fold of Hinduism, as seen by
Dr. Ambedkar, who left Hinduism with the proclamation, I was born a Hindu. That was not in my
hands. But I will not die a Hindu.
Conversions to Christianity did not begin with
the coming of the British, as propagated by some.
Indian Christianity is centuries-old, entering India
with the coming of St. Thomas in the first century.
Some doubt this version and hold that Christianity
came here the in fifth century. Christian missionaries have been working here in the neglected
Adivasi areas, providing health and educational
services, the appeal of which prompted many an
Adivasis-Dalits to embrace this religion.
It is only since the last six decades that communal forces have been showing discomfort with
missionaries working in the Adivasi areas. AntiChristian violence has been more marked in those
areas. Not to forget here is the point that many
Christian educational institutions are located in
cities, where all sections of society vie with each
other to send their children. One can also concede that a few of these missions may be aiming
for conversion through prayer and healing services.
The question of allurement and fraud, if at all,
may be a small component of the phenomenon of
conversion to Christianity. Most of the attacks and
accusations which took place against Christian
missionaries came when they were holding prayer
meetings. The money they receive comes through
proper FCRA channel, and many NGOs, including
organisations like RSS also receive foreign funds,
to be sure.
Now the assertion is made that what RSS
affiliates do is simple Ghar Wapsi. Voluntary conversions have very much been a part of caste-ridden Indian society. It is another matter that even
the Christian and Muslim communities could not
remain free from this caste virus, but the hope of
the dominated castes to get social justice has
played a major role in changing their faith. The
RSS claim that the ancestors of all these converts
were Hindus has no relevance in the debate. How

VHP to declare HP
a Hindu state

Vishwa Hind Parishad is preparing to declare Himachal Pradesh a

Hindu state during its proposed convention to be held during
March-April, 2015. VHP is planning to organise this convention in
Shimla on 4 May 2015. Around 40 thousand people are expected
to participate in this convention. Besides, VHP is also planning a
grand Ram temple to be constructed this year.
HP organizing secretary of VHP, Manoj Kumar has said that
after declaring Himachal Pradesh a Hindu state, no Muslim or
Christian will be allowed into the state. He added that VHP is celebrating its golden-jubilee-year and the Parishad has decided to
prepare its warriors Vijay Yoddhawon to show the Hindu muscle power. To achieve this goal, 5 lakh people are planned to be
attracted by VHP in the days to come. He further said that VHP
will start its campaign through social media very soon. He
claimed that in the name of Love Jihad, Muslim boys are prompting Hindu girls to elope with them, and the girls are then sold in
foreign countries. He also claimed that 16 girls have so far eloped
from Himachal Pradesh.

is ancestry important in ones faith and citizenship

today? Do we have to trace our ancestry to decide
todays faith? Where will this lead us? The theory
of evolution apart, the latest DNA studies show
that humans beginning is from South Africa. From
the coming of Aryans to India from the Arctic zone
(as per Lokmanya Tilak ) to that Aryans were original inhabitants of India is a perpetual debate, with
more heat than light in it.
What was the religion of nomads?Pagan?
Some social scientists call it indigenous culture,
rather than religion for the phenomenon which
was and is practised by indigenous people all over
the world. Society is always changing. As caste
system has been the central part of religion in
India, many of the dominated castes regularly kept
leaving Hinduism to opt for other religions like
Jainism, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam and
Sikhism. People felt that they were not getting
equality and thus kept leaving the Hindu fold and
embracing other religions. After Lord Buddhas
teachings a large chunk of people became
Buddhists in the Sub-continent. It is another matter that later, in a Brahminical reaction, Buddhism
was wiped out from here. Many felt that the missions were doing service to their community, so
they changed their faith.
The RSS is obsessed with the values and
system of the past and its pastoral, agriculturalfeudal societies. Changes in social system
accompany changes in systems of production
and education, in particular these uncial facts are
missing from its world view. India came into being
through the freedom struggle led by Mahatma
Gandhi, who could unite the people of all religions
as he treated all religions on an equal footing. For
him, there was no distinction between foreign and
native religions.
Three types of Nationalisms competed with
each their during freedom movement. On one
hand was the concept of Indian nationalism and
the accompanying concept of India as a nation in
the making. This is what was followed by most
people. The other was Muslim nationalism, which
located its beginning in the time of Muhammad bin
Qasims victory in Sindh in the eight century. And
the third one was Hindu nationalism, which proclaimed: We are a Hindu nation from times
immemorial. This position was held by the Hindu
Mahasabha and RSS. Both these latter nationalisms, which derived their legitimacy from religious, identity had little social support.
Gandhi is quoted extensively by Right wing
forces to oppose conversions. However, his
quotes are disjointed fragments of what he said.
His major quote on conversion is from collected
works, Volume XLVI p. 27-28. In an interview
dated 22nd March 1931, given to The Hindu,
Gandhi apparently stated that if in self governing
India, missionaries kept proselytizing by means
of medical aid, education etc., I would certainly
ask them to withdraw. Every nations religion is as
good as any other. Certainly Indias religions are
adequate for her people. We need no converting
spirituality.
This is the first part of the quote and the lines
that follow give the totally opposite idea, the ideas.
Gandhi goes on to write, This is what the reporter

Kolkata firing was worse

than Jallianwala Bagh
massacre: Inquiry
Commission
Dubbing the police firing at the Youth Congress rally near Metro
Cinema in central Kolkata in which 13 Youth Congress activists
were killed on 21 July, 1993, as worse than Jallianwala Bagh
massacre of 1919, the chairman of the inquiry commission,
Justice (retd.) Sushanta Chatterjee said on 29 December that
there is no place of such incidents in a democratic country.
Justice Chatterjee told the media that the commission has
recommended a compensation of Rs 25 lakh for the family
members of each victim, who had been killed in the incident
and Rs 5 lakh for the family members of each injured person.
The one-man commission also said that control room officers
were responsible and overacted to please their political bossesThere was no necessity to resort to firing that caused the
death of 13 persons, Mr Chatterjee said.
The Commission was set up by the Mamata Banerjee gov-

has put in my mouth All that I can say is that it

is a travesty of what I have always said and held.
He goes on to explain, I am, then, not against
conversion. But I am against the modern methods
of it. Conversions nowadays have become a matter of business, like any other Every nation considers its own faith to be as good as that of any
other. Certainly, the great faiths held by the people
of India are adequate for her people. India stands
in no need of conversions from one faith to another. And then he goes on to list the faiths of India,
Apart from Christianity and Judaism, Hinduism
and its offshoots, Islam and Zoroastrianism are
living faiths.
As Gandhi opposed the divisive agenda of
communal forces, which were using identity of
religions for political purposes, Gandhi, in contrast, was stressing the morality of religions to
unite the people. While he was leading the anticolonial struggle the communalists were spitting
fire against the other community and Shuddhi
(Arya Samaj) and Tanzim (Tablighi Jammat)
was part of their political agenda in the early part
of twentieth century. The Hindu religion is not a
prophet-based religion, so the concept of conversion is not there. In most prophet-based religions
the call for spreading the divine word is there. So,
earlier Arya Samaj coined the word Shuddhi,
which was for forcible conversion into Hinduism.
RSS improvised on that and coined Ghar Wapsi as
a clever move to hide its intent.
Its claim that it is undertaking Ghar vapasi to
bring the religious minorities in the mainstream is
a hoax as the minorities had been equal participants in the movement for Indias freedom, a
struggle from which RSS remained aloof, barring
one exception. To claim that adivasis are Hindus
does not hold water as Adivasis are animists,
believing in nature worship, and in the spirit of
their ancestors and spirit of Nature. All over the
world, indigenous people hold similar belief and
have similar practices. This is unlike Hinduism
where Gita, Ram and Acharya are the core of its
belief.
The central point is that RSS does not recognise Indian nationalism and holds on to Hindu
nationalism and the manoeuvre for this conversion is being passed off as Ghar Wapsi while dubbing other conversions as forcible. Rather than
recognizing the qualitative change in the formation
of India as the nation state, it is stuck to the pastoral-feudal-preindustrial society with the values of
caste and gender hierarchy. An intimidating and
fraudulent atmosphere is being created by Ghar
Wapsi votaries to execute the forcible conversions. This is a frightening message to religious
minorities. This is a clever manipulation of political
power to violate the norms of Indian Constitution.
The Constituent Assembly had discussed
the right to practise and propagate ones religion.
In the debate the word used is converting others.
Where is the place for people volunteering and
adopting another religion, like Ambedkar and so
many others?
The heroes of Hindutva like Yogi Adityanath
are saying that those being subjected to Ghar
Wapsi will be given the gotra and caste from
which they converted. So, come what may, the
caste structure and old rigidities remain and thrive.
Do we need laws to ban conversions? We
have laws to punish those who indulge in force,
fraud and allurement. What we need is to distinguish between voluntary conversion and forced
ones. Ghar Wapsi is a shrewd name for forcible
conversions. The so-called Freedom of Religion
bills are there not to provide freedom of conscience but to curb it by legal means. .

ernment on 21 July, 2011. Miss Banerjee, who was the then

Youth Congress president, had called for a march to Writers
Buildings (state administrative headquarters) on 21 July, 1993,
demanding mandatory use of voter identity cards for exercising
franchise alleging that the CPI(M)-led Left Front government
indulged in large-scale rigging of elections.
Seventy-five rounds of bullets were fired by the police,
which had caused a nationwide uproar at the time. However, no
individuals name was mentioned in the inquiry report, prepared by a police officer, as responsible for ordering the firing
and no policemans name has been disclosed who had fired at
the protesters. The Commission has found that the officials in
the Home department and police officers of Kolkata Police
Control Room failed to discharge their duty in saving the lives
as guaranteed by the Constitution and in protecting the right to
demonstrate peacefully.
The 700-page report has revealed that Special Force had
started firing at the protesters, and the policemen got the order
of firing from the Control Room. The commission said all the
documents of the police inquiry were destroyed. The commission has also recommended a further inquiry into this matter.

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Moderation emphasised in inter-faith dialogue

New Delhi: A 2-day workshop on Inter-faith Dialogue was jointly
organised in Delhi by the world organisation Interfaith Coalition
for Peace, Zakat Foundation of India, Islamic Studies Association
and the Christian organisation Henry Martin Institute of Islamic
Studies in which scholars of Hinduism, Islam and Christianity and
students too participated and expressed their views. The basic
objective of this workshop was to explain and share the messages
and teachings of religious books for world peace, respect for other
religions and promotion of humanism and to spread these messages to others for following those teachings in their practical life.
The workshop started with the recitation of the Qurans Surah
Fatihah and its explanation in English by Ghulam Rasool Dehlvi,
who is a teacher in Delhis Jamia Hazrat Nizamuddin. He said that
the meaning of the right path in the Quran is that Muslims must
not adopt the path of extremism in any field of life, always adopt
the path of moderation and should not compromise with any thing
prohibited by Islam and those which are un-Islamic. He further
said that today the importance of following the path of moderation
has all the more increased because some narrow minded and
fanatic elements are indulging in forcible religious conversion,
thereby promoting religious extremism. Such kind of thinking
gives rise to extremist ideologies which is making our country and
religion a matter of ridicule and the laughing stock in the world and
if today scholars and intellectuals of all religions do not contradict
and discourage it, tomorrow their own meetings will become like
a battle field and place of massacre. He said that all revealed
scriptures have given the message of peace and moderation. If we
do not agree with the views and ideologies of others we should
present to them our views politely and with convincing and clear
arguments. We must not try to thrust our views on others.
Scholars of other religions recited excerpts from their religious
books and explained their meaning in English. Vidya Jyoti College
Delhis director and a torch-bearer of Muslim-Christian relations,
Father Victor Edwin recited two verses from the Bible which contain messages of world peace and international brotherhood. Delhi
Universitys former Professor of Sanskrit Mrs. Deepali Bhanot
read out some lines and bhajans from the Gita and by explaining
their meaning in English gave Hinduisms message of peace and
international brotherhood and understanding.
In this workshop followers and believers as well as students
of different religions and faiths took part and while expressing their
doubts and ignorance about many things about other religions
tried to understand the true and clear messages of other faiths.
They also resolved to know more about other religions, spread
their messages to others and also to follow the teachings of tolerance, moderation and mutual brotherhood in their daily life. All the
arrangements in this workshop and representation of other religions were made jointly by a central team consisting of Ghulam
Rasool Dehlvi, Mrs Deepali Bhanot and Father Victor Edwin.

Mushawarat condemns the attack

on Paris magazine office
New Delhi: We unreservedly condemn the coward terrorist attack
on a Paris magazines office in which a dozen innocent people lost
their precious lives, said Dr Zafarul-Islam Khan, national president of the All India Muslim Majlis-e Mushawarat, apex body of
Indian Muslim organisations. Commenting on the Paris incident,

Dr. Khan said on 8 January that Islam and Muslims reject murder
of innocents of any faith or nationality. He said, only courts of law
are authorised to sentence people and only a properly constituted
Muslim state can declare Jihad.
Dr Khan said that faceless individuals and clandestine organisations do not have power to dispense justice and take lives. This
is the neo-Kharijite ideology which is rejected by an overwhelming majority of Muslims all over the world. He added that at the
same time we condemn terror unleashed by western powers and
Zionist occupiers of Palestine which motivates misguided individuals and outfits to take the law in their own hands. He added that
freedom of expression must be respected in all civilised societies
but it should be limited to constructive criticism and should not
abuse icons and scriptures held sacred by believers of different
faiths.

Central Govt plans to deport illegal

Bangladeshis
In Assam, around 36 thousand alleged illegal Bangladeshi immigrants have been recognized and their names will be deleted from
voters lists. Out of these, 2,447 Bangladeshis were sent back and
deportation of the rest is under process. But the government does
no have any authorised data of the illegal Bangladeshis in India.
This information was provided by the Union Ministry of Home
Affairs in a recently-submitted affidavit in the Supreme Court
regarding Bangladeshi immigrants in India. In the affidavit, the
ministry has provided the details of illegal immigrants of
Bangladesh and Pakistan who had come to India before and after
1971. Besides, the home ministry has also explained the process
of stopping infiltration across Bangladesh border and the procedure of sending back the illegal migrants.
In the affidavit, referring to the report of Assam government
regarding illegal Bangladeshi immigrants, it was said that 767,927
cases were identified till 31 July, 2014, and the investigation of
754,820 cases was complete. The ministry has said in its affidavit
that 419,258 cases have been sent to the Illegal Migrants
Determination Tribunal Act (IMDT) tribunal and foreigners tribunal. The tribunal has settled 187,294 cases pronouncing 35,969
immigrants as illegal. The tribunal has ordered to delete the names
of these illegal immigrants from voters lists. Out of the said number, the tribunal has accepted 64,594 people to be citizens of
India.
According to the report submitted by the Ministry of Home
Affairs, 53,222 immigrants have not been recognized yet, while
2,447 immigrants have been deported from India and 231,964
cases are still pending in the tribunal. This is a clear climb-down
from earlier claims. It may be recalled that the UPA government
had informed Rajya Sabha on 14 July, 2004 that there were 1.20
crore illegal Bangladeshi immigrants living in India.

Congress silence on conversions

Congress always claims to be a secular political party, but it has
ignored the issue of conversions raging across the country. The
party has given instructions to its leaders to keep quiet on the
issue of conversion. The party seems to be divided on the issue.
One group thinks that voice should be raised against the RSS and
VHP on the issue of conversions, while others feel that they

Three mosques reclaimed in Punjab

and Haryana after 67 years

Muslims of Hans Kalan village near Jagraon tehsil in Punjab offered prayers again on 21 December
in a mosque which had been under illegal occupation for the past 67 years. A spokesman of Majlis
Ahrar-e Islam said that the mosque had been illegally occupied since partition. A family had occupied this mosque and had been living there for the last ten years. But after the efforts of Shahi Imam
of Punjab, Maulana Habibur Rahman Sani Ludhianavi, who took initiative when two Muslim families living in the village approached him to restore the dignity of the mosque. Maulana Habibur
Rahman with the help of local Sikhs and Hindus succeeded to get mosque vacated and helped to
reconstruct it.
A resident of the village, Ajayeb Singh, said that he used to visit this mosque during his childhood days but it ceased to function as a mosque after partition. After offering the Namaz, Maulana
Habibur Rahman said that those who were trying to create communal hatred should learn the
Hindu-Muslim unity and love from this incidence. Sarpanch of the village, Gurdeep Singh, presented a memento to Maulana Habibur Rahman on this occasion.
In a similar incident, a mosque in Ambalas Tandoora Bazar was reclaimed last month through
the efforts of Jamiat Shah Waliullah of Phulat. Prayer was offered here for the first time since partition on 15 December.
In a third incident of this kind, a mosque in Panipat was vacated on 5 December last year when
Shyam Lal. who was occupying it since the last 65 years, agreed to vacate it after he was paid an
amount to compensate him for the structure he had built there. This was achieved by local Muslims
who were supported by local Hindu leaders including Ram Kishan and Babu Ram. Five- times
prayers have been resumed in this mosque. (Jawed Akhter)

should be silent on the matter. Even Sonia Gandhi and Rahul

Gandhi are undecided on this issue. The Congress party is not
paying attention to the Muslim leadership in the party, and it has
already sidelined senior Muslim leaders. According to sources,
the chief of media section of the Congress party, Ajay Makan, has
instructed all spokespersons not to speak on the issue of conversion nor participate in television discussions on the topic.
Those who represent the secular face of Congress are Mani
Shankar Iyer, Digvijay Singh, Jyoti Raje Scindia, Sachin Pilot. On
the issue of conversion only Jyoti Raje Scindia has participated in
a TV discussion. The party says that it was his own decision
which the party does not support.
Secular faces of the Congress party believe that any attack on
secularism should be condemned unequivocally, and 25 crore
Muslims should not be ignored. On the other hand, non-secular
faces of the Congress party think that the party should maintain a
distance from the Muslim community issues as the ruling party is
always trying to communalise society to consolidate its Hindu
vote-bank. When Congress party leader Meem Afzal was asked
about the said instructions, his answer was ambiguous. He further said that the issue of conversion was raised by the Congress
in the Parliament, and that is why the proposed conversion in
Aligarh was banned by the SP government.

Ramjanambhoomi-Babri Masjid
dispute was nearly resolved,
claims Akhara Parishad
The President of All India Akhara Parishad, Gyan Das of Ayodhya,
has claimed that the controversy over Ram Mandir and Babri
Masjid was resolved just after the verdict of the Allahabad High
Court in 2010. He said that after having consultation with Hashim
Ansari, one of the oldest litigants in Babri Masjid case, all groups
had agreed to a resolution which was about to be signed. In the
meantime, the efforts to resolve the issue were thwarted by BJP
MP, Vinay Katiyar, and the leader of Vishwa Hindu Parishad, Ashok
Singhal, who did not want Ram Mandir to be constructed as they
were doing only politics. On 2 December last year when Hashim
Ansari threatened to withdraw from the case, tired over the neverending lawsuit, the chances of an out-of-court settlement became
uncertain. Recently he has written a letter to Narendra Modi and
asked him to bring a solution acceptable to both the parties.
Attempt for an out-of-the-court settlement should be made to
bring about a consensus of opinion between Hindus and Muslims
so that a resolution to the dispute could be found soon, Hashim
Ansari said in his letter. Hashim Ansari, 96, is not the lone voice
seeking resolution to the dispute. After the demolition of Babri
Masjid on 6 December, 1992 several attempts were made to
negotiate peace. But there was no breakthrough as both sides
stuck to their obstinate positions claiming their exclusive right to
the disputed land.
On 30 September, 2010, the Allahabad High Court gave its
verdict to trifurcate the 1,500 sqm of disputed land into Ramlala,
Nirmohi Akhara and Central Sunni Waqf board, but it was not
accepted by any side. Mahant Gyan Das and Hashim Ansari feel
that leaders from both communities are not serious about the
issue and are using this only for their political benefit.

MG News Desk

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people of Kashmir

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REMARKABLE PROGRESS, BUT NOT ENOUGH

The proportion of Muslim girls attaining First-Division has gone up from
one in a thousand to 775 in a thousand. Then why should we not be too
happy? Because, now, First-Division only means what pass meant four
decades ago. In fact less, because only 59% Muslim girls had passed in 1976
while 77.5 % have got First-Division in 2014.
NUSRAT SHERVANI
In 1976, we launched our scheme to raise academic
standards in and improve board examination results
of Muslim girls inter colleges in Uttar Pradesh. That
year, from 18 girls colleges, 1026 Muslim girls had
appeared in the XII board examination, 605 or 59%
had passed and one Muslim girl (yes, ONLY ONE in
more than a thousand Muslim girls) had attained
First-Division. From the same 18 colleges, 387 nonMuslim girls had appeared in the same XII board
examination, 260 or 67.2% had passed and eight or
2.1% (or, about TWENTY-ONE in a thousand) had
attained First-Division. So, Muslim girls were TWENTY-ONE TIMES behind non-Muslim girls in this
respect in 1976. Muslim girls were the backwardmost of the most backward in education.
Thirty-nine years later, in 2014, from 23 girls
colleges of UP, 2627 Muslim girls appeared for the XII
board examination, 2510 or 95.5% passed and 2036
or 77.5% attained First-Division. Now, 77.5% means
775 per thousand. From the same 23 colleges, 806
non-Muslim girls appeared in the XII 2014 board
examination, 802 or 99.5% passed and 672 or 83.4
% attained First-Division which means 834 per thousand. Muslim girls are still phisaddee but the extent of
their phisaddi-pan has reduced from twenty-one
times (or two-thousand-one-hundred per cent) in
1976 to less than 8% in 2014.
Then should we be happy? Yes, a little but not too
much. The number of Muslim girls getting FirstDivision has increased from one in 1976 to two-thousand-and-thirty-six in 2014. The proportion of
Muslim girls attaining First-Division has gone up from

one in a thousand to 775 in a thousand. Then why

should we not be too happy? Because, now, FirstDivision only means what pass meant four decades
ago. In fact less, because only 59 % Muslim girls had
passed in 1976 while 77.5 % have got First-Division
in 2014.
Now we count how many are attaining at-least 75%
marks in the XII board examination. Todays 75 percent
marks may be roughly equal to 60 % marks of 1976.
In 2014, from 23 girls colleges of UP, 321/2627
or 12.2% Muslim girls attained 75% or more marks in
the XII board examination while 270/ 806 or 33.5%
non-Muslim girls attained 75% or more marks. So,
Muslim girls are still about THREE-TIMES behind nonMuslim girls in this respect. Not as bad as being
twenty-one times behind but certainly not good
enough to be too happy about.
On 29 November, 2014, we were in a village Sheikhpur
Jafar in district Faizabad, attending the annual function of the
Jafar Memorial Girls Inter College. From this college, 65
Muslim girls appeared in the XII board examination 2014, all
or 100% passed in First-Division and 60/65 or 92.3%
attained 75% or more marks. We had the pleasure, the privilege, the honour, of presenting the MAHARANI YASHO
RAJYA LAKSHMI MEMORIAL AWARD to this college. This
was our respectful tribute to the memory of a most noble
lady who always helped, encouraged and inspired us in our
efforts to promote the education of Muslim girls.
Also, we expect that this will further enthuse the
dear students, the learned lecturers and the esteemed
management of this college to go ahead even faster
and higher. And we also wish, hope and pray that the
exemplary result of this college will give a spurt to


efforts for improvement in our other colleges.

Mumbai-attack
revisited
JAWED AKHTER
The recent revelations of New York Times, ProPublica and the PBS
series Frontline show that US, UK and India had 26/11 intelligence
which together could have prevented the deadly terror attack in
Mumbai on that fateful day in 2008.
According to the classified documents made public by Edward
Snowden, the former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor,
former American and Indian officials did not know that by
September, the British were spying on many of Lashkar-Toiba technology chief Zarrar Shahs on-line activities, tracking his Internet
searches and messages. The hidden history of the Mumbai
attacks reveals the vulnerability as well as the strengths of computer surveillance and intercepts as a counter-terrorism weapon.
Zarrar Shah and his fellow conspirators used Google Earth to
show militants the routes to their targets in Mumbai. He set up an
Internet phone system to disguise his location by outing his calls
through New Jersey. Shortly before the assault that would kill 166
people, Shah searched online for a Jewish hostel and two luxury
hotels, all sites of the strikes in Mumbai.
Shah drew similar scrutiny from an Indian intelligence agency,
according to a former official. The US was unaware of the two
agencies efforts, but had picked up signs of a plot through other
electronic and human sources, and had warned Indian security
officials several times in the months before the attack. What happened next may rank among the most devastating near-misses in
the history of spycraft.
The intelligence agencies of the three nations did not pull
together all the strands gathered by their high-tech surveillance
and other tools, which would have allowed them to disrupt the terror strike. US spy agencies also alerted their British counterparts.
It is unclear if the warnings led to the targeting of Shahs communications, but by the fall of 2008, the British had found a way to
monitor LeTs digital networks. So had the Indians. But until the
attack, there was no communication between these two countries

Health

XII 2014 Total Results

Regd Appr D
I
49
49
8
48
158 156
20 146
177 177
22 174
92
92
10
67
281 276
24 152
119 119
10 105
149 149
12 136
112 112
9
66
247 247
13 219
185 185
6 140
76
75
2
22
135 132
76
12 1780 1769 136 1351
XII 2014 Muslim Girls
Regd Appr D
I
65
17
17
97
67
195
129
62
67
135
20

65
17
15
97
67
194
122
59
67
135
20

11 871 858
23 2651 2627

60
13
9
55
10
19
11
4
2
2

II

III

1
10
3
24
120
14
13
37
27
45
46
56
396

II

155
49
197
47
9
25
315
1
1
5
2

1
5
10

In Order Of Dictinction %
Pass Pass% FD% D%

III

65
17
15
94
67
148
80
52
42
87
18

44
36
7
25
44
2

1
4

185 685
321 2036

160
556

XII 2014 Non-Muslim Girls

Regd Appr D
I
II
155
49
198
47
10
25
315
1
1
5
2

4
0

122
33
84
19
1
1
10

155
49
182
40
9
22
209
1
1
4

In Order Of Distinction %
31 .12.2014
Pass Pass% FD% D%
College, Place
49 100.0 98.0 16.3 H M S Islamia, Etawah
156 100.0 93.6 12.8 e Talimuddin Niswan, Mau
177 100.0 98.3 12.4 Aliya Girls, Mau
91 98.9 72.8 10.9 National, Sultanpur
276 100.0 55.1
8.7 Hamidia, Allahabad
119 100.0 88.2
8.4 Sir Syed Girls IC, Bahraich
149 100.0 91.3
8.1 Shamsi, Rampur
103 92.0 58.9
8.0 Faiz, Sarai Tareen, Sambhal
247 100.0 88.7
5.3 Abdus Salam, Moradabad
185 100.0 75.7
3.2 National, Varanasi
73 97.3 29.3
2.7 Binatul Quraish, Moradabad
132 100.0 57.6
0.0 Nwb Mhmud Ansari, Smbhl
1757 99.3 76.4
7.7 Only Muslim Girls

100.0
100.0
100.0
100.0
100.0
99.5
98.4
100.0
100.0
98.5
100.0

100.0
100.0
100.0
96.9
100.0
76.3
65.6
88.1
62.7
64.4
90.0

92.3
76.5
60.0
56.7
14.9
9.8
9.0
6.8
3.0
1.5
0.0

Jafar Mem, Jaganpur, Fzbd

Lourdes Convent, Ghazipur
Imamia, Rasra, Ballia
Begum Khair, Basti
Jameatul Hasanat
Maulana Azad, Moradabad
Ghous Memorial, Allahabad
TRS, Salahpur, Allahabad
Muslim Qudrat Gr, Seohara
Basanti Devi, Deoli, B'Shahr
Al-Qadeer, Sambhal

8 853
18 2610

99.4
99.4

79.8
77.5

21.6
12.2

Muslim girls
Muslim girs in 12 &11

In Order Of Dictinction %
Pass Pass% FD% D%

III

14
7
3
101

1
2

155
49
196
47
9
25
312
1
1
5
2

100.0
100.0
99.5
100.0
100.0
100.0
99.0
100.0
100.0
100.0
100.0

100.0
100.0
92.4
85.1
100.0
88.0
66.3
100.0
100.0
80.0
0.0

78.7
67.3
42.6
40.4
11.1
4.0
3.2
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0

College,

31 .12.2014
Place

Lourdes Convent, Ghazipur

Jafar Mem, Jaganpur, Fzbd
Begum Khair, Basti
Imamia, Rasra, Ballia
TRS, Salahpur, Allahabad
Maulana Azad, Moradabad
Basanti Devi, Deoli, B'Shahr
Jameatul Hasanat
Al-Qadeer, Sambhal
Muslim Qudrat Gr, Seohara
Ghous Memorial, Allahabad

11 808 806 270 672 128

2 802 99.5 83.4 33.5 Non-Muslim girls
From the first twelve colleges only Muslim girls appeared in th XII board examination 2014.
From eleven colleges Muslim and Non-Muslim girls appeared.girls appeared.
Only 7.7% Muslim girls got 75% or marks in 12 "pure" Muslim colleges.
21.6% Muslim girls got 75% or more marks in 11 colleges where they studied with Non-Muslim girls.

on the matter.
Not long after the British gained access to his communications, Shah contacted a New Jersey company, posing online as an
Indian reseller of telephone services named Kharak Singh, purporting to be based in Mumbai. His Indian persona started haggling
over the price of a voice-over-internet phone service (VoIP) that
had been chosen because it would make calls between Pakistan
and the terrorists in Mumbai appear as if they were originating in
Austria and New Jersey. If Shah made any attempt to hide his
malevolent intentions, he did not have much success at it. He
repeatedly displayed some key interests: small-scale warfare,
secret communications, tourist and military locations in India,
extremist ideology and Mumbai. He searched for Sun Tzus Art of
War, previous terror strikes in India and weather forecasts in the
Arabian Sea, typed 4 star hotel in delhi and taj hotel, and visited mapsofindia.com to pore over sites in and around Mumbai,
the documents show.
Ajmal Kasab, the only terrorist who survived the Mumbai
attacks, watched Shah display some of his technical prowess. In
mid-September, Shah and fellow plotters used Google Earth and
other material to show Kasab and nine other young Pakistani terrorists their targets in Mumbai, according to court testimony.
Still, the sheer scale of Zarrars ambition might have served as
a smokescreen for his focus on the city. For example, he also
showed interest in Kashmir, the Indian Punjab, New Delhi,
Afghanistan and the United States Army in Germany and Canada.
He constantly flipped back and forth among Internet porn and
entertainment sites while he was carrying out his work.
In November, 2008, the VoIPs companys owner wrote to the
fictitious Indian reseller complaining that no traffic was running on
the digital phone network. Shahs reply was ominous, according to
Indian law enforcement officials, who obtained evidence from the
companys communications records with FBI assistance after the
attack. By 24 November, Shah had moved to the Karachi suburbs,
where he set up an electronic control room with the help of an
Indian militant named Abu Jundal, according to his later confession to the Indian authorities. It was from this room that Mir, Shah
and others would issue minute-by-minute instructions to the
assault team once the attacks began. On Nov. 25, Abu Jundal tested the VoIP software on four laptops spread out on four small
tables facing a pair of televisions as the plotters, including Mir,
Shah and Lakhvi, waited for the killings to begin.
Before the attacks started on 26 November, the documents

ficient. Then the only thing they have to do is

eat, sit and sleep. This is the reason for abnormal weight gain in human beings. Over-weight
is the cause of numerous diseases like diabetes
and hypertension. If men become prey to these
diseases once, they cannot get rid of them till
the last minute of their life. They can continue
living by taking medicines regularly. The doctors
also instruct them to control their diet and bodyweight.

31 .12.2014
Place

65
17
15
97
67
193
120
59
67
133
20

show, Shah pulled up Google images of the Oberoi Hotel that

evening that evening and conducted Wikimapia searches for the
Taj and the Chabad House, the Jewish hostel run by an American
rabbi from Brooklyn who would die in the strike along with his
pregnant wife. Mr. Shah opened the hostels website. He began
Googling news coverage of Mumbai just before the attacks began.
Analysis of Zarrar Shahs viewing habits and other data
yielded several locations in Mumbai well before the attacks
occurred and showed operations planning for initial entry points
into the Taj Hotel, the NSA document said. That viewing history
also revealed a longer list of what might have been future targets.
A top secret document of GCHQ (Government
Communications Headquarters), Britains eavesdropping agency,
described the capture of information on targets that Mr. Shah had
identified using Google Earth.
On November 30, Anish Goel, director for South Asia at the
National Security Council in the White House, sat in his office,
reading a stack of intelligence reports that had accumulated on his
desk and reviewing classified electronic messages on a secure
terminal. In the intelligence reports, one name did not appear, Goel
clearly recalls: David Coleman Headley. None of the intelligence
streams from the US, Britain and India had yet identified him as a
conspirator.
About a week later, Mr. Headley hinted at his inside information in an email to fellow alumnus of a Pakistani military school.
Writing about the young terrorists who carried out the mayhem in
Mumbai, he said: Yes they were only 10 kids, guaranteed. I hear
2 were married with a daughter each under 3 years old. His subsequent emails contained several dozen news media photos of the
Mumbai siege. Mr. Headley also exchanged highly suspicious
emails with his Lashkar and ISI handlers before and after the
Mumbai attacks, according to court records and American counterterrorism officials. The NSA collected some of his emails, but
did not realize he was involved in terrorist plotting until he became
the target of an FBI investigation.
Kasab was executed after a trial. Although Pakistan denies
any role in the attacks, it has failed to charge an ISI officer and
Mir, who were indicted by American prosecutors. Though Shah
and other Lashkar chiefs had been arrested, their trial remains
stalled for six years after the attack. Moreover, the recent incidence of granting bail to Zakiur-Rahman Lakhvi, an accused in
Mumbai terror attack, triggered furious response from India and
Pakistani prosecutors.

Change your life style to save your life

The maintenance of body weight is very important as far as the health fitness is concerned.
People who have got abnormal weight are susceptible to diseases very easily. The reason for
abnormal body weight is life style. In todays life
style men can perform their work without much
exertion and for conveyance they can rely on
their own vehicles and other alternatives. They
have no need to walk to reach their destinations.
To make things available just a phone call is suf-

College,

Hence if people can control their body-weight

by controlling their diet in advance they can
avoid the intake of medicines and thereby they
can save themselves from many side-effects
and save financially also.
People can control their body-weight by
means of exercises, daily walk and diet control. By controlling weight they can always
feel rejuvenated and free of various health
problems. By reducing body-weight, the

excess fat content in the body will be

removed considerably. This will enable people to bring cholesterol under desirable level.
Cholesterol is the killer, causing heart blockages and thereby cardiac arrest. Hence this is
required to avoid various heart problems. If
the cholesterol level can be brought under
control, blood pressure also can be minimized ideally. In this way by reducing excess
body-weight, all major diseases can be kept
away and this will enable men to lead a comfortable and healthy life.

JUNAID TAHIR

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Communal forces
run riot during Eid
Miladun Nabi
JAWED AKHTER
After BJP came to power at the centre, incidents of communal
violence and riots are taking place regularly. Frequent attacks on
minorities especially Muslims and Christians have increased
creating communal tension in different parts of the country. After
a clash between youth on the occasion of Eid Miladun Nabi in
Lal Bagh and Parel area of Mumbai, police registered complaint
on 5 January against 50-60 people for provoking violence and
interfering in the work of police. Police said that a \clash took
place at around 8 pm on 4 January near Bharatmata Junction
which later led to violence. Mumbai police commissioner,
Rakesh Maria said that police with the help of six mobile service-providers have been appealing to people to maintain peace
and not heed to rumours. He further said that no arrest has yet
been made in this case, though he accepted that during the clash
6-8 persons received injuries. Additional police commissioner,
RD Shinde said that stone-pelting happened not only in Lal Bagh
and Parel, but also the areas of Worli and Byculla were tense due
to sporadic clashes.
Miscreants are now using social networking sites to incite
communal tension in Mumbai and its suburbs. Mumbai police are
trying to find out the culprit who posted distorted and offensive
pictures on whatsapp, and abusive comments on facebook and
twitter. The culprits can be booked under IT Act and Mumbai
Police Act.
Maulana Moyeen Miyan said that some Muslim youth
behaved irresponsibly and immorally during the procession which
was one of reasons of the clashes. Vice Chairman of Khilafat
House, Sarfaraz Aarzoo, said that the pictures posted on social
media had nothing to do with real incidents, and this should be
investigated properly.
About 10 people, including children and policemen, received
minor injuries and nine vehicles were set on fire in a clash at
Giridih towns Barwadih locality on 4 January. The clash took
place after stones were thrown at a procession taken out as a part
of Prophet Muhammads birth anniversary celebrations. The miscreants damaged several shops in Muslim market. There were
about 15-20 minutes of stone-pelting when the procession was
winding down in Barwadih under Mufassil police station. Seven
bikes and two four-wheelers were set on fire and two other buses
were damaged. Some people, including children and some personnel, received injuries, according to a police statement.
Violence also erupted near Nayi Ki Mandi in Agra on the eve
of Prophet Mohammad birth anniversary when a religious procession was taken out by the Muslim community. Violence started
when two communities clashed on the issue of electricity wires
which were touched by the decorated trucks of the procession.
Stone-pelting and firing started in which eight people were injured.
Two people received bullet injuries in the firing. Hardly this tensedsituation died down that another clash took place in Nai Ki Mandi.
The people of two communities resorted to stone-pelting and firing for an hour. People from the Muslim community blamed police
for one-sided action. Police controlled the situation by firing rubber bullets. PAC forces were deployed to control the situation. SP
city, Sameer Saurav, confirmed that the procession was attacked
with stone-pelting in Phoolwali Gali near Nai Ki Mandi. He said
police lodged an FIR while another complaint was lodged by the
procession committee. Police have submitted its initial report
which blamed unknown miscreants for the clashes and arrest of
half a dozen in this connection.

Leadership

Weve all heard a great deal about the power

of positive thinking. Organizations encourage
it among their employees in an effort to boost
performance and engagement, and its a key
tenet of managing yourself well; affirmative
messages about perseverance, resilience,
and vision adorn many an office wall.

In the wake of the Great Recession,

some businesses even hired happiness
coaches to get their workers looking on the
bright side. And an optimistic attitude is
expected of leaders; politicians and corporate executives should always have that
think it-do it spirit on display.
Theres just one problem, however.
Research my colleagues and I have performed over the past two decades suggests
that positive thinking doesnt actually help
us as much as we suppose.
In fact, across dozens of peer-reviewed
studies examining the effects of positive
visions of the future on people pursuing various kinds of wishes - from health-related,
such as losing weight, quitting smoking, or
recovering quickly from surgery, to the

In another incident, a procession was attacked in Lal

Gopalganj, Allahabad, with stone-pelting on 4 January at around 2
pm. People started throwing stones from roofs as the procession
reached Sadar inter-section, which caused stampede. Rioters
resorted to ransacking Muslims shops in Sattar market.
Miscreants damaged dozens of shops, bikes and cars. SDM
Soraon, Alok Verma, was injured in the clash and was rushed to
a hospital. The ransacking and damaging continued for almost
two hours in the town.
Balrampur district of UP was also gripped by violence when a
procession was blocked by miscreants and was not allowed to

came out on the road with arms and fired. Many people from both
the communities received injuries. Police arrested Haneef Quraishi
and were looking for some other miscreants.
Marriage-halls in Khurja, 120 kms away from Delhi, are not
being rented to Muslims. Most of these halls are controlled by the
Banias. JDU leader, Ali Anwar, expressed his concern over the
issue and asked secular people to come forward against the hate
campaign. President of All India Muslim Majlis Mushawarat, Dr.
Zafarul Islam Khan termed this illegal. He appealed that the people
should knock the doors of courts for justice as the Blacks did in
the US against racial discrimination. Chairperson of Jamia
A scene from Giridih riot Teachers Solidarity Association, Manisha Sethi, also appealed
to the secular sections of society to come out on roads against
these hate-mongers.
Gujrat police issued an order before Eid Miladun Nabi,
instructing Muslims in Banaskantha district not to come out with
green flags while taking out processions during Prophet
Muhammad birth anniversary celebrations. Though police gave
permission to take out a procession in Palanpur town, there
were 16 conditions to be followed by the participants in the procession. Some of the prescribed conditions prohibited green
flag or banner, or use of any such symbols. The conditions also
said that the procession should be wound up within two hours
of its start and loud-speakers should be used at very low intensity.
An incident of damaging Eidgah took place in Firozabad in
the night of 22 November, 2014. Miscreants burnt the belongings of Eidgah which infuriated the youth of the Muslim commumove on towards Karbala. Miscreants attacked people in the pro- nity. But Ulama and elderly people mollified the youth and
cession. The incident took place in the area of Pachpadwa police appealed to the people not to resort to violence as some extremstation.
ist groups were trying to create communal tension in the area.
Another incidenct of damaging procession came up in Bahedi Later, police reached the Eidgah and assured people that the cultown of Bareilly. A truck rammed into a decorated place where cel- prits would be arrested soon.
ebration of Prophet Muhammads birth was going on. The truck
An incident of beating an Imam by DDA personnel happened at
was supposed to stop at Mathur Road but it struck the decoration Qanati masjid in Mehrauli, New Delhi, on 1 January. When Imam of
stage and damaged it. After getting information, ADM Arun Kumar, the mosque, Ashiqullah and gatekeeper, Mohammad Basheer, were
SP RA Brijesh Srivastava and Circle Officer, Bahedi, Arun Kumar praying in the afternoon, personnel of Delhi Development Authority
reached the place. They assured the affected people of compen- (DDA) entered the mosque and prevented them from prayer. DDA persation and a thorough investigation. SSP has suspended five con- sonnel, Rajveer and Sarjan, abused them and said, the mosque-land
stables and said that if inspector of Bahedi was found guilty, belongs to DDA so they should not pray there. They beat up the Imam
action would be taken against him.
and the gatekeeper. This incident was reported to police who failed to
An effort was made to create communal clashes in Mulkpur reach the place. When social worker Hafiz Jawed and governing body
village, Bulandshahar, UP. Some miscreants wrote offensive sen- of the mosque brought this issue to the notice of the Delhi Waqf
tences on a wall here against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Board, Khursheed Alam, waqf board official, requested police to regcow. When this information spread in the village, people started to ister a complaint. It is noteworthy that some land mafias and even
gather at the place. SDM Arun Yadav, Circle Officer Jitender Vijay, DDA are trying to encroach upon this land and the graveyard adjacent
Tehsildar PL Mauriya and Station In-charge Dinesh Vashisht to the mosque as well. Some miscreants had tied their buffalos in the
rushed to the place. Police got the writing erased and tried to con- mosque intending to encroach upon the land. But after the interventrol the situation. With the help of pradhan of the village, Nizam tion of local Muslims and Waqf Board officials, the matter was
Khan, police called a meeting and appealed to the people not to resolved. Waqf Board has appointed the Imam and a gatekeeper to
heed to rumours. They also promised to arrest the culprit soon.
look after the mosque.
Tension also surfaced in Khanak village, Badaun of UP, when the
A small quarrel between youth of two communities in Sarita
six minarets of a 150-year-old mosque were found broken during Vihar, New Delhi, took place on 2 January and soon turned into a
Friday prayer on 2 January. People started to gather at the mosque. clash. Some people with support of RSS and Vishwa Hindu
The in-charge of police station came very late with some labourers to Parishad, tried to communalise the situation by provoking a mob
clean the debris of the mosque. The villagers submitted a written to gherao the police station and to demand serious sections to be
complaint but it was not registered by the police. Similar tension had slapped on Muslim youth. Earlier a similar incident occurred in
gripped this village in 2011 when a mosque and temple were con- nearby Madanpur Khadar village in which around 700 people
structed. Police offered a compromise between the two communities gheraoed the police station and tried to create communal tension
saying that no community would construct any new religious build- in the area.
ing. But, in the violation of the compromise, one community built a
Christians in Madhya Pradesh feel that attacks on their communew religious place just before New Year. Loud speakers were used nity have increased as the BJP took the seat in Centre. Karan
and a party was organised and religious rituals were also performed Bhadaule, a Christian who has been acquitted recently from the
in this building. When this incident was reported to police, they did not charge of conversion, said that we are soft targets. He said that
pay heed.
Christians are accused of alluring people with money to accept
Violence also erupted in Babra village of Bhabhua district in Christianity. Shibu Thomas, member of Ministry of Jesus Christ,
Bihar. Clashes started when two persons, one from the minority accused that attacks on Christian have increased after Mr. Modi came
community and one from Scheduled Caste, were gambling in the to power. Indira Ayenger, President of Madhya Pradesh Christian
night of 1 January. They started to fight and suddenly this small Association said, We are alone. Anything can happen to our priests.


matter turned into a big clash. People from Harijan community Some churches have been closed.

Stop Being So Positive

GABRIELE OETTINGEN

The Milli Gazette, 16-31 January 2015

improvement of professional or academic

performance (for example, mid-level managers wishing to reduce job-related stress,
graduate students looking for a job, or
school children seeking to get good grades)
- weve consistently found that people who
positively fantasize make either the same or
less progress in achieving attainable wishes
than those who dont.
This makes perfect sense, if you think
about it. Dreaming about a successful outcome in the future is pleasurable, leaving
you with a nice, warm feeling of satisfaction.
But in a workplace setting, thats counterproductive. Youre less motivated to buck up
and make the strong, persistent effort that is
usually required to realize challenging but
feasible wishes. In some of our studies, we
found that positive thinking produced measurably lower systolic blood pressure - a key
measure of how energized someone is. In
others, positive thinkers were as likely as
participants in a control group to take easy
steps toward a goal, but significantly less
likely to take more cumbersome and difficult
steps, such as donating meaningful
amounts of their time or money.

Okay, you
might
say,
Forget positive
thinking.
Im
going to dwell on all the daunting challenges I face in my job. But, unfortunately,
dwelling on reality doesnt help much either.
What does help is mental contrasting, an
exercise that brings together our positive
fantasy about the future with a visualization
of the obstacle standing in the way. Even
more beneficial is adding if - then planning
that allows you to address the obstacle
when it arises.
In our research, weve developed a mental contrasting tool called WOOP - Wish,
Outcome, Obstacle, Plan. Heres how it
works: Find a quiet place where you wont
be disturbed, switch off your devices, and
close your eyes. Name a wish that is attainable or realistic for you - say, landing a new
client. Then imagine for a few minutes what
would happen if that wish came true, letting
the images flow freely through your mind.
Then change things up. Identify the main
obstacle inside you that stands in the way,
and imagine it for a few minutes. Now on to
your plan: If faced with obstacle X, then you
will take effective action Y in response.
WOOP is simple, easy, and inexpensive so much so that you might not think it would

work.
After all, behaviour change usually
requires expensive coaching or training programs, right? Our results suggest not. In a
study of health care providers, we found
that those who used WOOP were significantly more engaged with their work and less
stressed than members of a control group.
In studies of college students enrolled in
a vocational business program, we found
that it helped them manage their time better.
And weve also used WOOP to help school
children study more for the PSAT, do more
homework, and get better grades.
Why does it work? Because the process
either helps people understand their wishes
are attainable, giving them energy and direction, heightening their engagement and
prompting them to act; or it helps them realize their wishes are unrealistic, leading them
to disengage and freeing them up to pursue
other, more promising endeavours.
Although positive thinking feels good in
the moment, it often bears a false promise.
Only when its paired with a clear view of
potential obstacles will it consistently produce desirable results.
Gabriele Oettingen is a professor of psychology at
New York University and the University of Hamburg and
the author of Rethinking Positive Thinking: Inside the
New Science of Motivation.

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Political limbo in J&K

AFSANA RASHID
Srinagar: Consultations and deliberations continue as the political
impass over, government formation in Jammu and Kashmir deepens. So far no political party or an alliance has come forward to
stake a claim for formation of government in the state. Omar
Abdullah resigned as caretaker chief minister and governor raj has
been imposed on the state on 9 January though government had
to be put in place by January 19 as the current, 11th State
Legislative Assembly, is scheduled to complete its term on January
20.
Mehbooba Mufti, president Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)
that emerged as the single largest party in the recently concluded
five-phased State Assembly elections held consultations with the
Governor N N Vohra, December 31. Soon after meeting the
Governor, PDP president addressing media at Jammu, described
the poll results decisive but divided mandate and argued that
their priority wasnt to cobble up a majority for the sake of governing. While praising former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayees
vision on Jammu and Kashmir, she said that the mandate was a
big responsibility for Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Hinting at
not being averse to BJP, she added PDP has got a majority in
Kashmir Valley whereas BJP has got majority in Jammu region and
the mandate of the people needs to be respected.
A day later, BJP state president Jugal Kishore Sharma met the
Governor and sought some more time to shape up a stable coalition. Avinash Rai Khanna, partys in-charge for J&K affairs, interacting with media at Jammu, said, Formal talks have just begun
with our prospective alliance partner on various issues and the
result will come soon.
Sharma, December 30, reiterated that the party considers it as
its right to have the next Chief Minister from the party. A delegation
of BJP leaders led by its General Secretary Ram Madhav met the
Governor, December 30. The Governor had, December 26, invited
both PDP president and BJP state president for separate meetings
to hold discussions on government formation. The recently concluded month-long Assembly elections threw up a hung verdict as
no single party could get a simple majority of 44 to form a government on its own. PDP tops the list with 28 seats in the 87-member
Assembly followed by BJP with 25 seats; National Conference 15,
Congress 12 and others seven seats, respectively.
Since the day election results have been out, PDP has been
holding consultations with its party leaders and civil society members to come up with a feasible and workable option. Though
National Conference and Congress have offered their respective
support to the party to form the government, but the party hasnt
yet responded.
The three legislators; Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami, CPI(M)
State Secretary, Hakeem Mohammad Yasin, president Peoples
Democratic Front and Er Sheikh Abdul Rashid, president Awami
Ittehad Party, in a joint statement here, December 31, reiterated
their support to any non-BJP alliance while maintaining that it is in
the best interest of state.
Earlier, Er Rashid, in a press conference here, December 26,
said that he was ready to extend unconditional support to PDPNational Conference alliance. Similarly, Tarigami, addressing media
here December 27 said that BJP today is not BJP, it is pure and
simple RSS and unlike the BJP of old times. Peoples Conference
led by Sajjad Gani Lone pitched for BJP plus alliance as part of next
government, December 30. According to him the other option is
new polls and all other options are fragile and unstable.

A grand alliance proposed by senior Congress leader and

Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha, Ghulam Nabi Azad has been
termed as betrayal of the public mandate by BJP state president.
According to Azad, a grand alliance between the trio (PDP,
National Conference and Congress) would not only give a stable
government but would represent all regions of the state. He further
stated that with support from independents and others, an alliance
would have more than 3/4 majority and PDP patron Mufti
Mohammad Sayeed would be the Chief Minister for a full term of
six years.
The outgoing Chief Minister and National Conferences
Working President Omar Abdullah, who is currently in London
where his father and party president Dr. Farooq Abdullah is recovering after a successful kidney transplant surgery, is expected to
chair a crucial meet here on January 7. Omar has already given
mandatory approval for the constitution of 12th Jammu and
Kashmir Legislative Assembly, after which the State Law
Department issued a notification for constituting 12th Legislative
Assembly. Under the state constitution, the Assembly has to be
constituted by the State Law Department, while in other states, the
notification about constituting assemblies is issued by the Election
Commission of India. Besides, defections that are common in
other states, especially when there is no clear majority for any
party, is not an option for parties in Jammu and Kashmir to
increase their strength as the state has its own anti-defection law,
which prevents elected representatives from defying their party
whip.
Formation of government in the state has been a hot topic
among local populace as well. People are seen discussing the
issue at tea-stalls, restaurants, offices, public places, drawing
rooms, social networking sites and other places.
Political observers here stress for an alliance of PDP and BJP
arguing that BJP has got all its seats from Jammu region and ignoring that reality would be suicidal. Similarly, PDP has the maximum
share of votes from the Kashmir region. There are some observers
who feel that under such circumstances, Congress, which bagged
three out of four seats in Ladakh region, too should get some representation in government formation.
Political pundits further argue that PDP is caught in a dilemma
wherein on one hand, theyve to ally with Congress, National
Conference and others and on the other hand with the BJP.
Selecting an option is a bit complex as National Conference is its
arch rival and the party has a bitter experience of being in coalition
with Congress (from 2002 to 2008). Allying with BJP might help
them in maintaining cordial relationship between the Centre and
State but a section of PDP leaders argue that Kashmir has outrightly voted against BJP and any attempts to ally with the party,
will hand over an edge to their rivals. Interestingly, BJP has failed
to open its account from the Valley.
It is a catch-22 like situation for PDP where the ball lies in its
court. Without disclosing its cards, the party has been exploring
options to form a new government in the state. Accepting support
from National Conference has been a debatable issue within the
party itself. The partys national spokesperson Dr Sameer Koul,
December 26, said that it is dead impossible for the party to form
a government with National Conference as people have voted to
keep them out of power. But at the same time the partys senior
leader and legislator from Amirakadal constituency in Srinagar district Syed Mohammad Altaf Bukhari has said that the party has no
problem in taking the support of anybody, including National
Conference, to form the government. Bukhari however, asked
National Conference to come up with a written assurance about

The Second Emergency is coming

JUSTICE M. KATJU
Even if this shocks some people, I can accurately predict that a second emergency, like that we
witnessed during 1975-1977, is coming in India,
may be in about one years time, in which
democracy, freedom of speech and of the press,
and civil liberties will all be totally suppressed.
Consider the facts logically:
1. This government came to power on high expectations with
the slogan of vikaas or development. This meant, or at least was
perceived as, millions of jobs for the youth, industrial growth benefiting businessmen and others, and general prosperity for the
public.
2. We are now seven months since the new government came
to power, but one can see no traces of vikaas (see my articles The
Shape of Things to come, Vikas, Healthcare in India,
Malnutrition in India, Unemployment in India, The Trickle
Down Theory,, etc on facebook and my blog
justicekatju.blogspot.in), but only stunts like Swatchata Abhiyaan,
Ghar Wapsi, Good Governance day, etc. In these articles I have
demonstrated that under the economic policies being pursued by

this government there is bound to be further economic recession

and further unemployment, malnutrition, farmers suicides and
poverty, though a handful of big businessmen may benefit.
3. Consequently this government will become increasingly
unpopular day by day, as people, especially the youth, get disillusioned and realize that they were befooled and taken for a ride by
our superman who promised a paradise and Shangri-La in India
with his accession to power, but have left people in the lurch.
Presently no doubt the BJP is winning state elections, but that
is because the Congress party has given a walk over by persisting
in retaining a discredited Sonia and Rahul Gandhi as its leaders,
not because the BJP has fulfilled its electoral promises.
4. This disillusionment and disenchantment, coupled with the
terrible economic hardships and distress the Indian people are facing, with rising prices, rising unemployment, widespread malnutrition, farmers suicides, etc, is bound to lead to widespread popular
agitations, disturbances, and turbulence all over the country
5. To deal with these, harsh measures will be employed by the
Government, in other words, some kind of Emergency which we
witnessed from 1975-1977, will be imposed in the country, in
which all civil liberties, freedom of speech and of the press, and all
vestiges of democracy will be suppressed. (On Facebook)

NATIONAL
their support.
Dr Koul has gone to the extent of saying that politically it wont
be suicidal for PDP to form a government with BJP as the party
(PDP) would govern the state on their own terms and conditions.
He elaborated that the party, at the initial stage, has put forth five
conditions to enter into an alliance with BJP.
The conditions reportedly include revocation of AFSPA from
peaceful areas, strengthening of Article 370, respect for Self-Rule
proposal, full tenure for party patron as Chief Minister of state and
comprehensive package and relief for flood hit people of the Valley.
BJP too is holding discussions with various political parties.
The partys National General Secretary Ram Madhav met several
PDP leaders and National Conference during his day-long stay in
the Valley, December 26. Prior to flying to Srinagar, he discussed
the issue threadbare with his party legislators in Jammu. The party
has reportedly zeroed-in on Dr Nirmal Singh or Dr Jitender Singh
as its Legislative Party Leader. Dr. Jitender Singh is Union Minister
whereas Dr. Nirmal Singh is senior BJP leader and legislator from
Billawar Assembly constituency in Kathua district in Jammu
region.
Few non-political groups too have expressed their viewpoints.
All Parties Sikh Coordination Committee chairman Jagmohan
Singh Raina, December 25, exuded confidence that the PDP-BJP
alliance would form a stable government in the state. The
Committee had already expressed its support to PDP, prior to the
Assembly elections.
Meanwhile, chairing a meeting of the conglomerates executive
body (Majlis-e-Shoora), Hurriyat (G) chairman Syed Ali Shah
Geelani, December 25, reiterated that elections cannot change the
status of Kashmir issue nor substitute the right to self-determination guaranteed by United Nations.
Pertinently, there would be no Leader of Opposition in case
PDP-BJP join hands as an opposition party should have atleast 23
members to stake claim to it.

Killing graph up in 2014: HRR

Jammu and Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society, a local human rights
group, in its report Human Rights Review - 2014 states that the
killing graph in 2014 has gone upto 236 compared to 204 killings
registered in 2013. Out of 236 persons, 53 were civilians, 82
armed forces and police personnel, 99 militants and two ex-armed
forces personnel, said the report, December 31, adding that out
of the 53 civilians killed, 17 have been killed by armed forces personnel, while 24 have been killed by unidentified gunmen. The
report further added that six civilians have been killed in cross firing incidents between army and militants. During the border firing
between Indian and Pakistani soldiers, five civilians were killed,
while one person was killed in clashes between the workers of two
political parties.
Incidents like Chattergam, in which two teenage boys were
killed and an equal number of boys injured, only re-established the
fact that the patterns of violence remain unchanged, the report
added. It further stated that though the number of disappearances,
over the years, has come down but the same cannot be construed
as the end of the phenomenon. Three cases of disappearances in
2014; Mushtaq Ahmad Changa a resident of Sopore, Kifayat
Ahmad Khan from border area Uri and Shabir Ahmad Rather from
Nishat in Srinagar serves as a pointer that the phenomenon is still
continuing, it said, adding no measures have, so far, been taken by
the government vis--vis 8,000 disappearances since the past
more than two decades.
The report further quoted that three custodial deaths have been
reported in 2014 and demanded investigation in the cases. Torture,
it said, remains the least reported human rights violation in the
state and continues to remain a state policy to infuse fear among
the masses. Eight cases of pellet injuries have been reported in
the year, the report said, adding that the arbitrary use of PSA continues to be a state tool to curb dissent.

Miserable conditions in state jails

High Court Bar Association has stated that the inmates of sub-jail
Baramulla are compelled to intake impure water due to which most
of them suffer from acute infections.In a press statement here,
Mohammad Ashraf Bhat, General Secretary of the Bar, December
27, said that theyve received a letter from the inmates, wherein it
has been stated that the prisoners of sub-jail Baramulla are forced to
intake impure water lifted directly from the river Jehlum, consequently, many inmates are suffering from acute infections. These inmates,
Bhat said, had requested jail authorities to provide them water from
Khawaja Bagh Water plant, but the jail authorities have refused to do
so. Strongly condemning it, the Bar has asked jail authorities to provide pure and clean drinking water to the jail inmates.
Bhat added around 27 youth are lodged in Baramulla police
station over the last one year and theyve been booked in 10 FIRs
so that their release is made impossible. The Bar further informed
that around 35 Pakistani prisoners are languishing in jails, both
within and outside the state. Despite the court directions to
deport them to their country, authorities arent taking any steps to
make their deportation possible, Bhat alleged.

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N I L O FA R S U H R AWA R D Y

Modis
Silence...!
Silence is not always golden and perhaps never
in Indian politics, particularly when the politician at the helm is expected to make his stand
clear on controversial issues in the news.
Not surprisingly, questions are being raised
on Prime Minister Narendra Modi having so far
refrained from commenting on Sangh Parivar activists having
gone overboard in promoting their communal designs. Modis
silence may be equated with his tacit approval of their activities. It may also be viewed as his playing a politically cautious
role towards Sangh Parivar for several reasons. One of these is
his political background being closely linked with this organisation. Secondly, Modi probably counts strongly on their support
at the grassroots to promote his own political image. In this
context, Modi does not want to take the risk of angering them
and thus losing their support. And this demands analysis of how
strong should Sangh Parivars position in Indian politics be
viewed as?
If Modi was confident of their communal agendas political
impact, it is indeed surprising that he preferred promoting his
secular mask and development plans during his campaign for
Lok Sabha elections. This also implies that Modi was and probably still is well aware of the political risk linked with supporting Sangh Parivars communal agenda. Nevertheless, with
Sangh Parivar having played a key role in promoting and advertising his political image, Modi does not want to alienate them
by taking any strong action against their communal activities,

including commenting against the same. But for how long can
Modi really afford to remain silent against their communal
activities?
The situation would have been different if Sangh Parivar
and BJP were well spread across the country. If they were,
questions would not have probably been raised regarding
Modis silence against their communal activities. Perhaps, it is
time Modi gave some importance to their numerical standing in
India. Certainly, BJP has been faring well in Indian politics and
its membership is stated to have crossed three crore mark
recently. There is no specific record of the membership
strength of Sangh Parivar or of its key organisation, Rashtriya
Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). Accepting that BJPs strength has
really reached the stated figure, what does this really indicate
about its standing in India? The Indian population has 121 crore
people. A strength of three crore constitutes less than three
percent of the countrys population.
Statistically speaking, BJPs strength constitutes less than
three percent of even the countrys Hindu population. The
Indian population is stated to include more than 80 percent
Hindus. Interestingly, BJPs membership strength is less than
that of the population of Muslims in this country. Indias population includes 13.8 percent Muslims.
The message is simple. By remaining silent on communal,
anti-Muslim activities being indulged by Sangh Parivar
activists, Modi is trying not to offend less than five percent of
this countrys population. At the same time, the communal
activities of the same organisation have invited criticism from
strong secular voices, politicians, Muslims as well as mediapersons.
In his bid to appease Sangh Parivar, Modi has allowed
questions to be raised about his political as well as secular
stature among a much larger percentage of the countrys pop-

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ulation.
This also raises questions about the leadership credentials
of Modi. However strong may his background from the ranks of
Sangh Parivar be, at present, the members of this organisation
are expected to respect him as an important leader who heads
the country as the Prime Minister. They are expected to give
substantial importance to ensure that his image as the countrys Prime Minister is not damaged by their activities. So far,
as has been noted, Sangh Parivar activists appear to have
given greater importance to their communal activities. They are
apparently guided by the belief that with Modi as the countrys
Prime Minister they can afford to indulge in their communal
activities. Modis silence has probably encouraged them to pursue this line. And this raises the question on whether Modi has
allowed them to take the lead in communally-sensitive matters by choosing to remain silent, which is equivalent to his
turning a blind eye to their activities. Is a strong leader expected to pursue such a policy? Is a strong leader expected to
ignore activities that can prove politically damaging for his own
image and his party? And if a leader deliberately chooses to
remain quiet towards pursuit of such communal activities,
would it be appropriate to rank him as a strong leader? The
only answer to these questions is: certainly not.
Considering that Modi has only recently joined national
politics, perhaps it is as yet too early to expect him break away
from a stream of politics that guided him when he headed
Gujarat politics. Yet, as the countrys premier, it is time he
gave greater importance to his leadership credentials being
questioned on his remaining silent about Sangh Parivars communal agenda. If nothing else, at least statistics regarding
Sangh Parivars standing in India against that of secular
Hindus and Muslims should prompt him to take a firm stand on


this issue.

The idea of a homogenous nation-state is

clearly problematic: Hamid Ansari
Following is the full text of the address by Vice President of India M. Hamid Ansari on History and Historians at the
inauguration of the 75th session of the Indian History Congress at Jawahar Lal Nehru University on 28 December, 2014.
HISTORY AND HISTORIANS
It is unusual, if not sacrilegious, to invite a person who
does not have history bred in
his bones to a conclave of
men and women steeped in
the intricacies of a much
talked about but inadequately
understood human pursuit
that dwells on the past and seeks to enlighten or
confound the present
My own academic discipline in the distant
past was political science and I do recall
Professor John Seeleys jingle, well known in my
time and presumably not forgotten today, that
History without Political Science has no fruit and
Political Science without History has no roots.
In more recent times, and for professional
reasons, I came to value Winston Churchills
aphorism: Study history, study history; in history lies all the secrets of statecraft.
Historians at all times have endeavoured, as
Herodotus put it, to preserve from decay the
remembrance of what men have done.
Historians have dwelt on the facts of the past and
sought to make implicit or explicit judgements
about those facts. Not to be ignored is a midnineteenth century caution that historians have
been seduced from truth not by their imagination
but by their reason pursuant to the impulse of
distorting facts to suit general principles.
Equally hazardous is the propensity to read
the past into the present or the present into the
past; so is the temptation to ignore the distinction
between memory and history. Memory is based
on identification with the past and is unavoidably
egocentric while history is based on its treatment
as an external object and not a part of the self.
History also cannot be faith-based. The
domains of the two exist separately and conflation does not further the cause of either.
To a lay person, a number of questions are
unavoidable. What then is history, and with what
does it deal? What is the task of the historian? Is
history a science, or an art, or a bit of both?
Does it really deal with the past, or does so, in
the context of contemporary knowledge and
imagination?
A simple answer is that it is a method of
inquiry which deals with what has reportedly
happened and not exactly as it happened. It is a
narrative of change. It has been suggested that
historical objectivity is seen to be not a single
idea but rather sprawling sets of assumptions,
attitudes, aspirations and antipathies. It is evident
that on most if not all occasions, the narrative is
contested. Such contestations nevertheless
need to have a basis in facts, demonstrable and

logically sustainable. As E.H. Carr put it, the his- laws, to recapitulate a phrase used by Edward
torian without facts is rootless and futile; facts Gibbon in the concluding section of his monuwithout their historian are dead and meaning- mental Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,
less. He added that the study of history is are the most potent and forcible cause of
inescapably the study of causes. This would destruction. Instances can be found in the 20th
exclude what has been called counterfactuals century history.
In our own country the sheer diversity of
or the what if category and its simplistic
identities, 4635 communities according to the
assumptions and premises.
Anthropological
It is thus
Survey of India, is
evident
that
We live in a world of nation-states but the
a terse reminder
methodology is
idea of a homogenous nation state is clearly about the care
critical to the
problematic. Diversity is identifiable even in that needs to be
study of history.
taken while putEfforts to curb
the most homogeneous of societies today.
intellectual
The global scene in modern times has been ting together the
profile of a nationefflorescence
replete with complexities and tensions of
al identity. It has of
through official
necessity to be
dicta can only be what has been called the national question.
liberal
and
viewed as undesirable. Furthermore, contestations over the his- accommodative; marked, to quote an eminent
torical past need civility of discourse to ensure scholar, neither by complete homogenisation nor
that it does not cross the imperatives of ensuring by the particularism of closed communities.
Instead, it is a balance struck by the mutual
social peace and societal cohesion.
Carr also dwelt on historys wider relevance: gravitational pull of disparate sections that make
an individual stripped of memory finds the world the whole. Our sagacity in building pluralist
a confusing place: a society with no sense of his- structures that have stood the test for over six
tory is unaware of where it has come from or decades, stands in contrast to many straightjacket edifices in other societies that came to
where it is going.
Is there a more practical relevance of histo- grief. By the same token, these structures need
ry? To my mind, it helps us know and, hopefully, constant nurturing.
It is no longer a matter of debate that history
learn from the mistakes of the past. Those mistakes relate to frailties in judgement leading to has to be more than narrowly political or ecomistakes in statecraft and governance. These, as nomic. The imperative is to make it comprehenone historian has put it, could be due to tyranny sive and inclusive of neglected groups in society.
or oppression, excessive ambition, incompe- These subaltern classes, as Gramci had pointed
tence or decadence, and folly or perversity. In out, are not unified and their history therefore has
each, the inability or the unwillingness of society to be intertwined with that of civil society. It has
or its ruling establishment to pay heed to reason challenged what has been called the univocality
and realism, to dissenting opinion and to alterna- of statist discourse. It has sought to focus on
tive courses of policy or action, led to unfounded dalit and gender issues. The methodology of
studying these opened up new and enriching viscertitude resulting in mistakes.
It is for this reason that in every period of the tas of study for historians.
The pasture of stupidity, said the great
past, beginning perhaps with the 30th century
BC, Egyptian King Menes, codes for dispensing medieval historian Ibn Khaldun, is unwholesome
justice were enunciated. Alongside, manuals for mankind. He warned historians not to sucwere penned for the guidance of rulers. cumb to the temptation of sensationalism,
Departures from these and the resulting conse- adding that a hidden pitfall of historiography is
disregard for the fact that conditions within
quences is what historians have dwelt upon.
History writing and history teaching have a nations and regions change with the change of
contemporary relevance in a more evident sense. period and the passage of time.
II
We live in a world of nation-states but the idea of
a homogenous nation state is clearly problemat- This Congress of historians has the traditional six
ic. Diversity is identifiable even in the most sections. Allow me to draw attention to section
homogeneous of societies today. The global IV focused on countries other than India. I wonscene in modern times has been replete with der if this could read countries and regions other
complexities and tensions of what has been than India. My purpose in suggesting this is to
called the national question. Domestic hostilities explore the fascinating maritime history that
and licentiousness of private wars in violation of unavoidably emanates from the 7,517 kilometers

of coastline and the Exclusive Economic Zone

that we have in the Arabian Sea and the Bay of
Bengal and in relation to the Indian Ocean as a
whole.
People living in coastal regions have traditionally depended on the sea for their livelihood.
They are one with the sea and the sea is an integral ingredient of their worldview. The maritime
people of India are no exception to this and trading activities of Indians in coastal areas in ancient
and medieval periods testify to this. Our culture, wrote a Katchi scholar some years back,
is wet with the sea.
Prior to the arrival of the Portuguese in the
sixteenth century in the seas around India, trade
in the Indian Ocean region was characterized by
a group of ports (sometimes in virtual independence of land powers in the hinterland). Surat and
Calicut on the west coast and Masulipatnam and
a number of ports on the Coromandel Coast in
the east stand out in historical and commercial
records. The Portuguese, followed by the Dutch
and the British, intruded into this autonomous
regional activity and began to change its character and its multiple human faces. In subsequent
centuries, European colonial empires effectively
put an end to it.
Apart from the earlier work of Radha Kumud
Mookerji, the studies conducted by S.
Arasaratnam and Ashin Das Gupta in the second
half of the last century and some excellent monographs by European and Australian scholars,
sufficient research work on these aspects of our
history has yet to be done. A corrective is necessary, more so in the context of the changed
regional requirements in the twenty-first century
that necessitate trading and economic cooperation that will come in the wake of the announced
Look East and Act East policy of the
Government. There is also the expectation that a
similar approach would be formulated in the foreseeable future, for the region to the west covering the Arabian Sea, the Persian Gulf, the Red
Sea, and the East African regions.
Another region deserving attention is beyond
the Sub-continent in north and North-West. The
situation of historical scholarship relating to
Afghanistan and Central Asian republics is no
better. The extant works worthy of mention relate
to the period before 1947. Each of these societies is relevant to us in economic, strategic and
social terms; each necessitates much greater
scholarly attention.
One last thought before I conclude: History
cannot be studied in isolation. I draw the attention of this learned gathering to what a contemporary French historian Emmanuel Le Roy
Ladurie has observed, History is the synthesis
of all social sciences turned towards the past.
Therein lies the majesty of one of the noblest of
disciplines.

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Justice MUHAMMAD YAQOOB MIR, the
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has been appointed Chief Justice of
Jammu & Kashmir High Court by the
President of India in exercise of his
power vested in him under Art 100 of
Jammu & Kashmir Constitution. He has
taken over the responsibilities of J&K
High Courts Chief Justice from 5
January 2015
MUHAMMAD TAIYYAB (IAS) has been appointed
Administrator of Punjab Waqf Board by the states Akali Dal
government of Punjab after the expiry of existing Boards 5year term. Muhammad Taiyyab is presently the Deputy
Commissioner also and his appointment as Administrator is
till the constitution of new Waqf Board or till further order.
ZAFAR SARESHWALA, a businessman
of Gujarat, has been appointed as the
Chancellor of Maulana Azad National
Urdu University, Hyderabad, by Union
HRD ministry for a period of three
years. Sareshwala had suffered huge
losses during the 2002 Gujarat riots
and had planned to file a legal case
against the then CM, Narendra Modi,
but during a meeting with him in London, Sareshwala
changed his mind and now he is very close to prime minister Modi. Sareshwala says that he will try to do his hest
to enable MANUU fulfil its mission for which it was created 16 years ago.
AZIZ QURESHI, Governor of Uttarakhand who had the temerity to question central governments order through a bureaucrat to resign voluntarily so as to make way for his removal
as governor appointed by UPA government with the change
of government at the centre in May last year (2014) and had

B.S. ABDUR RAHMAN

Dr B.S. Abdur Rahman passed away at
Chennai on 7 January at the age of 88.
Born in Kilakarai in a middle class family,
he followed in his fathers footstep who
was a pearl trader in South Asia. From
trading in diamonds, he moved to education when he set up Crescent Engineering
College in 1984. It was upgraded as B.S.
Abdur Rahman University in 2009. It was
one of the first 10 self-financing engineering colleges to be set up in the State.
Dr. Rahman is credited with launching 14 educational institutions and two
orphanages. "He believed in empowerment of women through education. The
Thassim Beevi Abdul Kader College for
Women in Kilakarai, the Crescent School
in Nungambakkam are examples of this,"

filed an appeal in the Supreme Court

questioning if a government can sack
the Governor of a state before completion of his term, has been shunted out
and appointed Governor of Mizoram, a
small and rather insignificant state in
north-east of the country till the
remainder of his term i.e. till May 2017.
Also, he might have earned the displeasure of BJP-led NDA government
for criticising UP governor with RSS
link who had publicly stated that Ram mandir should be built
at Ayodhya.
ABDUL KHALIQ ANSARI, President of All India Momin
Conference, has been appointed a Member of Delhi
Minorities Commission's Advisory Committee for the welfare
of Muslim community by the Chairman of Delhi Minorities
Commission, Qamar Ahmad. Abdul Khaliq Ansari was earlier a member of Steering Committee of Handloom and
Handicrafts Sector of Planning Commission.
Ms. ARSHI HASHMAT of Kolkata who appeared in West
Bengals Judicial Services Examination 2014 has topped in
this examination. Since she dons naqab, her friends had
advised her not to wear naqab at the time of interview but
she ignored her friends advice and appeared for the interview
with naqab on. She says that she replied to the panellists
questions confidently and they appeared to be satisfied with
her answers. Arshi Hashmat, who is a good speaker also,
said that along with her, six other girls and 18 Muslim candidates also passed this examination.
NAJIB QASMI, a scholar of Arabic and author of about
seven books has been conferred PhD degree by Jamia
Millia Islamia for his work on Literary, Communicative and
beneficent aspects of Hadees, which he completed under


the supervision of Dr. Shafique Ahmad Khan Nadwi.
said S. Prince Arockia Doss, director for International
Collaboration at the University, who joined Crescent
Engineering College in 1985 as a lecturer.
"He was an affectionate person who built
people. The University is in the hands of
qualified professionals as he promoted
excellence. Our university has more
women faculty than men," Prof. Doss
said.
Dr. Rahman has left his imprint on
Chennais landscape. His East Coast
Constructions and Industries built the
Gemini flyover and the lighthouse at the
Marina beach. The company was also
involved in the construction of Apollo
Hospital on Greams Road, where he
breathed his last. Dr. Rahman is survived
by six children, two daughters and four
sons. The entrepreneur and philanthropist


focussed on womens education.

RAJA GHAZANFAR ALI KHAN, a well-known social worker of Karatpur, district Najibabad and a former minister of UP died on 30 December in a
Faridabad hospital at the age of 80 years. Though he was basically a politician and joined different political parties he ultimately bid good bye to politics because of dirty game played by politicians and devoted himself to
social and milli work. Though he belonged to a raja family he devoted himself for the cause of poor and deprived people. He used Karatpurs Muslim
Fund for setting up many schools, degree college, free dispensary etc. He
shunned publicity and silently helped poor people and students. He was
keen for promoting education of Muslims, particularly womens education.
He was also a champion of communal peace and harmony. His body was
taken from Faridabad to Karatpur and laid to rest in his ancestral graveyard.
MUQADDAR HAMEED, noted Urdu litterateur and fiction writer died in
Mumbai on 3 January. His short stories used to be regularly published in
the now defunct Urdu magazine Shama. His three anthologies of short stories have been published. He was brought up and educated in Mumbai
though his parents belonged to Marathwada region of Maharashtra. He is
survived by his wife, two sons and two daughters.
Dr. NAWAB IQBAL AHMAD, teacher and former President of St Stephens
Colleges Department of Urdu and Persian died in Delhi on 30 December at
the age of 72 years. He started his teaching career from Anglo Arabic
School as Persian teacher and thereafter joined Delis prestigious St.
Stephens College where he rendered his services for 33 years. He leaves
behind his wife and two sons.
MOHIUDDIN KHAN ADEEB, a social and civilised celebrity of Rampur died
on the night of 30 December at the age of 80 years. He had joined
Rampurs municipal government and successfully and honestly performed
his duties right from executive officer to City Commissioner till he retired in
1996. He was a man of literary taste also. His literary thinking was influenced by progressive writers like Sajjad Zaheer and Akhtarul Iman. He was
the president of Rampurs literary organisation Caravan and life member
of Saulat Public Library.
MUHAMMAD FAROOQ, the oldest litigant in Babri Masjid demolition case,
a resident of Ayodhya died after a brief illness on 24 December at the age
of 100 years. He leaves behind five sons and three daughters. Zafaryab
Jilani, convener of Babri Masjid Action Committee said that Farooqs father
Muhammad Zahoor was one of the 7 original complainants in this case and
after Farooqs death his son Muhammad Saleem may become the litigant
in his place. It may be stated that Hashim Ansari is being named as the litigant in Babri demolition case but he is not the only litigant in this case.
There are as many as five other litigants namely Irshad Rashidi, Maulana
Mahfoozur Rahman, Mufti Hasibullah, Mahmood and Sunni Central Waqf
Board but mostly Hashim Ansaris name is highlighted in this case. If
Muhammad Saleem becomes a litigant in his fathers place, there will again
be 7 litigants in this case.
IMTEYAZ AHMAD ANSARI, former Principal of Delhi's oldest School,
Anglo-Arabic Sr. Sec. School, Delhi died of brain haemorrahage in a hospital on 26 December at the age of about 86 years. He had retired about 25
years ago and after retirement had been residing at Taj Enclave near Gita
Colony. He leaves behind his wife, three sons and one daughter. Two of his
sons had died long back. Also, MUMTAZ NAVED, a former student of the
same Anglo Arabic School who was serving as DCP (Information) in Police
Department suddenly died on 26 December at the rather young age of 52
years. A condolence meeting was held in this School on 27 December
when their services were remembered and tributes were paid to them.

SAIYID HAMID MARD-E-DARVESH

DR SYED ZAFAR MAHMOOD
Forty years ago it was Eid in 1975, a day earlier was our civil
services exam paper in UPSC at Shahjahan Road, New Delhi. Next
day was to be another paper; so the festival was sandwiched
between two papers of civil services. We walked for Eid Namaz to
the Parliament Street mosque, came back and resumed studies
expecting the usual aloo ki sabzi and roti from the kitchen for
which too we were grateful to God and the organisers of our trip
to the capital. We had hardly re-settled on our
desks that we could see his self-driven old Fiat car
entering our gate. His children alighted holding
one big dish each and their Ammi the third one.
They brought for all of us home-made siwaiyan,
kabab and biryani. He made our day memorable,
while his friends, relatives and usual battery of
visitors at home would have had to wait. He not
only caused us momentary happiness but also
gave us life-long lesson in high morality and outstanding conduct. He was a Secretary to the
Government of India -- Saiyid Hamid.
I learnt from him to be the first to say Salam.
He always managed to do so unfailingly while he
was more than double my age and quite superior in governmental hierarchy. After a few years it transpired that he was faithfully
practicing what Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) had prescribed for
mankind. Later in life whenever I and my wife Nazira came out
after a courtesy call on him and Begum Suraiya Hamid, he would
always escort us out upto the car and would habitually embarrass
us opening the car door for Nazira. During journeys I found him to
be extra-respectful even to the fellow stranger ladies. He unfailingly treated Begum Hamid as Gods special gift to him - with
extreme courtesy, affection, care and consideration.
During 1981-84 in the Income-tax Department at Aligarh, I
had my office-cum-residence at Marris Road. He was AMU VC.
Begum Hamid opened the portals of the VC Lodge to personally
run a crche. Our eldest son Kashif was less than three years. He

went to the crche everyday receiving best possible attention that

a child could receive at that age. More than that no discussion or
interaction ever took place between us regarding Saiyid Sahabs
running of the University, even though they sporadically obliged
us through their affectionate visits to Aaykar Bhawan. Yet, I had
earlier passed a coveted decade in AMU as a student and then as
lecturer, thus was having a wide circle of friends on campus. From
them I used to know what all revolutionary steps Saiyid Sahab
was taking.
For selecting a really meritorious hockey team, he invited the
wizard, Dhyan Chand. Letters received from within India and abroad inviting papers for presentation
at conferences were no longer passed on to the
concerned HoD. Instead, these were circulated by
the Registrar through Notice Boards on the campus. Papers were invited by the Registrar Office,
got vetted through a team of external experts and
the one who submitted the best paper was sponsored by the University. Long leave of the teaching
staff who had gone abroad for years together, yet
retaining the post in AMU (and, in the process,
compromising the teaching standards during their
absence) was cut short and notice was served on
them to join within a reasonable period. Admission of the students residing in the hostels for longer than a given number of
years was discontinued. Grabbing the University contracts no
longer remained the prerogative of an influential coterie.
Thus, the institutional running of this great seat of learning
was overhauled. In the process Saiyid Sahab did have to bear the
wrath of many with vested interests. But he valued long-term
community interests much more than short-term personal ones.
After completing his tenure at AMU, coupled with his high bureaucratic clout at the national level, it would have been easy for him
to grab a gubernatorial assignment and pass the rest of his life in
maximum luxury at public expense in the precincts of sprawling
Raj Bhawans, cutting ribbons and inaugurating exhibitions. But he
chose to be different and made his own niche in Jannah. He man-

aged to personify Gods message given in Surah Al-Asr (103:13): "Indeed, mankind is in loss, except for those who have
believed and done righteous deeds and advised each other truth
and patience."
During his tenure as senior-most member of the Prime
Ministers High Level Committee on Muslims (later known as
Sachar Committee), his role was like an elder statesman. Before
and after the meetings, he would sit on the sofa in my room
devoting every minute on discussing how best to ensure an honest appraisal of Muslim status in India and make most meaningful recommendations. Moving to the Board Room, he would
mostly keep silent during the meetings but would very minutely
observe and follow the discussion. Whenever the situation so
warranted, he would put his foot down even though maintaining
his usual highly sophisticated low pitch eloquence. Many significant additions to the Sachar Report emanated from his specific
notes submitted to Justice Sachar who valued his counsel and
would invariably approve their circulation and incorporation.
Restoration of justice to the Ummah was very close to Saiyid
Sahabs heart. For that sake he would not mind bearing even
ignominy at the hands of an inferior being.
His Urdu was flowery, his English stylish, his syntax amusing.
He would never deliver a talk without carefully preparing for it. His
discourse was based on well-studied substance punctuated by
properly selected words and phrases. His speeches as well as
writings were lessons in more ways than one. For summing up
his life we must take recourse to Allama Iqbal:
Qaumon ki taqdeer woh mard-e-darvesh
Jis ne na dhoondi sultaaN ki dargaah.
(Destiny of the communities is in the hands of those selfless
and self-made individuals of high calibre who do not seek personal favours from the powers that be.)
May Allah bless him and Begum Suraiya Hamid with high
pedestal in Paradise. May hundred flowers bloom of his ilk.
Aameen
The author is President, Zakat Foundation of India.
He may be contacted at info@zakatindia.org

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Rich tributes paid to Saiyid Hamid

MANZAR IMAM
New Delhi: Thinker, educationist, visionary, reformist, leader,
activist, committed member of the Muslim community and one
who unfailingly performed his duties towards the nation and community, including his religious obligations. With these words, participants paid their tribute to Saiyid Hamid, former Vice-Chancellor
of Aligarh Muslim University and Chancellor of Jamia Hamdard,
who died here on 29 December.
The seminar on the life and services of Hamid Sahab, as he
was fondly called, was organized by India Islamic Cultural Centre
(IICC) on 4 January.
Saiyid Hamid, one of the prominent Muslim figures of modern
India, who all his life strove and stood for social reform and educational uplift of Muslims, will always be remembered for his
efforts to create among Muslims and others awareness about
education, health and hygiene and for his services to get Muslim
youth selected in the administrative services.
Worried about the low presence of Muslims in administrative
services, Saiyid Hamid encouraged educated Muslim youth to
appear in competitive examinations and also tried to strengthen
the Hamdard Study Circle, one of the pioneering Civil Services
Study centres established for this purpose.
Hamid, who is survived by two sons and a daughter, founded
and headed many educational institutions and was an important
member of the Sachar Committee.
During an academic programme, Saiyid Hamid spoke about
introducing modern subjects in madrasas but vehemently
opposed those who opposed provision of religious education to
school and college-going Muslim students.
Sirajuddin Qureshi, President of IICC, said that in the field of
education Saiyid Hamid occupied prominence among his contem-

poraries. His death is a

wound which would not heal
soon. He stands out alone for
the great services he did during his life.
Justice Rajinder Sachar
said that the sacrifices made
by Saiyid Hamid were way
beyond others. When retired
from government service, he
was offered to be India's
ambassador to Saudi Arabia
which he declined. He
recalled that it was not the
government but Saiyid Hamid
who had approached him to
head the Committee that prepared the historic report
about the social, economic
and educational status of
Muslims in India.
Senior journalist Kuldip
Nayar said that one of the biggest achievements of Saiyid Hamid
was taking out education caravans in early 1990s. The nationwide
campaign did not look very impressive then, but history cannot
discount its continuing impact on minorities, especially Muslims
of the north India.
Paying glowing tributes to Hamid Sahab, Shaz Hamid
summed up the principles which he thought his grandfather lived
by. These among others included institution-building, pursuit of
excellence, preference of collective good to individual advancement, tolerance, self-introspection and avoidance to be swept
away by emotions.

Dialogue among Religions

Yusuf/MG

Aligarh: "An undercurrent of conflicts

has burst to the fore,
threatening to turn
religious coercion
into wars and the
solution in the 21st
century is through a
dialogue between different religions," said
the Chairman Darulul
Uloom, Trinidad, and
Director of Television
Islamic Network (West Indies), Mufti Waseem Ahmad Khan while delivering a keynote address at
the Aligarh Muslim University's Sunni Theology Department on 3 January.
Mufti Waseem further said, "The new world cannot be understood without involving religion
and religious organizations Out of every 10 people in the world, eight people follow some religion and it is not possible to find solutions without bringing them into a dialogue. All faiths teach
peace. Religious people all over the world aspire to live with dignity and a sense of justice. And if
representatives of these faiths are involved in finding resolutions to global conflicts, peace will
automatically prevail," he said, adding that it is important to attain peace and shun violence,
oppression and tyranny for a happier world. "Innocent people have been killed in the name of religion and it is high time that a right and peaceful representation of religion should prevail to maintain peace," asserted Mufti Waseem. He stressed that it is only a proper dialogue between different religions which will bring tranquility.
The AMU Zameer Uddin Shah, while presiding over the seminar, stated that a dialogue process
should always be there between people of various faiths. He stressed that violence between
Muslim sects has been on the rise and they first need to mend their differences and enter into a
dialogue. Shah added that our educational qualification would prove beneficial only if we have a
mutual understanding of and compassion for various religions. He stressed that we need to integrate with the mainstream national characteristics while keeping our cultural values intact. He said
that violence would never pay, rather will cause great harm to everyone.
Former Dean of the AMU's Faculty of Theology, Prof Zainus Sajiddin Siddiqui said that the very
concept of religious following is changing and it is obligatory on us to present the correct understanding of it. For this, it is essential to encourage mutual dialogue. He stressed that above all one
must have regard for others' dignity. While welcoming the guests, Chairman, Department of Sunni
Theology, Dr Mufti Zahid Ali Khan said, "Besides academic courses, our effort is to form a powerful front against social evils and promote mutual cooperation and tolerance".

Prof. Talat Ahmad, VC of Jamia Millia Islamia, Advocate

Mushtaq Ahmad Alig and S Zafar Ali also spoke on the occasion.
It maybe noted that Saiyid Hamid brought out an English magazine "Nation and the World", credited for its thoughtful editorials
and balanced opinions and analyses. He desired to bring out an
English daily but could not do so for want of resources.
Saiyid Hamid remained active till the last days of his life and
tried to bring different communities together through peace caravans and intellectual discourses. He has left innumerable legacies
continuing which would be the real tribute to him. This was one of
dozens of such programmes held across the country in which rich
tributes were paid to Saiyid Hamid

Alumna gifts valuable jewelry to AMU

Aligarh: In a touching gesture, Dr.

Afshan Hashmi, a US-based AMU
alumna, gifted a beautiful 22-karat
gold necklace studded with invaluable real pearls to her alma mater,
AMU. The jewelry also includes a
pair of earrings and a finger ring.
Vice Chancellor Zameer Uddin Shah
said, "We have accepted her gift with
gratitude and put the set for an open
online auction. He said "Anyone
interested in buying this invaluable
necklace is requested to post his/her
bid online at www.amu.ac.in.

Unesco celebrates Ibn Al-Haytham

Vienna: The United Nations

Educational, Scientific and
Cultural
Organisation
(UNESCO) will celebrate
promote life and works of
pioneering Muslim scientist
Ibn Al-Haytham [Alhazen to
the Europenas] during
2015. "Just as Issac
Newton revealed the spectrum of colours that makes
up white light, we must
reveal to the world the
importance of light in building a more sustainable and peaceful future. For this reason, 2015 has
been designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Light and Light-based
Technologies (IYL)," said UNESCO on 28 December.
This global initiative will be officially launched on the 19-20 January 2015 at UNESCO
Headquarters in Paris. The huge launch will see over a thousand participants as speakers and attendees will include international diplomats and decision-makers, Nobel laureates, CEOs, and science
and industry leaders from across the globe.
Moreover, a series of keynote lectures, symposia and round-tables will cover areas of basic science, innovative lighting solutions for society, light pollution, emerging trends in photonics, the
Einstein Centenary, the role of light-based technologies in addressing global challenges, light in art
and culture, the history of science, and science policy.
The IYL 2015 ceremony will include the launch of the World of Ibn Al-Haytham with a series of
interactive exhibits, workshops and live shows illustrating the world of this pioneering scientist from
the Golden Age of Muslim Civilisation, Ibn al-Haytham - often referred to as the 'father of modern
optics'.
"I am pleased to
partner with 1001
Inventions to launch
the World of Ibn AlHaytham
Global
Campaign, to promote
light-science for the
benefit of all," said
UNESCO
DirectorGeneral Irina Bokova.
"A ground-breaking
scientist and a humanist from a thousand
years ago, the life and
work of Ibn AlHaytham have never
been as relevant as
they are today."

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Temple built on gov land demolished

New Delhi: People living in and around Kirpal Apartment in
Delhis Madhu Vihar area had illegally built a temple about 2
years ago on a vacant plot which belonged to DDA. People had
brought this matter to the notice of the police several times but
no action was taken by the police against the people who had
built this temple. As a last resort, DDA approached Delhi High
Court and told it (High Court) that in IP extension there is a big
plot measuring about 2500 sq metres on which DDA has plans
of providing civic amenities for the residents but people, who are
members of Kirpal Group Housing Society, had illegally built a
temple overnight about 2 years ago and in spite of complaints
made to the police many times, no action was taken by the
police against the people who had built this temple and to get the
illegal buildings including the temple removed. On the High
Courts instructions when DDA authorities along with the police
team reached the spot to get the place vacated, people of the
locality strongly resisted. After their resistance and seeing the
gravity of the situation additional CISF force was also deployed
in whose presence DDA officials demolished the temple and took
away all the goods and other things kept in the temple. DDA
authorities however spared the houses built on this land but
arrested many people who were resisting DDAs demolition operation. A member of the group housing society, Shailnder Singh
who is living there frankly said that this land belongs to DDA. In
addition to the temple many jhuggis have also been built and
converted into four storied buildings and houses. Incidentally, it
may be stated that this temple was built about 1.5 kilometres
away from Tirlokpuri where communal riots had erupted recently.
Human Welfare Foundation distributes scholarships
Aligarh: A scholarship distribution programme was organised by
Human Welfare Foundation, New Delhi here on 25 December
when scholarships amounting to Rs. 4,40,000 were distributed
among 30 boy and girl students. In addition to this, another
series of scholarships totalling Rs 52 lakh were also given to
550 boy and girl students this year by this Foundation. President
of AMU Students Union Abdullah Ezaam, who distributed the
scholarships to the students said while speaking on this occasion on the topic of Problems of Muslim students in modern
Education that today the biggest challenge for Muslim students
is the absence of their right or proper guidance for them. Under
these circumstances, awareness about education in students as
well as their parents and promising and brilliant students working for society are badly needed. Scholarhsip Incharge of Human
Welfare Foundation, New Delhi Zahoor Ahmad said that we are
doing every thing possible to ensure the presence or share of
Muslims in higher education in India and the programme of giving scholarships to boy and girl students is a part of this effort.
The coordinator of the Foundations western UP unit Tanveer
Ahmad said while speaking on this occasion that the Foundation,
in cooperation with more than 50 non-governmental organisations, is giving scholarships to poor and needy boy and girl students of society in the fields of social sciences and humanities
in twenty states of the country.
Central Waqf Councils building ready
New Delhi: A new 4-storeyed Building of Central Waqf Council
spread over 1008 sq. metres at Pushp Vihar, M B Road, New
Delhi is now almost ready in cooperation with CPWD and all
offices of the Council are expected to be shifted to the new building by January 2015 end. Union minister for minorities affairs
Mrs Najma Heptullah is hopeful that prime minister Narendra
Modi will inaugurate the new building. It may be stated by the
way that minister of minorities affairs is also the Chairman / person of CW Council. There are 20 members of this Council who
are appointed by the central government under the Councils Act
and some MPs, distinguished personalities and experts in religious and other affairs are appointed as members. Central government has been providing financial help to the Council since
1975 for development of Waqf lands and properties for commercial purposes so that the income derived thereform could be
used for the welfare and development of Muslims. With all the
different offices being concentrated in one single building it will
now become easier to contact and coordinate Waqf activities
without delay and through video conferencing meetings with outstation branches can be held in the Delhi office without heads of
branches coming to Delhi office. The building is equipped with
all modern facilities.
Muslim team meets converts but they refuse to budge
On 27 December 2014 a delegation of Muslim leaders met the
17 Muslims near Dawli village, Agra, who had converted to
Hinduism. However, the converts refused to return to Islam. The
head of family, Rahmat (now Gatheli), was initially hesitant but
finally chose to go with the decision of his sons to follow
Hinduism. The delegation demanded a probe into the matter,
terming it a conspiracy and has sought the arrest of all those
who orchestrated this conversion.
Biography of Urdu journalist released
A biography of a famous Urdu journalist, late Mohammad
Muslim, was released in Malyalam language in Kozhikode,
Kerala on 26 December. The book was released by Abdul
Rahman, editor-in-chief of the Malyalam daily Madhyamam and
Media-One TV channel. This book has been written by VA Kabir.
Speaking during this ceremony, Abdul Rahman said that
Mr. Muslim established new heights and standards in Urdu journalism. He appreciated the way Mr. Muslim led Muslim commu-

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NCMEI (National Commission on Minorities Educational
Institutions), submitted its second report to NCMEIs chairman,
Justice Suhail Ejaz Siddiqi in which the present educational position of girls belonging to minority communities, particularly
Muslim girls and recommendations to remove the difficulties
being faced in promoting their education have been made. Justice
Siddiqi said that the Committee and its head Mrs Shabistaan
Ghaffar have rendered in valuable services in the development of
girls belonging to minority communities particularly of the
Muslim community all over the country because of which not
only has there been awakening about the importance and necessity of education among them and rate of literacy among them
has also increased. Dr. Shabistan Ghaffar said that the committee
headed by her travelled all over the country particularly Assam
and West Bengal and after reviewing and studying the educational position of Muslim girls and women, prepared this report. She
said that after studying their educational condition particularly of
women she has come to the conclusion that even now much has
to be done at the governmental and community level for promoting education among them. She said that though there has been
great awareness about education among them in many places,
there is a great shortage and absence of proper educational facilities there.
It may be stated in this connection that earlier in December
2012 also the Committee on Girls Education had submitted a
detailed report on this subject to the then HRD minister Pallam
Raju. The present report is the second in this series. In this
detailed report titled Report & Recommendations on Minority
Girls Education a number of recommendations regarding promotion of womens education have been made, some of the important ones of which are: Five percent quota as a special case for
Muslim girls in higher educational institutions and employment
should be provided, computer education should be imparted to
girls passing secondary school examinations, computer centres

should be opened in rural areas, minority resource centres should

be set up, mothers should be trained who are the first madrasa of
children, land on concessional rates should be provided for opening schools for girls, steps should be taken to prevent or reduce
dropouts among Muslim girls, central and state governments
should provide special grants to schools, colleges and universities for the education of Muslim girls, educational systems should
be revised or reformed so as to improve educational standard in
disturbed areas like Assam and Kashmir and in such places /
areas, steps should be taken to properly and suitably implement
RTE i.e. Right to Education Act, maximum number of schools
should be opened for girls in Muslim populated areas along with
all necessary facilities like toilets, good class rooms, maximum
number of scholarships should be given to (Muslim) girls in order
to induce them to develop interest in education etc. etc.
Dr. Shabistan Gaffar further said that the Committee on Girls
Education has worked not only to the extent of reviewing and
studying girls education and making recommendations but has
also rendered all kind of help in setting up and opening schools
in different parts of the country particularly in states like Assam,
West Bengal and other backward areas. It also organised educational awareness programmes at different places in which special
attention was paid to empower them and to apprise them of various welfare schemes of the government along with education.
The committee also organised seminars and workshops for the
training of teachers on modern lines.
Justice Siddiqi, at whose behest this committee was constituted, said that if government accepts these recommendations and
implements them, it will be very helpful in promoting the education of
Muslim women and girls and the country will progress in the true
sense. He said that NCMEI during its 10-year period has really done
much work for the promotion of education among minorities and for
their progress. It may be stated, by the way, that Justice Siddiqi, after
putting in 10 years of valuable services in this respect, retired sometime during the third week of December 2014. (N. A. Ansari)

nity through journalism as the editor of the Dawat Urdu newspaper. Comments of former Indian President Shankar Dayal
Sharma, former Prime Minister IK Gujral, Kuldeep Nayar,
Khawaja Ahmad Abbas including other dignitaries on Mr. Muslim
have been included in the book.

ists had been killed in Jammu & Kashmir. Minister of State

(Home) H P Chaudhury said that during this period 16,757 civilians were also killed while 1425 police personnel lost their lives.
He added that proper compensation has been paid to the families of the civilians who lost their lives.

VHP leader attacks Omar Abdullah

BJP leader Vinay Katiar has attacked Omar Abdullah saying that
his grand-parents were Hindus who accepted Islam later. This
statement against Omar Abdullah came after he criticised BPJ on
the issue of conversion. Mayawati has also critised BJP on the
issue. She had earlier said that BJP is trying to create communal hatred in society. Besides, Samajwadi Party leader, Naresh
Agrawal has said that his party is taking this matter seriously.

Versified translation of the Quran released in IICC

New Delhi: Versified Chapters of Quran, a translation of the
Qurans chapters into poetry was released at a function held at
India Islamic Cultural Centre (IICC), New Delhi by IICCc chairman Sirajuddin Qureshi on 29 December 2014. Speaking on this
occasion Mr. Qureshi said that versified translation of a great
heavenly Book like Quran is not an easy job, which has been
done by Brig Dr. Mukhtar Alam. He said that earlier also the noted
poet (late) Kaif Bhopali had taken the initiative of translating the
Quran into verses but he could translate only 17 paras during
his life time though it is not in published form. He said that by
translating the Quran into verses Brig Mukhtar Alam has done a
great job. This translation is in both Urdu and Hindi. This versified translatin has been reviewed by Maulana Syed Rabey Hasani
Nadwi, Dr. G. A. Naaziruddin, Dr. Syed Aziz Mohiuddin and
Maulana Muhammad Zarin Ashraf Nadwi. In this translation the
meaning of every rukoo has been given briefly in poetic form
and people not knowing Arabic can also understand its meaning
to a considerable extent by studying it a few times.
After the release of this versified translation Brig Dr Mukhtar
Alam himself shed light on this translation and said that it took
him 32 years to translate it. He further said that his translated
version has been supported by Madina University, Darul Uloom
Deoband, Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama, Lucknow and Aligarh
Muslim University. He also recited some translated couplets of
Surah Rahman and Surah Dahr and also shed light on the reasons for preparing versified translation. He said that he is interested in this work for those youth and people who are studying
and teaching and who want to learn a lesson in life from this
Book. He said that he has adopted an easy and simple style for
translating it and has avoided artistic and other intricacies. This
versified translation has been published by AMUs Prof.
K. A. Nizami Markazul Uloom Quran.

Delhi Waqf Boards emergency meeting

Delhi Waqf Board convened its emergency meeting on
20 December 2014, in the absence its chairman, to discus the
issues of 123 waqf properties including Delhi Jama Masjid and
other concerned matters. After insistence from four of its members, Mufti Aijaz Arshad Qasmi, Raana Parween Siddiqi,
Maulana Mohammad Qasim Qasmi and Mehdi Raja, this meeting
had been convened. During the meeting the issues of 123 waqf
properties were discussed. Mufti Aijaz Arshad informed other
members of the board that VHP had once again got stay order
from Supreme Court on these properties. It was decided in the
meeting that Raana Siddiqi would handle this issue and after discussing this matter with senior lawyer, an action-plan would be
decided. The members also decided to write a letter to the revenue secretary of Delhi for filling up one vacant post of member
of the board so that the process to appoint the chairman of the
board could be started soon. The members also decided to meet
the Shahi Imam of Jama Masjid to discuss the specific procedure for appointing deputy Imam and other matters related with
Jama Masjid.
Saharanpur innocents languish in jails
When riots had erupted four months ago in Saharanpur, several
innocent Muslims were arrested. They are still languishing
behind bars. The Muslim community of this area feels that they
had been targeted during violence and now no leader is listening
to their cries. UP cabinet minister Balram Singh Yadav visited
this riot-affected area a month after the riot took place and he
promised to bring the culprits to justice and to get the innocent
people released from jails. Police had arrested only Muslim
youth and had registered complaint against them. The riot broke
out when Guru Singh Sabha tried to encroach upon the land of
Hasan Askari mosque. A complaint was registered against the
office-bearers of Guru Singh Sabha, but no action was taken by
the police. Maulana Abdul Malik Mughaisi, member of the Milli
Council, said that no effort has been made by the state government to release the innocent people who have been in jails for
months. A recent statement of the state minister, Balram Singh
Yadav, has enraged the Muslim community. In his statement the
minister has said that since no complaint has been registered
against the members of Guru Singh Sabha, the police are unable
to take any action against them.
21 thousand terrorists killed in J&K
On 10 December 2014, the Union government informed
Parliament that between 1990 to December 2013, 20,000 terror-

Students securing first position honoured

Sita Marhi: At a function held at Madrasa Rahmania Mahsool, an
important religious institution of this district of Bihar, boy and girl
students who passed and secured first position in Bihar
Examination Boards 10th class examination were honoured with
awards in the form of cheques of Rs. 10,000 each, given by district officer for minorities affairs Sajid Husain on 30 December
2014. These cheques were distributed among these boy and girl
students under chief ministers Encouragement / Inducement
Plan-2014. Under this Plan a total of 583 boy and girl students
were honoured with cash awards and the total amount given was
to the tune of Rs. 58.30 lakh (Rs 58,30,000). After distribution
of cheques Sajid Husain said that the objective of these awards
or amounts being given by government is that Muslim students
(both boys and girls) should pay sincere attention to acquisition
of education so that in future they could succeed in every field
of life. He also said that many children and also those who are
brilliant and promising cannot acquire education or cannot continue it because of economic and financial difficulties and hence
these amounts will be useful to them for acquiring higher educa

tion and making their future bright.

COMMUNITY NEWS
Madrasah modernization scheme optional
New Delhi: In response to an information sought regarding modernisation of religious madrasas under RTI, by one Gopal Prasad,
an RTI activist, government's reply was that for encouragement of
standard and quality education in traditional maktabs and
madrasas it (government) provides financial assistance to
madrasas under the Scheme to Provide Quality Education in
Madrasas (SPQEM), though Madrasa Modernization Scheme is
optional. It was also stated by the government that this scheme
(modernizaion of madrasas) is in the process of making changes
and amendments being made. According to the information
obtained from HRD ministrys Department of School Education
and Literacy, under SPQEM, an amount of Rs. 18.27 crores was
provided to 14859 madrasas in different states. It was further
stated by the said Department that through this scheme (SPQEM)
financial assistance to traditional maktabs and madrasas is provided for teaching modern subjects like Science, English,
Mathematics, Social Sciences and Hindi in spite of the fact that
madrasa modernization scheme is not compulsory but optional or
voluntary. It may also be stated that SPQEM is the amended form
of AIMMP of former UPA governments madrasa modernization
programme. According to HRD ministrys higher education
department National Education Policy of 1986 is the guiding policy in matters of education. HRD ministry also said that in accordance with 86th Amendment Act it was laid down that all children
between 6 and 14 years of age can obtain free and compulsory
basic education in the school nearest to their houses. It was clarified that madrasas are free to prepare their traditional syllabus but
if they want to include modern subjects stated above, government
will provide financial assistance and this is already being done.
Ninety-seven boy and girl students get AFMI award in Delhi
New Delhi: American Federation of Muslims of Indian Origin
(AFMI) which awards promising Muslim boy and girl students
every year in India in order to promote quality education among
them held its annual prize distribution function in cooperation with
Delhi Youth Welfare Association (DYWA) at Zakir Husain Colleges
Salman Ghani Hashmi Auditorium on 30 December and honoured
as many as 92 boy and girl students on the basis of last academic years examination results. A total of 51 boy and girl students
of 12th class (Higher Secondary) and 41 students of 10th class
were honoured with Awards. In addition to these school students
AFMI also honoured 5 girls with special awards who completed
MBBS from Lady Harding Medical College, Delhi University. These
girls are Arshna Qureshi, Saba Zubair, Sarah Fatema Siddiqi,
Suman Wasi and Ghazala Anees Fatema. Among the 12th class
students who were honoured with awards are Sadaf Naaz of SKV
Jaffarabad, (Ms) Aaila of Dr Zakir Husain Sr. Sec. School,
Jafarabad, Muniba Begum of Chashma Building School, (Ms)
Madiha of Rabia Girls School and among the 10th class students
are Saadia, Aaisha, Mushira, and Anzar Husain of DPS. Among
the foreign (AFMI) guests were Dr Aslam Abdullah, Director of
Islamic Society of Nevada (Las Vegas) and Dr. Aslam Abdullah,
Editor-in-Chief of weekly Muslim Observer. Dr. Muhammad
Aslam Parvez, Principal of Zakir Husain College said while speaking on this occasion that dividing education into religious and
worldly departments is a tragedy. Muslims should pay equal
attention to both religious and modern education without which
they cannot progress. In addition to the above students three
Muslim students who are doing higher education in Botany also
were honoured with prizes. It is however not mentioned what
awards were given to them by AFMI and if these were cash
awards, and cheques of what amount were given to them. In this
function tributes were paid to Saiyid Hamid, intellectual, retired
IAS offier and VC of AMU who died recently. All the audience
stood up and observed two minutes silence to pay homage.
First Unani College in Kerala
Calicut: Jamia Markaz Al Saqafatus Sunnias 37th 4-day
International Conference was held here from 18 to 21 December.
On the second day of this Conference Unani Medical College, first
of its kind in Kerala, was jointly inaugurated in Markaz Knowledge
City, situated in the coastal area by the Head of Markaz Sheikh
Abu Bakar and Keralas health minister V. S. Shiv Kumar. Speaking
on this occasion Shaikh Abu Bakar said that his dream is that children / students of minority community should not have to face
any difficulty in acquisition of higher academic and professional
education. With this objective in mind we have decided to set up
institutions of higher academic and professional education and
setting up the Unani Medical College is an important step in this
series. This first and unique College in Kerala will be very useful
not only for the children / students of Kerala but for those of other
regions also. In addition to this College, we have plans for setting
up Engineering College, College of Law, Business School,
International School, Multi-Speciality Hospital, IT Park, Markaz
Institute of School, Global School, Cyber Zone, Hotel and
Convention Centre and Hostels for students in this Knowledge
City, work on most of which has already started and in some
cases work is in the final stage.
UP Urdu Academy scholarships
Lucknow: UP Urdu Academy has informed the presidents, teachers and students of all madrasas of the state that educational
scholarships to students of classes 6 to 8 have been sanctioned
by it (the Academy) whose lists can be seen on the Academys
website www.upurduakademi.org by downloading them.
Academys secretary Faizur Rahman said that the Academy has
asked the selected students (boys and girls) of madrasas,
schools and colleges to send their Banks names, Branches,
cities, muhallah etc. along with their account Nos and IFS Code

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Three cases registered against Union

minister for calling Azam Khan a terrorist
Rampur: As many as three cases have been registered with
the police against union minister of state for agriculture Dr.
Sanjiv Balian for calling UPs cabinet minister Azam Khan a
terrorist. On 21 December while addressing a meeting in
Amroha (UP) he had accused Azam Khan of being a terrorist.
This angered Samajwadi Party workers. His (Azam Khan)s
media Incharge Fasahat Ali Khan filed a case against Balian in
Thana Ganj. After that, Ms Shadab Mashkoor, a former Block
Pramukh in a written complaint said that by calling Azam Khan
a terrorist Balian has hurt the feelings of many people. On the
basis of her written complaint police registered a case against

Balian in the civil lines police station. A third case was filed by
one Chaah Ancha Ram in thana Kotwali against him (Balian).
Police registered the case under sections 153 (A) and 505 of
IPC. Around the same time when BJP leader Mukhtar Abbas
Naqvi reached Rampur, journalists sought his comments
about Balians allegations, he avoided giving his comments,
saying that he doesnt know any thing about all this. It was
subsequently reported that three more cases i.e. a total of six
cases were filed against Balian. However, even after so many
cases being filed against him, Balian was not arrested. (N. A.
Ansari)

by post to the Academy or on Academys e mail ID urduakademi@yahoo.in so that their scholarship amounts could be deposited or transferred in their respective bank accounts. He said that
the list of only selected boy and girls students is given on the
website.

alleged conversions which occurred in Agra recently, have found

that these people have no homes in West Bengal. There are no
relatives or neighbours who recognize them at the places claimed
by these people, said the police. A police team led by the SubInspector, Vishnu Kumar, went to West Bengal with the data of 33
migrants to dig out the details but they did not find any home there
of these people. This supports the opinion that these people are
Bangladeshis.

West Bengal madrasas free from religious extremism

New Delhi: Union minister of state for home affairs, Haribhai
Pirthibhai Chaudhari said in the Lok Sabha in written reply to a
question by Dr K. Kamraj that government has received no report
about education in religious extremism being imparted in
madrasas of West Bengal. He said that though it has been found
during investigation in the Burdwan bomb blast case that education about religious fanaticism was being imparted in three
madrasas being run by illegal Bangladeshi migrants. He said that
the government has devised a strategy of closely and minutely
watching the situation and has instructed the security agencies to
specially identify such institutions at international borders and
maintain a close vigil on them.
Peace Conference ends with message of humanity
A four-day 37th Peace Conference organised by Markazul
Saqafatiul Sunniya Islamia ended with a message of peace in
Kozhikode, Kerala. The opening ceremony was attended by
Kerala chief minister Oommen Chandy, Shaikh Abu Bakr
Ahmad, head of the Sunni Cultural Centre University, Saeed
Mohammad Al Muhairi, Acting Charg d Affaires at the UAE
Embassy in New Delhi, and Mohammad Hajji Al-Khouri,
Director-General of Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan Foundation,
along with a number of ambassadors, members of Parliament
and businessmen from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. Speaking at
the opening session, Al-Muhairi expressed delight at participating in the Shaikh Zayed International Peace Conference. He
added that the significant contributions made by the late
Sheikh Zayed in the fields of science, knowledge and development will be an approach and a guide to the people of the
United Arab Emirates. In his speech, the chancellor of Markazul
Saqafatiul Sunniya Islamia (Sunni Cultural Centre University),
Abu Bakr Ahmad said, The late Shaikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al
Nahyan was focused on the development and building of
human resources and called to deepen the values of tolerance
and dialogue in the face of confrontation and conflict in the
name of religion. He added that Islam has taught its followers
peace and love. Those who use violence in the name of Islam,
dont have anything to do with Islam. During the conference
800 out-going students were given certificates.
DDA, land mafias encroach waqf land
Vandals are trying to encroach upon the lands of Qanati Mosque
and the graveyard next to it at Islam Colony in Mehrauli.
Miscreants have been tying their buffalos inside the premises of
the mosques and creating filth all around. When local people visited the mosque, they found the buffalos inside the mosque which
have made this religious place stinking. The local people complained to the police but still the matter has not been resolved as
the police is not taking it seriously. This land is the property of
Waqf Board whose khasra no. is 1659 (old), 1115 (new) and
which is registered in the Gazette. When a local Muslim resident,
named Abid Pahlawan, objected to the tying of buffalos, the miscreants threatened him to drive him out of the locality. The issue
was brought to the notice of the managing committee and members of Waqf Board but of no use. It is noteworthy that along with
some land mafias, Delhi Development Authority (DDA) has also
been trying to encroach upon this land.
Saiyid Hamids death is a gross loss: Mushawarat
New Delhi: Saiyid Hamid, who died here yesterday, was a pillar of
the Muslim community. His death is a great loss for the country
and community, said Dr. Zafarul-Islam Khan, President of the All
India Muslim Majlise Mushawarat, the umbrella body of Indian
Muslim organisations, on 30 December. Dr. Khan said Saiyid
Hamids services to the community will be remembered for long.
His tenure as VC of AMU is well-known but a lesser known fact is
that it was through his untiring efforts that the Jamia Hamdard
was recognised by Government of India as a deemed university
which paved the way to the progress that was witnessed later.
Hamdard School also is a fruit of his indefatigable efforts. He also
tried hard to awaken the Muslim community through his articles
and caravans for education. Saiyid Hamid was also a key member of the AIMMM. He patronized community organisations
across the country.
Conversion victims have no homes in West Bengal: Police
A team of police, searching the whereabouts of the victims of

A bomb hoaxer arrested in Gurgaon

29-year-old Sunny Sharma was arrested on 18 Dec. from a commercial complex at Sushant Lok in Gurgaon. He has been creating havoc by giving wrong information about bombs planted in
different places of the city. Police commissioner Navdeep Singh
said that he got information at 9.23 that a bomb had been planted at Arcadia Complex in Gurgaon. After receiving the information, police barricaded the complex at around 11.25. He said that
a team of anti-bomb squad, fire brigade and ambulance were sent
to the place. A day before this incident, there was information
about a bomb at Huda City Centre Metro Station which later
proved to be a hoax. Around 2.30, Police received a call from
mobile no. 8470011170 that bomb had been planted at Huda City
Centre and that he was going to plant another one at the business
centre. Police rushed to both the places to find the bombs and
started searching the places but it was proved a hoax. The police
discovered that the SIM card belonged to a person from Odisha
which was lost at the business centre on 16 December. During
this operation, Metro was disrupted for three hours which made
commuters stranded and disturbed.
Surprises in Aurangabad arms seizure trial
Witnesses are being sent back without recording their statements
in the Aurangabad arms seizure case in a special MCOCA court
in Mumbai Arthur Road Jail. In the middle of 2006, weapons were
seized in large quantity in Maharashtra which was named as
Aurangabad Arms Seizure. Prosecution witness was called in for
his statement against the accused in the court, but was sent back
by the prosecutor without recording his statement. As the proceedings of the court started, the prosecutor, Vabhay Bagade,
requested the court to delete the name of this witness from the
witness-list because he was not interested to question him. Then,
G T Qadri, judge of the special court, discharged the witness after
only asking his name and address. Meanwhile, the defence
lawyer requested the court to direct the prosecutor to bring only
those witnesses whose statement will be recorded, as he has
been sending back many witnesses without recording their statements, wasting the time of the court. Moreover, defence lawyer
requested the court to bring two witnesses in a day. Five such
prosecution witnesses have been turned away without recording
their statements within the past month. He further said that the
prosecutor had stated in Mumbai High Court that this trial will be
completed within three months, but the time has already passed.
The judge stated that the prosecutor has the right to question or
not to question any of the prosecution witnesses, and he is bound
by the law.
Indian minorities discouraging youth from joining IS: Rajnath
New Delhi: There were only a handful or negligible number of
people in India involved in activities related to the Islamic State
(IS) and the minority communities in the country were discouraging their youth from joining the terror outfit, Union Home Minister
Rajnath Singh said on 16 December. There are only a handful or
negligible number of people involved in ISIS activities in India.
Their involvement too has not been direct. I congratulate the
Indian minorities for discouraging their youth, he said during
question hour in the Lok Sabha, referring to the terror outfit by its
earlier name ISIS. In many developed countries like Britain and
France, minority families were encouraging youth to join the IS,
but Indian minorities were discouraging their children, he said. I
congratulate the minority community for discouraging youth from
getting radicalised, Rajnath Singh said. Responding to a question
on steps taken by the government to prevent the spread of the IS,
he said India has already banned the outfit and was monitoring
the cyberspace to stop its propaganda. Cyberspace is a very
serious issue. To monitor this system, it needs to be strengthened
and I have asked for a committee to be constituted to monitor
thisWe will ensure that it is properly monitored, he said.
The Union home minister also assured the Lok Sabha that no
innocent person from the minority community would be taken into
custody with regard to suspected terror activities. If there were
such instances, they could be brought to his notice.
Responding to another query on the IS, Minister of State for
Home Affairs Kiren Rijiju said the matter was very, very sensitive


and the details cannot be discussed.

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Charlie Hebdo and Tsarnaevs Trial: Cui Bono?

The Roman question is always: Who benefits? The answer is: Not France, not
Muslims, but US world hegemony. US hegemony over the world is what the CIA
supports. US world hegemony is the neoconservative-imposed foreign policy of the US.
PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
There are two ways to look at the alleged terrorist attack on the
French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. One is that in the English
speaking world, or much of it, the satire would have been
regarded as "hate speech," and the satirists arrested. But in
France, Muslims are excluded from the privileged category, took
offense at the satire, and retaliated.
Why would Muslims bother? By now Muslims must be
accustomed to Western hypocrisy and double standards. Little
doubt that Muslims are angry that they do not enjoy the
protections other minorities receive, but why retaliate for
satire but not for France's participation in Washington's
wars against Muslims in which hundreds of thousands
have died? Isn't being killed more serious than being
satirized?
Another way of seeing the attack is as an attack
designed to shore up France's vassal status to
Washington. The suspects can be both guilty and
patsies. Just remember all the terrorist plots created by
the FBI that served to make the terrorism threat real to
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France is suffering from the Washington-imposed
sanctions against Russia. Shipyards are impacted from
being unable to deliver Russian orders due to France's
vassalage status to Washington, and other aspects of
the French economy are being adversely impacted by
sanctions that Washington forced its NATO puppet
states to apply to Russia.
This week the French president said that the
sanctions against Russia should end (so did the German
vice-chancellor).
This is too much foreign policy independence on France's
part for Washington. Has Washington resurrected "Operation
Gladio," which consisted of CIA bombing attacks against
Europeans during the post-WW II era that Washington blamed on
communists and used to destroy communist influence in
European elections? Just as the world was led to believe that
communists were behind Operation Gladio's terrorist attacks,
Muslims are blamed for the attacks on the French satirical
magazine.
The Roman question is always: Who benefits? The answer is:
Not France, not Muslims, but US world hegemony. US hegemony
over the world is what the CIA supports. US world hegemony is
the neoconservative-imposed foreign policy of the US.
According to National Public Radio, Charlie Hebdo is about
free speech. The US has free speech, claim NPR's pundits, but
terrorists have taken it away from the French.
Just how does the US have free speech when NY Times
reporter James Risen was psychologically put on the rack to force
him to reveal his source, despite the fact that Risen and his source
are protected by the US Constitution and whistleblower
protections. Clearly, in the US "national security" has trumped
everything else.
"National security" has nothing to do with national security. It
has only to do with protecting the criminals in the US government
from accountability for their crimes. Every time you hear
Washington invoke "national security," you know for a 100% fact
that the government has committed yet another crime. National
security is the cloak for Washington's criminal operations.
"National security" prevents the government's crimes from
coming to light and, thereby, protects government from
accountability.
One wonders what role "national security" will play in the trial
of alleged Boston Marathon Bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Tsarnaev
has been in custody since April 2013 and under indictment since
April 22, 2013. Yet jury selection is only now beginning in January
2015. Why this long delay? The guarantee of a speedy trial no
longer means anything, but with all sorts of charges in addition to
the bombing for which the government claims eye witnesses and
confessions and with the Tsarnaev brothers already convicted in
the media, the long delay is a puzzle. Yet, we have not heard from
Dzhokhar Tsarnaey himself. It is difficult to push away the thought

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that Dzhokhar's trial has been delayed in order to complete his

conditioning and acceptance of his guilt and in order for the many
questions raised by alternative media to be forgotten.
The print and TV media have dished up the government's
explanation without investigation. However, the alternative media
have taken great exception to every aspect of the case. As the US
government has taught us since the Clinton regime, the safest
assumption is that everything the government says is a lie.
The most suspicious aspect of the event was the speed with
which an army of 10,000 heavily armed troops consisting of
police from various jurisdictions and National Guard soldiers
outfitted in military gear and provided with tanks or armored

personnel carriers were on the streets of Boston. Never before has

such a massive force equipped with military heavy equipment
been employed in a manhunt, much less for one wounded,
unarmed, 19-year old kid.
For such a force to be assembled and deployed so quickly
suggests pre-planning. What was presented as a manhunt for one
badly wounded suspect looks more like a test case and precedent
for locking down one of America's largest cities, while squads of
troops evicted US citizens from their homes at gunpoint and
conducted indiscriminate searches of houses that contributed
nothing to apprehending the alleged suspect. The chances are
zero that any household would have harbored a badly wounded
unarmed fugitive dying from the lack of medical care.
Not only was Boston and its suburbs locked down, the
Federal Aviation Administration restricted airspace over Boston
and issued a "ground stop" for Logan airport. Why?
Several other cities in Massachusetts and even some other
states put their police forces on alert. Why?
On the scene were the FBI, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco
Firearms and Explosives, the CIA, the Drug Enforcement
Administration, the National Counterterrorism Center. The US
Attorney General committed the full resources of the US
Department of Justice.
Why?
The only plausible answer is to raise the fear level in order to

Charlie Hebdo:
Who Is To Blame?
DR. LUDWIG WATZAL
Two Muslim killers wiped out the whole editorial
team of the satirical weekly "Charlie Hebdo" at
noontime in Paris on Wednesday, January 7,
2015. This cold-blooded murder is an indefensible crime. The killers were said to claim that they
have "avenged the Prophet Mohammad". And
that they have shouted "Allahu Akbar", the usual
war cry also of fake Islamist terrorists. Have they committed their
heinous crime in the name or in defense of Islam? Charlie Hebdo
has a long history of angering Muslims with cartoons, but it caricatured also all religions.
Western politicians designated the event as an attack on freedom of press and freedom of speech, or on all of us. French
President Francois Hollande declared that France will not be intimidated and would not give up its freedom. Was the satirical magazine really a guardian of freedom of press or just a so-called critical magazine, which justified the US-led aggressions in the
Muslim world in the name of human rights? Minutes before the
attack, the magazine had tweeted a cartoon about the leader of the
Islamic State.
It seems as if the Islamic fanatics reflected the brutal religious
war being waged in Iraq and Syria and perhaps soon in Yemen and
Saudi-Arabia, too, which is going to effect the Western world. The
wars of the US Empire and its willful allies against the Muslim
world are a hotbed for Islamic radicalism. The scenario follows a
tit for tat logic. The atrocities, committed by Bush, Blair, Sarkozy
and Hollande, played right in the hands of modern jihadists. The

gain the public's acceptance of the lockdown of Boston and police

invasions of citizens' homes. It makes no sense that danger from
a badly wounded unarmed 19 year-old could possibly justify such
expense and trampling of constitutional rights of citizens.
A non-gullible person must wonder if the bombing was an
orchestrated event for the purpose of coordinating state, local,
and federal governments in the lockdown of a major city. A poll of
Bostonians last July found that 42 percent harbored doubts about
the official version of events. http://www.globalresearch.ca/fourin-ten-bostonians-skeptical-of-official-marathon-bombingaccount/5390848
The gullible always say that if a conspiracy existed someone
would have talked. But people do talk. It just doesn't do any good.
For example, during George W. Bush's first term a NSA
whistleblower leaked to the New York Times that the NSA was
bypassing the FISA Court and spying on American citizens
without warrants. Under US law, NSA was in a conspiracy with the
Bush regime to commit serious felonies (possibly for
the purpose of blackmail), but the New York Times
spiked the story for one year until George W. Bush was
re-elected and the regime had time to ex post facto
legalize the felonies.
Operation Gladio was a conspiracy kept secret for
decades until a President of Italy revealed it. The
Northwoods Project was kept secret until years
afterward when the second Kennedy Commission
revealed it.
More than one hundred first responder police and
firemen report hearing and personally experiencing
multiple explosions floor by floor and even in the subbasements of the World Trade Center twin towers, and
these testimonies had no effect whatsoever.
It only took one high school physics professor to
shoot down NIST's account of the collapse of WTC 7.
The fact that it has been conclusively proven that this
building was brought down by controlled demolition has
had no effect on the official story.
The co-chairmen and legal counsel of the 9/11
Commission published books in which they say that
information was withheld from the Commission, that the US
Military lied to the Commission, and that the Commission "was
set up to fail." Neither Congress, the media, nor the US public had
any interest in investigating why information was withheld, why
the military lied, and why the Commission was set up to fail.
These extraordinary statements by the leaders of the official
investigation had no impact whatsoever.
Even today a majority of the US population believes
Washington's propaganda that Russia invaded Ukraine and
annexed some provinces. Neither judgement nor intelligence are
strong points of the American public and juries.
Government tells Americans whatever story the government
puts together and sits and laughs at the gullibility of the public.
Today the US public is divided between those who rely on the
"mainstream media" and those who rely on the alternative Internet
media. Only the latter have any clue as to what is really happening.
The stories of Charlie Hebdo and the Tsarnaev brothers will be
based not on facts but on the interests of government. As in the
past, the government's interest will prevail over the
facts.(Paulcraigroberts.org)
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for
Economic Policy under President Reagan and associate editor of the
Wall Street Journal. His latest books are The Failure of Laissez Faire
Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the West and How America
Was Lost.

only remedy to stop the ride into the abyss is to terminate the war
against the regime of Bashar al-Assad and face the fundamentalist Saudi-Arabian dictatorship head-on.
France is a "stalwart ally" of the US-led war against the socalled Islamic State (IS or ISIL), as US President Obama's press
secretary, Josh Earnest, announced and he added "We know they
are not going to be cowed by this terrible act." The US-led Western
coalition has been killing Muslims by the Millions and ravaged
their countries since their attack on Afghanistan and Iraq. Are the
European-born jihadists who return from their "adventurers" in
Syria, Iraq and elsewhere considered the blowback of the murderous wars of Western imperialism waged in Afghanistan, Iraq,
Libya, Syria, Yemen or Mali?
France and Great Britain were leading the attack on Libya, and
France was at the helm when an attack on Syria was in the
pipeline. The former President Nikolas Sarkozy got the order to
raid Libya from a bellicose philosophy professor via mobile, and
President Hollande tried to drag Obama in another military adventure in Syria. The war against ISIL, which is a US and SaudiArabian creation in order to break up both countries, will continue
to promote the alienation between the Muslin world and the West.
The consequence of these wars are European jihadists moving to
the Middle East and taking part in the "clash of civilizations", which
was also an invention by US intellectuals in lieu of a lack of a
bogeyman after the disappearance of Soviet-style communism.
In promoting the Islamic enemy image, "Charlie Hebdo" was not
the real model of freedom of speech. It was rather one of many
mouthpieces of a predominant trend all across Europe that is
racist, islamophobic, xenophobic and exclusively Western valueoriented. This arrogant attitude is now bearing terrible fruit.
Nevertheless, the question remains: Who benefits from it?
Countercurrents.org)
Dr. Ludwig Watzal works as an editor and journalist in Bonn, Germany.
He runs the bilingual blog between the lines. http://between-the-linesludwig-watzal.blogspot.de/

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French Shootings: thoroughly

outrageous, but not totally unprovoked

Iraq when the prime mastermind of the

attacks could be killed much later in
Pakistan in an isolated attack? Why West
has continued to supply weapons in
Muslim countries to the rebels fighting
their governments? If Western weaponry
and financial and political support had not
been there, could more than two hundred
thousand people have lost their lives in Syria? Why could Muslim
governments and intellectual leaders not condemn in one voice the
cartooning of Prophet Muhammad, and why could they not make
it known to the French government in categorical terms that such
insults are totally unacceptable to the Muslim world?
The "Freedom of Expression" is used and allowed only to
target ideas which are inimical to West. If anyone raises voice
against their ways of life, he is hounded by the media and political
circles. Let anyone talk against gays and alcohol, the votaries of
the Freedom of Expression would not just limit themselves to
countering his viewpoint, but will target him with choicest of
abuses. If you even negate Holocaust while in Europe, you will end
up in jail. And often the extra-legal methods have been adopted to
even kill the critics of certain ideologies. Helping rebels against the
governments of their disliking is still going on in many Muslim
countries. What can be said of a system where nudity is used for
everything - for sale, for advertising, for caricaturing and for
protests? But these nudists should know that they cannot be
allowed to play nude with other cultures and their figureheads.
Hopefully, the French tragedy will not lead to just another
round of accusing Islam and Muslims, and West will pause to take
a peep into their own actions and injustices. Hopefully, the French
would also ponder over their own history of occupation and
brutalities in many Muslim countries and will count the dead there.
Hopefully, the Muslim political and intellectual world will learn to
raise their voice against Western designs, so that fringe elements
do not resort to such extreme methods in avenging the insults.
Hopefully again, they will also learn to ask questions rather than
simply keeping answering the questions raised in Western media.
Hopefully, they can ask them: when the whole Muslim World unites
in condemnation of violence perpetrated by any "Muslim," why do
they not unite in condemnation of violence, which kills Muslim
innocents in millions?

only a certain class of factors that suit the interests of the forces
that rule the roost.
The French shootings were totally outrageous, as any extraI have been arguing repeatedly in last few months, and will
continue to do so till the world recognizes the simple logic that legal shootings are. Even if the victims have committed a certain
violence of all kinds is worth condemning, irrespective of the crime, such revenges are unacceptable in a civilized society. But
identity of the victims or the perpetrators, the place, the motive and the truth remains that whatever the claims of different
the method, and that the condemnation and the efforts against denominations of society, the society today remains barbaric, in
violence must be proportional to the magnitude rather than the selection of its choices, as well as in results of these choices.
While every effort should be made in nabbing the criminals
category of violence.. Unfortunately, the world continues to be
extremely selective in condemnation, and in response, depending and giving them the punishment they deserve under the law of the
upon their likes and dislikes. Wars, moral, financial or weaponry country, the incident must also focus on the factors that are
support to rebels in any country for political aims, civil wars, responsible for terrorist attacks.
It is due to extraordinary perseverance of the Muslim World
terrorism, riots, day-to-day crimes like murders, rapes, planned
violence like abortions, violence against self (suicides), indirect that despite a long history of severest persecution and huge
violence through dangerous practices like alcoholism, uninhibited amount of loss of life caused by West and its allies, Muslims have
sex and smoking -- all these need to be minimized if the world is largely remained peaceful. But if certain fringe elements are taking
to become truly peaceful, and all the factors related to each of their anger to the point of launching such brutal attacks, it is also
them are to be simultaneously addressed instead of countering due to the fact that Muslim leadership - political, social as well as
intellectual, has miserably failed to bring an end through genuine
means to the unending brutalities of
Western governments in Muslim lands,
and an unending insult to Islam in their
own lands.
The governments of the Muslim
countries, instead of lodging protests
through all possible means, and
mounting pressure on Western
governments to end the violence and the
insult perpetrated on Muslims have
as great religious diversity. During the often become partners of West in
JOHN SCALES AVERY
1960's the civil rights movement destroying their own population. Why
The attack on Charlie Hebdo, in which fought against racial prejudice and can they not ask America: why it should
10 people were killed, claimed mas- gradually achieved most of its goals. be not held responsible for the death of
sive media attention worldwide. Thus, over a very long period of time, two million Muslims in Afghanistan and
Ever yone agreed that freedom of the United States learned to avoid
speech and democracy had been bru- racial and religious insults in its
tally attacked, and many people pro- media, and this hard-earned wisdom
claimed "Je suis Charlie!", in solidarity has allowed the very markedly multiwith the murdered members of the ethnic US society to function with a
minimum of racial and religious conmagazine's staff.
In Denmark, it was proposed that flicts.
Is this a lesson that the world as a
the offending car toons of the Prophet
Mohammad should be reprinted in whole needs to learn? I strongly
major newspapers. However, in the believe that it is. Globally, we are in
United States, there was no such pro- great need of a new ethic, which
posal, and in fact, US television view- regards all humans as brothers and
ers were not even allowed to see the sisters, regardless of race, religion or
drawings that had provoked the attack. nationality. Human solidarity will
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It is a Fight to Finish against Terrorism for Pakistan

KARAMATULLAH K. GHORI
k_k_ghori@yahoo.com
It would be nothing short of an understatement to say
that for Pakistan 2014 was, in the truest sense of the
word, annus horribilis as far as the country's unending tryst with terrorism is concerned.
The horrible, deadly, massacre of 134 school
children at Peshawar's Army School at the hands of
predatory Taliban in the twilight of the year is, no
doubt, still exacting an enormous price in collective trauma of the
nation. At the same time, however, the tragedy seems to have
steeled the nation in a determination and resolve seldom seen
before to take on the scourge of terrorism head-long and go after
the beast with the crystal-clear objective of slaying it.
That the struggle against the scourge of terrorism is being seen
as an existentialist battle in Pakistan is borne out by the government
responding fully and effectively to the people's vociferous demand
to get done with the challenge before it. This is a welcome change
for a government that had been practically sitting on its haunches
until the trauma of Peshawar massacre galvanized it enough to
respond to the public outcry for immediate action against the murderous terrorists.
Moved by the national consensus that the battle against the
murderers of the Taliban and their ilk is a fight to finish, Nawaz Sharif
and his government have come up, quickly, with a concerted plan
to take on the barbaric murderers. The plan includes the immediate
formation of a Federal Counter Terrorism Force (FCTF) equipped
with most modern gadgets and tools of equipment needed to fight
the scourge of terrorism. It will be equipped to move into anti-terrorism operations anywhere in the country at short notice.
However, the jewel in the crown is an all-parties consensus to
set up military courts to deal with the mushrooming cases of terrorism in the country.
This measure, extra-ordinary that it may be, had been necessary to make up for the sluggish and questionable pace of the regular courts of law in their handling of terrorism cases presented to
them. It has been an age-old grouse of the people, and security and
law-enforcing agencies as well, that regular courts are not only too
slow and sluggish in dispensing justice but too often also influenced
by non-judicial consideration. The sad result of these twin evils is
that a vast majority of terrorism cases has seen terrorists acquitted
from these courts and going scot-free for-what has been cryptically described in legal jargon as-lack of evidence.
Judges presiding over terrorism-related courts have also been
taking cover behind allegedly ill-prepared and insufficiently-documented cases brought before them by the police. There's, no doubt,
a grain of truth in the judges' grouse that police and other concerned
agencies don't do enough home- work before putting the ball in the
judiciary's court. Yet it has been insufficient to silence public criticism of 'tainted' courts that are too often either too corrupt or too
timid to dispense justice to the terrorists. Popular wisdom in
Pakistan also suggests that lower courts of judiciary don't have
enough backbone to stand up to the terrorists and, more often than
not, are scared of the threats made by the terrorists and their sympathisers.
Against such a perspective it's easy to appreciate why all the
major political parties of Pakistan have come on board the suggestion that justice be dispensed quickly and effectively; which can be
done by bringing in military courts that wouldn't be subject to corruption and arm-twisting by terrorists and their facilitators.
However, the Pakistani experience of the military's involvement
in statecraft, especially its management of the country's political
directions, is fraught with bitter disappointment. That, per se, brings
in a lot of questions, misgivings and doubts rushing into any narra-

Israel increased the

Settlement Division budget
by 600 percent in 2014

The malady has intensified, as everybody

knows, because it has been allowed to fester
and spread, cancer-like, into the sinews of
Pakistan. Governments-until the recent trauma
of Peshawar shook them out of a deep slumber--have been prone to postponing treating the
disease for a variety of reasons-mostly illogical
and ill-advised.
tive focused on the introduction of military justice into an issue that
has acquired the dimensions of a life-and-death struggle for
Pakistan.
No doubt that dealing decisively with the menace of terrorism
and knocking it a death blow has assumed such dimensions that
the Pakistanis shouldn't be concerned at all with what tools are
deployed to achieve the objective. As in the aftermath of the 9/11
cataclysm in US-with the mantra of 'security trumping liberty' gaining nation-wide acceptance and currency, and a timeless spanPakistan should also be moving into a similar mould.
But such is the Pakistani experience of military intervention in
political and civilian issues that even in the jaws of an existentialist
threat to its national polity, there's an ongoing debate, already, if this
recourse to military justice will not be paving the way for another
military ingress into the civilian domain and, ultimately, its wholesale
takeover?
The naysayers to military courts, albeit their numbers are small
and their circle of influence is largely academic, are reminding the
people of Pakistan that a mature people once bitten are twice shy.
They are alluding to what had happened under General Ziaul Haq.
That military dictator had come to power promising to hold fresh
general elections within 90 days in his capacity as an impartial referee and, that done, return to his barracks. However, he stayed on
as an absolute ruler for 11 years until his accidental death in a plane
crash in August, 1988.
With this unsavory experience under their belt, the skepticism
of Pakistani intelligentsia is not unwarranted or cynical. They have
been stung, many a times, by military Bonapartes and their false
promises and are, as such, entitled to take the initiative with a good
grain of doubt and trepidation.
This time around, however, the national ambience ushering military's intervention in a limited role is entirely different from the past.
For one, it's the civilian, democratic, dispensation which is calling
upon the military to come to its assistance with a clear and categorical mandate. It will not be taking over the judicial process of dealing with the terrorists. Rather, military courts will be an adjunct to
the regular judiciary; the only difference coming into play in the
equation will be the alacrity of military justice.
Popular approbation for the military courts has its provenance
in the general perception that the process of trial and punishment is
much swifter in them, compared to the sluggish pace of the regular
courts of law. In its current mood of despondency and frustrationbred, largely, by bureaucratic lethargy and insouciance-the people
of Pakistan want to see, more than any other thing, justice being
done, speedily, in favour of the victims of terrorism and, by implication, the murderers punished without foot-dragging.
The legislation being enacted in response to this rising public
demand for terrorists to be dealt out swift and appropriate punishment still includes proper checks and balances to ensure against
abuse of justice in military courts. Their verdicts would, in most
cases, still be subject to review by superior courts, to answer one
recurring fear among the intellectuals that military courts would be
a law unto themselves.
Those supporting the move for quick dispensation of justice
under military courts are highlighting the element of shelf-life of two
occupied West Bank and Golan Heights. The majority of the
money is devoted to expanding settlements on Palestinian land in
the West Bank.
The settlements around the Gaza Strip such as Sha'ar Negev
and Sdot Negev received only 500 thousand shekels, which has
led to anger from the settlers in the area. During yesterday's
Knesset Finance Committee meeting they demanded better compensation after "everything that they have suffered" during the war
on Gaza.
The newspaper pointed out that the majority of the Division's
budget is shifting towards supporting settlement construction in
West Bank in the absence of transparent procedures in transferring and allocating the funds. (middleeastmonitor.com)

On the Other Side of the Road - an

Israeli documentary about the Nakba
Palestinians protesting against the Tumblr illegal settlement
on the West Bank
The Israeli government has increased the Settlement Division
budget by 600 percent since the beginning of 2014, an unprecedented rise, reported Israel's business newspaper Calcalist.
According to the newspaper's website, the Settlement Division
received 58 million shekels during the month of January.
In March, 2014, 177 million shekels was given to the Division
from the Israeli government and in the month of June it received a
further 169 million shekels. In total it is believed that the Division
has received nearly 404 million shekels so far this year.
The Settlement Division funds construction projects in the
Galilee and the Negev, as well as settlement construction in the

This documentary by
L
i
a
Tarachansky
proposes a
cathartic difference about
t
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e
Pa l e s t i n i a n
Nakba; the
1948 catastrophe
of
Palestinian fleeing their villages in 1948
Israel's ethnic
cleansing of
over 500 Palestine villages and cities and the forced expulsion of
750,000 indigenous residents and its ongoing dispossession

years stipulated in the new legislation for them. However, naysayers

jeer the shelf-life by reminding their interlocutors of General Ziaul
Haq's 90 days that stretched into 11 years. Once in the saddle-the
intellectuals'line of argument goes-the army empowers itself with its
own tools of time and space, which may or may not have any relevance to the original scheme of things.
But howsoever convincing the intelligentsia may sound in its
articulation what has clinched the issue in favour of military courts
is the exigencies of time factor. In the words of PM Nawaz Sharifarticulated in summation of the national debate on the issue-these
are 'extraordinary times; and extraordinary times demand extraordinary actions. So biting the bullet in favour of the military courts is
an idea whose time has come for Pakistan, much as it may taste
bitter or unsavoury in the mouths of the intelligentsia.
And yet this casting of a new dye to tackle the monster of terrorism may not be the end of it. It's not only the skeptics and
Cassandras doubting the efficacy of the proposed new measures to
root out the cancer of terrorism from Pakistan's body-politic for
good-warts and all. Pragmatists and realists-not necessarily
equipped with crystal-balls to look into for clairvoyance---are also
convinced that the new measures would, at best, treat the symptoms of the disease but not the deadly virus of terrorism itself that
has been devouring Pakistan for so long.
The malady has intensified, as everybody knows, because it
has been allowed to fester and spread, cancer-like, into the sinews
of Pakistan. Governments-until the recent trauma of Peshawar
shook them out of a deep slumber---have been prone to postponing treating the disease for a variety of reasons-mostly illogical and
ill-advised.
In the deplorable process of given a free run, the cancer of terrorism has spread unchecked. It would be a total fallacy for anyone
to suggest that the Taliban and their ignoble ilk have only the tribal
belt of Pakistan for their fiefdom. Far more sinister than that, the
Taliban & Co. have the entire country in their thrall. They have penetrated the urban terrain of a huge metropolis like Karachi, or
Lahore, or Peshawar, for that matter, with as much facility and convenience as they have buried their tentacles in the fertile breeding
grounds of Pakistan's rural hinterland.
What would pose the biggest challenge to anyone determined
to take the battle to the enemy is the mind-set that may still be reluctant to accept that the Taliban and their likes pose an existentialist
threat to Pakistan. The country's decades-old flirtation with a devious and convoluted interpretation of Islam-the so-called raison d'etre of Pakistan's founding-is at the root of the poisonous crop of
nihilistic terrorism being harvested, now, from its one end to another.
To say the very least, the monster looking Pakistan menacingly
in its face and threatening to devour it has been bred and pampered
on a staple diet of illiteracy and ignorance of the basic call of Islam.
What is clearly an affront to the pristine noble calling of a religion
steeped in peace for all and co-existence with everyone has been
hawked as 'true Islam' in Pakistan for decades. Pakistan will have to
pull itself out of this rut before standing any chance to get on the
path of deliverance, for good, from the pestilence of terrorism. It will
not be easy. No quick fixes will work, no matter how neatly packaged and offered as panacea for the country's ills.
As these lines were being finished, news has just come in of the
Pakistan National Assembly having approved of the 21st constitutional amendment to facilitate the institution of military courts for a
fixed period of two years. The amendment was approved by more
than two-thirds majority of the House. But bringing in a new law to
help fight terrorism is the easier part; a much tougher fight is still
ahead. Taking the fight to the terrorist sanctuaries and hide-outs
would take all the grit and determination from a nation badly bruised
by its unending bout with terrorism.


through illegal settlement expansion.
Lia Tarachansky, an ex-settler from Israel's largest illegal
colony, Ariel is a feisty, uncompromising journalist. She is Israel's
Snowden. She is disclosing to her people and the world, not classified documents, but living words of truth that unmask Israel's
manufactured myths, delusional innocence and vicious cycle of
violence. She presents the Nakba from the unusual viewpoint of its
perpetrators and the 'inheritors' of its stolen booty- the land of
Palestine. The other protagonists are Eitan Bronstein founder of
Zochrot and Palmach veterans, Tivka Honig-Parnass and Amnon
Noiman. Amnon's struggle to come out of the torture chamber of
silent guilt is vivid and brave. The difference factor is metanoia, a
profound moral and intellectual change of mind.
A conversion. Tarachansky offers a simple weapon to slay
Israel's enemy within; not Palestinian Israelis nor Palestinians in
general, but, the real enemy within is the hasbaric (propaganda)
cruel brainwashing of Israelis from the moment of birth into the
psychotic groupthink of superior racism/victimhood.
Netanyahu and his Knesset mates should watch and learn
from the documentary, particularly the scenes where Tarachansky
filmed a young Palestinian journalist, Khalid Abu Hamdeh from the
Balata refugee camp in Nablus, who managed to get a 12 hour
visa to visit, for the first time, the ruins of his ancestral village,
Qaqun, near Jaffa, sharing every excited sacred step with his
grandmother on his mobile phone. My grandfather told me stories
of before the Nakba. We were living together, sharing everything
together, if someone need help from the Jewish, we give them
help. So what happened the Zionist came and destroyed everything. Through her, and through other Israeli champions of truth
such as members of Zochrot, Breaking the Silence, Shministim,
Adalah, Women in Black, MachsomWatch, the revolutionary conversion of the modern belligerent Israelites into a people of peace
is possible. (intifada-palestine.com)

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Shaytan is the third between a Man and Woman meeting in secret

ARFA SAIRA IQBAL
Islam forbids free-mixing of men and women in
case it leads to fitnah and illicit relationships. In
the West, its extremely common to have a girlfriend or boyfriend, whereas Islam prohibits this.
Instead, it is encouraged to marry early to prevent problems.
The Prophet (pbuh) says: No man is alone
with a woman but the Shaytan is the third one
present. [Narrated by Ahmad, Tirmidhi and
Hakim)
Before marriage, Shaytan does his BEST to
cause two people to commit sin and have a
haram relationship...
But after marriage, the same two people that
Shaytan tried so hard to tempt into doing bad
things are now under attack from him so they
are forced to split apart! Why? Because once a
marriage takes place, the husband and wife are
now halal (legitimate) for each other.
And because they are halal for each other, it
means that Shaytan has failed in his objective to
make people sin. And on top of this, Allah SWT
in His infinite mercy will reward a husband and
wife coming together!
This infuriates the Shaytan even further, so
he now focuses his energy to destroy the home
environment so that eventually the husband and

wife will split apart and any children will be

affected.
The Prophet (pbuh) said: Iblis [Shaitan]
places his throne upon water; he then sends
detachments (for creating dissension between
people); the nearer to him in rank are those who
are most notorious in creating dissension. One
of them comes and says: I did so and so. And
he says: You have done nothing. Then one
amongst them comes and says: I did not spare
so and so until I sowed the seed of discord
between a husband and a wife. Shaytan goes
near him and says: You have done well. He then
embraces him. (Muslim)
So what can you do to protect your home
and prevent Shaytan from entering it? Here are
some tips:
1. Shaytan is made from fire, so one of the
best ways to protect yourself from being affected by him is to make wudu [ablution], since the
water will put the fire out! In real terms, if you
and your spouse are arguing, go and make wudu
and insha Allah your anger will disappear.
The prophet (pbuh) said: When one of you
gets angry, let him make ablution with water as
anger arises out of fire. In another narration, the
Prophet said: Anger comes from the devil and
the devil is made of fire.
2. Recite Surah Baqarah over three nights in

Is Nikah not my right?

In order to make Nikah easy and conjugal relationship strong, it is necessary that the boy and
girl should be religious-minded and God-fearing. Allahs Prophet lays priority on this. Other attributes, i.e., beauty, wealth, pedigree etc can be helpful in making a marital relationship strong...
of witnesses and payment of Mahr. Walima may
DR. MUHAMMAD MOAZZAM ALI
be prescribed in accordance with the financial
I ask young boys and girls, senior, learned and status of the boy, his parents. Neither large
religious persons and leaders of Muslim society amount of Mahr nor sumptuous walima (lunch
if Nikah is not my right; also, if leading a or dinner) should be expected. Lunch or dinner
respectable, God-fearing life is not my right, is by girls family has not been prescribed.
Nikah being ordained as a worship, it may be
seeking His pleasure, following the path leading
to Paradise also not my right, particularly when performed as a worship, i.e., in a very simple way
Nikah is a Sunnat, a worship and a matter of because in worship there are no useless customs
honour? Why then difficulties have been creat- or needless show of wealth etc. Like worship, there
ed for us? Is it not the responsibility of our soci- should be simplicity, sincerity and humility. When
ety to be helpful in making Nikah easy for young Nikah is a Sunnat, it should be performed as a
boys and girls? This is a heart-rending voice of Sunnat, as has been stated by the Prophet that
those who want to get married. This question Nikah is my Sunnat and whoever shuns my ways
has nothing to do with me. Hence, Nikah as a
demands serious attention.
If the truth and necessity of Nikah is kept in prophetic tradition is very respectable.
Such a lofty and easy matter has been made
mind, these questions become easy and if forgotten, life will become difficult as it is, or is very difficult for parents of both boys and girls by
being made today. Nikah should be freed from formalising so many unwanted and unnecessary
unnecessary customs, traditions, extravagance, customs, financial and other burdens, contrary to
fashion etc and should be treated as a worship the fact that Islam does not put financial burden on
and Sunnat of our Prophet (pbuh). God and His weaker sections and those who are dependent on
prophet made Nikah easy and pronounced it to others. Islams principle of life style is that a girl is
be a sort of worship, hence Nikah is made easy born and brought up in her parents house and
in Islam. It should be made valid in the presence when she goes to her husbands house, her main-

your home, since Shaytan will run away from a

home in which this Surah is recited. If you are
busy, you can play a recitation of Surah Baqarah
instead - just be sure to complete the surah by
the third day.
3. Get into the habit of keeping your tongue
busy with the remembrance of Allah SWT and
make dhikr often. Shaytan will not whisper to
you if you do this.
4. When you feel an argument coming on,
recite Audhu billahi min al-shaytaani-r-ragim
and Shaytan will run away from you.
5. If you fear your spouses anger gets too
much for you, recite Aytul Kursi as much as you
can.
6. The Prophet (pbuh) gave the following
advice for calming down arguments: He (pbuh)
said: Anger is a burning coal. Dont you see
your eyebrows wide and eyes reddish? So when
one of you feels angry, let him sit down if standing, and lie down if sitting.
There are many ways in which you can calm
a situation down and this is especially important
for women to know who have husbands with a
short temper.
And finally, learn to control your tongue.
Nothing is more destructive than a foul mouth
and argumentative nature. Let me leave you with
a final hadith about anger:

Once, a person was verbally abusing Abu

Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) while the
Prophet (peace be upon him) was curiously
watching with a smile. After taking much abuse
quietly, Abu Bakr responded to a few of his comments. At this, the Prophet exhibited his disapproval, got up and left. Abu Bakr caught up with
the Prophet and wondered, O Messenger of
Allah, he was abusing me and you remained
quiet. When I responded to him, you disapproved and left! The Messenger of Allah
responded,
There was an angel with you responding to
him. When you responded to him, Shaytan took
his place. He then said:
O Abu Bakr, there are three solid truths: If a
person is wronged and he forbears it (without
seeking revenge) just for the sake of Allah
Almighty, Allah will honour him and give him the
upper hand with His help; if a person opens a
door of giving gifts for cementing relationships
with relatives, Allah will give him abundance;
and, if a person opens a door seeking charity for
himself to increase his wealth, Allah will further
reduce
his
wealth.
(Musnad
Ahmad).(PureMatrimony.com)

tenance and responsibility falls on her husband;

hence Islam has not put the responsibility of lunch
or dinner on her parents. In such a case, making
too many demands on her parents results in financial burden on parents and delays marriage of their
daughters. Such traditions should be strictly discouraged and even abolished. These customs are
a curse, the victims of which are all families when
their daughters are to get married.
Unnecessary show of opulence and outdated customs have been, and are being considered today as an essential part of wedding while
the truth is that large marriage parties, grand
arrangements and vulgar display of wealth and
fashion etc are not true source of happiness. If
something becomes a burden and a matter of
worry, it cannot be called happiness. God and
His Prophet are certainly not pleased with
extravagance, waste of time and hypocrisy. If
too many people are invited or too many people
participate in marriage functions, it does not add
to ones pleasure and happiness. Parents feel
happy if small number of people who hold similar views and are close and sincere relatives and
friends participate. Therefore, if marriages are
solemnised in accordance with Allahs pleasure
and Prophets Sunnat, people will be really
happy at heart.
In order to make Nikah easy and conjugal
relationship strong, it is necessary that the boy
and girl should be religious-minded and Godfearing. Allahs Prophet lays priority on this.
Other attributes, i.e., beauty, wealth, pedigree etc

can be helpful in making a marital relationship

strong but these things in themselves are not a
strong foundation for a successful conjugal life.
Hence in the marriage sermon, attention to fear
of God is mentioned four times so that the husband and wife fear Allah and fulfill their respective rights, duties and responsibilities towards
the other as a result of which they will lead a life
of love, peace and honour in this world and merit
Allahs, pleasure and blessings in the Hereafter.
What we have stated here may appear somewhat strange because Islamic teachings look
strange these days. Man considers those things
right and useful with which his mind and heart are
familiar, and considers those things wrong and outdated with which he is not familiar. Thats why peoples thinking has become such that they consider
the present rubbish customs, traditions, grandeur,
pomp and show, large parties, big amounts of
Mahr and so forth as the standard way of life. In the
mad race for these, they have drifted away from
Islams pristine teachings. Spending large amounts
on invitation cards is regrettable. Thousands of
rupees are spent for a moments appreciation and
pride. These days Net and sms can be used
because all kinds of official and private smss can
be sent this way. Hence, without any trouble and
hesitation, these invitations can also be sent in a
simple way and messages, dates and places can
be safely recorded. Attention should therefore be
paid to such simple, easy and cheap methods to
save money and ensure happiness of all.
(Translated from Urdu by MG staff)

Arfa Saira Iqbal is an author, strategist and Project

Manager of Pure Matrimony. Arfa is an avid writer
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the fiftieth anniversary of the Poona Pact of 1932, when Gandhi
blackmailed Ambedkar to sign a pact that he would give up on the
demand for a separate electorate for the depressed classes
awarded by the British Government. The author has fallen short of
critically engaging with the text of Chamcha Age. On many occasions the author inserts long quotations, disturbing the coherence
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born into the oppressed community but had been serving the
interests of the oppressors.
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Ravidas, through his preaching, tried to reform Hindu society so
that the lower castes were not tempted to convert to Islam and the
Varna system was maintained (p. 121).
The myths and propagandas of the Hindu Right that the
medieval period saw the forceful conversion of Hindus to Islam
has been refuted by many secular historians. They have largely
agreed that the egalitarian ideology of Islam provided a relief to
lower castes, who were suppressed by the Brahminical social
order.
The fifth chapter is about the BSP, its bid for power and the
role of Kanshi Ram. The author rightly acknowledges Kanshirams
ability to sway and mobilize large crowds, who realised that in
democracy if the oppressed majority are made conscious of their
votes the master key, or Guru Killi, which Kanshi Ram would often
refer to, can be seized. As he always spoke in peoples language,
his concept of democracy is expressed in these simple yet profound words: Lokshahi mein rani aur mehtarani ki keemat ek hi
hoti hai. (In a democracy the worth of a queen and that of a maid
is the same, p. 165). Kanshi Ram, rejecting the radical armed
struggle pursued by a section of communists mobilised the
Bahujan through Constitutional means and democratic processes.
The sixth, seventh and eighth chapters are a discussion of the
criticism and limitations of Kanshi Ram and his party. For
instance, he was alleged to have indulged in opportunism as a
strategy. For example, the BSP, according to his critics, welcomed
defectors like Arif Mohammad Khan and Akbar Ahmed Dumpy,
while it forged alliances with the BJP which it had opposed.
Kanshiram, writes Narayan, faced the greatest flak in his political career over the BSP coming to power twice in UP with the
support of the BJP (p. 181)
Ram at Ayodhya, Krishna at Mathura, Shiva at Kashi and
Viswanath in Varansi holiest for Hindus like Kaaba and Bethlehem
for Muslims and Christians caused a stir.
Keshavram Kashiram (Keka) Shashtri formed Vishwa Hindu
Parishad (VHP) on 29 August 1964 for Hindu social consolidation.
Swami Chinmayananda, the first VHP president, had least influence
on BJS in the 1960s. VHP proved to be a milestone for BJP after 25
years when Indias secularism diminished through Ayodhya.
A frenzied Hindu mob demolished Babri Masjid on December
6, 1992 while Advani and other BJP/VHP leaders witnessed it.
Narasimha Rao led Congress government at the Centre was its
silent spectator. A series of communal riots erupted across India
leading to mass murder of Muslims and destruction of their property on a huge scale. Within the next 10 years came the Sanghled pogrom in Gujarat in 2002.
The BJP lost 2004 polls narrowly. A turning point came when
Vajpayee was out of power and RSS-deputed Rajnath Singh to
preside over the party. Advani led the party in 2008 general elections, with a dream to become prime minister, but he lost.
Indira Gandhis assassination on October 31, 1984 by Sikh
bodyguards brought a sympathy wave for Congress. Winning 414
seats, it had come into power while BJP encountered obliteration
with a mere two seats, one each from Gujarat and Andhra
Pradesh. Vajpayee had stepped down to pave the way for Advani
to lead the party, who alongside MM Joshi, Kedar Nath Sahni,
Pramod Mahajan and K. L. Sharma overhauled it. Advani tried to
rebuild the party on an anti-Muslim platform.
Communal riots broke out in Mumbai, Surat and Bhopal after
the Babri Masjid demolition. It was time for BJP to take Ayodhya
issue to the next level-Ram Mandir construction.
After 13 days a Vajpayee-led government at the Centre fell in
1996 as it had only 161 seats in Lok Sabha. BJP increased its
seats to 182 after fresh elections and Atal Behari Vajpayee
became prime minister again on 19 March 1998.
Vajpayee faced embarrassment when the then BJP president, Bangaru Laxman was caught on camera accepting bribe.
Hawala operator SK Jain claimed to have paid LK Advani
Rs 35 lakhs which stopped him from staking a claim to premiership in 1996 and 1998. He came in forefront once again
in 2009 elections with the BJP projecting him as prime ministerial candidate that he would always fancy. The partys India
Shining and Feel good factor did not work and it got only
116 seats, less than 138 of 2004.
The BJP was got restructured on March 31, 2013 for 2014
general elections. Modi became the partys parliamentary
board member. He became chief of campaign committee on
June 9, 2013 and prime ministerial candidate on September
14, 2013. Advani resigned from the partys parliamentary
board, national executive and election committee.
Narendra Modi became prime minister in 2014. Paradoxically,
the historic win made the party tinnier than the prime minister.
The reviewer is assistant professor and media relations
specialist at the Saudi Ministry of Higher Education. He worked
earlier as an executive producer in ETV Networks. He may be
contacted at asifanwaralig@gmail.com.

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Chicken Dum Biryani

Daughter of Nasiruddin, she was the first Muslim lady of Bengal who stood up against the British. She was
arrested and sent to Kala Pani where she took her last breath. Akbari Begum was the mother of Barrister
Asif Ali. She inspired Muslim women through her speeches to join the non-cooperation movement. In May
1920, she delivered a historic speech in which she said, "We should hold our religion firm and socially
boycott the people who oppose it."

Ingredients:
500 gm rice (long grain, basmati rice);
500 gm chicken, in evenly sized pieces

Answer at the bottom of the page.

A Z R

Marinade:
2 tsp ground white pepper;
Juice of 1/2 lemon (skip if marinating for anything over 4 hours)
1/2 Tbsp desi ghee; 2 tsp garlic paste;
1.5 tsp ginger paste; 1 cup onion, chopped;
2 tsp chilli powder; 1 tsp fennel or saunf powder;
1.5 heaped tsp salt; 2 cups water (if needed); 1 cup yogurt
Masala:
(roast in a bit of oil and grind to a fine paste)
5 cloves; 4 cardamoms; 2 bay leaf; 2 inch piece of cinnamon
3 medium sized onions, chopped and fried till golden

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Method:
Wash the rice and soak it in water.

Cut the chicken into even sized pieces. In a bowl add all the marinade
ingredients and coat the chicken pieces well. Let it marinate for a few
hours, overnight in the fridge is also alright.

Put the water with the ball strainer on boil. The utensil should be big
enough to accommodate 500 grams of cooked rice, along with excess
water. Make sure the water and the rice doesn't boil over.

In the meanwhile heat ghee/oil in a pan and add all the spices for the
masala, take the garam masala out When the spices are roasted and leave
of their fragrance, add the onions and fry till still retain a bit of their original color, they'll cook in their own heat and become golden. Take it out and
divide in two. Grind one part with the other masala and jaiphal. Youll need
the other part to add to the cooked chicken. Set aside.

W W

Finishing Spices:
1/2 tsp green cardamom powder
1/2 tsp fennel powder
1/2 cup cream (optional, won't make a difference)
3 tsp kewra water; half a javitri, grated
Spice preparation for Rice: (in a separate small utensil)
1 gram saffron; 1 medium sized onion, chopped, fried and strained
an inch cube of Ginger, grated
3 green chillies, sliced; 150 grams of the rice cooked in garam masala
For Cooking Rice: (in a separate utensil)
a small piece of jaiphal (in 3 litres of water)
whole garam masala in a ball strainer; Salt, a tsp (optional)

In the oil you fried onions, in a pan with large surface area, on high heat,
carefully pick and drop the chicken pieces, starting with the biggest ones,
wait for the chicken to change color and turn the pieces over if you like
and add a cup of yogurt. Keep 3 cooked, dried, pureed tomatoes at hand.
If you feel the chicken is cooking fast, add them to the pan/if you like
gravy add them any way but cook them separately.
Once the water boils, add the rice to it. Cook for about 7 minutes or till the
rice is nearly done. Strain and work quickly so the rice doesn't cool down.
Cook till chicken is nearly done and doesn't have much water left (till the
chicken is partially cooked)once off the stove, add the finishing spices
and the ground masala and fried onion.
Add the cream to it. Add 2 caps of Kewra.
This is the infusion in which the rice will be cooked. Keep this aside.

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REROPVID, EPNERO, RICTYOV, GNINOKW, OECIITMSNN

Add the rice to the grated ginger and sliced green chillies, et al., in the utensil.
In the layering utensil add rice in a third, slightly overlapping with the chicken mix, add the green chilli and
fried onion rice in one part, taking care that the onion rice doesnt overlap much with the chiken mix.
Let it cook on low heat (on dum, in it's own heat) covered with a wet kitchen towel for about half an hour
or 60 minutes. (Till the chicken and rice are fully cooked.)

Check the seasoning before adding rice after which you would not be able
to adjust it.

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REJOINDERS/OPINION/LETTERS
Hindutva & Zionism
Anand Patwardhan (MG, Dec. 1-15) has very straightforward analysed
the Sangh Parivars activities. Yet may humble mind wonders how despite
Golwalkars love for Hitler the Zionist state is friendly with the Sangh?!
S. Akhtar, Amod - 392110
Pravasi Divas
The newspapers are full of the latest sarkari natak, the Pravasi Divas.
While one M. K. Gandhi and one N. D. Modi appear prominently, easily the
most patriotic Bharatiya of the 20th century, the late N. V. Godse, is not
mentioned even in passing. I protest this shabby treatment of a man who
is to be honoured with a bust in Parliament and a temple in Sitapur.
Mukul Dube, Mayur Vihar 1, Delhi 110091
uthappam@gmail.com
Mock battle
So-called secular and saffron parties have been playing noora kushti to
deceive Muslims and usurp Muslim dues. In the 31 Dec. night a mock
drill to nab terrorists was aired on news channels. The terror actors were
wearing skull-caps. Again on 1 January, skull cap-wearing terror actors
shouting Islamic slogans during a mock drill in Gujarat appeared in media
after Surat mock drill episode. TV debates started. Leaders of Congress
and other parties attacked BJPs mindset profiling Muslims as
terrorists. Subarmanium Swamy of BJP replied that in Congress-ruled
stated Maharashtra mock terror drill with terror actors wore skull-caps in
Ambadkar Stadium on 8 Sept., 2011. Congress brought TADA, BJP
introduced POTA. BJP banned SIMI, Congress apealed to SC after High
Court lifted the banl it rejected the demand for inquiry in the fake Batla
House encounter which Congress declared as genuine. Safforn brigade
protested against AMU campus in Kishanganj and dubbed it Terror
School, Congress in eight year could not allow it to be built and before
parliamentary elections Sonia Gandhi laid the foundation-stone without
any budgetary allocations... In Indian politics, noora kushti is a tamasha
to loot Muslim share in every walk of life.
S. Haque, Patna
Stop foul religious conversation and dont be the learned fools
Cruelty, riots, holocausts and killings of innocent citizens in India re the
hobby of the saffaronists. Since, they assumed the rule in Delhi. They
have turned as big bosses of backward communities and dalits. Wo gave
this patronage to the saffaronists to convert people to superstitious and
barbarism. The citizens are being forced to leave monotheism and enter
into polytheism. Every citizens has right to live in the country according
to his religion. No rule, law or constitution to force a person to convert
another religion. Saffaronists are worshiping animals, reptiles, manmade
idols of stones, clay, metals, wood etc. A structure for worshiping
almighty god who created the universe and mankind was demolished in
day light with the support of police, military and the state chief minister
only to install an idol in the name of Ram which is only a character of
story Ramayana written by Sri Valmikhi which action was a savagery and
a remarkable foolishness in the world history. Paying some money and
threatens the poors who are wandering for a handful of food can easily
be converted, but those converted will not be real idolaters India is going
to perish by such ravage and coward, atrocious behaviour of sangh
parivar, rulers. A total brain wash is urgently needed to them to enable for
maintaining peace, secularism, prosperity and reputation of the country.
Dont show your timidity on innocent Muslims as they are strictly
following and adhering one god and one father. We need DHAN VAPASI ie
the whole wealth of Mughal Kings, Hyderabad Nizams, Arcot Nawabs,
Hyder Ali - Tippu Sulthan of Mysore etc were looted by the Indian Rulers
and smuggled to London which are being sold out bit by bit through
public auction. The original heirs of these wealths are now wandering
across the country for half stomach food. The last Mughal King Jaffer
Shah and his family were driven out from Delhi by British and local Jana
Sangh leaders in the dark night and they were got asylum at Burma
jungles. Now the last Queen andher children are living in the Culcutta
slums. Her sons are working as menials in the culcutta market. Will this
pitiable situation be reformed and returned the wealth, the palaces
including the gold and diamonds to these royal family members. Give
preference to Dhan Vapasi.
Raj Mohan, Kochi
Godse and his statue
It is rather disgrace to the Indian nation that a culprit who killed Deshpita
Mahatma Gandhi is now. Being made a hero not only this but his
supporters are making his statue and bring erected , the more
condemned is the fact that the central Government is mute and taking no
action against culprits , all those involved must be hanged.this is crime
more severe than the crime of Indian Mujahifin or the Naxalites , Modi and
the BJP should resign on this misfortune. All the lovers of Bapuji should
make strong protest on this proposal nd all the culprits be hanged. On
janter Manter without delay.
Dr AH Maqdoomi, Hyderabad
Muslim brotherhood was never a terrorist organisation
In reference to the report published in MG 16-31 December 2014, I would
like to add a few words. After M. Morsi had come to power in Egypt
through democratic way, the scenario of political, socio-economic and
diplomatic welfare of the country were about to revive under his great
leadership. Morsi immediately closed down the Sinai-Palestine corridor
signaling that Egypt would not be part of an unresolving problem, rather
it will take part in solving Palestine problem after becoming a developing
one. Morsi invited then Iran President Mahmud Ahmedinijad to Egypt and
embraced him at the airport which showed his willingness of
inclusiveness. At the same time Morsi was working towards making
Egypt diplomatically important and strong. Now these were the signs
which Israel, west and Saudi Arabia disliked. Someone rightly said that
Israel does not fear even the nuclear arm ;it fears democracy only. Same
was applicable for Saudi Arabia. So, the conspiracy began and Morsis
dream of peaceful, prosperous and strong Egypt was brought down again
to a military paradigm.
Shah Jamal
shahemperor@gmail.com
Two standards, one for Shah, another for Lakhvi
Today on TV channels two news are being shown which are very
confusing. In one news it is shown that Lakhvi (mastermind of 26/11)
was released on bail by Pakistani Court (in 26/11 case) saying that there
are not sufficient evidences against Lakhvi hence as per Pak court it does
not justify further judicial custody of Lakhvi. But India objects to it
because India says that it has given enough evidences to Pakistan about
complicity of Lakhvi in 26/11. These Indian evidences are allegedly based
mainly on telephone (mobile) conversation between terrorist in Mumbai
(who were carrying out 26/11) and Lakhvi who was allegedly giving
instructions and monitoring 26/11. In second news it is shown that
Subordinate (CBI) Court has given clean chit to Amit shah (Presently BJP

President and then Home Minister of Gujarat) because telephone calls

between Amit Shah and police officers who carried out fake encounter of
Sohrabuddin were not considered sufficient evidence by this Indian
Court. Is there any difference between two types of phone
conversations? Were conversations between Lakhvi and perpetrators of
26/11 at Mumbai contain talks about actual operation of 26/11? Were
conversations between Amit Shah and Police officers are merely call
records between them but does not contain any talk / hint about said fake
encounter? Can someone please enlighten !
Hem Raj Jain, Bengaluru, Karnataka
jainhemraj59@gmail.com
Ghar Wapasi
Would not the root-lover people like Naqvi and Najma, like to discard
their own hateful names to popularise auspicious ceremonies like Ghar
Wapasi, Shuddhikaran, Dharmantaran etc.?!
Akhtar bin Umar, Amod - 392110
Muslims, be a part of BJP...
Any Muslim in India can be a part of BJP provided he is higgledy piggledy
with highly decomposed blushing, victim of obstinacy, wilfulness moral
bankruptcy, shameless, unenthusiastic, unfaithful to his community,
willing to dance all the time at the tune or BJP and its ideology and
dictates, readily and voluntarily burry his own identity, way of life, culture
and even existence, consonantal all the way, one has no trouble
conscience, lacking self-conscious and ever ready to give way to the
order of even an ordinary Hindutva Family member can be the member of
BJP ( not other Hindutva forces being untouchable and unwanted souls).
Survey of of those Muslims joined BJP or having affiliation with the said
Organ1sation reveals that the power greedy Muslims with the above
qualifications joined BJP simple to get little political benefits in the hope
of ticket and subsequently Hindu votes which is a false notion. Such
opportunist Muslims must bear in mind that BJP is the brihaminical
gathering of pure vegetarians where non-vegitarians have no room at al
and that their position is simply a office boy / girl. Now the situation is as
such that Muslims in BJP have failed on both the fronts as majority of
them hopelessly failed to hit the imaginary target except false promises
of offering of alm of ticket which lateron proved a mirage. Right from late
Sikender Bakht to the present lot of BJP Muslim faces they have to speak,
act and issue statements under the stereotyped drawn line without adding
or deletion of a single word. This is the reason almost all the BJP branded
Muslim spokesmen found hackled or stammering while issuing
statements. One may argue that more or less same position exists in
other political parties asfar Muslims are concerned but there atleast no
Muslim is restricted to use skull or any other cap whereas BJP has no
scope as such.
Faheemuddin, Nagpur, 440013.
13-yr-old Deodasi delivers a baby
Why Sabhato, Sanskirti and Sanskar-wale are silent? Why they are not
protesting when 13-year-old Deodasi girls has delivered a bay in Akole
village of Nasik. According to Dharmic Prampara, teenaged girls are
married to Khandoba god, then they are called Morli Deodasi which
means that anyone can enjoy them. Deodasi Ranjana Pagar and her
group filed FIR against Rajendra Chauhan, Soman Bai Shekhran, Leela Bai
Jadhav and Gautam Sunil Pawar. Many Hindu dharmic leaders (waghya)
had sexual relations with this teenage Deodasi.
S. Haque, Patna
Amir Khan on rape case at Delhi
Anguished over rape of a woman in Delhi by a cab driver Bollywood
Super Star Amir Khan staunchly recommended and voiced for suitable,
swift and certain deterrent punishment towards reducing the increasing
crimes of sexual assault on women. According to the actor what
happened in Delhi is extremely unfortunate. Each time I read something
like this in Delhi or anywhere my heart bleeds. Surely and certainly
reaction of Amir Khan deserved to be appreciated as it shows that the
Actors heart is full of human feelings but the actor must have an idea that
merely condemning or expressing and suggesting that the guilt should be
dealt with iron hands can not serve the purpose unless culprits are
practically punished in the same manner but the same not possible in
India because of several provisions and flexibility in our Criminal
Procedure Code. The Actor must be having atleast face saving knowledge
of Muslim Criminal Law (which is termed in India barbaric, inhuman and
out-dated) which dealt with iron hands by awarding deterrent punishment
for the crimes like rape and various heinous happenings against humanity
where swift decision couple with deserving deterrent punishments
awarded so deservingly that the World has failed to substitute the said
Law in any way. The actor while pleading for the deterent punishment for
rape must also be aware that law in our Country j gripped tightly by
miscarriages making ways for the guilty to con out quite easily. from the
clutches of Law whereas Islamic Law forced the wrong doer to think
hundred time before commission of offence and the result thereafter.
Faheemuddin, Nagpur 440013
Saiyid Hamid
In the death of Saiyid Hamid, an eminent educationalist and social
reformer, the Indian Muslim community has lost a tireless campaigner
who tried relentlessly to persuade Madarsas to introduce modern
subjects into their curriculum. He was right in holding both the so- called
intellectuals in the Muslim community and the religious scholars
(ulema) as responsible for the backwardness of the Muslims. He stressed
till his last breath, that unless Muslims acquire quality education by dint
of hard work, they have no future in this competitive world. May Allah rest
his soul in peace.
Syed Sultan Mohiddin, Kadapa (A. P)
sultan_awaz@yahoo.co.in
Hijab or Niqab?
It was astonishing, rather shocking, to read the absurd statement of the
president of a Muslim educational society of Kerala saying that niqab
used by Muslim women to cover their faces is un-Islamic and the reason,
as Mr P. A. Fazal Ghafoor explained, was unhygienic, creating deficiency
of vitamin D. Even a common man can understand the doctrines of
Qurans chapters Nisa, Ahzab and Noor which all state these
commandments. Apart from the original texts, a number of books
containing Islamic laws or jurisprudence for routine life are available in
markets in every language.
Mr. Abdul Ahad Khan Furqani, Rampur, UP
ahad.furqani@yahoo.in
Health crisis in India
In 2000, India had the largest number of diabetics in the world. In January
2014 there were estimated to be over 62 million individuals in India who
had been diagnosed as having the disease. Many diabetics travel on
Indian trains. Yet the tea and coffee served by the Indian Railways comes

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with sugar pre-mixed. Diabetics are faced with the choice of doing
without refreshment or else consuming sweet beverages which do them
harm. It will be easy to serve these beverages without sugar added and
provide sachets of sugar separately. After all, salt and ketchup come in
sachets already. If, for example, six people on a train are given the job of
carrying tea and coffee, two can carry these beverages without sugar
added.
Mukul Dube, Mayur Vihar 1, Delhi 110091
uthappam@gmail.com
Rajaji deserves to be awarded bharath ratna
Chakravarthi Rajagoplachari, popularly known as Rajaji., was
Tamilnadus - nay, one of Indias - tallest political leader. State and Union
Governments have come and Governments have gone but still not a
single Government cared to takes steps to honour him. Leave alone
Congress Governments, as the Indian National Congress, did not
consider him a good Congressman.. Thats the reason the Congress
rejected his sagacious FORMULA for the grant of freedom to India. May
I respectfully remind the readers that the late lamented Quaide Millath
Ismail Saheb was Rajajis closest associate ; the only leader who
understood him rightly and one who stood by him, shoulder by shoulder,
through thick and thin. The Founder of the Dravida Khazhagam Thalaivar
E. V. Ramaswamy Naicker ( Periyar, as he is affectionally called} openly
declared in a Meeting on the 23rd of June 1947 that Rajaji and Rajaji
alone is competent to create a DRAVIDA NADU to save Dravadians from
Aryan tyranny. Doesnt shall a tall leader deserve a BHARATH RATNA?
One who gives a negative answer, in my view, is a charlatan of the first
waters. I am sure the readers agree with my view.
S. M. Pasha, All India Forum of Muslim Journalists, Chennai
valimuhammad777@gmail.com
Are Muntazir al-Zaidis and Amritoshs shoes comparable?
When Iraqs Muntazer al-Zaidi threw the shoe at then-US President
George W. Bush, his act was applauded world across. The act was heroic
and against the person who had commanded so many brutalities in the
world. It was against the man who caused so many lives. It was against
the man who was key in waging unnecessary wars against weak nations.
It was against a very insensitive fellow - a fellow who meant only
American benefits. A fellow who took wars as means to generating more
revenues, more clients on account of terror. A fellow who himself was an
epitome of terror. Muntazer al-Zaidi was a pioneer of this sort of symbolic
act of courage and compassion. Indian avatar of Muntazer al-Zeidi was
Jarnail Singh when he threw his disdainful shoe at then home minister P.
Chidambram. Muntazer al-Zaidi and Jarnail Singh had the same agony
and anguish - the agony of innocent killings of their people and the
anguish of not receiving justice. Muntazer and Jarnail Singh had pain and
they were victims. After that, hurling and throwing shoes and abusing
politicians became a fashion in India. Frequently, so many incidents
followed. Rahul Gandhi, Nitish Kumar and so many have been victim of
this act. Throwing shoe at the Bihar CM Jeetan Ram Manhi is a very
different picture. There is no comparison with this incident with the
previous twos mentioned here. Amritosh Kumar is a forward Hindu and
he is pregnant with hatred for lower class Hindus. When he was throwing
the shoe he was shouting slogans of Forward-Backward discrimination.
And he was shouting slogans as if Manjhi is the root of this sort of
discrimination. He was already charged with three cases amongst one is
atrocity on Dalits. Others are rowdism and travel without ticket. He was
already jailed on account of travelling without ticket. Amritosh Kumar may
be a frustrated individual with the system based on discrimination.
However, it shows something very ugly which is fast emerging on the soil
of Buddha and Chishti. It is intolerance. Intolerance against the poor, the
weak, the backward and the minorities is growing to a danger point.
Mohd. Mansoor Alam, Phulwari Sharif, Patna - 801 505
alammohdmansoor@gmail.com
Jihad
Jihad in todays age is a duty for every single Muslim. The advancement
of secularism and its infiltration into the cultures of the Muslim world
must be matched with equal or greater force. The troops must be rallied,
and the brothers astray must be lead in the unending scrimmage between
these civilizations. Muslims must rejuvenate, join the Global Jihad, and
remove the warmongering, self-imposed guardians of morality from the
forefront of this movement. The hijacking of the soul of Islam by a
Machiavellian faux-clergy class is solely the fault of Muslims refusing to
wage a rebranded Jihad consisting of finance and innovation rather than
Kalashnikovs and bomb vests. The imposition of Western institutions on
a people whose cultures are inherently Islamic creates an insecurity that
can be seen in the rise of the terrorist groups of today. This is not a failing
of the West; in fact it is a success for their nations. This is the failing of
Muslims who did little to create institutions to rival those of the secular
West. The prevalent mentality in the Muslims of today is one of gaining
control of secular institutions. There are many who are attempting to do
so, and many who have been successful. This does not change the
simple fact that those institutions in and of themselves have a secular
purpose. There must be business and societal establishments that
compete with their Godless counterparts in quantitative success without
sacrificing the values that they are based on. They must be Islamic, not
just governed by Muslims. This is not a threat to the West.
Haseeb Akhtar
hsbakhtar202@gmail.com
Case for a Constitutional Order
Plural society in India has a long history. The Muslim community, for
example, has been here for more than a thousand years as part of a
conglomeration of cultures known Ganga Jamuni Tahzib, i. e., a
synthesis of Indo-Islamic cultures. This phenomenon cannot be grasped
simply in terms of Western categories. If we look at our plural society not
as a western concept but as a de facto social situation and endeavour to
find solution to our complex problems, we come across the Constitution
of India and the secular democratic system established by it as a guide.
Shakeel Ahmed Anwar, Chatta Bazar, Hyderabad-500002
jihapzone@yahoo.com
ASI renovation of foreign mandirs
Archelogical Survey of India has a deep Hindutva affiliation. It has
extended its work to renovate and restore mandirs in foreign countries to
facilitate puja. But as if it take any masjid in India, it bans namaz there.
After PMs Nepal visit, that countrys famous Pashu Patinath mandir,
Cham mandir (Veitnam) Thirukitti Swaram mandir (Sri Lanka), Anand
mandir, Ta Prom mandir (Combadia), Waat Phaou mandir (South Laos)
are included in ASI;s list and trillions of rupees will be spent on the
renovation of these foreign mandirs. Islamic monuments and Muslim
historical places, forts and masjids are monuments but ASI doesnt care
to preserve them. ASI bans Namaz, for example, in Moti Masjid in Lal
Quila, etc.
S. Haque, Patna

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