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Bhagalpur Riots, 25 years later

DR. SURESH KHAIRNAR
The communal riot which started in Bhagalpur on 24 October,
1989, is now completing its 25th year. After 1947, this was the
biggest Hindu-Muslim riot. Bhagalpur had witnessed HinduMuslim riots even earlier -- in 1924, 1936, 1946 and 1966. But all
of them were limited to a few lanes and mohallas in city areas and
the administration succeeded in quickly containing them.
The 1946 and 1966 riots were controlled by the district
administration within a few hours. But the story of 1989 riot is
completely different. The communal situation in Bhagalpur had
started deteriorating from 1983 due to some reason or the other
in which anti-social elements of both communities, some people
from educated classes of both communities and politicians from
all parties were active. The beginning was made by the publication
of a book named Boya ped babool ka written by Professor
Dhanpati Pande in which derogatory comments were made
against Hazrat Muhammad which incited Muslim feelings. The
Patna court judgment in favour of the book further vitiated the
communal atmosphere and a Muslim youth fired a shot at the
Patna court judge which missed him, but the youth was caught
and a case was filed against him. This incident communally
charged the atmosphere in Bhagalpur.
In 1986, Ram-Janki Rath was taken out in the city of
Bhagalpur by VHP and RSS. Permission to take the Rath Yatra
through Muslim areas was not given which infuriated RSS and
VHP. The permission to take out the procession for the immersion
of Goddess Durga through Muslim areas of Tatarpur was similarly
declined but the procession was nevertheless taken out through
Muslim areas from 1987 onwards which increased communal
tension.
In April 1989, a similar procession of Ramnavami was taken
out by Hindus of Parvati through the Muslim areas of Tatarpur in
spite of decline of permission by the administration. This also
added fuel to the communal fire.
There was police action during this incident and some people
were arrested from both the communities but the Hindus were
soon released at the behest of the SP which again infuriated the
Muslim community.
On 12 August, 1989 disputes were created on the occasions
of Muharram and Vishari Puja. The partial attitude shown by the
administration in favour of Hindus again instigated Muslim
feelings and they decided not to take out Muharram procession as
a protest.
Vishari Puja, which was never held on a huge scale before,
was now planned by RSS and VHP in August 1989. The
administration knowingly did not pay any attention to these
preparations, thus creating the grounds for the October riots. The
continued negligence of these developments by the administration
and even by the so-called secular forces led to the riots of
October 1989.
On 24 October, time for Shilapuja had arrived, the preparation
for which was going on since August 1989 by VHP. Bihar was a
Congress-ruled state at that time and the chief minister was S.N
MG/Yusuf

Decaying corpses on street

Muslim males being rounded up by police

Rumours helped spread riots throughout the city and adjoining districts of Munger, Sahabganj, Dumka
and Godda etc. All this while the administration remained quiet doing nothing to stop the rumours....
Riots continued for over a month. Even after one month, small incidents continued for another six
months. Muslims who alighted from trains at odd hours could not reach their homes. Rickshawallas
refused to carry Muslim passengers....
The Bhagalpur pogrom against the Muslim community paved the way for a series of political riots in
India which continue till today - the largest being the Gujarat riot of 2002
Sinha. He had given orders to the administration to maintain peace
and order. A meeting of peace committee was called in which
Muslims objected to the procession being taking out through
Muslim areas, but the administration assured the Muslims that
only 50 people would participate in this procession and there
would be no slogan shouting. These assurances proved wrong.
On 22 October, thousands of people participated in the
procession during which many objectionable slogans were raised.
The intensity of slogan shouting increased when the procession
reached Fatehpur, a Muslim majority area. A bomb exploded as a
result of which people started running helter skelter. Stonethrowing followed on a large scale and shops were looted. All this
happened in the presence of SP and DM.
The news spread like wildfire in the city creating an
atmosphere of fear all around. Children were taken away from
schools, shutters of shops were downed.
Although orders were issued since 19 October to deploy
police in sensitive areas, but the orders were never implemented.
No actions were taken against police officials for dereliction of
duty.
By 24 October, an atmosphere of fear had engulfed the town.
Muslims started to gather at Tatarpur Chowk. A huge Shilapuja
procession was coming to this chowk shouting filthy slogans
against Muslims.
Muslims requested the administration to stop the procession
but the request was turned down. People indulged in stone-pelting
and the procession was disrupted which by now had entered
Shujaganj Bazar and had started looting Muslim shops.
All this happened in front of policemen who remained mere

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spectators. Subsequently riots spread to all over the city in which

Muslims were targeted. Those who could not escape were
massacred. At Parvati, 18 Muslims were killed and the dead
bodies were dumped in wells. A series of rumour mongering
started.(1) A rumour spread in the city claiming that the SP had
been killed, (2), another claimed that 400 Hindu students from
Bhagalpur University staying in hostels run by Muslims were
killed. Yet another rumour claimed that College students of
Bhagalpur womens college have been raped. These rumours
were spread systematically by young swayamsevaks riding
motorcycles in rural areas (3).
These rumours helped spread riots throughout the city and
adjoining districts of Munger, Sahabganj, Dumka and Godda etc.
All this while the administration remained quiet doing nothing to
stop the rumours.
On 25 October, at Mujahidpur, Mararpur and Nathnagar
railway stations, hundreds of Muslims trying to escape Bhagalpur
were looted and killed, reminding of Partition days. On the same
day police officers instigated their new recruits to attack and
ransack Muslim homes in Bhikanpur in which two people (both
government employees from the minority community) were killed.
Now, about 50 people were arrested and sent to jail on charges of
participating in the Tatarpur incidents of 24 October. Cases were
filed against the Muslims of Bhikanpur that they wanted to loot
arms and ammunitions from police stations and that, therefore,
police had fired in self-defence in which two Muslims were killed.
The wives of the two Muslims killed approached the police but FIR
was not lodged.
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Indian Muslims not radicalised because

Western Radicalism did not hit India?
If Indian Muslims ever get radicalised, it will be due to Indian issues and not the ones that interest West. If, however, West succeeds in pulling
India into its own wars, which Obama tried during his talks with the Indian Premier, India may also go the Afghanistan or Iraq way.
DR JAVED JAMIL
When Narendra Modi, the
Prime Minster of India, made
the now-famous remarks about
Indian Muslims being patriotic and immune to alQaedah, he was speaking
more to his American audience
than Indians. Denied visa for a long time, he
needed to convince Americans that his views
about Muslims in India are not what have been
projected in the American media. But his
remarks have led to a curious new debate. Many
Indian writers including Muslims, who find a
place in the mainstream media, have tried to
explain the non-radicalisation of Muslims on various grounds. Some of these grounds may be
true, but the bigger truth is that these analysts
are discussing the issue based on the Western
mindset and their theories of violence. They are
talking of Indian Muslims not getting radicalised as if the whole of the rest of the Muslim
World is radicalised. The truth on the contrary is
that even from Western point of view, which
views violence bad only if it is targeted against
the West, the overwhelming majority of the
Muslim countries and the overwhelming global
Muslim population have not engaged in violence
despite severe provocations from the forces of
the globalisation led by the West. Out of more
than 50 Muslim countries, terrorism, the kind
of violence West loathes, has affected less than
a dozen countries, 5-6 in a major way.
Indonesia, Malaysia, the erstwhile Soviet Union

countries like Azerbaijan, and Uzbekistan,

Turkey, Bangladesh, Indonesia, and many other
countries have none or a few incidents of terrorism. Much bigger kinds of terrorism has been
witnessed by Sri Lanka in the last three decades,
and Indian terrorism is mainly a non-Muslim
phenomenon involving Naxalites, Ulfa, Bodos,
Sikhs, Tamils and Maoists, most of them being
born as Hindus.
It can be easily seen that terrorism in Muslim
countries is born out of anger against the West,
which has continuously tried to keep its puppets
in power in those countries against the wishes of
the people. Terrorism has obviously been directly proportional to the Western meddling and
involvement. This is true about Afghanistan,
Pakistan and Most Arab countries. Moreover, all
the major terrorist outfits have been friends of
the West in the past. Al-Qaedah was a close
friend when it was fighting the Russians along
with Talibans. ISIS too was a friend while it was
fighting the Syrian government. Wherefrom did
ISIS get its heavy weaponry? Of course, most of
it came from West or Western allies in the
region. If even now, America is not launching a
full-fledged onslaught on ISIS, it is simply
because ISIS is expected to put pressure on the
Syrian regime. Till Syrian regime does not wilt
under ISIS pressure, ISIS will remain a friendly
enemy.
If Indian Muslims have not radicalised, it is
chiefly because India has remained free of
Western intervention, and Indian polity, despite
its recurrent communal ups and downs, has
largely remained plural in nature. If Indian
Muslims ever get radicalised, it will be due to

Congress
Decline
Continues
DR MOHAMMAD MANZOOR ALAM
With the convincing win of the BJP in Haryana and
Maharashtra last month, the Congress Partys
steady decline has deepened. There is a clear ominous signal in Maharashtra that forebodes a UPBihar like long-standing setback in this state also.
So far, if the party has polled less than 20 per
cent of the total votes cast, it has never come to
power again for decades in that particular state. In
Haryana, its vote share has been less gloomy.
The point is, why did it fall so precipitately after
a relatively better showing at the Lok Sabha byelections recently? One answer is that people generally want to be on the right side of the power at
Centre if they want to get a good share of Central
help for development projects in their area.
Another reason is that the opposition was
badly fragmented. Shiv Sena and MNS were fighting on their own. The NCP was not cooperating
with Congress and there was factional infighting in
the Congress.
In Maharashtra, a 15-year long Congress rule

had created a strong anti-incumbency sentiment.

In Haryana, too, 10 years of Congress rule had created a similar desire for change. This desire for
change as a major factor for BJP win has been
recognised by the Congress leadership as well.
The break-up of Congress-NCP pre-poll
alliance was a great policy disaster as shown by
their joint vote share. Jointly, they could have done
much better. This is a failure of the leadership
vision. The Central party has held state leaders
responsible for the fiasco.
The disappointment of Muslims with both the
NCP and Congress was another factor. This is
shown in Asaduddin Owaisis MIM getting 25 percent of the Muslim vote. Two MIM candidates won
and seven were in the second position. Whether
this is an appropriate choice for Muslims is yet to
be seen.
As usual, the media are tomtoming Narendra
Modis charisma and Amit Shahs alleged managerial and organisational skills as the main reason for
the victory. This may not be wholly true. If there
was one single most important reason, it was the
five-cornered contest in Maharashtra in which
many voters decided not to take chances and vote
straight away for the party ruling at the Centre.
Haryana voters did not want the same party in
power a third time. As simple as that.
What does all this add up to? With two more
states in its kitty, BJP has emerged a strong adversary for the Congress Party in future elections. This
calls for serious stocktaking and a better survival
strategy for the Congress Party. (iosworld.org)

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Indian issues and not the ones that interest

West. If, however, West succeeds in pulling India
into its own wars, which Obama tried during his
talks with the Indian Premier, India may also go
the Afghanistan or Iraq way. But Indian Muslims
are confident that sanity will continue to prevail
in Indian polity, and India will not join the
Western aggression against Muslim countries.
India recognises it well that in the long-run
Muslim countries, with their enormous wealth
and population, can be of greater economic
interest to India.
I have been incessantly arguing the fact that
Wests categorisation of violence has nothing to
do with the magnitude of the violence. Only the
kinds of violence that are targeted against
Western interests are condemnable in its view.
Where violence is targeted against the enemies
of West, the terminology immediately changes. It
then becomes either a war against terror or a
rebellion against an oppressive regime.
The Muslim writers in the Western media
are of course over-awed by the Western ideologies. Many of them are part of their plans.
Instead of asking questions to West, they are
busy answering questions in a way which suits
their masters. For well over a decade, the global
media is discussing the role of Islam and
Muslims in violence. But nobody questions the
role of West and its ideologies in instigating others. People blame Jihad or Jihadism for violence but nobody bothers to challenge the military ideology of West, its use of violence to perpetuate its hegemony, its readiness to wage
wars on the slightest pretext, its continuous arming of rebel groups, its sordid machinations in

Muslim countries, and its own record of all kinds

of violence. Nobody asks them How come
West killed two million innocent Muslims when
al-Qaedah did not kill even 6000 Western innocents? Nobody asks them about their own everrising crime rates, killing of millions of foetuses,
their own statistics of suicides and their own
wars against other countries and instigation of
rebellions against regimes they do not like.
Nobody questions their resolve to help Israel
even if it is killing women and children in thousands.
The time has come now when all the right
thinking intellectuals ask the West to stop talking
about the role of Islam and Muslims, and instead
focus on its own role. Let the global media discuss Western military ideologies in detail and
their roles in the destruction of human lives!
Before studying Islamic Jihad, let Western
philosophies of confrontation, combat and wars
be discussed in all its minute details. Let this
continue for at least one year before debating the
Muslim factor again! Instead of criticising others,
let West learn to face criticism! Let West allow
its own people to know the whole truth, rather
than truncated truth. Violence cannot subside
unless every single factor responsible for it is
discussed and effectively addressed.
Radicalisation is a universal phenomenon
these days, but it is the radicalisation of West,
not Muslims, which is the biggest breeder of
global violence.
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

Secularism & Indian Muslims

S.M.PASHA
Our Constitution has two cardinal policies, viz., (1) non-alignment in foreign policy and (2) secularism on the home front. It was our first Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru who was
mainly responsible for the incorporation of these policies. It was done, without any doubt, to
enhance the prestige of India abroad. The billion dollar question is: has this helped and is this
helping the Muslim minority community? The answer, to my mind, is no. Hindus constitute the
majority and naturally they are the major element in the body politic. Hence, it is but natural that
whatever be the form of Government, the Government is bound to tend to reflect the majority
opinion. It is possible under such a secular set-up, for any Muslim to rise up to the highest office
but on that count can it be taken that the occupier of the lofty position is in a position to help
his fellow co-religionists? No. He or she cant.
Assuming for arguments sake that the secular form of Government is an ideal one, it will
be one only if and when masses imbibe the true spirit of secularism. The Hindu majority community is yet to imbibe the spirit of secularism completely and so it is not yet full-fledged secular-minded.
Secularism is yet to mature and blossom in India. The linguistic division of the various
parts of the country was a terrible blow to secularism. When Muslims declared that it will be
impossible to adjust themselves in an undivided India, their assertion was condemned. But
when Maharashtrians and Gujaratis could not adjust themselves, the Andhras and the Tamilians
et. al., no objection is raised, Rather their demand for the bifurcation of the state is hailed.
Likewise, Punjab was divided into Punjab and Haryana.
Be that what it may, none can deny that the Muslim minority community in India is a section which has given an excellent account of itself. It does nothing which goes against the interests of the country. Muslims never demand any special rights. All that they want is that they
should be allowed to live without fear keeping their heads high. Their plea has been and is:
Dont give us anything special because we are Muslims but dont refuse anything because we
are Muslims.
If secularism can ensure this, well and good, else it is high time the form of Government is


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Fake confessional statements obtained by ATS

from arrested Muslim youths: MCOCA court
Mumbai: The fact that Maharashtra ATS had extracted fake confessional statements under duress from Muslim youths arrested on charges of terrorism was
revealed when Special MCOCA Courts Justice G. T. Qadiri stated in his release
order granting bail to the accused Muhammad Aqeel Muhamad Ismail Momin
that the investigating team of ATS had failed to prove that the accused
(Muhammad Aqeel) was in any way complicit in illegal and terrorist activities and
that merely by his name being mentioned in the confessional statement, bail cannot be refused to him. Justice Qadiri stated in his release order that the only proof
against the accused was that his (Aqeels) name was mentioned in the confessional statement of another accused, Abdus Samad but DCP Dhananjay Taude
(of ATS) who had recorded Abdus Samads confessional statement could not
recognise him (Abdus Samad) in court. He also could not tell the court as to why
he had not submitted the necessary certificate along with the charge sheet, as
required under MCOCAs section 3 (6).
Special MCOCA court judge (Justice Qadiri) also stated in his26-page release
order that in Bharat Bhai Jeemi Premchand Bhai vs State of Gujrat (AIR Supreme
Court of India 20023620 case the Supreme Court had clearly ruled that if the necessary certificate will not be provided along with any confessional statement whatsoever, it (confessional statement) will have no importance at all in the eyes of the law
and it cannot be used against the concerned accused or against any other accused.
Gulzar Azmi of Jamiatul Ulamas Legal Aid Committee while welcoming
MCOCA Courts order of granting bail said that he had been saying from day one
that the accuseds confessional statements were extracted under severe torture
and under duress and now that the recordings of the prosecutors witnesses
have started, ATS team has failed to prove that the confessional statements were
recorded in accordance with the wishes or suggestion of the accused person.
He further said that cases against most of the persons accused of terrorism are,
or have been, filed on the basis of their alleged confession but when such cases
are taken up for hearing in courts, it is found that they had never made any confessional statement/s but investigating officers prepare fake and manufactured
confessional statements and also obtain their fake signatures on the fake confessional statements.

Temples idol breaker arrested

Sambhal: On the night of 9 October one youth Babloo alias Deen Dayal after scaling the wall of an old temple, forced his entry in the compound of Pataleshwar
Mandir in Sambhals Sarai Tareen village. At first he smashed the idols of
Ganeshji and Vishnu bhagwan. Thereafter he also broke into pieces the idol of
Shani Deo (god of Saturday). Because of the noise the pujari of the temple, Yugal
Kishore Mishra woke up. When he saw the youth smashing the idols he was at
his wits end. He woke his wife and with the help of some others nabbed the
youth and all of them thrashed him and handed him over to police. In the morning when people went to the temple to worship and came to know what had happened at night, obviously they were very angry. When the news of this incident
spread in the village there was a wave of anger and people made a beeline for
the temple. The SDM and CO who had already reached there after coming to
know about the incident tried to calm the agitated people. On the basis of the
written complaint by Pujari Yugal Kishore, CO Jagbeer Singh registered a case
against the youth and arrested him. Accused Deen Dayals brother Bhagirath
later said that his brother Deen Dayal is mentally ill and of unsound mind and
because of this he might have done all this.

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Respond if you care about your community

White Paper on Terrorism

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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New York Times takes note of

Hindutvas diabolic plan for South Asia
Something sinister is cooking for South Asia. The Hindutva brigade, now
firmly in saddle in Delhi and many other states, is ganging up with similar
forces in the region. The ongoing low intensity violence against Muslim and
Christian minorities across the country is testimony that power has not tempered the exclusivist, fascist streak running in their veins since the RSS was
formed in 1925 under Fascist and Nazi influence. The New York Times has
exposed their plans for a grand alliance with anti-Muslim forces in the
South Asian region. Muslims as well as all stake-holders in the stability and
progress of the country should take note. Following is the full text of the
NYT editorial which appeared on 16 October, 2014:
Deadly Alliances Against Muslims
On his 79th birthday in July, the Dalai Lama appealed to Buddhist extremist
groups in Myanmar and Sri Lanka to stop instigating attacks against Muslim
minorities that have killed scores. Instead, in an affront to Buddhisms core message of compassion, leaders of those groups announced an alliance to make
common cause against Muslims.
The time has come to ally internationally, Galagodaththe Gnanasara, the
leader of the radical Sri Lankan Buddhist group Bodu Bala Sena, announced at a
convention held in Colombo last month. The guest of honor was Ashin Wirathu,
a Buddhist radical whose picture Time magazine put on its July 1 cover as The
Face of Buddhist Terror. The government of Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa
ignored pleas by Sri Lankan Muslim and Christian civil groups, fearful of more
anti-Muslim violence in their country, to deny Mr. Wirathu a visa. Granting
Mr. Wirathu a visa can only reinforce the fears of many Muslims that the government - and perhaps more powerful regional allies - back Bodu Bala Sena, which
translates as Buddhist Power Force.
Last week, Mr. Gnanasara claimed he was in discussions at a high level
with the right-wing Indian Hindu group Rashtriya Swayam Sevak to form what he
called a Hindu-Buddhist peace zone in South Asia. A Rashtriya Swayam Sevak
spokesman, Ram Madhav, promptly denied that there were any such discussions. But Mr. Madhav, now general secretary of Indias governing Bharatiya
Janata Party, has written comments sympathetic to Bodu Bala Sena and
Mr. Wirathus group 969 in Myanmar on his Facebook and Twitter accounts.
It is folly for the governments of Mr. Rajapaksa in Sri Lanka, President Thein
Sein of Myanmar and Prime Minister Narendra Modi in India, or their political
allies, to give even the appearance of tolerating these Islamophobic groups in a
region that has too often been convulsed by religious sectarian violence. They
should condemn this mad alliance before it can spread further.
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Modis moment

For the first time in independent India we have a government that believes exactly what its backers in the
Sangh believe: that a set of citizens has the right to lay down terms of national identity that privilege them over
others
The BJP has failed to garner support from Christians and Muslims, but it has effectively consolidated a
Hindu vote cutting across caste. It is in this context that Modis rhetoric, which has been so endlessly and
so pointlessly analysed, must be understood.
Hindutva allows Modi to speak of inclusiveness without spelling out that Muslims and Christians are less
than equal by definition. Exclusion is built into the term, and his record in Gujarat bears this out, as do his
partys first few months in power in Delhi
Modi has reconciled the two [Hindutva and Constitution of India] by outsourcing the Hindutva agenda to
cohorts such as Amit Shah and Yogi Adityanath. At some point he is likely to be forced to choose between
the Constitutions guarantees of equality and Hindutvas implicit exclusivity. While Modi does not have, and is
unlikely to get, the parliamentary numbers to fundamentally tamper with the Constitution, we can guess what
his instinctive choice would be. We only have to remember that moment in Gujarat when the man who gamely sports headgear from any Hindu sect baulked when offered a skullcap.

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No formula on Ayodhya Mandir-Masjid presented by

Shankaracharya, claims Maulana Khalid Rasheed
Lucknow/Delhi: A news item published in some newspapers
regarding Shankaracharya of Kanchi Peeth, Jaynendra
Saraswatis lengthy close-door meeting with Maulana Khalid
Rasheed Firangimahali, Imam of Lucknow Eidgah, on 11 October
led to the speculation that Shankaracharya presented PM
Narendra Modis formula on the building of Ram Mandir in
Ayodhya for which Modi wants agreement and cooperation of
Muslims. Maulana Khalid Rasheed, however, acknowledged the
meeting but firmly denied that the Shankaracharya presented any
such formula either of his own or of the prime minister. Next day
(Sunday, 12 October) Firangimahli clarified that the
Shankaracharya emphasised during the meeting the point that
Hindus and Muslims should be brought closer and mutual misunderstandings should be removed. Maulana Firangimahli said that
Muslims also want this but when inflammatory, provocative and
false statements are made by Hindu leaders, differences and distances do crop up. In such cases, important and responsible leaders like Shankaracharya should condemn and contradict such
statements. He said that Shankararcharya did say that the Hindu
faith is that Ram Chandrji was born at Babri site in Ayodhya and
hence Ram Mandir should be built at that very place. At this
Maulana claims to have made it clear that this is a Sharaee ]legal]
issue that a place where a Masjid is built on Sharaee principles is
considered a Masjid from Heaven to Earth and for all times to
come and no body has any right to use or surrender that place for
any other purpose. He says he told the Shankaracharya that this
dispute is pending in the Supreme Court and the All India Muslim
Personal Law Board has made its stand clear long back that the
Supreme Courts final verdict on this dispute will be acceptable to
it. Hence, there is no scope for any further talk or discussion on
this issue. He says he made it clear that the Shankaracharya had
met him in his personal capacity and this meeting had no connection with the AIMPLB.
The news of this meeting created some controversy and
unfavourable reaction form many Muslim leaders and organisations came against it. Whereas the meeting created the impression among some people that the door for discussion on Babri
Masjid-Ram mandir is still open, other Muslim leaders firmly disagreed and said that the only thing to be waited for now is the
Supreme Courts final verdict. Convener of Babri Masjid Action
Committee (BMAC) and senior member of AIMPLB, Dr Qasim
Rasool Ilyas said that earlier also the Sankaracharya had made
such efforts on two occasions but on both occasions he himself
had withdrawn from the talks. So how can he be trusted now?
Moreover, he is not a party to this dispute, hence no use of talking to him. Senior advocate Zafaryab Jilani, who is associated
with BMAC from the very beginning, said that this is the same
Shankaracharya who had written a letter to AIMPLB in 2002 on

this problem but the Board had rejected it because in his letter he
had asked Muslims to forego their claims not only on Babri Masjid
but on all other disputed mosques. Hence, he cannot be trusted. The Board has already made its stand clear and there is no
going back. He added that the Shankaracharya always asks
Muslims to abdicate their claims on mosques but Muslims reject
this.
All India Muslim Majlis Mushawarat, while condemning
behind-the-scene efforts for building of Ram Mandir on Babri
Masjids land, also said that this dispute is pending in the
Supreme Court for hearing, hence nobody has any right to enter
into a discussion on it. Mushawarats general secretary and
spokesperson, Masoom Moradabadi, said that in the past also
some selfish elements had been pressurising Muslims to abdicate
their ownership right on Babri Masjid but this is not the question
of a piece of land only but a question of religious identity and constitutional rights are also associated with it. Moradabadi reiterated
what Zafaryab Jilani had stated that in his letter of 2002 to the
Board the Shankaracharya had asked Muslims to forego their
claims on all disputed mosques in addition to the Babri Masjid
but this is not acceptable to the Muslims. Moreover, he said,
Maulana Khalid Rasheed Firangimahli also said in his clarification
that there is nothing like what has been reported in the newspaper
reports, adding that when the meeting was held behind closed
doors, how others came to know about it. Hence all this is mere
guesswork.

Small Modi rally costs over Rs 1 crore

It was no secret that the BJP was awash with funds and was
splurging all through on the 2014 election campaign. From remote
Manipur comes the first documented account of the cost of a single rally addressed by Mr Narendra Modi. According to the written
claim lodged with party headquarters by the Manipur BJP president Chaoba Singh, the Imphal rally on February 8 this year
claimed an attendance of 100,000 and cost the BJP Rs 1.04
crore.
This was not the largest of Mr Modis rallies and is incomparable
to mega rallies held across the nation. Going by 437 big rallies
Modi held in the country just before and during the 2014 general
elections campaign, India must have broken world records with
over 5800-odd other public events that saw Mr Modis attendance. His much talked-about Bihar rally is said to have cost his
party Rs. 10 crore.
Expenses at the Manipur venue alone cost a whopping Rs
42.6 lakh while hotel stay for Gujarat Police personnel cost Rs
1.17 lakh and transportation of workers Rs 21.90 lakh. The media
expenses for the event alone cost the BJP Rs 4.55 lakh.
According to the document, BJPs central unit provided mon-

etary assistance of Rs 35 lakh and the state unit claimed to have

raised Rs 43.80 lakh through contributions from the public and
state party leaders. This is what the party leader has claimed but
the real costs must be much higher. All in all Mr Modi is said to
have spent 35,000 crore rupees on his/BJP election campaign.
Most of this money came from big corporate houses and Mr Modi
is busy paying them back.

New outfit holds legal aid workshop

Mumbai: On 10 October, 2014, All India Dawah Centres
Association (AIDCA), an association of various Islamic organisations from across the country, was launched in Mumbai with the
goal of standing up for the rights and security of its members and
the community.
The association plans to stand up for the victimised members
of the Muslim community who are picked up by the intelligence
and security authorities on the basis of suspicion alone. They plan
to undertake all legal actions necessary to contest the actions of
these authorities which take undue advantage of the vulnerable
and unprotected Muslim youth in India. All endeavours of this new
organisation would be within the framework of the Constitution of
India.
The organization plans to conduct regular training programmes for the youth to equip themselves with knowledge of law
in order to protect their legal rights when they are violated. One
such Legal Aid Workshop was organised here on 11 October.

Stinking roads, overflowing dumps

Several days into the BJP and its municipal corporations Clean
Delhi drive, roads and dhalaos in Delhi are still overflowing with
garbage and debris. There are dumps overflowing with garbage in
the periphery of the north and south corporations headquarters in
the Civic Centre at Turkman Gate leaving the locals disillusioned.
According to locals, the sanitation staff rarely inspects toilets and
nearabouts and a majority of public toilets have remained choked,
unusable and sealed for years. It is amply proved that the cleanliness drive, started with much fanfare, has been a star-studded
sham. High profile personalities venturing out ostensibly for the
drive, brooms in hand, were actually only vying for photo-ops.
Laxmi Nagars residents share other Delhiites fate, and in the area
a dhalao in the middle of the road has garbage spilling out making
the road narrower which turns into nightmarish gridlocks during
peak traffic hours. The drive has been a publicity stunt of sorts
with the South Municipal Corporation authorities hoodwinking the
judiciary, submitting photographs edited on Photoshop to the High
Court to show that roads in Dwarka had been cleaned up.

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US Federal Court allows AJC, Gujarat victims to challenge Modi immunity

New York: US Federal Judge Analisa Torres
today issued an order asking the American
Justice Center (AJC) to file, on behalf of the victims of 2002 Gujarat massacres, their response
to the US Governments suggestion of immunity
by November 4, 2014 in the Alien Tort case
against PM Modi.
The development comes in the wake of the
release of a US State Department letter to the
Department of Justice, conveying the request of
the Indian government to have the case against
PM Modi dismissed on the basis of his immunity. The letter was written by Ms. Mary
McLeod, State Department Legal Advisor to Ms.
Joyce R. Branda, the Acting Assistant Attorney
General, on September 30th, the day Mr. Modi
was meeting with President Obama at the White
House.

On October 19, Mr. Preet Bharara, US

Attorney for the Southern District of New York
submitted to the court a suggestion of immunity
for PM Modi in the human rights violation case.
The political and diplomatic considerations
that motivated the US Governments
Suggestion of Immunity, are apparent in the
State Departments letter. This letter recognizes
the particular importance attached by the United
States to obtaining the prompt dismissal of the
proceedings against Prime Minister Modi in view
of the significant foreign policy implications of
such an action, the letter stated, without making
any comment on the merits of the case against
PM Modi.
The Suggestion of Immunity filed by Mr.
Bharara is not binding on the court. The human
rights violations committed by Mr. Modi before

Mumbai Engineer Arrested

for Allegedly Planning
Terror Attacks
Mumbai: The Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad has arrested a
Mumbai-based software engineer, who reportedly admired the
Middle-East terror group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), for
allegedly conspiring to blow up American establishments in
Mumbai, including a school.
Anees Ansari, 24, who worked at a multi-national software
company, was apprehended from his office in suburban Andheri
and produced before a court on 19 October, which remanded him
in police custody till 26 October.
The online chats of Ansari, whose office job involved designing navigation maps, allegedly hinted at a plot to target US establishments including a school in suburban Bandra, an ATS official
said. Mr Ansari was booked under section 120 (B) (criminal conspiracy) read with 302 (murder) of Indian Penal Code, and relevant sections of Information Technology Act.
He allegedly sympathised with ISIS fighters and described the
Americans as tormentors, in his online conversations. The ATS
also seized his computers, a mobile phone, and has obtained

becoming Prime Minister and as Chief Minister

of Gujarat are not immune. US Federal Court has
jurisdiction to hold Mr. Modi accountable under
the Alien Tort Claims Act and Torture Victims
Protection Act, stated Gurpatwant Singh
Pannun, legal advisor to American Justice
Center.
The selective and arbitrary approach of the
US Department of Justice on the issue of immunity to foreign leaders will be the key factor in
challenging the immunity to PM Modi, added
Mr. Pannun.
Modi has been widely accused by national
and international human rights organizations for
presiding over mass violence against Muslims
which resulted in the killing of over 2,000 people
and included mass rapes against minority
women.

mirror images to extract the data.

Our team that keeps a close watch on online posts some
time ago got the wind of his shady activities which suggested that
he had been chatting with two persons based in UK and Australia,
who have been indoctrinated to believe in extremist ideologies,
the ATS official said. The online discussions, allegedly about a
plan to target an American school in the city, alerted the ATS,
which led to his arrest. The ATS officer claimed that the agency
had gathered enough evidence to suggest that Mr Ansari had been
chatting -- through a Facebook account under a fake name -about punishing Americans and defending the ISIS, which,
according to him was the victim in the current turbulence in Syria
and Iraq. A lot of Jihadi material, videos and literature related to
ISIS and its leaders was shared with him by the two people who
were chatting with him for nearly two years, the officer said.
His online interaction clearly indicated his ill-intentions but
we are verifying how well he had prepared himself to execute the
plot. Our interrogation would focus on the places he had visited,
the persons he had met and the reasons therefore, the officer
said.
Mr Ansari lived in suburban Kurla with his parents and two
younger siblings, and according to sources, he had applied for a
passport a month ago, which has led the investigators to suspect that
he planned to leave the country to support or join the ISIS. (ndtv.com)

The American Justice Center (AJC) is a

human rights organization dedicated to holding
human rights abusers and perpetrators of mass
violence accountable. AJC provides legal aid and
support for international judicial redress to victims deprived of legitimate and legal means to
justice. The AJC had on 27 September
announced an award of US$ 10,000 to anyone
who could serve the court summons to Mr Modi
during his US visit.
http://www.americanjusticecenter.org/ (For media
queries: media@americanjusticecenter.org)
US State Department letter to US Justice Department
conveying Government of Indias request to apply
immunity for PM Modi:
http://www.americanjusticecenter.org/wpcontent/uploads/2014/10/Modi-Immunity_USDOSLetter.pdf

SEBI cautions against terror outfits

Though no links have yet been found, the Indian government is
wary of IS making inroads into the Indian financial system. To
this effect, a list of terror outfits has been circulated by the regulator SEBI to the stock exchanges, and market entities have
been asked to be wary of any funds or entities linked to the ISIS
making it to the Indian capital markets in a bid to wreak financial havoc.
Those in this list are to be subjected to sanctions such as
freezing of assets/accounts and denial of financial services.
The Stock exchange conducts half-yearly internal audits by
independent professionals to verify participants compliance to
norms and safeguard the Indian markets from money-laundering and combat financial terrorism.
Money laundering is globally recognized as one of the
largest threats posed to the financial system of a country. The
fight against terrorist financing is another such emerging threat
with grave consequences for both the political and economic
standing of a jurisdiction, Sebi said in its annual report for
2013-14.
Senior officials and top market executives called for regulations and global standards to guard against such inflows.
(Aaliya Khan)

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New turn in Meerut lady teachers case: allegations of rape, conversion

made under pressure; claims she faces danger from family members
Meerut: The cooked up story of Kharkhoda (Meerut)s former
lady teacher of a Madrasa about her rape, forced conversion to
Islam etc which made headlines in national media about 2 or 3
months ago has now taken a new turn when on 13 October she
confessed in the presence of a city magistrate, and got her statement recorded by him, that she had made all those false statements against her friend Kaleem and others because of pressure
and threat from her father at the coaxing of and bribery by some
BJP members, the exponents of the so-called love jihad theory.
At that time her friend (Kaleem) and 8 or 9 others were arrested,
she was presented in court and on courts order she was sent to
her parental home and three or four policemen were posted at her
house for her security.
In the new turn of event she suddenly ran away from her parents house on 12 October (Sunday) along with a boy and reached
Meeruts womens police station. When she was not found in the
house her family members also got worried and lodged a complaint in the police station about her having gone missing. As the
police was in search of her she herself reached Meeruts womens

police station and told the woman SHO that earlier she had gone
with her friend Kaleem of her own free will. She was neither raped
nor forced to convert to Islam but now she faces danger from her
parents and family members and hence she doesnt want to go
back to her parents house. Before going to womens police station she had gone to Kaleems house and told his (Kaleems)
father that she now wants to make the true statement in favour of
Kaleem and that she also wants to marry him. Greatly surprised,
Kaleems father told her that his son Kaleem is presently in jail and
now he does not want to get involved in any fresh trouble
(because of her willingness to marry Kaleem). Thereafter she
went to Meeruts womens police station and told the woman SHO
what has been stated above.
Meeruts SSP Omkar Singh also made a statement in which,
on the basis of her statement before the lady SHO, he also repeated her statement and said that she was presented before the city
magistrate Satya Prakash in whose presence she repeated all
what she had told the lady SHO. She also told the magistrate that
all the allegations made by her against Kaleem and others earlier

were false and made under pressure and threat form her father.
She also told the magistrate that some BJP members, particularly the local leader Vineet Agarwal had given her father Rs 25000
to stick to his allegation against Kaleem and others (all of whom
were Muslims). Agarwal had also assured her father that BJP
would also give all help and financial assistance to him, she told
the magistrate. She also told him that since she faces danger to
her life, she doesnt want to go back to her parents. At this, the
magistrate sent her to Nari Niketan for her safety and ordered SSP
Omkar Singh to look into her complaint against her father and file
a case against him. Accordingly police filed an FIR against her
father next day i.e. 14 October.
On the other side when people of the village came to know about
her fathers pressurising his daughter to make false allegations
against Kaleem etc, they decided to boycott him and his family in the
village. BJP members, particularly the president of BJPs UP unit
Lakshmi Kant Bajpayee and Anuj Tyagi of Hindu Jagran Manch blame
the UP government of maligning BJP and protecting the accused per

sons and are demanding a CBI enquiry into whole incident.

Linguistic minorities
deprived of education in
their mother tongue

ties affairs minister Mrs Najma Heptullah and presented by her in

Parliament recently it has been clearly recommended that in
school admission forms there should be columns for mother
tongue (in which they want to read) and another language under
the 3-language formula which they want to learn / read, so as to
ensure their education in their mother tongue.
Most of the schools are ignoring this instruction of the
Constitution by offering lame excuses. An idea of this can be had
from the reply obtained in Delhi under RTI by an NGO, Nawai Haq
Welfare Association (NHWA) according to which, in about 100
government schools of Delhi Muslim children are being compelled
to read Sanskrit instead of Urdu. This NGO had asked Delhi governments Directorate of Education under RTI in how many government schools Urdu is being taught to Muslim children? The
startling reply was that in 100 government schools of Delhi,
Muslim children are compelled to read Sanskrit, instead of Urdu.
It came to be known in the RTI reply that in Delhis about 100 govt
schools there are more than 14800 Muslim students but there are
no arrangements for teaching Urdu to them and that these children
have to choose Sanskrit under compulsion from 6th to 10th classes. It was also found in the reply under RTI that in Sarvoday
Kannya Viddyalay, Sultanpuri there are 789 Muslim children (girls)
but in spite of the Directorate of Educations instructions no
arrangement has been made for appointing teachers in this school

for teaching Urdu. Taking notice of this fact the Commission has
issued a notice to Delhi government to order an enquiry into the
schools which have not followed Education Directorates instructions regarding teaching of Urdu and to take action against
schools which are compelling Muslim children to read Sanskrit as
the third language. Assistant Commissioner of NCLM Shiv Kumar,
on the request of NHWAs President Asad Ghazi has issued a
notice dated 19 September to Delhis Directorate of Educations
Principal Secretary asking him to take necessary action. It may be
stated in this connection that if there are ten or more children / students of minority community in any school, they have a right to
receive education in their mother tongue and schools have to
make arrangements for that.
The Commission in its Report also expressed concern over
teacher-student ratio in minority schools and recommended
appointment of teachers in suitable numbers in these schools. It
is stated in the Report that normally the teacher students ratio is
1:40 but in minority schools this ratio is vastly different. In the
same way the Commission has also recommended proper training of teachers of linguistic minority schools, supply of syllabus
books and study materials in their languages. The Commission
has also demanded the government to give it the same powers as
vested in the National Commission for Minorities Educational


Institutions.

and feel empowered by a democratic and pluralistic society. They

are not intimidated by extremist religious leaders and are not afraid
to speak out against religious extremism in their midst. It is why
so few, if any, Indian Muslims are known to have joined Al Qaeda.
In his predictable felicity with facts, the NYTs global expert
forgets that India has so far, mercifully, been alien to the phenomenon of suicide bombers. There have been no suicide vests
even in Kashmir, bordering Pakistan, which had been rocked by
insurgency and separatist movement since late 1980s with the
so-called cross-border infiltration.
Jake Flanagin, however, comes across as more empathetic
and understanding. Despite the enormity of Indias Muslim community, one finds little mention of them in Western media reports
on modern Islam. Perhaps because, in the wake of Sept. 11 and
in the midst of the war on terror, the Wests chief concern with the
global Muslim community has been its capacity for fostering
extremism - and Indias Muslims remain largely un-radicalized,
notes Flanagin.
This is something that hasnt been entirely lost on Indias
leaders beginning from Dr Manmohan Singh who proudly assured
his guest, a certain George W Bush, that no Indian Muslim had
joined the ranks of Al-Qaeda.
Responding to Al-Qaedas recent marketing pitch targeting
South Asia, Prime Minister Narendra Modi told Fareed Zakaria that
if anyone thought Indian Muslims would dance to the tunes of
groups like Al-Qaeda, they were delusional. Indian Muslims
would live for India and die for India, declared Modi in the feelgood interview primed ahead of his US visit.
President Pranab Mukherjee, another pillar of Indian political
establishment, reprised the theme during his foreign sojourns this
month. In interviews to Norwegian media, Mukherjee emphasized
that hardly any Indian Muslim has been involved in terrorism.
There may be one or two out of 150 million people but all of
these are imported. These are coming from outside. Indigenous
terrorist activity in India is extremely negligible and whenever such
signs are visible we take appropriate steps, said Mukherjee, a
former finance, foreign and defence minister under three prime
ministers.
Of course, this new-found faith and confidence in Indian
Muslims whose loyalty to the nation has perennially been suspect,
and not just in the eyes of the PMs Hindutva family and followers,
is touching.
What makes no sense though is the special treatment that
Muslims continue to receive at the hands of security and intelligence agencies and an increasingly hostile media which essentially speaks the line and narrative it has been fed by the establishment. The legend of the so-called Indian Mujahideen continues
to grow with more and more young men being rounded up as IM
members.
On the one hand, you have these touching platitudes to Indian
Muslims patriotism and loyalty insisting they are part and parcel

of the mainstream. On the other hand, anything goes off anywhere, the first reaction of police and intelligence agencies is to
go for the nearest Muslim.
No wonder Indias prisons are teaming with the usual suspects, far outnumbering their share in population. If hardly any
Indian Muslim is involved in terror activities, as the President
insists, why does he perpetually remain the enemy of the State?
We all know what happened under Modi himself in the
Vibrant Gujarat and I am not talking about 2002.
So this exultation over Muslims loyalty to India and their
apparent indifference to the charms of global terror is indeed
touching. But why do we not see the appreciation of this reality on
the ground? Why doesnt their lot change with the rest of the
country? Why do they remain permanently in the dock? These are
questions that Indias leaders need to ask themselves if they
indeed care for this much exploited minority.
Coming back to the Western concern, if Indian Muslims
remain peaceful and unradicalized, they are not an exception.
Even those taking to extremist ways elsewhere were not born that
way, nor did their faith force into it. It was thrust upon them by
decades of injustice, wars and oppression and you know by who.
When the world is divided into with us-or-against us battle
lines and you kill and drive people from their homes and cities
under one pretext or another, you cant expect a Gandhian thank
you in return.
Still, if Indias Muslims havent gone that way and retained
their sanity, thank God for that! However, as Pankaj Mishra argues,
they have far more serious problems to deal with, than fantasize
about signing up for Al-Qaeda and ISIS armies.
Economically dispossessed and socially deprived on many
counts, Muslims have long struggled on the margins of Indian
society. Long demonized as the vote bank of the Congress and
other secular parties, the meteoric rise of Modi and the
unprecedented communal polarization in the 2014 polls has
reduced Muslims to a political zero.
Uttar Pradesh, with a population of nearly 200 million and
20% Muslim population, failed to elect even a single Muslim MP
last May. On the other hand, the hysterical targeting of the community under one pretext or another, from terror to love jihad, continues unabated although elections are over and Modis party is
comfortably ensconced in Delhi and in many states.
Its as though Muslims are being deliberately driven over the
edge hoping they would fall into the waiting arms of global terror.
Whoever is playing this dangerous game must be prepared for its
catastrophic consequences.
As Mishra warns, the radicalization of even a tiny fraction of
180 million Muslims would fatally undermine Indias claims to
democracy and secularism. The not-so-reluctant fundamentalists
would make the country seem as ungovernable as its neighbour.

N. A. ANSARI
New Delhi: The Constitution of India, keeping in mind the psychology of children, has directed that elementary / primary education
of children should be imparted in their mother tongue but after
more than half a century since Independence most of the schools
are not only ignoring this directive but compelling them to read the
language of their (schools) own liking and choice. National
Commission on Linguistic Minorities (NCLM) in its 50th Report
has clearly stated that though Art 350 of the Constitution expects
all state governments and local administration to take concrete
steps for providing education to children belonging to minority
communities upto the primary level in their mother tongue but
even 68 years after Independence the situation in this respect is
very disappointing and a matter of concern which demands that
state governments take immediate steps to rectify it. In the
Commissions 50th Report signed by the Commission's
Chairman, Prof Akhtarul Wasey, which was submitted to minori-

Whos Afraid of
Indias Meek Muslims?
Why is the West so concerned about the
meekness and peaceful ways of Indias
Muslims asks AIJAZ ZAKA SYED
In the past couple of years, there has been a regular stream of
opinion pieces and special reports, most of them originating in the
West, seeking clues to the big existential puzzle - the mysterious
moderation of Indian Muslims. A New York Times article by Jake
Flanagin this week screamed: WHY INDIAS MUSLIMS HAVENT
RADICALIZED?
Its a question that seems to trouble everyone from the big
media - from Murdochs Wall Street Journal and New York Times
to the Washington Post to their counterparts across the pond.
They almost seem to rue the fact that Indian Muslims, the
worlds second largest Muslim population and largest minority,
has inexplicably remained untouched and unaffected by the global phenomenon of Islamic extremism.
The more cautious Europeans have been equally puzzled by
the meekness of Indian Muslims. It is not said in so many words
but the nuanced suggestion and implication is not lost on anyone.
That at a time when their brethren elsewhere -- true to their
image of bloodthirsty fanatics -- are going berserk, why in Gods
name do they defy the good old traditions and stereotypes to
retain their sanity?
The ever reasonable Economist attributed it to the thousand
year legacy of Sufi Islam in the Subcontinent. Generally speaking
though, the moderation of Indian Muslims is seen as an exception that stands out like a sore thumb! And theres more surprise
than satisfaction, if you know what I mean.
Our friend Thomas Friedman of the NYT has repeatedly dwelt
on the issue attributing the self-assurance of Muslims to the
strength and inclusive nature of Indian democracy. There may be
some merit in Friedmans argument but its his patronizing, overbearing, white mans burden complex that gets one going.
Back in 2009, Friedman talked of a growing trend among
Indian Muslims wherein community members refused to bury the
bodies of suicide bombers. Thats why Indias Muslims, who are
the second-largest Muslim community in the world after
Indonesias, and the one with the deepest democratic tradition, do
a great service to Islam by delegitimizing suicide-murderers by
refusing to bury their bodies. It wont stop this trend overnight, but
it can help over time, he wrote.
The fact that Indian Muslims have stood up in this way is
surely due, in part, to the fact that they live in, are the product of

Aijaz Zaka Syed is a Middle East-based writer.

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The Congress is a headless party

M. BURHANUDDIN QASMI
The results of the assembly elections in
Maharashtra and Haryana are out. As projected
by political experts, the actual results are: the
Indian National Congress (INC) bites dust in both
the states and the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP)
makes a sweeping victory in Haryana (47 out of
90 seats) and historic win in Maharastra (123
out of 288). The party is forming governments in
both the states with trusted RSS hands as heads
of the state governments.
The ultimate loser is the Congress because it
has been ruling both the states for the last 10
and 15 years respectively. And the principal gainer is the BJP which had won only four seats in
Haryana in 2009 while in Maharashtra it was
positioned as the fourth party at most throughout recent history, but this election directly
pushed it to the driving seat. The Congress was
kicked to the third position in both the states for
the first time.
The result was very much expected for the
observers of Indian politics. The Congress had a
chance, though by default, to at least have a
face-saver by retaining Maharashtra for the
fourth consecutive term in alliance with NCP following a split between the BJP and the Shiv
Sena. But the party leadership once again utterly
failed to take right decision at the right time,
betraying that its command and control has virtually collapsed and it is now a headless party.

The number of Muslim MLAs in the previous Maharashtra Assembly

was 11 only, not a satisfactory figure either, compared to the 15
percent Muslim population in the state. This figure would have been a
little better this time had the Congress and NCP not broken their
alliance before elections. Results show in Bhiwandi, Shoeb Guddu of
Congress was leading but due to the votes snatched by Rashid Tahir
Momin of the NCP, he lost the election.
In this chaotic atmosphere, Maharashtra
Muslims do not seem to have voted very maturely.
They went after emotional rhetoric in some constituencies. The majority Muslim constituencies
like the two in Bhiwandi, one each in Mumbra,
Kurla, Bandra, Aurangabad and Nanded went to
Shiv Sena or BJP because of heavy division of
minority votes among so-called secular party candidates from Congress, NCP, SP or AIMIM.
According to the result announced by the
state election commission on 19 October, the
Maharashtra house will have a total of 123 BJP
MLAs followed by 63 of Shiv Sena, 42 of the
Congress, 41 of the NCP, 3 of Bahujan Vikas
Aghadi and 2 MLAs of the All India Majlis
Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) and others belonging to smaller parties.
The only ten Muslim MLAs elected in the
2014 state elections are: Amin Patel
(Mumbadevi), Arif Naseem Khan (Chandiwali),
Aslam Shaikh (Malad), Abdus Sattar (Sillod),
Asif Shaikh (Malegaon - Central) - all 5 from

Congress, Abu Asim Azmi (Mankhurd) from

Samajwadi Party (SP), Hasan Mushrif (Kagal)
from Nationalist Congress Party (NCP),
Advocate Waris Pathan (Byculla), Imtiyaz Jaleel
(Aurangabad - Central) - the duo from All India
Majlis-e Ittihadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) and Pasha
Patel (Ausa, Latur), the lone Muslim face from
BJP.
The number of Muslim MLAs in the previous
Maharashtra Assembly was 11 only, not a satisfactory figure either, compared to the 15 percent
Muslim population in the state. This figure would
have been a little better this time had the
Congress and NCP not broken their alliance
before elections. Results show in Bhiwandi,
Shoeb Guddu of Congress was leading but due
to the votes snatched by Rashid Tahir Momin of
the NCP, he lost the election.
Other losers are Baba Siddiqui, Nawab Malik
and Bashir Musa Patel. All three are experienced,
former MLAs and senior leaders of their respective parties. They lost the election because their

parties could not transfer the non-Muslim votes

in their favour.
The results once again proved that while the
Congress and other secular parties win the elections on Muslim votes, when the time comes
non-Muslim voters do not vote for Muslim candidates belonging to these parties.
The hallmark of this election for Muslims,
however, is the emergence of the Hyderabadbased AIMIM - the party led by the vocal MP
Asaduddin Owaisi. The AIMIM, which contested
the Maharashtra election for the first time had
fielded 24 candidates, pulled over a half million
votes, won two seats, was the runner up in three
and fared 3rd in eight seats.
The performance is good for a debutant party.
However, it is yet to be seen how this Muslim
party is going to help the Muslims in Maharashtra
in this highly polarized political and communal conditions.
There is no sign visible anywhere that the
headless Congress can recover from these shockers in the near future. The upcoming elections in
Jammu and Kashmir, Jharkand and Assam will
bring the same ill-fate for the party. The writing on
the wall is clear: polity in India has drastically
changed, BJP is going to stay in the centre stage
for a longer period than the Vajpayee era.
The author is director of Markazul Maarif Education
and Research Centre, Mumbai and editor of Eastern
Crescent magazine. He may be contacted at
editor@easterncrescent.in

Social Justice Minister should be in tune with Modi Muslims as Scheduled Caste:
Kundu Committee
of 1950 is an anathema which disfigured the beauty of the written
Supreme Court should delete para 3 from
New Delhi: The Post-Sachar Evaluation Committee headed by Prof.

Scheduled Castes definition and make it religionneutral says DR SYED ZAFAR MAHMOOD

Plato has once again been proved right: politics

is the art of gaining power and the craft of retaining it. Media has reported the current central
government saying that opening up the list of
Scheduled Castes beyond Hinduism, Sikhism
and Buddhism would encourage religious conversions. It said this in the context of the demand
of Muslims and Christians that the definition of
"Scheduled Castes" should be made religion-neutral by deleting
para 3 from the presidential order of 1950. Thats what has been
stated a couple of days ago by the Union social justice minister
Thavar Chand Gehlot, "Allowing SC status (to converts to
Christianity and Islam) would provide a fillip to religious conversions. The demand is not constitutional and we want to work within the parameters of the statute for the welfare of these communities (read Hindus, Sikhs and Buddhists)" (Times of India, 10
October).
The statement indicates that the Centre may oppose the
demand of Christians and Muslims in ten writ petitions pending for
long in the Supreme Court. For years the UPA government was
dragging its feet in the apex court and did not file its counter affidavit despite reminders. This was despite the National Commission
for Scheduled Castes having given its nod for the inclusion of Dalit
Christians and Dalit Muslims in the SC list though with the rider that
the existing SC quota should not be affected and the government
should increase the overall quota of SC if it goes ahead with the
move. Nonetheless, the statutory body did concur with the essence
of the proposal.
The National Commission for Religious & Linguistic Minorities,
popularly known as Justice Ranganath Misra Commission, strongly recommended in 2007 as follows: "Para 3 of the Constitution
(Scheduled Caste) Order 1950 - which originally restricted the
Scheduled Caste net to Hindus and later opened it to Sikhs and
Buddhists, thus still excluding from its purview the Muslims,
Christians, Jains and Parsis, etc - should be wholly deleted by
appropriate action so as to completely delink the Scheduled Caste
status from religion and make the Scheduled Castes net fully religion-neutral like that of the Scheduled Tribes."
Before making this recommendation the Commission dug
deep into the historical and constitutional aspects of the matter. It
noted that in 1927 the Madras Presidency had reserved five of
every 12 Government jobs for non-Brahmin Hindus, 2 each for
Brahmins, Christians and Muslims and one for others. In Bombay,
seats were reserved for all except Brahmins, Marwaris, Banias,
Parsis and Christians. Around these two models a few princely
states like Baroda, Travancore and Kolhapor also introduced similar provisions. The Justice Misra Commission also recapitulated
that Articles 14, 15 and 16 provide, respectively, for Right to
Equality, Prohibition against Discrimination based on Religion and
Equality of Opportunity in Public Employment. However, it allowed
reservation of seats for backward classes of citizens. Also, Article
46 obliges the State to promote with special care the educational
and economic interests of the weaker sections of the people and
protect them from social injustice and all types of exploitation.
Accordingly, reservation for minorities has been provided in government employment and for admission in educational institutions
by the state governments of Kerala (Muslims 10%, Christians 2%)
and Karnataka (Muslims 4%).
In Jiwajiraja Sindhia Bahadur Madhava Rao vs Union of India
(1971), the Supreme Court held that para 3 of the presidential order

Constitution of India. In the famous case of Kesavanand Bharati, the

apex court said that the President has no authority to proclaim para
3 as it is contrary to Articles 15(2), 16(2) and 29(2) and also it is
against the basic structure of the Constitution. Even under Article
341, the President is not given power to discourage any citizen
from professing any religion of his choice. But under para 3 of the
1950 Order, the President indirectly prescribes the people (particularly the scheduled castes) not to profess any religion different from
the favored trinity: Hindu, Sikh and Buddhist religions. Under Article
341, the power given to the President is to specify the caste and
not to specify religion. Hence the Order of 1950 is a "coloured legislation under the guise of the presidential order".
It is important to note that the Explanation given under Article
25 cannot be used to treat Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists and Hindus as
a single class or group except for purposes of applicability of personal laws under Article 25(2); thus, the presidential order of 1950
has misconstrued the impugned Explanation below Article 25.
Also, in view of SC Bench decision in Indira Sawhney vs Union of
India, para 3 of the presidential order of 1950 requires to be struck
down as it came to the conclusion that caste is not confined to any
specific religion but it extends irrespective of the religious sanctions. This is surely a scenario reflected from the Indian social
milieu across all faith affiliations.
Muslims have been excluded from Scheduled Castes through
para 3 of the 1950 Presidential Order. But the same Muslims have
been recognized as backward under the OBC category. In view of
this contradiction, the Misra Commission notes that para 3 of the
1950 Order suffers from "hostile discrimination" against scheduled
caste Muslims. Also, like Christianity and Islam the basic tenets of
Sikhism and Buddhism also do not recognise the caste system. But
Sikhs and Buddhists have been favoured while Muslims and
Christians have been discriminated against by the President. This is
patently illogical, unreasonable and unjust.
Thus, Misra Commission has recommended deletion of para 3
of the Constitution (Scheduled Castes) Order 1950. Also, it further
recommended that all those groups and classes among Muslims
and Christians etc whose counterparts among the Hindus, Sikhs
and Buddhists are included in the Central or state SC lists should
also be covered by the Scheduled Caste net. The Justice Sachar
Committee too had observed that Muslims should make maximum
use of the prevailing caste categories as the unit for quotas. It
questioned the non-availability of the SC quota for Muslims while it
was available for Sikhs and Buddhists.
The reports of both Misra Commission and Sachar Committee
were presented seven years ago and during this long period there
has been no cogent and sustainable opposition to their findings and
recommendations in the judicial forums or elsewhere.
Such is the strong case in favour of deleting para 3 from the
presidential order of 1950. Couple it with the statement of Prime
Minister Narendra Modi in Parliament where he loudly recognized
that Muslims are more backward than any other socio-religious
community, argued that specialized schemes need to be implemented to ameliorate their plight and declared that he doesnt consider
such schemes as Muslim appeasement but rather a reasonable
national social necessity. Thus, Social Justice Minister Thavar
Chand Gehlot would be well advised to revisit this matter of vital significance and reformat his stance tuning it with his masters voice,
rhyming it with the saner national sentiment and file the counter affidavit accordingly in the Supreme Court. The PM too would hopefully guide him suitably and manifest his qualitative leadership and
characteristic equal concern and care for each of the 1.25 billion
Indians.
The author is President, ZakatIndia.org and former OSD, Sachar
Committee. Reach him at info@zakatindia.org

Amitabh Kundu presented its final report to Dr. Najma A Heptulla,

the Union Minister for Minorities Affairs on 9 October. The Ministry
of Minority Affairs had constituted this Committee under the chairmanship of Prof. Kundu of JNU, and seven other social scientists in
September 2013. The mandate of the committee was to evaluate
the process of implementation of Sachar Committee Report and the
Prime Ministers 15-points programme for minorities. The committee was also asked to assess the outcome of the programmes
implemented by Ministry of Minority Affairs and other ministries
and to recommend corrective measures. Observing that "the lower
percentage of Muslim households participating in public employment programme, compared to Hindu or Christian households,
suggests that any overt employment programmes are unlikely to
address the problem of the Muslims - the most deprived minority in
the labour market", the Committee suggested that increased participation in higher education and technical fields will help Muslims to
eventually move to better quality jobs.
In the health section, it suggested that government surveys
such as National Family Health Survey (NFHS) collecting data on
health issues should collect and publish data by religion and other
background characteristics. It further said, "Health surveys should
cover the burden of acute and chronic diseases by religion and
other background characteristics as against the current scenario
where only maternal and child health indicators are considered." It
added that all Muslim-concentration districts (MCDs) be made part
of the Annual Health Surveys (AHS) so that the impact of health and
other schemes targeted at them can be tracked. The committee
observed that the Muslims lag behind even the SCs in terms of
access to amenities, and this problem needs to be addressed, irrespective of their better child health outcomes, due to community
characteristics.
The overall literacy rate, school attendance rate and higher educational attainment rates are all very low among Muslims, with
never attended or currently not attending and dropout rate from
education system being high, the report said and observed:
"Muslim children generally drop out at a very young age, compared
to the children from other SRC. At all the levels of education, OBC
Muslims, however, are the most deprived group. Percentage of persons with vocational and technical training was also very low
among them.
A whole chapter in the interim report was devoted to Waqf
properties management. The interim report had suggested that
"waqf properties must be exempted from certain enactments to
serve the greater philanthropic purposes of waqf properties through
minor amendments." One of the important recommendations in this
chapter dealt with the innumerable waqf properties, despite being a
place of worship and of religious reverence, could not be touched
by Waqf boards as these are declared as protected monuments
under the control of the Archeological Survey of India (ASI). The
interim report also said the National Waqf Development Corporation
Ltd (NAWADCO) can be given a boost by making its functioning
Shariah-compliant as a section of Muslims stay away from interestbased projects and usurious transactions. "The corporation could
work towards creating a level playing field with other Muslim welfare organisations such as the Tabung Haji of Malaysia..."
After submitting its interim report in March 2014, the
Committee asked for an extension. The previous UPA government
had given the extension and asked it to submit the report by
September, 2014.
(Excerpted from Nivedita Khandekar,
TwoCircles.net)

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Missionaries engaged in converting poor Muslims

New Delhi: Christian missionaries are widening their activities in
attracting the attention of residents of Basti Hazrat Nizamuddin,
mostly inhabited by Muslims, on the pretext of making the place a
model tourist centre and improving their living conditions with the
ultimate plan of propagating Christianity among them. People
apparently do not realize this but missionary workers very cleverly and with meticulous planning are attracting poor people, particularly children and young boys by promising them good and modern education and thereafter good job opportunities within and
outside the country. There are four different institutions of
Christian missionary in this area where free English and computer education is being imparted to boys and girls belonging to poor
families along with religious education. In very poor families medicines, milk, bread etc are also provided to women and children in
particular. Cleaning of the locality is also undertaken to impress
them with apparently selfless service. Children naturally like these
things and gradually get attracted towards them. Missionary
workers visit different areas, meet the people to become acquainted. Some of them hire houses on fat rents by posing as Muslims
and settle down there.
According to some local people, many boys and girls after
receiving education in these institutions have gone abroad and got
jobs there. After coming back from there many educated girls got
married to non-Muslims and cut off connection with their parents
and other relatives. It may be recalled that about a couple of years
ago a big function was held here which was attended by the officials of American embassy and other dignitaries and prizes distributed among students. Some people also said that in these
English schools children were told about condoms and when local
people came to know about it, there was a big uproar in the locality after which teachers in the schools became cautious.
Tourists also frequently visit this place. A few years ago, in
2003 work to renovate of Humayun Tomb (which is nearby),
beautification of its lawns and gardens etc was started with the
patronage of Agha Khan Trust for Culture whose partners were
ASL, CPWD, MCD, Agha Khan Foundation etc. Subsequently,
some other trusts and organisations like Sir Dorabji Tata Allied
Trust, Norways ministry of foreign affairs, American Embassy,
Ford Foundation, World Monument Fund, ASI, German Embasy,
Ratan Tata Trust, HUDCO, GSRD Foundation and others also fund-

Echo of Burdwan
PARWAZ RAHMANI

ed the project. Most of these organisations are financiers and promoters of Christian missionaries and Christianity.
Under the guise of renovation and beautification of
Humayuns Tomb it has been stated that together with repair, renovation, beautification of tombs, buildings etc many other projects
are undertaken to improve the life and surroundings of the people
living here so that this place could become a model tourist centre.
There are many other ancient and historical buildings, monuments
etc like Masjid Aini Khan, Boo Halimas Tomb, Bataashay Wala
mahal, Arab Sarai ki Masjid, Lakkad Wala Bridge etc which need
urgent repair and preservation but nothing has been done so far,
for these monuments.

Jammus Dussehra a good

example of communal unity
and mutual cooperation
Jammu: Jammus Dussehra festival is a unique example of communal harmony and brotherhood. Members of Muslim community, particularly youths participate equally in playing the roles Ram
to Hanuman and making effigies of Ravan, Kumbhkaran,
Meghnad. In jhannkis on the occasion of Ram Naumi, youths of
the Muslim community also take active part. In short, both Hindus
and Muslims jointly celebrate this festival without any restriction.
According to Yudhvir Singh, an office bearer of Sanatam
Dharm Natak Samaj, the organisation which has been organising

Another report in The Deccan Chronicle said that the RSS,

through the article, has tried to prove that Godse was not a
swayamsevak and that the Hindu outfit had nothing to do with the
assassination of Gandhi.
The "Kesari" article allegedly highlighted that Nehru was the
sole reason behind major national tragedies, for instance the
Partition and Gandhis assassination.
Keralas RSS unit has published an article in
Gopalakrishnan goes on to
its mouthpiece "Kesari" on the Congress
say how Godse was a better perefforts to "distort" history. But, in a startling
son than Nehru because the latstatement, the author hinted that Nathuram
ter psychologically killed Gandhi.
Godse, who assassinated Mahatma Gandhi,
"Godse pulled the trigger on
chose the wrong target. The implication is
Gandhijis chest after a respectthat he should have targeted Jawaharlal
ful bow. It was unlike Nehru who
Nehru. A report in The News Minute quotes
stabbed Gandhiji from behind
the author as saying:
and greeted him from front,"
"If history students honestly verified the hisGopalakrishnan argues.
torical facts before partition and also the
The "Kesari" article created
views of Godse, they may arrive at the conquite
a stir in Kerala. Home minclusion that Godse had chosen the wrong
ister Ramesh Chennithala has
target."
A Kairali TV grab of the Kesari article called for a probe and told the
A view of the article published in RSS
state police to take appropriate action against the magazine.
mouthpiece Kesari. Image courtesy: YouTube
The author, B Gopalakrishnan, was a BJP candidate in Criticising BJP and the RSS, VM Sudheeran, Kerala Pradesh
Chalakudy Lok Sabha constituency in the last elections. He Congress Committee president, said that the BJP, and not
Congress, distorts facts and history.
alleges that Nehru indulged in selfish politics during Partition.
"After the Modi government came to power, consistent
The article spoke about how Nehru clinically eliminated
attempts
are being made to glorify hardcore Hindutva ideologues
Gandhi from the last round of talks with the British for his petty
ends. Nehru merely wanted Gandhis khaddar and cap as the and Gandhijis killer Nathuram Godse. It also displays the intolerance of Modi towards Nehru and his family," Sudheeran was quotsymbol for the Indian National Congress, the article claimed.


ed as saying by The News Minute.

RSS mouthpiece suggests

Nathuram Godse should have
killed Nehru instead of Gandhi

An explosion took place in a house in Burdwan (W. Bengal) on 2

October in which two persons were killed. The story thereafter, as
told by local residents, central agencies and media is that the house
in question belonged to a Muslim MP of Trinamool Congress and
that IED (Improvised Explosive Device) bombs were being made
there which were to be used for subversive activities. Names of the
two persons killed while making the bombs are Shakeel Ahmad and
Shobhan Mondal, both of whom were said to belong to Indian
Mujahideen. Women too were engaged in this work, they were
trained in madrasas, sources claimed.
After getting the news of the blast when the police reached there,
two revolver-wielding women held them up for about one hour and
continued to threaten them that if the policemen tried to enter, they
will blow up the house. Meanwhile, important and sensitive documents were burnt and from pieces left unburnt, investigating agencies came to know that these
were literature of Al Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri and Indian Mujahideen.
Thereafter, it was but natural for BJP and other RSS outfits to jump into the matter alongwith the
national media. As a result, its traditional uproar and screaming headiness started to pour in with
full force. In addition to sensational reports and terrible stories, alarming views and observations
of important observers and experts began to make headlines and this incident was quickly linked
with international terrorism and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) no less.
The truth is that such incidents had taken place earlier also. This incident, as was being told, was
very serious and alarming and hence media, police and investigating agencies should have taken
it up with all seriousness and after due investigations, guilty persons should have been given
exemplary punishment regardless of whoever was involved. The truth is on earlier occasions also
blasts took place while making bombs in houses but, surprisingly, neither the media nor investigating agencies took even the slightest notice of those incidents. For example, on 24 August 2008,
a bomb suddenly exploded in a house in a Kanpur locality bombs were being made thereand two
persons had died in that incident. Police reached the place and recovered bomb-making materials
like explosives, detonators, clocks etc but no action was taken by anybody against anyone. Media
also took no notice at all. There was no uproar. There were of course some people who wanted to
know the facts (which were crystal clear) but police silenced them. The reason was obvious: those
killed while making bombs were not Muslims. They were Bajrang Dal activists. There was a Sikh
youth also in the group. Their intentions and plans were quite obvious. When some inquisitive and
bold reporters asked about the action taken by the police, a top police officials reply was something like this: when nobody is owning up responsibility for this, whom should we arrest?
A few years before this Kanpur incident, a similar incident had taken place in Nanded
(Maharashtra) in April 2006 exactly on the same pattern. Names of the owner of the house and
those killed in that bomb blast were also known. Like the bomb-makers of Kanpur, the intentions
and plans of the Nanded bomb-makers also were clear but investigating agencies as well as media
suppressed this news and the experts and observers also took no notice of that blast. Some
social workers and NGOs had tried raising questions about it but were unsuccessful. No TV channel had even thought of organising a discussion on this. If BJP and RSS neither made any statement nor demanded any enquiry, any body can guess why?
Now the Burdwan incident has become a hot topic. The BJP, media and others have started
shouting at the top of their voices. It is also clear that now they want to capture West Bengal politically, but what has happened to the experts and independent and impartial observers? All of
them have forgotten honesty, sincerity and seriousness. The question here involves the country's
moral structure and its future. Politicians are doing their work as usual but if impartial observers
and intellectuals adopt the same attitude, who will take care of countrys moral standards? The
truth about Burdwan incident does not appear to be what is being portrayed. If an honest unbiased
enquiry is conducted, the truth will come out. (Editorial, Dawat Sahroza, 11 October, 2014 - translated
from Urdu by MG staff)

Ram Lila or Dussehra festival in Jammu for the past about 150
years, in the Ram Lila of his organisation, in roles of many important artists, decoration of stage and their security etc Muslim children participate actively and voluntarily. The effigies of Ravan etc
are built by Muslim artists only. The family members of one
Muhammad Rehaan from a village of Meerut come to Jammu
every year one month before Dussehra for the past about 3
decades to make effigies of Ravan etc. According to him, 35 to 40
artists from his village work on these effigies 24 hours, in turns.
They make these effigies at about 40 places in Jammu, most of
whom are Muslims with some Hindus also. He said that this year
no orders came from Leh and Srinagar because of severe floods.
When asked if they face opposition from Muslims in their
place for making effigies when idol making and idol worship is
prohibited in Islam, he (Rehan) said that this is not idol worship.
Moreover, this is an art and art has no caste or religion. Also, this
festival symbolises victory of good over evil and Islam also teaches to be good and sincere and follow the right path. He said that
on the occasion of Ram Naumi and jhaankis people of the Muslim
community greet people at different places with lemon water,
sweet water, fruits etc. President of Jammu Muslim Federation,
Saleem Khan says that in Jammu communal harmony has been
an old tradition, adding that Kashmir has passed through a terrible
and long period of terrorism but in Jammu there is communal harmony and peace. There are bad and mischievous elements in all
religions who try to create mischief and disorder but we do not


allow their evil designs to succeed.

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The Pain of Backward Muslims

ship which speaks on behalf of
the entire community, as they
have disproportionate voice in the
media, exclusively focuses on
identity issues like banning of
Satanic Verses, mobilization on
the issue of Dutch cartoons,
Babri Masjid and Shah Bano
case. In contrast, none of the
speakers at the convention of
backward Muslims focused on
identity issues. For them their
socio-economic plight and issues
of equal opportunities, social justice and education were far fundamental, though Islam was no
less dear to them. However, Islam was something they lived and practiced within their homes
and their private lives. It was their faith and not a
tool of mobilization to be used and abused for
political interests and one-upmanship. They
identified more with the dalits of all communities
and with all those who subscribed to the social
justice agenda. For them their community and
their identity was that of dalits primarily and not
Muslim. They shared their religion and way of
worship with other Muslims but nothing else.
It is in this context that the debate on the
recent Andhra High Court judgment and reservation for Muslims announced by the West Bengal
government should be understood. Does the
Muslim community form a class which is
socially and educationally backward? In my
humble submission and in the light of what I
have stated above, Muslims in India neither form
a community nor are they a class. The Kaka
Kalelkar Commission and then the Mandal
Commission also included backward classes
from among the Muslims in the list of socially
and educationally backward classes.
Our Constitution is secular and reservation
for the entire Muslim community would amount
to discrimination on the basis of religion, which
is in violation of Articles 14, 15 and 16 of the
Constitution. Disregarding the legal hurdles in
providing for reservations for all Muslims, in my
opinion, it is not even desirable and will benefit
the biradaries with already good social capital,
which do not need reservations for their uplift
and encouragement. The Bohras, Memons and
Khojas are largely trading communities having a
large section of educated middle class amidst
them. The three communities from Gujarat benefited from development of trade in Western
India during the British colonial period with
development of Bombay as a port city. The
younger generation in these communities avail
of higher education without the benefit of reservation or any other affirmative action from the
State. After education, though some of them
pursue professional careers as doctors, engineers, lawyers, chartered accountants etc., a
few of them prefer to continue their family businesses. Along with mosques and seminaries,
these communities have also been able to contribute and give the country educational institutions, hospitals and other public institutions. If
17 percent of Muslims are matriculates (as compared to 26 percent matriculates in all communities), the non-backward class Muslim communities, or Ashraf, as they are referred to generally,
including the Bohras, Khojas and Memons contribute a significant number to the overall percentage of Muslim matriculates. Similarly, the 10
percent ashraf contribute significantly to the 3.6
percent Muslim graduates and 0.4 percent
Muslims with technical education, as against 7
percent and 0.5 percent for all communities
respectively. If benefits of affirmative action were
to be extended to all, the ashraf would be in a
much better position and would corner most of
the benefits of reservation due to their urban
base and advantage of good educational background.
The disadvantaged ajlaf and arzal will continue to remain so. Inclusion of specific communities within the Muslim community on the backward classes list also acknowledges the ground
reality that Muslims are not one homogenous
sociological unit. The caste-based discrimination of specific backward communities continues despite their conversions and these communities continue their caste-based professions
and identities.
After getting elected, the Y. S. Rajshekhar
Reddy government introduced legislation to pro-

It is time to question reservation as the only form of

affirmative action. The politicians find reservation
most tempting for they dont have to mobilize
additional resources from the budget. Pass a
legislation fixing reservations for a specified
community and gather their votes....
The backward classes within the Muslim
community will benefit more if the government
formulates schemes for protection of informal
labour, provides support for upgradation of the skills
they already possess and financial support through
co-operatives of artisans to ensure full participation
of these sections in the economic growth.
IRFAN ENGINEER
Two years ago, I was invited to speak at a twoday convention of Backward Muslims organised
by Tehrik-e-Pasmanda Muslim Samaj in Patna.
Translated, the name would mean movement of
backward Muslim community. There were about
400 Muslim delegates. Every speaker at the convention was allowed to speak only for 3-4 minutes and this golden rule was strictly followed,
the only exception being a UN official from the
Millennium Development Goals programme,
who spoke for about 10-12 minutes. The convention started at about 11.00 a.m. and continued till 5.00 p.m. without any tea or lunch break.
Those who could not stay without tea went out
and sipped their tea and returned. Thus there
were more than 150 persons who spoke at the
convention. Only about five of them were from
the Hindu dalit background and one Christian
working among dalit community. For editorial
reasons, I cannot reproduce the language they
were employing to give vent to their feelings
against the Muslim leadership whom they
accused of ignoring their plight. They further
accused the Muslim leadership within all political
parties of mobilizing the community only around
emotional and identity issues like the protection
of Babri Masjid and Muslim Personal Law - the
Shah Bano issue and that of demand to ban
Satanic Verses, a book by Salman Rushdie
which had derogatory references to the Prophet.
The plight of their communities was far
worse than even Hindu dalits. They were treated
as untouchables not only by the society at large,
but also by the notables within their own community. The speakers included from the
halalkhor community - those who are engaged in
manual scavenging and have to clean and carry
human excreta on their heads. The Muslim notables, or Ashraf, carry the same notion of purity
and pollution as do their counterpart upper
castes within the Hindu community. They too are
discouraged from praying in the mosques and if
someone enters the mosque notwithstanding the
consequences they may be brought upon him to
bear, can stand only in the last rows for their
prayers.
The plight of the backward Muslims is worse
than that of Hindu dalits as the Scheduled Castes
have at least constitutional and legal mechanisms to protect them, whereas the Presidential
Order of 1950 does not permit enlisting of nonHindu, non-Sikh and non-Buddhists as
Scheduled Castes. Thus they are devoid of benefits of reservations in educational institutions,
employment, in parliamentary and state legislatures, protection under the SC atrocities act and
other protections. One of the speakers had managed to get himself educated in spite of all the
odds that were stacked against him, but still did
not enjoy the respectability of the Ashraf. The
only community proud of him was his own
halalkhor biradari. He had lapped up a govt. job
using a Hindu name and not revealing that he
was a Muslim. In the hall there were frames of
Hindu gods for the consumption of his visitors
whereas frame with Allah written on it decorated his bedroom. He could not fast during
Ramzan. His Muslim faith was tugged in the corner of his heart and his entire family privately
practiced a different religion from their public
claims.
The dalit Hindu speakers of the convention
empathized with the plight of dalit Muslims and
demanded that non-Hindu, non-Sikh and nonBuddhist dalits also be included in the category
of Scheduled Castes and all the benefits, including reservations, be extended to them. Mind you
inclusion of more communities as Scheduled
Castes could mean sharing the benefits of reser-

vations but they were willing to sacrifice that for

their fellow beings.
The convention demonstrated that the
Muslim community could hardly be called a
community. The community consists of diverse
biradaries like the hallakhors, khatiks, telis, tambolis, julahas, bagwans, pathans, syeds,
sheikhs, etc. These Muslim biradaries can be
broadly classified into three categories - the
ashraf (notables or counterparts of upper
castes), the ajlaf (counterparts of OBCs - the
commoners or artisan class) and the arzal
(counterparts of dalit Hindus - those Muslim
biradaries doing impure work). The terms
ashraf, ajlaf and arzal are not derived from any
Indian language. They are derived from Arabic
and have been used historically right from the
days of Muslim rulers during the Sultanate period. The Muslim converts from backward classes were even exempt from the Sharia law applicable to the notables. Madrasas catered to the
Muslim notables and the ajlaf and arzal were left
to the care of Sufi saints and their dargahs,
where all were welcome, Muslims and Hindus,
dalits and notables, men and women.
When Islam and even Christianity spread to
South Asia, it had to grapple with the deeply
rooted caste system. To the upper castes, it did
not matter what religion or traditions and customs the shudras followed, they had in any case
excluded them from their communities and
social space. No affirmative action was expected from the feudal state which strongly guarded
the interests of the notables - Hindus as well as
Muslims - and maintained the hierarchies and
privileges acquired by birth. Conversions to
Islam were on account of sharing and caring and
inclusive approach of the Sufis towards one and
all which led excluded Hindu castes collectively
converting as a community and retaining their
cultures, traditions and community institutions.
The Muslim biradaries even today have their
strong allegiance to biradari institutions (something akin to caste panchayats). In case of family disputes, their first instinct is to approach not
Darul Uloom or Muslim jurisprudential schools
but their respective biradari institutions.
Educational institutions, scholarship programmes etc. also cater largely to respective
biradaries. The biradaries maintain themselves
through endogamous practices, if not roti, at
least beti vyavhar is within the biradari. Some
biradaries are rich and have good social capital,
others are poor.
The biradaries attending the convention I
discussed above were among the poorest without any social capital.
The Muslim community is backward as an
overwhelming majority of biradaries are socially
and educationally backward. However, the
biradaries falling in the ashraf category have
good social capital as some of them were the
nawabs and the rulers of the yesteryears. The
Bohras, Cutchi Memons and Khojas, the three
trading communities from Gujarat. have done
very well in education and employment. Yes,
they too face discrimination on account of general stigmatization of all Muslims, but they do
have a chance of overcoming the discrimination.
The few educational institutions of the community are generally controlled by the ashraf.
The Muslim politicians too come from the
ashraf. From the first to the 14th Lok Sabha, no
more than five backward Muslims were elected.
More or less same is the position of other elected bodies of Rajya Sabha and state legislatures.
The present Rajya Sabha has no backward
Muslim. In political parties, the representation of
backward Muslims is negligible, though the
backward Muslims form over 90 percent of the
Muslim population. No wonder the ashraf leader-

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vide for 5 percent reservation for Muslims. The
legislation was challenged in the Andhra Pradesh
High Court which struck down the legislation as
unconstitutional and violating the fundamental
right of equality. Articles 15 and 16 of the
Constitution of India provide that the State shall
not discriminate on grounds only of caste, religion, gender and language or any one of them.
However, affirmative action by the State providing for reservations for socially and educationally backward classes and special provisions for
women and children would not be deemed to be
violation of the general rule of non-discrimination. The AP legislation provided for reservations
for Muslims on the ground that the Muslim community was socially and educationally backward
and therefore covered by the deeming provision
in Articles 15 and 16 of the Constitution.
The A.P. High Court in its judgment opined
that the affirmative action of reservation was for
socially and educationally backward classes and
not for a religious community, and, moreover,
there was no data on which the AP Govt. could
have come to the conclusion that the entire
Muslim community was socially and educationally backward. The overall percentage of reservation, according to the Supreme Court cannot
exceed 50 percent. However, after providing for
5 percent reservations to Muslims, the overall
percentage of reservation exceeded 50 percent
and this was one more count on which the earlier order of reservation for Muslims was rejected. The Supreme Court of India upheld the AP
High Court judgment. The Andhra Pradesh
Government then reserved 4 percent seats for
backward classes amongst Muslims, this time
after gathering the data on which classes of
Muslims were socially and educationally backward. The Andhra Pradesh Govt. asked AP
Commission for Backward Classes to examine
the social, educational and economic status of
the Muslim community. Based on the
Commissions findings, the AP Govt. decided to
create group E called Socially and Educationally
Backward Classes of Muslims in the list of
Backward Classes. Fifteen specific classes of
Muslims which were included in the list are
Achchukattalavandlu, Attar Saibulu, Dhobi, Fakir,
Garadi, Gosangi, Guddi, Eluguvallu, Hajjam,
Labbi, Pakeerla, Borewale, Qureshi, Shaik, Siddi,
Chakketakera and other Muslim groups. Those
excluded from the list of backward class
Muslims were Syed, Musahik, Mughal, Pathan,
Irani, Arab, Bohra, Shia Imami Ismaili Khoja,
Cutchi-Memon, Jamayat and Navayat. The AP
High Court has struck down the reservations for
Muslims for the second time on the ground that
the decision-making process about backwardness of Muslim classes was wanting in not taking all the relevant factors that should have been
taken into account, and on the other hand taking
irrelevant factors. The AP High Court has not
stated that there can be no reservations for
backwards among Muslims. The WB Govt.s
belated enthusiasm for affirmative action for the
Muslim community should also be open to
question as a politically motivated move while
facing the heat after Nandigram and electoral
shift towards the Trinamool Congress-Congress
alliance in West Bengal.
It is time to question reservation as the only
form of affirmative action. The politicians find
reservation most tempting for they dont have to
mobilize additional resources from the budget.
Pass a legislation fixing reservations for a specified community and gather their votes. A small
section of Muslims backward class artisans
have come up the hard way and have been able
to marginally benefit from growth in exports in
particular and economy in general. A small section of saree weavers in Varanasi, brassware
artisan in Moradabad, workers in lock industry in
Aligarh and scissors industry in Meerut have
managed to be upwardly mobile.
The backward classes within the Muslim
community will benefit more if the government
formulates schemes for protection of informal
labour, provides support for upgradation of the
skills they already possess and financial support
through co-operatives of artisans to ensure full
participation of these sections in the economic
growth. But that would require re-allocation of
resources from the industries to poor and from
supporting the sugar barons and their co-operatives to the poorer artisans. It will require a
statesman and a visionary rather than pigmies
falling back on same old formulas. (Secular
Perspective)
The author is director of the Centre for Study of
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The apathy of Muslims in confronting Gujarat 2002 genocide

MUSTAFA KHAN
The most meticulously preplanned genocide of
Muslims in Gujarat 2002 became history by sheer
apathy of the Muslims of India. Their benighted
leadership and self-indulgent ignorant community
made no headway. They could not force Sonia
Gandhi, president of Congress party, to even privately meet the Ehsan Jafri family in their despair
and loss. The slain former member of Parliament
belonged to her party. The BJP despicably ignored
him by refusing any mention, any regret, let alone
a motion of mourning on his death. All this happened due to the rudderless community floating in
stormy sea of communalism.
What was more aggravating was the defiant
and cruel rule in the state of Gujarat which used
state machinery to conduct the genocide thanks
to the brazen and complicit role of the then chief
Minister, Narender Modi who was left unbridled by
the central government.
Furthermore, Modi had the temerity to muster
hardcore elements in his party to virtually browbeat the prime minister in the Goa conclave into
toeing their line of let alone sacking him as chief
minister but applauding him and retorting Muslims
for their wont for not living with their neighbours in
peace and tolerance.
This kind of Nazi-like behaviour along with the
pogroms of 2002 needs an exhaustive analysis of
what caused the genocide and what really happened, the guilty and how the evil deeds have continued as examples pile up from post-Modi scenario in the state of Gujarat, confirming
Shakespeares dictum that the evil men do live
after them and continue to cast ominous shadows
thereafter.
There have been enough genocides in the
world. They corroborate what the victims suffered
at whose hands and for what. Writing on one such
genocide, Leonard Peikoff observes in his book
"The Ominous Parallels": "We dare not brush aside
un-explained a horror such as Nazism."
Unfortunately, against the background of the
ascendance of Modi as prime minister, writing
about the genocide is "no longer in todays mainstream. They will be part of tomorrows". These
words of Ayn Rand are part of the parallel to the
rise of neo-Nazism after the Second World War
but holds truth for Gujarat and the country under
Modi. [1]
There have been two genocides in India, Sikh
genocide of 1984 and Gujarat 2002. The second
was modelled on the first one. Most corroborative
evidence shows that the stipulated three days of
the second were in emulation of the first with a difference. After the Gujarat genocide, Muslims were
entrenched in terrorism cases ascribed to them
while it was the work of the Hindutva outfits.
Implicating innocent Muslims in such cases
including the notorious fake encounters of Gujarat
continues to overwhelm the minority community.
In contrast, the Sikhs were not besieged after the
genocide of 1984. They retaliated more martially
in the Khalistan movement of Sant Bhindranwale.
Their resources were intact and they faced no
commercial or social boycott. After the lapse of
30 years they have not left the matter to oblivion
by reaching out to the august portals of the UNO
by their report covering: "pre-planned and deliberate killings of the Sikh community in 19 states of
India, eyewash investigations by the successive
governments, zero convictions and the failure of
the Supreme Court to take cognisance of thousands of deaths during the first week of November
1984." [2]
Ominous parallels between the gas chambers
of Auschwitz and the black hole of Naroda Patia or
the inferno of Sardarpura are comparable. In the
Nazi gas chambers there were mushroom-shaped
lids of vents through which they poured the

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amethyst-blue crystals of hydrogen cyanide upon

2000 victims packed like sardines in the chamber.
The fatal gas slowly started "delousing" them or
"bathing" them. They were lured into believing that
they would be bathed and cleaned and freshened.
The Jews "piled up in one blue clammy bloodspattered pyramid, clawing and mauling each
other even in death." [3] But there are obvious differences. In the dry well of Naroda Patia the
Muslims were forced to gather at the dry well at
the point of gun by Babu Bajrangi-Maya Kodnani
gangs of murderers. Then the petrol they had
obtained from the State Transport Bus Workshop
was poured on them. The Muslims hugged each
other and then raised their arms to heaven for His
mercy and knowing that their extinction was at
hand they embraced each other and had a fiery
funeral. There were some 800 of them in that dry
hole. There were so many killed at Naroda Patia
that the Commissioner of Police PC Pandey
ordered the corpses to be scattered to other
places in order to lessen the casualty figure. In
Sardarpura, Muslims were decoyed by the Patels
into believing that they would be sheltered. They
were then locked into a single hall and a live electric wire attached to a rod was thrown into it. More
than 30 were burnt alive. There was no electricity
pole or connection there earlier. It was procured
urgently on 27 February specifically for what
would happen the following day. In the case of the
Sikhs in 1984 they were caught and their turbans
and hair were doused with petrol and then burnt,
killing the hapless gruesomely.
Militant Sikhs assassinated Indira Gandhi and
General Vaidya. The Muslims did nothing of the
sort. The allegation that the Muslims in the refugee
camps like Juhapura would turn to terrorism
proved false.
It was this stasis in one-sided suffering that
generated the anguish of Akrabuddin Owaisi of
AIMIM when he spoke of his helplessness in the
face of untold suffering in his own Hyderbad. "I
was hit by three bullets. One of them is still in my
body. I was stabbed 70 times on my stomach; I
was struck 40 times on my hand. My liver was
punctured. My intestine came out of the stomach,
15 feet in length was cut to only 5 feet. I have trouble in eating. There is no iron in my blood. As a
result there is darkness before my eyes and I have
instances of fits occasionally and I faint and fall."
All this happened to him during communal violence. Referring to violence perpetrated on
Muslims and the enforced boycott against them,
he said "my heart feels it, it is disturbed and I feel
anger at it and want to take it out on those who
cause this. But when will the time come when we
can avenge this?" Twenty crore Muslims of the
country are unsuccessful to sensitize the others
about their plight. [4]
This is placed in the context of Modi calling
Muslims as "puppies who come under the wheels
of a car and get killed" and Praveen Togadia calling Akbaruddeen Owaisi as "a dog of Hyderabad",
and how Muslims were targeted by bomb attacks
in Malegaon and then they alone were blamed for
what they suffered.
Like Slobodan Milosevic, Modi in April
aroused the passions of extremists in Assam by
threatening to expel the "illegal" Bengali Muslims
settled there while he did not bother about the
Hindu refugees settled there. In 2011, chief minister Tarun Gogoi of Assam won elections in Barak
Valley by declaring the refugee status to
Bangladeshi Hindus. Modi went beyond in his
speech when he accused Mamta Banerjee and
Congress: "You are concerned about infiltrators
and not your own people... they must go back,
they are robbing the youths of India of their livelihood." [5]
That was on 4 May, 2014 when Modi justified
the killing of 50 Muslims in Assam that started on

1 May. This was in sequence to his earlier speeches in April.

The so-called "illegal" migrant Muslims have
their valid papers and even then the pogroms were
carried out. The NDFB militants slaughtered
Muslims for supporting a non-Bodo candidate in
the Lok Sabha elections. The killings took place in
Kokrajhar, Chirag, Baksa and Udalguri.
Other districts of Assam have also been witness to killing of Muslims: Dhubri, Barpeta,
Bongaigaon witnessed 698 cases of rioting in
2013, 236 cases of rioting took place in Barpeta in
February and August 2013, Cachar witnessed
226 cases and so on. In the May 2014 election,
according to Bhavdev Goswai the NDFB rebels
had supported BJP. The Congress leader Piush
Hazarika said that BJP "will now use other terror
outfits to execute its communal agenda in the
state."[6]
In India, the distinction between riots and
genocide and terrorist attack is blurred, for those
involved in genocides are also terrorists who have
been also involved in riots. For those involved in
terrorist attacks on Ajmer shrine were also behind
the attack on the Best Bakery in Baroda in 2002. It
is due to the hate ideology of the Rashtriya
Swayamsevak Sangh, which is committed to
exterminate all Muslims unless they accept Hindu
religion. During the 2002 genocide, Modi had visited Naroda Patia and exhorted the Charra community that they should continue their work the
next day and the day after that. His lieutenants like
Bajrangi and others averred that they ceased their
work of mass massacre on the stipulated third
day.[7]
Naroda Patia too had its hermetically sealed
gas chamber. The killers had busy action at the
dry well and around. In the evening they returned
to these areas where they discovered that some
Muslims were hidden in the sewer. They rolled
heavy boulders on the gutter and sealed it so that
they would be suffocated by the poisonous gases.
Next day the corpses of these victims were recovered.
Samantha Power was very active in the first
election campaign of President Barak Obama. She
had seriously criticized America for supporting
those regimes that were tainted with crimes
against humanity and genocide. Power was slated
to take a very important portfolio after the election
but she stood by her belief and left the campaign.
Her grouse was that the US policy was for safeguarding the right to life and other human rights
across the world and yet next day the US representative would vote for the countries and their
rulers who were involved in genocide. India was
against the genocide of the refugee camps of
Palestinians in Sabra and Shatila in Beirut where
the Israeli defence minister Ariel Sharon had
allowed the Israeli army to encircle the camps
while its cronies slaughtered the Palestinians. But
after LK Advani let Moshe Dayan visit India and
open its embassy, things took a dramatic turn. In
the aftermath of 9/11, the US made no efforts to
criticize the genocide in Gujarat. During Modis
three-day visit, President Barak Obama met him
three times and even wrote a joint editorial published by the Washington Post which reads: "The
true potential of our relationship has yet to be fully
realized. The advent of a new government in India
is a natural opportunity to broaden and deepen our
relationship. With a reinvigorated level of ambition
and greater confidence, we can go beyond modest and conventional goals. It is time to set a new
agenda, one that realizes concrete benefits for our
citizens While our shared efforts will benefit our
own people, our partnership aspires to be larger
than merely the sum of its parts. As nations, as
people, we aspire to a better future for all; one in
which our strategic partnership also produces
benefits for the world at large." The new catch

phrase: "Chalein Saath Saath" enshrined in the

vision statement has become a repeated election
slogan all over India with the addition of Modis
name: Chalo chalein Moid kay saath." Such bonding of the two administrations is a slap in the face
of Samantha Power. Ayn Rand and Leonard
Peikoff were alarmed by the neo-Nazism.
It would be rather incorrect to say that
Americans are not. Their refusal to issue visa to
Modi was in the right direction but there are other
trends. One is that the US is a close ally of Israel
and the Jewry in America has enormous control
of the government. Furthermore, the events of
West Asia have repercussions on India. Modi and
his national security advisor Ajit Doval do not want
the Americans to leave Afghanistan for the obvious reason that it would fall into the hands of the
Talibans. So the Jewish lobby and the financial
clout of the Gujarati diaspora have much in common. Sonal Shah was also closely associated
with the incoming administration of Obama in the
first election campaign. She was dropped from an
important post because of the huge amount of
cash sent to India in 2002 which had financed the
genocide coordinated by the VHP.
The growing collaboration between Modi and
Obama administrations is ominous because they
may produce weapons, export missile technology
and other such joint ventures including sharing of
nuclear technology which would for profit motives
exacerbate existing conflicts. Muslim countries do
not figure in all this, let alone the Indian Muslims.
However, Mr Modi is attempting too much. In
the midst of this the refrain of protest in America
cannot let the ghost of Modi rest: "Modi, Modi,
you cant hide, you committed genocide!"[8]
As India has chosen to align with the US, it
will now have the acquired syndrome of interpreting its own acts as have the US and other rich
countries been doing. Noarm Chomsky in the
2002 introduction of his book "Pirates and
Emperors, International Terrorism in the World,"
remarks that the interpretation of 9/11 will "depend
substantially on how the rich and powerful interpret this dramatic demonstration that they are no
longer immune from atrocities of the kind they
routinely inflict on others, and how they choose to
react." India was already doing it in 2002. It
refused to consider the 2002 genocide either as
act of terrorism or genocide or holocaust. Till
today it does not consider 1984 to be just that.
Modi is fond of the crown of an emperor and
always appears holding swords in his hands. A
man is known by not only the company he keeps
but the things he surrounds himself with. The failure of Muslims is that they could not gather
enough support within or outside the country to
have the UNO or the International Criminal Court
take cognizance of the genocide and riots.
Two US citizens of Muslim origin in America
lost their mother and grandmother in the genocide
in Gujarat 2002. They have filed a case against
Modi in the US courts. There is no sign that they
have the clout to get the case heard at international fora. On the other hand, VHP America has had
enough money to fund a genocide and also
resources to defend itself and whitewash the
pogroms.(9)
[1] Leonard Piekoff, The Ominous Parallels, Meridian
1993 (Introduction).
[2] thehindu.com/news/international/world/us-groupto-submit-1984-riots-repor t-to-un/
article6amid489935.ece
[3] William Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich,
New York: Simeon & Shuster, 1960 pp. 969f.
[4] Daily Tajuman-e-Urdu, 27 September, 2014.
[5] http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/05/04/modiassam-muslims-immigrant-congressidINKBN0DK0FQ20140504
[6] India Today, 29 September, 2014
[7] Tehelka Magazine, 3 November, 2007
[8] www.asiantribune.com/node/85631
[9] stopfundinghate.org

Vision - A Critical Personality Trait for True Leaders

The young boy asked the old man, "why a fast

running horse is better than the slow running
horse"? The old man said, "it has developed the

habit to produce more power so that it can run

up to ten times faster than the slow horse." The
youngster said, "and what if the horse is running
in the wrong direction"? The old man smiled and
said, "then definitely it has the appropriate factor
to waste his efforts ten times quicker than the
slower horse." The young man said, "and what if
other horses are following him too." The older
man said, "of course it will mislead all those
horses too!" "Then why all other horses follow
the faster one." "Because that attracts them but
all that glitters is not gold sometimes."
Associating this analogy with our daily life,
you notice that you are surrounded by a mixture
of slow and fast-pace personalities. Some of
them are really genuine leaders and some of

them are being followed blindly. Overall, here is

the summary of the concept of Visionary
Leaders for you to ponder:
1. If you have a slow attitude towards life
(slow running horse) then you must develop the
habit to produce more power in your character.
You must be aware of your real goals. You must
develop analytical skills, empowered relationships, proactive approach and other personality
traits such as commitment, courage, communication skills, focus, competence and passion.
2. If you have a faster response to life and
quick decision-making ability, then you must
audit yourself on whether you are heading in the
right direction? Not having a clear goal will take
you nowhere regardless of your speed and effi-

ciency. Remember, hard work alone doesnt

guarantee success.
Vision and strategy are the most important
ingredients of success which is acheived
through consistent, productive and effective
efforts in the right direction.
3. Are you following a leader? Are you sure
you have a true leader? Are you sure you will not
end up on the blocked road? Remember, U-turns
are always possible before the dead end but
consequences of U-turn will be more harsh if
you dont evaluate the situations on time and
delay it to the eleventh hour.

JUNAID TAHIR
www.DailyTenMinutes.com
mjunaidtahir@gmail.com

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Eagerness to hold elections while flood victims suffer

AFSANA RASHID
Flood affected people across the Kashmir Valley continue to put in
all their efforts to restore their normal lives, especially in view of
the forthcoming chilly winter.
The devastating floods that hit the Valley in the first week of
September affected 15.27 lakh families, claimed 282 lives, injured
403 persons, damaged 3.44 lakh structures, claimed 90,000 livestock and crops on 6.48 lakh hectares and displaced thousands.
Locals whose houses have completely collapsed are busy
clearing debris whereas others are still cleaning muck and dirt.
Shopkeepers and owners of commercial establishments are trying hard to restore their routine work. Loss to the economy here
runs in thousands of crores.
Sitting outside his collapsed house in the posh Jawahar Nagar
in Srinagar, Ghulam Nabi Thakur laments the loss of collections of
his books. It was a rare collection. I dont regret the loss of
household items and other belongings as loss of rare books and
other unpublished material has been a huge loss for me, says
Thakur, a senior citizen, while anxiously looking at the debris of his
house being cleared by a few volunteers.
Recollecting September 7 floods, he said he had never imagined such floods would strike the area. As the water entered the
area and started rising in his one-storey house, Thakur, a retired
government employee, says he crossed over to the adjacent
house and stayed there for a few days till he along with others
were rescued by the locals. I saw my own and a few other houses, almost 4-5 in a row, crumbling down due to the floods. We
had taken nothing out of our houses. Everything was there.
After a brief pause, he continues, Some youth in the neighbourhood had helped me to take some household stuff to the attic,
as the flood water started rising.
Hardly few metres away, a Sikh family comprising of six
members including an infant, managed to enter the neighbouring
house through a wooden log laid across the windows of the two
houses in the first floor, before their own house collapsed. It was
a miraculous escape for us all. We saw seven houses collapsing
before we were rescued by Army boats, the other day, said
Inderjeet Singh, head of the family. Devastating floods inundated
the Valley, September 7.
There are hundreds of such examples where people saw their
houses collapsing and they ran for their lives. Many precious lives
were lost, while they tried to run for safety and property worth
thousand of crores was razed to ground.
The deluge has reportedly swept away a large portion of the
graveyard in the premises of Budshah Tomb in old Srinagar,
including the mortal remains of many persons who were laid to
rest there. Some locals claimed that it was a horrible sight when
epitaphs and mortal remains were swept away by the roaring
flood-waters.
Even the world-famous SPS Museum, known for its valuable
and rare artifacts, has been adversely affected by the floods. A
team from the Centre arrived here, October 8, after Governor
N N Vohra sought its help to rescue and restore artifacts damaged
in the floods. The damaged items include rare manuscripts in
Arabic, Persian and Sanskrit.
Chief Engineer, Irrigation and Flood Control Kashmir, Javed
Jaffer, October 11, sought help from the Indian Space Research
Organization for mapping the deluge and ISRO has assured to provide details within a fortnight.
People are doing all they can manage to rebuild their lives and
livelihoods.
Though relief and rehabilitation by various government and
non-government agencies continues at war-footing, duplication of
relief and rehabilitation efforts in certain areas and favouritism
towards blue-eyed people renders the entire process lopsided.
There are certain pockets in the Valley that have been reportedly
left out.
Even a panel appointed by the Apex Court to assess the
ground situation in the state following the devastating floods pointed out, October 12, that no effective measures were taken to warn
people in vulnerable areas of Srinagar about the fast-approaching
floods and the free-ration, meant for flood-hit people, was distributed among non-affected people. The Supreme Court had,
September 24, appointed a five-member committee headed by
Senior Registrar of Jammu and Kashmir High Court to ascertain
the ground situation in the state, post-floods.
The Apex Court, October 11, directed insurance companies to
pay 50 percent of the insured amount for policies above Rs 25
lakh and 95 per cent for policies below Rs 25 lakh as interim relief
to people, who lost their properties in floods.
The state government, October 20, said at least 89 crore
rupees have, so far, been disbursed as interim relief among flood-

A house collapsed in posh locality Jawahar Nagar in Srinagar

Volunteers clearing the debris of a collapsed house

shutdown on October 23 to protest the arrival of Prime Minister to

Kashmir and against New Delhis apathy to provide adequate
relief to flood-victims.
Meanwhile, a team from World Bank and Asian Development
Bank arrived here October 21 and visited several flood-hit areas of
Srinagar to assess needs and requirements on the ground. The
team assured the state government of funding reconstruction and
rehabilitation.
State Economic Reconstruction Forum, a conglomerate of
business organisations, October 13, alleged that New Delhi was
disallowing international aid to reach the flood-hit state only
because Kashmir is a conflict zone and a Muslim-dominated
state. There have been double standards in dealing with calamities
that struck in Uttarakhand, Bihar and other states and that in
Kashmir. If this level of devastation would have hit any other state,
the Prime Minister would have been camping there.
The J&K High Court has questioned the state government,
October 17, whether flood-hit schools and colleges thrown open
are structurally and hygienically sound for students. The Cabinet
that met here under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Omar
Abdullah, October 10, decided that the annual examinations of
under-graduate classes of Kashmir division and winter zone of
Jammu division shall be held in March 2015 instead of OctoberNovember 2014.
Hurriyat (M) chairman, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, October 13 in
south Kashmirs Kulgam, asked New Delhi to reconsider its decision of not allowing foreign aid to Kashmir. New Delhi should
shun politics and look at the devastation by floods through a
humanitarian prism. The state has suffered an estimated one trillion rupees loss due to floods.
Mirwaiz, October 10, launched an initiative, Akh Akis (All
together) under the banner Dar-ul-Khair, for providing housing
facilities to people who lost their homes during recent floods. The
first phase of the initiative is to rebuild 50-100 houses in some of
the most economically disadvantaged localities that were severely damaged during the flood.
Castigating mainstream political parties for politicizing relief
distribution, JKLF chairman, Mohammad Yasin Malik, October 13
in south Kashmirs Anantnag, said those connected to pro-India
parties were provided Rs 70,000 while those who are not,
received a paltry Rs 17,000 as compensation for their damaged
houses.
Peoples Democratic Party patron Mufti Mohammad Sayeed,
October 13, called for rebuilding Jammu and Kashmir as a model
state in the aftermath of devastating floods to revive not only its
old glory but to create new opportunities for growth and development.

Elections in J&K

Debris being cleared more than a month after the floods

State Economic Reconstruction Forum, a

conglomerate of business organisations, October
13, alleged that New Delhi was disallowing
international aid to reach the flood-hit state only
because Kashmir is a conflict zone and a Muslimdominated state. There have been double
standards in dealing with calamities that struck in
Uttarakhand, Bihar and other states and that in
Kashmir. If this level of devastation would have hit
any other state, the Prime Minister would have
been camping there.
affected families, whose houses have completely collapsed due to
the floods. The state government, October 13, approached the
Centre seeking 44,000 crore rupees for rehabilitation and reconstruction in the state.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, during his visit to the Valley on
the eve of Deepawali on October 23, said the loss memo of Rs.
44,000 crore submitted to the Centre by the state government was
being considered. He, however, announced Rs. 570 crore for
rebuilding houses damaged in the floods and Rs. 175 crore for
renovation of six major hospitals in the state. The Prime Minister
had earlier announced Rs 1000-crore for rehabilitation of the
state.
Hurriyat (G) led by Syed Ali Geelani had called for complete

State Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir are likely to be

held by the end of this year. Almost all the political parties here,
except the ruling National Conference, have reportedly given a goahead signal in this direction.
The term of the current Jammu and Kashmir Assembly ends
on January 19 next year and, if the electoral process isnt completed by that time, the state would have to be placed under
Governors rule.
In view of the devastating floods that hit the Kashmir Valley,
September 7, Election Commissioner of India deputed Deputy
Election Commissioner, Vinod Zutshi, to Jammu and Srinagar to
get first-hand account of the stand taken by various political parties of the state on the upcoming polls. Representatives of various
political parties, during their interaction with the Deputy Election
Commissioner, October 10, favoured polls to be held in time. Even
the states intelligence grid and almost all Deputy Commissioners
of the state have reportedly given a green signal.
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, addressing the annual Police
Commemoration Day ceremony at Zewan on the outskirts of
Srinagar city, October 21, said that the duty of police wasnt to
use force to bring people to polling stations, but to provide a
sense of security to them during polls.
Lashing out at New Delhi and pro-India parties for showing
keenness to hold elections in the flood-ravaged Kashmir, Hurriyat
(G) chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani, October 11, said, At a time
when destructive floods have snatched everything from Kashmiris
and when they are living in coma, talking about the election drama
is sorrowful and it proves that the rulers in New Delhi and Srinagar
have nothing to do with the miseries of the people.
Geelani added, although holding elections in the presence of
7.5 lakh forces in Kashmir is a military operation and a cruel joke,
but talking about it in the situation that arose after the recent floods


is adding insult to the injuries of the people.

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

Modi-wave
& Muslim vote
Not too long ago, Prime Minister Narendra
Modi spoke praising the patriotism of Indian
Muslims. It may have been a part of his move
to enhance his secular image before the
world at large. Though this move was appreciated by a section of Indian Muslims, political reality presents a different picture. Yes,
the latter point is being made with reference
to assembly elections held recently in
Maharashtra and Haryana. In both the states, Bharatiya Janata
Party (BJP) appears to have failed in winning the Muslim vote.
This may partly be explained by BJP having given tickets to
only few Muslims in both states. Considering that the population of Muslims in Haryana is around six percent and in
Maharashtra ten percent, BJP probably chose not to give
importance to giving party tickets to more Muslim candidates.
The partys decision to give ticket to only one Muslim candidate
in Maharashtra and to two Muslims in Haryana apparently carried only symbolic importance. BJP at least tried to appear secular and friendly towards Muslims by giving party tickets to
these Muslim candidates. The fact that voters interpreted this
message of BJP, not in keeping with what this party desired, is
proved by the failure of its Muslim candidates to win either in
Maharashtra or in Haryana assembly elections. This naturally
raises the question whether the Indian Muslim still remains
suspicious of the BJPs secular agenda and its friendly political
overtures towards them? This implies that lofty development

Mr. Modis
next stunt
FIRDAUS AHMED
The government has declared the birth anniversary of
Sardar Patel as National Unity Day. Feverish planning is on
for the day as had preceded the Teachers' Day. Mr. Modi is
to address the nation and students are to take a pledge.
The day displaces Indira Gandhi's birth anniversary celebrated so far as National Integration Day. It also displaces
observance of her death anniversary that coincidentally
falls on the same day. However, eclipse of the dynasty in
more ways than its electoral drubbing is but a side issue.
Mr. Modi, fresh from his appropriating Mahatma
Gandhi's legacy with his Swach Bharat campaign platform,
is going to use the opportunity this week as yet another
one to inveigle his way into popular imagination. This time
he is to participate in a run. Taken together with his rushing off on Diwali to Siachen for a photo opportunity with
soldiers there, there is incipient a cult phenomenon surrounding the personality of Mr. Modi.
The political dividends of this are self-evident in his
notching up Maharashtra and Haryana and looking forward
improbably to a victory even in J&K, one that will no doubt
be enabled by a more thorough boycott in the Valley.
Indeed, there is precedence in post-World War I
Germany that in scholarly literature is taken as indicative of
fascism-on-the-make. National Unity Day is to invoke similar hyper-nationalism as prevalent in states that fell to
nationalism, enumerated most recently in a New York
Times article by Pankaj Mishra (nytimes.com/2014/10/25/
opinion/pankaj-mishra-nirandra-modis-idea-of-india.html).
Of course, it is a page out of the Congress book in their
glorification of the dynasts. Only Mr. Modi does it better.
However, for readers of this publication, it is significant
in more ways than can superficially be perceived. At face
value, there can be little objection to an expression of fealty for the safety and security of one's own state, nation and
country. However, the expectation is that in the normal
course, this should really be taken for granted. As citizens,
we owe this obligation to the collective and take care to
discharge it. That the country is being asked to reiterate the
obvious therefore bears scrutiny.
To originators of the idea, perhaps in the labyrinths of
Nagpur and innards of the right-wing political organisation
that passes for a cultural one, the act of getting all to conform and reaffirm their loyalty is to catch those opposed to
them on the wrong foot. Any reticence can then be construed as disloyalty to the nation and manipulated by them
for the political purposes. To them, while their co-religionists will have no problem with swearing the oath to Mother
India, others of differing religious persuasion may. This will
in their thinking reveal these 'others' as less than patriotic
and, having their spiritual well springs elsewhere, also having their political compass set outside the land, and consequently, less than deserving of equal citizenship. Even so,
there can be no problem for any citizen to take an oath.
After all the Constitution, while not scripture, is indeed
sacred.
However, the problem is in the change that is afoot in
India. National ethos and culture will be first worked on and
with the majority that Mr. Modi has so can the Constitution
be reworked over time to fit the image of an India of rightwing imagining. It is not necessary for all citizens to find
this agreeable. Swearing loyalty to India as we know it is
fine. But to swear loyalty to an India that appears to be
emerging must give pause to all citizens. Therefore, for the

plans announced by Modi bear little significance for the countrys Muslim voter.
Ironically, while a considerable section of voters appears to
have been swept by the so-called Modi-wave, Muslims have
apparently chosen to turn their back towards the same. This
has been proved by the electoral behaviour displayed by
Muslims in Maharashtra as well as in Haryana. The most significant development in Maharashtra has been the entry of the
All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) with two members in the new state assembly. The party, based in Hyderabad
(Andhra Pradesh), marked its debut in Maharashtra assembly
by fielding 24 candidates, of whom two emerged victorious.
The stunning entry of AIMIM into Maharashtra politics has
evoked a mixed reaction. On one hand, against the dismal performance of the state-based Maharashtra Navnirman Sena
(MNS), which has won only one seat, AIMIMs victory from two
has been viewed as impressive. While the future of MNS in
Maharashtra politics has been projected as dead or finished, AIMIM is expected to succeed and enlarge. At the same
time, apprehension has also been voiced and concern
expressed about a Muslim partys entry into Maharashtra politics.
The communal and anti-Muslim background of key parties
in Maharashtra, particularly Shiv Sena, has not been ignored
by voters. Shiv Senas failure to emerge as the leading party
and the dismal performance of MNS also indicates that a
majority of state voters preferred to give greater importance to
BJPs development agenda than be swayed by communal
designs of these two parties. Muslim voters of this state have
displayed the same attitude towards BJP also. AIMIMs success also signals that voters, Muslim and non-Muslims, have
deliberately decided to give this party a chance in Maharashtra
politics. From this angle, AIMIMs entry in Maharashtra assembly should not be viewed as a polarization of vote-banks along

government to insidiously ask all to take such a step is

itself a dead give-away of a larger game-plan ahead; one
that citizens need being wary of and forewarned against.
For India's Muslims watching Mr. Modi and his government continues to be important despite his clean chit to
Muslims acknowledging that they are ready to live and die
for their country.
It would be to succumb to a Stockholm syndrome if
Mr. Modi is let off scrutiny merely on account of this. His
politics has been to use Muslims as the 'Other' and build
his 'vote bank' on the majority community. Having made
the necessary gains in the national elections from an internal Other, for the state elections that soon followed, the
government, staying aloof from the 'love jihad' campaign of
its supporters, latched on to an external Other.
His government's self-acknowledged shift to being
aggressive on the borders figured in his election speeches,
that he has 'shut up' the Pakistani army and has them
'screaming'. Pakistan is seen as having a propensity to
interfere with India's internal affairs in J&K and with fostering a fifth column supposedly based on minority 'sleeper
cells'. There is therefore a collapsing of the internal Other
and the external Other in the mind's eye of right-wing
strategists.
The oath of fealty on national unity day is yet another
unnecessary ploy to push the largest minority on the backfoot by yet again getting it to disassociate itself from
Pakistan. This is unnecessary since no such link exists but
for a right-wing inspired, media-sponsored contrived linkage. The right wing has been known to foster this over the
past decade through terror acts of uncertain origin. If
investigations were to proceed to their logical end, the
media that has purveyed the right-wing conspiracy theory
would indeed be considerably surprised. A false linkage
does not need to be time and again denounced.
The day is not significant in more ways than one only
for Muslims. For India's populations on the social and geographic periphery, the latter in J&K and North East, it is yet
another annual reminder that they being suspect can take as
an opportunity to redeem themselves. It is 'yet another'
imposition because the national days - Independence Day
and Republic Day - are already there for all citizens to remind
themselves of their obligations to the national collective.
Finally, the choice of Sardar Patel, always an icon of
the right-wing and soon to be honoured with the world's
tallest statue, owes not only to his contribution to making
India whole as advertised, but on account of his arguably
questionable role in Hyderabad and J&K. If the likes of AG
Noorani are to be believed in their well-researched work on
the period, national integration could have been proceeded
with differently. The Hyderabad integration is being used
politically for right-wing penetration into South India as the
gamesmanship surrounding the contretemps surrounding
hoisting of the national flag in Gulbarga on the day of the
merger this September shows. As for J&K, the Day will be
yet another stick to beat it into submission, close on heels
of Mr. Modi's choice to spend Diwali in Srinagar (It is
unlikely that a similar idea of Mr. Modi spending Holi in
Nagaland would ever occur to his advisers.).
Mythologising the past in face of well-founded and longstanding reservations on Mr. Patel's attitude towards
Muslims does not help unity any.
That said and acknowledged, the new regime can be
given the fullest rope to first reveal itself in its fullest
colours. Therefore, Muslim Indians can indulgently play
along with the latest Modi stunt this National Unity Day,
while keeping powder dry for when his larger cultural
nationalist project reveals itself as an oncoming iceberg
heading for India through the mists.
Firdaus Ahmeds Think South Asia: A Stand for Peace that can be
downloaded free from his blog
www.subcontinentalmusings.blogspot.in.

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religious or communal lines.

Muslim voters in the state have probably viewed AIMIM as
a symbol of asserting their political identity here. Besides, they
are against and to a degree also fearful of their identity being
subject to negative designs of anti-Muslim extremist and communal political leaders and parties. This apparently decided
their political leanings in Maharashtra. Their support for AIMIM
is simply symbolic of Indian Muslims being keen to assert their
political identity. This point is also supported by the victory of
six Muslims from Congress, one from Samajwadi Party and one
from Nationalist Congress Party (NCP).
In Haryana too, BJP failed in attracting Muslim voters. The
BJP tried to gain their support by fielding two Muslims in
Mewats Muslim-dominated constituencies, Ferozpur Jhirka
and Punhana. The BJP fielded a non-Muslim candidate from
Nuh, the third Muslim-dominated constituency of Mewat. Zakir
Hussain of the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) won from Nuh,
Naseem Ahmed (INLD) from Ferozpur and Rahish Khan, an
independent Muslim candidate, from Punhana. It may be noted
that these three constituencies have witnessed communal incidents in the past year.
The voters electoral attitude in Mewat, where the Muslim
population is more than 70%, has been described as their
resistance to being swept by Modi-wave. If Muslims here are
against being swept by Modi-wave, it is time BJP gave serious
thought to this issue.
Despite having failed to attract the Muslim-vote, BJP has
registered victory in Maharashtra and Haryana. Assembly elections are due in Jammu & Kashmir (J&K), Jharkhand and Bihar.
It is to be watched whether BJP can win polls, particularly in
J&K and Bihar by giving party tickets to very few Muslims, as
it has done till now. Will Modi-wave help BJP win Muslim votes
or will the Muslim vote be influenced by BJPs attitude towards
Muslims in these states?

The Canker of Caste-System

K K Bose, a Dubai-based lawyer and social activist, has sent an ultimatum to the
Government of India to ban the caste system by 31 December. But will the government take any initiative to extirpate this horrible social evil? We must never
forget that the Indian politics hinges on caste system and politicians of all hues
use it as a political plank. Newspapers shamelessly carry the headlines: Now
Haryana will have a non-Jat CM for the first time, as if Haryana is the fiefdom
of Jats? The Cambridge-educated erudite former President K R Narayanans
Dalit background was highlighted condescendingly when he became the head of
the State. One CJI, Balkrishnan, was projected as secular and liberal judiciarys unprejudiced choice of an upright justice, as if he was being obliged by
the fair judiciary and the honest government of India! This caste system is
so ingrained in the collective psyche of all Indians that however liberal we may
project ourselves to be, we just cant get rid of it.
The root cause of honour killings in India is this reprehensible caste system
that fosters social differences and encourages social disparity at overt and
covert levels. Scores of castes and sub-castes have completely destroyed and
de-structured Indias social system. The perceived Brahaminical superiority is a
myth and was detonated long ago. Yet Brahmins and their cohorts are trying to
perpetuate their hegemony in the form of caste system. We condemn apartheid
of the whites, but weve no moral right to condemn it so long as we dont
expunge this varna-vyvastha from the face of the earth, not just from the corpus
of Indian social milieu.
Caste system is as bad and worth-condemning as the erstwhile apartheid
of Europeans which they practised with their native subjects of the colonised
countries. In fact, its worse than that. Because of the caste system, Indian
mindset is still rooted and arrested at a moffussil level and the country hasnt
emerged as a socially seamless nation.

Why just two Muslims won the Nobel for literature?

Before learning how to read and write the English alphabet at the age of 15, it
was Persian I grew up intellectually on. So, its but natural on my part to have a
slight native proclivity towards the languages viz, Persian, Arabic, Turkish and
also Urdu. Never in life have I associated people with religions and languages as
I dont belong to any damn ethnic, nationalistic, linguistic and religious identity.
I, therefore, could never belong to any faith, but loved a group of languages more
than I liked French, Portuguese, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Greek among others.
So, when I look at the list of the Nobel laureates in literature right from 1901,
I wonder did the Nobel committee find just two Muslim greats for Nobel: Naguib
Mahfouz (Egyptian for 1988 Nobel) and Orhan Pamuk (Turkish in 2006)? Where
were Reza Baraheni, Shariar Mandanipour, Forugh Farrokhzaad (1935-1967,
considered to be the finest woman writer from Iran in the 20th century), Sadegh
Hedayat , Pezeshkzand, to name but a few? And why were remarkable Arab
playwrights of the likes of Sadallah Wannus, Yusuf al-Ani, Al- Tayyib al-Saddiqi
et. al. ignored by the Nobel committee? I met Pamuk in 2007 at Ankara
University, Turkey. Hed already won the Nobel. When I posed the same question
to him and prodded further, he smiled and said, You may call it Wests literary
prejudice against the Islamic world.
The West always looked at Arab literature as the literature of the desertfolks. The legendary British scholar of Arabic, Sir Hamilton Gibb lamented this
fact in his magnum opus: Arabs contribution to western poetry and plays
(1939, Oxford).
All facets of Arab literature were seen by the partisan West as either the
interpretations of Quran and Hadith (compilation of Muhammads teachings and
sayings) or fragments of extemporaneous Arab poetry, incomplete in form and
contents (fractured literature, to quote Islamic scholar Professor Bernard
Lewis of Princeton University, US).
This very erroneous impression of Arab literature and its exponents is still
embedded in the psyche of the West. Iranian poetry, though appreciated in the
West by English and European scholars, was thought to be chiefly based on
sublime mysticism of Jalaluddin Rumi, Khaqani, Hafiz Shirazi, Fariduddin Attar,
Sanai, Nizami and Jaami. Even to a perceptive occidental mind, modern Persian
literature has been just a footnote to the Persian mystic poets of yore.
The entire West is blind to the dynamism of Persian and Arabic languages
and has never got over its jaundiced perceptions about the Islamic world and its
vast literature that transcends scriptural and theological prerequisites and
parameters.

SUMIT PAUL

sumitmaclean@hotmail.com

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AR KHAN IAS (retd)
has been appointed
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Education Foundation
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Heptulla. Mr Khan has served the
government in various capacities and
since his retirement has been active
in a number of NGOs concerned with
education and poverty-alleviation.
Prof AKHTAR HASEEB, Dean of AMU's
Agricultural Sciences Faculty and Head
of the Department of Plant Protection
has been appointed Vice Chancellor of
Narendradeo Krishi evam Praddyogiki
Vishwaviddyalaya (Agricultural &
Technological University) Faizabad for 3
years from the date of his joining, by UP
Governor & Chancellor of the University,
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30 years in AMU, his about 400
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magazines. He is also life member of
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He as also been honoured with about
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SYED ALI ASHRAF of Mumbai's
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Minorities Commission has been
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government. This post is of cabinet
rank.
Prof SYED AMEEN MIAN QADIRI, a
teacher in AMU's Department of Urdu,
has been included among the 500 influential Muslims of the world for the sixth
time consecutively. He has been teach-

ing in AMU's Urdu

Department for the
past 35 year and is the
author of many books.
He is the Sajjada
Nashin of Khanqah
Barkaatia of Marahra. A
great promoter of education among
Muslims, more than 300 educational
institutions in and outside India are
functioning under his sponsorship. In
an effort to expand Sir Sayyad Ahmad
Khan's Aligarh Movement he founded Al
Barkaat Educational Institutions group
for promoting modern education. He
also toured dozens of countries in
almost all continents to popularise the
messages of spiritualism and mysticism. Maulana Mahmood Madni of
Jamiatul Ulama-e Hind has also been
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Amman (Jordan).
(Ms) SHAHNAZ of Shahjahanpur (UP),
a Gold Medalist in AMU's BA,LLB 5year Integrated Course has secured
second position in Himachal Pradesh
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ABDUR RAZZAQ KHAN, a senior lawyer
of Allahabad High Court's Lucknow
Bench has been unanimously elected
Chairman of UP Bar Council. He is the
first Muslim to be elected to this post.
Among various positions held by him
earlier, he was a members of UP Sunni
Central Waqf Board.
MAULANA SYED SHABBIR NAQSHBANDI, Khadimul Qur'an has been honoured by Shah Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
with the title of Ummul Qura' in recognition of his 40 years services in
strengthening Indo-Saudi relationship.

SQR Ilyas new head of WPI

Hyderabad: Dr SQR Ilyas was elected as the new President of the
Welfare Party of India during the meeting of the Federal General
Council here on 24 October. Mujtaba Farooq, president of WPI
since its inception in April 2011, had tendered his resignation due
to "personal reasons" according to a party release. Hitherto, Dr
Ilyas was the general secretary of WPI charged with orgnisational
matters. He has a PhD in chemistry and has been the editor of the
popular Urdu monthly magazine Afkar-e Milli for the last 28 years.
Dr Ilyas has been active in milli organizations since long. He is a
working committee member of the All India Muslim Personal Law

The Award / Honour was presented to

him by Shah Abdullah's general secretary and Head of Royal Haj Guests
Committee, Sheikh Abdullah at a function held in Makkah Mukarramah on 18
October.
ZAHID ABBAS of Amroha (UP) who is
presently a chef in a cruise liner of
America set up a world record in sky
diving when on 23 August he sky dived
from a plane from a height of 18000
feet along with his coach near NASA
Space Centre in a city in Florida (USA)
and landed safely. Seeing his great
interest in sky diving, the Sky Dive
Space Centre offered him an opportunity of sky diving in which he succeeded,
for which he was given a certificate by
the Sky Dive Space Centre. According
to him sky diving was done earlier from
a height of 15000 ft but this year
(2014) it was done for the first time
from 18000 ft in which he created a
world record.
MUHAMMAD SHEES IDREES TAIMI, a
research scholar in Delhi University has
been conferred PhD Degree by Delhi
University on his research work on Sir
Sayyad's literary works.
AMU appointments: Prof (Ms) SEEMA
HAKEEM has been appointed new
Head of J. N. Medical College (AMU)'s
Department of Obstetric and
Gynaecology for 3 years in place of
Prof (Ms) Imam Bano. 2. Prof PARVEZ
QAMAR RIZVI, a senior teacher in the
University's Faculty of Agricultural
Sciences' Plant Protection Department
has been appointed new Member
Incharge of Land & Gardens
Department for 2 years in place of Prof


Muhammad Afaaq Khan.

NAFE'Y QIDWAI, senior journalist

and columnist died in Lucknow on
14 October at the age of about 57
years. He started his journalistic
career from Qaumi Awaz and after
its closure became associated with
many Urdu newspapers like
Rashtriya
Sahara,
Inquilab.
Hyderabad's Siyasat etc as a free
lance journalist and columnist. He
leaves behind wife and two sons.
M A U L A N A
MUHAMMAD
ISMAIL MADNI,
religious scholar
and
former
preacher of Darul
Uloom Deoband
died here (Deoband) on 14 October
after a prolonged illness at the age
of 83 years. He leaves behind wife,
2 sons and 3 daughters.
SIBTE AHMAD QAMAR RIZVI
JAAESI, noted litterateur died on 18
October in Aligarh where he was
staying with his son. He was the
classmate of Ibn Safi, famous
writer of detective novels and stories. Like Ibn Safi, Qamar Jaaesi
too was interested in detective stories and wrote such novels which
were published under 'Nirala
Jaasoos' (Allahabad) series. One of
his important detective novels is
Ujde Nagar ka Charaagh which
was published in Delhi in 2008. In
addition to such novels he also
wrote hundreds of fictions, humorous and sarcastic stories and articles. Born in Jaaes near (Rai
Bareily), he was about 88.
KHWAJA ABDUL GHANI GONI,

Board, general secretary of the

All India Muslim Majlis-e
Mushawarat and member of the
national advisory committee
(Shoora) of Jamaat-e Islami
Hind.

After his election, Dr Ilyas

said that the country is facing
an acute crisis now where the
ruling party is trying to negate
the multi-cultural nature of the
country and impose a particular

PROF. GHULAM AZAM

Professor
Ghulam
Azam
of
Bangladesh, one of the foremost
Muslim activists in the world, died on
23 October while serving a politically
motivated conviction for "war crimes"
in East Pakistan. He died at a hospital
where he was kept on life support after
being shifted from his prison cell early
on the day of his death.
The 92-year-old Azam was a
prominent political and religious leader
in Bangladesh and played a crucial role
in various socio-political and religious
movements in his country and beyond.
He received a masters degree in
political science from Dhaka University
and actively participated in and led representative student organizations. His
academic and practical political foundation served him well in confronting the issues plaguing his society at the time.
In 1948, shortly after the emergence of Pakistan, Azam submitted a memorandum to Liaquat Ali Khan, then prime minister of
Pakistan, and demanded state language status for Bengali. His
active role in the Language Movement placed him in prison several times and resulted in the loss of his position as assistant professor at Rangpur Carmichael College.
Shortly thereafter, Azam dedicated himself to the cause of
Islamic activism. His previous experience in the socio-political
Islamic organization, Tamaddun Mozlish, and the spiritually
focused Tabligh Jamaat, compelled him to find something that
combined aspects of both. He joined Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami,
and eventually became secretary general and president of the
organisation. His religious and political leanings had him thrown
into prison by General Ayub Khan, the military leader of Pakistan.
He jointly formed the Pakistan Democratic Alliance, a movement
against Khan's military dictatorship of the country. Sheikh Mujibur

Rahman, the forecoming prime minister of a soon to emerge Bangladesh,

was also a member.
Azam was against the independence of Bangladesh from Pakistan
because he felt it was not a solution to
the state's problems. During the war
of 1971, the violence of the Pakistani
army against the population of
Bangladesh troubled Azam greatly. He
appealed to the army to safeguard the
people but he was ignored.
In a continuation of politically
motivated persecution, Azam was
forced into exile and his citizenship of
Bangladesh was revoked under the
leadership of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
He was able to return to his country
several years later as a visitor,
deprived of political rights. In the early 1990s the government
imprisoned him once again for overstaying his visit, and he
appealed for a restoration of his citizenship. The Supreme Court
ruled in his favour.
In the recent controversial "War Crimes Tribunal" set up by the
Awami League government, Azam was arrested for alleged crimes
against humanity during the 1971 war. He was sentenced to 90
years' jail term on July 15 last year on charges of committing
crimes against humanity during the Liberation War. He was handed down the sentence for "incitement, conspiracy, planning, complicity and inaction to prevent murder at that time". The Human
Rights Watch and Amnesty International issued statements against
the tribunal because of its failure to adhere to international standards and due process of law.
Azam had lived the last several years of his life retired from
active political activity. He wrote a memoir, Jibone Ja Dekhlam
(What I Witnessed in Life). His loss will be felt not only within


Bangladesh, but also within the global Muslim community..

NCP leader of Jammu, former minister, speaker of J&K Assembly, MP

and India's ambassador to Sudan
died on 16 September in
Government Medical College. He
along with Thakur Raujeet Singh
was among the founder members
of Congress Party when it was
founded in J&K by Ghulam
Muhammad Sadiq in 1964 who
later had become chief minister of
J&K.
Subsequently,
when
Nationalist Congress Party (NCP)
was formed, he had joined this
party.
FIROZUDDIN MIR of Kashmir,
probably the oldest man of the
world, died on 29 August in Uri
(Northern Kashmir) at the age 142
years. According to sources he
married five times and has ten children (of course, all must be old
even if alive). His first marriage
was with a Punjabi girl around
1890. Since he was a businessman engaged in walnut trade, he
spent greater part of his youth life
in Punjab which is now in Pakistan
where he got married to the Punjabi
girl. He had voted in this year's Lok
Sabha election held in May.
Britain's online had tried last year to
find out if he was really the longest
living person in the world but it is
not know what was its finding. In
support of his claim about his age
he produced his date of birth certificate issued by the government
which bears the signature of the
then Tahsildar. According to this
certificate his date of birth is 10


March 1872.

culture and thought on the country. It is moving the economy in a

direction which will further inflict poverty and powerlessness on
the masses and the national wealth will be concentrated in a few
hands. Multinationals and corporates will amass most of the
resources of the country. He said the opposition parties which
should have come out to face this situation are so inflicted with
defeatism that they are not able to face the onslaught by fascist,
communal and capitalist forces.
WPI Vice President Dr Zafarul-Islam had already resigned for
ideological reasons. Now party secretary Dr Taslim Rahmani too
has resigned saying that the party has strayed from its original
principles.

HONOUR FOR DR. RASHID SHAZ

Aligarh: Dr Abdulaziz Othman Altwaijri, the Director General of

the Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
(ISESCO), on 18 October presented the certificate and medal of
ISESCO's Ambassador for Dialogue among Cultures and
Civilizations to Dr Rashid Shaz, professor of Islamic studies at
Aligarh Muslim University. The event was attended by the
Chancellor and Vice Chancellor of the University as well as
deans of the Faculties. On this occasion, ISESCO Director
General congratulated Dr Rashid Shaz on this honour and the
trust invested in him, while commending his faithful efforts in
addressing the issues of Islam and Muslims in India, both
through his work at AMU and through his studies and books in
fields related to Islam and Islamic civilization. For his part,
Dr Shaz thanked ISESCO and its Director General for entrusting
him with the civilizational mission to promote peace, security,
coexistence among the followers of religions and intercultural
dialogue. He said that he would spare no effort in performing the
tasks assigned to him in this regard. ISESCO Executive Council,
at its 35thsession held in Rabat on 23 June 2014, had endorsed
the appointment of Dr Rashid Shaz as one of ISESCO's eight
"Ambassadors for Dialogue among Cultures and Civilizations".
The others are Prince El Hassan Bin Talal of Jordan, Dr Mahathir
Mohamad, former Prime Minister of Malaysia, Mr Amadou
Mahtar M'Bow, former UNESCO Director-General, Mrs Mehriban
Aliyeva, wife of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan and
President of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation, Prof. Cheikh Modibo
Diarra, President of the Pathfinder Foundation of Mali, Mr JeanPaul Carteron, Chairman of the Crans Montana Forum, Sheikh
Hamza Yusuf, head of the Board of Trustees of the Zaytuna
Institute in California, USA and Dr Mohammed Yahya Pallavicini,
President of the Supreme Council for Education, Science and
Culture for Muslims outside the Islamic World, Italy.

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AMU holds its 62nd Annual Convocation

Aligarh: The Aligarh Muslim University on 16 October held its
62nd Annual Convocation. While, more than 4,000 degrees were
awarded, around 240 gold medals were given to meritorious students.

Director General of the Rabat-based Islamic Educational,

Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO), and Secretary
General of Federation of Universities of Islamic World, Dr.
Abdulaziz Othman Altwaijri participated in the function. He called
upon the Muslim youth in India and all over the world to come forward and project the true, humanitarian and inclusive image of
Islam to the rest of the world.
Delivering the Convocation Address at the Convocation,
Altwaijri said that in today's world, which is threatened by the divisive forces of "terrorism and senseless violence," it has become
incumbent on Muslim youth to reaffirm the image of Islam as a
"religion of peace and mercy Islam teaches us to be thoughtful,
considerate and open-minded to humanity at large. It is imperative that we now present the true face of Islam before the world
instead of a distorted one". He pointed out that a feeling of false
superiority and self-righteousness would not allow any society to
progress in today's world.
Altwaijri said that progress in today's world can only take
place in an atmosphere of inclusiveness. He lauded the AMU for
launching a Bridge Course for graduates of religious madrasas
for providing a link between traditional Islamic schools and modern education. This step of the AMU, he said, would not only
improve the skills of madrasa students by opening the doors of
modern education to them, but would also help them in playing a
more meaningful role for the general benefit of the community. He
said that this was a forward looking initiative in helping society in
the "broadest sense of the word".
Earlier, delivering the University's Annual Report, AMU Vice
Chancellor, Zameer Uddin Shah said that the Madrasa Bridge

Course was a "unique initiative which will go a long way making

madrasa students stakeholders in nation-building". He said that
the AMU was fully aware not only of its responsibility in raising
academic standards but also in fulfilling its social responsibilities
to the country as a whole.
Shah said that the AMU reiterates its commitment to nationbuilding and the ideals of its founder, Syed Ahmad Khan. He said
that our minority character is very dear to us and that is why we
are critically examining the government's proposal for a common
act and a common entrance test for all central universities.
While talking about boosting research facilities, the Vice
Chancellor stated that an Innovation Council has been established which will award two outstanding researchers of an academic year with a prize of Rs one lakh each. He further stated
that during the 'Sir Syed Innovation Festival' at least two prizes for
a University student and a University School student of Rs 50,
000 and Rs 25, 000 respectively will be handed over for best
innovations by students.
The Vice Chancellor laid emphasis on vocational training by
stating that the Community College's Nodal Office is been established with a UGC grant of Rs 185 lakh to start bachelor courses
in vocational subjects under the National Vocational Education
Qualification Framework (NVEQF).

Talking about the social responsibility, the Vice Chancellor

said that AMU dispatched a relief team of doctors and paramedical staff soon after the state of Jammu and Kashmir was hit a
devastating flood. Shah also said that the University students
even decided to forego Sir Syed Day Dinner to send relief to the
flood victims. The University employees have donated on day's
salary for J&K flood victims.
On this occasion, honorary doctorates were offered to
Dr. Abdulaziz Othman Altwaijri, Dr. Shamsheer Vayalil Parambath
and Mr. Nadeem A. Tarin.

Exceptional young footballing talent: Mariya Khan

Mariya Tehreem Khan was declared Best Player
of the Tournament of Suborto International
Football Tournament-2014. She was awarded
and facilitated by Air Marshal Shri Raja Ram
(Indian Air Force) in the prize distribution function held at Ambedkar Stadium on 10 October
2014 in New Delhi.
There are only a few times when one would
be forced to get off their feet and take notice of
a girl playing exceptional football, and that was
the chance when Mariya Khan displayed her

football skills at the Subroto Cup 2014 Under-17

Girls League. The 9th Grader at Delhi's Gyan
Bharti School, turned 14 on 22nd July 2014,
displayed an amazing understanding of the
game coupled with footballing skills which are
rare to find in a child this young. The young lady
displays maturity beyond her years at the field,
she plays an unselfish game, creates numerous
through balls for her mates, turns and runs like
the wind, is talented with the use of her feet and
shows strength and accuracy. The girl plays a

strong midfield switching roles to that of an

attacker and a defender but is challenged only by
lack of fitness although she was fitter than many.
If Maria gets a good coach, she could be an
asset for any team she plays for and she is definitely the kind which the India team needs.
The girl has a doting parents in Mr Adil Khan
and Ms Naghma Khan, who support her in
everything she likes to do but seem disappointed at the limited support which is now being
extended to Mariya from the school for participation in sports. Needless to say that as a culture we need to go a long way to be supportive
of young sporting talent and make sports a
reckoning. What is important to mention here is
that Gyan Bharti's Principal - Ms Neelam
Sharma was there to cheer her team, which is

great! We hope we had more educators like her

who think sports is important and that presence
and support can make a huge impact, however,
while some schools realise the importance, only
a miniscule have a program which nurtures and
supports the talent by means of proper coaching, extra study support and such more.
Thankfully our star here - Mariya, is also a
great student and scores above average marks.
She dreams of becoming a footballer and is
capable of becoming a doctor. Guess we'll just
have to wait and watch if her dream really takes
a flight or it meets the usual fate of an Indian
child who is pushed into an academic career,
whatever it be, her parents intend to stand by her
in
her
choice.
(Excerpted
from
ourdreamrun.com)

Mariya in blue with the ball

Yusuf/MG

Mariya with her parents after the award ceremony

Sir Syed Day Celebrations at AMU

Aligarh: The most important contribution of Sir Syed was to show the right path to the community and to
guide it. The candle of education which was lit by Sir Syed in the 19th century has hardly any parallel in
the world, said Dr Shakeel Samdani of the Faculty of Law, Aligarh Muslim University, while presiding over
the Sir Syed Day celebrations here on 20 October. It was organised by the Alumni Association of ABK High
School, AMU. He said that by writing Causes of Indian Revolt, Sir Syed tried his best to remove the suspicions held by the British against the Muslims in the wake of the 1857 Revolt. To a large extent he was
successful in his efforts. By writing such a book, he exposed his life to danger as it was like signing his
death warrant. Sir Syed did it and that's why his name is inscribed in golden words in the history of India.
While expressing his views on the educational philosophy of Sir Syed, Dr. Samdani said that Sir Syed was
opposed to confining education in Aligarh and he wished that the graduates of his college will ignite the
candle of education in every corner of the country by establishing modern educational institutions. AMU
has started this work a few years back.
He told students in a jam-packed Kennedy Auditorium that there is no substitute to hard work. The best
tribute to Sir Syed on his birth anniversary is to devote time and energy for acquiring knowledge and offering a sincere and committed leadership to the nation. He said if parents want a bright future for their children they too will have to sacrifice. Dr. Samdani appealed to the parents to contain the expenditure of their
families in order to offer best education to their children. He said the key to success is that in every walk
of life we should be sincere, disciplined, honest and best.
Abbas Niyazi, Principle of A.B.K. High School said that once upon a time the Muslim University was
known for its sweet language and refined culture. We should not only preserve it but also try to retrieve
what has been lost. On this occasion, winners of a quiz competition were given cash prizes, mementos
and certificates. (Tanveer Ahmad)

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Madrasa graduates shine in Bridge Course

Aligarh: AMUs Vice Chancellor Lt Gen (Retd) Zamiruddin Shah
had introduced a one-year Bridge Course last year (2013) for students of religious madrasas to enable them acquire modern education and brighten their future instead of being confined to jobs in
mosques and madrasas only. The results of this course have now
been declared which are cent per cent and in the first batch of 30
students, 27 have succeeded in getting admissions in different
courses and colleges and the remaining three are in the waiting
list. These students have got admissions in Jamia Millia Islamia
University, AMU, Jamia Hamdard in subjects like English,
Economics, Urdu, Arabic, LLB, Islamic Studies, Tibb, Political
Science and so on.
Reserved seats converted to general category
New Delhi: Seats reserved for Muslim students for admission in
B.Ed course (Distance) in Jamia Millia Islamia have been converted into general category whereas more than 300 Muslim students
seeking admission in this course are kept in the waiting list.
According to the Director of the Centre for Distance Learning, Prof
Mirza Tariq Baig, this step has been taken under the policy already
decided but, gave assurances to consider ways to avoid such
things in future. It may be stated that there are only 5 centres in
the country for B.Ed course (Distance system) under Jamia Millia
Islamias Centre for Distance Learning. Two of these centres are
functioning in Delhi and one centre each in Bareilly, Lucknow and
Amritsar. For admission in this course entrance examinations are
held in all centres simultaneously i.e. on the same day and at the
same time but when the results are announced, merit list of each
centre is made separately.
Demand to make Rampurs Madrasah Aalia a central
University
Rampur: A seminar on the occasion of the 241st Foundation Day
Madrasa Aalia of Rampur was organised by Madrasa Sangharsh
Samitis President Muhammad Husain Sabri in which a large number of people participated and Dr Tanveer Ahmad Khan,
Misbahuddin, Dr. Mahfooz Raza and many others spoke and shed
light on the history of this madrasah. They said that this was a
unique and only Madrasah Aalia because of which Ramur is also
known as Bukhara-e Hind and that from the very beginning this
madrasah enjoys the status of a university because no university
is needed for its degrees / certificates. The speakers also said that
UPs former chief minister Raj Nath Singh had at that time
declared to make it Arabic, Persian university and after sanctioning a budget of Rs 8 crores for this, had also released Rs 1 crore
in 2001 but because of change of government his plan could not
be completed. The speakers also said that an amount of Rs 1,
76,19000 was spent till 2006 for repair, renovation and beautification of Madrasa Aalias old and historical building but now the gate
of this Madrasah has been locked. The speakers demanded that
central government take steps for making this Madrasah Central
Arabic, Persian University so that Nizami education could be started regularly.
Nanawati Commission given extension for the 24th time
Ahmedabad: Gujrat government, in response to a request by
Justice Nanavati Commission which is enquiring into the Gujrat
communal riots of 2002 following the Godhra train fire has further
extended its term for one more month upto 31 October 2014. This
is the 24th extension given to this Commission since its appointment or constitution more than 12 years ago. The Commission,
consisting of former judge of Supreme Court Justice
G. T. Nanavati and another judge, Justice Akshay Mehta, is now
expected to submit its final report to the state government by the
end of this month (October) which is now in the final stage. The
previous extension given to it had expired on 30 September.
AMU scientists prepare bio-fuel from garbage
Aligarh: Scientists of AMU with the help of Nano technology have
succeeded in producing biofuel from waste products, garbage and
the like without using electricity. By producing biofuel under this
process the cost of one litre of biofuel comes to Rs 20 only. In this
way not only energy will be cheaply produced but the problem of
garbage disposal will also be solved. Demonstration of this
process of producing energy from wastes without the use of electricity will be made by AMU scientists at a conference to be held
in Gujrat. Principal Coordinator of AMUs Centre of Excellence
Material Sciences (Nano material) which is working under the
Universitys Applied Department, Prof. S. Alam H. Naqvi and scientist Brij Raj Singh invented this system after about a years hard
work. Under this process biofuel was produced, in simple words,
by making methane gas produced from decomposition of waste
products, garbage etc pass through different stages. Methane gas
was then converted into methanol. Subsequently, methanol was
treated through particular types of nano materials and biofuel produced.
Notification issued for quota to Unani doctors in govt jobs
Mumbai: The question of reservation for BUMS (Bachelor of Unani
Medicine & Surgery) doctors in government jobs and government
hospitals was first raised by Maharasthras minister for minorities
affairs Muhammad Arif Naseem Khan in the states cabinet meeting on 11 August. He had argued that just as 25% reservation has
been given to Ayurvedic doctors in government jobs and hospitals, in the same way reservation should be given to Unani doctors
/ hakeems also. Since this matter was raised earlier also and was
pending for a long time, after great discussion it was decided in
the cabinet meeting that 25% quota for veds (ayurvedic doctos)
could be reduced and 10% quota out of this 25% should be
reserved for BUMS doctors / hakeems. According to a GR issued

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Maulana Azad National Skills Academy

New Delhi: Union minister for minorities affairs Mrs Najma
Heptullah announced the formation of Maulana Azad National
Academy for Skill (MANAS) at a conference held in Delhi on
8 October on the occasion of 20th Foundation Day of National
Minorities Development Finance Corporation (NMDFC). Detailed
announcement of this Academy will be made on 11 November,
Maulana Azads birth anniversary. Speaking briefly on this occasion she said that along with academic education learning of art
and skill is also necessary because without art and skill, education is not complete. She said that she considers art also a kind
of education. She said that India enjoys the distinction of having
hundreds of arts and crafts which are hereditary and the people
engaged in these arts and crafts have been working from generation to generation. She said that in whichever part of the country one goes he will find people engaged in different kinds of arts
and crafts but they are working mostly on old patterns. It is therefore a pity that even in two decades the objective of making them,
particularly the minorities, skilled could not be achieved. It is
therefore necessary that in order to make them truly skilled and
prosperous they should be provided the opportunity to meet market demands and modern needs. Therefore her ministry is trying
and working to make backward classes of the minority community stand on their own feet, adding that there is no politics of any
kind involved in the progress and development of minorities. She
said that government's attention is focussed on making them
skilled along with being educated so that students, along with
education, should also learn art and skill in accordance with market demand which may be useful to them in todays life.
The annual Conference of NMDFC and state agencies
associated with it was held in SCOPE Buildings Mirza Ghalib
Hall when the activities and performances of these agencies
were reviewed and those persons and agencies whose performance were praiseworthy were honoured with awards. In
this conference various suggestions were also made to
improve the working of different agencies and their proby Public Health Department on 4 August 2014 it was stated that
reservation to Muslims may be given in accordance with their
population in different districts. For 1816 Public Health Centres
(PHC) 3632 doctors were needed of whom 75% was for allopath
doctors and 25% percent for Ayurveds. Out of this 25% of
Ayurvedic doctors 10 percent are to be reserved for Unani doctors. At this rate, out of 620 Ayurved doctors, 10% i.e. 62 vacancies are to be reserved for Unani doctors. Accordingly, in accordance with population, reservations or appointments of Unani
doctors are as under: in Thana area there will be 3 Unani doctors,
in Nasik there will be 3, Jalgaon 3, Dhulia 2, Raigarh 1, Ratnagiri
3, Sitara 2, Aurangabad 3, Nagpur 2, Ahmadnagar 2, in Baldhana,
Amravti, Akola, Jalna 3 each etc. In this way in the whole of
Maharasthra 62 Unani doctors will be posted. UMPA (Unani
Medical Practitioners Associaiton)s general secretary Dr Zuber
Sheikh while appreciating the government's step said that the proportion of their (Unani doctors) reservation should be increased
because efforts for reservations for them were being made since
18 years and hence they deserve more reservation.
Demand for judicial enquiry into burning of student to death
New Delhi: President of United Muslim Front and a senior advocate
of Delhi High Court, Shahid Ali in a letter to the President of India
Pranab Mukherjee and copies to the prime minister, home minister and defence minister has requested for a judicial enquiry into
the alleged burning to death of an 11-year old madrasa student
Mustafiuddin by an army jawan. In his letter he has stated that the
concerned army jawan has been given a clean chit by army officers when no enquiry into his death has been conducted and this
is clearly against the spirit of justice. He further said in his letter
that Hyderabads Police Commissioner has constituted a special
team to enquire into his alleged death by burning but in spite of
this, army officers have given the army jawan a clean chit which
is also in violation of law. He said in his letter that according to
media reports, before his death the boy said in the presence of the
magistrate that some unidentified army men of the Military
Garriosn in Mehdipatnam area of Hyderabad, a high security area,
armymen had deliberately tried to kill him. Army authorities however described the allegation as false. The boy had died on 9
October. He along with his parents lived in the nearby locality
Siddiqi Nagar. Though the Military Garrison at Mehdipatnanm is a
high security area and hence out of bound for common people,
local people say that some times army men use the services of
some children to run errands - i.e. cigarettes etc for them and on
some rare occasions allow them to come inside the prohibited
area. At the place where the boy was found with severe burns
inside the prohibited area, a cold drink bottle with kerosene, some
match boxes and a pair of shoes were found.
Rules for giving of grants to madrasas amended in UP
Deoband: UP government has amended the rules and conditions
for giving government grants to religious madrasas in the state in
order to implement chief minister Akhilesh Yadavs promises to
madrasas. According to new / amended rules and conditions, if
there are even eight teachers, instead of 13 teachers as per the
earlier condition, they will be entitled to and deserving of government grants but such madrasas MUST appoint teachers for the
remaining posts within the next three months. The condition of
advertising for filling up vacancies in state level newspapers has
also been removed and now advertisements for such vacancies
can also be given in commissionary level newspapers (which

grammes. It may be stated that this Corporation (NMDFC) was

set up on 30 September 1994 under Section 25 of Companies
Act 1956 as a non-profitable institution the basic objective of
which was to provide loans to poor and backward classes of
minorities at concessional rates, preferably to women and
people engaged in arts and crafts. Schemes of NMDFC
include term loans scheme, micro finance scheme and educational loan scheme. Development schemes include Mahila
Samriddhi Yojna, Vocational Training Scheme and Marketing
Assistance Scheme. The Corporation, under its different
schemes, has so far disbursed about Rs 2750 crores to about
10 lakh people / beneficiaries. In this Conference first issue of
NMDFCs Newsletter was also released by the minister. It was
also announced that NMDFC is planning to provide special
education loan package by giving financial assistance to
Kashmiri youths for their welfare and progress.
In this Conference some agencies, particularly Bihar and
UPs channelising agencies did not participate. Regretting their
absence the minister said that with their absence activities of
these agencies are affected because large number of people
belonging to the minority community live in these states. Prof
Akhtarul Wasey, Commissioner for Linguistic Minorites while
speaking on this occasion said that Maulana Azad along with
Gandhiji had prepared Nai Taleem Scheme which too is associated with Maulana Azad and which also had laid emphasis on the
promotion of skill along with education so that boys and girls
could excel our neighbouring countries in art and skill competition. Mg. Director of NMDFC, D. S. Bisht on this occasion
apprised the audience about the Corporations achievements and
future plans.
Secretary of the ministry for minorities affairs, Dr. Lalit Pawar
in his presidential address informed about the ministrys different
schemes like Ustad, Nai Roshni, Seekho aur Sikhaao, Cyber
Gram Yojna and Padho Pardes (study in foreign countries) etc.
(N. A. Ansari)
have limited circulation). Under the scheme of giving grants to
madrasas, government will give Rs 50 lakh annually as grants to
each madrasa. It may be stated that Akhilesh Yadav, after becoming chief minister, had announced that government grants will be
given to 146 madrasas of the state.
Anjuman Taraqqi-e Urdu UP to honour Justice Suhail Siddiqi
Rampur: Former chairman of Tanda Municipal Board and presently the general secretary of Anjuman Taraqqi-e Urdu (ATU) UP,
Mahmooduz Zafar Rahmani said that ATU, in recognition of the
exemplary services rendered to the nation by Justice Suhail Ejaz
Siddiqi, Chairman of National Commission for Minorities
Educational Institutions (NCMEI) will honour him with Award. He
said that he could not find words to praise him. for the excellent
work done by him during the last 10 years, by granting minority
status to 17941 educational institutions He said that only recently
his decision to grant minority status to Hamdard University (Jamia
Hamdard), founded and set up by late Hakeem Abdul Hameed,
thereby making way for reservation of 50 percent seats for
Muslims only, in it, is a historic decision. In addition to this, minority status / character has also been given to three other universities in the country i.e. Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi;
Muhammad Ali Jauhar University, Rampur and P. S. Abdur
Rahman University, Madras, also during the past 10 years. He said
that when he was appointed Chairman of NCMEI he did not even
have a place to sit and work as chairman but in spite of facing all
these difficulties he did many important work. The importance of
his work and services has increased all the more seeing that other
commissions set up in the country shirk their responsibilities, and
achieve nothing worthwhile, he said.
Mr Rahmani further said that Justice Siddiqi is also very worried about the minority character of Aligarh Muslim University but
this issue is pending in the Supreme Court because of which it
(AMU) is deprived of minority character till now. Praising Justice
Siddiqis determination and conviction he said that while granting
minority character to these educational institutions he had clearly
stated that under Art 30 of the Constitution, minorities have full
right to set up their own educational institutions and also to benefit by its minority character. He said that after Eid-Ul-Adha he
(Justice Siddiqi) has been invited to Lucknow, to be honoured. For
this purpose a delegation of ATU (UP) headed by state president
Chaudhary Sharfuddin will go soon to meet him.
AAP opens its minority cell
New Delhi: The Aam Admi Party launched its minority cell or wing
at a function held in Delhi on 11 October with a pledge to end
minority politics and aiming at connecting with minority groups
based on issues and not merely to use it as a vote bank. Irfanullah
Khan of Jamia Nagar who had contested on AAP ticket from Okhla
constituency in the last assembly election has been appointed
President of this minority cell which will also have a secretary, six
vice presidents and six general secretaries. The party will also
have in addition to minority cell, a womens wing, a youth wing
and a students wing. National convener of the party, Arvind
Kejriwal said that issues like corruption affect every community
and hence working for the benefit of a particular community
should be avoided. He further said that it is necessary to discontinue the politics of hatred in the country. Criticising both the
Congressand BJP he said that it was the need of the hour to put
an end to the politics played in the name of improving the condi

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Sir Syed Public School in Jaula village
Rampur / Aligarh: The foundation stone of Sir Syed Public School
was laid by AMUs Vice Chancellor Zamiruddin Shah in
Muzaffarnagar districts Jaula village at a function held here
(Jaula) on 10 October. This villages Chhuttan Khan and Kallan
Khan had gifted 12.5 bighas of land free of charge for this school.
Speaking on this occasion the Vice Chancellor, who was the chief
guest, said that last year, the annual Sir Syed Dinner was cancelled and the amount saved on this account i.e. Rs 51 lakh will
be spent for this school with the ultimate aim of developing it into
a college. He said that an ex-student of AMU, Salman Jaffary has
also decided and promised to donate an equal amount for this
school. He said that all children and boys of this and neighbouring areas will be provided educational facilities. A large number of
people of the village, Chairman of School Committee, authorities
and students of AMU and other dignitaries were present on this
occasion.
Muslim Rashtriya Manch active again in favour of RSS
Muslim Rashtriya Manch was created by RSS about a decade ago
with the objective of attracting Muslims towards the RSS ideology apparently by taking up the Muslim cause in general and more
to justify its anti-Muslim agenda in particular. Then one day RSSs
former chief (Sirsangchalak), (late) K. S. Sudarshan formally
recognised it which worked for strengthening it and today also it
(MRM) considers RSS its master and works to associate
Muslims with BJP, the main outfit of the RSS. Every body knows
how important the elections (of Maharashtra and Haryana) are for
BJP, an idea of which can be had from the fact that prime minister Modi, leaving aside all responsibilities as PM, had been canvassing and making speeches for 4 or 5 days asking people to
vote for BJP. Every body also knows the close relationship
between RSS and BJP. National media also always projects PM.
Whenever a channel is opened there is always news about PMs
rallies and speeches. Lok Sabha elections are now things of the
past but the present or rather forthcoming elections are haunting
him and his party. Let us leave aside the elections in Haryana but
in Maharashtra Shiv Sena is a big challenge for the PM and his
party BJP but it is not difficult to understand whose side RSS is.
Every body worships the rising sun and hence RSS also is supporting BJP. About a week ago people saw and heard RSS chief
Mohan Bhagwat live on TV. It is also an important topic of discussion among the intellectuals that for the first time in
Doordarshans history Sanghs Chief was shown live on T. V.
Some people went to the extent of saying that government
machinery is being misused for promoting Hindutva. Every body
knows the aims and objectives of RSS from day one till date and
with every passing day these are becoming more and more controversial and aggressive. Assam, West Bengal and Jammu &
Kashmir are thorns in the eyes of RSS and on the pretext of illegal immigration a policy of double standard is adopted towards
Muslims of these states, living example of which is that in the
unprecedented floods in Kashmir there was no one to sympathise
and help the Muslim population in such disastrous times. Army,
ignoring Muslim areas was busy in relief work in other areas.
There were of course some photoops but simply for publicity
through print and electronic media.
Why the need to understand RSS has arisen today again is in
itself a big question. After Gandhijis assassination when Pundit
Nehru had banned the RSS for the first time, the founders of this
organisation started propagating it as a religious and cultural,
instead of a political, organisation which had only one objective
i.e. protection of Hindutva. How many subsidiary objectives were
fulfilled on the pretext of this protection of Hindutva is known to
every body living in India. That the BJP is working as the political
wing of this organisation is also known to every body and the
number of organisations supporting and cooperating with it is
also known to every body. RSS never felt the need of any Muslim
face and hence its representatives also never felt the need of paying attention to them.
Muslim Rashtriya Manch which was losing its identity and
importance began to regenerate because of strengthening its
Hindutva root. Today when BJP is considering assembly elections
in Maharashtra as a war of prestige, the role of Muslim Rashtriya
Manch appears to be gaining importance. It claims to bring
Muslims closer to this organisation. The leader of MRM thinks
that many misunderstandings and wrong notions are being created against the Sangh: that it is anti-Muslim. Manch people, in
order to inform the common people, are taking recourse to the
same example which they (Sangh people) at one time used with
contempt. For example, take the case of Jama Masjid area in Old
Delhi. What kind of impression one gathers?, narrow lanes, congested and dirty roads and localities, not many educated people,
Muslims with topis and beards, women in burqa and probably
anti-Hindu atmosphere, where apparently people are not very
patriotic. RSS and its other outfits generally consider and describe
these areas as mini Pakistan. Manch members say that as the
Bhagwa mentality of RSS is becoming more and more liberal,
people associated with it and its outfits are becoming less intolerant (or more tolerant) towards Muslims, hatred in Muslim society
towards them is also disappearing. Twelve years ago the former
chief of this organisation, Sudarshan had founded this Manch, but
even after such a long time RSS people do not accept it as very
reliable and trustworthy but they of course keep an eye on it.
Manch people say that they want to remove, or at least mitigate,
Hindu Muslim differences and promote mutual understanding. We
do not talk about religious issues but we do take up worldly
issues. The question now arises: Will the Manch people take the
trouble of telling us what the incidents like Babri Masjid demolition, Bhagwa terrorism, force-feeding bread to a person observ-

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HC on Karbala and Dargah Shah-e Mardan

New Delhi: The dispute about Dargah Shah-e MardaaN and
Karbala in Jor Bah is very old and every now and then clashes
and disputes over this take place, particulalry on the occasion of
Muharram when majlis is held and tazias are buried there.
Mainly four parties i.e. Anjuman Haidari (which manages the
affairs of Karbala), Delhi Waqf Board, Rajdhani Nursery of
Waseem Khan and people of the nearby B. K. Dut Colony are
involved in the dispute. On 11 October when the place in Karbala
was being cleaned for Muharram celebration, a group of people
consisting of Hindus and some Sikhs reached there and began to
pelt stones and along with the people of Rajdhan Nursery
attacked the people of Anjuman Haidari. In this attack lathis,
stones and even swords were used, about a dozen people were
injured and many vehicles were also damaged. Anjumans properties like mosque etc were also damaged. Though police force
was posted there, they (policemen) were mute spectators and
according to some people they even sided with the attackers.
People of Anjuman Haidari filed a petition in the Delhi High Court
against this attack on 11 October. On the other hand people of BK
Colony also lodged a complaint in Delhi High Court against the
Anjuman people saying that there is tension very often in the area
and because of this people of this colony, particularly women
and children are afraid to go out. In the petition they also
demanded that they should be provided police protection and
that no unauthorised construction in the area should be allowed.
High Court Bench consisting of Justices Badar Durrez
Ahmad and Siddharth Mridul took up both petitions for hearing
on 13 October and adopting a tough attitude said that some people with vested interests create tension and law and order problem for their own selfish interests otherwise people of the area
have no problem and live in peace. It also directed the central
government to ensure peace in the area. The Court also asked
police to allow Anjuman Haidari to put tarpaulin at one of the
mosques there so that prayers could be offered during
Muharram. It also said that religious activities on the occasion of
Muharram will be carried out in the same way as last year and
on the same terms and conditions. It also directed the Anjuman
not to carry out any fresh construction in the area, remove all

temporary curtains etc and directed the police to make three

videographs: one, of the site before putting up temporary structures, the other after these temporary structures are put up and
the third, after these are removed. It may be be stated that the
High Court took up these petitions for hearing on two consecutive days i.e. on 13 October and also on 14 October. It fixed the
next hearing of the case on 17 October.
Speaking about the vandalism and disruptive activities created on 11 October when the cleaning operation was being carried
out by Anjuman people in preparation for Muharram, Hasan
Ahmad, MLA form Mustafabad assembly constituency said on
13 October that Dargah Shah-e MardaaN and Karbala Jor Bagh
are centres of our faith and if some people try to spoil the festive
spirit in any way, this will not be tolerated. He said that we
respect all religions and similarly others also should respect our
religion and religious sentiments. He said that the Dargah and
Karbala are here in Delhi from the time when only the people
associated with the Dargah used to live here. There were a small
number of other people also here but they never made any mischief or opposed our functions but for the past many years
efforts are being made by mischievous elements and people of
a communal mentality to incite communal feelings. There was a
Board of Dargah Property. He said those communal-minded
people not only attacked those who were peacefully working and
cleaning the place for holding Muharram functions. but these
mischievous people applied paint on it to remove the identity
mark of the Dargah. When some people caught them on camera
to present it as a proof in court, they again attacked these people. Police was there but made no attempt to stop them. They
(police) also acted in a communal way. He said that ever since
BJP formed the government at the centre, these people are
indulging more and more in such mischievous and disruptive
activities. He also said that these people spread the rumour that
Dargah people were cutting the Peepal tree in the area which is
totally false. There was of course a lawn mower which was
meant for cutting the grass. He demanded action against these
people and also against the police who also acted as their supporters and made no effort at all to stop them. (N. A. Ansari)

ing Ramzan fast, are? Who are involved in incidents like these and
what party or organisation they belong to? Possibly they do not
have answers to these questions because RSS and its outfits harbour a grudge and enmity against Muslims but Manch people
cannot understand this.

dents from different states of India participated. It was for university and college level boy and girl students. The first prize of Rs
25,000, second prize of Rs 15,000 and third prize of Rs 10,000
were given. In addition to these, one student from each state who
secured maximum marks in that state is also given Rs 5000
each. Cash prizes (cheques) to the three winners in the All India
level competition and 17 winners from the participating states
namely Akshay Pillai (Chhattisgarh), Krati Khandelwal (AP),
Shubham Gupta (J&K), Naazli Shah (UP), Pathan Sharifa Bano
(Gujrat), Samar Tyagi (Uttarakhand), Muhmmad Jamshed
(Haryana), Kiran Tiwari (Punjab), Sheikh Shadab Alam
(Maharashtra), K. Ameer (Kerala), Syed Zaheeruddin (Karnatak),
Hena Parveen (Jharkhand), A. Sankareshwari (Tamil Nadu),
Sumaiyya Shams (New Delhi), S. K. Junaid Jaffery (Orissa /
Odisha), Priyanka Jain (Rajasthan) and Ajumat Kumar (Bihar)
were given. The cheques were given to the winners on 17
October, Sir Syed Day at a function held at AMUs Athletic Ground
by Dr Abdul Aziz Usman Attawajari, Director General, Moroccos
Islamic educational, Scientific & Cultural Organisation.

Rashtriya Muslim Manch conference

Lucknow: A 3-day conference of RSSs central executive mandal
was held in Lucknow recently this month (October) when
Rashtriya Muslim Manch (RMM) was revived as RSS wing in
order to propagate the Sanghs ideology among Muslims in order
to remove misunderstandings among Muslims about RSS. This
Manch was originally created jointly by Maulana Wahiduddin
Khan and (late) KS Sudarshan, former chief of RSS in 2002 with
the objective of popularising RSS ideology among Muslims and
to remove Muslims misconceptions about RSS. Members of
RMM meet Muslims and try to explain and justify RSS ideology
to them. RMMs Pracharak of Awadh, Maulana Waheedullah
Ansari Chaturvedi says that RMMs agenda is the same as that
of RSS and we try to make them understand and remove their
misunderstandings about RSS and we have been successful.
Seventh International Islamic Book Fair
New Delhi: Seventy week-long International Islamic Book Fair,
sponsored by EHSAS (Educational, Health and Social Awareness
Society) in collaboration with Maktaba Al Hasanaat (P) Ltd was
organised in The India Islamic Cultural Centre (IICC) and inaugurated on 18 October by Muneeba Begum a student who had
passed the Secondary School Examination from Old Delhs
Chashma Building School with 99 percent marks in Urdu and 91
percent aggregate marks. Speaking on this occasion, Centres
Vice President Safdar H. Khan said that this Fair sponsored by Al
Hasanaat has achieved great popularity during the past 6 years.
He said that though some Islamic books and literature from different countries are available in Delhi and other cities of the country but the collections from different countries available in IICC
Book Fair under one roof are not available anywhere else. In this
Fair books and literature from publication houses of Saudi Arabia,
Pakistan, China, UAE, Lebanon, America, Britain, Malayasia,
Singapore, Sri Lanka, Iran, Egypt etc were available. In addition
to books, Quran, Quran reader pen, Azaan Clock, Islamic memorabilia, tughras, CDs, DVDs, Islamic games for children etc etc
are also available in this Fair. Among the guests and dignitaries
on this occasion was Afrozul Haq to whom American government has allotted an amount of 1 million Dollar (more than Rs 5
crores) for conducting research in the field of Vitamic D. This Fair
will continue upto 25 October.
All India Essay writing competition in AMU
Aligarh: An All India Essay Writing Competition on Sir Sayyad
had dreamt of making Aligarh Muslim University the Oxford of the
East. How can we make it the Oxford of the World i.e. a World
Standard University? The result of this competition has now
been declared according to which Shah Muneeb Raza of
Pondicherry Universitys School of Law, Pondicherry has been
declared winner of the First Prize. Dhanwanti College of Nursing,
Ranganoor (Tamil Nadu)s (Ms) P. Neela and JNU, New Delhis
Syed Alvi Panayathal have been declared winners of Second and
Third Prize respectively. In this competition 91 boy and girl stu-

Police officer shoots man in custody

Madurai: Police said SI A. Kalidass (28) was stabbed while interrogating K. Syed Mohammed (30), who was brought to the station on a complaint of attempt to stab a two-wheeler mechanic.
A Sub-Inspector (SI) of Police shot dead an accused when
the latter allegedly stabbed him during interrogation at the SP
Pattinam police station in Ramanathapuram district on
14 October. The SI opened three rounds of fire on the chest of the
accused, killing him on the spot. The body was removed to the
Government headquarters hospital here for post-mortem and the
SI, who suffered injuries on his waist and left hand, was treated
here before being sent to the Government Rajaji hospital,
Madurai.
Deputy Inspector General of Police Anand Kumar Somani,
Superintendent of Police N. M. Mylvahanan and ASP
S. Vellaidurai visited the station and held a preliminary enquiry.
Declining to go into the details, the SP said the police would
send a report to the Chief Judicial Magistrate for conducting a
judicial enquiry. I will not comment on the incident as it will be
prejudicial to the enquiry, the SP said.
Soon after the incident, tension gripped the Muslim-dominated area with a group of people staging a road roko on the East
Coast Road. The police defused the situation and brought it under
control. Police said the SI was away when a Special SubInspector (SSI) of Police and a constable brought Mohammed to
the station with a knife after mechanic Aruldoss (35) lodged a
complaint that he attempted to stab him. The police registered an
FIR under IPC Section 307 when the SI came to the station and
took him inside for interrogation.
When the SI was questioning him, Mohammed allegedly
picked up the weapon and stabbed the police officer twice. When
Kalidass fell on the floor, the accused tried to stab him on the
chest. The SI pulled out his revolver and fired at him, police said.
Mohammed had visited Aruldoss workshop to take delivery of a
friends motorcycle. When Aruldoss refused to give delivery, he
took out the knife and attempted to stab him, police said.
M. H. Jawahirullah, Ramanathapuram MLA, and leader of the
Manithaneya Makkal Katchi (MMK), has termed the killing a cold


blooded murder.

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The US is a Leading Terrorist State: Chomsky

On October 14, the lead story in the New York Times reported a study by the CIA that reviews major
terrorist operations run by the White House around the world, in an effort to determine the factors that
led to their success or failure, finally concluding that unfortunately successes were rare so that some
rethinking of policy is in order. The article went on to quote Obama as saying that he had asked the CIA
to carry out such inquiries in order to find cases of financing and supplying arms to an insurgency in a
country that actually worked out well. And they couldnt come up with much.
An international poll found that the United
States is ranked far in the lead as the biggest
threat to world peace today, far ahead of second-place Pakistan, with no one else even
close.
Imagine that the lead article in Pravda
reported a study by the KGB that reviews major
terrorist operations run by the Kremlin around
the world, in an effort to determine the factors
that led to their success or failure, finally concluding that unfortunately successes were rare so that some rethinking of policy is in
order. Suppose that the article went on to quote Putin as saying
that he had asked the KGB to carry out such inquiries in order to
find cases of financing and supplying arms to an insurgency in a
country that actually worked out well. And they couldnt come up
with much. So he has some reluctance about continuing such
efforts.
If, almost unimaginably, such an article were to appear, cries
of outrage and indignation would rise to the heavens, and Russia
would be bitterly condemned - or worse -- not only for the vicious
terrorist record openly acknowledged, but for the reaction among
the leadership and the political class: no concern, except how well
Russian state terrorism works and whether the practices can be
improved. It is indeed hard to imagine that such an article might
appear, except for the fact that it just did - almost.
On October 14, the lead story in the New York Times reported
a study by the CIA that reviews major terrorist operations run by
the White House around the world, in an effort to determine the factors that led to their success or failure, finally concluding that unfortunately successes were rare so that some rethinking of policy is
in order. The article went on to quote Obama as saying that he had
asked the CIA to carry out such inquiries in order to find cases of
financing and supplying arms to an insurgency in a country that
actually worked out well. And they couldnt come up with much.
So he has some reluctance about continuing such efforts.
There were no cries of outrage, no indignation, nothing.
The conclusion seems quite clear. In western political culture,
it is taken to be entirely natural and appropriate that the Leader of
the Free World should be a terrorist rogue state and should openly
proclaim its eminence in such crimes. And it is only natural and
appropriate that the Nobel Peace Prize laureate and liberal constitutional lawyer who holds the reins of power should be concerned
only with how to carry out such actions more efficaciously.
A closer look establishes these conclusions quite firmly.
The article opens by citing US operations from Angola to
Nicaragua to Cuba. Let us add a little of what is omitted.
In Angola, the US joined South Africa in providing the crucial
support for Jonas Savimbis terrorist UNITA army, and continued to
do so after Savimbi had been roundly defeated in a carefully monitored free election and even after South Africa had withdrawn support from this monster whose lust for power had brought
appalling misery to his people, in the words of British Ambassador
to Angola Marrack Goulding, seconded by the CIA station chief in
neighboring Kinshasa who warned that it wasnt a good idea to
support the monster because of the extent of Savimbis crimes.
He was terribly brutal.
Despite extensive and murderous US-backed terrorist operations in Angola, Cuban forces drove South African aggressors out
of the country, compelled them to leave illegally occupied Namibia,
and opened the way for the Angolan election in which, after his
defeat, Savimbi dismissed entirely the views of nearly 800 foreign
elections observers here that the ballotingwas generally free and
fair (New York Times), and continued the terrorist war with US
support.
Cuban achievements in the liberation of Africa and ending of
Apartheid were hailed by Nelson Mandela when he was finally
released from prison. Among his first acts was to declare that
During all my years in prison, Cuba was an inspiration and Fidel
Castro a tower of strength [Cuban victories] destroyed the myth
of the invincibility of the white oppressor [and] inspired the fighting
masses of South Africa a turning point for the liberation of our
continent - and of my people - from the scourge of apartheid.

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What other country can point to a record of greater selflessness

than Cuba has displayed in its relations to Africa?
The terrorist commander Henry Kissinger, in contrast, was
apoplectic over the insubordination of the pipsqueak Castro
who should be smash[ed], as reported by William Leogrande
and Peter Kornbluh in their book Back Channel to Cuba, relying on
recently declassified documents.
Turning to Nicaragua, we need not tarry on Reagans terrorist
war, which continued well after the International Court of Justice
ordered Washington to cease its illegal use of force - that is,
international terrorism -- and pay substantial reparations, and after
a resolution of the UN Security Council that called on all states
(meaning the US) to observe international law - vetoed by
Washington.
It should be acknowledged, however, that Reagans terrorist
war against Nicaragua - extended by Bush I, the statesman Bush
-- was not as destructive as the state terrorism he backed enthusiastically in El Salvador and Guatemala. Nicaragua had the advantage of having an army to confront the US-run terrorist forces,
while in the neighboring states the terrorists assaulting the population were the security forces armed and trained by Washington.
In a few weeks we will be commemorating the Grand Finale of
Washingtons terrorist wars in Latin America: the murder of six
leading Latin American intellectuals, Jesuit priests, by an elite terrorist unit of the Salvadoran army, the Atlacatl Battalion, armed and
trained by Washington, acting on the explicit orders of the High
Command, and with a long record of massacres of the usual victims. This shocking crime on November 16, 1989, at the Jesuit
University in San Salvador was the coda to the enormous plague of
terror that spread over the continent after John F. Kennedy changed
the mission of the Latin American military from hemispheric
defense - an outdated relic of World War II - to internal security,
which means war against the domestic population. The aftermath
is described succinctly by Charles Maechling, who led US counterinsurgency and internal defense planning from 1961 to 1966.
He described Kennedys 1962 decision as a shift from toleration
of the rapacity and cruelty of the Latin American military to
direct complicity in their crimes, to US support for the methods
of Heinrich Himmlers extermination squads. All forgotten, not the
right kind of facts.
In Cuba, Washingtons terror operations were launched in full
fury by President Kennedy to punish Cubans for defeating the USrun Bay of Pigs invasion. As described by historian Piero
Gleijeses, JFK asked his brother, Attorney General Robert
Kennedy, to lead the top-level interagency group that oversaw
Operation Mongoose, a program of paramilitary operations, economic warfare, and sabotage he launched in late 1961 to visit the
terrors of the earth on Fidel Castro and, more prosaically, to topple him. The phrase terrors of the earth is quoted from Kennedy
associate and historian Arthur Schlesinger, in his quasi-official
biography of Robert Kennedy, who was assigned responsibility for
conducting the terrorist war. RFK informed the CIA that the Cuban
problem carries [t]he top priority in the United States Government
-- all else is secondary -- no time, no effort, or manpower is to be
spared in the effort to overthrow the Castro regime, and to bring
the terrors of the earth to Cuba.
The terrorist war launched by the Kennedy brothers was no
small affair. It involved 400 Americans, 2,000 Cubans, a private
navy of fast boats, and a $50 million annual budget, run in part by
a Miami CIA station functioning in violation of the Neutrality Act

War is Americas business # 1

US weapons makers sense rising

demand for air defense systems, tanks
Washington: Military crises around the world are boosting foreign
demand for U. S. weapons, especially air and missile defense systems, spy equipment and armored vehicles, according to U. S.
government and industry officials. Weapons makers like Lockheed
Martin, Northrop Grumman, Boeing and Raytheon anticipate new
markets for their goods. And that could offset lower U. S. military
spending. Russian aggression in Ukraine is reviving long-dormant
European demand, while the emerging militant Islamist threat in
Iraq and Syria has underpinned already strong Middle Eastern
demand. And in Asia, China's military buildup and tensions with its
neighbors are prompting the United States to deepen relations with
traditional allies like Japan, and forge deeper bonds with other
countries, including former foes such as Vietnam.
"Any time there is this type of turmoil like we have today in the
world... the potential is there for more demand," Orlando Carvalho,
executive vice president of Lockheed's aeronautics division, said
during Reuters' Aerospace and Defense Summit in Washington last
month. Lockheed's aeronautics division is likely to boost revenues
to $15 billion this year from $14 billion, buoyed by growing F-35
jet orders. Carvalho said foreign sales could grow to more than 40
percent of the division's sales over the next year, up from the mid30 percent range now.
While President Barack Obama's decision to step up air strikes
against Islamic State extremists in Syria and Iraq will probably not
have a material effect on most U. S. contractors, it underpins the
overall sector, industry executives said. William Loomis, managing
director of investment bank Stifel Nicolaus, said U. S. actions to
combat Islamic State could boost companies like ManTech
International, Leidos and Engility, which provide war-related sup-

and, presumably, the law banning CIA operations in the United

States. Operations included bombing of hotels and industrial
installations, sinking of fishing boats, poisoning of crops and livestock, contamination of sugar exports, etc. Some of these operations were not specifically authorized by the CIA but carried out by
the terrorist forces it funded and supported, a distinction without a
difference in the case of official enemies.
The Mongoose terrorist operations were run by General
Edward Lansdale, who had ample experience in US-run terrorist
operations in the Philippines and Vietnam. His timetable for
Operation Mongoose called for open revolt and overthrow of the
Communist regime in October 1962, which, for final success will
require decisive U.S. military intervention after terrorism and subversion had laid the basis.
October 1962 is, of course, a very significant moment in modern history. It was in that month that Nikita Khrushchev sent missiles to Cuba, setting off the missile crisis that came ominously
close to terminal nuclear war. Scholarship now recognizes that
Khrushchev was in part motivated by the huge US preponderance
in force after Kennedy had responded to his calls for reduction in
offensive weapons by radically increasing the US advantage, and
in part by concern over a possible US invasion of Cuba. Years later,
Kennedys Defense Secretary Robert McNamara recognized that
Cuba and Russia were justified in fearing an attack. If I were in
Cuban or Soviet shoes, I would have thought so, too, McNamara
observed at a major international conference on the missile crisis
on the 40th anniversary.
The highly regarded policy analyst Raymond Garthoff, who had
many years of direct experience in US intelligence, reports that in
the weeks before the October crisis erupted, a Cuban terrorist
group operating from Florida with US government authorization
carried out a daring speedboat strafing attack on a Cuban seaside
hotel near Havana where Soviet military technicians were known to
congregate, killing a score of Russians and Cubans. And shortly
after, he continues, the terrorist forces attacked British and Cuban
cargo ships and again raided Cuba, among other actions that were
stepped up in early October. At a tense moment of the still-unresolved missile crisis, on November 8, a terrorist team dispatched
from the United States blew up a Cuban industrial facility after the
Mongoose operations had been officially suspended. Fidel Castro
alleged that 400 workers had been killed in this operation, guided
by photographs taken by spying planes. Attempts to assassinate
Castro and other terrorist attacks continued immediately after the
crisis terminated, and were escalated again in later years.
There has been some notice of one rather minor part of the terror war, the many attempts to assassinate Castro, generally dismissed as childish CIA shenanigans. Apart from that, none of what
happened has elicited much interest or commentary. The first serious English-language inquiry into the impact on Cubans was published in 2010 by Canadian researcher Keith Bolender, in his Voices
From The Other Side: An Oral History Of Terrorism Against Cuba, a
very valuable study largely ignored.
The three examples highlighted in the New York Times report
of US terrorism are only the tip of the iceberg. Nevertheless, it is
useful to have this prominent acknowledgment of Washingtons
dedication to murderous and destructive terror operations and of
the insignificance of all of this to the political class, which accepts
it as normal and proper that the US should be a terrorist superpower, immune to law and civilized norms.
Oddly, the world may not agree. An international poll released
a year ago by the Worldwide Independent Network/Gallup
International Association (WIN/GIA) found that the United States is
ranked far in the lead as the biggest threat to world peace today,
far ahead of second-place Pakistan (doubtless inflated by the
Indian vote), with no one else even close. Fortunately, Americans
were spared this insignificant information. (telesurtv.net)
Noam Chomsky is professor of the MIT Institute of Linguistics (Emeritus).

port services for vehicles and data analysis. AeroVironment, which

builds handheld drones; ammunition maker Alliant Techsystems
and Exelis , which does support work in the Middle East, could
also benefit, Loomis said in a research note.
Russia's intervention in Ukraine has prompted NATO members
to pledge to raise defense spending to about 2 percent of gross
domestic product within a decade - another factor that could
undergird demand, U. S. government and industry executives said.
Rear Admiral James Shannon, deputy assistant secretary of
the Navy, told Reuters there has been a sharp increase in inquiries
from European allies since January. "There's a lot of information
gathering," he said, noting that being able to operate similar equipment offered allies an advantage for any joint military actions.
"There's a lot of interest in partnering with the United States."
The costliest U. S. weapons program is Lockheed's F-35 Joint
Strike Fighter, jointly developed by the United States and eight
allies: Britain, Australia, Canada, Turkey, Italy, Norway, Denmark
and the Netherlands. Ten countries have already decided to buy the
jets, and South Korea is expected to finalize an order for 40 jets this
year. Others, including Finland, Poland and Belgium, have requested information, said Rear Admiral Randy Mahr, deputy director of
the F-35 program. Mahr said he expected additional demand to
emerge in coming years. Senator John McCain told a Washington
think tank last month that India was also interested in the F-35, but
Mahr said no formal briefing had been provided yet to that country.
The rapid expansion of Islamic State was raising the importance of border protection for some Middle Eastern countries, he
said. Ground vehicle sales, which slumped after the end of the war
in Iraq, could also nose up given the resurgence of a more aggressive Russia, defense consultant Loren Thompson said. General
Dynamics just signed a 3.5 billion-pound deal with Britain's army
for Scout specialist tanks, and other orders could follow,
Thompson told the Reuters summit.(dailymail.co.uk)

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What makes Israel so hell-bent on lumping Hamas with ISIS?

KHALID AMAYREH
Occupied Palestine: Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is
notorious for making theatrical attempts to find "distractions" or "red
herrings" in order to divert attention from his unceasing efforts to
decapitate all chances for the establishment of a viable Palestinian
state in the West Bank.
Netanyahu has effectively tripled the building of Jewish
colonies in the West Bank. He has also allowed millenarian Jewish
settlers to carry out almost daily provocations against Islam's third
holiest sanctuary, namely Jerusalem's al-Aqsa Mosque. This could
trigger a worldwide conflagration that would put an end to peace
efforts in the region.
Netanyahu hopes to desensitize any semblance of Western,
especially American, opposition to Israel's lebensraum policy in the
West Bank and the Jewish states' unrelenting efforts to kill any
remaining prospects for the establishment of a Palestinian state.
However, Netanyahu's diversionary tactics seem to have been
blunted by two main recent developments: The Swedish decision to
recognize a future Palestinian state and the British Parliament vote
to do the same.
None the less, the news from London and Stockholm is not
expected to make Netanyahu change his mind or rethink his policy.
After all Netanyahu is more of a dishonest demagogue and
pathological liar than a straight, honest statesman who would value
truth and rectitude.
Netanyahu would insist and swear that Israel wants peace and
aspires for peace. He would go as far as making all sorts of solemn
testimonies and eloquent statements underlining Israel's desire for
peace. But the truth of the matter is that all of his declarations are
sanctimonious and mendacious.
In the final analysis, however, a country that truly desires peace
doesn't build hundreds of settlements on its neighbor's territories. A
country that truly desires peace doesn't transfer hundreds of
thousands to live on a land that doesn't belong to them.
Netanyahu and the other shipyard dogs of Israeli hasbara
would never cease invoking old lies that the settlers are simply

returning to their fathers' land.

But would anyone under the sun give up his home and land if
a stranger showed up, insisting that the property belonged to him
and claiming that his ancestors owned or occupied the area five
thousand years ago? Needless to say, this analogy more or less
epitomizes the entire Palestinian question.
Red herring policy
Israel's "red-herring policy" is not new. During Egypt's Gamal Abdul
Nasser's rule, Israel argued that if only Nasser would stop rotating
in the Soviet orbit, peace would be around the corner.
In the 1970s and the 1980s, Israel argued that if only the PLO
and its leader Yasser Arafat would recognize Israel and revoke the
PLO charter that called for Israel's destruction, peace would be
within reach very soon.
In fact, Netanyahu himself repeatedly blamed the lack of
progress in talks with the PA on Palestinian disunity, namely the rift
between Fatah and Hamas. In numerous TV interviews, he argued
that the "the Palestinians are not speaking in one voice. Let them
get united first."
However, when Hamas and the PA finally agreed to reconcile,
Netanyahu got quite hysterical and convulsive. He warned that the
PA would have to either make peace with Hamas or Israel, claiming
that Palestinian national unity was the ultimate antithesis to peace.
Now, Netanyahu is playing the same Hasbara game once
again. And the reasons for this game of make believe remain
unchanged, namely morbid Israeli efforts to distract attention from
Israeli recalcitrance, intransigence, and rejectionism.
The ISIS Mantr
Having failed to destroy Hamas militarily and liquidate the
Palestinian people's enduring struggle for freedom and
independence from Israel's Nazi-like occupation, Netanyahu is now
trying to lump Hamas with ISIS.
His ultimate goal is to make the international community
demonize Hamas and therefore distract the world's attention from
Israel's nefarious occupation.

Israel to vote on partitioning Al-Aqsa

Mosque between Muslims and Jews

An Arab Knesset member has revealed that there will be a vote in the next month on a law
drafted by an Israeli committee regarding the partition of Al-Aqsa Mosque between Muslims
and Jews. Arab MK Masoud Ghanayim was quoted on 20 October by Palestinian newspaper
Filisteen as saying that "the draft law, which has been prepared by the interior parliamentary
committee in the Knesset, stipulates that Jews can perform prayers in Al-Aqsa
Mosque...This is based on a proposal that gives Muslims and Jews equal rights in their
access and use of the holy site. It also specifies certain locations where Jews can perform
their prayers." According to Ghanayim, the same draft law also bans organising civil protests
and demonstrations in Al-Aqsa compound, and sets out punishment for any violations.
Ghanayim said that putting such a law for any vote is a "flagrant aggression on the religious rights of Muslims around the world." He also called it part of the Judaisation plan for
the city of Jerusalem. Commenting on the basis of this law, Ghanayim said it "is solely based
on a legitimacy built on historical and religious myths bolstered with the power of the oppressive occupation." He stressed that Al-Aqsa Mosque is part of the Islamic and Arabic world
and cannot be partitioned at any time or place. He reiterated: "It is part of Arab and
Palestinian lands, which is occupied by the Zionists and the [illegal] occupation does not
have the right to impose its laws."
It is important to note that both Rabbinical and Israeli law currently bans Jews from
prayer at Al-Aqsa Mosque because of the sanctity of the site for the Jewish religion. Most
Jews who lobby to pray there are illegal settlers with a right wing agenda. The Old City in
Jerusalem where Al-Aqsa is located is internationally recognised as occupied land. The
Israeli occupation authorities frequently prevent Muslims from praying there. Ghanayim
stressed that the Israeli government is behind all the attempts by the extremist right wing settlers to extend Israeli sovereignty over Al-Aqsa Mosque.

But Hamas, a national Islamic liberation movement that

appeared on the Middle East's political horizon after winning
transparent democratic elections in 2006, is simply something
different.
Hamas's strategic goal is liberty, not domination, or hegemony
or anything of this nature.
Hamas's ultimate goal is to enable the thoroughly tormented
Palestinians to live a normal life. like the rest of the peoples of the
world, free from Nazi-like Jewish Zionist roadblocks and
checkpoints, enable them to travel freely, pray freely in their
mosques, especially in Jerusalem's Aqsa Mosque, to harvest their
olive fields freely and be able to move and commute freely from one
locality to the other. Is this too much?
Hamas wants the Palestinian people to live in dignity and be
able to do the sort of things that other peoples around the world
take for granted.
Hamas would like to see the Palestinian people free from the
specter of fear and terror, including arbitrary arrest at the hands of
Gestapo-like Israeli soldiers who routinely raid Palestinian homes in
the quite hours before dawn.
In brief, Hamas is not evil. That is why at least 50% of the
Palestinian people back Hamas.
In fact, Israel doesn't hate Hamas because Israel believes
Hamas is evil. As far as evilness is concerned, even Satan himself
learns from Israel.
Israel hates Hamas for an entirely different reason, namely the
conviction that Hamas is the main hurdle that prevents or impedes
the realization of Israel's ultimate goal: the liquidation of the
Palestinian cause.
It is not true that Hamas stands in the road to peace between
Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA). Israel has been negotiating
with the PA (not in good faith) for over 20 years, but to no avail.
The failure of peace talks between Israel and the PA cannot be
attributed to Hamas. Those claiming it was are simply not telling the
truth.
The real cause is Israel's adamant insistence on retaining the
spoils of the 1967 war.

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Turkey is on Knifes Edge on ISIS

KARAMATULLAH K. GHORI
k_k_ghori@yahoo.com
Turkey has been very lucky, beginning with the
dawn of the 21st century, to have a leadership
wisely focused on turning its fortunes around.
Turkey's transition-from a dogmatist and
oligarchic rule in which Kemalist ideologues and
military Bonapartes determined its fortunes
according to their whims and the dictates of
western interests-to a progressive state led by
moderate Islamic democrats reached its completion a few weeks
ago with the election of Tayyip Erdogan as its President. Erdogan
has rightly been hailed as the New Ataturk with a broad mandate
from the people of Turkey.
However, Erdogan's elevation to the pinnacle of power in
Turkey has also brought in tow with it a very serious, if not grave,
challenge to his authority-and to Turkey's role as a 'bridging'
Muslim state between the west and a large swathe of the Islamic
world peppered with mostly Arab states of the Gulf and the Middle
East. The challenge is posed by the fanatical and murderous force
of Islamic State in Iraq & Syria (ISIS) virtually knocking at its
door with its menacing message of brutality and unrelenting
savagery.
As these lines are being written, ISIS vandals are threatening
to overrun the Syrian city of Kobane that sits astride the SyrianTurkish border. Kobane has been under assault of ISIS forces for
more than two weeks. The ISIS marauders have been chipping
away at the city's defences, thus not only threatening to take it as
another trophy in their expanding repertoire of prizes but also
sending tens of thousands of its harried residents fleeing for their
lives into Turkey.
What has been perplexing the outside world is Turkey's lack of
action, or inaction, to thwart the ISIS' relentless advance and
incursions into this border city, which also happens to have a
major strategic significance for both Turkey and ISIS. If the latter
captures the city, it'd be able to control, effectively, an area of at
least 400 Kms along the Syrian-Turkish border-a development
with very serious political and military implications for Turkey.
What's amazing is that Turkish forces, with heavy armour and
tanks, have been sitting, in formation, just across the border from
Kobane ever since the ISIS marched onto its environs. But Turkish
guns and armour have been silent-dead silent to some-and have
made absolutely no effort to check the advance of blood-thirsty
ISIS forces against it. Earlier, Turkey had allowed the Syrian
refugees fleeing the ISIS onslaught in panic. Lately, however,
Turkish guards are letting no more male refugees through to seek
refuge on the Turkish soil.
Why is it so-this Turkish inaction and reluctance to take on
ISIS blasting ever harder into Kobane---has a simple explanation:
Kobane's population is overwhelmingly Kurdish and Turkey
suspects-at least that's what most observers believe-that many of
those knocking at its door happen to belong to the main Turkish
Kurdish faction, PKK, which has been at odds with Turkey for
nearly three decades.
Erdogan has inherited a hot potato in the ongoing Kurdish
movement for more rights and freedoms within the Turkish polity
than presently enjoyed by them. With at least 15 to 20 percent of
the Turkish population mix the Kurds can't be dismissed as just
another minority, or their persistent demand for social justice
brushed off hand.
Erstwhile military rulers and autocrats in cahoots with them
had limited vision on how to deal with what they derisively decried
as unreasonable demands by the 'mountain Turks', the sobriquet
coined during the Kemalist era to classify the Kurds as an
aberrant, though second class faction of the Turkish millat. But
Kurds are a different people from the mainstream Turks and they
want this reality to be recognised and accommodated within the
Turkish polity.
The insensitive rulers' crude and non-dexterous handling of

India offers $4 million

for Gaza reconstruction
New Delhi: India has committed $4 million for
Gaza reconstruction in response to the recovery
plan presented by Palestinian Authority at Cairo
International Conference as the international
community pledged a total of $5.4 billion for the
cause. Observing that the early realization of the
objectives of the Cairo Conference will be an
important element in the consolidation of the
current ceasefire understanding between
Palestine and Israel, India welcomed the mediating role played by Egypt in the current ceasefire
in Gaza.
Represented by Sandeep Kumar, joint secretary (west Asia and north Africa) in ministry of
external affairs, India participated in the
Conference on the Reconstruction of Gaza on 12
October and pledged $4 million, in response to
the National Early Recovery and Reconstruction
Plan for Gaza, presented by the Palestinian
Authority, an official release said here.
Maintaining that an early and sustainable resolution of the root cause of the conflict was an
imperative, Kumar said India firmly believed that

Erdogan has inherited a hot potato in the

ongoing Kurdish movement for more rights and
freedoms within the Turkish polity than
presently enjoyed by them. With at least 15 to
20 percent of the Turkish population mix the
Kurds can't be dismissed as just another
minority, or their persistent demand for social
justice brushed off hand.
the Kurdish problem spawned a costly Kurdish insurgency in mid1980s which raged on for nearly a decade. It drained the Turkish
economy of tens of billions of dollars, besides taking a heavy toll
in life of the Kurds, as also of the Turkish soldiers. The insurgency
ran out of steam only with the capture of the insurgency's leader,
Abdullah Oclan-leader of the main resistance group, PKK-in 1999.
Oclan has since been in jail serving a life-sentence.
Erdogan, since consolidating Turkey's renovation as a
progressive country, has also given a swift makeover to the state's
handling of the Kurdish problem. Old restrictions on the use of
their language have been relaxed and Erdogan has opened a
dialogue with PKK leadership to seek a viable end to a longfestering crisis.
The peace parleys were still far from over when neighbouring
Syria got suddenly enmeshed in a national insurgency of its own
aimed at dismantling the autocratic Baathist regime of Bashar al
Assad. The trigger for the 2011 insurgency in Syria was none
other than the Arab Spring then seemingly travelling in a wave
from Tunisia, its place of birth. However, the Syrian crisis spelled
trouble for Turkey, too, and instantly engaged Erdogan and his
government.
Looking back, with the benefit of hind-sight, it may not be all
that wrong to conclude that Erdogan grossly miscalculated his
response to the Syrian upsurge and, because of that, overplayed
his hand.
Yes, humanitarian aspect of the situation induced by the
insurgency made all the sense in the world for Turkey to open its
border with Syria and allow the refuge of fleeing civilians. That's
exactly what Pakistan had done, back in 1979, when Afghanistan
was invaded by the Russians and a flood of refugees entered
Pakistan for shelter and succour. But the flood also brought a lot
of undesirable debris in tow, including a culture of drugs and
weapons. Pakistan is still desperately trying to cope with the
vestiges of the Afghan jihad against the Russians. Its legacy of
unbridled terrorism and religious militancy hasn't abated exacting
a heavy toll from the country, its political system and-more than
anybody else-its people. Turkey may face similar fallout from its
humanitarian service to the cause of the Syrian insurgents.
Turkey not only became a haven for refugees from the Syrian
conflagration but also a transit station for radical armed factions
joining the fray in Syria, not because they shared empathy for
those rising against the brutal Assad regime but because they saw
in the turmoil an opportunity to engrave their own agenda on
Syria.
Turkey was applauded for its considerable help in both
shoring up the insurgency against Bashar al Assad and opening
its doors to upkeep refugees of the crisis. US, NATO, Saudi Arabia
and Qatar (the last two bankrolling the Islamic militants who were
soon to mutate into the blood-thirsty ISIS) had good reason
clapping for Turkey's 'valiant effort' because Turkey, whether
knowing it or not, was giving a big helping hand to the
advancement of their one-item agenda: the overthrow of the
Assad regime.
It's hard to comprehend that Erdogan-by now a veteran of
good governance in Turkey-didn't fully grasp the bad that would
come with the good he was doing for the Syrian people. After all,
the man has been at the helm of Turkey for well over a decade and
has earned kudos from the world for piloting Turkey into the
league of world's most dynamically growing countries.
Erdogan was once a redoubtable supporter of Bashar al
Assad. Why did he change course may be a mystery to some but

a comprehensive dialogue remained the best

guarantee of a durable peace for effectively
addressing the issues confronting the region and
its people. During the conference, which was
co-hosted by Egypt and Norway and was attended by delegations from more than 75 countries
and international organizations, the Palestinian
Authority put together a Reconstruction Plan for
Gaza estimated at $4 billion, and countries
pledged a total of $5.4 billion ($1.4 billion above
the PA's Plan). The Indian pledge is part of the
long sustained India- Palestine partnership as
the country has been providing direct budgetary,
economic and developmental assistance to the
Palestinian people.
India has committed to assist Palestine in
the fields of capacity development, education
and information technology, apart from implementing a series of development projects under
the India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA) Fund in
Palestine.
"One of the important future IBSA projects
will be the reconstruction of the Atta Habib medical centre in Shujiyaa, Gaza at a cost of $1 million. Additionally, India has been contributing $1
million annually to the United Nations Relief
Works Agency (UNRWA) for supply of food and

made a lot of sense to Erdogan, especially for his hardly-disguised

ambition to become a regional leader of the Levant. A democratic
regime in Syria, Erdogan may have reasoned, could be more
amenable to reconcile itself to Turkey's regional leadership role.
So Erdogan took the lead in hosting the motley opposition Syrian
factions under Turkey's wings as The Opposition to Assad.
However, once it became apparent to Turkey and Erdogan that
while the Turkey-based hybrid Syrian opposition was quickly
running out of steam the radical ISIS was forging ahead as the
main nemesis of Assad. That development took the air out of
Erdogan's own balloon. His calculations going haywire, Erdogan
was put on the defensive.
It was in that mood that Turkey initially disallowed US and its
'allies' to use Turkey as a staging post against ISIS. Turkey didn't
want to get its foot into the latest Western plan to impose another
war on Muslims, under whatever garb or whatever excuse.
But Turkish resistance to yet another military incursion into
the world of Islam had a short shelf-life. Erdogan once again
decided to change tack and piloted the move in the Turkish
parliament for a vote in favour of Turkey joining the Western war
effort against ISIS-on its own terms; a principal Turkish demand
being 'regime change' in Syria.
Erdogan may have his wish come true in the long run but in
the immediate time frame the US-led military effort is focused
against ISIS, and that's where Erdogan is caught on a curve of
obvious indecision.
One reason why Turkey is dragging its feet on military action
against ISIS could be its calculation that battered heavily by ISIS
the Kurds will have little strength left to forge a grand Kurdish
alliance-of Kurds from Syria, Iraq and Turkey-that may be the
harbinger of a fully-fledged Kurdish state that may poach areas of
Kurdish inhabitation from all three countries. That's a fear which
has been with the Turks for some time and they would be loath to
any development adding to it and testing their resolve to not let
any Kurdish dream of independence coming to reality at Turkey's
expense.
But while this argument may hold powerful sway over Turkish
policy of hedging and fumbling, Erdogan ought to understand that
if Kobane falls to ISIS, despite aerial bombing from the Western
coalition against ISIS targets in the vicinity of Kobane, the Kurdish
backlash in anger inside Turkey could pose a very nasty and
unsavoury challenge to Turkey's internal security and peace.
Another theory being bandied about Erdogan preferring to sit
on the fence is the said agreement between him and ISIS that
secured the release, unharmed, of 49 Turkish hostages-staff
members and their families-who were captured by ISIS when it
overran Mosul in June. Intensive bargaining was believed to have
preceded the release of these hostages. Commentators believe
that no military action against ISIS was the Turkish government's
undertaking that secured the lives of its hostages.
However, deal or no deal Turkey is now on the horns of a real
dilemma. Kobane's fall to ISIS would open a can of worms for
Erdogan. Kurdish anger and frustration would certainly boil over
and trigger an internal revolt. At the same time, Turkey would find
itself sharing a border with the murderous ISIS regime. That would
be a neighbourhood that Turkey could have little taste for.
How Turkey overcomes this nasty development with so many
unwelcome angularities poses the greatest challenge yet to
Erdogan's leadership. No doubt it would take all of his best
statesmanship to square this circle and come out of this test of
fire unscathed. That's still easier said than done. At stake is
Turkey's emerging status of a balanced, moderate and progressive
state well poised,, both in terms of its geography as well as its
outreach to the west and the Islamic world, to help ensure that the
decades-old dream of the American neo cons for a civilizational
clash with Islam and Muslims doesn't become a reality. Looking at
the ground reality engineered by the meteoric rise of ISIS, many
will rightly be induced to believe that the vandals of ISIS are,
indeed, lending a big hand to their western sponsors and their
regional proxies to play up to the neo con script.

medicines in Gaza," the release said.

Pak Hindus demand

more rights, reserved
seats and dual voting
Islamabad: Dr. Ramesh Kumar Vankwani, lawmaker from the ruling PMLN party, has introduced a Bill in the National Assembly on 21
October for the amendment of Article 51 of the
Constitution. Dr. Ramesh Kumar, who is also
Patron-in-Chief of Pakistan Hindu Council, while
introducing the bill, said that non-Muslims must
have right for dual vote, one for the general seat
and other for the reserved seat.
"Besides changing the election criteria of
reserved seats for non-Muslims, it is also proposed to give the right to the non-Muslims to
cast double vote. This means dual franchise and
enabling non-Muslims to cast one vote to a general seat candidate and the other to a member of
their own community. This way they would
remain integrated with the mainstream politics
and true representatives of their communities
would surface."

While mentioning examples of Jordan,

Lebanon, India and New Zealand, he emphasized
that religious and ethnic minorities must be
elected through direct vote, not selected on the
bases of personal liking and disliking of political
parties' leadership. "In 2002, when the general
seats were increased from 207 to 272, the
reserved seats for non-Muslims remained the
same, the PMLN lawmaker said adding that
reserved seats must be increased according to
the proportion of population. He also asked to
discourage the unjust current practice by the
victories parties to pick their blue-eyed representatives from the minorities. Dr. Ramesh
Kumar asked to make minorities' leaders
answerable to their respective community and
urged them take keen interest in the welfare and
development of their communities.
Dr. Ramesh Kumar, also proposed to unanimously pass a resolution to acknowledge the
great contributions of the well-known globallyrecognized philanthropist Abdul Sattar Edhi, condemn the recent robbery incident at the Edhi
Centre, and take strict action against the culprits.
He also demanded for declaring "Deewali" a
public holiday in Pakistan to promote interfaith


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The Best in the eyes of the Prophet

The Prophet (peace be upon him) said:
The best of the Muslims is the one from whose
hand and tongue the Muslims are safe.
(Muslim)
The best of people are those who have the most
excellent character. (Tabarani)
The best of marriages are the easiest ones.
(Abu Dawood)
The best prayers for women are those performed in the most secluded parts of their houses. (Ibn Khuzaymah)

The best of dinars are the ones spent by a man

upon his dependents, the dinar spent by a man
upon his horse in the path of Allah and the dinar
spent by a man upon his companions in the path
of Allah, the Mighty, the Magnificent. (Muslim)
The best word of remembrance is La ilaha illallah (There is no god but Allah) and the best supplication is Alhamdulillah (All praise to Allah).
(Tirmidhi)

The best of you are those who feed others and

return greetings. (Abu Yala)

The best of all martyrs are those who fight in the

front line; they do not turn their faces away until
they are killed. They will be rolling around in the
highest rooms of Paradise, their Lord smiles at
them - when your Lord smiles at a servant, there
is no accounting for him.(Ahmad)

The most beloved of deeds according to Allah

are the continuous ones, even if they are
little.(Agreed upon)

The best of all charity is that which is given to

the relative who harbours enmity against you.
(Ahmad)

The most beloved words according to Allah the

Most High are four: Subhanallah (How gracious
is Allah), Alhamdulillah (All praise to Allah), La
ilaha illallah (There is no god but Allah) and
Allahu Akbar (Allah is greatest). There is no problem with which one you start with. (Muslim)

The best prayer is that with the longest standing. (Muslim)

The best of provision is the one which suffices.

(Ahmad in Zuhd)
The best of dowries are the easiest. (Hakim)
The most beloved word to me is that which is
most truthful. (Bukhari)

Islam does not allow

enslavement of
civilian population
Indian scholar debunks ISIS claims about
slavery in Islam
Zafarul-Islam Khan, senior Indian Muslim scholar,
who is an alumnus of Al-Azhar and Cairo universities and holds a PhD in Islamic Studies from the
University of Manchester, said it is a lie to claim that
Islam allows enslavement of ordinary men and
women of conquered lands.
The Indian scholar, who is the head of the
Delhi-based Institute of Islamic & Arab Studies
and a core member of the International Union of
Muslim Scholars, said this lie has been concocted by ISIS propagandists whose knowledge of
Islam is highly doubtful. Dr Khan is the current
president of the Indian Muslims apex body, the
All India Muslim Majlis-e Mushawarat.
Dr Khan said, the Holy Quran does not even
once use the words Sab-i or Riqq (Arabic for

The best of all worship is supplication (dua).

(Hakim)
The best deed is the prayer in its right time and
Jihad in the path of Allah. (Bayhaqi)
The Messenger of Allah was asked: Which of
the believers are the most intelligent? He replied,
Those who remember death the most, and are
best prepared for what comes after it. Those are
the intelligent ones. (Tabraani and Ibn Majah)
(islaaminfo.com)
slavery). Instead, it uses derivatives of the word
asr which means taking someone captive. The
Quran never says that the captives could be
kept for ever as slaves (33:26, 76:8, 8:67, 8:70
and 2:85). In one of these verses, it offers solace to the captive by saying that God willing his
condition will change for the better (8:70). In
another verse, the Quran says that believers are
those who though themselves hungry feed captives (76:8).
Various derivatives of the other word for
slave (abd) have been used 275 times in the
Quran but never in the context of ordering
Muslims to enslave others. It is almost always
used in the context of prayers or emphasizing
that the faithfuls are slaves or servants of God.
It is correct that the Islamic Shariah (law)
allows slavery but the only way someone may
lose his/her natural freedom is if he is captured
while physically and actually fighting in a battle
against a Muslim army - in other words, he is a
prisoner of war (PoW). There is no other way to
deprive someone of his natural state of freedom.
There is no instance where the Prophet (pbuh)
or his immediate successors ever enslaved ordi-

According to Al-Bukhari and Muslim, the two

most important collections of the sayings and
deeds of the Messenger of Allah, Prophet
Muhammad (pbuh) is reported to have told a
young man, who came to him for the cause of
Jihad, Go back to your parents and serve them
and consider their service as your Jihad. This
is in conformity with the Qur'anic injunction:
And We have enjoined on man (to be dutiful
and good) to his parents. His mother bore him
in weakness and hardship upon weakness and
hardship, and his weaning is in two years - give
thanks to Me and to your parents. (The Quran,
31:14). It appears that among human deeds,
treating parents with respect and kindness is
next only to Divine worship as the Holy Quran
says: And your Lord has decreed that you worship none but Him, and that you be dutiful to
both your parents (17:23).
Another example of true Jihad in Islam is the
sacrifice of Hazrat Imam Husain, grandson of the
Prophet, who, alongwith his followers, gave his life
fighting against oppression by a tyrant ruler. These
two forms of activities represent true Jihad which
is an Arabic word meaning struggle or striving
for a just cause. Violent action in the name of Jihad
against a person or a group has no sanction in
Islam. Even killing one innocent person is regarded as equivalent to killing all of Mankind. (5:32)
because there be no compulsion (coercion) in
religion (2:256). As a matter of fact, providing
justice to a victim of coercion or compulsion (in

the name of religion) is also a Jihad.

The word Love has great significance in
Islam but it has nothing to do with lust, fun or
other worldly unethical practices or gains. The
real love in Islam is Love for Allah and his creations. Allah says: Worship Allah and join none
with Him (in worship); and do good to parents,
kinsfolk, orphans, the poor, the neighbour who
is near of kin, the neighbour who is a stranger,
the companion by your side, the wayfarer (you
meet), and those whom your right hands possess. (4:36). Can there be a better meaning
(definition) of Love than this Quranic verse.?
In view of the above observations, all forms
of true love are Jihad and all true Jihads are love
for human beings. Lives of great Sufis in Islamic
history, in India and elsewhere, are testimony to
this jihadi love towards all in general and the
downtrodden and oppressed in particular.
Unfortunately, the concept of jihad has been
hijacked by bigots over the ages in a bid to justify various forms of violence. Similarly, the concept of love has been hijacked by self-seekers
for unethical motives.
In the present scenario of hatred, conflicts,
ignorance, poverty and disease, only Jihad
against these evils is the best struggle.
Therefore, people should love Jihad for the
cause of humanity and human development.
Poet Iqbal has rightly stated:
Darde dil ke waaste paida kiya insaan ko
Warna taat ke liye kam na the kar o bayaan
(God) has created human beings to feel the pain
of others (serve humanity)
Otherwise, angels were aplenty for Gods worship).
DR. IQTEDAR FAROOQI, Lucknow

nary people who were not actually fighting a

Muslim army. The Prophet used to give his
armies clear instructions not to touch children,
elderly men and women and people who are not
involved in fighting.
While enslaving a person has been made
extremely difficult in Islam, freeing a slave has been
made extremely easy and is an act of piety. Once a
non-Muslim combatant is taken captive, there are
many ways in which he could secure his freedom.
During the time of the Prophet (pbuh) one finds that
such persons (always males) could be ransomed
by their families or tribes or they themselves could
secure their own freedom by teaching Muslims
how to write or some other craft or by paying their
masters an agreed amount of money. Islam has
expressly forbidden taking free men as slaves.
While Islam makes it extremely difficult for
someone to be enslaved, the door is wide open
for faithfuls to free slaves. For example, a slave
is to be freed as penance (kaffara) for some serious sins. Also, freeing slaves has been termed
in Islam as one of the best deeds that please
God.
We should keep in mind here that Islam

allowed only a limited form of slavery to solve

the issue of prisoners of wars. This took place
during those pre-Medieval times when there was
no international law and no UN or international
treaties. In fact, even in those times, Islam followed reciprocity in such matters of international relations -- i.e., if a non-Muslim nation followed a certain rule or norm in treatment of the
residents of a Muslim country, its residents too
were treated in the same way.
Today, in the presence of universallyaccepted international laws and treaties, such
laws will take precedence in international issues
and in relations with foreign countries. And this
is exactly what the 58 members-countries of
OIC are doing today.
As such, ISIS by capturing ordinary residents of the territories it has overrun in Iraq and
Syria is not only disobeying Islam, it is also violating the Islamic rule of reciprocity and respect
of international laws. By flouting these clear
norms, ISIS or any such group of thugs and selfproclaimed fighters will never be accepted in the
comity of nations and will live their limited and
short lives as pariahs and outcasts.


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Maulvi Mohammad Sulaiman: Purneas Unsung Hero

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Book: Maulvi Mohammad
Sulaiman
Ki
Adabi
Khidmat
Author: Dr. Mohammad
Kalimullah, Sir Syed
Academy, Sajjad Colony,
Purnea (Bihar) - 854301
Pages: 175 h/c
Price: 200
Literature sums up contributions of literati, reformers, educationists and
poets to ensure that future
generations are made
aware of the noteworthy
contributions of their forefathers. Regional language
books offer ample literature on litterateurs from
even remote places of
India who failed to secure national fame. Limited popularity due to
biased attitude towards regional works seems logical. It is lamentable indeed that several intellectuals with their irrefutable contributions in Urdu and Persian are literally unknown.
Author of Maulvi Mohammad Sulaiman Ki Adabi Khidmat,
Dr. Mohammad Kalimullah deserves applaud for his efforts to
bring out aspects of a contrasting figure, a lawyer, Islamic scholar and a poet. It is an irony that Urdu and Persian researchers
failed to take notice of such works which otherwise deserve
national recognition.
Born in Palasmani village of undivided Purnea district of Bihar
on 7 July, 1901, Maulvi Mohammad Sulaiman left behind a rich
legacy when he died on 18 September, 1975. This biography
brings out the literary giants prophetic poetry in Urdu and Persian.
It is difficult to fathom what stopped critics and custodians of literature to take notice of this litterateur whose poetry plus prose is
so captivating? As a result of this neglect an outstanding poet and
essayist of the past era went largely unrecognised.
Maulvi Mohammad Sulaiman was a poet, journalist, lawyer
and Islamic scholar. It is outstanding that he managed to emerge
from darkness to light out of Plasmani village of rural Purnea
(now part of Kishanganj) which still has limited resources for education due to lack of infrastructure. His command over poetry,
prose and other forms of Urdu and Persian literature made him a
litterateur by birth and a lawyer by choice. He transmitted his
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Thereafter, they approached court and only
after the court order an FIR was filed. A CID
enquiry found the police guilty and the police
officers were charge-sheeted.
Entire Bhagalpur was engulfed by communal
riots by 24 October in which hundreds died, and
innumerable properties were burnt but police did
not do anything to stop the riots. Rather many of
them were themselves involved in the riots. SP
and DM were transferred by the chief minister. In
place of SP Dwivedi, Ajit Dutt was ordered to join
Bhagalpur as DIG with the additional charge of
SP. The transfer of Dwivedi incited the Police
force of Bhagalpur and they started shouting
Ajit Dutt, go back.
On the same day, the then prime minister
Rajiv Gandhi visited Bhagalpur but he was
detained at the airport by the rioters and police
force demanding cancellation of Dwivedis
transfer. The mob did not allow the prime
minister to visit the riot-affected areas. The
prime minister returned to Delhi after visiting the
injured in a hospital.
After this incident, the morale of the rioters
as well as the rebellious policemen rose to a
high pitch and helped intensify the riots after 26
October. Riots spread to more areas. Nathnagar,
Madninagar Sahabganj, Miantoli (Girjaghar),
Jogsar, Naya Bazaar, Khanjarpur, Chanderi
Logai. Nurpur, Bhatodia under Nathnagar
kotwali, Sabbor, Jagdishpur police stations
witnessed most deadly riots in which hundreds
of Muslims were killed, their homes and looms
looted and burnt with the help of the police and
local administration. After this, more outlying
areas like Rajjon, Amarpur, Banka, Sahabganj
and Godda thanas were affected.
Riots continued for over a month. Even after
one month, small incidents continued for
another six months. Muslims who alighted from
trains at odd hours could not reach their homes.
Rickshawallas refused to carry Muslim
passengers. Muslim passengers started
avoiding Hindu rickshawpullers while Hindu
passengers avoided boarding Muslim
rickshaws. The entire business establishment
including medical services were vitiated for
months together.
The Bhagalpur pogrom against the Muslim
community paved the way for a series of political

poetic legacy to his children Dr. Mohammad Sabih Salim,

Mohammad Asad Janan, Mohammad Hazim Hassan, Mohammad
Rizwan Azad and daughters Salish Salma Khatoon and Quratulain
Nasreen. His son Mohammad Hazim Hassan is an eminent poet in
Bihar today.
This book is an effort to sketch Maulvi Mohammad
Sulaimans life story. More such initiatives should be undertaken
to critically analyse his contributions.
We learn about his early life hardships like pain to lose parents
in childhood besides facing challenges while studying law. The
book sketches his personality through references from journals or
books of that era including his own books Gulban-e Fasahat (published from Banaras in 1915; Husna Siyah Faam (published from
Lahore in 1921, Hayat-e- Fareed (published from Calcutta in
1933); Iqbal Aur Watan Ki Mohabbat (published from Kishanganj
in 1938), Maqalat-e-Newman (published from Kishanganj in
1941) and the poetic collection, Nawa-e-Nay (published in 1952
from Kishanganj with the assistance from his disciple and a legend in Kishanganj, journalist and author, Akmal Yazdani).
This book provides an overview of the above books and their
contribution to transform peoples mindset in his backward region
before and after Indias independence.
As a poet and essayist of extraordinary calibre, his contributions in Urdu and Persian poetry must be recognised before it is
lost in the heap of history. His work of critical analysis on an
ancient book on Purnea, Vidyadhar, is an apt description of a 300year-old book in an easy to understand essay. Literature flourished
in Purnea since centuries with the contributions of litterateurs
working in a backward reghion against all odds. One of such sons
of Purnea, Novelist and storyteller Phanishwar Nath Renu, was a
towering literati of worldwide fame.
Both poetry and prose of Maulvi Mohammad Sulaiman are
relentless expressions of love for the region, for the nation and an
endless urge to transform society. His poetry is an example of
argumentative romanticism.
Main parwarda hoon jis aab-o-hawa kaa
Mujhe jis sar-zameen ne hai paala, posa
Mera dil aur meri jaan uspe hai shaida.
(I am an outcome of this social hue. A region that nourished me
and I willingly sacrifice to devote my life to it).
At one place he praises the contributions of the Indian fighters outside the country. Poetic narrations of Indias bravery abroad were
prophetic. They eye on global happenings as observed from a tiny
and remote village. Argumentations in Indian and global contexts
can be best judged from these lines:
Jawanaan-e-Hind aafreen, aafreen
Ki sar jang-e-Africa tumne kiya
Naheen Zang-alood ab bhi huwee

riots in India which continue till today - the

largest being the Gujarat riot of 2002 in which
the Muslim community was targeted in a wellorganised pogrom by Hindu communal fascist
forces killing more than a thousand (unofficially
3000) people and destroying homes and
properties of thousands of Muslims.
The 25th anniversary of Bhagalpur
communal riot has arrived at a time of triumph
for the very same communal fascist forces
which have engineered large-scale political riots
in pre- as well as post-Independence India and
have now installed themselves in seats of
political power at the Centre as well as in many
Indian states through the very process of
parliamentary democracy that the secularists
have always lauded as the most fair and just in
the entire world.
These so-called secular forces are not likely
to learn any lessons from their defeat and are
likely to continue with the same discredited
politics of status quo.
However, for genuine secular democratic
and revolutionary forces this is certainly a time
for reflection and a time to rethink their entire
perspective on secularism. Those who have
considered themselves as secularists and
democratic have always believed that there is
nothing wrong basically with the existing
economic and political system in India, although
it needs reforms to make it perfect. They also
believe that the administration, Police, armed
forces and the judiciary are true guardians of
secularism and democracy, although some
politicians and a few people in the
administration, police, army and judiciary are
communal as well as corrupt. If only the corrupt
inefficient communal people running the police
and administration are replaced with honest
secular people and some reforms are introduced
to make them more efficient, everything would
be alright and India would become a paradise of
secularism. However, if we think hard we would
come to realize that establishing a truly secular
and human society is not as simple as that.
On this occasion of the 25th anniversary of
Bhagalpur communal pogrom, which is an
extremely painful event in the history of India, the
questions we should ponder over are
(1) How the communal, fascist, rightwing
Hindu nationalist forces could install themselves

Diye taigh-e-Hind ne jauhar dikha

Salaamat rahe Hindiyoun ki yeh fauj
Mubaarak ho usay fath-e Tuneesia
Bigaday zara ab Italy kay hosh
Ba Europe zand sikka India!
(Bravo, bravo, the Indian army, for your courage and determination in Africa; You have hardly bowed down or lost your spirits;
Sword of India has literally proved miraculous; Let that spirit of the
Indian army remain intact; They deserved the triumph in Tunisia;
Now move ahead to show Italy its right place by another defeat to
prove the Indian mettle even in the European region).
As a Persian scholar, Maulvi Mohammad Sulaiman contributed poems of great calibre. His mature and mystic analysis
and romanticism is portayed by fine poetic symphony which is
mesmerising:
Khushtar az dauran-e-ishq ayyam neest
Ba imdad aashiqaan raa shaam neest!
(There is no better moment in life except the time to romance; As
lovers rarely distinguish between the wee hours and evenings
while deeply in love).
A section of this book contains cursory details of his unpublished
works. These are prose collections from many old journals and
publications. The third section is equally important as it takes the
readers to the era when Maulvi Mohammad Sulaiman lived. Some
of his best poetry is reproduced in this section. His poetry is so
forceful that even some famous Urdu and Persian poets being
praised for literary ecstasy would fail to stand up to the stature of
this otherwise sufi poet. His poetry praises the nature, eminent
poets like Ghalib and Iqbal and defines the pathetic conditions of
the region where he was born. Hardly anything has changed in
that region in the last one century:
Zindagi ek kashmakash, ek jung hai
Zindagi kooh-e-giraan hai, sang hai
Ek lamhay kaa sukoon bhi hai haram
Zindagi hai gardishe paiham ka naam
(Life is a hallucination, a battle indeed; Life is a deep rooted cave,
an unbreakable stone; Hardly is there a peaceful moment; Life is
indeed a constant fight and thorough determination).
His collection of Urdu and Persian poetry has also been included
in this book. These are on multiple themes from national issues to
international politics of that era as well as on his personal observations and hardships.
Maulvi Mohammad Sulaiman passed away four decades ago but
his literary work still keeps him alive. Custodians of Urdu and
Persian literature must come forward to save his legacy.
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

at the helm of power if the basic fabric of our

society is really secular as claimed by the
secularists.
(2) Are the political parties which claim
themselves to be secular really so? Is it possible for
any political party to remain secular in the arena of
the existing parliamentary democracy where
money, religion, caste and community play most
crucial role? What kind of a democratic system do
we need for the establishment of a truly secular and
human society?
(3) Can Sarva Dharma Samabhav based
on encouraging religious fundamentalism,
bigotry and irrational superstition be the true
basis of secularism?
(4) Can we establish a truly secular society,
keeping intact the existing economic system
based on exploitation of the working class,
women and people of lower castes -- a system
whose only motto is accumulation of more and
more capital and profit for more and more
exploitation of the oppressed and the weak?
(5) Are only communal elements in police
and administration responsible for the riots and
communal pogroms against Muslims and other
minorities, or is it a deeply communalised
society at all levels which is responsible for the
recurrent occurrence of these riots? If our
society and the masses are afflicted with the
disease of communalism, casteism and hostility

towards women how should we address this

reality in order to establish a truly secular
society?
These questions need to be taken up
seriously on this occasion in our discourses on
secularism. If we continue to hold on to our
nave beliefs about the existing economic, social
and political system as an ideal for establishing
secularism and do not think and act deeply on
how to bring about a truly secular, democratic
and inclusive society free from economic
exploitation, casteism, communalism and based
on true equality between men and women, then
we are doomed to a grand failure and in that
scenario no one can stop the onward march of
the fascist, communal, ultra-nationalist forces to
establish a dictatorial regime in which all the
questions of human freedoms would recede into
the background.
The choice is ours. Lets take a conscious
decision on our course of action on this
occasion of 25th anniversary of Bhagalpur
communal riots.
A three-day event is being organized at
Bhagalpur during 7-9 November to discuss
these issues.
For more information, contact Rahul
(09570320225) and Uday (09431873219).
Dr Khairnar may be contacted at
sureshkhairnar@yahoo.com

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REJOINDERS/OPINION/LETTERS
MG
I hope and InshaAllah MG will continue and continue to do well in the near
future. The issues raised by MG are of immense value for India and Indian
Muslims in particular.
Jameel Ahmad Khan, Kanpur
jakhannew@gmail.com
II
MG's struggle for survival has a great lesson in it for Muslims of India, in
particular and Muslims all over the world, in general.
All the best, and warmest regards.
Karamatullah Ghori, Toronto, Canada
k_k_ghori@hotmail.com
III
I went into Sajdah, thanking Allah on getting 1-15 October issue of MG
showing that our most precious fortnightly has survived. Tum salaamat
raho hazaar baras / Har baras kay din hoN pachaas hazaar.
S. Akhtar, Amod - 392110
Global Warming
The smooth functioning of the Universe is controlled by set norms and
thus the equation between different components of the environment is
balanced. As a result of undesirable activities of man and machine, the
equilibrium is disturbed and this upsets the nature. Nature retaliates;
floods, draughts, diseases, pollution of water, & air are some of its
manifestation. The Holy Qur'an warns the man against this disbalance &
exploitation of the natural resources. "The sun and the moon follow a
reckoning, and the stars and the trees al prostrate themselves, and He
has raided up the heaven and has set a balance that you may not
transgression the balance, (55:5-8). Global Warming is also a question
of serious concern for the humanity.
Shaista Bano, Aligarh
Madrasa banning girls
It is unfortunate that a mountain is being made out of a molehill in respect
of banning of girls in a madrasa in Bihar. None but a charlatan will deny
that co-education is not permissible in Islam. Hence the madrasa
management has rightly exercised its powers vested in it under Art. 30 of
our Constitution.
S. M. Pasha, Periamet, Chennai 600003
valimuhammad777@gmail.com
MAEF
I read your edit in this issue regarding the ouster of Mr. Ansari from MAEF.
It's commendable that you are raising the issue. But I wrote this mail to
bring to your attention to the ouster of Prof. Siddiqui from National Council
of Teacher Education. NCTE is the apex body of teacher education and an
appointment of a Muslim as Chairman was itself a big feat. You can read
on internet. But I don't even find a mention of his appointment in MG. He
too was an honest officer but the way in which the Ministry officials
bundled him out of NCTE was never reported by your paper. He fought the
case in High Court against the GoI for justice. Leave alone the LPC issue
his file for a fictitious inquiry has not been closed till date. But sadly
neither the MG nor any Muslim oriented media ever highlighted this. It
seems that justice is for a few. I hope in future you are able to highlight
cases of such upright officers like Mr. Siddiqui and others whom we never
get to hear about.
Omar Siddiqui
aomarsiddiqui@gmail.com
MG: Thank you for your feedback. I have no information that Prof
Siddiqui was ousted from NCTE. I am not sure if we covered his
appointment. For various reasons, many important events and issues
are left out. These range from our ignorance to paucity of space. There
is no deliberate policy of ignoring anyone in the community let alone
an important person like Prof Akhtar Siddiqui who is personally known
to me. I may add here that I did a google search right now and did not
see any report anywhere about his ouster, in Muslim on non-Muslim
media. Kindly provide me the details with supporting documents and
we will certainly carry
OS: I deeply appreciate your reply. I know MG doesn't deliberately ignore
people. My intention wasn't meant to convey this sentiment. It's just that
we need to bring issues like these to the forefront. That's all what I meant.
During that time something similar happened with Mr. Siddiqui of National
Minorities Commission. I keep you and MG in very high regard. Anyways
as per your request please find the result for Prof. Siddiqui. You will find
the
details
on
this
link:
https://www.
google.
co.
in/?gws_rd=ssl#q=ncte,+siddiqui
MG: The reports about his appointment were there on google, but I had
found nothing about his removal. Now I have seen some reports in the
screen shot you have sent including one in TOI which says that serious
allegations were made against Prof Siddiqui. In any case, this is an old
case. It will be appropriate to report it if their is some new
development. I just checked in our old files and found that we had
reported Prof Siddqui's appointment, in MG's issue of 1 July 2008.
RSS is biggest terrorist organisation
Kosi zone is bad dream for BJP because no BJP last all MP seats in the
area. That is why saffron groups are try to drive wedge between
communities and conspiracy hatched for riot in Kishanganj. Pappu Yadav
MP (RJD) Madhe Pura explained that RSS is biggest terrorist (Saharsa /
S.N.B.)
S. Haque, Patna
Snoopgate
"The [Gujarat High Court] quashed the ['Snoopgate'] probe panel's
appointment in response to a petition filed by the architect's father Pranlal
Soni, who demanded to put an end to the issue on the ground that the
existence and functioning of this commission are in breach of his family's
privacy." (Times of India, 10 October 2014) The High Court referred the
matter to the Gujarat government, which of course had no objection to the
ending of something which it had started. In all this, "privacy" emerges as
the important consideration. No attention is given to the use or misuse of
State machinery as a consequence of a request to the Chief Minister by
an old family friend. The whole thing stinks of stage management.
Mukul Dube, Mayur Vihar 1, Delhi 110091
uthappam@gmail.com
Cruelty of Army men in Hyderabad
The heart-rending incident occurred in Hyderabad in which a Musim
young boy of only 11 years age was killed by pouring kerosene or petrol
by two army officers. The boy was called in the camp gate and
mercilessly punished by them before burning him alive.The boy ran out
of the gate crying for help. Some passersby extinguished the fire and
admitted him to hospital where the boy diedt The police recorded his
statement before his death. The CM visited the house of the victim and
declared ex-gratia of 5 lakh as well as ordering an enquiry into the
incident. The question is why the army officers showed this ruthless,
merciless behavior to the innocent Muslim boy? The wonder is that some

authority in Delhi has given the clean chit to the criminals while the police
promised that it will take strong action against the accused. The findings
show that the conspiracy was hatched against the Muslim community to
asses its sense of honour and patience. The army is supposed to protect
the life and property of all countrymen from our enemies but now it is
seen that our army cannot protect our borders. China is making
intrusions and it is constructing roads in Laddakh. The instead of killing
our enemies, our army is killing its own countrymen. The president of
India should take strong action against the defaulters and the people
should know as to who had given such instruction to Army officers to kill
an innocent boy?
AH Maqdoomi, Hyderabad
Black money
Dr. Vaidik should persuade Baba Ramdev, Anna, Gen VKS, Kiran Bedi etc
to re-launch their anti-black money agitation. Whether double taxation
avoidance agreement (DTAA) gives protection to foreign bank account
holders, will be decided by Supreme Court of India on 28 October 28 on
an a application moved by Government of India where it opposed to
clubbing those having illicit foreign accounts with those having legitimate
ones by saying that "mere opening of an account abroad legitimately is
not a crime". But this matter is not that simple and without an all-India
anti- black money agitation, the problem of black money [which is at the
cost of Indian poor and of honest taxpayers including those who's income
tax is deducted at source cannot be solved. Therefore Baba Ramdev,
Anna Hazare, Gen V. K. Singh, Kiran Bedi etc should again launch
AIABMA.
Hem Raj Jain, Bengaluru
II
It was anticipated that the governments either NDA or UPA. Will not be
able to bring back the black money , The account holders are influential
political or social leaders may be holding key assignments in the
government .But the Modi government has to enact some drama to hood
wink the people .Modi cannot make any development with out getting
back lakhs of crores of rupees It is better Modi should resign amicably
and show his inability to get back the black money from the Swiss banks
If he cannot take tough action against the culprits.Their crime is more
heinous than the British rulers who looted India and took the money to
their native land But the Indian looters took the money to the foreign banks
The defaulted have. forgone the right of living in India They should vacate
and get the citizenship of Swizero land .Or Modi should warn the
impostors to be hand them over to IS. They will take their wealth with their
owne methods. The other option is they may be asked to donate 90% of
their capital to the government and keep the remaining amount in the
Indian banks. Miss Jaya La litha was punished for her excess and
disproportionate assets but how the owners of black money can very
joyfully lead their lives in the daylight I think there are no such daredivils
are seen in the foreign countries They are found only in India Where is Mr
Baba Ram Dev what suggestion he can add to suggestions given above
AH Maqdoomi, Hyderabad
Islamic book fair
Any bomb making books? Or how to kill Kaffir books available?
Hardhitter
hdh@hotmail.com
MG: For such books, please enquire at the stalls of RSS, VHP. Bajrang
Dal, Durga Vahini, Abhinav Bharat, Sanatan Sanstha, Sri Ram Sene,
Arya Sena, Bhonsala Military School, etc etc... You may find many
more around for variety. (Dr Zafarul-Islam Khan, Editor, The Milli
Gazette [this is our real name -- we do not hide behind fictitious
identities]
ISIS
Thank you very much Dr Saheb for this timely and much needed
response [published on MG website and now on p. 20 of this issue].
More and more scholars need to stand, condemn and expose the
blatantly anti-Islamic actions and hypocrisy of ISIS and its supporters.
They have left no stone unturned in tarnishing the image of Islam and
creating hatred against Islam and Muslims.
M Ghazali Khan, Lonodn
mkhanghazali@googlemail.com
II
I am not sure about your PhD in Islamic laws has that much accurate
Knowledge of Islam. But one thing i am sure calling a group "Thugs" who
is fighting more than 60 countries and receiving bombs on their head
almost every hour for the name of their Religion and for raising word of
Allah, they deserve more honour than you, who just are seeking to show
up their Ph. D knowledge when it comes to criticize a group of our own
people. That same PhD didnt comes out when Muzaffarnagar happens,
when thousand of other such incident hapens. Then i think your Ph. D
dont have to say anything. Just what you come up every time to criticize
the incident at the maximum and raise funds to distribute and leave them
again on the mercy of the same people. I use to think of you with respect,
but Sorry, the columns you write and the language you use doesnt
represent an Islamic PhD holder scholar. While you have quoted so much
verses of the Quran against Muslim brothers, but refuse to take any
lesson from it. Which clearly says "Muhammad (SAW) is the messenger
of Allah. And those with him are hard against the disbelievers and
merciful among themselves. 48:29 So dont only rely on your Ph. D do
some research on ground incidents. May be you would be able to right
some good analysis. May Allah forgive us and keep us steadfast on his
path.
Shafquat
touchfaaraan@gmail.com
MG: You are free to hold whatever opinion you wish about a person or
his qualifications. What I have said is a considered opinion about this
neo-Kharijite group which has been brought up, trained, armed and
financed by US, Israel and Saudi Arabia - there is ample proof of this
including what Snowdon has said about the group. I am following this
group since long and have read over a thousand pages of material on
it in Arabic and English including its own. This group's problem with
the US now is that it has overstepped its assigned role [to annoy Iran
and Iraqi Shia]. Its ordinary fighters may be totally innocent and wellintentioned, but its leaders are crooks and criminals. As regards your
comment about my other activities or lack of them, like the supposed
disinterest in Muzaffarnagar, I can only say that you are grossly illinformed. I have taken full interest in Muzaffarnagar tragedy since its
very early days and we continue to take interest and we are now
building houses for the displaced in Muzaffarnagar. Our resources are
meagre but we are doing what is humanly possible on this and many
other fronts. We do not publicise as what we do is for Allah and He
alone will (Dr Zafarul-Islam Khan, Editor, The Milli Gazette)
III
Thanks for speaking up on this issue... this is the greatest fitna we have
faced in recent times... jazakallah
Aijaz Zaka Syed, Editor, Caravandaily. com

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IV
I offer my compliments on this overdue exposition of the Islamic
principles vis--vis ISIS barbarities. Congratulations
Hasan Jowher, SPRAT, Ahmedabad
president@sprat.in
V
This is being done (tarnishing the image of Islam and creating hatred
against Islam and Muslims.) by ISIS on the behest of Zionists and it is
evident from the statement of our Brother Shafquat that he is ill informed
about the Zionists. He doesn't talk about if the common people of a
country can be taken as slaves or otherwise. No they can't be taken as
slaves and our Hon. Dr. Zafrul Islam Khan has put forth this point with
"daleel". Dear brother Shafquat please update yourself with ISIS
background and also history of Islam. Try and study the Noble Qur'an with
understanding & also the Hadeeth. "O ALLAH unite us all Muslims. Exalt
us & afflict us not with pride! Make us worship THEE and corrupt not our
worship with self-admiration".
Shafiq Ahmed
maldar101@gmail.com
Hussian no, Ramani yes
When MF Hussain painted a Nude Bharat Mata, Sanghis & other patriots
completely lost it. When Fashion Designer Malini Ramani wore a selfdesigned One-Piece outfit with the Indian flag on the front, Sanghis &
other patriots again lost it. When a fashion label recently came out with
funky designer Pyjamas & Leggings having images of Hindu Gods on
both the legs, Sanghis again got OFFENDED. But now when Nita Ambani
(wife of Mukesh Ambani) wore a whooping Rs. 4 million/40 Lakh worth
Saree that has an image of Lord Krishna on its blouse, Sanghis and other
patriots & Virat Hindus are all silent Is it because unlike MF Husain, Nita
Ambani is a Hindu? (that too a Murari Bapu revering one) Is it because
unlike hippie single-woman designer Malini Ramani, Nita Ambani is a
'Sanskaari" Bahu, a married woman and a vegatarian who wore a Saree,
a shudh 100% Bharatiya outfit? Or (most likely) Is it because Nita
Ambani's husband - Mukesh Ambani is one of the major sponsors of the
Sangh Parivar and that's why Sanghis can't utter a word. https://www.
youtube. com/watch? v=G4qmAF-adb0 Neeta Ambani recently wore a
saree to an event costing Rs. 40 Lakhs. Name of the saree is 'Vivaah Patu'
sari, it features the reproduction of 11 paintings by Indian art icon Raja
Ravi Varma. The embroidery is made from real gold threads and uses
Navratna stones like like diamond, emerald, ruby, yellow sapphire,
sapphire, topaz, pearl, cat's eye and coral. The sari was hand woven
using double warp by 36 handloom workers at Chennai Silks mill in
Kancheepuram. It weighs 8kg and was completed in 12 months and has
entered in Guinness book of world record as the world's costliest saree.
Farhan, farhanec@gmail.com
Who pollutes Ganga?
Sewers from towns and industrial wasters are not major pollutants.
Instead, the dead bodies burning at Ganga ghats and idol immersion are
vital pollutants. Ministry of Environment has started initiatives to curb the
pyre burning and idol immersion in Ganga. Shankrachary instead of
throwing out Sai idols form Sanatan mandir, should have started agitation
against such dharmic prampara to save prakirti
S. Haque, Patna
A report says that RSS Sarkaryavah (General Secretary) Suresh Joshi
saying, "Girls who fall victim to 'love jihad' have to suffer and face
injustice. This is a social problem and should not be related with any
community." Just whom is this Hindutva luminary trying to fool? The
word "jihad" alone makes it clear that the supposed gigantic plot is
hatched by Muslims. His comrades in arms have been screaming for
months about the danger to young Hindu women posed by the plot. Is the
RSS trying to ease out of the trap in which its lies have put it, as one by
one they are exposed?
Mukul Dube, Mayur Vihar 1, Delhi 110091
uthappam@gmail.com
Swachch Bharat Abhiyan: RSS and BJP plan to belittle Gandhi
Gandhi Jayanti i. e. the birth anniversary of the Father of Nation i. e.
Mahatma Gandhi the idol or millions of Indian under whose supreme
leadership the country became a free and Independent country is
celebrated on October 2 throughout the country. He stood for an united,
secular and democratic India, equal respect for all religions, for
composite national culture and the elimination of hatred and
discrimination though his highly inspiring principle of ahinsa. But the RSS
and BJP who aim at converting India into a Hindu country and
establishing a Hindu state are deadly opposed to Gandhian philosophy so
they launched swachch bharat abhiyan a nasty plan which aims at
burying the highly ideal principles of Gandhiji which had changed the
course of Indian history. The highly inflammatory and hate speeches
against Muslims by the BJP leaders have resulted in the outbreak of anti
Muslim riots throughout the country due to Muslim have suffered heavily
but PM has not uttered a word against these hate speeches. But surely
the majority if Indians who are inspired by Gandhian principles are sure
to defeat this nasty plan of chauvinistic Hindu communal forces
represented by BJP and RSS.
Dr. M. Hashim Kidwai, ex-MP, Delhi - 110091
Shiv Sena
If parted, Shiv Sena will damage BJP immensely, if it becomes
responsible about SS in rest of India. Maharashtra Assembly 2014
Election has delivered a fractured mandate where BJP with a little less
than majority may form a minority government with the support of small
parties other than SS and Congress and independents and with promised
outside support of NCP. But the way it is projected in media that it may be
bad for SS and very good for BJP is not the whole political implication of
this development.
SS since late eighties started spreading out of Maharashtra but it did
not have alliance with BJP in rest of India (contrary to what it had in
Maharashtra). The national leadership of SS (Thackerays) did not want
SS to become powerful in rest of India because it never wanted to
weaken BJP in rest of India (due to Maharashtra factor).
If Udhav Thackeray start doing politics for honor and for peace and
prosperity of India by behaving responsibly towards SS members of rest
of India as mentioned above then the corporate sector of India (and its
media) etc who are saying that at the most they can support only one
political party as the party of the centre (which presently it is doing for
BJP, with ideology of exclusive private capitalism against joint - capitalism
etc) may have to think again especially in view of spectacular rise of SS
on the horizon across India. Therefore Modi / BJP before pushing SS too
much against the wall, should keep also the potential political demise of
BJP in view - in case Udhav DECIDES, as mentioned above, to live up to
even a bit of the legacy of Bala Saheb Thackeray.
Hem Raj Jain, Bengaluru,
jainhemraj59@gmail.com

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