AMARESH MISRA

Being in the Congress and that too part of its Left-Wing-nothing

would have pleasured me more than ripping my party apart for its
conduct in the Gujarat elections and the victory of Narendra Modi.
For, this time around, Modi really was on a weak wicket. Even if
you discount the Keshubhai factor and the restlessness in BJP-
RSS cadres, people - not just Muslims - of Gujarat were angry;
they genuinely wanted change.
Several factors - including an abnormal communalization of
Gujarati society and polity and Modis personal, dictatorial style of
functioning through subtle or soft terror that alienated even the
lower bureaucracy and several high ranking Police officials
contributed to the visible, pre-poll rage in Gujarat. Confused sig-
nals emanating from his Sadbhavana Mission also played a role.
But economic alienation of the poor was the main factor.
A lot has been made out about the roads of Gujarat, the 24
hour electricity supply, the availability of water and so on and so
forth. Now basics of the science of economics will tell you that
good roads, power and water are essential to build an infrastruc-
ture and provide a minimum living standard to a civil society.
However, this is not growth. To ensure productivity, three major
sectors of economy manufacturing, services and agriculture -
have to grow. What is the use of electricity if the agricultural sec-
tor - which provides employment to 60% of Gujarats population -
stagnates at 2% - lower than Bihar - annually; roads are vital to
manufacture - but what good will they do if manufacturing is lim-
ited to automobiles, Gujarats once famed cotton textile industry is
dying, and new investments - including a measly $7 billion FDI -
are concentrated in SEZs with no benefits like job creation for
locals? The service sector has traditionally been weak in Gujarat.
Its marginal growth helped mainly people in the urban areas.
Modi could not generate a co-operative movement in Gujarat
- the land of the white revolution - that might have helped the small
farmer of the state. His record in introducing welfare and distribu-
tive policies for the poor and the Adivasis remains dismal. He
failed in raising the minimum price for the farmer or building new
irrigation networks. The channelizing of the Narmada affects only
5-10 percent of Gujarats vast rural population.
Basically, Modi mirrored the way the 1999-2004 NDA govern-
ment went about ensuring growth and prosperity to crony capi-
talists while neglecting welfare measures for the aam aadmi.
Vibrant Gujarat was a copy of the NDAs 2004 Shining India
campaign. Like the Congress did in the 2004 general elections, a
politically able opposition could have snatched a similar victory in
Gujarat 2012.
However, strangely enough, censuring the Gujarat Congress
and getting into a trite, contextual-explanatory debate from a
socio-political perspective about Modis win seems irrelevant -
you come to realize that this victory is no triumph - it is the last
roar of an ageing Lion who did not get the resounding mandate of
140-plus seats he asked for from the Gujarati electorate (the BJP
fell below 117 - its 2007 tally - to 115 in the 2012 elections).
In fact, even my afore-mentioned line sounds boring and
hyperbolic - the reason seems to lie in the sense of fatigue that
has overcome both Modis detractors and admirers. Probably, had
Modi won 140-150 seats, attacking him might have sounded
exciting.
Let me explain. In the sporting-tennis world what would
appear more electrifying: Martina Navratilova winning another of
her many Wimbledon titles or Maria Sharapova coming up sud-
denly from behind and succeeding in a grand slam tournament?
BJPs miserly, re-conquest of Gujarat appears dreary; where-
as, given the spotlight on scams and the so-called anti-Congress
wave sweeping India, Congress triumph in Himachal Pradesh
seems fresh and thrilling. Moreover, in the larger scheme of
things, Gujarats 26 seats in the Lok Sabha - though important -
are not going to matter much. On the contrary, the 224 parliamen-
tary seats in the whole of the Hindi-Urdu belt - Uttar Pradesh,
Bihar, Haryana, Jharkhand, Chattisgarh, Uttarakhand, Himachal
Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Delhi - will decide
Indias next government and PM.
Modi is largely responsible for creating a sense of Gujarati
exclusiveness. Funnily, the way he talks about Gujarat reminds me
of the way the Chinese Communist Party repeats in a tiresome
manner that theirs is a unique socialism with Chinese character-
istics.
Whether Modi realizes this or not, he has isolated Gujarat from
the rest of India, Perhaps, he does not even comprehend the harm
he has done to the RSS or the Hindutva movement. By creating
Moditva - a divergent creed - in the manner of Hitler who created
Nazism - a distinctive strand of fascist politics exceptional only to
Germany - Modi has fragmented RSS Akhand Bharat concept.
This is the main reason why the Sangh Parivar did not figure
prominently in Modis 2012 victory, which carried a fascism with
Gujarati characteristics tag with lan.
Just before hitting the campaign trail, Modi in fact visited
Nagpur to affect a patch-up with the Sangh. Chagrined over the
Sanjay Joshi episode (http://daily.bhaskar.com/article/GUJ-AHD-
rss-mohan-bhagwat-miffed-with-narendra-modi-wants-sanjay-
joshi-back-3415868.html), and other issues related to Modis
autocratic style of functioning, Sanghs reception was cool.
RSS basically is a Brahminical organization. I have criticized
its ideology and acts elsewhere. But if you leave aside the topic of
ideas and politics for a moment, you will find that beyond a point,
a leader with an OBC origin - especially one like Modi who tries to
brand each Hindutva product with Moditva - is unacceptable to the
RSS. This has happened so many times before - Uma Bharati,
Kalyan Singh, Yeddyurappa - that it has become a truism.
On the other hand, by distancing himself from the larger
trend of OBC-Dalit politics of North and South India, Modi has
reached a point where his being an OBC does not matter. So here
is Gujarats CMs Catch 22 situation: as a BJP leader with an
OBC backdrop, Modis career will not proceed, much if he choos-
es to remain within the Sangh Parivar and its ideological-struc-
tural framework. But Moditva emerges from Hindutva. Since the
OBC-Dalit politics of the rest of India is heavily anti-Brahminical
and anti-Hindutva, Moditva will never succeed in weaning OBCs
and Dalits away from various regional formations ranging from
the SP-BSP in UP to the DMK-AIADMK in Tamil Nadu.
This peculiar situation leaves just one option for Modi -
demand Gujarats secession from India. But if that happens, New
Delhi and Indias army will not sit idle. To be sure, a majority of
Gujaratis will not support secession either.
It is Modis farcical tragedy that he was not born in the Hindi-
Urdu belt. The political vastness and centrality of the area might
have propelled him onto the national stage. But then under the
rules of Moditva, Urdu would be termed a Muslim language. Since
the entire area is called the Hindi-Urdu belt-where the Ganga-
Yamuni Tehzeeb still rules - and where the BJP was unable to win
a seat in 1993 immediately after the demolition of the Babari
Masjid even in Ayodhya - calling Urdu a Muslim language would
have been considered divisive by the people of this region.
Either way, Modi would have failed. This, my right-wing
friends, is the bottomline of the iron law of politics: something that
does not move in a straight -Modi as a winnable CM automatical-
ly becoming a PM candidate - line; and something that defies
mere desires of a fascistic dictator ruling a diverse and pluralistic
country like India. (This article first appeared on the authors
blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
Selective rage...
It is nice to see the Indian civil society stand up at last and force
the lethargic and self-obsessed government to act. But this rage
should have been seen long ago -- when over 3000 hapless
Muslims were hacked to death in a single night in Nellie, when
governments own PAC picked up Muslim youths from Meeruts
Hashimpura and Maliana and shot them in cold blood, when a
state government organised pogroms and men, women and chil-
dren were burnt to death alive, when thousands of Sikhs were
torched to death on the streets of Delhi and other north Indian
cities, when Christians were butchered in their hundreds in
Kandhamal, when Dalits and Adivasis were/are routinely raped
and murdered, when a disabled man near Delhi is tied to a vehi-
cle and dragged for a kilometre, when a hapless young woman is
raped in full glare and TV cameramen film the scene, when all the
women of the Kashmiri village of Kunan-Poshpura are raped in a
night-long foray by our brave soldiers, when north-eastern
women are routinely subjected to rape and indignity in other
states, when young men and women are routinely murdered by
village thugs masquerading as khap panchayats for simply dis-
obeying illogical and illegal traditions, when innocent women are
raped routinely in police stations, when armymen freely and
brazenly go about violating the chastity of women in Kashmir and
Manipur... The list is long. The point is that our reaction should not
be selective. Every Indian citizen enjoys the same rights under the
constitution. Every Indian citizen must be respected by the forces
created to serve him/her. We have all the sympathy for the hap-
less young woman ravaged by beasts on Delhi streets in the night
of 16 December. Would civil society react the same way had the
victim been a Muslim or Dalit or tribal? Unless we rise to this level,
we cannot claim to be civilised.
ZAFARUL-ISLAM KHAN
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SUMIT PAUL
T
he news that a 23-year-old physiotherapy student was
raped by at least five drunken men in a private bus which
was audaciously driven around South Delhi localities on
Sunday night (December 16) must have shocked people
and jolted the collective conscience of the entire nation but soon
itll be forgotten because rapes are so common in India and peo-
ple have got enured to hearing about them so frequently that
unless its screamingly heinous like this one, no one cares.
Here, Im not categorising rapes because every rape is an
assault not just on the modesty of the victim but on all women.
That this happened on the roads of the capital is an issue that is
all the more shocking.
The skewed sex ratio of the northern states and overall pejo-
rative attitude towards women contribute to sex-related crimes.
That doesnt mean that in other states, where gender ratio is rela-
tively in balance, you dont get to hear the incidents of rapes.
Rapes take place all over India but Delhi and Haryana are
always leading in crimes against women. Most of the rapists have
the patronage of political bigwigs and theyve connections far and
wide. Theyll soon be released, nay unleashed, on helpless
women.
Have we ever thought of how a rape victim lives life after what
happened to her? No amount of counselling can cure a woman of
the engrained fear, hatred, incertitude and the vacuum.
Im not a proponent of any kind of violent punishment but at
times I feel that those who rape must be (clinically) castrated or
rendered impotent. In some Islamic countries, where Sharia is
promulgated, rapists are punished in public with one hundred
lashes if unmarried and stoned to death if married. This may seem
to be extremely uncouth to the civilised world but at times, it
appears to be the only measure to stop rapes.
Whats even more disgusting is the widespread apathy.
Instead of condemning and punishing rapists, the victims are held
responsible for inviting rapists by dressing up provocatively. But
these fools, who criticise women for wearing sexy clothes, dont
understand that rapists will rape, whether or not women wear
cheeky clothes.
Rapists are sick people. Theyve no respect for women.
Theyre perverts and perverts can release their perversions,
regardless of the clothes and age of a female. Germaine Greer put
it succinctly, Any woman with a vagina is a potential prey to per-
verts.
We live in a society that accords scant respect to women.
Weve been brought up to look at a woman with lust. That she can
also have different roles is unthinkable to a male chauvinist.
Anthropologically speaking, rape is a mans way to put a
woman in place and assert his patriarchal and chauvinistic
supremacy over her. Its not just release of pent-up sexuality, its
also release of anger and frustration. Men rape because they think
that theyre naturally endowed and empowered to ravage women.
In aboriginal and subaltern societies, women were (and still are)
brutally raped by tribesmen comprising their fathers, brothers and
other men just to prove that they (women) can be ravaged at will.
In Haryana, when lovers are caught, the girl is often raped by her
father and brothers before getting brutally killed. Here, rapes a
punishment for eloping with a boy of her choice. We still have a
long long way to go and get evolved.
Iraq 55000, Afghan 17000,
Palestine 3000 children killed, but
Obama cried only when his home
attacked
Our hearts are broken today, Obama said on December 15. A
tearful President Barack Obama expressed overwhelming grief
for the victims of a shooting rampage at a Connecticut elementary
school.
Mr. Obama, did you ever regret the child casualties that took
place in the countries US invaded and in Palestine? No one can
estimate the exact death toll of Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine. A
web portal says that 55000 children were killed in Iraq, in
Afghanistan 17000 and 3000 in Palestine.
I always go back to this analogy: Imagine if your neighbours
family got wiped out by an accidental missile strike. The 17 year
old son who studied really hard every day after school and was
planning to go to college, is dead. The mother with her two young
daughters is dead. The dad is dead. Grandma is dead.
Obama called on Americans to set aside politics and take
meaningful action to prevent more tragedies like that of
Yesterdays. But Mr. Obama, when you are going to set aside the
hidden agendas and take meaningful action to prevent more
wars?
I do not condone the senseless killings of these children, but
this is exactly what happened in other countries, perpetrated by
the US, and nobody shed tears for them, least of all Obama. Do
not the victims in these countries also have blood flowing in their
bodies? Or do they have tomato sauce running through their
veins? Do they not have souls? Or have they less value for life
than some do? Do not their families (whats left of them after the
butchering) also mourn the loss of their loved ones? Or are their
hearts made of stone? Are not the lives of these unfortunate peo-
ple turned topsy-turvy by these imperialists? Where family bread-
winners are wiped out like flies on the wall? How do the survivors
carry on with their lives without any real means of survival?
Always fearing it may be their turn to be eliminated the next day?
What do we as responsible fellow Muslims do? Other than
commiserate over their plight? Do we object? Do we make our
voices heard? Where it matters? Or are we too busy making
advancements in our lives and careers to overly concern our-
selves with these mundane matters?
And our Muslim brothers pour into these imperialist countries
for a better standard of living. And contribute to the economic
well-being of these countries. And pay federal/income taxes to
these countries which are used to butcher our Muslim brothers in
unfortunate countries. Do we stop to think? Or is micro thinking
better than macro thoughts? Is thinking on these lines irrelevant?
These are questions we need to ask ourselves. Is it worth
prostituting our principles for a few dollars more? Or can we
survive with less? If any human is killed senselessly, Muslim or
otherwise, we need to feel for this, and make our voices heard.
And shun such perpetrators, for they are wicked. Not the individ-
uals, but the countries as a whole, and what they stand for. But do
we do anything other than paying lip service?
Will we not be questioned on these matters on the Last Day?
What do we do then? Plead ignorance and helplessness? Or at
least show that we cared enough to do what was possible from
our end? Introspect my brothers and sisters.
The double standards of the West need to be exposed. Not
that they are not aware of it. But they are used to us Muslims not
caring enough about it. We Muslims care more about our bank
balances. Too harsh? Is it not something that really describes our
pathetic attitude towards what is really going on in the world?
ADAM, Chennai
Rampant Rapes In Delhi
T
he recent gang-rape and murderous assault on a young
girl in New Delhi is rocking the nation, as it has never
before. Practically an entire nation, womens organisa-
tions, politicians, parliamentarians, print and electronic
media and general public is manifestly appalled at the gruesome
torturous physical and sexual assault on a hapless student. It has
shaken the very conscience of the nation.
India appeared united in responding to the remorseless
attacks on womenfolk in general and the Delhi girl in particular.
Newspapers are running surveys on what could be the best
measures to prevent such horrendous fate lurking for all women,
whether they are in their homes or commuting for work or study.
Overwhelming ratios suggest a deterrent punishment like
death by hanging, life term, and even castration of the rapists.
India being a very soft state has always avoided extreme meas-
ures. However, now even hardline Hindu organisations feel no
qualms about prescribing and calling for Sharia punishment for
rape crime just as in Saudi Arabia.
According to a news report, published by widely circulated
Urdu daily, Inquilab, Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabhas senior
vice president and Vishva Hindu Senas President, Swami Omji,
which are traditionally against Muslims and Islam, has openly
come out for Sharia punishment to rapists. He has said, as
Islamic Sharia Law punished crimes of rape and fornication,
Indian law too should impose the same laws and Parliament
should amend the laws accordingly. According to Swami, he has
been in consultation with members of Parliament and they too are
in agreement. Swami said he will file a writ petition in Supreme
Court and will demand that Supreme Court should instruct the
Indian Government in this regard. Swami had visited the hospi-
talized girl and reported that the girl does not want to die.
The victim has suffered extensive injuries and her gan-
grenous intestines have been removed. The rapists had forced
iron rods into her private parts. She is fighting for her life. Prayers
and vigils are held around the country.
However, unlike United States, where President Barack
Obama carried his entire nation in mourning on the death by
shootings of 20 children and six teachers, Indias President,
Prime Minister and main ruling coalition Congress Partys chief,
a woman herself, have remained at best aloof and have failed to
match public outrage.
The ruling oligarchy is as feudal and patriarchal as if India is
still in the stone age. Atrocities on women are on the rise, as
more and more women are coming out for education and
employment and have perforce to increase their interactions with
the male kind.
Unless the Indian government fully comprehends the para-
digms of the changes in the society and devises measures to
impose strict laws and fast-courts for such inhuman and delib-
erate attacks on innocent girls and women, the growing urbaniza-
tion will take heavy toll on the women and their human rights as
equal citizens of the nation.
GHULAM MUHAMMED
II
Follow Islamic Measures
To Combat Rapes
In the wake of the brutal gang-rape of a 23-year-old girl in Delhi,
platitudes are being mouthed by politicians and people. But the
only way to deal with the potentially pervert rapists is to promul-
gate the Sharia, which is followed in Saudia Arabia. Rapists are
either bobbitised or beheaded. Agreed, it sounds brutal to kill a
person, however lowly he may be. But the man who has not just
destroyed a womans life and modesty but also rendered her vul-
nerable till death, must be punished in an exemplary manner.
A few months back, a video clip went viral. Five rapists in
Iran, who raped and beheaded a girl were publicly hanged. It
wasnt a morphed clip and people all over the world witnessed
the summary treatment meted out to the scoundrels. Why cant
and shouldnt the same happen in this soft country? Look at the
crime rate of Saudi Arabia. It shows that such severe punish-
ments preclude criminals from indulging in heinous acts of bar-
barism.
Had Sharia or anything of that sort been followed in this
country, so many rapists who raped Muslim women during
Gujarat carnage would have been hanged in public.
SUMIT PAUL
India calls for Sharia Punishments to rapists
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INSHAH MALIK
The gruesome gang rape that happened recently
in the capital city of India has knocked off the
imagination of the Indian Nation. A college going
girl was gang-raped in a private bus. Six men,
reportedly in a drunken state, were involved in
the crime. The barbarity of the incident of shov-
ing iron rod in the private parts of the girl has
sent jitters down the spine of conscious young
people in the country. This news perturbed me
too. I went on to pour condemnation messages
all over social media, very emotionally, until I
remembered Shabnam.
In north of Kashmir, there is a hamlet called
Kunan-Poshpora. It is known for the mass rape
of some 62 women in early 1990s by Indian sol-
diers. Shabnam was standing near the bus-stop
when I arrived there. Although in her late thirties,
she was dim, her face pale and wrinkled. Every
woman in the hamlet has a gruesome spine-
chilling story to relate, but Shabnam is a symbol
of existence. She exists, quite plainly and dif-
ferently from the rest of the masses.
She escorted me to her tiny house by the
edge of the greenfields that belong to the vil-
lagers. As I entered, a strange sense of apathy
overwhelmed me. The room was cold and dark
and a repugnant smell engulfed it. This is the
room where Shabnam has lived all her married
life, her best and probably the worst moments
happened under this roof.
As I was making sense of the place,
Shabnam intervened. I hate this house, I never
want to live here. Last year, I had a terrible fight
with my husband and the first thing I wanted to
do is to burn down this house. She laughs and
continues, I almost did it. Just five minutes by
walk from here is an army camp. She abruptly
fell silent staring at the road from a hole in the
wooden window. I didnt know how to progress
further in such a situation and I asked, you fight
with your husband? She replied in an irritated
manner, of course! Men never understand what
happens to us. In the same breath, she added,
but my husband is an angel. If he was not there
for me, I would have killed myself. No man can
accept his wife back, after she is raped.
I was silent for a while, trying to imagine
what must have happened in this small place
when in the late hours Indian soldiers entered
each and every house, when there were shrieks
of women coming from all the corners. Women
were calling all the higher spiritual forces to
come to their help just as I am thinking now of
the helplessness of the Delhi girl clutched by
barbarians in a moving bus.
Shabnam continued sharing her ordeal.
How can a man be happy with a woman who
can no longer satisfy his sexual urges, a woman
whose genitals are electrocuted. This detail sur-
prised me because in the mass rape there were
no reported instances of such extreme physical
torture.
She continued, I was interrogated and
raped again, a year after the mass-rape hap-
pened in this village. They arrested me because
my husbands brother was a militant. Twelve
army men raped me and after that they gave
electric shocks to my genitals. Even after this,
my husband took me back. Isnt he a prophet for
me? But, I am no longer an able person. He
earns little and pays all for my medical treat-
ment.
I was speechless. This was the first time for
me to face the reality of our political situation as
well as my feminine self. I had by now forgotten
all lessons of research and knowledge genera-
tion that my university prepared me with. I sat
unmoved, thinking and listening.
She continued. That year when the mass
rape took place, it was my second year of mar-
riage. A day earlier my husband had brought me
some gifts and we were still in love. Now per-
haps I dont know what we mean by love. It has
become such a grave realization.
That night they dragged all the men of the
village out in a crackdown [cordon and search
operation] to hunt militants fighting them for
freedom. They dragged my husband out of the
house. It was winter. They made him sleep on a
six-feet-high heap of snow. I was watching from
the window. I could not bear to see my husband
in this condition. I came out of my house and
told the armymen to leave my husband. My hus-
band became furious and shouted at me, dont
you see what they are doing to women? Get
inside and lock the door. Let me die.
A strange realization dawned on me. My
sister who was still unmarried was in the house.
I asked her at once to leave the house from the
window. This irritated the armymen. I ran inside
and closed the door, they broke open the door.
They were ten or twenty or more. I have no con-
sciousness of that. I only remember that I was
bleeding all through the way to hospital. I wish
they had assaulted my memory too. So that I
would be free of the burden to remember it or to
narrate it, she said.
I slowly made my way out of that room
which was beginning to appear like a hole in
dingy darkness. I walked away slowly leaving
behind Shabnam with her constant struggle with
her memory.
The incident in Delhi has perturbed us all.
Rape is not merely an assault on body. Every
such violation is an assault on memory which
often forces women to shift from living to
merely existing. In fact, when a woman is
raped, she is raped twice: once of her body and
another by the silence of others. Today, the con-
scious young women of India must raise ques-
tions for Shabnam too because army uniform
does not remove the barbarity of the masculine
militaristic state nor the patriarchal mindset of
the society. In fact, uniform furthers these
aspects of cannibalistic colonialism.
Inshah Malik is a research scholar at Jawaharlal
Nehru University, New Delhi.
This report first appeared on
kashmirdispatch.com
(See other reports on pp. 8-9)
Illegal detention of
Muslim youths is
Government betrayal
Azamgarh: Advocate Mohammad Shueb, during
his keynote address at the Wada Nibhao
[Redeam the Promise] strike organised by Rihai
Manch here on , 12 December said that the
Samajwadi Party government was not earnest in
its promise of expeditious release of innocent
youths implicated in fabricated cases. He added
that even senior party leaders are confused
about their stance regarding the status quo and
they issue contradictory statements. He com-
mented on the governments reluctance to
release the RD Nimesh report saying that its
excerpts printed in newspapers confirm the falsi-
ty of charges against the youths held in various
cases.
Indian National League President
Mohammad Suleiman said that even though
Vishwa Hindu Parishad and Bajrang Dal workers
were caught making explosives in Kanpur, the
Mayawati government failed to take appropriate
action and chose, instead, to bow down to the
interests of forces detrimental to the nations
unity. He said the inaction in the probe and the
subsequent arrests of Muslim youths could lead
to civil unrest in the future. He added that the
entirely one-sided, pre-planned riots during the
SP rule could be likened to the Gujarat pogroms
and were in no way accidental. The Nimesh
Commission was constituted for the kidnapping
of Hakim Tariq Qasmi from Azamgarh on
December 12, 2007 but even after years, the
findings of the Commission have not been made
public and the commissions recommendations
are far from being implemented, he said.
Tariq Shamim, National General Secretary,
Qaumi Ekta Dal, noted that there are differences of
opinion among the SP leaders about the report. On
the one hand, leaders like Shivpal Yadav denounce
it, while on the other Rajya Sabha representatives of
the party use it to gain popularity among Muslims.
He demanded the government to explain why its
leaders visited Israel and demanded that the state
must abstain from taking help from Israel in training
police and intelligence officials.
Leading figures attending the strike sent the fol-
lowing memorandum to the chief minister of UP:
Sir,
1. RD Nimesh report, on the Tariq-Khalid fabri-
cated cases should be made public.
2. Innocents arrested in the name of terrorism
must be released as promised by the govern-
ment.
3. The repor t of Justice I. S. Mathur
Commission, formed to investigate the role of
current DGP A.S. Sharma in protecting rioters in
the 1992 Kanpur communal violence, should be
made public.
4. Special courts for terrorism cases should be
set up to speed up the trials.
5. Payment of compensation and proper rehabil-
itation of those acquitted.
6. Action should be taken against police officials
responsible for the fabricated cases and wrong-
ful arrests.
7. A CBI inquiry into riots during the present state
government.
8. CBI probe into the Bajrang Dal members killed
in Kanpur.
9. Investigation into all acts of terrorism in the
state.
10. Judicial inquiry into the abduction of Sitapur
resident Shakeel.
11. An investigation into the 31 December 2007-
January 1, 2008 Rampur riots.
12. National Cooperative Development
Corporation, Lucknow, on 15th August 2000,
Shramjeevi Express bomb case, Sankat Mochan,
Babri masjid premises riot, Cantt Station
Varanasi, 2007 attack on Rahul Gandhi, Chinhat
Lucknow encounter on 23rd December 2007
must be inquired into.
13. The government should explain the Batla
House Fake Encounter case.
14. Political and social activities of intelligence
agencies should be brought under the purview of
Right to Information.
15. Indian Police officials should not be sent to
terrorist countries like Israel and America for
training.
16. SP government should explain its associa-
tion with Israel and Shivpal Yadavs trip to that
country.
Signatories: Adv. Mohammad Shoaib,
Mohammad Sulaiman, Tariq Shamim, Dr. Javed
Akhtar, Jai Roy, Javed Advocate, Haji Ahmed
Hussain, Rabindra Nath Roy, Vinod Yadav, Tariq
Shafiq, Arif Naseem, Anshumala, Shiva, Saroj,
Kanchan, Punam, Masihuddin Sanjari.
Custodial death earns
state Maha-shame
Af ter the recent custodial death of Rafiq
Shai kh, who was arrested by Dharavi
police in a fake currency case, concerns
have been raised over the safety of inmates
and those in detention.
According to statistics provided by the National
Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), maximum number
of custodial deaths in 2011 took place in
Maharashtra. Uttar Pradesh is second on this list
with a vast difference in the number of deaths.
Thirty-two custodial deaths were reported in
Maharashtra, while nine were reported in Uttar
Pradesh. These were of people who were not
remanded in police custody by the court.
Rafiq Shaikh, who was arrested on 29
November 2012, died in jail under mysterious
circumstances on 4 December. His family
claimed that he was tortured by Irfan Shaikh, an
assistant inspector. Irfan was then transferred to
the police control room. The crime branch is cur-
rently probing into the mysterious death of Rafiq.
Senior advocate Anand Jondhale said,
Many of the policemen posted in Mumbai come
from rural areas and get attracted to the money
around them. Corruption is rampant and is the
reason why many innocent people are arrested.
And it is mainly the innocent who are killed in
police custody.
Out of the 32 custodial deaths reported, a
magisterial enquiry was ordered in three cases,
judicial probe in two and only in four cases was
an FIR registered. Not a single policeman was
charge-sheeted in any of these cases.
Jondhale added that many of these custodi-
al deaths are suicides as well.
It has to be understood that a person who
has been falsely implicated will take such a dras-
tic step. In some cases, even those who are
guilty commit suicide as they cannot cope with
the torture and harassment.
Shabnam, the women
who was raped twice
Quote, Unquote
Modi may be the darling of TV analysts , stock markets and Twitterers. But he is
opposed by NDA allies, questioned by rival BJP factions, and ignored (so far) by vot-
ers outside Gujarat. Can such a man become Prime Minister?
SWAMINATHAN S ANKLESARIA AIYAR, Economic Times, 23 Dec. 2012
Respond now if you care about your community
White Paper on Terrorism:
calling out readers & researchers
The most important and burning issue facing Indian Muslims at present is the continuing
arrests and widespread fake implication of our youth in trumped up terror cases master-
minded by saffron elements in the government, IB and Police. Now almost all Muslim
organisations are up in arms against this state terror. People are organising dharnas,
meetings, conference etc all over the country.
As a long-term solution and serious response to this problem thrust upon us, All India
Muslim Majlis-e Mushawarat (AIMMM) has decided to bring out a white paper on the
Muslim-related terrorism in the country. This was discussed and passed during the
Working Committee meeting on 7 July. But since AIMMM does not have the required
funds and staff, I have undertaken the responsibility of preparing this white paper which
will be comprehensive in around 600+ large format pages covering the whole history
and genesis, communalism, vested interests in various fields, analysis of various laws
like TADA, POTA and UAPA, fake encounters, acquittals, IB & Police role, media attitude,
case studies, statewise studies, SIMI and so-called Indian Mujahidin, Hindutva terror,
individual tragedies of victims, Azamgarh, Bhatkal, Malegaon, Darbhanga modules,
some basic documents, etc.
The target is to bring it out during the next six months and release it in a big conven-
tion at Delhi as a combined effort of all Muslim organisations, and thereafter present the
white paper to politicians, media, human rights orgs, especially those abroad, in order to
enlighten public opinion as well as to build pressure on our blind and deaf government.
The estimated cost of this white paper is Rs 25 lakh divided as follows: Rs 10 lakh
cost of preparation and payments to contributors plus six months salaries to three per-
sons including an expert; Rs 10 lakh for designing and printing the document in a world-
class format; and Rs 5 lakh convention costs. The first two concern the undersigned
while the last (convention) concerns AIMMM.
To finance this effort which will be a watershed in this struggle against state terror-
ism in India, I need and solicit your full support. This may be either by direct contribution
for the effort or by buying copies in advance which could later be sent to you or to oth-
ers at your behalf. The estimated price of the white paper is Rs 2000 at least. Our well-
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sponsors of the White Paper. Contribution towards the organisation of the convention
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1, Jamia Nagar, New Delhi 110 025.
Experts who can contribute to this white paper may kindly write to me with some
detail about their past experience and work.
ZAFARUL-ISLAM KHAN, Editor, The Milli Gazette - edit@milligazette.com
www.milligazette.com
YUNUS CHITALWALA
Ahmedabad: By the time this article is published, Narendra Modi
would be re-occupying the throne of Gujarat with much fanfare. His
party has won with wide margins.
Post-elections, the question that is likely to be asked is: why
Narendra Modi is so successful and the Congress is left to lick its
wounds? The Congress had put up a spirited fight and its campaign
was high decible. Its advertisements were vivid and captivating. Yet
the Congress failed to make it big at the hustings. There are several
reasons why Modi was again able to ride roughshod over the electoral
geography of Gujarat. One may despise him but one cannot ignore
him, especially the Muslims as he has set his sight on the bigger pie
of Delhi.
When we consider the economic rise of Gujarat, we cannot dis-
miss the role played by Modi in making Gujarat into an attractive des-
tination for investment. True, Gujarat has always remained at the fore-
front of business and industry, but the big change that has taken place
is in the arrival of a new middle class entrepreneurs who do not belong
to the traditional mercantile communities which were holding their
sway for the last hundred years. They are mid-level businessmen from
diverse backgrounds, cutting across the caste devide. Some Muslims,
too, have benifitted marginally. Modi in a way facilitated the rise of this
class which he calls neo-middle class. These are in fact nouveaus
riches who are skilled manufacturers and sellers of products globally.
The most cited example is the diamond industry in Surat which sup-
plies 75% of world diamonds and has grown phenomenally in recent
times.
The story began in the grisly aftermath of 2002 when Modi con-
ceived the idea of Vibrant Gujarat which originally was meant to
market Gujarat as a great tourist paradise. This brought in its wake NRI
visitors from the USA, UK, the Middle East and other countries who
were already exposed to the advantages of global marketing. They
saw in Gujarat a huge opportunity for investment. Consequently, NRI
Gujaratis established their businesses often in partnership with local
people. These proliferated and opened newer spaces for investment.
A new middle- class Gujarati had arrived on the scene. This way Modi
has created for himself a huge support base, formed of committed
voters who have delivered him victory on the platter in the 2012 elec-
tions.
The establishment of big industries by Tatas, Ambanis, Essar and
Adanis was facilitated by the easy availability of land, electricity, good
roads and the business friendly policies of the government. Apart
from infrastructure, Gujarat is flush with NRI money which has played
a huge part in turning it into its vibrant version.
This shows Modis role of a facilitator. No blueprint was followed.
People who talk of Gujarat model are talking of Gujarats progress and
not of a set roadmap that was planned and later implemented. Much
of what has been achieved is in the context of 1991 reforms. So Modi
happened to be the right man in the right place to utilise the opportu-
nity to deliver, be it industrial progress or the governance connected
with it.
As far as Muslims are concerned, they appear a little confused.
They have left behind the trauma of 2002. But this is not to suggest
they have developed dementia about those horrific events. It has also
been suggested that Gujarats turning into a vibrant economy has
totally eclipsed the issue of justice for the victims of 2002. In fact,
Modi cannot get rid of the ghosts of 2002 even in the remote event
of becoming the prime minister of India. In that case the issue will
become far more poignant than it is now. A small number of Muslims
might have voted for the BJP but shouting from the rooftops that
Muslims have overwhelmingly voted for the saffron party is a clever
ploy to prepare Muslims of the rest of the country to view Modi in a
positive light as he prepares to grab the throne of Dilli Sultanate.
Whether he will actually be able to do so is another matter. In north
Gujarat, the BJP has done well inspite of 20 seats having 20 percent
Muslim voters. But the most likely possibility is that the Muslim votes
were neutralised due to heavy and en bloc voting.
Modis electoral plank was no doubt development but the under-
current of communal manipulation could be detected in his utter-
ances. That may be to appease his Hinduttva vote bank and that was
the reason why no Muslim was given a single ticket. In fact, Gujarat is
a heavily polarised state today. In a recent article in the Indian Express,
its editor, Shekhar Gupta wrote: Communal politics did not start with
Modi, nor it may go away if he loses power... May be there is some-
thing sui generis about the phenomena of Gujarati insecurity and
anger. What insecurity 9 percent Muslims, marginalised and fearful
for their future, could possibly cause to 90 percent-strong communi-
ty can be anybodys guess. Lakhs of Hindu Gujaratis are in the Middle
East and many traders and entrepreneurs have their businesses and
properties there. It seems the fear complex has its origins somewhere
else and now it has taken the form of mass psychology. Gujarat has
a long maritime-mercantile tradition and its important factor was an
inclusive and tolerant outlook. This has been emphasised by the
famous Gujarati mercantile historian Prof. Makrand Mehta. So the
insecurity and anger may not be sui generis but of a comparatively
recent origin.
As Modi will be ascending the arena of national politics, he will
have to deconstruct the cleverly packaged parcel of Hinduttva, devel-
opment and imagined insecurity posed by hapless Muslims. It is like-
ly that Indian Muslims will ask stark and uncomfortable questions
when he seeks their support. But for now, Dilli door ast for NaMo.
Why Gujarat Has Become So Modi-fied?
4 The Milli Gazette, 1-15 January 2013 NATIONAL www.milligazette.com
Muslims are the most deprived
social group in Gujarat
New Delhi: Poverty amongst the urban Muslims is eight times
(800%) more than high-caste Hindus and about 50% more than the
Hindu-OBCs and the SCs/STs. Note that over 60% of all Gujarati
Muslims live in urban areas and they are most deprived social group
in Gujarat. On the other hand, rural poverty amongst the Muslims is
two times (200%) more than high caste Hindus, said a study by New
Delhi-based Centre for Research and Debates in Development Policy
(CRDDP). The report is prepared by Dr. Abusaleh Shariff, Executive
Director (Designate), US-India Policy Institute, Washington DC and
President Centre for Research and Debates in Development Policy
(CRDDP), New Delhi and Mr. B. L. Joshi, Chief Executive Officer,
CRDDP, New Delhi. Following are excerpts from the study:
Poverty: Poverty amongst the urban Muslims is eight times (800%)
more than high-caste Hindus, about 50% more than the Hindu-OBCs
and the SCs/STs. Note that over 60% of all Gujarati Muslims live in
urban areas and they are most deprived social group in Gujarat. On
the other hand rural poverty amongst the Muslims is two times
(200%) more than high caste Hindus. Gujarat unlike a few other large
states has not provided any specified quota in employment and high-
er education for the Muslims. While Muslims have bank accounts pro-
portionate to the size of population, the bank loan amount outstand-
ing which is an indicator of financial inclusion is only 2.6 percent.
Muslims are also found to be soft targets for petty thefts and harass-
ment of girls compared to other communities.
Education: Educationally Muslims are the most
deprived community in Gujarat. Despite 75% net
enrolment, about similar levels compared with the
SCs/STs and other groups; the Muslims are deprived
at the level of matriculation and higher levels. A mere
26% reach matriculation... Amongst the Muslims a
large dropout takes place at about 5th standard. A
disturbing trend was noticed in case of education at
the level of graduation. Muslims, who had about the
same level of education in the past, are found to
have left behind compared with even the SCs/STs
who have caught up with higher education... The
disparity in access to higher education is increasing
over time. This clearly is an evidence of discrimina-
tion in provisioning of higher education access,
infrastructure and related services... To overcome
the Muslim deficit in different levels of education, the
central government has launched a nationwide
scholarship scheme with effect from April 1, 2008.
All states have responded favourably, with the only
exception of Gujarat which has not implemented
even the pre-matric scholarships for minorities. There are 55,000
scholarships allocated to Gujarat of which 53,000 are to be given to
the deserving Muslims, but Gujarat not even cared to implement this
program.
Employment: Gujarat has higher unemployment rates for Muslims
compared to say West Bengal. Importantly, the Muslims traditionally
are artisan and skilled workers, have relative advantage in handling
mechanical and tool work; therefore they are employed as industrial
labour in considerable proportion in manufacturing and organized
industry. In most States, Muslims form a higher percentage of the
workforce in manufacturing and the organised sector compared to
Hindus and it is only in Gujarat, the reverse is true... Fifty-four per cent
of Muslims as opposed to 39 per cent of Hindus are self-employed in
the State. The gap is much lower in West Bengal, where 53 per cent
of Muslims are self-employed as against 45per cent of Hindus.
Compared to other States and compared to Hindus, larger share of
Muslims in Gujarat are self-employed or undertake petty trade. This
disparity is compounded by the fact that compared to other sectors;
self-employment and petty trade has shown only a marginal income
growth during the last two decades in comparison to other sectors of
the economy. Further, at least in Gujarat the FDIs and public invest-
ments are channelled into the organized sector where Muslims do not
get employed.
Security: Gujarat is one of those high village/neighbourhood conflict
states, next only to Uttar Pradesh (82 percent) and Uttrakhand; but on
par with West Bengal at 63%.
Tougher cow slaughter bill in Ktka
Banglore: The Karnataka Prevention of Cow Slaughter and
Preservation (Amendment) Bill, 2012 passed in the state
legislature on 15 December is far rigid compared to the
previous law. The fate of the bill depends on the governor
and the President. Meanwhile, the opposition parties have
petitioned the governor to reject it. The main opposition to
the proposed legislation is because it is harsher compared
to the Karnataka Prevention of Cow Slaughter and Cattle
Prevention Act, 1964, which it seeks to amend. The defi-
nition of cattle has been enlarged, punishment made
harsher and the age of animal to be slaughtered increased.
Under the new bill, slaughter of cow, calf of a cow and
bull, bullock, buffalo male or female and calf of she-buffa-
lo will be prohibited. Only animals aged 15 years or above
can be slaughtered, that too after obtaining a permission
from the competent authority. The bill empowers the com-
petent authority to issue a certificate in case of animals
that can be slaughtered. The government would set up the
certifying agency. Any violation will amount to imprison-
ment of one year which can be extended upto seven years
and a fine of Rs 25,000 to Rs 50000 or both. Officers
above the rank of sub-inspector are entitled to levy penal-
ties for violating the law. In comparision, the 1964 Act had
its scope restricted to the slaughter of cows, calf or she-
buffaloes, but allowed the slaughter of bulls, bullocks and
buffaloes if they were over 12 years of age or if they were
no longer fit for breeding or draught or did not give milk.
The punishment for violating the act was an imprisonment
up to six months and a fine up to Rs 1,000 or both.
Banning slaughter of cow was a poll promise of the
BJP government. It had enacted the - Karnataka
Prevention of Slaughter and Preservation of Cattle Bill,
2010 - and sent it for Presidents assent. The Centre has
kept the bill pending and had sought clarifications recent-
ly. With time running out and elections round-the-corner,
the government had to get the bill passed. The BJP cites
Article 48 of the Directive Principles of the Indian
Constitution and the examples of other states to defend its
action.
Muslims self-employed, stigmatised
A study of employment and education among Muslims in
India by Prof. Rakesh Basant of IIM Ahmedabad has
revealed a high proportion of self-employment among
Muslims to avoid discrimination given high perceptions of
unfairness resulting in low salaries and economic back-
wardness among the minority. The researcher found that
most respondents had a stigma of being labeled anti-
nationalists and being appeased at the same time. He
concluded that Muslims are more in need of quotas than
Hindu OBCs. The report suggests affirmative action and
incentivising diversity in institutes and companies to
enable a greater participation of the minority in gover-
nance and labour force.
The research noted that the gap between upper caste
Hindus and Muslims had remained the same, and that of
Dalits, Adivasi and upper-caste Hindus had narrowed.
It cited non-existent credit flow in Muslim areas and
low participation in education due to limited access to
good quality schools which adversely affects their status.
The report recommends nomination of ethnic, linguis-
tic and religious minorities in local-level bodies. It further
says that reservation in government employment could
enhance returns to education for Muslims. A Central gov-
ernment notification to effect 4.5% minority quota in
Central educational institutes is still pending in court due
to an Andhra High Court stay.
RSS sets up youth brigade
Indore: The hue and cry over I.M. operatives in Malwa is
only to divert public attention from the strength the RSS is
gathering by harnessing youth power. It is now ready to
launch its youth brigade soon. 6 January shall witness its
formal avatar when the sangh pramukh will bless this
youth brigade. According to a senior swayamsevak the
procession march on 4th November prior to Vijayadashmi
that began from 24 different places was a demonstration
of the strength the sangh gained among the youth which
in the past had declined considerably. The proposed
launching shall have 70-75 thousand cadres half of which
are young recruits. The sangh had appealed to ABVP to
attract youth studying in new professional colleges - med-
ical / engineering etc. Units in medical colleges have
begun functioning. The sangh proposes to involve intellec-
tuals too with its various schemes / programmes.
Ashok Sohni, prant sanghchalak apprised that out of
2050 shakhas operating in the region 1450 are youth
brigades. However, the proposed programme to be staged
on the super-corridor has created a problem for the farm-
ers in the area. When the officials of the development
authority reached the site with J.C.B. machines they found
farmers protesting that this would run their crops of wheat
and potato. They argued that if they had prior intimation
about the proposed meet they would have left the fields
fallow. The officers assured that minimum damage would
be caused. Liyakat Husain apprised that the proposed site
is on the agricultural land of three farmers with crops in full
bloom. Officers promised that the decision would be taken
after measurement.
ABDUL BARI MASOUD
N
ew Delhi: Annoyed by the Planning Commission for cut-
ting down the proposed Minority budget to size, a group
of MPs met Deputy Chairman of the Commission Montek
Singh Ahluwalia here on December 18. They expressed
their unhappiness over the steep reduction in the projected
demand of Rs 58588.78 crore allocation by the Minority Affairs
Ministry for the 12th Five year Plan to mere Rs. 17,323 crore.
While demanding a three-fold increase in the minority budget, they
pointed out that even the Planning Commissions own Working
Group on Empowerment of Minorities had strongly recommended
Rs. 41,685 crore for the socio-economic and educational devel-
opment of the minorities as envisaged in 12th Plan.
Leading the delegation, CPI leader and Rajya Sabha member
D Raja told the Deputy Chairman that minorities, particularly
Muslims, lagged behind in every sphere of the Human
Development Index in the country that necessitated a sub-plan for
them on the lines of SC/ST. Assuring the MPs comprising different
political parties that the Commission will consider their demand,
Ahluwalia said cutting down of the budgetary allocation should not
be seen as an anti-minority measure. Defending the meagre allo-
cations for minorities, he stated that there were huge demands
from every group and the Commission cannot meet these as it
makes allocations on the basis of available resources and past uti-
lization of funds. On the question of a sub-plan on the SC/ST
lines, he insisted that it is not under the jurisdiction of the
Commission and it is a matter related to the National Development
Council which is the highest decision-making body of country in
this respect.
The MPs also drew the attention of the Commission towards
the institutional prejudices at the operational level resulting in non-
utilization of funds and non- implementation of schemes as the
Minority Ministry has surrendered a considerable amount of funds
to the tune of Rs 600 crores during 11th Plan period. In this back-
drop, independent MP Mohammad Adeeb reiterated his sugges-
tion that Minority educational institutions should be made channel-
izing agencies instead of state governments for educational
schemes. He pointed out that in UP and Bihar, there is a wide net-
work of Muslim colleges and educational institutions as old as 100
years. Echoing his views, DMK MP from Vellore M Abdur Rehman
said that Muslim students were denied higher education loans by
banks. Citing the example of his own state Maharashtra, Congress
MP Husain Dalwai said state governments were not serious about
implementing minority welfare schemes. The MPs asked for set-
ting up a monitoring unit at the Commission in order to track and
monitor the presence of institutionalized prejudice at the ground
level. Agreeing to the suggestion, Ahuwalia said he would talk to
the Minority Ministry regarding the inadequate utilization of funds.
Describing the allocated budget for the minorities as insuffi-
cient and too scanty, the MPs asked the Commission to make the
minority scholarship schemes as demand-driven and give special
attention to the education and changes in the much touted Multi-
Sectoral Development
Programme (MSDP).
Commission member and
Minority section in-charge, Dr
Saiyyida Hameed admitted that
the scholarship scheme is now
saturated and it needs to be
made demand-driven as hap-
pened in the SC/ST segment.
She said the Commission is
actively considering bringing
the MSDP to block-level in the
designated 90 Minority-
Concentrated Districts.
Later, the MPs met the
Union Finance Minister
P Chidambaram and asked him to enhance the budget for minori-
ties. CPI leader from Hyderabad and former MP Syed Aziz Pasha,
who was the main spirit behind the exercise, told this correspon-
dent that the minister assured them of considering their proposal.
The MPs also presented a memorandum to the Deputy
Chairman of Planning Commission and the Finance Minister in
which they sought pragmatic approach of allocations to fulfill the
vision of 12th Plan for minorities. It stated: We appreciate the
vision of the 12th Plan draft with regard to minorities. Given the
challenges of meeting Millennium Development Goals 2020, with
around 13 percent of Muslim minority lagging behind the most
backward communities of the country in every sphere of human
development index needs such a vision from the policy making
body, but with pragmatic approach of allocations,
The memorandum pointed out that the surrender of funds of
non-plan area by the Minority Ministry was due to inherent
administrative and attitude problem of the ministry. A major
chunk of surrendered funds was from MSDP as the Ministry did-
nt receive adequate number of proposals thanks to the negligent
approach of the administration. The performance of the Ministry
unveils the inherent drawbacks of the governance and negligent
approach of the channelizing agencies. The Cabinet and the
Planning Commission
should empower the min-
istry rather than trimming
its wings with almost 30
percent less manpower
than the sanctioned
strength and budgetary
allocation to meet the
objective of addressing
development lacunae of
Muslim minorities, it said.
The memorandum fur-
ther pointed out that it is a
well known fact that min-
istries dealing with
Welfare pool their budget from different ministries and Minority
Ministry is in no way different. All the schemes, programs of the
Ministry share from respective ministries, hence the availability of
resources wont arise here - but the government and the Planning
Commission brushed out the guidelines of PMs 15 point
Programme in allocation for the Ministry. The demand of the
Muslim MPs for a Comprehensive Plan on 12th December 2011,
by including the Programmes and Schemes of 27 ministries was
also kept aside by the authorities.
The memorandum further said, Considering the huge gap of
development of Muslims Minorities and prevailing Socio-econom-
ic and cultural discrimination, we reiterate our demand for a com-
prehensive plan with pragmatic allocation of funds to the Ministry.
After examining different documents concerning plan projection,
plan allocation and the immediate areas to be addressed in the
12th Plan, we demand the Planning Commission to allocate
Rs 44,020 crore other than the pool through PMs 15 point pro-
gramme.
Other members of the delegation included Ali Anwar Ansari
(JDU), Nama Nageswar Rao (TDP), K Narayan Rao (YSR
Congress), Sharifuddin Shariq and Ghulam Nabi Ratnapuri (both
form the National Conference), and Ahmed Saeed Malihabadi.
MPs demand 3-fold hike in minority budget
Reservation: Who will
ensure justice to Muslims?
MOHAMMAD SHAHID
Lucknow: With the adjournment of Lok Sabha, the heat generat-
ed by the Reservation in Promotion Bill has subsided, at least for
the time being but not before reviving the caste conflict, especial-
ly in U.P. The drama enacted in Parliament and the stand taken by
parties on the bill has once again shown that it is contingency of
vote bank politics, not the principle and ideology or sense of jus-
tice that influences the decision of our politicians on an issue. If
not, why the UP unit of the BJP almost revolted against the stand
taken by its national leadership and why the UPCC, instead of
defending its Government, maintained a reserved silence on the
issue?
The reason for the unhappiness of the state units of the two
national parties with the stand of their national leadership is not
far to seek. The state unit of BJP, a party mainly of upper castes,
fears that by supporting the bill the party will lose its core vote
bank while the Congress feels that it may not be able to snatch
Dalit votes from Mayawati but may lose whatever little support it
has among backwards and minorities.
Although the bill could not be taken up in Lok Sabha due to
Samajwadi Partys opposition and also as Mayawati said
because of lack of interest of the Congress and BJP due perhaps
to opposition of their UP units, the bill already passed in the Rajya
Sabha may be taken up again in Lok Sabha during the budget
session.
While bringing the bill to impart social justice to Dalits, who
have already been enjoying reservation at all levels, the Congress
forgot to do justice to Muslims whom the Sachar Committee, set
up by its own Government, had found more backward than even
Dalits. The party has perhaps forgotten even the Misra commis-
sion report which has recommended reservation for the commu-
nity proportionate to its population.
Reservation to Muslims has been stalled by courts time and
again but the Congress which professes secularism never shows
the same promptness in bringing a constitutional amendment bill
to provide reservation to Muslims as it did in the case of Dalits.
Had the UPA Government heeded to the call of justice it would
have implemented the Sachar report long ago. But justice has
always been a casualty especially in cases involving Muslims in
the country, be it Babri Masjid demolition, Bombay riots or deal-
ing with terror cases.
But then blaming the Congress alone or other parties for the
plight of Muslims will be an injustice to these parties. It is a mis-
fortune of Muslims that they do not have leaders like Mayawati or
Mulayam who can forcefully raise their voice for their communi-
ty and force the governments to heed to their demands. Mayawati
worked for Dalits when she was Chief Minister of UP and now out
of office she forced the Congress to bring the Reservation Bill in
lieu of her support to the UPA Government on FDI. But Muslim
leaders in BSP as also in the Congress never raised a voice to
seek justice for their community. These leaders who seek election
in the communitys name and get the label of Muslim Faces of
their respective parties but when they get ministerial births they
become His Masters Voice leaving the community to its fate.
Thus no Muslim member came forward to draw the attention of
Parliament or remind the UPA Government of the Sachar
Committee report on the backwardness of Muslims and fight for
their reservation. It was left to the SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav
to raise the issue in the Rajya Sabha. But Mulayams move
appears more out of political compulsion to gain the sympathy of
Muslims than a genuine concern for the community because his
own partys government in UP has failed so far to fulfill its elec-
toral promise of giving reservation to Muslims in the state. But by
opposing the bill in Parliament and raising the Muslim reservation
issue Mulayam has succeeded in consolidating his vote bank of
backwards and minorities in UP in the same way as Mayawati
has strengthened her claim on Dalits by getting the bill intro-
duced.
The bill though stalled has the potential to affect the fortunes
of many a political player in the state. If the strike of 18 lakh work-
ers and other events that followed the introduction of the bill in
Parliament are any indication, the Congress which played the Bill
game and the BJP have emerged losers. The Congress may have
succeeded in diverting the public attention from corruption for the
time being but the caste conflict intensified by the bill may prove
to be more harmful for the two national parties in the 2014 elec-
tions. In this caste conflict Dalits have Mayawati and backwards
Mulayam to rely on but in the absence of a united leadership,
Muslims, the king-makers in UP, do not know where to go, who
will impart justice to them. Till the time they get such an alterna-
tive they will continue to be treated as vote bank by political par-
ties.
NATIONAL The Milli Gazette, 1-15 January 2013 5 www.milligazette.com
India lost $123b in black
money in a decade
Washington: India lost a whopping US$ 123 billion in black
money during 2001-2010, making it the eighth largest victim of
illicit financial outflow, a US-based research and advocacy
organisation said in a report, according to a PTI report released
on 18 Dec.
However, Indias black money loss of US$ 123 in 10 years
is far less than that of China, which according to the report, suf-
fered a loss of US$ 2.74 trillion during the same period, followed
by Mexico (US$ 476 billion), Malaysia (US$ 285 billion), Saudi
Arabia (US$ 201 billion), Russia (US$ 152 billion), the
Philippines (US$ 138 billion) and Nigeria (US$ 129 billion).
India is the eighth largest victim of black money losses, said the
report Illicit Financial Flows from Developing Countries: 2001-
2010, released by Global Financial Integrity (GFI). India is the
only South Asian country to figure in the top 20 list of such
nations.
In 2010 alone, the Indian economy suffered US$ 1.6 billion
in illicit financial outflows. US$ 123 billion is a massive amount
of money for the Indian economy to lose, said Dev Kar, GFI lead
economist and co-author of the report.
It has very real consequences for Indian citizens. This is
more than US$ 100 billion which could have been used to invest
in education, healthcare, and upgrade the nations infrastruc-
ture. Perhaps last summers electrical blackout would have been
avoided if some of this money had remained in India and been
used to invest in the nations power grid, he said.
While progress has been made in recent years, India contin-
ues to lose a large amount of wealth in illicit financial outflows,
said GFI director Raymond Baker.
Much focus has been paid in the media on recovering the
Indian black money that has already been lost. This focus is for
naught as long as the Indian economy continues to haemor-
rhage illicit money. Policymakers and commentators should
make curtailing the ongoing outflow of money priority number
one, he said.
Comparative Allocation of 11th and 12th Plan (in crores)
RAM PUNIYANI
ram.puniyani@gmail.com
There is a need to intro-
spect about the status of
human rights in India as
we observed the human
rights day, this past
10 December. Human
rights is a concept which is
founded on democratic
norms. During the recent decades, after the
advent of the United Nations in particular, the
concept of human rights has been picking up in
a strong way. The global community through the
UN has tried to evolve the norms for these rights
for all the people of the world. Many a country,
including India, are signatories to the norms and
charters prepared by UN.
Though India is a signatory to these char-
ters, it needs to be seen as to what is the status
of human rights of minorities in India? One can
surely say that the status of the democracy of a
country can be judged by the status of human
rights of minorities, particularly the religious
minorities and weaker sections of society. On
that scale, most obviously we in India are lag-
ging far behind in this direction.
The violation of human rights is the out-
come of the rising tide of communal violence
and the infiltration of communal politics in our
body politic. The elements believing in commu-
nal politics have infiltrated into different arena of
our society, due to which the divisive tendencies
are growing up leading to the violation of human
rights of religious minorities. These are the
processes which supplement and strengthen
each other.
Since the communal violence is the most
visible part of communal politics, let us see what
is happening there. During the last sixty years,
communal violence has been gradually rising
and more so with the identity-related issues in
the 1980s.
After the Shah Bano incident, communal
forces got the pretext to unleash themselves,
which led to the rise of the politics of identity-
related issues. Soon, the Ram Temple issue
became the rallying point of these forces. From
here on violence assumed horrible proportions.
This violence was initially directed against the
Muslim minorities and later the Christians too
were made the target.
One can discern that in the anti-Muslim vio-
lence, which began from Jabalpur violence in
1961 to the current spate of major incidents of
violence in UP, 90 percent of the victims of vio-
lence, those losing their lives and properties, are
Muslims. In the population their percentage is
13.8% as per the census figures of 2001. As far
as the anti-Christian violence is concerned, it
picked up during the 1990s and peaked with the
burning alive of Pastor Graham Staines and his
children in 1999 and the Kandhmal violence in
2008.
This violence is not an isolated phenome-
non. It is preceded by the demonization of the
targeted community. Communal violence is pos-
sible because of the mechanics of communal
forces and communalization of state apparatus,
the police force in particular. It leads to the polar-
ization of the communities along religious lines
and it further strengthens the communal politics.
The polarization along religious lines in turn
leads to the ghettoization of religious minorities,
whose economic condition takes a further beat-
ing in the adverse direction. In most big cities,
the polarization is going on and is worsening by
the day. This has a strong impact on the eco-
nomic condition of the Muslim minorities in par-
ticular.
The human rights index is an overall reflec-
tion of the feeling of security and equity of a
community. It can be measured in terms of the
economic indices, the employment status and
the overall socio-economic deprivations and
feeling of security of the community.
As far as the Muslim community is con-
cerned, it has a historical baggage which comes
in the way of its economic uplift. They have been
marginalized in the economic arena, and due to
the lack of any credible affirmative action for
them, they have been lagging further in the eco-
nomic field.
We recall that at the time of partition of the
country, the majority of Muslims who opted and
stayed in India belonged to the lower socio-eco-
nomic class. To add to this, they were looked
down in popular perceptions. In popular percep-
tion, they were regarded as the ones who are
responsible for the partition. They were denied
their rightful place in the society in the area of
employment and economic opportunities. This
left them in the lurch, marginalized to the core.
To add to this, communal violence directed
against them made their condition further vul-
nerable and they were left rudderless as major
political parties ignored their plight and the
Muslim leadership failed to face up to the chal-
lenge.
This gets reflected in reports like those of
Sachar Committee and Ranganath Misra
Commission, which tell us how much they have
been downgraded on the scale of economic
index. All in all, the human rights violation of
Muslim minorities is totally gross. The commu-
nity at one level is feeling very hopeless about its
situation, due to which the efforts for education
need a lot of coaxing and encouragement for the
sake of achieving a semblance of equity.
The need for an affirmative action from the side
of the State is very much necessary to ensure
that this community is able to come close to get-
ting its human rights.
The ghettoization of the community always
leads to an increase in conservative trends.
Thats something which requires the prerequisite
of communal peace. This can happen if the
nation ensures that communal violence is pre-
vented at all costs by undertaking all possible
measures. In this context, the promulgation of
the communal violence prevention Bill and the
efforts by the State and social groups to count-
er the wrong propaganda against this communi-
ty is of paramount importance.
The physical security of any group is the
key for its prosperity and for enjoying its demo-
cratic and human rights. With the rise of the ide-
ology of religion-based nationalism, in many a
place, the Muslim community is being relegated
to second class citizenry -- in Gujarat for exam-
ple. In places like Madhya Pradesh, the cultural
imposition in the name of state policies is effec-
tively marginalizing the Muslim community
through educational, cultural and economic
mechanisms.
Both these require that the politics, which
derives its legitimacy from the identity of reli-
gion, has to be fought against and values of
Indian Constitution brought to the fore in all
spheres. Surely, Muslim minorities also have to
come up internally to see that the conservative
trends are negated and an alliance with social
movements, struggling for secular and demo-
cratic values and human rights is promoted at
different levels. Thats the best guarantee for the
protection of their own human rights. (Issues in
Secular Politics)
Human Rights violations of Minorities
J.S.BANDUKWALA
Narendra Modi has once again succeed-
ed in securing a huge victory in the
Gujarat Assembly elections. This inspite
of a split in the saffron votes due to
Keshubhai Patel, together with the oppo-
sition of substantial sections of the RSS
family and BJP top leadership.
This result is bound to demoralise
Muslims, not just in Gujarat but even all
over the country. It is essential that Muslims analyse this setback,
before deciding on policy options especially in the context of
Modis passion to occupy the Prime Ministership of India.
Foremost in our analysis is to find the core reason for Modis
victory. It does not lie in the development propaganda suggested
by many pundits. Gujarat growth has been heavily tilted towards
the rich and the upper class. The distribution angle has been
missing. The poor have not benefited. This has been borne out in
a number of studies that have been published in this election peri-
od. Yet Modi has received huge support from tribal, Dalit and
backward class voters. The correct reason lies in the feeling
among Gujarati Hindu population that in 2002, Modi taught
Muslims a lesson they will never forget. This is the base of his
political success.
Gujarat is perhaps the most communalised state in the coun-
try. This predates the horrors of 2002. Non-Gujaratis are troubled
by the reality of the birthplace of Mahatma Gandhi being so deeply
anti-Muslim. But we must realise that Gandhi, in his own lifetime,
was never a popular figure in Gujarat. Gujaratis were far more
influenced by Swami Dayanand Saraswati, K.M. Munshi and the
story of the sack of Somnath by Mahmud Ghaznvi about one
thousand years ago. Note that in the immediate aftermath of the
2002 killings, a peace march to Sabarmati Ashram was prevent-
ed from entering inside by the custodians of the Ashram who
were old Gandhians. What conclusion do we draw?
Narendra Modi has been very successful in exploiting this
latent anti-Muslim hatred into a powerful political weapon to win
elections. For with a Muslim population of just under 10 percent,
it is easy to inflame the remaining 90 percent on communal
grounds. No wonder he was not willing to give even one BJP seat
to a party Muslim candidate, for that would have diluted his inner
appeal to non-Muslims. His use of Ahmed miya, his wearing
saffron clothes at election meetings and raising the issue of Sir
Creek, were subtle messages to his core supporters.
Where do we go from here? Bearing in mind Modis plans for
2014, we must alert Muslims of other states, in particular Bihar,
UP, West Bengal and Assam. These four states have Muslim pop-
ulations of between 20 to 30 percent. The BJP is weak in these
states. Unlike Gujarat, communal polarisation will not be easy in
these states, especially as there are powerful third parties that
woo Muslim voters. These four states send about 200 Lok Sabha
members, as against 26 from Gujarat. Muslim leaders of these
states must ensure that there is no political alignment by any third
party with a Modi-led BJP.
Indian Muslims have paid a heavy price of partition. Since
independence, communal riots have made our lives miserable.
The cycle of killings, attacks on our women and the terror
arrests of our youth, has crippled us. The sense of insecurity has
led to ghettoisation all over the country. This has only widened the
gulf between Muslims and non-Muslims. In a political sense, we
have been reduced to second class citizens in our own country.
In Gujarat we are often questioned about our role in the free-
dom movement and hence about our patriotism. Few Hindus are
aware that Gandhijis original trip to South Africa was sponsored
by a Gujarati Muslim, Dada Abdullah. Similarly the Indian National
Army of Subhas Chandra Bose was sponsored by another
Gujarati Muslim, Abdul Habib Marfani. Netaji felt so thankful to
Marfani that he addressed him as Sevak-e Hind.
Ambitious politicians and businessmen, seeking to grow out
of this ghetto environment, have used their Muslim name to
secure advantages from those in power. But in the process they
move away from the community itself. This worsens our plight, as
talented Muslims who could have tackled our problems, abandon
the vast mass of Muslims. No wonder Muslims are orphaned in
every way. We rank at the bottom of the national social, econom-
ic and educational ladder. Yet any attempt, such as Mishra and
Sachar Commissions to improve our lot, is met with stiff opposi-
tion particularly by the RSS/BJP. In the absence of an enlightened
leadership, the community in desperation has turned to our ulama
to guide us on non-religious issues. This too has further hurt the
community, as the ulama just do not have the worldview or the
larger national perspective to lead this unfortunate community.
The only way out for the community is to rise on its own feet.
Our focus must be on quality education and business. We desper-
ately need more professional people such as doctors, engineers,
scientists and management experts.
The community also needs industrialists and those who gen-
erate wealth. But they must care for the Muslim masses in the
same way as the Holy Prophet cared for every Muslim. They must
devote atleast a few hours every week to the cause of communi-
ty uplift.
In our present state, we cannot put limited financial resources
to operate our own good schools or universities. We must aim to
support and guide those bright students who seek admission or
are already studying in established educational institutions. We
have implemented this scheme in Gujarat, through the Zidni Ilma
Charitable Trust. This year we selected 125 girls and 153 boys
and used Zakat and saqadah funds to help them to the tune of 40
lakh rupees. But the actual financial demand is atleast ten times
more. InshAllah, each of these students will become a backbone
of the community in the years to come.
Further, we have to take special care of the children of those
killed in the riots and those languishing in jails. Normally, the
absence of the father, with the mother uneducated, leads to the
children abandoning their education to become child labourers.
We just cannot afford this horrifying frustration among our youth.
This trust looks after all their educational expenses.
Finally, we have to continue our fight for justice for the vic-
tims of 2002 and the fake encounters. The BJP/RSS often accuse
us of living too much in the past. They like to quote the example
of Sikhs who have moved on from 1984 riots. But there is a vast
difference between the two cases. The Congress has apologised
for the role in 1984. Rather, the present Prime Minister was
brought in to calm Sikh uneasiness with the Congress. But Modi
and his friends have never even once uttered simple words of
remorse and sorrow for what happened in 2002 and afterwards.
More important, the RSS treats Sikhs as part of the larger Hindu
community while it treats Muslims as an outsider. We are fortu-
nate that the Supreme Court and civil rights activists have been so
responsive to our call for justice. We have obtained many convic-
tions, including senior politicians and high police officers. That
may be our best bet that InshAllah, in future we may not have a
repeat of the tragedy of 2002.
Modi Hat Trick and Muslims
Though India is a signatory to these charters, it needs to
be seen as to what is the status of human rights of
minorities in India? One can surely say that the status
of the democracy of a country can be judged by the
status of human rights of minorities, particularly
the religious minorities and weaker sections of society.
On that scale, most obviously we in India are
lagging far behind in this direction.
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Modis victory does not lie in the development prop-
aganda suggested by many pundits. Gujarat growth
has been heavily tilted towards the rich and the
upper class. The distribution angle has been miss-
ing. The poor have not benefited. This has been
borne out in a number of studies that have been
published in this election period. Yet Modi has
received huge support from tribal, Dalit and back-
ward class voters. The correct reason lies in the
feeling among Gujarati Hindu population that in
2002, Modi taught Muslims a lesson they will never
forget. This is the base of his political success.
Senior Urdu journalist Mohammed Ahmad Kazmi, who
recently came out of the Tihar jail on bail, said his arrest was
part of the psychological warfare against the Muslims
unleashed by US and Israel. His arrest on 6 March 2012 had
left many shocked as he was a well-known face in Delhis
political and media circles and had accreditation with the
central governments Press Information Bureau (PIB). He
said that he was framed in the Israeli diplomat car blast
case in order to please Israel and the US and to sour India-
Iran relationsBeing a harsh and vocal critic of American
and Israeli policies in West Asia, I was implicated in the case.
Even the police initially described the February 13 car-blast
of the Israeli diplomat as cylinder-blast in its first FIR of the
case.
A section of the media fraternity, secular and rights
activists and Muslim circles had rallied around Kazmi to
campaign for his release. He was finally granted bail by the
Supreme Court on October 19 after spending seven months
in jail.
In a candid talk with The Milli Gazette, Kazmi told ABDUL
BARI MASOUD that he was subjected to intense mental tor-
ture and threatened to force him to admit to the Israeli the-
ory of the blast, that he was part of an Iranian plot. Excerpts
of the interview:
Mr Kazmi, first of all, we congratulate to you for your release. You
got bail and relief after a protracted ordeal
First of all, I thank the Almighty Allah. I am grateful to all those who
prayed and expressed solidarity with me and my family in this
ordeal and campaigned for my release. It is because of their
prayers and efforts that I am out of jail now. I am also grateful to
my lawyer Mr. Mahmood Piracha who tirelessly worked for my
legal battle.
Mr. Kazmi, you are a well-known journalist and having accredita-
tion with the PIB. Why have you been targeted despite this back-
ground? What were the dynamics behind this plan?
To my mind, my long stint with different Iranian media organiza-
tions may be the reason. In fact, I began my journalistic career in
1983 with the Delhi bureau of the Iranian news agency (IRNA).
Later I joined the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB). For
the last few years, I have been working with the Tehran radio. I
used to contribute daily reports for its Urdu and Hindi services.
For my professional and to some extent for religious purpose, I
used to travel to Iran and other countries in the region. Some say
my reporting was critical to the US and Israel but I see it as fac-
tual reporting. I used to write and analyze Palestine, Islamic awak-
ening, Arab Spring and other issues in the region saying that with
the progress of the democratization process in the region, US and
Israels influence and stranglehold will be weakened.
It is the design of US-Israel to safeguard some monarchies
and to suppress peoples movements in the region. My write-ups
appeared in almost 100 newspapers in India and elsewhere. In
fact, after this incident, in which I was alleged to be involved, I
went saying on several news channels that Indian agencies
should probe the incident independently and should not rely on
foreign agencies. As you know, on the very next day of the inci-
dent, a Mossad team met the Indian investigative team. I openly
criticized these interactions and confabulations. They have many
such things in my profile.
Do you see any international angle involved in your arrest?
Definitely! The way, during my police custody, the interrogators
used to ask certain questions, I can easily fathom from where
these were coming as I am in journalism for more than 29 years.
Since my articles are published in Urdu papers, the interrogators
did not know Urdu language but they were still telling me that your
articles are very good, fantastic, etc etc They asked me why
you did not write on Kashmir or Arunachal Pradesh etc instead on
Iran, Afghanistan or West Asia? I knew that somebody has provid-
ed them with the English translations of my articles. A senior
journalist himself told me that he used to translate my articles for
the US embassy in Delhi. One interrogator told me there is no
common border between Iran and Israel, then why do you always
keep criticizing Israel? These sub-inspector kind of people were
asking me questions on international issues. So you can easily
understand from where they got the feedback. I mean they got it
from foreign agencies and embassies.
You mean that lower-level officers were not involved in your case?
My understanding is that these foreign agencies are working at
both levels, that is lower as well as top levels of our system. I will
give you an example. Recently the Chinese defence minister visit-
ed India and there was a report in the Indian Express that he tipped
Rs 50,000 to each Indian Air Force pilot and co-pilot who flied him
from Mumbai to Delhi. I followed the story during my incarcera-
tion. This is not a new phenomenon as I knew that whenever our
delegations visit Israel, the Israeli government gives them thick
envelopes as gift. As a journalist who traversed to many parts of
the world including US and Europe, I have the inkling as to how
our agencies are being influenced.
No, I mean, whether our political leadership at the highest level
too was involved in your case because it has international ramifi-
cations?
Let me tell you one thing: the first FIR of the incident described it
as a cylinder blast. Interestingly, this was also included in my
chargesheet. It remained for almost 13 days as cylinder blast
till the case was given to the Special Cell of Delhi on February 26.
The Cell immediately started supporting the Israeli hypothesis.
Intriguingly, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had
claimed within an hour of the blast that Iran was behind it. So here
is a case wherein the police registered an FIR that mentioned it as
cylinder blast but suddenly it was turned into a sticky bomb
blast case. So, one can easily understand in which direction
things are moving.
You mean to say that Israel is making efforts to sour the ties
between India and Iran but our political leadership is not realizing
this?
I dont want to blame or claim anything. I only want to make a
humble suggestion to intellectuals, journalists and honest media
houses to analyse the situation in which direction our country is
moving. The government is run by a group of people and corrup-
tion is all-pervasive. In this scenario, you will rarely find a reflec-
tion of national commitment in decision-making. Israel and US
want to disturb our multi-religious, multi-ethnic and multi-cultural
society. Whenever, they get an opportunity, they try to create
problems. They talk about Hindu-Muslim differences, about Shias
and Sunnis and even talk in terms of Barelvis and Deobandis,
Sufis and Salafis. If we do not take note of such incidents, then I
am afraid, we may embroil in Pakistan-like situation in coming
years.
You have been writing on West Asia since a long time. In your
view, which country - Iran or Israel - is more beneficial to India?
Ans: We should go with our national interest and should keep a
distance with such countries or powers which want to create dis-
turbances in our country. There are certain media houses which
create and stoke tensions and war-like situations in order to com-
pel us to buy more and more weapons. We should go with old civ-
ilizations like Iran and Saudi Arabia.
As you compare between Israel and Iran, you know one lobby
is arguing that Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline is viable, profitable
and feasible but opponents say the pipeline coming through
Pakistan will be dangerous and insecure. Interestingly, the very
same people and foreign governments suggested that a gas
pipeline from Turkmenistan via Afghanistan and Pakistan to India
is feasible. Everybody knows that Afghanistan is the most dis-
turbed and volatile part of the world. If we see the logic, then there
is no logic. We need to have a foreign policy based on national
interest; not short-term interests but long-term ones.
The main purpose seems to be to disturb India-Iran ties. It is
also a part of psychological-warfare against Muslims. They cre-
ate hype against certain leaders, certain governments and then
launch an all-out war against that particular country.
I see my arrest as a part of their psychological warfare which
entails three objectives. First, to disturb India-Iran relations, sec-
ond to isolate Iran and create a war-like situation against it and
third, to intimidate writers and journalists who have been critical
of their policies.
But they failed in their objectives. By arresting me, these
forces in our country displeased Iran. They also failed to satisfy
the US and Israel because of the sheer lack of evidence against
me and the way they handled the case. They are now hiding and
not appearing in the court on one plea or another.
What do you want to say in your defence against the charges lev-
elled by the Delhi Police that you were hand-in-glove with the
three Iranian plotters who are said to be members of the Iranian
Islamic Guards?
The case is sub-judice, I would not like to go into details. I will be
happy when they (police) come with clear evidence in the court.
Let them prove this claim in the court. Let the world know what
substantial evidence they have against me. I am pretty sure: I will
be free from all charges.
You saw the ugly face of our democracy. Tell us your ordeals dur-
ing your incarceration?
When I was arrested, I was threatened that my family would be
arrested or kidnapped. I was told that they can recover explosives
from my car or house. They chained me for the first night and told
me Id languish in jail if I didnt tell them all, that my beard would
grow so long in custody that even my children would not recog-
nize me. They tried their best to keep me in bad shape. I must say
they did not subject me to physical torture. Instead, I was subject-
ed to mental trauma of almost unbearable levels.
Did they use abusive language and hurled invectives at you?
To some extent yes. While threatening me, they used to say we
have done this and that to this fellow and that fellow; we dont
care; we hit people, we torture people without leaving any sign on
the body... Somebody used to advise me when I went on the daily
medical checkup not to complain anything as that will make high-
er officers happy. It was an ordeal. It was tough for me but I was
sure I would come out clean. On the whole, I have lost the social
status that I once enjoyed.
Tell us about your experience in the Tihar jail?
I was kept in the high security ward of the jail number one and
forced to live with hardened criminals, dacoits, thieves and alleged
terrorists. Some of those terrorists were innocent like me. Most
of the time, I used to be alone reading newspapers and books.
How is the condition of other inmates, particularly Muslim prison-
ers, you met there?
Most of the prisoners who are facing terror charges said they had
nothing to do with terrorism. They have been implicated.
Despondency is creeping into their minds as they feel that courts
are not taking decisions on their own. There are many ways to
prolong cases. Many of them are too poor to hire a good lawyer.
One boy, who was studying in standard XII, even doesnt realise
what has happened to him. I have full sympathy with those who
are innocent and yet behind bars. I plan to work with anyone who
fights for them in whatever way.
Your are lucky to get bail under a draconian act like UAPA. On
what grounds your lawyer pleaded your case before the Supreme
Court?
It was on technical grounds. My lawyer has identified many glar-
ing legal mishandling in the case. For instance, scheduled crimes
are to be investigated by the NIA, not by the Special Cell; the Chief
Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) has no authority or jurisdiction to
extend the custody period in such cases beyond 14 days and yet
they keep detained people under custody through CMM for six
months. On every hearing, the prosecutor has to provide the
progress report of the case and to show documents to the court
to justify further custody. If the prosecutor seeks an extension, he
has to give reasons and explain what he is going to do in the next
14 days. They did not follow these procedures. In my case, the
prosecuting agency simply made a request that investigation is
on, so we need extension. The CMM extended the custody with-
out questioning the prosecutor. Then the additional session judge
S.S. Rathi set aside the 90 days extension which was proven ille-
gal. That was challenged in the Supreme Court and the apex court
upheld our contention and granted me bail. In fact, I spent extra
months in prison because the hearing for my appeal was kept
pending in lower courts and refused even by the Delhi High Court,
a tactic the police employ in such cases.
Do you see any ray of hope for other accused arrested under
UAPA?
Yes. My case has set a precedent. There is one reference case
with the Delhi High Court particularly about the jurisdiction of the
CMM. Hundreds of victims may get relief because of this.
My arrest is a part of the psychological
warfare against Muslims: Kazmi
While threatening me, they used to say
we have done this and that to this fellow and
that fellow; we dont care; we hit people, we
torture people without leaving any sign on the
body... It was tough for me but I was sure I
would come out clean. On the whole, I have
lost the social status that I once enjoyed.
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MAJID MAQBOOL
There was darkness all around. At 9:30 pm in the evening the
army entered the village. They took the men and children out to a
nearby bus stand. Then they entered our homes at around 11:00
pm and started assaulting women.
Draped in an embroidered pheran (a traditional Kashmiri
gown) and a white scarf, a bespectacled elderly woman recalls
the night of February 23, 1991. She is sitting in her home in
Kunan-Poshpora, a small village in the north of Kashmir, the
northernmost Indian state that has witnessed much violence and
turmoil since 1947.
According to the old woman, around 10 to 15 soldiers entered
every home in the village. They would gag women to prevent
them from raising hue and cry. We were not able to make much
noise, she says. There must have been around 1,000 soldiers in
the village that night, she recalls. When interviewed in 1991, vil-
lagers claimed about 100 women had been molested. They left
the very small girls untouched, she adds. Besides them, no one
was spared.
The women were systematically assaulted and gang-raped,
regardless of marital status, pregnancy, or age.
The next day at 10:00 am, the deputy commander of the sol-
diers came to the village. He told the women that the army has not
done anything wrong. Furious, this elderly lady pulled her friend,
who was also abused that night, out of her home to stand in front
of the army commander. I told him that she is an 80-year-old
lady, but even she was not spared by his men.
He didnt say a word. He stood speechless, she recalls. He
just looked down.
Twenty years have passed since that night, but justice has yet
to be achieved for the rape victims of Kunan-Poshpora. Up until
now, nobody in the village has been willing to talk. Silence about
that night, a collective gesture from the villagers, greets you like a
wall. But behind this silence lie tragic stories.
On April 7, 1991, the New York Times reported the Kunan-
Poshpora rape incident under the headline, India Moves Against
Kashmir Rebels. According to the report, on March 5, 1991, vil-
lagers complained about the incident to the then Kupwara District
Magistrate, S.M Yasin, who visited the village two days later to
investigate. According to a report filed by Yasin, the article
reads, the armed forces behaved like violent beasts. He identi-
fied them as members of 4th Rajputana Rifles and said they ram-
paged through the village from 11:00 pm on Feb 23 until 9:00 am
the next morning.
The Indian authorities have dismissed the mass-rape charges
as groundless. No further investigations have been conducted.
The Kunan-Poshpora rape case has been buried like thousands of
other cases of rights abuse by men in uniform in Kashmir.
However, in its 1992 report on international human rights, the
United States Department of State rejected the Indian govern-
ments conclusion, saying there was credible evidence to sup-
port charges that an elite army unit engaged in mass-rapein
Kunan-Poshpora.
After initial reluctance and much prodding, Saifuddin, a village
elder from Kunan-Poshpora, opens up. (Family names are not
commonly attributed to people from Kashmir and were not collect-
ed for this story). His story is like that of the old woman. It was
snowing outside that night. People were sleeping in their homes.
The army came and entered every home. The men were taken out
and interrogated near the village bus stand.
He pauses, briefly. Then they locked the rooms and raped our
mothers and sisters.
As dawn broke on that night in 1991, the soldiers let the men
of the village go. The men immediately ran for their homes. When
we reached our homes we found our womenfolk weeping, says
Saifuddin. Despite their rage, which prompted them to seek swift
justice for the crimes of the soldiers, the people of the village were
unable to do anything. We would have gone to lodge a First
Information Report (FIR) against the army, but we couldnt as the
entire village was cordoned off.
Four days after the incident, the villagers eventually were final-
ly able to gain an audience with the nearby authorities. They col-
lectively lodged an FIR at the nearby rural police station. The police
arrived in the village to collect evidence and file a case against the
army.
It was not difficult to muster up evidence and credible wit-
nesses: doctors and nurses examined the women, police con-
firmed mass rape, and a report was submitted. But according to
the villagers, almost 20 years later, the reports of doctors confirm-
ing rape are still lying in the Trehgam police station near Kunan-
Poshpora. Dilbar Singh, who was the Deputy Superintendent of
Police of Kupwara in 1991, investigated the case, but after he was
promoted the investigation was stopped.
The incident has had serious ramifications for the women in
Kunan-Poshpora that extends far beyond psychological damage
and sensitivity. Memories of the incident are raw. Some women
are even now afraid of marriage, while others are harassed or
ignored by the men of the village because of the stigma associat-
ed with rape.
A young woman named Rahte was holding her baby in her lap
when the men entered her home. She fell from my arms near the
window as I shouted for help. Rahtes daughter - who was a baby
in 1991 on that night - comes inside the room, limping from the
injury on her left leg that she sustained that night. More than think-
ing about her own past, her mother is worried about her daugh-
ters future. Her daughter hides behind Rahtes scarf, shying away
from any talk about her. She doesnt want to marry now, Rahte
says as her daughter keep her eyes lowered, fiddling with the
edges of her mothers scarf.
Over the years, many Kunan-Poshpora families have opted to
marry their daughters to relatives because it is now difficult to find
suitable matches in other villages. People outside the village talk
about our daughters, and say they are from that village, she
says, putting emphasis on the word so that it becomes derogato-
ry. This label has made our lives difficult. After the incident,
some women who were unable to live with the shame fell into
depression and died in the years that followed. Many refuse to talk
about the abuse they have subsequently suffered from their neigh-
bours and others.
Sakeenas life has taken a turn for the worse since 1991. Her
eyes are cold and expressionless as she explains that her mother
was 35 years old when the men barged inside their home.
Sakeena herself, being a little girl at the time, was not hurt, but she
was in the house while her mother was raped.
Sakeena was married outside her village in Nowgam six years
ago, but at the time of her wedding, her in-laws were unaware of
her villages sad history. When they eventually learned about the
incident from newspapers and relatives, life became difficult for
Sakeena.
She was harassed and taunted by her in-laws, her mother
tells us in her modest house overlooking a narrow street. Three
years ago, Sakeena was sent back to her home in Kunan-
Poshpora. Her in-laws are now seeking a divorce, but instead of
talking to Sakeena directly, they delivered the message to her
neighbours. The shame they seek to impart on her is manifest. Her
husband never came to take her back and she had a stillborn child.
Another woman from Kunan-Poshpora, Sameena, who lives
down a small street from Sakeena, has a very different story to
share. She was married only a few days before the incident
occurred in 1991. The morning after she and other village women
were assaulted, the soldiers slung a gun across her shoulders.
They took pictures of me while I was paraded before the vil-
lagers, she recounts. The soldiers used these tactics to instill fear
in the villagers.
But unlike other victims, Sameena refuses to simply live with
the shame. She wants a life of dignity, not the condemned life of
victim. She also wants to help other victims. A social worker in the
area came up with the idea of establishing a self-help group, and
Sameena jumped at the opportunity to be involved.
Sameena was instrumental in bringing together 15 local
women to form the self-help group, of which she is now the
Chairwoman. Three years ago, and with some financial help from
a social worker, she opened a bank account for the 15 Kunan-
Poshpora rape victims. Initially three lakh rupees, or about
6,670.00 US$, were deposited in the account. Now, the women
save some money each month. They are truly an anomaly in the
village.
The men of Kunan-Poshpora have had difficulty dealing with
the reality and aftermath of the incident. Some have resorted to
violent revenge. After the mass rape, approximately 35 unmarried
young men, between the ages of 18 and 30, left their homes to
cross the border into Pakistan for arms training. They wanted
revenge. According to the villagers, about 20 out of those 35 boys
have been killed by now, and more have disappeared. A woman
from the village says her only son left home immediately after the
incident. He couldnt see us in this condition. He was 18 when he
left home. I came to know later that he had crossed the border for
arms training, she says as tears well up in her sunken eyes. She
says her son returned after some years, to seek revenge and
redemption for the women abused during the incident. He was
later killed by the army in an encounter.
The village elders say being interviewed by journalists, human
rights activists, and filmmakers from across the world has brought
only disrepute to the village and its women instead of redemption.
The rape victims, having recorded their statements on multiple
occasions in the years following February 23, 1991, feel ostra-
cized and ignored by the government. No financial compensation
has been provided to the affected women. Kunan-Poshpora has
had to rebuild itself.
At another home in the village, a bearded jobless young man
says he gets very angry when journalists and human rights
activists ask his mother questions about that night.
Many people from India and abroad have come to this village
in the past years, he says angrily. They record the testimonies
of our mothers and sisters, and then they never return.
Frustrated, angry, and impotent; bitterness lingers in Kunan-
Poshpora, and the injustice of 19 years ago remains. (dispatch-
esinternational.org)
POST-SCRIPT: In October 2011, the J&K State Human Rights
Commission (SHRC) asked the state government to reopen the
mass rape case. It called for proceedings against the then director
prosecution who had recommended that the case be closed. SHRC
also sought action against the officials who approved the childish
recommendation of the director. The SHRC had sought a report
from the government after 34 petitioners filed four petitions with the
rights panel in 2004. Now, the SHRC has ordered a compensation of
Rs.2 lakh to the petitioners. The offenders have been neither taken
to a civilian court nor a court martial was initiated. Instead, the case
was closed. The investigation was stopped and the files were
shelved. This has benefited the offenders, SHRC member Javid
Kawoosa said.
We feel sorry for the victims that the government has never
taken the trouble to approach them and offer help. Right from
February 1991, successive governments have been negligent,
insensitive and indifferent towards the victims as if nothing happened
at Kunan Poshpora. We recommend that a minimum of Rs.2 lakh be
paid to all the victims and complainants in all the six petitions, includ-
ing the composite complaint of 34 petitions, the SHRC said.
The SHRC mentioned the statement of the then Kupwara district
magistrate, who visited the village on March 7. In his final report, he
had said the soldiers behaved like wild beasts In the morning,
when the menfolk were released, they were shocked to see that the
army personnel had gangraped their daughters, wives and sisters.
They forcibly took no objection certificates from the locals. I feel
ashamed to put it in black and white what kind of atrocities and their
magnitude was brought to my notice on the spot, the magistrates
report said.
Though medical reports and testimonials confirmed the gang-
rape, the investigation was closed as untraced. When the case
was picked up by the international media, the Press Council of India
sent a team in June 1991, more than three months after the incident.
The then Press Council of India chairman B. G. Verghese concluded
that the charges against the army were a well-concocted bundle of
fabricated lies.
However, the SHRC quoted reports from the then director gen-
eral of police and health officials of the Kralpora hospital. These say
that the chastity of women was ravished. The police report said it
had been alleged that army personnel after consuming liquor raped
23 women irrespective of their age.
There were 34 petitioners against the incident - all describing in
gory details the army brutality - on the intervening night of Feb 23
and 24, 1991. They said the army cordoned off the village, the men
were taken to a field for an overnight interrogation and the women
were gang-raped in their homes without any consideration for their
age and marital status. The age of the victims ranged from 13 to 70.
(Naseer Ganai, indiatoday.intoday.in - 21 Oct. 2011)
The Shame of Kunan-Poshpora
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1991 2011
Girl gang-raped in moving bus
New Delhi: A girl in her twenties was gang-raped in a private mov-
ing bus here in night of 16 Dec. when the victim and her boyfriend
boarded a bus from Munirka to go to Dwarka. Police said that
around five to seven bus crew started misbehaving with the girl a
few minutes after she boarded the bus. The victims boyfriend
tried to prevent the men from molesting her, but the men beat him
up and sexually assaulted the girl. They grievously hurt the girl
with iron rods before throwing her and her boyfriend out of the bus
near Mahipalpur in south Delhis Vasant Vihar area. While the male
companion is now out of danger, the young woman is in critical
condition with indications that she may not survive her injuries.
As usual, the government was found napping and showed no
clear response to the brutal crime in the heart of the capital. This
led a mass movement mainly of college students to converge on
Vijay Chowk to protest and demand quick action as well as intro-
ducing harsher punishment for rape crimes. On the third day, the
police brutally attacked them injuring dozen. Section 144 [pro-
hibitory orders] was clapmed on central Delhi to prevent the pro-
testers from assembling anywhere near the seat of the central
government. On the third day, the prime minister and the home
minister made appearances through the TV channels assuring the
protesters that tough action will be taken in such crimes. No polit-
ical leader dared to approach the demonstrators. Only Baba
Ramdev and the former Army chief were seen visiting them and
they were promptly arrested on the charge of instigating the pro-
testers. Clearly the lethargic and self-serving political class has
bought time by appointing a committee to look into the crime and
suggest how the law could be further toughened. We can com-
fortably predict that nothing will happen. The laws in India are to
protect the government and the high and mighty, not the common
people. (Zafarul-Islam Khan)
Why is India so bad for its women?
Of all the rich G20 nations, India has been labelled the worst place
to be a woman. But how is this possible in a country that prides
itself on being the worlds largest democracy? In an ashram
perched high on a hill above the noisy city of Guwahati in north-
east India is a small exhibit commemorating the life of Indias
most famous son. Alongside an uncomfortable-looking divan
where Mahatma Gandhi once slept is a display reminding visitors
of something the man himself said in 1921: Of all the evils for
which man has made himself responsible, none is so degrading,
so shocking or so brutal as his abuse of the better half of human-
ity; the female sex (not the weaker sex).
On 14 July last year (2012), just a few miles downhill, a
young student left a bar and was set upon by a gang of at least 18
men. They dragged her into the road by her hair, tried to rip off her
clothes and smiled at the cameras that filmed it all. It was around
9.30pm on one of Guwahatis busiest streets - a chaotic three-
lane thoroughfare soundtracked by constantly beeping horns and
chugging tuk-tuks. But for at least 20 minutes, no one called the
police. They easily could have. Many of those present had mobile
phones: they were using them to film the scene as the men
yanked up the girls vest and tugged at her bra and groped her
breasts as she begged for help from passing cars. We know this
because a cameraman from a local TV channel was there too,
capturing the attack for his viewers enjoyment instead of helping
her. The woman was abused for 45 minutes before the police
arrived...No attempt was made to arrest the men whose faces
could clearly be seen laughing and jeering on camera. Soon after-
wards, the editor-in-chief of NewsLive (who has since resigned)
remarked on Twitter that prostitutes form a major chunk of girls
who visit bars and night clubs.
We have a woman president, weve had a woman prime min-
ister. Yet in 2012, one of the greatest tragedies in our country is
that women are on their own when it comes to their own safety,
said a female newsreader on NDTV. She went on to outline anoth-
er incident in India last week: a group of village elders in Baghpat,
Uttar Pradesh, central India, who banned women from carrying
mobile phones, choosing their own husbands or leaving the house
unaccompanied or with their heads uncovered. The story is the
same, said the news anchor. No respect for women. No respect
for our culture. And as far as the law is concerned: who cares?
Those who molested the woman in Guwahati would be booked for
insulting or outraging the mod-
esty of a woman or intruding
upon her privacy. The maximum
punishment is a years imprison-
ment, or a fine, or both.
According to the National
Crime Records Bureau in India,
there was a 7.1% hike in recorded
crimes against women between
2010 and 2011 (when there were
228,650 in total). The biggest
leap was in cases under the
dowry prohibition act (up
27.7%), of kidnapping and
abduction (up 19.4% year on
year) and rape (up 9.2%). A pref-
erence for sons and fear of having to pay a dowry has resulted in
12 million girls being aborted over the past three decades,
according to a 2011 study by the Lancet.
A look at the National Crime Records Bureau data confirms
the worst fears about Delhi: 572 women were raped in the city in
2011 as compared to 239 in Mumbai, 47 in Kolkata, 76 in
Chennai, and 96 in Bangalore. The rate of conviction for rape
cases has actually been declining in recent years. Reports tell us
that while in 1971 around 43% cases of rape ended in conviction,
in recent years the figure has come down to an abysmal 20+%...
Rape no bar for politicians
A rape charge is no bar for politicians: 260 MLAs and MPs con-
tested polls while facing sexual assault charges. A report com-
piled by the National Election Watch (NEW) and the Association
for Democratic Reforms (ADR) has revealed that about 260 can-
didates facing charges such as rape, assault and outraging the
modesty of a woman contested assembly elections on tickets of
various parties in the last five years. The Congress was leading
the shame-list with 26 such candidates followed by the BJP
(24), the BSP (18) and the Samajwadi Party (16), the report said.
In Maharashtra, 41 such candidates were given tickets, while 37
got tickets in Uttar Pradesh and 22 in West Bengal. At least 27
candidates from the list were charged with rape and still managed
to contest assembly elections. By giving tickets to candidates
who have been charged with crimes against women especially
rape, political parties have been in a way abetting to circum-
stances that lead to such events but (they) vehemently con-
demn in Parliament, the organisations said, demanding that even
the cases against such elected representatives be fast tracked.
In a statement, it said: Such people should be debarred from
contesting elections and the political parties should be forced to
disclose the criteria on which candidates are given tickets.
In 2009 Lok Sabha elections, political parties gave tickets to
six candidates who declared that they had been charged with
rape, it stated. In all, 34 candidates who contested 2009 elec-
tions declared that they had been charged with various crimes
against women. Since they condemn such incidents in
Parliament and outside, the least they can do is not give tickets to
persons from such backgrounds, they said.
Muslims raped in Guj./J&K, picked up no sound
I do not believe that Delhi is the rape capital. The rape has been
going on for years. Muslims in Gujarat were raped. When securi-
ty forces in Kashmir and Manipur do it, it picks up no sound. Dalit
women are raped in Kherlanjhi and her daughter was burned. Then
a voice was raised... Chhattisgarh tribal woman with Sony Tyre
happened if you will recall. His Jnnango were cast in stone, but
the police did not even raised voice... When the country was par-
titioned, we cannot even imagine how many were raped. Inside we
have a feudal mindset.
ARUNDHATI ROY (on Twitter, 24 December 2012)
All Aboard The Slave Ship
You have not heard of Khairlanji or Gadchiroli or Koodankulam;
they are multi-syllable names of places that have never managed
to sneak into your sublime conversations. Ultra-ambitious, you
only enter lands that require your passport, your visa and your
commercialised skill-sets. You are Indias shining, swaggering
export. You have sold your soul for a song. You have sold your
song for a sophisticated accent. You have sold your sophisticated
accent for a sanitised silence.
Most of the time, you do not even speak your mother tongue.
You only learn the languages that pay: C++, Java, Python,
English. In spite of your mastery over two-and-a-half languages,
you choose to remain voiceless. Abjuring violence in the way of
old souls, you renounce every aggressive drive to assert your-
self...You have never shed tears for the victims of Operation Green
Hunt... Why, even the discovery of more than two thousand bul-
let-ridden bodies of Kashmiri youth in mass graves does not drive
you to despair...A self-anointed crusader against corruption, your
militant attire is Fabindia, your deadliest weapon candle-light...And
because you are impatient, you are in no mood to hear the stories
of these struggles. You cannot make up your mind, NDTV and
CNN-IBN do that for you...Out of habit, dont look for the Like
button as you finish reading this. Look for liberation. Learn to fight.
MEENA KANDASAMY
(in an open letter to the protesters at Vijay Chowk in Delhi -
outlookindia.com )
Sound for those only who matter...
First they Raped the Shudra women and I did not speak out
because I was an Upper Caste Hindu.
Then they came for the Muslim women and I did not speak out
because I was an Upper caste Hindu.
Then they came for the Manipuri women and I did not speak out
because I was an Upper Caste Hindu .
Then they came for the Tribal women and I did not speak out
because I was an Upper Caste Hindu .
Then they came for me and there was an outstanding outrage
Because I was an Upper Caste Hindu.
SHEEBA ASLAM FEHMI
(with all due apologies from everyone I've hurt! )
Forgotton Survivors of Gujarat
The streets in Gujarat witnessed a communal fascist pogrom led
by the right-wing supported by those in power taking estimated
2000 innocent lives. The Gujarat government figure for the dead
has reached 1059 with those missing being declared dead after
seven years in February 2009. Women were gang-raped in full
view of entire villages in several places before being burnt alive.
Thousands of homes were looted and destroyed. Places of wor-
ship, some over two hundred years old with archaeological and
historical value were razed. The tomb of the poet Vali Gujarati,
located on the road in front of the Ahmedabad police commission-
er office was razed and a tar road built overnight. Shops, restau-
rants, kiosks, cabins, factories were burnt down to hit an entire
community economically. Countless witness accounts suggest
the police stood by or worse, in some places actively participated
in the violence. The civil society within the state chose to remain
silent. After all, the Muslims were being taught the much-needed
lesson. Anybody who spoke out was labelled anti-Gujarat. The
English media was labelled as anti-Gujarati for reporting the truth.
It was the saddest chapter in the history of a country known for its
democracy, diversity and pluralism.
ZAKIA SOMAN
(Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan.) The Frontpage
Crime and no punishment an Indian tradition
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Crimes against Dalits
No demos ever in front
of Raisina Hills or
elsewhere in Delhi
The Saturday or Sunday or any day crowds
never did any chest thumping Now or Never
nor Hang the Rapists hangama against
these crimes. Because they belong to another
class -- second or third class citizens of India
There is much of India which lies outside
Delhi, where rape is a daily occurance
Adivasis and dalits have taken it as a fait
accompli for being born in a cer tain commu-
nity. In most rapes cases, they are the victims,
and there dress code has never been the
issue. Sexual harassment of Adivasi women
has been common sight: in buses, markets
and workplaces. Moreover, many rape cases
across the country take place in police cus-
tody.
Crimes against Dalits in India
Every 18 minutes: A crime is committed against
a Dalit
Every day: 3 Dalit women are raped; 2 Dalits are
murdered & 2 Dalits houses are burnt in India;
11 Dalits are beaten
Every week: 13 Dalits are murdered; 5 Dalits
home or possessions are burnt; 6 Dalits are kid-
napped or abducted
Social and Economic condition of Dalits
At least 37 percent of Dalits are living below
poverty in India. More than half (54%) of their
children are undernourished. 83 per 1000 live-
birth children born in Dalit homes will probably
die before their first birthday. 45 percent of Dalits
do not know how to read and write in India. Dalit
womens bear double burden of discrimination
(gender and caste) in India. Only 27 percent of
Dalits women give institutional deliveries. About
one third of Dalit households do not have basic
facilities. Public health workers refused to visit
Dalit homes in 33% of villages. Dalits were pre-
vented from entering police station in 27.6% of
villages. Dalit children had to sit separately while
eating in 37.8% of govt. schools. Dalits didnt
get mail delivered to their homes in 23.5% of vil-
lages. Dalits were denied access to water
sources in 48.4% of villages because of segre-
gation and untouchabilty practices. Half of
Indias Dalit children are undernourished. 21%
are severely underweight and 12% die before
their 5th birthday. Literacy rates for Dalit women
are as low as 37.8% in rural India
Status of Prevention of Atrocities Act
The conviction rate under SC/ST Prevention of
Atrocities Act is 15.71% and pendency is as
high as 85.37%. This is the reality when the Act
has strict provisions aimed as a deterrent. By
contrast, conviction rate under IPC is over 40%.
Crimes committed against Dalits
Even the reports prepared by the Ministry of
Social Justice and Empowerment and placed
before Parliament contain merely factual infor-
mation received from states about registration
and disposal of cases; various administrative
arrangements made for the function of the Act
and funds spent, without any meaningful analy-
sis of the performance of the states which could
form the basis for making corrective interven-
tions.
Under-reporting of Atrocities Act cases is a
very common phenomenon and therefore the
decline in the number of registered cases does
not provide a true picture of the incidence of
atrocities.
A large number of cases which deserve to
be registered under Protection of Civil Rights Act
or the SCs & STs (Prevention of Atrocities) Act
are not actually registered under these Acts,
either due to ignorance of law or under pressure
from the interested parties.
Investigations in even those limited number
of cases is often earned out in a slipshod man-
ner and with considerable delay.
Source: National Human Rights Commission
Report on the Prevention and Atrocities against
Scheduled Castes --
http://www.nhrc.nic.in/Publications/reportKBSaxena.pdf
Protest against rape at Vijaya Chowk in Delhi
AFSANA RASHID, SRINAGAR
A
s many as 500 security personnel including senior offi-
cials have been found involved in human rights violations
in Jammu and Kashmir over more than the past two
decades.
This has been stated by 355-page report Alleged Perpetrators
Stories of impunity in Jammu and Kashmir by International
Peoples Tribunal on Human Rights and Justice in Kashmir and
Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons, released here
December 6.
While seeking to identify the role of 500 alleged perpetrators,
the report says, these include 235 members of armed forces, 123
paramilitary personnel, 111 police officers and 31 government
backed militants. It adds alleged perpetrators are two Major
Generals and three Brigadiers of the Army, nine colonels, three
Lieutenant Colonels, 78 Majors and 25 Captains.
The report examines 214 cases of human rights violations
involving the army, paramilitary forces and police and the impuni-
ty enjoyed by them. The cases include 125 extrajudicial execu-
tions, 65 disappearances and instances of torture including rape.
It minces no words in accusing the Government of India and
state government of providing impunity to the accused and seeks
intervention of international human rights organizations to impress
upon India to adhere to its domestic and international obligations
and punish perpetrators.
This report has been prepared over the past two-years, using
information gleaned mostly from official state documents. It
shows the level of impunity prevalent in the state, said Kartik
Murukutla, one of the authors of the report and human rights
lawyer, while addressing media, here.
Expressing concern over the complete black out of the (its)
report by the national media and a few local media-publications,
civil society here December 11 said the report was an important
moment in the ongoing struggle against impunity of the Indian
state in Jammu and Kashmir. While international media reported
extensively the issues raised, the reporting by the Indian media
and some segments of local media was extremely disappointing.
The statement added it is clear that there has been a worry-
ing long-standing trend, exhibited by biased reporting or non-
reporting of human rights work that indicts the Indian state and its
functionaries in Jammu and Kashmir. Even attempts for the
release of the report on unmarked and unidentified graves in
Jammu and Kashmir in 2009, the coverage of the Indian media
was disappointing.
The members added dismal or unprofessional role of Indian
media has only endorsed crimes. The report and other human
rights concerns are public issue and need serious debate.
Human rights watch-dog, Amnesty International December 11
said Indian authorities must take responsibility and initiate inde-
pendent, impartial and efficient investigations into serious allega-
tions of human rights violations in the state.
Amnesty isnt in a position to comment on specific allega-
tions within reports by other organizations. However, it does share
general human rights concerns documented and discussed in the
report, said Raheela Narchoor, researcher for Amnesty based in
India. Asian Federation Against Enforced Disappearances,
December 11, in a statement said, This landmark study will serve
as an important ground for families and relatives of victims of dis-
appearances and other victims of human rights violations to
demand accountability from India.
Dismay over Shindes statement about AFPSA
Mainstream politicians and separatists have expressed dismay
over Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shindes declaration that
AFSPA can not be revoked from the state.
Senior NC leader and Law Minister, Ali Muhammad Sagar,
December 11 said that Kashmir registered 15 lakh tourists this
year and witnessed record number of Amarnath yatris. Doesnt
all this signify that peace has returned to Kashmir? The Act has to
go, if not in one go, than in a phased manner.
Opposition PDP believes AFSPA should be scrapped. There
cant be mathematical proof to show peace is prevailing here,
PDP spokesperson Naeem Akthar, says.
Independent legislator Engineer Rashid December 10 said
the Government of India is depriving Kashmiris of a life with
honor and dignity and is encouraging state-terrorism by allowing
security forces to curb the fundamental rights of Kashmiris under
the guise of AFSPA and PSA.
Senior Congress leader and PHE Minister, Taj Mohi-ud-Din
said he personally favours revocation of the Act but there are
apprehensions that if it is revoked partially, areas from which it
has been revoked may become safe heaven for militants.
Amnesty International has repeatedly pointed out that AFSPA
violates Indian constitutional law and international human rights
and has called for its repeal.
JKLF chairman Mohammad Yasin Malik December 10 said
security forces already have powers to kill people in the presence
of AFSPA and PSA. Senior Hurriyat (M) leader Shabir Ahmad
Shah December 10 stressed for sustained campaign to be
launched for revocation of AFSPA and PSA.
Support for reunification of J&K proposal
Supporting Mirwaiz Umar Farooqs demand for unification of the
two parts of Kashmir, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has said that
his party and government have all along been demanding opening
of more cross-border routes and making the Line of Control (LoC)
irrelevant for the free movement of people and trade.
We are attempting the same and since borders between
Srinagar and Muzaffarabad, Poonch and Rawalakote have been
opened, on similar lines more routes can be and should be
opened, Omar said at Jammu, December 17. Mirwaiz, while
leading a delegation to Pakistan during its week-long visit from
December 17, sought unification of two Kashmirs as a single enti-
ty.
Moreover, both separatist and mainstream camps have react-
ed to a move wherein Government of India is mulling putting in
place all-weather permanent fence along LoC.
Mirwaiz December 17 said his conglomerate will oppose it
tooth and nail whereas Hurriyat (G) led by Syed Ali Shah Geelani
said it will oppose both the opening of routes and fencing.
National Conference however, believes that fencing may be a
need of New Delhis defence policy and the same wouldnt affect
the basic nature of the Kashmir problem; PDP suggests all tradi-
tional routes be opened.
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Massive human rights violations by security forces
Call for the revocation
of Juvenile Act
Welcoming the release of Danish Farooq, 16, who had been
arbitrarily detained in police custody here for 16 days, human
rights watch-dog Amnesty International has demanded that
Jammu and Kashmir Juvenile Justice Act, 1997 (JKJJA) be
amended.
Danish was released on bail December 4 after he was first
arrested, November 19 under sections 152, 138, 148 and 147
Ranbir Penal Code (RPC) and all charges related to incidents of
stone-pelting, says Amnesty in its statement, December 5.
After three days, court ordered his release on bail, but he was
re-arrested November 23 under sections 307, 285 and 336
RPC for attempt to murder for his alleged involvement in a
petrol-bomb attack.
Raheela Narchoor, researcher for Amnesty based in India
said, We are deeply relieved that he was released and has been
returned to his family. We know there are many more cases like
his where individuals are locked up on arbitrary grounds or as
in Danishs case, minors detained in regular police custody
instead of being provided safeguards guaranteed by internation-
al law to protect minors.
Pertinently, JKJJA defines minors in Jammu and Kashmir
as boys 16 years old or younger and girls 18 years old and
younger, which is inconsistent both with national Juvenile
Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2000 and UN
Convention on Rights of Child that India ratified in 1992, to
establish laws and procedures specifically applicable to chil-
dren and to define minors as all individuals younger than 18.
It has however, been reported that amendments to the Act,
changing the definition of minor to those under 18 years of
age will be taken up for discussion at winter session of state
legislative assembly. Narchoor hopes to see the Act amended
soon.
Meanwhile, state government December 14 disclosed that
232 local under-trials charged of being militants or their over-
ground workers are behind bars in the state while 219 more
people, including 120 foreign nationals are serving detention
under PSA that permits detention for six months without trial.
The information was obtained through an RTI Act by Irfan Lone,
president People Against Corruption and vice-president
Baramulla Bar Association. It is however, silent about the num-
ber of Kashmiris facing trial or convicted outside state.
The M-Factor in
The Gujarat Elections 2012
FR. CEDRIC PRAKASH SJ
The people of Gujarat have to be congratulated on the excellent
turnout which is surely a very healthy sign for democracy. There
is an added factor that Election Commission ensured a free and
fair election. Whatever the outcome of the elections, one has to
take into account the M-factor which has become institutionalized
not only in the run-up to the elections but is a reality in the state
today. Some of the dimensions of the M-factor are:
Majoritarianism: This has become a dominating fact in the
Gujarat psyche, especially in the past eleven years. There is a
growing sense of exclusiveness among several within the major-
ity community. Minorities are in the state to be tolerated and
not to be treated as equal partners with equal rights and free-
doms. There have been some cosmetic gestures, but that is all!
The political rhetoric used during the campaign was clearly
biased and meant to garner the majority community into a bond-
ing among themselves, rather than towards greater inclusiveness.
Myths: You tell a lie a thousand times and people tend to believe
it. Hiring high profile PR firms, with their crafty spin-doctors, both
in India and abroad, to propagate lies, half-truths and myths can
pay rich dividends. Enough is written about paid media and of
how they conveniently obfuscate facts or play down the reality.
Above all, when the social and economic indicators on develop-
ment are challenged, there is a clear change of strategy which
becomes personal and more vicious.
Muscle: Arrogant power is about might. There is plenty of evi-
dence to show that fear exists among various sections of socie-
ty, very specially among those who either have their careers at
stake or just want to survive. Those who think or act differently
are really not spared. A high point in the just concluded elections
was a sitting MLA firing without provocation, on people who were
apparently not going to vote for him.
Money: That plenty of money was used in the run-up to the elec-
tion is without a debate. The hoardings, the full-page advertise-
ments, the 3-D act, the gimmicks and the freebies provided,
would surely have cost a princely sum. But since corruption is
by-and-large institutionalized in the state, there are ways and
means by which the laundered money can actually reach the peo-
ple in order to buy their votes.
Mask: The mask is indeed symptomatic of the malaise that
affects a fairly sizeable section of Gujarat today. There are sever-
al who are too afraid to come out in the open and would like to
hide behind the mask. These are those who would never want
truth and justice to prevail. They are too afraid to take a stand so
that the Constitution of India is safeguarded and protected for
every citizen.
There are indeed several more Ms, but whatever is the final result
of the Gujarat Elections 2012, unless the people of Gujarat come
to grip with this 5 M-factor, there will surely not be any dramatic
or overnight change in Gujarat!
The author is the Director of PRASHANT, the Ahmedabad based
Jesuit Centre for Human Rights, Justice and Peace). He may be
contacted at sjprashant@gmail.com
Katju on media self-regulation
Addressing the media on the National Press Day, the Chairman of
the Press Council of India, Justice Marakandey Katju, defending
his stance on guidelines for the press said the freedom of the
press should be crushed if it is not constructive towards the
needs of the masses. Freedom of press is not an absolute right.
The absolute right is the improvement in the standard of living of
the masses, Katju said.
Supporting the opposite view, the Prime Minister, Manmohan
Singh averred that censorship is no solution to stray incidences
of journalistic irresponsibility. At the meeting, government repre-
sentatives emphasised the need for self-regulation, ruling out all
possibilities of government regulation.
Later, clarifying his stance on media self-regulation, Mr. Katju
said that the freedom media enjoys is not absolute but restricted
and subject to public interest. Further, he distinguished between
control and regulation. In his support for the latter, he said regu-
lation is freedom subject to much needed restriction in the face of
recent alleged blackmailing cases on India TV, ABP News and Zee
TV. Expressing views in favour of independent statutory authori-
ties and not governmental bodies, he cited the example of the
Press Council wherein representatives were elected from the
press by the press. He suggested that if the Press Council Act
was amended to include the broadcast media, a possibility was
that the council could have 20 additional members from the
broadcast media. Hence, in a voted decision-making wherein
each member has a say is a form of self-regulation by peers.
The Press Council has only the power of admonition or cen-
sure and no power to impose a fine or suspend a licence. This
media council must be statutory and have penal powers, includ-
ing the power to suspend licences, he wrote.
AALIYA KHAN
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Does return to power in Gujarat really spell an entry onto the
national political stage for the highly controversial Narendra
Modi? It was clear from day one that prospects of defeating the
BJP in Gujarat, that too under Modis command, was not an
easy task for the Congress.
From his angle and that of his personal supporters, Modis
next agenda is to join the race as BJPs prime ministerial can-
didate during 2014 parliamentary elections. Yet, if he expects
this to be a cakewalk for him, that too because of Gujarat vic-
tory, Modis calculations cannot be viewed as politically cor-
rect.
Modis success in Gujarat rests on this state being a strong
political base for him and his party workers. He cannot make
the same claim for the rest of the country and for the BJPs
allies in the National Democratic Alliance (NDA). In Bihar,
Nitish Kumar (Janata Dal-United) did not allow Modi to cam-
paign for him during the assembly elections. Kumars success
in 2005 and return to power in 2010 rests on his own partys
credentials, for which Modi can stake no claim.
Besides, it is as yet too early to forget that the 2002
Gujarat carnage, when Modi was chief minister, proved politi-
cally disastrous for the BJP at the national level. Since then,
BJP has failed to return to power at the Centre, making parlia-
mentary victory easier for Congress-led United Progressive
Alliance (UPA). Even if Modi assures total victory for BJP from
Gujarat, it can hardly have much political significance in the
Lok Sabha elections. In the present 544-member Lok Sabha,
only 26 legislators are from Gujarat. The maximum members
are from Uttar Pradesh (80), followed by at least half a dozen
states which are represented by more than 26 legislators in the
Lok Sabha.
There is a view that Modis victory symbolizes that the
Gujarat carnage is now a forgotten issue for Gujarati voters.
This point stands countered by Modis victory in the preceding
two assembly elections too. Were 2002 carnage a dead or for-
gotten issue, Modi would probably not have made extensive
efforts during his recent campaign to divert voters mind to
other issues. Soon after the trend suggested that he was head-
ing for a victory, Modi tweeted, No need of looking behind,
FORWARD! We want infinite energy, infinite courage, infinite
patience... He wants Gujarat and rest of India to forget 2002
carnage.
Also, the change in the nature of Modis campaign cannot
be missed. He went for a 3D campaign, speaking to people
across the state from Ahmedabad. Dropping the communal,
anti-Muslim card, in which he had indulged in aggressively ear-
lier, this time Modi tried presenting a secular image by sharing
the stage with a few Muslim faces. Yet, he refused to wear a
skull cap, symbolizing the Muslim image, even for a few sec-
onds as he obviously did not want to turn the saffron brigade
extremists against him. For them and within his own heart, his
image as a hardcore Hindutva extremist remains unchanged. It
may be recalled that in his bid for the prime ministerial posi-
tion, senior BJP leader LK Advani had donned the skull cap sev-
eral times, particularly at Iftar parties hosted in Delhi during
the month of Ramadan. Modi has yet to reach even this secu-
lar ladder.
Rather than forcefully playing on the secular card, Modi
gave greater emphasis to the economic development of
Gujarat. At the same time, the states high malnutrition rate has
not been missed by even foreign media. When questioned on it
by the Wall Street Journal, Modi tried masking the real picture
by saying that Gujarati women preferred being slim than
healthy. Statistics indicate that Gujarat does not lead in rural
wage rates of men and women. Among Indian states, it ranks
14th in mens rural wage rate and ninth in womens, with both
being below Rs 100 (Rs 69 and Rs 56) a day.
Definitely, Congress failed to unmask the gruesome picture
of poverty in Gujarats rural area and thus indirectly helped
Modi win. Communalism still prevails here with most Muslims
treated like second class citizens. Besides, even if it had suc-
ceeded, what has been practically ignored by Modi for a
decade would have had to be paid attention to by the Congress
in less than a year. And this would have implied ensuring jus-
tice as well as compensation for Muslims targeted in 2002
together with punishment for the guilty. Modi can politically
afford to ignore these aspects as he has done earlier because
he still banks on his Hindutva base. But political significance of
this strategy for Modi has so far been confined to Gujarat. It is
to be watched in what manner the Congress plays its secular
card, from now on at the national level.
If Modi is pushed forward as BJPs key political campaign-
er in the next parliamentary elections, the NDAs survival may
face a major risk. It may be recalled that in 1999, with Atal
Behari Vajpayee as Prime Minister, BJP succeeded in forming
the NDA government only after it agreed to put its Hindutva
agenda on the backburner. With Gujarat victory, BJP has a
major political battle ahead between its Hindutva agenda,
Modis national ambitions and its secular allies.
Speaki ng Out
Stage Set for Modis
National Ambitions
NI LOFAR SUHRAWARDY
SYED ZAFAR MAHMOOD
Now that K. Rahman Khan (KRK) has taken over as the new
Minister of Minority Affairs, the UPA Governments remaining
tenure in the Centre is less than one and a half years. Within the
first week of him in office, I met him and presented to him an aide-
memoire and explained to him what all can be salvaged even dur-
ing the remaining fourteen months of his government.
According to our constitutional system, it is the responsibility
of the political executive to make the nations policies while their
implementation is the bureaucracys duty. Problems arise when
ministers - because of factors like incompetence, lack of initiative
and drive, unwillingness to own up responsibility, non-application
of mind and lethargy - practically leave the job of policy-making
also to the bureaucrats. But the silver lining is that KRK is himself
a chartered accountant and has his heart in the right place. We
hope that he wont waste even a single day and would take full
command of the Ministry in the real sense of the word.
On 31 July 2011, KRK had stated through TwoCircles.net that
it is essential to form a new cadre (Indian Waqf Service) in order
to tone up the administration of the seriously ailing Muslim Waqf
system as had been strongly recommended by the Sachar
Committee. Earlier, as Chairman of the JPC for Waqfs, he had
written in his report submitted to the Parliament that the Chief
Ministers of almost all the states which the JPC visited had report-
ed that Muslim officers are invariably not available for being post-
ed as CEOs of the state waqf board, because the gross number of
Muslim officers in the Government is itself proportionately very
low. That is the reason why veterinary doctors, primary teachers,
retired deputy tehsildars etc are appointed as Waqf CEOs.
KRKs statement of truth had provided solace to the paining
hearts of the Indian Muslims and their benefactors. Leaders of
many national Muslim organizations as well as the National
Commission fir Minorities have since advocated the cause of
Waqf cadre by writing to the Prime Minister and the Minister for
Minority Affairs. The upcoming fourteen months will unfold how
KRK doesnt buckle under prejudiced misguidance and, instead,
implements what he stands for.
Waqf management
All of his other recommendations as Waqf JPC chairman are
equally significant and basically essential for an efficient Waqf
management. Still, most of them were ignored by the Ministry of
Minority Affairs while drafting the Waqf Bill 2010. These include:
1) Magisterial powers for the Chief Executive Officer of the State
Waqf Board.
2) Mandatory appointment of Waqf Survey Commissioner in each
state and inclusion of all the Waqf properties since 1947 into such
survey.
3) Treatment of Waqf Survey Commissioners notification as
deemed mutation.
4) Mandatory provision in the leasing order of Waqf properties
that the rent will be charged at prevalent market rate.
5) Comprehensive definition of the term Encroacher.
6) Treatment of Waqf properties as Public Premises so that it
becomes easier to remove encroachment.
7) Conferring on the CEO the powers of eviction.
8) Two years imprisonment and rupees five lakh penalty for those
who encroach on any Waqf property and depositing this penalty
amount in the Waqf Fund.
9) Treatment of the encroachment on Waqf property as a cogniz-
able offence.
10) Punishing the government officials who are responsible for
not removing encroachment from Waqf property.
11) Comprehensive definition of Waqf premises.
12) One year time limit for decision of the Waqf Tribunal in each
case.
13) Establishing a National Board for Educational Progress of
Muslims by utilizing the funds collected from the development of
Waqf properties.
This is a set of time-tested and legally-vetted statutory initiative
that can help remedy the pathetic plight of the Waqf properties
across India. Having found their way into law, these would surely
lead to faster and effective progress of the Muslim community.
KRK would surely be now chasing and pushing each one of these
into the redrafted Waqf Bill.
In the Central Waqf Council Rules, 1998 the only provision
regarding the appointment of the Secretary, CWC is that the
Minister can appoint any Muslim to this post. No other rule or reg-
ulation ever enacted in the country in respect of any other respon-
sible department or institution has been so carelessly formulated.
On the other hand, there are comparable laws regarding similar
endowments of the Hindu community made by almost a dozen of
provincial assemblies. There, it is uniformly provided that, even
though they have to be necessarily Hindu, the managers of the
endowments must necessarily be high profile, powerful and influ-
ential officers of the Government. This is the statutory genesis of
why the secretary of the trust of each devasthan or a big temple
is invariably a senior IAS officer. On the contrary, in order to be
posted as the Secretary of the Central Waqf Council it is not nec-
essary to have any status in the Government. As a result, the CWC
Secretary is generally looked down upon by the bureaucrats in the
ministries and departments. That is a major contributory factor of
the Waqf system in India being in a self-destructive mess. A
recent example is the joint meetings of the officers of the CWC and
the Archeological Survey of India (ASI) in implementation of an
important Sachar Committee recommendation. The minutes of
these meetings show that the ASI has always a unilateral upper
hand, often to the chagrin of CWC team, and that there is hardly
any utilization of these so-called joint meetings where vital
issues regarding strategic Waqf properties are supposed to be
discussed on equal footing. That is the reason why the Sachar
Committee had recommended that the Secretary of the CWC
should at least be of the level of Joint Secretary to the Government
of India, so that the CWC receives due day-to-day recognition in
the corridors of governmental power and influence. But, as
expected, this important recommendation finds no place in the
Waqf Bill 2010 nor any reason was given for its conspicuous
omission. KRK needs to particularly focus on this issue.
Prime Ministers 15 points programme
The monitoring of the implementation of the Prime Ministers 15
points programme for welfare of minorities, if at all, has gone on
reluctantly and sporadically - mostly for namesake. As aptly rec-
ommended by Harsh Mander in his 2011 report Promises to
Keep, Muslims need to be effectively included in the monitoring
mechanism at all levels. The Centre needs to conduct the follow
up of the appointments of Urdu teachers at state level. The
Guwahati High Cour t has quashed the proposed Limited
Competitive Examination (LCE) - the anti-Muslim bright idea of
the appointment of additional 1400 IPS officers. KRK will have to
follow up with the Home Minister and in the PMO so that the
Government does not appeal against the Guwahati High Court. In
this regard, KRKs predecessor had spoken to the Home Minister
and the Prime Minister. This needs to be taken to its logical con-
clusion.
Muslim reservation
The Muslim reservation must be adequately defended in the
Andhra Pradesh High Court and the Supreme Court stating that
Muslims had been ousted from the list of the scheduled castes
through the Presidents unconstitutional executive order in 1950.
That is the reason why today they are lagging behind educational-
ly, economically and socially when compared with the rest of all
other communities. Hence, reservation must be given to them
under article 16 of the constitution as Justice Ranganath Mishra
Commission has vehemently recommended.
Meanwhile, let us greet KRK in this kurukshetra of restoring
justice and equity to the deprived. Let us encourage him to buck
up - in the words of Dr Sir Mohammad Iqbal: Aabaad hai ek taaza
jahaan terey hunar mein. A new world inhabits your heartful acu-
men !
The author is President, Zakat Foundation of India and was Officer on
Special Duty, Prime Ministers High Level Committee on Muslims (popu-
larly known as Sachar Committee). He can be contacted at
info@zakatindia.org
If Modi is pushed forward as BJPs key politi-
cal campaigner in the next parliamentary elec-
tions, the NDAs survival may face a major risk.
It may be recalled that in 1999, with Atal Behari
Vajpayee as Prime Minister, BJP succeeded in
forming the NDA government only after it agreed
to put its Hindutva agenda on the backburner.
With Gujarat victory, BJP has a major political
battle ahead between its Hindutva agenda,
Modis national ambitions and its secular allies.
In the Central Waqf Council Rules,
1998 the only provision regarding the
appointment of the Secretary, CWC is
that the Minister can appoint any
Muslim to this post. No other rule or
regulation ever enacted in the country
in respect of any other responsible
department or institution has been so
carelessly formulated. On the other
hand, there are comparable laws
regarding similar endowments of the
Hindu community made by almost a
dozen of provincial assemblies. There,
it is uniformly provided that, even
though they have to be necessarily
Hindu, the managers of the endow-
ments must necessarily be high profile,
powerful and influential officers of the
Government.
ANALYSIS The Milli Gazette, 1-15 January 2013 11 www.milligazette.com
Works waiting K. Rahman Khan - i
ONE HUNDRED STUDENTS OF DELHI and 50
STUDENTS OF HARYANA who had secured 90
percent or above marks in 10th class Board
Examination in March 2012 were honoured with
cash Awards and Certificates at a function held
at Hamdard Public School, Talimabad (Sangam
Vihar) and sponsored by Human Welfare
Foundatin on 16 December. The Awards were
given by Naseem Ahmad, present Administrator
of Haryana Waqf Board and former Vice
Chancellor of AMU (just before Prof. P.K. Abdul
Azis / V.C. of AMU). It may be stated that the
Foundation had started this Award in 2009 and
so far about 4000 students of 15 states of the
country have been honoured with this Award.
SALMAN ABDUS SAMAD, a man of letters who
is writing in different magazines and newspa-
pers in support of empowerment of women and
girls is among the 24 such authors who has
been honoured with Laadli Media Award 2012.
Educated at Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama,
Lucknow and Delhi University, he is still a stu-
dent. His article in Urdu was selected among
480 articles received in different Indian lan-
guages by Population First, an institution of
Mumbai which has instituted this Award for
works, activities, campaigns etc. for empower-
ment of women. The Award for the best article
in Urdu on the topic was given to him by UPs
chief minister Akhilesh Yadav at a function held
in Lucknow.
Dr. SAYEEDUR RAHMAN AZMI NADWI, reli-
gious scholar of world fame, Principal of
Lucknows Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama and
Chancellor of Integral University of Lucknow has
unanimously been selected by the Institute of
Objective Studies (IOS)s Governing Council for
being honoured with IOSs 5th Lifetime
Achievement Award. The decision to select him
for this Award was taken in IOSs 26th General
Assemblys meeting held on 8 December. The
Award consists of a cash prize of Rs. one lakh,
a shawl and memento. Dr. Sayeedur Rahman is
also the chief editor of Arabic magazine Al Bas
Al Islami. A 20-minute documentary film on his
life and services will also be shown on the
occasion of Award-giving function. He is 78.
MUNAWWARUZ ZAMAN, famous personality
development trainer has been honoured with
World Human Rights Protection Award on the
occasion of International Human Rights Day on
11 December in recognition of providing English
education and training to 1200 orphan children
of Makan Muslim Yateemkhana (Orphanage) in
Kerala. The Award was presented to him by
union minister for agriculture and food process-
ing, Tariq Anwar. It may be stated that he
(Munawaruzzaman) has also been imparting
personality development training in Delhis India
Islamic Cultural Centre every year since 2008
which is sponsored by Noble Education
Foundation free of charge and so far more than
3000 students have benefitted from this train-
ing. He has also trained police officers in
Najafgarh Police Training College, Delhi. He has
received appreciation from British and American
embassies, AMU, Jamia Millia Islamia, Maulana
Azad Urdu University etc. for his skill in training
of personality development.
RAUNAQ AFROZ, Urdu poet and critic has been
honoured by Maharashtra Urdu Academy with
its Award for criticism on his book titled Bainus
Sotoor (between the lines). The Award was
given to him by Maharashtras chief minister
Prithvi Raj Chauhan.
KISHAN KUMAR Toor, prominent Urdu poet
has been declared winner of Sahitya Academy
Award 2012 for Urdu book by Academys
Executive Board on 20 December along with 23
other men of letters of other Indian languages.
The Award, consisting of Academys emblem
(Logo) and a cheque of Rs. one lakh each, will
be given to the winners at Academys function
to be held on 18 February 2013 at Kamani
Auditorium, New Delhi. Born in Lahore in 1933,
he migrated to India and settled down first in
Ambala then in Patiala and finally at
Dharamshala (Himachal Pradesh). He has at
least seven anthologies of poems to his credit
and has been honoured with many awards by
many states.
Another Sahitya Academy Award for trans-
lation in Urdu (along with 24 other Indian lan-
guages) has been given to Urdu scholar ATHAR
FAROOQI, general secretary of Anjuman
Taraqqi-e Urdu (Hind) for his translation of
Salman Khurshids English book Sons of Babar
into Urdu titled Babar ki Aulad. This Award con-
sists of Rs. 50,000 (cheque) and a certificate
which will be given to the awardees in August
2013 at Academys function.
ALLAH JILAI BAI, folk singer and renowned
ghazal singer (late) Jagjit Singh are among the
seven famous artistes, litterateurs and cultural
icons who were honoured on 17 December by
Rajasthan government with its highest civilian
award Rajasthan Ratn on the line of Bharat
Ratn national award. This Award was conferred
on them posthumously.
Dr. MUHAMMAD KAMIL, associate professor in
AMUs Department of Zoology has been hon-
oured by National Environmental Science
Academy with Eminent Scientist 2012 Award in
recognition of his valuable work and services in
the field of entomology (science of insects). The
Award was presented to him by Dr. G. N. Qazi,
Vice Chancellor of Jamia Hamdard at a function
in the presence of Academys President Dr. S. Z.
Qasmi, himself an eminent scientist, and
Planning Commission member Dr. Kastoori
Rangan. An author of four books on this topic,
his more than 70 researched articles have also
been published in national and international
journals and magazines. Before this, he was
honoured with the Fellowship of Chinas
Academy of Science.
HUMAN WELFARE FOUNDATION, which is car-
rying on a campaign for creating educational
awareness in society and has set up 44 schools
in northern India was honoured with National
Award for Education at a function sponsored by
Chamber of Education, New Delhi and Calicut
University of Kerala. The Award, on behalf of
Human Welfare Foundation, was received by the
Foundations General Secretary, Prof. K. A.
Siddiq Hasan and given by Calicut Universitys
Vice Chancellor Dr. M. Abdus Salam in Dehi.
The Foundation is also setting up hostels for
students and arranging special educational pro-
grammes for poor people and scholarships and
awards to promising students.
JAMIA COOPERATIVE BANK LTD., Jamia Nagar
was honoured with Best Performance Award
for the year 2011-12 for strengthening the
cause of mutual assistance by way of providing
loans on easy terms and easily also to poor and
weaker sections of people of Okhla area for their
welfare and development. Banks chairman,
Prof. Asad Ali, described as the Best Cooperator
received the Award at a function held at Hindi
Bhawan, Delhi on 19 December under the aus-
pices of Delhi State Cooperative Union Ltd. and
given by Mutual Assistance Educational Fund
Committee. Banks Founder-Director Mirza
Faridul Hasan Baig also was honoured with
Chaudhri Daleep Singh Award for his untiring
and selfless service in setting up this Bank for
improving the lot of poor people.
SADAF LAEEQ was awarded Rs. 5000 and a
cer tificate for securing 96% marks in 12th
class, NIMRAH NAAZ was awarded Rs. 3000
and a cer tificate for securing 92% marks in
12th class, HAMEERAH ZAKI was awarded
Rs. 5000 and a cer tificate for securing 10
CGPA in 10th class and ILMA KHAN was
awarded Rs. 3000 and a cer tificate for seruc-
ing 9.6 CGPA. All these girls belong to Rabia
Girls Public School, Delhi and all these
awards and cer tificates were given by
American Federation of Muslims of Indian
Origin (AFMIO) USA which gives such awards
every year to brilliant Muslim boys and girls in
India.
AWARDS
MUHAMMAD AMIN,
distinguished historian
and educationist who
taught medieval Indian
history at St.
Stephens College to
generations of under-
graduates for more
than four decades died
in Delhi on 15
December at the age
of 86 years. According to one of his students who
is now a noted scholar, Ameen Saheb was the
heart and soul of St. Stephens College for half a
century. He was also the Vice Chancellor of
Jamia Hamdard, Delhi and was honoured with
Padma Bhushan. He leaves behind his wife, one
son and one daughter: Khurshid, Shahid and
Ghazala Amins. Principal of St. Stephens College
Valson Thampu while paying tributes to him says
that he considers himself fortunate to have been
his colleague from 1973 till the time he retired.
Dr. NOOR MUHAMMAD
NABI MALDAAR,
presently a professor of
Chemistry Department
of Sholapurs School of
Chemical Science, has
been appointed Vice
Chancellor of Sholapur
U n i v e r s i t y
(Maharashtra) by
Maharashtras Governor and Chancellor of this
University, K. Shankar Narain for 5 years.
MAHBOOB ALAM, sen-
ior I.P.S. officer of 1981
batch of Tamil Nadu
cadre has been made
interim Director General
of Indo-Tibetan Border
Police (ITBP) in place of
Ranjeet Sinha who has
been made Director of
CBI. Presently
Mahboob Alam is Additional Director General
of ITBP and has been given the additional
charge of D.G. of ITBP because of the vacancy
caused by the appointment of Ranjeet Sinha as
CBI Director.
HAJI MUHAMMAD FAIZAN, general secretary
of Naaz Welfare Society has been appointed a
Member of Government of Indias Telephone
Advisory Committee.
SIRAJUDDIN QURAISHI, businessman and
President of India Islamic Cultural Centre, New
Delhi was elected President of All India
Jamiatul Quraish for the third term consecu-
tively with a big margin. He defeated his rival,
Muhammad Ateeq Sajid Quraishi with a margin
of 408 votes. Out of total votes of 418, where-
as Sirajudin Quraishi secured 408 votes, Ateeq
Sajid secured only 10 votes. After his election
Sirajuddin Quraishi announced the setting up
of All India Jamiatul Quraishs Womens Wing
headed by Rajasthans education minister
Naseem Akhtar Quraishi.
MUHAMMAD IRFAN ANSARI along with two
others has been appointed secretary of Delhi
Pradesh Congress Committee (DPCC) by
DPCCs President and M.P., Jai Prakash
Agarwal.
Dr. PEERZADA QASIM, Vice Chancellor of
Karachis Ziauddin University and a prominent
poet and litterateur was honoured with Kaifi
Azmi Award at a function, First International
Poetry Festival sponsored by the social and lit-
erary organisation Jashn-e Adab at India
Islamic Cultural Centre, New Delhi on 18
December. The Award was presented to him by
Shabana Azmi, daughter of (late) Kaifi Azmi
and a well-know film actress and social work-
er. Speaking on this occasion Dr. Peerzada
Qasim while regretting that young generation
has no sense of tolerance, sincerity and literary
and cultural taste said that creating awareness
about mans high moral values among the
young generation is necessary because noth-
ing is greater than humanism.
MEN & WOMEN IN NEWS
OBITUARIES
The Sahitya Akademi has conferred its
translation award for the year on Ather
Farouqui, a distinguished intellectual,
writer-activist and General Secretary
of the Anjuman Taraqqi-e Urdu (Hind)
for his Urdu and Hindi translations
(Babur ki Aulad) of Sons of Babur, an
English play scripted by Salman
Khurshid, now Union External Affairs
Minister.
Mr Farouqui has not only translat-
ed the play but has also been its producer. The play has rung up
30 successful performances in India and abroad. It was first
staged in 2008 at an unusual venue-Saudi Arabia-and the silver
jubilee performance was staged at FICCI auditorium on 15
September 2012 in New Delhi. In addition, the play was per-
formed for the then President of India, Pratibha Patil, at
Rashtrapati Bhawan. It was also performed in London on
10 October 2012.
Ather Farouqui, who has a PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru
University, was born in 1964 in Sikandrabad, where he did his
schooling. Later, he came to Delhi and joined JNU, first for a part-
time diploma in mass media in 1986, then for his MPhil in 1988.
He went on to do his PhD there, with the degree conferred on him
in 1996. Farouqui chose to make a socio-political study of Urdu
in post-Partition India for both his MPhil and PhD degrees.
Farouqui has written extensively on various aspects of Urdu,
Urdu-related politics and Muslims in contemporary India. Apart
from his prolific output in newspapers and academic journals,
Farouqui also has six books to his credit two of these are in
English and have been published by Oxford University Press:
Redefining Urdu Politics in India (2006), and Muslims and Media
Images (2009). The remaining are in Urdu: Azad Hindustan Mein
Urdu Siyaasat Ki Tafhim-e Nau; Urdu Zaban, Talim Aur Sahaafat;
Guftagu unki, Na-Mukammal and a book each on leading Urdu
writers Rashid Hasan Khan and Makhmoor Saidi. Some 15 years
back, Farouqui also rendered the Kulliyat of noted Urdu poet and
dialogue writer, Akhtarul Iman into Devnagari script. He has also
made a two-part documentary on Akhtarul Iman.
Malabar Muslim girl discovered the
Zirconium star
Malllapuram, Keralas Naslim
Neelamkodan who enrolled in 2008
into the Belfast Queen University for
PhD chose to study a star known as
LS IV-14 116 with a strange wave-
length. Naslims research showed
that the star contains Zirconium ele-
ments. It was after studies and close
observations based on these new findings that the team decided
to name LS IV-14 116 as Zirconium Star. Nadalia Behra of
Belgium Bruxelles University is the other team member. The team
completed their doctorate studies in September, 2012.
Zirconium, the material used by jewellers to make false dia-
monds, glitters in clouds above the stars surface, the study pub-
lished in Royal Astronomical Society Journal says.
The star features concentrations of the Zirconium at about
10,000 times higher than those on our Sun and so the research
team has called it Zirconium Star. The strange star also has far
more than the usual amounts of other elements like strontium,
germanium and yttrium the Royal Astronomical Society in its
journal says.
Naslim completed her Bachelors degree in Physics from
Chungathara Marthoma College and MSc in Physics from
Kottayam Mahathma University. She qualified for PhD from
Irelands Belfast Queen University along with a fellowship in 2008
while working as Research Assistant at Indian Institute of
Astrophysics, Bangluru.
Naslims parents Neelamkodan Beeran Kutty and Mariyakutty
still reside at Edakkara and her father now runs a decoration shop
at Edakkara town. Naslim said that she is hoping to continue her
studies and research regarding the presence of various elements
in stars. (Naslim Neelamkodan blogs at http://naslim-
astro.blogspot.in/)
ATHER FAROUQUI GETS SAHITYA AWARD
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BY OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT
Doha (Qatar): Muslim Worlds most influential non-governmental
organisation, the International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS),
headed by the most respected contemporary Muslim scholar
Shaikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi, held the fourth meeting of its board of
trustees in this city which has seen unprecedented transformation
and progress during the last two decades. Thirty seven IUMS
trustees (out of a total of 52) met here during 15-16 December to
discuss a variety of issues and problems of the Muslim World and
Muslim minorities. Members present included such luminaries as
the head of the Tunisian ruling Nahda Party Shaikh Rashid Al-
Ghannoushi, former Mauritanian minister and scholar Shaikh
Abdullah Ben Bayyah, Ibadi Mufti of Oman Shaikh Khaleeli, former
Sudanese minister Prof. Isam Al-Basheer, former speaker of the
Indonesian Parliament Dr Hidayat and many leading scholars from
around the world. From India, MG editor Dr Zafarul-Islam Khan
participated. The other IUMS trustee from India, Prof. Siddiq
Hasan, could not participate due to bad health.
The meeting started with a keynote address by IUMS
President Shaikh Qaradawi in which he explained the history and
ideas behind the IUMS and how no Arab or Muslim country was
ready to allow its registration which led them to register it in
Ireland in 2004 but today it has been registered in Qatar with the
permission of its Emir. Qaradawi said the IUMS has stood firmly
behind the revolutions in the Arab countries known as Arab
Spring and will continue to do so as well as offering its support
to the Muslim causes all over the world. He announced that in
order to place the IUMS on a firm footing, he is working on an
ambitious plan to have waqfs dedicated to the organisation in a
number of countries. Valuable chunks of land have already been
donated to the organisation in a number of countries like Qatar and
Sudan where properties will be developed so as to ensure a
steady revenue to fund the various activities of the IUMS.
Shaikh Qaradawi announced that in a major initiative, IUMS
will hold an international conference to stop attacks on religions.
He said it it not just the question of protecting Islam but all reli-
gions should be respected and no one has the licence to make fun
of any religion. He hoped that an international law could be prom-
ulgated through the efforts of Muslim countries to this effect.
IUMS general secretary Shaikh Ali Al-Qurahdaghi presented a
detailed account of the organisations work in various field during
the previous period. Lebanons Shaikh Ahmad Al-Umari present-
ed the report of the IUMS Jerusalem Committee while Saudi
Arabias Prof. Abdul Wahhab Nurwali presented the report of the
Minorities and Issues Committee and announced that a confer-
ence on Muslim minorities will be held in Berlin within a year. He
also announced that IUMS virtual university (www.iumsu.com) is
ready to start functioning in the near future.
Noted scholar Shaikh Ben Bayyah opined that the Muslim
World is now functioning under a new social contract. He said, in
the post-colonial period we have reverted to the Age of the
Constitution of Madina and the Age of Jizya which had started
with the Islamic conquests came to an end with the advent of the
colonial period. He came down strongly on the Salafis in the Arab
World and described them as the new Zahirites who do not under-
stand the delicate balances and do not know that the rules of
Islamic politics, compiled as Al-Ahkam al-Sultaniah, are mere ideas
and opinions formulated by scholars of yester-years and these do
not bind us. He said that the so-called Islamic Revolutionaries in
Mali are applying Shariah on a hapless and poor population which
is living in an abode devoid of peace and security.
Noted scholar and a preacher of the ideology of Wasatiyah
(moderate or middle path), Prof. Isam Al-Basheer of Sudan
announced that he is overseeing the compilation of a dictionary of
ideas to educate the Ummah about Wasatiyah. This is one of the
projects coopted by the IUMS. Prof. Al-Basheer also announced
that he is working on a charter of Islamic activism which will be
shared with Muslim organisations all over the world. Shaikh
Qaradawi quipped here that this is the age of sandwiches and light
meals. He said that our hearts should be big enough to accept
those who oppose us or do not rise up to our standards. He
announced that the IUMS will soon have its own centre of
research and studies.
Prof. Abdul Majeed Al-Najjar, a member of the Tunisian parlia-
ment, said that earlier we were talking about ideas and ideologies
and now we have regimes and governments searching for ways
to put those ideas into action.
Shaikh Farooq Al-Batal of Syria
gave a description of the situation in his
country while Shaikh Ahmad Al-Umari
offered a short account of the situation
in Lebanon while Shaikh Harith Al-Dhari
of Iraq explained the situation in his
country. He said that the American
forces have not left Iraq and the Iranian
influence is increasing by the day and
the government of Al-Maliki has com-
mitted more crimes than the Americans
in Iraq. As a reuslt of the war and con-
tinued uncertainty, about four million
Iraqis are living as refugees outside
their country.
Pakistans Abdul Ghaffar Azeez
presented a report about the Rohingyas
of Burma while Shaikh Marwan of Gaza
spoke about the situation in Palestine in general and
Gaza in particular.
The Tunisian leader Shaikh Ghannoushi said
that since independence, Tunisia had emerged as a
rejector of faith and believer in secularism, so much
so that hijab was outlawed, waqfs were nationalised
and the oldest Islamic university Al-Zaitunah was
closed down. He said that all this has changed now
after the revolution two years ago. The secular
forces were routed in the last years elections
though they are yet to concede defeat.
Turkeys Shaikh Hamdi Arsalan offered a report
about the situation in his country and how the
Turkish people are slowly returning to their origins.
Egyptian scholar Shaikh Muhammad Al-
Mukhtar Al-Mahdi, president of Egypts influential
Al-Jamiyyah Al-Shariyyah, offered an overview of
the situation in Egypt and said that the judiciary and
the media are yet to accpet the new situation after
the revolution. He said that the media has invented
the term of Ikhwanisation in order to defame the
new government which is not working for the
Ikhwan but for Islam.
Libyan scholars Dr Ali Sallabi and Shaikh Salim
Al-Shaikhi offered an overview of the situation in
their country. They said that various internal and
external forces are trying to frustrate the Libyan rev-
olution. Sallabi said that some Islamic activists in
Libya refuse to learn from the Tunisian experience.
He said that even secular and liberal people in Libya
are not opposed to Islam. Shaikhi said that 70,000
people took part in the armed revolt and now they are being
absorbed in various departments.
Shaikh Abdul Wahhab Al-Dailami of Yemen spoke about the
situation in his country while Russias Dr Lui spoke about the sit-
uation of the Muslim minority
in his country. Kuwaits
Shaikh Khaled Madkour
explained the situation in his
country. Bosnias Prof.
Safvet Khalilovic explained
the situation in the Balkans
while Malaysias Shaikh
Abdul Ghani Shamsuddin
and Chinas Shaikh Yusuf
Siraj Ma Foda explained the
Islamic activities in their
respective countries. Former
Indonesian speaker of
Parliament Dr Hidayat offered
an overview of the situation
in his country and how
Islamic activities are taking
place freely in a secular poli-
ty. Similar reports were pre-
sented by scholars from
Sudan and Uzbekistan etc.
Indias Dr Zafarul-Islam
Khan offered a report about the condition of the Muslim minority
in India. He especially mentioned the continuing communal riots,
the displacement of hundreds of thousands of Muslims from their
homes and lands in Assam and the continuing official war on the
Muslim community in the garb of fighting against terror.
The conference issued a number of resolutions about the
international and regional issues. This included a resolution about
the anti-Muslim campaign under the garb of fighting terror. A
translation of this resolution is as follows:
IUMS condemns the continuing campaign against the Indian
Muslims in the name of fighting terror despite the acquittal of hun-
dreds of Muslim youths by Indian courts after spending long
years in jails and despite abundant evidences showing that the
cases are manufactured against Muslim youths and confessions
are extracted through torture which is internationally prohibited.
IUMS demands the Indian government to desist from arrest-
ing Muslim youths in the name of fighting terror and to establish
fast-track courts to try those who are already arrested so that they
are not acquitted many years after their arrests. Moreover, IUMS
demands the Indian government to compensate Muslim youths
who have been acquitted and to offer an official apology to them
and to the Muslim community in India.
Other resolutions concerned Palestine, Arab Spring, Egypt,
Tunisia, Libya, Yemen, Somalia, Iraq, Bangladesh, Afghanistan,
Kashmir (in which implementation of the UN resolutions was
demanded), Mali, Sudan, Kosovo, Lebanon, Rohingya Muslims of
Burma and the Islamophobia in the West.
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Urdu Academy in Uttarakhand
Dehradun: A 20-page report on the setting up of Urdu Academy in
Uttarakhand with about a dozen recommendations regarding the
administrative set-up, rules and regulations and future pro-
grammes etc. was presented to states chief minister Vijay
Bahuguna at his residence by Urdu Academy, New Delhis Vice
Chairman Prof. Akhtarul Wasey in the presence of media persons
and other dignitaries including Sunil Kumar Mattoo, chief Resident
Commissioner of the state, Deputy Registrar of Uttarakhand
Madrasa Board Abdul Aleem Ansari, Haj Committee
(Uttarakhand)s chairman Haji Rao Sher Ali, members of the com-
mittee etc. The report was prepared jointly by a 9-member com-
mittee constituted in accordance with a government order of
18 September 2012 and headed by Prof. Akhtarul Wasey who is
also the Director of Jamia Millia Islamias Zakir Husain Institute of
Islamic Studies. Among other members of this committee were
Dr. S. Farooq, Z. K. Faizan, Razia Begum, Furqan Ahmad etc. Sunil
Kumar Mattoo was made convener of this committee.
This report prepared by the Committee contained, among
other things, three important recommendations: that this Urdu
Academy should be under department / ministry of Cultural affairs
instead of under the ministry of minorities affairs, that its central
office should be at Dehradun and that a consolidated amount,
which may be about Rs. 20 crores, should be arranged, for meet-
ing the Academys expenses and other financial needs. The chief
minister, while accepting two of the three important recommenda-
tions, that is, keeping the Academy under cultural affairs depart-
ment and its central office at Dehradun, assured all possible help
and cooperation for setting up the Urdu Academy and appreciated
the efforts of Prof. Akhtarul Wasey and other members of the
committee. He however said nothing about allocation of the
amount for the Academy.
Prof. Akhtarul Wasey while presenting the report to the chief
minister reminded him that when the first Urdu Academy was set
up in the country in U.P., it was during the chief ministership of his
(late) father Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna and the state governor
was a lover of Urdu, Akbar Ali Khan and it is a matter of chance
now that the Urdu Academy in Uttarakhand is being set up during
his chief ministership (who is the son of H. N. Bahuguna) and
states governor is Aziz Qureshi, who also is a lover and promot-
er of Urdu.
On another occasion in the same connection i.e. Urdu
Academy while meeting members of a delegation, governor Aziz
Qureshi said that the most important symbol of Ganga-Jamuni
composite civilization is Urdu languages secular character itself
the roots of which are deeply spread in all parts of the country. It
may be noted that Aziz Qureshi was at one time Vice Chairman of
NCPUL and Chairman of Madhya Pradeshs Urdu Academy.
Among members of this delegation was Chanderbhan Khayal,
who also was closely associated with NCPUL. He presented a
copy of his famous sets of Lolak which he has composed in praise
of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh).
Summit sets up school for Burmese refugee children
New Delhi: Summit, an N.G.O., has set up a school in Jamia Nagar
Okhlas Kanchan Kunj locality, named Hope for Humanity for pro-
viding free primary education to poor children. The main objective
of this school is to impart free education to the children of Muslim
refugees of Burma (Myanmar) who after their large scale persecu-
tion by Burmese Buddhists as well as government were compelled
to migrate to other countries particularly Bangladesh, India and
some other neighbouring countries. Since there was virtually no
help from government, Muslim organisations are providing help to
them. Zakat Foundation of India made arrangements for their sub-
sistence, accommodation etc. in Jamia Nagar area. For the
moment there are about 40 children (boys and girls) and two
teachers. Books in Urdu, Hindi and English and stationery are pro-
vided to them. Head of Summit, Sheikh Jeelani says that people
who think that providing education to children is the responsibility
of government only, are wrong, adding that governments no doubt
are making arrangements for the education of children and higher
class students but it is our responsibility also to promote educa-
tion among them. He said two teachers have been employed to
teach them Urdu, Hindi, English and other subjects. He further
said that they have set up a school in Nuh (Mewat, Haryana) also
where about sixty children are being imparted such education.
Muslims in Delhi schools in proportion to their population
New Delhi: General secretary of Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) Abdul
Khaliq, who has been keeping a close watch on the problems of
minorities, particularly Muslims in Delhi, cautioned the Delhi gov-
ernment just before the beginning of nursery admission process in
government as well as private recognised schools, that if it does
not ensure the admission of children of minority communities,
particularly of Muslims in these classes in proportion to their pop-
ulation, he will be compelled to gherao the residence of the chief
minister and if there is any law and order problem in consequence
of this, the responsibility for this will be on the government itself.
He emphasised while talking to mediapersons at the Partys Delhi
office that our demand to (Delhi) government is that this time it
should ensure the admission of Muslim children in nursery class-
es of these schools in proportion to their population. He further
said that our bitter experience in the past compels us to think that
there are some people somewhere in the government or system
who do not want that Muslim children can avail of good and mod-
ern education in standard schools of Delhi. He said that last year
we held detailed talks with high officials of state and central gov-
ernment as well as school authorities on this problem without get-
ting any useful result from government. He said that whereas par-
ents of children are planning to go to court for justice on this prob-
lem, we will fight this problem from the street to the Parliament.
He said that last year the government had given them an
assurance on this problem but nothing happened, adding that
enough is enough and now they would not be satisfied with empty
promises and false assurances, now they wanted practical results
and were determined on this point. He also demanded the govern-
ment to facilitate the process of getting income certificates
because officials create too many difficulties in presenting income
certificates for which many complaints are made by Muslim par-
ents.
He also made an appeal to the government to immediately put
an end to neighbourhood system because the government knows
very well that there are practically no standard schools in Muslim
populated areas and the absence of standard schools in these
areas is also one of the important reasons for Muslim children not
being selected for admission in standard schools. He said that we
have also written a letter to chief minister Shiela Dikshit regarding
this (ending of neighbourhood system) and we are given to under-
stand that government also is thinking of abolishing this system.
He said that if the neighbourhood system is abolished, Muslim
children can seek admission in any school, even if it is far off.
BJP promises Madrasa modernisation in Gujarat
Ahmedabad: BJP, concerned about the welfare of the Muslim com-
munity demonstrated its sadbhavna by including modernisation of
Madrasa education. Neither ghettos nor slums deserve any
reform. They must continue to live without civil amenities but their
madrasas must be modernised. What will they do with a sewer
system? Their madrasas must have computers. A government
that refuses release of grants for scholarships because of commu-
nal allergy has come forward with its dream project of modernisa-
tion of Madrasa so that the miyans mind get sterlised. The inter-
esting part of the joke of the year is that the community has not
only spurned the lollipop but has strongly criticised intervention in
their religious system.
Innocent Mahram Ali released after 4 months imprisonment
Lucknow: Mehram Ali of Gadora of Ghazipur area was arrested,
under a conspiracy, in September 2012 and presented in the court
of Addl. District Judge of Lucknow, Manoj Kumar Shukla as Raju
Yadav who was involved in three criminal cases but after his
release on bail had become an absconder. ADJ Manoj Kumar with-
out inquiry and without asking Mehram Ali anything took him for
Raju and sent him to jail where he remained for about four
months. Two persons, Ram Naresh and Somesh, had stood sure-
ty for Raju but he cheated them and jumped the bail. When Raju
was required in the court of ADJ Manoj Kumar on several dates
and he did not show up, ADJ held his sureties Ram Naresh and
Somesh responsible and ordered them to produce Raju Yadav at
the earliest. These people being unsuccessful in tracing him got in
touch with Rajus lawyer Vipul Kumar and requested him to do
something to save them. Vipul Kumar advised them to catch
someone and present him in the court as Raju Yadav and in this
way they would be able to save their skin. Acting on Vipuls
advice, they caught hold of one Mehram Ali and on some under-
standing with him presented him in the court of Manoj Kumar who
without any inquiry, sent him to jail. This took place in September
this year.
When family members of Mehram Ali came to know about his
imprisonment without any crime, they approached Muhammad
Waris Farooqi, a lawyer practicing in the Lucknow bench of
Allahabad High Court on whose advice Mehram Alis family mem-
bers filed a petition in the court in response to which the High
Court sent notices to the states home secretary, police superin-
tendent and Ghazipur Thana Incharge and asked for their reply. The
police supdt. in his reply said that there is no case against Mehram
Ali in any of the capitals (Lucknow) police stations. At this, the
High Court entrusted the inquiry of this case to CJM who submit-
ted his enquiry report to the H.C.
Meanwhile, when Mehram Ali was sent to jail as Raju on
ADJ Manoj Kumars orders without proper investigation and his
signature was obtained in the jail, it did not tally with that of the
real Raju. This exposed the whole conspiracy. Lawyer Waris
Farooqi, pleading on behalf of Mehram Ali and after listening to the
whole story from him, told the High Court how Rajus sureties had
presented Mehram Ali as Raju in ADJ Manoj Kumars court to
save their skin. After hearing the whole story the High Court
ordered his release on 12 December after four months of incarcer-
ation and summoned ADJ Manoj Kumar Shukla in the High Court
along with all records and files. Meanwhile, Raju remains untraced
till date. When lawyer Waris Farooqi was asked about compensa-
tion to Mehram Ali for his unnecessary arrest under a conspiracy,
he said that this matter will be taken up later when he comes out
of jail.
Ahmed Raza arrested: Azad Maidan riots
Mumbai: Ahmed Raza, general secretary of Madinatul Ilm,
chargesheeted for the Azad Maidan riots on August 11 has been
arrested for flouting norms. Himanshu Roy, J.C.P., crime, apprised
that inspite of his assurance that the rally would be peaceful and
would have only 1000 protestors; the rally had about 15000
demonstrated and turned violent. With his arrest the tally of per-
sons nabbed so far has gone up to 64. Five persons were later
released when their innocence was confirmed while 45 have been
granted bail. 3500 persons have been termed wanted in the above
case.
Alleged I.M. operative granted bail
Mumbai: Afroz Firoz Mujawar, an alleged I.M. operative nabbed for
Gujarat blasts in 2008, was granted bail by Bombay High court.
Justice Abhay Thipsey observed: Prima facie, application of the
Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) was not
tenable in the case against I.M. The court also rejected the
charge levelled against Mujawar of possessing objectionable
material at his shop.
Welfare Party workers besiege Liquor Outlets in Kerala
Hundreds of Welfare Party of India activists took out marches and
laid siege of three retail outlets of Kerala State Beverages
Corporation (KSBC) at Tirur in Malappuram district, Chalakkudy in
Thrissur district and Karunagappally in Kollam district to press the
Government of Kerala to initiate effective steps for total prohibition
in the state. The per capita consumption of alcohol of Keralites,
exceeds eight litres per person a year overtaking traditionally hard-
drinking states like the Punjab and Haryana. This causes a lot of
social problems, increased crimes, alarming divorces, atrocities
against women, various health hazards etc. WPI state working
committee has decided to submit a viable action plan to make
Kerala an alcohol-free state within 10 years. March to and siege of
the liquor retail outlets were taken out as part of this campaign.
New Delhi: Former Chief Justice of India, Justice A. H. Ahmadi,
while delivering a lecture on Growing loss of fear of law and
dereliction of duty and decline of rule of law at the 26 annual
conference of I.O.S. General Assembly at New Delhi on
9 December said that loss of fear of law and dereliction of duty
and decline in rule of law are deeply related to each other. Hence
if the rule of law erodes, loss of fear of law and dereliction of duty
will certainly increase. He said that the irony is that some fascist
and communal parties which play politics of violence and indulge
in hate-mongering speeches have no fear of law because they
think that no action can be taken against them. He emphasised
the point that what was needed today was that loss of fear of law
and neglect of duty must be brought to an end with full force. In
this connection, giving examples of the threat that no one could
get them to remove the makeshift structure of Bal Thackerays
memorial from Mumbais Shivaji Park against the state govern-
ments order to remove it, and construction of a Hindu religious
building adjacent to Hyderabads Char Minar, he said that the
same kind of behaviour was seen in the case of Babri Masjid
which ultimately resulted in its demolition, and the culprits have
not been punished yet.
Justice Ahmadi said that today an atmosphere of fear and
harassment is prevailing in the whole country because of false
and fabricated accusations against Muslim youths and their
arrests, so much so that whenever any untoward incident takes
place, the police immediately claims to know the guilty organisa-
tion whereas before this incident police remained totally
unaware, and so some Muslim youths are picked up and put
behind bars. In this connection, Justice Ahmadi referred to the
bomb blasts in Hyderabads Makka Masjid, Malegaon, Samjhauta
Express, Ajmer, Delhi and other places and arrests of Muslim
youths from different parts of the country, including the arrest of
journalist Mohammad Ahmad Kazmi.
He raised the issue of those who are acquitted by courts
when accusations against them are not proved and asked, who
will bring back their lost time, careers and honour and who will
rehabilitate them, and who will accept them as respectable and
reliable members of society?
He further said that it is a matter of great concern that the
atmosphere is communalised and tension prevails in the country.
While mentioning communal riots in UPs Faizabad, Kosi Kalan,
Pratapgarh, Ghaziabad etc. and Maharashtras Akot, he said that
loss of life and properties in these riots are no secret. He said that
in Assam, lakhs of people who became homeless have not been
able to go back to their homes in spite of leaving relief camps and
no serious efforts are being made to resettle them in their ances-
tral homes.
Referring to the communal riots in U.P., he said that it is
strange that chief minister Akhilesh Yadav says that these riots
are a conspiracy to defame his government which clearly means
that some communal elements of society are indulging in these
shameful activities, being sure that the police and administration
will not take any action against them.
Finally, he said that the central and state governments must
take strong action against individuals and organisations hatching
conspiracies of, and indulging in, communal riots, rectify and
strengthen the law and order machinery, punish the criminals as
well as police officers in charge of the area where such riots take
place and should give compensation of at least Rs. 25 lakh to the
kins of those who die in riots and in fake police encounters. He
said that unless these steps are taken in all earnestness, it will be
difficult to tackle this important problem.
On this occasion Vice Chancellor of University of Law,
Hyderabad, Prof. Faizan Mustafa said that in these critical circum-
stances it is very important to familiarise people with the law and
legal assistance.
A question-answer session followed after the lecture. In
this lecture members of I.O.S. General Assembly who had
come from different states, special guests and invitees and
other dignitaries, intellectuals, journalists etc. par ticipated. A
large number of youngmen and students also attended this
lecture. (NA Ansari)
Fear of law must: Justice Ahmadi
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Govt scholarship schemes not of much use
Amroha: The rules made by the present S.P. government of U.P.
are such that only 2 or 3 percent Muslim children can get the
scholarship and the rest will only get disappointment because the
scholarship forms of students of most of the schools, colleges
and madrasas are sent back by the states department of minori-
ties welfare with the objection that a certificate of residence
should also be attached with scholarship form. Truly speaking,
the difficulties being faced by Muslim children / students during
the 8 months of S.P. government in getting scholarships were not
felt by Muslim students in earlier regimes. Scholarships of the
previous year could not be given in the whole state because of
assembly elections and an order was issued by the government
that these scholarships will be given after the elections.
Meanwhile, department of minorities welfare issued an order that
scholarships of all minority children will be deposited in their bank
accounts. Because of these orders and conditions parents of
minorities children had to face great difficulties because not only,
did they have to make several rounds of Tehsils for getting certifi-
cates of residence but also of banks for getting the accounts of
their children opened. It is common knowledge that banks also
harass people for getting their or their childrens accounts opened
on some pretext or the other, news about which are frequently
appear in newspapers, mostly in Urdu newspapers. Because of
these difficulties accounts of approximately 50% Muslim children
/ students only could be opened and only these children have any
chance of getting scholarships. Even these children have not got
scholarships so far. This is the achievement of Akhilesh govern-
ment which was voted to power mainly because of Muslim votes?
Earlier, scholarships given by central and state governments
were given to schools which were deposited in the accounts of
schools and brought at the time of distribution by the head mas-
ter in the presence of the village Pradhan and ward members etc;
but now this facility was only for general, S.C., O.B.C. and back-
ward non-Muslim children and not for Muslim children. The
schools themselves were required to get the bank accounts of
their (Muslim) students opened. Now the scholarships of Muslim
children only will be deposited in their respective and individual
bank accounts. This also indicates that government probably
fears that teachers and management of minority schools only
may be dishonest who may pocket whole or part of childrens
scholarships and that is why their scholarships will not be
deposited in schools accounts but deposited in their individual
bank accounts. And the difficulties being faced by people in open-
ing bank accounts are quite well known, particularly by Muslims.
When a rickshaw puller goes to the bank to open the account of
his 7 year old son, he has to lose the wages of two or three days
because of the long time taken, because banks open accounts of
customers according to their own rules and requirements, and
their rules and regulations are beyond the comprehension of illit-
erate persons like him. It is strange that among the minorities,
bank accounts of class I children of Muslims are required to be
opened but not of children of general category, S.C., O.B.C., non-
Muslims and their scholarships are to be deposited, as before, in
the accounts of schools or head masters which will be given to
them in the presence of village Pradhans etc. Even in schools
where the responsibility of opening bank accounts of children falls
on the school authorities, they take a long time in opening their
accounts so much so that several reminders have to be sent to
them for opening the accounts of their children. Mention may be
made in this connection of about 35 schools because of whose
failure to open the accounts of their students even after several
reminders, the City Education Officer, Aligarh had recommended
that recognition of those schools be cancelled. Because of not
opening bank accounts of children, their scholarships are not
obviously being given to them either for the previous year or for
the current year, and they are suffering on this account because
without scholarships their parents are unable to get them admit-
ted in schools. Taking the particular case of Amroha district, there
are 26 Degree Colleges and their nearly 10,000 students, 200
inter colleges and their 30,000 students, about a thousand junior
/ primary schools and 200 Madrasas and their total number of
about 50,000 students have not received scholarships for two
years. The interesting things is that a large part of these scholar-
ships is given by central government but the state government is
sitting on these as well as its own scholarships which are small-
er than those of central government. State government officials
are making rules and requirements because of which minority
(Muslim) students in particular are finding it very difficult to get
these scholarships and hence their education is suffering.
Families of youths arrested in terror cases to unite
New Delhi: Families of youths arrested in terror cases during the
last few years are planning to form a representative body to take
up their cases in an organized way. Senior Journalist Mohammed
Ahmed Kazmi led a delegation of 20 persons from victim families
and discussed the proposal with leaders of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind
here on 16 December. An unknown number of persons, thought
to be in tens of thousands, have been arrested from the minority
community in connection with terror cases during the last 10
years or so in different parts of the country. In many of those
cases, hundreds of Muslim youths have been acquitted while in
many cases Hindutva terror outfits and activists have been arrest-
ed. A good number of arrested Muslim youths come from poor
families. Some Muslim organizations like Jamiat Ulama-i Hind and
Jamaat-e Islami Hind have helped them financially and fought
their cases in the courts. Now it is for the first time that victim
families have come up with the idea to form their own represen-
tative body. Mohammad Ahmad, Political Secretary of the
Jamaat-e Islami Hind said that the Jamaat has decided to extend
financial help to the needy families of those youths, and their
cases will also be fought in higher courts like high court and
supreme court.
Ghosiya Colony Rehabilitation Forum meets Delhi CM
New Delhi: DDA started demolishing houses in Ghosiya Colony
Khasra No. 217 on 5 December and on 12 December they demol-
ished the 400-year old Ghosiya Mosque leaving only a portion of
its backside wall. Ever since they continue harassment of the res-
idents and the demolition work continues by clearing hundreds of
graves in the local qabristan. When people protested, police lathi
charged them, injuring many as well as arresting dozens of vic-
tims on 12 December including women and minors. On 18
December, a dharna was organized but no action taken. At pres-
ent demolition has been stopped after a delegation met the Delhi
chief minister Shiela Dixit on 21 December. The residents put for-
ward the following demands to the chief minister:
1. The demolition of DDA which is continuing till date should stop
with immediate effect. Provide temporary shelter for those living
there since decades.
2. Rebuild the mosque and restore the graves immediately and
provide assistance to offer prayers at the Mosque as it has been
done for decades in the Ghosiya Mosque through the Delhi Wakf
board.
3. A judicial enquiry to punish the personnel of DDA and Police
department responsible for the demolition of Mosque and disre-
spect to the graves should be made.
Human Welfare Foundation honoured with National Award
New Delhi: Human Welfare Foundation was honoured with a
national award for its works in the field of education. The award
is a joint venture of Chamber of Education New Delhi and Calicut
University, Kerala. Dr M Abdul Salam, Vice Chancellor of
University of Calicut offered the award to Prof KA Siddique
Hassan, General Secretary Human Welfare Foundation in a pro-
gramme held at the University. The award is given for the extraor-
dinary works done by the foundation in the educational promotion
at national level under its Vision 2016. The foundation since the
last 5 years has across north India helped in establishing 44
schools, slum schools, hostels, organized awards for academic
excellence, distributed scholarships, organized education aware-
ness campaigns, availed government scholarships for the needy
and that its a model for the whole country.
No records of Taj Mahal being one of the seven wonders
New Delhi: When the government was asked to provide certified
copies of notifications, circulars, office notes and other records
that declared the monument of love as one of the wonders of
the world, the government said it had no records to the effect.
The application was answered in a one-liner by Agra circle of ASI:
Record regarding declaration of Taj Mahal as one of the wonders
of the world is not available in this office.
New Delhi: Uttarakhands Governor Dr. Aziz Quraishi said while
speaking at a function held at India Islamic Cultural Centre here
on 10th December, on the occasion of 134th birth anniversary of
the dynamic freedom fighter, poet and journalist Maulana
Muhammad Ali Jauhar that it was not Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar
Tilak, but Maulana Hasrat Mohani who was the first to raise the
slogan of complete freedom for India but it is a tragedy of time
that those who first demanded complete freedom for India and
sacrificed every thing for the sake of the countrys freedom have
been forgotten. The function to observe the 134th birth anniver-
sary of Maulana Muhammad Ali Jauhar was jointly sponsored by
Muhammad Ali Jauhar Academy, Rex Remedies and Al Hermain
Pharma (both pharmaceutical companies) at the India Islamic
Cultural Centre. Dr. Aziz Qureshi said that in the 1921 Congress
Par tys annual session at Surat Gandhiji had demanded
Dominion Status for India from England but opposing this,
Maulana Mohani said that our objective is complete independ-
ence and not dominion status. When Maulana Mohanis demand
for total independence began to receive strong support in this
session, Gandhiji requested him to withdraw his demand
because he (Gandhiji) would not be able to face the people. Aziz
Quraishi said that in addition to Maulana Hasrat Mohani there are
many other important persons because of whose valuable
efforts, services and sacrifices India achieved freedom, includ-
ing Maulana Barkatullah Bhopali, prime minister of Indias first
government in exile, which was recognised by 12 countries. He
said regretfully that simultaneously with Indias freedom all these
crusaders of freedom were sent to another country without
visa, adding that it is good that Maulana Muhammad Ali Jauhar
is being remembered here in India.
Speaking about the injustices meted out to Muslims after
Independence he said that in spite of Nehru, Urdu was murdered.
He said that in U. P. Urdu was the language used in courts,
offices and medium of education but the state government by a
single ordinance one midnight declared Hindi the official lan-
guage of the state. Though Pundit Nehru protested against this
but he could do nothing against this wilful action because the
then chief minister of the state (Pundit Govind Ballabh Pant) too
was an important leader of the Congres. Dr. Aziz Quraishi was
the chief guest at this function which was chaired by the National
Commission for Minorities Educational Institutions chairman
Justice Suhail Ejaz Siddiqi who said in his presidential address
that the seed which was sown by the founder of Jauhar
Academy, (late) M. Saleem has now bloomed into a towering and
fruit-bearing tree.
Planning Commission of Indias member, Mrs. Sayeeda
Saiyyadain Hamid, (who was honoured at the function with the
Bi Amma Award) said while speaking on this occasion that she
tried to obtain information about Bi Amma (mother of
Muhammad Ali and Shaukat Ali) on the internet but could find
nothing. Chairman of Al Hermain Pharma India (P) Ltd., Saboor
Ahmad Sidiqi said he fully agrees with Mrs. Hamids complaint
but assured her that he will provide maximum information about
Bi Amma and Ali Brothers on the website by next year so that the
new generation also could get information about their lives and
services and sacrifices.
On this occasion Muhammad Ali Jauhar awards were also
given to many persons. Uttarakhand Governor Dr. Aziz Quraish
gave the Bi Amma Award to Mrs. Sayeeda Saiyyadain Hamid,
Planning Commission Member for social services, M. Afzal, M P,
journalist and former ambassador to the African state Angola
was honoured with M. Saleem Memorial Award for journalism;
Prof. Waseem Barelwi, Vice Chairman of NCPUL was honoured
with the Award for poetry and literary services; M. Shoaib
Akram, Mg. Director of Rex Remedies was honoured with the
Award for Tibbi and social services, Dr. Rehana Khatoon, Prof. in
Delhi Universitys Department of Persian was honoured with the
Award for educational services, Wing commander (Retd.)
Arifullah Khan was honoured with Award for defence services
and Dr. Kaashif Zakayee was honoured with the Award for med-
ical services.
At another place on the occasion of Muhammad Ali
Jauhars bir th anniversary on 10 December Maulana Farooq
said that very few people know that on a single call by
Maulana Muhammad Ali Jauhar hundreds of AMU students
had joined him and he had founded Jamia Millia Islamia at
Aligarh. He clarified that Maulana Muhammad Ali on one
occasion had tried to hoist the flag of Indias freedom at AMU
and wanted to deliver a speech in the University but he was
not allowed to do so because the University authorities knew
that being a freedom fighter he would speak against the
British. He was told that many British Professors also taught
at AMU and hence he could not be allowed to deliver the
speech. At this he came out of the University and said in a
loud voice are there some people who will leave this English-
minded university and come with me? At this about 200 stu-
dents, without caring about their future education and career,
came out of the university and assembled under a tree outside
the university campus under his (Jauhars) leadership. And
there star ted Jamia Milllia Islamia in the open air under a tree.
It was later shifted to Delhi in its own building.
Another speaker, Dr. Zafarul-Islam said that Maulana was a
top class journalist also and with two of his newspapers,
Hamdard in Urdu and Comrade in English waged the war of inde-
pendence. Even Englishmen were impressed by his mastery over
English language when they read his newspaper Comrade.
According to yet another speaker, when he (Muhammad Ali
Jauhar) was invited for the Round Table Conference in London,
he was sick, but even then he agreed to attend it. While prepar-
ing to leave for London at Bombay harbour one journalist asked
him why he was going to London when he was not well, his
answer was that he is going there to die. He might have said this
casually but no body knew at that time that his words would be
prophetic because almost immediately after the Round Table
Conference he died in London. It is said that because of his bold
stand on Indias independence he had made himself so popular
that after his death many countries wanted his last rites in their
country. It is also said that he had once stated that he was no
doubt born in enslaved India which was beyond his power but he
would not like to die and be buried in enslaved India. Accordingly,
he was buried in the compound of the Aqsa Mosque in
Jerusalem. It is also reported that at every port where the ship
carrying his dead body anchored, his funeral prayer was offered
in absentia. (NA Ansari)
Muhammad Ali Jauhars 134th birth anniversary
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Uprooted residents at a protest meeting
This is all that remains of the historical Ghausia Masjid
New Fitna being Exported to Pakistan
BRIG. (RETD) UMAN KHALID
We all know about Hizbul Tahrir (HuT). When its leader in the UK,
Omar Bakri, became a destabilising nuisance, he was advised to
disassociate himself with HuT
and he set up another organisa-
tion under the title of Al-
Muhjiroon. This was a successor
of Al Takfir wal Hijra commonly
known as the Takfiri cult.
This cult styles itself on the
most glorious chapter of Muslim
history, the Prophets Hijra
(migration) from Makkah to
Medina which marks the begin-
ning of the Muslim calendar.
Omar Bakri became very contro-
versial among UK Muslims and
was subsequently deported to
his country, Lebanon.
His place in the UK was
taken by a Pakistani lawyer called Anjum Chuadhry. The high
priest of the Takfiri cult is Aiman al Zawahiri (AAZ). All the trade
names under which its affiliates Al-Qaeda, HuT, Muhajiroon, and
Tehrik-i Taliban Pakistan (TTP) operate bear allegiance to AAZ
and propagate his views. All these cults have been banned in
every Muslim country but they are flourishing in the UK. Why?
The main objectives and chief slogans of all these cults are
Khilafa and Sharia. Both are deeply embedded in the belief struc-
ture of all Muslims and no one can disagree with or disapprove
of either. That came to the notice of anti-Islam subversion facto-
ry in the West.
They put a new interpretation of both to demonise Islam.
Their concept of Khalifa is modelled on the institution of the Pope
in the Catholic Church with the difference that the Pope confines
his edicts to ecumenical matters while the Muslim Khalifa (Aiman
al Zawahiri) is held to be above the states as his edicts take
precedence over the orders of the states.
This means all states whether a certain state is Darus Salam
(where Muslim enjoy political as well as cultural sovereignty), or
is Darul Amn (where Muslims do not enjoy political sovereignty
but are unfettered in the practise
of their faith), or is Darul Harb
(where Muslims enjoy neither
political sovereignty nor freedom
to practise their faith).
The effect of AAZ edicts sub-
scribed to by HT, al- Muhijroon or
TTP etc - is that all Muslims
become outlaws in all states.
Their interpretation of Sharia is
similarly designed to make every
Muslim unemployable and crimi-
nal by necessity.
HuT, for example, preaches
that the Muslim should not vote in
elections and opt out of the secu-
lar-western education. TTP ver-
sion of Sharia enjoins bombing schools (particularly girls
schools) and blowing up TV/video and barber shops and killing
infidels particularly the soldiers and police of Pakistan and
employess of state institutions.
Now HuT, Muhajiroon and TTP are being re-launched in
Pakistan under the title Sharia4Pakistan with actors trained in the
UK. Please see their conference flyer above and bring it to the
notice of those responsible for counter-intelligence in your country.
MG comment: Hizbut Tahrir zealots are trying to make inroads
into the Indian Muslim community though with no apparent
success till now. On two previous occasions we have cau-
tioned the community about this invading danger. Let the com-
munity be alert and not be deceived by their Khilafat talk.
They are a dangerous, highly dogmatic, secret organisation
which is banned in all Arab countries but thrives in Britain!
(Zafarul-Islam Khan)
A Day from Hell in
an American Town
KALEEM KAWAJA
Friday December 14, 2012 was a day from hell in the small, lily-
white gorgeous New Town, nestled in a beautiful valley in
Americas western Connecticut state. This town is just 60 miles
west of the big city of Hartford, CT. I am very familiar with this
area, as for four years when my daughter was studying in a col-
lege in Massachusetts, I used to drive through this valley to take
her to college from my home about 400 miles to the south.
This gentle valley of rolling hills is a geographically most
beautiful part of northeastern US. Several high tech industries
are located in the towns in this area. This area is affluent, clean,
has moderate weather, is free of congestion and contains quaint
townships of pretty shops, restaurants and pretty houses.
But in this heaven-like town an evil took root in the mind of
a young man who just turned twenty - a psychologically
deranged loner. He picked up several guns that his mother kept
in the house for self-protection and went on a killing rampage
against innocent people whom he did not even know. After first
killing his mother who loved him so much, he went to the near-
by elementary school and shot dead 20 innocent and beautiful
children, none of them older than seven years of age, and six of
their teachers, all of them white. Then as police arrived at the
school he shot himself dead.
This hellacious event on earth occurred in a township that
resembles what towns in heaven must be like. What is shock-
ing is that in the last one year this gory and horrible scene has
occurred every two or three months in various parts of US, all
of them pristine small towns.
This tragedy has broken the heart and mind of America and
has shocked Americas conscience and forced it to examine its
society. It is a time of great sadness for the entire humanity. But
it should especially make America, that is becoming increasing-
ly God-less, and where Gods basic guidance to mankind is vio-
lated by many every single day, introspect.
For decades now American troops have attacked far away
lands annihilating villages and towns and rampaging innocent
civilians; and then giving explanations that do not make sense.
From Vietnam to Iraq to Afghanistan to western Pakistan, a large
number of innocent civilians, children, women, old men have
perished with the onslaught of the drones and smart bombs
and Agent Orange, often when they were asleep in the night.
Israels brutal annihilation of Palestinians for over 60 years is
consistently defended.
God is sending a message to those in America who think
that their vast superiority in military technology and weaponry
and their smart science and technology systems can conquer
everything and everyone. They should remember that in the
past, vastly superior militaries/technology of the Aad people,
Pharohs, Romans, Genghis Khan, Hitler et al also over ran
everyone. But then as they became overtly sure of their might
and technology, and no one could match them, evil from within
their ranks imploded them and they were destroyed. Majority of
Americans are good people and do not believe in wronging any-
one let alone the poor civilians of Vietnam or Iraq or
Afghanistan. But a few are becoming too arrogant and desirous
of world domination by any means. This is time for the power-
ful and affluent Americans as a nation to realize that it is Gods
law that What goes around, comes around.
America is the worlds greatest nation today, not only scien-
tifically and militarily advanced but also a land of maximum col-
lection of very gifted and talented people. In the last 100 years
they have built a great nation with much hard work and enter-
prise. They should now listen to Gods signs that are coming up
everywhere in this glorious land every few months in the form
of insane killings perpetrated by their own well-to-do white peo-
ple. The answer lies in reflecting seriously and finding a way
out. God will help them remove this curse and scourge if they
listen and learn and change their countrys direction to a
straight path.
Britain pays $22m to Iraqis
abused by its troops
London: The British Ministry of Defence has paid 14 million
($21.7 million) in compensation and costs to hundreds of Iraqis
who complained that they were illegally detained and tortured by
British forces during the five-year occupation of the south-east of
the country. Hundreds more claims are in the pipeline as Iraqis
become aware they are able to bring proceedings against the
British authorities in London courts. The MoD said it was investi-
gating every allegation of abuse that has been made.
Human rights groups and lawyers representing former prison-
ers said the abuse was systemic, with military interrogators and
guards responsible for the mistreatment acting in accordance with
both their training in Britain and orders issued in Iraq. The cam-
paigners are calling for a public inquiry into Britain's detention and
interrogation practices following the 2003 invasion. An inquiry is a
development the MoD would be eager to avoid. Payments totalling
8.3 million have been made to 162 Iraqis this year. There were
payments to 17 individuals last year and 26 in the three years
before that.
Qatar to produce $1b
movie on Prophet
HABIB TOUMI
Manama: A $1 billion epic movie on the life and teachings of
Prophet Mohammad (pbuh) is set to be produced by Doha-based
Al Noor Holding. The media company said that the movie
endorsed by Islamic scholars, including Yusuf Al Qaradawi, the
Chairman of the International Union of Muslim Scholars, would be
in seven parts and would be produced according to the highest
international standards using the most sophisticated technical and
audio-visual systems.
The company on 16 December said that the team of experts
has finished writing the scenario after overcoming a series of
artistic and dramatic challenges. The approval of leading Muslim
scholars was necessary for the company to move ahead with the
movie production.
"We are aware of the fact that this film is a difficult and a chal-
lenging task," Al Noor Holding said in September. "This is why we
have consulted many famous Islamic scholars, among them Dr Al
Qaradawi, who will guide us on the Sharia aspect of the film."
Under strict Islamic laws, prophets cannot be depicted on
screen or in print and the movie will be no exception. However, his
companions will appear in the movie screen, in a decision that
breaks with long-held views that their status among Muslims does
not allow their depiction or embodiment on screen either.
At the media opportunity in Doha, Al Qaradawi said that he
conducted his own research and that he consulted with 30 senior
scholars on showing the Prophet's companions in a movie.
"Following the studies and the consultations, I have come to
the conclusion that there was nothing wrong with showing the
companions in dramatic work," he said. "I used to oppose the idea
as we have formed our own cognitive image and characterization
of the prophets and companions and that we should not distort
them with human images. However, following long researches
and studies, I realised that we have been excessive in our
approach and that there is no text or reference in the Quran or in
the Prophet's Tradition and Sayings that does not allow it," he said
in remarks published by Qatari daily Al Sharq.
A TV drama broadcast during Ramadan about the lives of
Hassan and Hussain, the grandsons of Prophet Mohammad
(pbuh), caused stirring controversy after it showed some of his
companions.
Al Azhar, the highest Sunni institution based in Cairo, warned
in a statement for all television channels not to screen the drama,
arguing that the embodiment of the Prophet's companions was
religiously forbidden. Lawsuits were filed against the production
company and the satellite provider for producing and broadcast-
ing the drama. However, anticipating similar reactions, Tariq Al
Swaidan, a Kuwaiti Islamist scholar and head of the consultancy
team, said at the conference on Monday that recent international
studies indicated that the new generations have new ways of
gathering and obtaining information and that they no longer relied
on traditional media.
The consultants have identified 57 messages that the movie
would convey to the Western audience, he said in remarks pub-
lished by the Qatari media. "There is a need to understand the
mentality and mindset of other people," he said. The movie will be
in English, but it will be translated into several languages to ensure
an international outreach, a company official said.
Nihad Awad, a co-founder of the Council on American-Islamic
Relations (CAIR) and its executive director, said that around 750
movies with negative messages about Islam or Prophet
Mohammad were produced by Hollywood in the last decade.
The movie on Prophet Mohammad (pbuh) will have a special
significance in helping address the negative impressions and
impressions within Western society as a result of the negative
portrayal of Muslims and Islam, he said, quoted by Qatari daily Al
Sharq. (gulfnews.com)
Russia says West pushing
democracy with "iron and blood"
Moscow: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused
Western states of trying to advance democracy abroad through
"iron and blood", defending Moscow's refusal to join nations
seeking the exit of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Echoing
comments made by Vladimir Putin, Lavrov made his sharply-
worded address to a foreign and defence policy council meeting
two days before the Russian president travels to Turkey where
the war in Syria is expected to
dominate talks. "Russia is not
opposing Western influence or
putting a stick in the spokes of
Western-initiated projects out of
spite," Lavrov said, according to
state-run news agency Itar-Tass.
"The fact is, advancing democ-
racy through iron and blood just
does not work, and this has
been made clear in recent
months - the past year-and-a-
half," he said. He added "in most
cases it produces the opposite
reaction" and leads to "the
strengthening of extremists and
repressive forces, decreasing
the chances of real democratic
change."
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Israeli Terror: The Final Solution to the Palestine Question - ii
PROF. JAMES PETRAS
The Zionist Academic -Journalist Propaganda Complex
The Israeli academic-journalist propaganda complex in the US has
pushed the entire US political narrative even further to the fascist
right. It has perverted our political vocabulary, equating mass
slaughter with national defense; equating the anxiety of Israeli
Jewish civilians with the homeless, jobless and traumatized wid-
ows and children emerging from their devastated densely-popu-
lated urban neighbourhoods.
The tribal scholars and mass media pundits excel in trans-
forming executioners into victims and victims into executioners.
The Liberal-Zionists, peace-time critics of Israel, remove their
peace buttons and pick up scripts defending just wars, as soon
as Israel starts bombing another Arab population or adversary. For
the liberal (human-rights-spouting) Zionists, bombing civilians is
always illegal - except when it is Israel launching the missiles.
Propaganda zealots for Israel saturate the media attacking any
human rights activist critical of Israel with charges of anti-
Semitism. They smear, threaten and blackmail each and every
dissenting voice daring to oppose their narrative.
The entire mass media and the most prestigious universities
censor any mention of Israeli crimes against humanity. As bombs
rained on Gaza not one single Congressional voice denounced the
odious American President Obama when he defended Israels
eight-day Guernica against a defenseless population. Unlike the
citizens in Nazi Germany, we, in the US and Western Europe , can-
not claim that we did not know about Israeli war crimes as they
were happening. On the other hand, how can the mass of semi-
literate TV viewers in the US really know what is going on when
Israel-Firsters have so thoroughly framed the context - claiming
its all defensive, that only Hamas terrorists are targeted
despite the images of children being frantically pulled from the
wreckage of their homes. However, the educated classes in the
US do know about Israel s tradition and practice of mass civilian
bombings; they do remember Lebanon 2006 as well as Gaza
2008-2009 (and countless Israeli massacres in the late 20th cen-
tury). At the same time, they also remember the vicious
reprisals and vitriolic attacks the Zionist ideological attack-dogs
launched against the critics. Having learned their lessons from
the Zionist thought-cops they conveniently remember to for-
get and walk away from the whole Middle East mess. Worse
still, they sanctimoniously blame the Palestinians for their efforts
to retaliate in the face of Israel s blatant murders of their most
prestigious leaders as well as their stubborn refusal to surrender.
There are a few Left-Zionists who actually praise the
resilience of the Palestinians and their refusal to surrender to the
dictates of Israel and its occupying army. They note how the
Gazans celebrate their victory amidst the rubble after having
secured a very tenuous cease fire. Any reasonable observer could
reply to this sentimental nonsense: Is survival in an open air con-
centration camp for another day, the daily prospect of Israeli drone
flights overhead and a brutal land and sea blockade any victory?
There is no cause for celebration: Transforming Israeli war crimes
into Palestinian virtues is a cheap liberal Zionist sideshow. An
eight-day Israeli assault, which had successfully destroyed every
major and minor public office responsible for providing the people
of Gaza with essential services, and the savaging of the water and
sewage system, power and electrical grids and media offices (not
to mention perishable food and medicine) is nothing to celebrate.
In fact the underlying strategic goal of the Jewish state - to make
the remains of historical Palestine uninhabitable (a modern howl-
ing wilderness) for its people - has been advanced by leaps and
bounds. Surviving another day in order to bury loved ones and
scrounging among the burnt ruins of a home for a birth certificate
or photograph is hardly the noble Hamas victory proclaimed by
Norman Finkelstein and Uri Avneri.
Why NATO - Washington Support Israel s Genocidal War
Unlike in the past, where some international organizations and
European states raised tepid objections to Israel s military
assaults against Palestine or Lebanon , this time around nothing
took place.
The White House immediately embraced Israel s terror
bombing as did the governments of Western Europe . Meanwhile,
Turkey , the Gulf States , the Arab League and the pan-Islamic
organizations did nothing concrete, offering no arms, no boycotts,
no oil embargos - only shallow symbolic gestures.
Netanyahu timed his assault to take advantage of the western
imperial offensive against independent countries and leaders who
had historically supported the Palestinian liberation struggle for
decades. Since NATO states had invaded and bombed the sover-
eign nation of Libya back into the Stone Age, Netanyahus Cabinet
Ministers must have reasoned, Why cant we send the Gazans
back to the Middle Ages with our bombs? When NATO and the
Gulf States now arm, finance and support a prolonged terrorist-
led assault against the secular regime, people and infrastructure
of Syria , Netanyahu reasons, Why dont we do the same to the
Palestinians?
With the EU, Washington and the Gulf States engaged in
covert and overt wars against all of Palestines staunchest allies
(Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya Syria, Iran and the Sudan) and against
the peoples movements in Yemen, Bahrain and Pakistan,
Netanyahus plan to ethnically purge Palestine has advanced with
total impunity - indeed with overt Western approval and without
concern for any international humanitarian sanctions or even
protest.
Netanyahus murderous war on Gaza , with full US complici-
ty, has unmasked the collaborationist-nature of Egypt s Islamist
President Morsi. Morsi, together with US Secretary of State Hilary
Clinton, secured a cease fire only after Netanyahu had accom-
plished his immediate goal of destroying the public institutions of
civil society and undermining the vital public functions of the
Hamas government.
Against the protests of the blood-thirsty Israeli public, who
wanted their bombers and army to finish the job, Israeli Prime
Minister Netanyahu negotiated and signed an agreement overseen
by Morsi on a cease fire where Israel will pay no indemnity to the
devastated civilians of Gaza while confirming the Mubarak-era
Israeli- Egyptian treaty and starvation blockade of Gaza. Right
after the cease-fire, President Morsi assumed dictatorial powers
over the Egyptian state. With the shameful terms of the cease fire
and Morsis assumption of dictatorial powers the Arab Spring
has come to a tragic end.
Conclusion
The people of the Middle East, especially the Palestinians, are in
their worst position ever. Palestinians have lost the political, finan-
cial and military support of the independent, secular regimes of
Libya , Syria and Iraq . And Iran , the principle source of arms for
the Palestinians, faces a US Naval armada off its coast. Israel is
accelerating its naked land grabs in the West Bank . The PLO con-
tinues to be Israel s frontline cop on the block - jailing resistance
fighters and dissidents by the hundreds. Israel s Fifth Column in
the US ensures unconditional support for Israel s ethnic cleans-
ing of its non-Jewish population. Above all, as the terror bombing
of Gaza reveals, Israel, as a state and as a people, is free to bomb
and destroy Gaza in order to force a mass exodus of the
Palestinians so that they may establish a pure and unadulterated
Jewish state on historical Palestine.
Epilogue
Less than 24 hours after the so-called cease fire Israeli soldiers
murdered an unarmed Palestinian protestor and wounded dozens
with live ammunition on the Gazan side of the border. Israel storm
troopers raided West Bank homes and arrested 55 Palestinians
accused of supporting Hamas. Scores more Palestinians in the
Beit Lahia area of the West Bank were summarily arrested and
jailed as suspected Hamas members. Jewish vigilante settlers
near occupied Hebron uprooted 400 olive trees belonging to
Palestinian farmers from the village of Hawara . As the missile
murderers take their break, the bull dozers rev up their engines:
Israel s leaders pursue their strategic objective of a pure Jewish
state with their inexorable and destructive juggernaut. The cease
fire merely changed the methods and the terrain of dispossession
for the time being.
Israels assault on Gaza has totally demolished its vibrant
recovery and growth since the previous war of destruction. In
2011 the economy of Gaza grew by 20%; after the recent Israeli
attack who would dare consider Gaza as a place to live and
invest?
James Petras is a retired Bartle Professor (Emeritus) of Sociology at
Binghamton University, SUNY, New York, U. S., and adjunct professor
at Saint Marys University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada who has pub-
lished prolifically on Latin American and Middle Eastern political
issues.
Concluded
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A Jewish minority rules
over an Arab majority
A dry economic report appeared recently in the Israeli econom-
ic journal The Marker. In it lies an official announcement
/acknowledgement of unparalleled importance: The govern-
ment of Israel confirms that between the Mediterranean Sea
and the Jordan River there is no longer a Jewish majority. In
other words, in the territory under Israel's jurisdiction a situa-
tion of apartheid exists.
Hila Raz's article reports that the Tax Authority is trying to
pass an amendment to the law. A Ministry of Finance memo-
randum on the amendment notes that in 2011 the population of
Israel and the Palestinian Authority exceeded the 12 million
mark.
According to the Bureau of Statistics, of the 12 million res-
idents living under Israeli rule, the number of Jews is just under
5.9 million (as of April 25). Twelve million minus 5.9 million
Jews equals 6.1 million non-Jews. In other words between the
Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River, there is a pretty
Jewish state as far as its laws and customs, but the reality is
not so democratic.
U.S. intelligence cries 'apartheid': The term "apartheid" fea-
tures prominently in an article in the on-line magazine Foreign
Policy Journal on a new "confidential report" prepared by 16
American intelligence agencies. Franklin Lamb reported from
Beirut to the Foreign Policy Journal on the confidential report,
which he claims compares Israel to the apartheid regime in
South Africa. The document, he says, warns that the Arab
Spring and the Muslim awakening will encourage 1.2 billion
Muslims to fight against what they refer to as "the immoral
European occupation of Palestine." Lamb argues that the report
also accuses Israel of intervening in internal American affairs
via 60 organizations and some 7,500 administration officials.
The report, Lamb says, advises the United States to leave
Israel alone as its existence sabotages the American interest in
moving closer to the Arab world and the Iranian people.
(Adapted from http://www.haaretz.com/news/ features/the-
jewish-majority-is-history.premium-1.470233)
KARAMATULLAH K. GHORI
K_K_ghori@yahoo.com
The Arab Spring was a totally unexpect-
ed development for the Islamophobes in
the west. It caught them by surprise. On
top of it, the loud and vociferous
demand for democracy and democratic
culture in a number of Arab countries-
from Tunisia to Bahrain-instantly robbed
the western Islamophobes of their
trump card: that Arabs, in particular, and
Muslims, in general, had no compatibil-
ity with the western perception of democracy or a democratic cul-
ture.
As big a shock as the whiff of freedom in the Arab Spring was
its natural corollary: the toppling from power of autocrats and
tyrants who had been rendering yeoman's services to their west-
ern masters by keeping their societies suffocated and their peo-
ple's hankering for freedom throttled. These autocrats had been
there for decades and delivered to the hilt of expectations as far as
the western agenda for the Arab world was concerned.
The biggest shock to the west was the ignominious fall of
Hosni Mubarak, Egypt's last pharaoh and redoubtable pillar of
western interests in the largest of Arab states. They had invested
heavily in Mubarak and the tyrannical regime he presided over
with such pomp and arrogance for three decades; his political
demise was a bitter pill to swallow, but had to because the
Egyptian people had taken the wind out of him.
However, the unkindest cut to the bruised western ego was
yet to come. It came, nevertheless, in October 2012 when
Mohammad Al Morsi became the first-ever popularly elected
President of Egypt in an election that not even the worst of
Egyptian detractors could find fault with.
Morsi was hard to digest, to the western Islamophobes in par-
ticular, because he belonged to the Muslim Brotherhood,
IkhwanulMuslimeen, which had long been a bone in the western
craw. So, as far as the Islamophobes and their agenda of hate for
Muslims is concerned, Morsi entered his office with a huge hand-
icap. He was guilty, in their eyes as an Islamist (I've yet to be told
by a western intellectual, in spite of having quizzed quite a few on
the subject, as to what exactly was the meaning of this novel ter-
minology in his lexicon; the Islamic world hadn't heard of it until
Islamophobia overwhelmed the western intelligentsia) and the
burden of proving his innocence was on him and none else.
Islamophobia is not a thing of recent provenance in the west.
It has been there ever since the Crusades, originating in the 11th
century. But Islamophobia has gathered a lot of mass, intensity
and ferocity since the cataclysmic 9/11. All Muslims, in its wake,
have been cast into the role of villains. They are all, potentially and
virtually, if not actually, a violent people prone to terrorism and
must be dealt with a stout stick in hand. With the leadership of the
western camp, then, being in the hands of a Messianic George W.
Bush-who reckoned that he was in communion with God, direct-
ly, on matters of war against terrorism-the world Muslims didn't
take long to get into the cross-hairs of Islamophobes and their ide-
ological allies and partisans among the neo-conservatives. The
invasion of Iraq on fabricated charges of possessing weapons of
mass destruction, was the opening gambit in the Islamophobes'
still-unfolding agenda to wage a 'long war' against the Muslim
world, with the intent of bringing it to heels, eventually.
Incidentally, an almost identical scenario of a rapacious
Muslim state contemplating the use of lethal weapons, is now
being played out in the western corridors of power-and their read-
ily obliging news media-on both sides of the Atlantic. Last week,
Washington, London and Paris chimed in , with a great sync of
timing, to howl over indications that the beleaguered regime of
Bashr Al-Assad, in Syria, was getting ready to use chemical
weapons against the rebels. Intelligence gathered by ace western
intelligence outfits was advanced in support of this 'wolf-is-com-
ing' call. Needless to remind the leaders of these bleeding-heart
governments that the same intelligence sources had come up with
'strong evidence' of Saddam Husain sitting on top of mountains of
'weapons of mass destruction.'Messers Bush and Blair had used
that 'expert intelligence' to unleash terror on Iraq. That same road
is being, obviously, revamped to find an alibi to punish Syria.
The Muslim Brotherhood has always been a pariah in the eyes
of the Islamophobes, and they were happy that their Egyptian sur-
rogate, Mubarak, had not only branded them illegal but also con-
tinually hounded the Brotherhood and its millions of followers.
Little did the Islamophobes know that on the heels of Mubarak's
decline and fall, they would have to deal with a Brotherhood man
ruling the roost in post-Mubarak Egypt.
The Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt has nearly the same con-
voluted perception in western minds as Hezbollah, in Lebanon, or
Hamas, in the besieged Gaza, except that the Brotherhood hasn't
been declared a terrorist outfit, at least not yet.
But the Muslim Brotherhood is more than just a political party
with a religious foundation. It's much more a welfare organisation
than a political party. For decades-and especially since the
Egyptian autocrats, from Nasser to Mubarak, embarked on its
ruthless persecution-the Ikhwan have focused more on dedicating
themselves to the cause of alleviating the suffering and penury of
Egypt's teeming legions of the poor and exploited masses. In the
process they have earned ungrudging approbation from Egypt's
neglected majority.
The primacy of social service in the Brotherhood agenda is
closest to the ideal of it founding father, Hasan Al-Banna, who
subscribed to the philosophy of many a religious reformers of the
20th century Islamic world that political power was a logical goal
in pursuit of salvation of the wretched of the earth.
It was Egypt's silent majority-energised, no doubt, by the infu-
sion of a new sense of purpose and direction ushered in by the
Arab Spring-that used its electoral strength to catapult Morsi to
power last October. That feat was achieved in the face of a stiff
backlash from Egypt's well-entrenched 'establishment' or 'the
Deep State' in modern journalistic parlance. The deep state is
made up of the power-addicted military brass; the well-heeled
bureaucracy that wallowed in power and massive corruption
under Mubarak; and, not least, a judiciary groomed by the dicta-
tor, Mubarak, to serve him at the expense of the Egyptian people's
rights and interests.
The deep state didn't relish the idea of power, which had been
its monopoly for so long, suddenly slipping out of its hands. Morsi
was adroit enough to cut a deal with the military brass, in order to
keep its ambitions for political power in check. That made the judi-
ciary and the bureaucracy all the more truculent and intransigent.
Both conspired to throw spanners in Mosi's wheels. An
unabashed judiciary drew first blood by declaring the election of
the Constituent Assembly, tasked to frame a new constitution for
the country, illegal and disbanding it. Morsi, however, fought back
by reconvening the Assembly in the face of openly conspiratorial
conduct of a judiciary that did everything other than dispensing
justice.
Even before Morsi's election as president, the prospect of the
Brotherhood capturing the highest office in Egypt had set tongues
lashing out against an 'Islamist takeover' of the largest Arab state.
A well-orchestrated campaign was triggered with intensity to paint
the Brotherhood in the vilest colours possible, comparing them,
for ease of reference, with the Mullahs of Iran and fearing the loss
of hard-fought liberties earned by the Egyptian secularists.
The vile anti-Morsi and anti-Brotherhood media blitz raised
howls of protest that the Egyptian people were in imminent dan-
ger of being deprived of the fruit of the Arab Spring. All credit for
the success of the massive effort to see the back of Mubarak was
reserved only for the 'secularists;' the Brotherhood's role in it was
callously excised.
There was little reference to it that Morsi wasn't a product of
an Islamic Madrassa (dreaded in the west and routinely carica-
tured) but the holder of a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from
California who has always spoken well of his American experi-
ence.
For the western Islamophobes, it was plainly anathema to see
a Brotherhood man at Egypt's helm; all other aspects of his per-
sonality were dispensable. In their paranoia, they suddenly found
a champion of secular values in a man like Mohammad Al-
Baradie, the former head of the International Atomic Energy
Agency (IAEA), who had been hounded out of his UN position
because of intense opposition from the Americans, whose wrath
he'd incurred because of his refusal to sign on the dotted lines of
heavily doctored U.S. reports on Iran's alleged nuclear ambitions.
Baradie was a pariah to the Islamophobes as long as he was at
the head of IAEA, but he was quite kosher to them in his role as
an opponent of the Brotherhood.
The idea of a Brotherhood man, no matter how moderate or
mellow as Morsi is, presiding over Egyptian policy , vis--vis
Israel, was equally unnerving to those western pundits and politi-
cal leaders whose entire perspective on the Arab world has long
been hostage to Israeli lobbies. The Zionists and Islamophobes ,
together, painted a doomsday scenario of a Brotherhood-led Egypt
posing 'another existential threat' to Israel, in addition to the one
they think Iran has long posed to Israel's security.
The anti-Brotherhood tirade was reminiscent of the demoniz-
ing of Hamas triggered on the heels of its categorical victory at the
Palestinian elections in 2006. Hamas was instantly branded a 'ter-
rorist organisation' and the Palestinians electing it were reviled for
their 'wrong selection.'
However, when Morsi was tested by Netanyahu and his west-
ern partners-in-crime on Gaza, last month, he came out, entirely
differently, in the colours of a peace-maker, alongside Turkey,
which has been praised as a force of moderation.
So, now, the orchestrated anti-Brotherhood and anti-Morsi
western media blitz is focused on his alleged autocratic and anti-
democratic ambitions. The chorus being sung says Morsi wants
to be a pharaoh in Mubarak's style but wielding the weapon of an
'Islamist' agenda with in-built threats to Egypt's hard-won recent
freedoms, especially the rights of the Egyptian women.
Incidentally, the same argument-of the 'Islamists' being inher-
ently anti-democratic-was used , with eminent success, in
Algeria, two decades ago, to nip the budding democratic onward
march led by the Islamic Salvation Front. Had that conspiracy to
deprive the Algerians-and their fellow Arabs-of the fruits of demo-
cratic change by peaceful means not been successful, the Arab
Spring would've arrived in the Arab world at least a generation ear-
lier.
Morsi's ill-timed and ill-advised grab of absolute power-which
he was quick to recant in the face of an orchestrated and stiff
backlash from the secularists and their overseas benefactors and
mentors-played into the hands of his Islamophobe detractors and
gave grist to their propaganda mills against him. On his part,
Morsi did have a legitimate motive for it: he feared the self-serv-
ing judiciary sending his Constituent Assembly, dominated by the
Brotherhood, home before it completed its framing of a new con-
stitution.
So intense and dishonest is the western media tirade against
Morsi that it isn't even prepared to give him credit for his victory
in the first round of the referendum , last December 16, which
gave thumbs-up to the draft constitution framed by the
Brotherhood-dominated assembly. The verdict in Morsi's favour
was 56 per cent, not an insignificant margin given the fact of deep
division among the Egyptians still hobbled by the tyrannical
Mubarak era.
The biased western media may have dismissed Morsi's
majority approval as a 'wafer-thin' majority (which it was not) and
blown out of proportion the schism in the ranks of the Egyptian
people. However, it cannot belittle the reality that Morsi came out
on top in the first round of the referendum in heavily-populated
urban centres, like Cairo and Alexandria, where the so-called lib-
erals and secularists were so well organised and opposition to
him enjoyed so much of foreign mentoring. The next round, in
rural Egypt, should be a walk-over for Morsi, because that's where
the Brotherhood has always been most popular.
Irrespective of how the referendum's chips ultimately fall in
place, it couldn't be over-emphasised that stakes are high, not
only for Morsi and the disciplined ranks of the Brotherhood, but
also for the rest of Egypt.
Egyptians have fought hard for the success of their revolution
but their work is not done, yet. In addition to the threat posed by
the remnants of the Deep State, Egyptians have the
Islamophobes and others of their ilk in the western world to con-
tend with. These die-hard anti-Arab and anti-Muslim forces are
out to prove the Egyptian people wrong, in the quest of keeping
the wind in their sails that Muslims and democracy can't co-exist.
It's a huge responsibility resting on Morsi's shoulders. He must
rise to the mega leadership challenge thrown at him, and to prove
himself worthy of the trust reposed in him by the Egyptian peo-
ple.
As these lines were being finished, early results from the sec-
ond-round of the referendum on Morsi's constitution speak of at
least 69 per cent of the people giving it a thumbs up. This clear-
cut verdict should put an end to the poisonous campaign that
Morsi and the Brotherhood were out to hijack the Egyptian peo-
ple's revolution.
Morsi of Egypt is Islamophobes
Latest Paranoia
So intense and dishonest is the western media tirade against Morsi that it isn't even pre-
pared to give him credit for his victory in the first round of the referendum , last December 16,
which gave thumbs-up to the draft constitution framed by the Brotherhood-dominated assembly.
The verdict in Morsi's favour was 56 per cent, not an insignificant margin given the fact of deep
division among the Egyptians still hobbled by the tyrannical Mubarak era.
The biased western media may have dismissed Morsi's majority approval as a 'wafer-thin'
majority (which it was not) and blown out of proportion the schism in the ranks of the Egyptian
people. However, it cannot belittle the reality that Morsi came out on top in the first round of the
referendum in heavily-populated urban centres, like Cairo and Alexandria, where the so-called
liberals and secularists were so well organised and opposition to him enjoyed so much of for-
eign mentoring.
Egyptians have fought hard for the success of their revolution but their work is not done, yet.
In addition to the threat posed by the remnants of the Deep State, Egyptians have the
Islamophobes and others of their ilk in the western world to contend with.
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What is taught: Modern anesthesia was invent-
ed in the 19th century by Humphrey Davy and
Horace Wells.
What should be taught: Modern anesthesia was
discovered, mastered and perfected by Muslim
anesthetists 900 years before the advent of Davy
and Wells. They utilized oral as well as inhalant
anesthetics.
What is taught: The concept of quarantine was
first developed in 1403. In Venice , a law was
passed preventing strangers from entering the
city until a certain waiting period had passed. If,
by then, no sign of illness could be found, they
were allowed in.
What Should be Taught: The concept of quaran-
tine was first introduced in the 7th century A.D.
by the prophet Muhammad, who wisely warned
against entering or leaving a region suffering
from plague. As early as the 10th century,
Muslim physicians innovated the use of isolation
wards for individuals suffering with communica-
ble diseases.
What is taught: The scientific use of antiseptics
in surgery was discovered by the British surgeon
Joseph Lister in 1865.
What should be taught: As early as the 10th
century, Muslim physicians and surgeons were
applying purified alcohol to wounds as an anti-
septic agent. Surgeons in Islamic Spain utilized
special methods for maintaining antisepsis prior
to and during surgery. They also originated spe-
cific protocols for maintaining hygiene during the
post-operative period. Their success rate was so
high that dignitaries throughout Europe came to
Cordova , Spain , to be treated at what was
comparably the Mayo Clinic of the Middle
Ages.
What is taught: In 1545, the scientific use of
surgery was advanced by the French surgeon
Ambroise Pare. Prior to him, surgeons attempt-
ed to stop bleeding through the gruesome pro-
cedure of searing the wound with boiling oil.
Pare stopped the use of boiling oils and began
legating arteries. He is considered the father of
rational surgery. Pare was also one of the first
Europeans to condemn such grotesque surgi-
cal procedures as trepanning.
What Should be Taught: Islamic Spain s illus-
trious surgeon, az-Zahrawi (d. 1013), began lig-
ating arteries with fine sutures over 500 years
prior to Pare. He perfected the use of Catgut, that
is suture made from animal intestines.
Additionally, he instituted the use of cotton plus
wax to plug bleeding wounds. The full details of
his works were made available to Europeans
through Latin translations. Despite this, barbers
and herdsmen continued to be the primary indi-
viduals practicing the art of surgery for nearly
six centuries after az-Zahrawis death. Pare him-
self was a barber, albeit more skilled and consci-
entious than the average ones.
What is taught: William Harvey, during the early
17th century, discovered that blood circulates.
He was the first to correctly describe the func-
tion of the heart, arteries and veins. Rome s
Galen had presented erroneous ideas regarding
the circulatory system, and Harvey was the first
to determine that blood is pumped throughout
the body via the action of the heart and the
venous valves. Therefore, he is regarded as the
founder of human physiology.
What should be taught: In the 10th century,
Islams ar-Razi wrote an in-depth treatise on the
venous system, accurately describing the func-
tion of the veins and their valves. Ibn an-Nafs
and Ibn al-Quff (13th century) provided full doc-
umentation that the blood circulates and correct-
ly described the physiology of the heart and the
function of its valves 300 years before Harvey .
William Harvey was a graduate of Italy s
famous Padua University at a time when the
majority of its curriculum was based upon Ibn
Sinas and ar-Razis textbooks.
What is taught: The first pharmacopeia (book of
medicines) was published by a German scholar
in 1542. According to World Book Encyclopedia,
the science of pharmacology was begun in the
1900s as an off-shoot of chemistry due to the
analysis of crude plant materials. Chemists,
after isolating the active ingredients from plants,
realized their medicinal value.
What should be Taught: According to the emi-
nent scholar of Arab history, Phillip Hitti, the
Muslims, not the Greeks or Europeans, wrote the
first modern pharmacopeia. The science of
pharmacology was originated by Muslim physi-
cians during the 9th century. They developed it
into a highly refined and exact science. Muslim
chemists, pharmacists and physicians produced
thousands of drugs and/or crude herbal extracts
one thousand years prior to the supposed birth
of pharmacology. During the 14th century Ibn
Baytar wrote a monumental pharmacopeia list-
ing some 1400 different drugs. Hundreds of
other pharmacopeias were published during the
Islamic Era. It is likely that the German work is an
offshoot of that by Ibn Baytar, which was widely
circulated in Europe .
What is taught: The discovery of the scientific
use of drugs in the treatment of specific dis-
eases was made by Paracelsus, the Swiss-born
physician, during the 16th century. He is also
credited with being the first to use practical
experience as a determining factor in the treat-
ment of patients rather than relying exclusively
on the works of the ancients.
What should be taught: Ar-Razi, Ibn Sina, al-
Kindi, Ibn Rushd , az -Zahrawi, Ibn Zuhr, Ibn
Baytar, Ibn al-Jazzar, Ibn Juljul, Ibn al-Quff, Ibn
an-Nafs, al-Biruni, Ibn Sahl and hundreds of
other Muslim physicians mastered the science
of drug therapy for the treatment of specific
symptoms and diseases. In fact, this concept
was entirely their invention. The word drug is
derived from Arabic. Their use of practical expe-
rience and careful observation was extensive.
Muslim physicians were the first to criticize
ancient medical theories and practices. Ar-Razi
devoted an entire book as a critique of Galens
anatomy. The works of Paracelsus are insignifi-
cant compared to the vast volumes of medical
writings and original findings accomplished by
the medical giants of Islam.
What is taught: The first sound approach to the
treatment of disease was made by a German,
Johann Weger, in the 1500s.
What should be Taught: Harvards George
Sarton says that modern medicine is entirely an
Islamic development and that Setting the Record
Straight the Muslim physicians of the 9th
through 12th centuries were precise, scientific,
rational and sound in their approach. Johann
Weger was among thousands of European
physicians during the 15th through 17th cen-
turies who were taught the medicine of ar-Razi
and Ibn Sina. He contributed nothing original.
What is taught: Medical treatment for the insane
was modernized by Pilippe Pinel when in 1793
he operated France s first insane asylum.
What should be Taught: As early as the 1lth cen-
tury, Islamic hospitals maintained special wards
for the insane. They treated them kindly and pre-
sumed their disease was real at a time when the
insane were routinely burned alive in Europe as
witches and sorcerers. A curative approach was
taken for mental illness and, for the first time in
history, the mentally ill were treated with sup-
portive care, drugs and psychotherapy. Every
major Islamic city maintained an insane asylum
where patients were treated at no charge. In fact,
the Islamic system for the treatment of the
insane excels in comparison to the current
model, as it was more humane and was highly
effective as well. (Concluded)
(From J W Draper, The Forgotten History of Muslims)
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Respecting
Christmas
Christmas is an annual Christian religious holi-
day commemorating the birth of Prophet Jesus,
peace be upon him. For many Muslims who do
not celebrate the bir thday of the Prophet
Muhammad, peace be upon him, it becomes an
issue of what stand they should take.
There have been a number of legitimate
criticisms of the holiday from Muslims and non-
Muslims based on theological and cultural con-
siderations. However, this cannot be used to
disregard the holiday as merely an exercise in
ancient pagan practices or excessive con-
sumerism. Muslims have to remember that for
many practicing Christians, Christmas really is
about Jesus.
Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him,
was so accommodating of Christians that
according to the two earliest Islamic historians,
Ibn Sad and Ibn Hisham, the Prophet even
allowed a delegation of 60 Byzantine Christians
from Najran in Yemen to worship in his own
mosque in Madinah. Lead by their bishop, they
had come to discuss a number of issues with
him. When the time of their prayer came, they
asked the Prophets permission to perform it in
the mosque. He answered, conduct your serv-
ice here in the mosque. It is a place consecrat-
ed to God.
God expects us to stay away from mocking
the religious beliefs of others, no matter how
much we disagree with them (Quran, 6:108).
This may not be an occasion to emphasise the
differences as much as the commonality of our
beliefs, unless someone is really asking you
about them.
Remember that respect does not mean
compromise. You have freedom of religion
given by God to believe in what you believe in.
But in a world where conflict is increasing, a
Muslim should be a bridge-builder and a peace-
maker.
It was due to the Muslim practice of Islamic
ideals of respect and tolerance that the key of
the holiest Christian Shrine in Jerusalem, the
church of the Holy Sepulchre, remains entrust-
ed with a Muslim family, as it has been for over
1400 years.
These are the lessons which need to be
learned by those extremists who attack
Christians during their worship in Nigeria and
those extremists who burn Masjids in the USA.
ABDUL MALIK MUJAHID
Book: Approaching the Sunnah: Comprehension & Controversy
Author: Dr. Yusuf Al-Qaradawi
Publisher: IIIT, London, UK & Washington, USA
Year: 2006. Page: 215. ISBN 1-56564-418-2
MD. MOKHTER AHMAD
Dr. Yusuf Qaradawi does not need any introduction. He is the most
widely respected and most prolific living scholar of the Muslim
world. He is best known for his modern, moderate and original
approaches to every issue facing the Muslim Ummah while
remaining within the parameters of Islam. He is the creator of a
large number of masterpieces with different titles including the
world-class Islamic Awakening Between Rejection and Extremism
and The Lawful and the Prohibited in Islam. He has been voted to
be the third most influential living public scholar of the world[1].
Dr. Qaradawis book Approaching the Sunnah:
Comprehension and Controversy is a masterpiece in the study of
the Sunnah [2] of the Prophet Muhammad (pubh). The author,
himself an authority in this field, has extensively dealt in this book
with the issue of the Sunnah and discussed almost everything
related to its study. This is a timely presentation by Dr. Qaradawi,
for the Ummah has long been confronted with many challenges
and objections, borne sometimes out of sheer misunderstanding,
misrepresentation and ignorance, and sometimes out of preju-
dice, ulterior motives and enmity, against the Sunnah. The author
established that the Sunnah still provides the stable moral frame-
work - the grammar - that enables Muslims, by formal rules and
inward sense, to know the right from the wrong. This book
explains how the Sunnah can function as the grammar of a living,
adaptive language, capable of guiding the mainstream.
The Sunnah occupies a great status in Islam. This is the only
valid explanation of the Quran and the second source of Islamic
Shariah. It promulgates rules often independently and often
dependently. The Quran has categorically ordained the believers
to offer their unconditional and unqualified obedience to the
Prophet and made it an integral part of their faith[3]. Still there is
growing tendency among some people to deny the authority and
authenticity of the Sunnah on various pleas. The development of
the menace was well-predicted by the Prophet himself when he
said: I have indeed been given the Quran and something similar
to it besides it. Yet, the time will come when a man leaning on his
couch will say, Follow the Quran only; what you find in it as halal,
take it as halal; and what you find in it as haram, take it as haram.
But truly, what the Messenger of God has forbidden is like what
God has forbidden.[4]
The author conveniently divides the book into three chapters.
The first sets out the qualities that characterize authentic applica-
tion of the Sunnah: universality, coherence (so that different
spheres of human responsibility are not split), compassionate
realism, moderation, and humility. The second explains standards
and procedures for determining the Sunnah in the fields of
jurisprudence and moral instruction. The third chapter illustrates
through examples common errors in understanding the Sunnah
reading hadiths singly without sufficient context, confusing legal
and moral injunctions, means and ends, figurative and literal
meanings... and it proposes remedies for these errors.
A
ccording to the author, the Sunnah is distinguished by compre-
hensiveness and completeness in its length, breadth, and
depth. It is comprehensive in length because it covers vertically
every dimension from birth to death, indeed even what comes
after death. It is comprehensive in breadth because it compre-
hends horizontally all spheres of life, while in length it covers even
the deeper dimensions of human life like thought and intentions.
The Sunnah is also characterized with a balanced and moderate
attitude towards everything. It does not put more emphasis on one
aspect of life at the cost of another. Islam does not recognize any
dichotomy between various aspects of human life dividing those
between secular and religious, and this philosophy of Islam is
expounded by the Sunnah. For example: on seeing the excess of
Abd Allah ibn Amr in fasting, keeping vigil, and recitation of the
Quran, the Prophet ordered him to be moderate, saying: Indeed,
your body has a right over you, your eyes have a right over you,
and your family has a right over you (p. 3). It is also integrated,
realistic and easy. Neither does the Sunnah regard people as if
they are winged angels, nor does it consider them to be
originally/intrinsically sinners[5]. It made the lifestyle easy and
convenient. The Prophet said: Assuredly, God did not commis-
sion me for affliction, nor for bringing affliction to others; on the
contrary, He commissioned me as an educator and as means of
ease for others (p. 9).
Dr. Qaradawi, who wrote extensively on many issues facing
the Ummah ranging from educational to jurisprudential to cultural
to preaching of Islam, this time he picked up the issue of the cri-
sis facing the Muslim. He said: The foremost crisis facing the
Muslims in this time is the crisis in thought. According to
Dr. Qaradawi, what most clearly represents that crisis in thought
is the crisis in insight into the Sunnah and its applications (p. 11).
Thus it is incumbent on Muslims to learn how to become profi-
cient in insight into the Sunnah, how to apply it in their lives. But
he warned of three evils which the Prophet indicated in one of his
statements: From every generation its just and upright ones will
carry this knowledge, expelling from it the distortion of the
extremists, the deviation of the falsifiers, and the interpretation of
the ignorant.
The author then expounds a few fundamental principles for
the application of the Sunnah, so that one can purge it of the devi-
ations of the falsifiers, the distortions of the extremists, and the
interpretations of the ignorant. Firstly, one should verify the proof
of the Sunnah and its soundness in terms of sanad [narrators]
and matn [text] according to the scientific methodology estab-
lished by the learned predecessors. Secondly, one should be pro-
ficient in understanding the Prophetic text in harmony with the
meanings indicated by the language. In this case, one should
know the particular circumstance of any hadith, the totality of the
purposes of Islam, the general intent of the hadith, the distinction
between a legislative and a non-legislative Sunnah etc. (p. 20).
Thirdly, one should assure himself of the safety of the text
from contradiction by what is stronger than it from the Quran and
other hadiths which are more abundant in sources, or more sound
in proof of authenticity, or more consonant with original principles,
or more fitted to the purpose of the legislative measures. He then
mentioned that one should ensure the authenticity of Sunnah of
both legislation and guidance.
But, surprisingly, many people are seen to be more concerned
with the authenticity of the legislative Sunnah and do not care
about the authenticity of Sunnah for general guidance. This is why
the books of preaching and what softens the hearts, and the
books of Sufism abound with false hadiths. He refuted the propo-
sition of some people that they mention false and fabricated
hadiths even knowingly with the objective of promoting good
among people. He expressed his consternation saying that these
people dared presumably to correct God or strengthen His
Messenger through manufacturing hadiths as if God did not or
could not perfect the religion, and thus it needs their help!!
According to the author, this is another dangerous tendency
seen among many people to reject sahih hadith, out of caprice or
pride or presuming to know better than God and His Messenger.
Rejection of Sunnah is not a new phenomenon. Since ancient
times, heretics and innovators have raised doubts and allegations
in refutation of the Sunnah. In our times, the missionaries and the
orientalists or people tutored and/or influenced by them, directly
or indirectly are raising doubts about the Sunnah. Sometimes the
enemies use subtle arguments to reject the Sunnah saying that the
Quran is sufficient as the guide (and hence no need for Sunnah),
considering the fact that there is detailed exposition in it of every-
thing. Sometimes, sahih Sunnah is denied because of miscom-
prehension, like poor understanding or reckless haste in explain-
ing a hadith. For example: many people rejected the hadith narrat-
ed by Aishah (He would command me to put on izar, then would
be intimate with me, while I was having my monthly period], on
the plea that this is at variance with the Quranic verse[6], or the
hadith from Abu Hurayrah from the Prophet [God will send to this
Community at the head of every century one who will renew for it
its religion] on the plea that religion is not subject to renewal, it
is firmly established and does not change, or the hadith narrated
by Ibn Umar and others [Islam is founded on five (founda-
tions)...] on the plea that the hadith does not mention jihad,
despite its great importance in Islam. But these people failed to
understand the first hadith in fact provides commentary on the
Quran, because the Quran prohibited bodily intimacy of sexual
intercourse while the Sunnah clarifies that mutual pleasure
between husband and wife other than that is not prohibited during
menstruation.
Likewise, renewal of religion in the second hadith does not
mean alteration or brining a new edition of it. It only means return-
ing it to its original status and freeing it from all superstitions and
bad elements interpolated into it over time. The third hadith too is
misunderstood, because though jihad is important and obligatory,
it is not so for everyone always while the five foundations are
required in generally of all people (p. 30-37).
Dr. Qaradawi also explained the stance of Aishah on certain
hadiths and said that the rejection of those hadiths is based on
mere conjecture. Take for example the hadith narrated by Ahmad
ibn Hanbal through Alqamah: We were with Aishah. Then Abu
Hurayrah entered, so she said: Are you the one who narrated the
hadith that a woman tormented a cat, confining her and then not
feeding her, not giving her water? Then he said: I heard it from
him meaning the Prophet. She said: Do you know what the
woman was? At the time she did (that) she was an unbeliever.
Indeed the believer is more noble with God, the All-Powerful and
Sublime, than that He would punish him for a cat! So when you
narrate a hadith from the Messenger of God, then watch how are
doing so. According to Qaradawi, Aishah misunderstood the
hadith, because the woman was to suffer for the hardness of her
heart and cruelty to Gods weak creatures, and the conspicuous
absence of the greatest human value in her character, that is com-
passion towards the weak.
Q
aradawi arranged chapter two of his book with two sub-head-
ings where he discussed a large number of issues. He said
that the Sunnah is a source for both Jurisprudence and Preaching.
Imam Al-Awzai even said, The Book is more in need of the
Sunnah than is of the Book. Though there are many exaggera-
tions on this point, the author referred us to Al-Shawkani who
said: The conclusion is that the need for the Sunnah is estab-
lished, and its independence [as a source] for the legislation of the
injunctions is a religious necessity. No one disagrees on that
except one who has no share in the religion of Islam.
Qaradawi says that the books of jurisprudence abound in
hadiths with which scholars of different schools of thought,
whether those are affiliated to the school of ray or to the school
of hadith, reached their conclusions. He then vehemently refutes
a false propaganda that Imam Abu Hanifa[7] affirmed the authen-
ticity of only seventeen hadiths. The author then discussed the
necessity of linking hadith and fiqh in a way that the hadith spe-
cialists should master the science of fiqh and vice versa the
absence of which had done a great damage to both of these sci-
ences. Most hadith practitioners are not good in fiqh and its prin-
ciples and the same is applied to the fiqh practitioners. This is why
the books of fiqh are replete with weak and fabricated hadiths, and
according to him, it does not only apply to the so-called ahl al-
ray, it also applies to all the surviving schools of Islamic Law (p.
50). He says: I myself have noted, while researching the fiqh of
zakat, a number of hadiths that scholars of fiqh of still-followed
schools rely on, and which have been challenged by the leading
scholars of hadith. For example: There is no sadaqah on vegeta-
bles, Ushr and kharaj do not combine, There is no duty (right)
on wealth besides zakah (p. 48). So the duty of the learned
scholars of our time is to review the legacy of fiqh with the objec-
tive of sorting out injunctions based on weak hadiths. For exam-
ple, the hadiths regarding bloodwit for non-Muslims and bloodwit
for the women.
To be continued in the next issue
Qaradawis book: Approaching the Sunnah - i
...Hadith specialists should master the science of
fiqh and vice versa -- the absence of which had done a
great damage to both of these sciences. Most hadith
practitioners are not good in fiqh and its principles and
the same is applied to the fiqh practitioners. This is
why the books of fiqh are replete with weak and fabri-
cated hadiths, and according to him, it does not only
apply to the so-called ahl al-ray, it also applies to all
the surviving schools of Islamic Law.
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Muslim - Christian dialogue
Apropos of John Dayal, Why no dialogue between Christian and
Muslims? (MG, 16-30 November). Muslims being the second largest
majority of India but Muslims are downtrodden and target of oppres-
sions (khaki terror, administrative biases with political conspiracy and
saffron attacks are perennial in India) which made Muslims 3rd class
citizens. That is why Muslims lost the revolutionary character to save
and protect and help the needy. Fortunately Christians in India have
very good chain of standard schools. If Christians give some priority
in admitting Muslim students in their schools, within 15-20 years
Christians would find a large number of Muslim officers who would
protect every downtroddens, poor and weak including all the minori-
ties. S. Haque, Patna
Muslims youths - targets of ATS & Police
It is really shocking that the police, ATS and security agencies across
the country have been using nefarious and draconian laws on sedition
and terrorism to implicate Muslims especially Muslim youths. For sev-
eral years this sinister campaign of the police and security agencies,
which is wholly illegal has expanded to include thousand of Muslims
especially Muslims youths. It has now being fully exposed to expand
through numerous court judgments and also journalistic investiga-
tions that all such cases are fabricated. But what is most unfortunate
that this vicious campaign of police and security agencies has labeled
the entire Indian Muslim community the largest minority of the coun-
try as suspects in the eyes of the country. No charge sheets are filed
for months and even for years and cases do not go to trials for sev-
eral years. Despite all this when trials are held courts end up and
declare the accused as innocent. But that by then several more than
a decade has passed. What else than the worst example of great jus-
tice! One of the hundreds of such shocking case is that of N. Amir
Khan who was 18 years old when he was arrested on charges terror-
ism and has been in jail for 14 years before the court acquitted him of
all charges. The less said about the performance of ATS the better.
They associate any and every bomb blast with Indian Mujahidin, but
have failed to prove the existence of such an organization. Thousand
of Muslim youths are its victims and are languishing in jails. The need
of the hour is that this nefarious and illegal anti-Muslim activities are
ATS, Police and security Agencies which is a blot on Indian
Democracy should be ended and the guilty responsible for this should
be punished.
Dr. M. Hashim Kidwai, ex-M. P., Delhi - 110091
Nationwide terror alert
Union home secretary R. K. Singh on 30 Nov. said nationwide terror
alert following the execution of Pak terrorist Kasab continued. He said
terror groups had been issuing threats. He explained these when he
was in Patna. The very next day news came that two persons died on
spot in a motorcycle blast and the third injured person fled from the
scene at Bhagwanpur in Begusarai. But in the newspapers his name
not disclosed and the news of the massive blast in the motorcycle
appeared only on page 18 downplaying the gravity of the blast.
Knowing the media mentality, we must probe such news.
S. Haque, Patna
Viva Palestine!
The establishment of Palestine as a non-member observer state,
although late, is a well-deserved and well-earned recognition of the
Palestinian peoples long desire and struggle for statehood. The UN
member states especially the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China &
South Africa) countries who on 29 November 2012 voted in favour
deserve appreciation for their bold and judicious decision to recognize
the lawful demand of the Palestinians who have lost thousands and
thousands of their near and dear ones in pursuit of their genuine
demand. But it was very unfortunate on the part of some of worlds
most important and powerful countries not to have voted or having
simply abstained from it. Unless genuine demands of people are met
or at least recognized, the slogan of equality, justice and human rights
will remain only hollow claims and efforts to making peace a norm
rather than an aberration will remain unsuccessful.
Manzar Imam, New Delhi -110011
manzarkhalil@gmail.com
Rape is a national shame
Something is terribly wrong somewhere. Recent gang rape incidence
in the capital is very shameful and heart wrenching. This barbaric
crime reflects distortion of our social fabric. Too a great extent, inter-
net and cinemas are responsible for increase in crimes against
women. We should put strong control over it otherwise, scenario will
be worst. Parents should educate their children. Prompt action should
be taken against the culprits. M. Yunus Khan, Aligarh.
khan_yunus123@rediffmail.com
II
The guilty rapist should be made khassi. Castration can be an effec-
tive deterrent.
Abdur Rasheed, Solapur - 413003
Sheer Ostentation
On his 58th birthday, the flamboyant Vijay Mallya offered 3 kg gold,
worth Rs. 6 crore, to the temple of Lord Venkateshwar. His staff of
now defunct Kingfisher Airlines didnt get their salaries for months and
here this man is offering 3 kg gold to god!!!. Isnt it sheer ostentation
and flagrant audacity? Had he been in any western country, hed have
been questioned by police and put behind the bars.
Sumit Paul, Pune
India - a democratic state or a police state?
The recent arrest of two girls in Mumbai for posting a political com-
ment on a facebook is decidedly a case of clear abuse of authority and
grave violation of human rights. The girl had not surrendered any
body. She had only expressed the view that there was no need for
Mumbai to shut down on the death of a political leader i. e. shiv sena
chief. What was the criminality involved in it. Even more bizarre is that
the other girl was arrested for merely indicating that she agreed with
her friend. These arrests raised the question whether we are living in
a democratic state under whom citizens irrespective of religion, race
and language enjoy the most important right of expression or in a
police state where we have no rights. The Maharashtrian govt. should
take stern and deterrent action against the erring police officers and
thus tell the world that Maharashtra is not ruled by shiv sena but by
the congress which stands for real democracy.
Dr. M. Hashim Kidwai, ex-M. P., New Delhi - 110091
Common court of Hindu terror cases
N. I. A. (National investigating agency) has to stretch it presence over
three places. Panchkula for the Samjhauta Exp. Blast case, Hyderabad
for Makka Masjid blast case and Jaipur for Ajmer dargah blast case
for hearing the cases. The agency is also saddled with probes into the
Malegaon blasts, Modasa blast and Sunil Joshi murder. After
Hyderabad court observed that there were too many obstacles hinder-
ing the possibility of a trial into the May 2007 Mecca Masjid blast
case, NIA likely to seek common court for Hindu terror cases. At last
NIA agreed that Hindu terror is vastly conspiracy aggravated alarming
problem in India.
S. Haque, Patna
Indian Spring?
Looking at events happening at Parliament house, Rajpath and Vijay
chowk in Delhi today, one wonders, is this the Indian Spring that we
were talking about? These grand mansions of parliament house, pres-
idents house were built by our british colonisers and then our India
masters quietly sneaked into them. Not only sneaked into the same
buildings but into the same role of suppressing the populations using
the same draconian laws and bureaucracy. A country with one of the
highest number of the poor, illiterate, malnourished, blind, etc popula-
tion. The president lives in a mansion of 350 room!! Where as we
have only one AlIMS (all india institute of medical science) for One
Billion plus Population.
Tariq Anwer
tariqalanwer@gmail.com
19 December 2012
Many people, including women, are calling for the castration and
hanging of the men who so bestially treated a young woman in a bus
in Delhi. I have spoken elsewhere of the doubtful effectiveness of
deterrent punishment and of the need to instil basic humanity in males
from the time when they are little boys. Here I shall speak of some-
thing else because I think it is crucially relevant to the current outcry.
Among the two thousand Muslims who are estimated to have lost
their lives in Gujarat in 2002 were many women and girls who were
raped before being shot or skewered or thrown on fires. These facts
were established, beyond any doubt, in the weeks and months follow-
ing. The rapists of that time have not been castrated or executed.
Indeed, no one called for those punishments for those beasts. Clearly
my simple mind is mistaken in holding all acts of rape to be bad.
Clearly rape can also be a valiant act meant to uphold high or sacred
ideals.
Mukul Dube, Delhi 110091
uthappam@gmail.com
MG: Dear MD, I have the fullest sympathy with this hapless victim
and want the criminal beasts punished in an exemplary manner.
But a question has been nagging me since I started watching on
the small screen screaming young and not so young people
demanding quick justice: would they react in the same manner if
the victim was a dalit or an OBC or a Muslim or a Christian?
MD: Someone made a post on FaceBook whose thrust was that only
Upper Caste Hindu women count.
Murderers must get death punishment
Murderers, terror acts, rapes, heinous crimes against women and
weaker sections of society are getting more and more common in our
country. Justice demands that such criminals should be awarded
death senences. Many murderers sentenced to death were found to
be habitual criminals who had earlier committed, murders, rapes,
dacoities etc. It is a fact that there is a direct relation of abolishment
of eath sentence to crime rate. Statistics bear testimony to the fact
that in countries where death sentence is abolished the rate of crime
particularly of murders and rapes is very high, while in those states
where death sentence is awarded crime rate is very low. In this regard
I would like to quote the examples of America and Saudi Arabia. In
educationally and economically most advanced American society
where death sentence is abolished crime rate is highest, while in
under developed Saudi Arabia where death sentence and other Islamic
criminal laws are in force, crime rate is lowest. The Holy Quran says
murder of single human being amounts to the murder of the whole
mankind. Death sentences and harsh punishments, no doubt, act as
a terror to the minds of the criminals.
G. Hasnain Kaif, Bhandara (Maharashtra) - 441904
Crazy country recalcitrant citizens note
French President Mr. Nicolas Sarkozy accursed Jew, leading jungle &
barbaric law in his country. Ladies appearing before public with neat
dress, covered body with burqa and dignity were fined and their hus-
bands punished. His wife Carla Bruni like ladies are perambulating
through markets and streets like cattles with or without bikini which
attracts all the men and they earn crores Carla Bruni snatched crores
from riches. World leaders who defy burqa and full dress but ladies
may adopt Curla bruniss and Sarkozys code of conduct for building
better future and becoming wealthy. No fine no charge - Be the great;
Note: In France a rule enforced that ladies who wear burkha will be
fined 130 pounds (Rs. 8830/-) and the husband of such ladies liable
to pay penalty pounds 1300 (Rs. 8,80,000/-) and one year imprison-
ment: ladies like Carla Brunini will be rewarded. This is a draconian
law of the France.
Khan Vellayani, Trivandrum - 685009
Islam is peace Our new generation is intelligent but we have failed in
making them understand the true meaning of Islam. Islam is peace
and it means surrender to Allah the most benevolent the merciful.
Throughout the Quran Allahs name is thus invoked no less than113
times. Jihad means to struggle or to strive hard that is, to exert one-
self to the utmost to achieve ones goal.. The Quran says : Do not
yield to the unbelievers, but fight them strenuously with it. (25:52).
What this verse actually means is that we must engage ourselves to
explain teachings of Islam. and spread the message of kindness and
love. There is no mention of military action where word Jihad is con-
cerned. Thus Islamic Jihad is a positive and continuous process. It is
at work in the entire life of a believer.. The study of our Prophets life
shows that he preferred to choose peace talks. He fought only three
wars and they did not last for long period. According the Islamic
Shariah, peace is the rule in matters of Jihad, while war is the least
desirable option. The truth is that Islam being peaceful religion, it has
stood the taste of time. The goal of the Islamic mission is to make
people realize that there is one and only Allah and we must worship
him. Islam is truth. Truth cannot die. We need to revive Islam with its
beauty and knowledge.
Nazneen O. Saherwala (Surat, India). nazsita@yahoo.co.in
Emotion not to over come law
While showing his re-action upon the statement of Maharashtra C. M.
Shri Prithviraj Chavan Mr. Manohar Joshi the senior Shiv Sena leader
addressing to the reporters bluntly said that we do not care if any law
is coming in the way to raise Balasahebs memorial at Shivaji Park,
Mumbai. Prior to Mr. Joshi, Mumbai shiv sena categorically refused to
budge upon any solution except the Memorial in question irrespective
of legal obstacle. Khap panchayats are very active specially in
Northern and North-West parts of India where they have framed their
own regulations and impose them with full force without caring for the
law many a time in an horrible and heinous way specially against the
young couples performing love marriages against the will of their par-
ents and social traditions. The recent case of Abdul Hakim and
Mahvish at Bulandshaher (U. P.) took place on 22nd November last as
honour based killing. Another honour based killing took place at
Jalalkheda, Dits. Nagpur where the deceased was starangulated by
Nitin Keshav Kanhare brother of Geeta who married to Deepak
Marotrao Charpe against the wishes of her parents and elders of the
society. Microscopic analysis of the above events and other such
happenings shows such emotion based activities are spreading
unchecked in an increased way at the regular interval thus posing a
great challenge for Indian legal system which ocularly warn that with-
in a short span of time overtly the emotion may become the rule of
law in future or may be treated rusty process whereas emotion based
action would be taken as fast activities are going on in an unbecom-
ing way specially by the political parties and their stalwart who hun-
dred of time solemnly affirm their faith in India constitution and law of
the land whereas practically they under the so-called emotional fabric
never hesitate to toe-down the legal system if it is unsuseptible so
what to say about a common man. Faheemuddin, Nagpur
Punish criminals of Gujarat genocide
In fact Narendra Modi was the planner and executor of state spon-
sored genocide and carnage in Gujarat, where 2000 Muslims were
killed, 6000 were injured and one lakh became homeless. Houses,
mosques, dargahs, shops etc. worth hundreds of crores were looted,
burnt and destroyed. The entire nation, barring a small section, had
condemned Modi for the dance of death and destruction. Even prime
minister A. B. Vajpayee had called Gujarat violence a blot on fair name
of India and a matter of national shame. Supreme court had ordered
an special investigation team to probe the role of Narendra Modi and
49 politicians and civil and police officers in the Gujarat violence. The
apex court had also ordered a fresh probe in 14 post Godhra anti-
Muslim riots cases in Gujarat. The court had also ordered transfer of
riots cases from Gujarat to Maharashtra. Suhrabuddin and his wife
Kausar Bi were abducted by Sohrabuddins close friend Tulsiram
Prajapati, who was witness of murder was also killed by Modis police
in December, 2006. In this regard eleven accuseds including 3 former
I. P. S. officers D. G. Vanjara, Rajkumar Pandian and Abhay
Chudasama are in jail. According to the C. B. I., Amit Shah, former
minister of state for Home in Modi govt. was the kingpin of the con-
spiracy. He was also in jail in this regard. Recently Modi govts min-
ister Maya Kodnani is awarded 28 years sentence for organising the
massacre of 95 innocent Muslims at Naroda Patia in Gujarat. Justice
demands that Narendra Modi, his ministers, civil servants, police offi-
cers, party leaders and workers involved in the carnage, should be
prosecuted and punished for their heinous crimes. Rioters, murder-
ers, arsonists, rapists should also be awarded severe punishments.
G. Hasnain Kaif, Bhandara (M. S.) - 441904
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