Muslims face executions in India’s Assam region

Villagers with their belongings move to relief camps as they leave their locality after violence at Chirang district in Assam July 24, 2012. REUTERS/Stringer

Members of the outlawed National Democratic Front of Bodoland have been killing Muslims in India’s Assam district, at a time when Muslims are facing similar violent demises in neighboring Myanmar. Muslims of Bengali origin have been killed in rioting after a free-for-all in the four districts of western Assam. The Indian government has called out the army, issuing shoot-at-sight orders to control the ongoing violence.

LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online): Many are still missing and nearly 400,000 people are in makeshift camps after being displaced by the July riots.

’سکولوں میں مسلم بچوں کو داخلے نہیں دیے گئے‘

سکولی بچوں میں پیٹ کے درد کی شکایت رہتی ہے

بھارت کے دارالحکومت دلی کے سکولوں میں اس برس نرسری درجے میں ہوئے داخلوں کے اعداد و شمار سے پتہ چلتا ہے کہ مسلمان بچوں کو بہت ہی کم تعداد میں داخلہ دیا گيا ہے۔

دلی کے جن تقریباً سو سکولوں نے اپنی ویب سائٹس پر داخلوں کی تفصیل شائع کی ہیں۔ ان سکولوں میں سے بیس نے تسلیم کیا ہے کہ انہوں نے ایک بھی مسلم بچے کو داخل نہیں کیا۔

Muslims : The Untouchables of India

ISLANDS OF EXCLUSION: Residents of Haji Colony in Okhla, Delhi, face poor civic conditions and air pollution. This densely populated area, like some others, is predominantly Muslim. Photo: V. Sudershan

Finding a home to rent in India’s national capital is an arduous task for anyone – but, an investigation by The Hindu has found, almost impossible for citizens who happen to be Muslim. Homeowners and property dealers contacted by reporters often firmed up deals, only to be disqualified as soon as they revealed their religion.

Second edition of book on Hemant Karkare released in Malegaon

Arshad Madni, Presidnet Jamiatul Ulema Hind relasing the book “The Great Hemant Karkare”

Rehan Ansari.

Malegaon: The second edition of the Urdu Book on Hemant Karkare, slain ATS Maharashtra Chief “The Great Hemant Karkare” was released on Friday by the All India President of Jamitul Ulema hind, Maulana Arshad Madni in Malegaon. Mohammed Javed Shaikh, a reporter in Rashtriya Sahara Urdu, Mumbai edition is the author of the book.

The book contains Shaikh’s reporting experience of 26/11 Mumbai attack and Malegaon blast and his meetings with Hemant Karakare. Appreciating the effort of Mohammed Javed sheikh, Arshad Madni said, “It’s a good work and I acclaim his efforts.” He also said, “It’s Hemant Karkare, who exposed the Saffron Terror group and brought them in front of the world because of which these accused are released on bail.”

Javed Shaikh said, “ Karkare sir told me that he was still working on the Malegaon blast 2008 and had got enough evidence of the involvement of Hindu terror outfits involvement.”

Shaikh further quoted Karkare saying that, “if I found the other accused the blast are innocents I will myself file an affidavit in the court for their release.” Shaikh also appreciated the zeal of Maleagon people who fought for the justice for the wrongly arrested youths in the Malegaon bomb blast.

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Ishrat encounter fake, says SIT; Court orders fresh FIR

In a huge setback to the Gujarat government, court-appointed investigators Monday concluded that college girl Ishrat Jahan and her three friends were murdered by the state police in a staged shootout and later passed off as militants.

The conclusion by the special investigation team (SIT) probing the 2004 killings prompted the Gujarat High Court to order a fresh complaint against the accused police officers for the murder under Section 302 that covers the death penalty.

Blood is secular, people aren’t

Abdul Khaliq examines the seriousness of india’s commitment to fraternity.

LAST WEEK, that inveterate hate-monger Praveen Togadia made an impassioned plea for a new Indian Constitution that allows for ‘anyone who converts Hindus to be beheaded’. He went on to assert that ‘we Hindus should include Buddhists, Sikhs and Jains because their line of thinking is no different from Hindus, except for a few small habits’. Is this an isolated fundamentalist rant or the indication of a trend towards an increase in the forces of hatred and division in our society? The preamble to the Constitution is the most noble advertisement of our commitment to secular humanism. It spells out our resolve to be a humane society that will secure justice, liberty, equality for its citizens and promote fraternity. Of these cherished values, the greatest and the most neglected is fraternity, perhaps because it is least amenable to political action. As a wise man once said, the state can prevent me from coveting my neighbour’s property but it cannot oblige me, by law, to love my neighbour. And yet, the success of our pursuit to be a strong, united and civilised country ultimately depends on whether we love one another as brothers. Our prescient Constitution-makers, knowing the importance, underlined fraternity as a key ingredient for building a vibrant democracy.

Indian Muslims and police atrocities

Strong proof against 13 cops in Sohrabuddin killing: Shah

Former Gujarat minister of state for home Amit Shah Thursday washed his hands off the 2005 Sohrabuddin Sheikh staged shootout case and told the Supreme Court that there was “good evidence” against 13 policemen for their involvement in the killing.

The apex court bench of Justice Aftab Alam and Justice R.P. Desai was told that then deputy inspector general of police “Geetha Johri did a great and honest investigation, gathered good evidence to make a prima facie case against top officers of Gujarat police”.

Strong show of unity by Muslims ahead of Malegaon youth’s release

If not impossible, it is uncommon indeed to see a Muslim cleric from one sect leading prayers and delivering religious discourses in a mosque belonging to other sect. However, this rare but pleasant happening is witnessed in a Mumbai mosque where Muslims from Malegaon are camping while in the metropolis to seek bail for the local youths who are holed up in jail for the last five years after being arrested in the 2006 Malegaon blast case. 

Muslims fight for burial ground in Ulhasnagar

Fed up with the alleged apathy of the state government and the Ulhasnagar Municipal Corporation (UMC) towards their three-decade-old demand for a burial ground, some Muslims of Ulhasnagar have threatened to try and bury their dead near the statue of Mahatma Gandhi outside Mantralaya.
With 1.5 lakh Muslims, the town of Ulhasnagar badly needs a Muslim graveyard as the community has to take their dead to Kalyan and Ambernath, several kilometres away, for burial.