The Welfare Party of India protested vehemently against conducting surveys of Mosques and Madrasas by the Surat Police. The general secretary of the Welfare Party, Mr. Qasim Rasool Ilyas has said that by conducting such demeaning surveys it is only making the Muslim community vulnerable to suspicion and instilling a sense of fear in them. This move of the detailed surveys has caused anger in the Muslims living in Gujarat, who has already suffered a lot in and after the 2002 pogrom. Surat&rsqu...

Calicut will soon be known as a city to have the largest mosque in India. Plans for its construction have started and its model is being worked upon. The cost for the construction of this majestic mosque will be provided by the Non-Residential Indians (NRIs) living in the Gulf, said Mr. Hakeem Azhari, Joint Secretary of Cultural Centre, Calicut, Kerala. The mosque spreads across 2,50,000 square kilometres and has the capacity to accommodate 30,000 namazis at a time. Mr. Azhari said that almos...

Prof. Abdur Raheem Kidwai, Director, UGC Academic Staff College, Aligarh Muslim University has published his latest book “Translating the Untranslatable: A Critical Guide to 60 Translations of the Qur’ān”.  The book published by Sarup and Sons, Delhi is a guide to readers how to select a suitable English translation of the Holy Qur’ān for study from a pile of many available in bookshops and libraries.

The remarkable work contains reviews on each of the 6...

Right after the Mumbai blasts and the suspension of Mr. Vastanvi, some evil elements of the society have sprung up once again to malign one of the most sought after Islamic Educational Institutions in India, Darul-Uloom Deoband. Charges are that Darul-Uloom is associated with the ideology of Pakistan and Afghan Taliban. Some sections of media have even said that there was a lot of pressure from Pakistan for sacking Mr. Vastanvi. There are some news portals which say that an e-mail has been re...

U.P. is in the news and this time for the wrong reason of the growing numbers of fake encounters. In the past three years, U.P. Police has allegedly killed 120 people in fake encounters. The first four months of the year 2011 have witnessed six deaths. Families of the deceased are knocking at the doors of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) for justice. According to government sources, the NHRC found 369 cases of fake killings in the year 2008-09, and in 90 cases Police’s action...

On August 8, the peaceful Ramadhan night at Moradabad was transformed into the night of turbulence and violence. The ruckus happened when a group of Kanwarias insisted on taking out the procession from an undeclared route and decided to take it through the Muslim community. At that time the people of the minority community were offering Taraweeh (Night Prayer), and when objected, Kanwarias resorted to arson and vandalism in which 13 people got injured, including 6 policemen.

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The Secretary General of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, Mr. Nusrat Ali, in a press statement on August 11, has expressed grief and sorrow over the latest Moradabad riots. Mr. Ali said that the irresponsible administration and the incompetence of police led to vandalism and riots, and has appealed to the government for its enquiry by higher officials.

The Jamaat leader also said that the role played by the U.P. police and the administration cannot be condoned and they remained incapable in brin...

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) will seek the remand of Lt Col Srikant Prasad Purohit, arrested in connection with the 2008 Malegaon blasts, as it believes that he can help them nail RSS leader Indresh Kumar regarding his alleged involvement in terror cases. The NIA is dwelling on the statement of Aseemanand before the magistrate in which he had mentioned the role of Indresh in the blasts. In his statement before the magistrate, Aseemanand had said, “Purohit once told me that In...

In a fresh blow to the Gujarat state government, deputy inspector general (DIG) Rajnish Rai has named Modi’s close aide and former DGP PC Pande as a conspirator in the Tulsi Prajapati ‘fake’ encounter case. In an affidavit submitted to the Central Administrative Tribunal, Rai accused Pande and officer OP Mathur – both known to be extremely close to Narendra Modi, of abusing their positions and for destruction of evidence. Rai also alleged that Pande tried to delink the...