Terming the demolition of Babri Masjid as the greatest terrorist act in independent India, Jamaat-e-Islami Hind once again demanded from the Government to expedite the measures to rebuild the Masjid on its own foundations and subject the culprits involved in the demolition of the Masjid to due punishment, thereby fulfilling the requirements of equity and justice.

In a statement on the 19^th anniversary of Babri Masjid demolition, JIH Secretary-General Nusrat Ali said the Bab...

Tamil Nadu Muslim Munnetra Kazhagam (TMMK) conducted demonstrations at Chennai as well as in all state headquarters in Tamilnadu on Dec 6, the 19^th Anniversary of the demolition of Babri Masjid. Thousands of men and women participated in the demonstration held throughout the state.  Speaking on the occasion at Chennai, MLA and TMMK President Prof. M.H. Jawahirullah said, “Demolition of Babri Masjid on Dec 6, 1992 is a shame to the secular fabric of this nation and a...

Lajja, a controversial novel by Tasleema Nasreen, has once again sparked the controversy after being selected by the Kerala Education Department for madrasa libraries in the state, under the centre’s scheme to provide quality education. Apart from Lajja, the other books of Tasleema include My Girlhood and French Lover. The Samastha Kerala Sunni Vidhyabhasa Board, a prominent body regulating Islamic religious education in Kerala, has asked the education departm...

The Andhra Pradesh government has finally agreed to release the compensation for the innocent Muslim youths picked up by the police as suspects in a knee-jerk reaction to the blast. There are a total of 70 Muslim youths who were acquitted by the trial courts, but unfortunately the acquittal happened only when most of them had spent six to eighteen months in jail. The AP Minorities Commission, which had probed the allegations of illegal torture and arrests, had slammed the police for wrongly i...