Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind has demanded from the government to ensure rehabilitation of the family members of 116 Muslims killed in the anti-Muslim riots that shook the village Logai in Bhagalpur district in 1989 as well as the return of about 50 families who had left the village about 18 years ago.
Jamiat general secretary Maulana Syed Mahmood Madani said on June 19, “Though the Muslims of this village have got justice after the passage of 18 long years but delay in justice is ...

Muslim leaders on June 19 demanded the United Progressive Alliance withdraw its candidate from India's presidential race after she said Muslim women should stop wearing their headscarves.
Several Muslim leaders called on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to find a new candidate for this topmost post, accusing Ms. Pratibha Patil of insulting Islam by suggesting the headscarf is primitive.
Addressing a conference in Udaipur over the weekend, Patil said women started wearing the head...

Jamaat-e-Islami Hind Rajasthan zonal president Er. Mohammed Salim has opposed the statement made by Rajasthan Governor and UPA Presidential candidate Pratibha Patil that the purdah (veil) system was introduced in India to protect women from Mughal aggressors and the veil system began during the Mughal rule to “save women from Mughal invaders.”
While addressing a function organised at the Nagar Parishad Auditorium in Udaipur Sunday, Ms. Patil made this controversial stateme...

The Bharatiya Janata Party government of Uttarakhand is busy highlighting its achievements during the first 100 days since assumption of power in the State but all the welfare plans aimed at uplifting the minorities, particularly Muslims, are lying under the carpet. Whether it is lack of budget or an issue of reconstitution of a committee following its expiry, minority welfare plans have been made to face one hurdle or the other.
Since the reconfirmation of the appalling condition of ...