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http://www.radianceweekly.com/ http://www.radianceweekly.com/rss.php Radianceweekly News Feed Generator http://www.radianceweekly.com/Karnataka-Elections.php?content_id=2056&issue_id=107&issue_date_from=2008-05-11&title=The-Battle-has-Begun-in-All-Earnestness With three-phased Assembly poll in Karnataka due on May 10, 16 and 22, the race for the seat of power, Vidhana Soudha, has begun in all its earnestness. The BJP has released the first list of its 2008-05-11 http://www.radianceweekly.com/muslim_world.php?content_id=2062&issue_id=107&issue_date_from=2008-05-11&title=COMMON-MARKET-IN-PERSIAN-GULF-AREA Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (PGCC) will start negotiations with Iran on establishment of a trade common market. Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Qatar and Oman are memb 2008-05-11 http://www.radianceweekly.com/radiations.php?content_id=2068&issue_id=107&issue_date_from=2008-05-11&title=Fatwa-on-Beef-Eating People like me who are disappointed over some fatwas like the one issued in the Imrana case are happy that an important fatwa has been issued on a burning issue by the Deoband’s fatwa depar 2008-05-11 http://www.radianceweekly.com/Governance.php?content_id=2043&issue_id=107&issue_date_from=2008-05-11&title=Islam-Muslims-and-Democracy-I It is recurrently argued that Muslim countries are not democratic. This is based on the assumption that only the Western style democracies are the best form of government. The truth is that the W 2008-05-11 http://www.radianceweekly.com/inside_india.php?content_id=2051&issue_id=107&issue_date_from=2008-05-11&title=WRITE-MUHAMMAD-NOT-MOHD-JampK-MINISTRY The West has often been accused of distorting some of the most sacred Muslim names. The Jammu and Kashmir government has now decided to restore the purity of one such name. All schools in the Val 2008-05-11 http://www.radianceweekly.com/muslim_world.php?content_id=2057&issue_id=107&issue_date_from=2008-05-11&title=MORE-MUSLIMS-IN-UK-JAILS Britain’s Justice Secretary, Jack Straw, revealed Muslims are nearly four times more likely to be imprisoned compared with the rest of the population. Using 2006 data from the Offender Mana 2008-05-11 http://www.radianceweekly.com/muslim_world.php?content_id=2063&issue_id=107&issue_date_from=2008-05-11&title=BRITISH-DELEGATES-FOR-ISLAMIC-ECONOMIC-FORUM A thirty-five strong delegation of British Muslims are attending World Islamic Economic Forum (WIEF) Summit in Kuwait. The summit from April 29 to May 1 is the fourth to be held to promote partners 2008-05-11 http://www.radianceweekly.com/readers_pulse.php?content_id=2069&issue_id=107&issue_date_from=2008-05-11&title=Say-No-to-Needle-or-Bullet In the article “Terrorism cure: needle or bullet?” by Mr. Sudarshan (The New Indian Express, April 25, 2008), I was shocked to read the lines: “But couldn’t we ha 2008-05-11 http://www.radianceweekly.com/Governance.php?content_id=2044&issue_id=107&issue_date_from=2008-05-11&title=Are-We-a-Functional-Democracy Recently two incidents involving media persons have taken place. In both the cases, concerned media persons were harassed. Unfortunately the national media chose to black them out. In one inciden 2008-05-11 http://www.radianceweekly.com/inside_india.php?content_id=2052&issue_id=107&issue_date_from=2008-05-11&title=DARUL-ULOOM-ISSUES-FATWA-AGAINST-EYE-DONATION A fatwa issued by Darul Uloom of Deoband has prohibited Muslims from donating their eyes or getting an eye transplant. In a reply to a query of Qazi Saiyyed Mohammed Sabir of Tajganj, Daul Ifta, 2008-05-11 http://www.radianceweekly.com/muslim_world.php?content_id=2058&issue_id=107&issue_date_from=2008-05-11&title=MUSLIM-MPS-OF-KENYA-UNITE Thirty Muslim MPs, including six Cabinet ministers of Kenya have promised to work as a team in Parliament irrespective of their political affiliations. The MPs felt that their presence in the Tenth 2008-05-11 http://www.radianceweekly.com/muslim_world.php?content_id=2064&issue_id=107&issue_date_from=2008-05-11&title=TOURISM-IN-INDONESIA The Middle Eastern tourism market is growing in such importance that Indonesia’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism is going to announce the appointment of a local tourism promotion marketing co 2008-05-11 http://www.radianceweekly.com/readers_pulse.php?content_id=2070&issue_id=107&issue_date_from=2008-05-11&title=Forget-Cricket Where in the world can you find a cricket star making loads of money without even playing a single game? Yes, it is our very own India. The two T20 tournaments IPL and ICL have indirectly develop 2008-05-11 http://www.radianceweekly.com/inside_india.php?content_id=2047&issue_id=107&issue_date_from=2008-05-11&title=JUDGES-VOICE-CONCERN-OVER-FAKE-ENCOUNTERS The Supreme Court on April 29 expressed concern over the killing of innocent people in Jammu and Kashmir and the northeast, branding them terrorists. “Just for getting a gallantry award, in 2008-05-11 http://www.radianceweekly.com/inside_india.php?content_id=2053&issue_id=107&issue_date_from=2008-05-11&title=MAULANA-ANZAR-SHAH-KASHMIRI-IS-NO-MORE Maulana Anzar Shah Kashmiri, one of the most prominent and respected Ulema from Darul Uloom Deoband, breathed his last on April 26 at a hospital in the capital. He was 82. Maulana Anz 2008-05-11 http://www.radianceweekly.com/muslim_world.php?content_id=2059&issue_id=107&issue_date_from=2008-05-11&title=ISRAEL-REJECTS-HAMAS-CEASEFIRE-PROPOSAL The Israeli government has rejected a Hamas offer for a six-month truce in the Gaza Strip. Israeli spokesman David Baker called the proposed truce “a ruse” to give it time to “re- 2008-05-11 http://www.radianceweekly.com/muslim_world.php?content_id=2065&issue_id=107&issue_date_from=2008-05-11&title=LAWMAKERS-SUPPORT-HALAL-LABELLING Lawmakers of Indonesia have approved a request that the House of Representatives include mandatory halal food labelling in a draft-law. House religious affairs commission chairman Hazrul 2008-05-11 http://www.radianceweekly.com/readers_pulse.php?content_id=2071&issue_id=107&issue_date_from=2008-05-11&title=SIO-on-OBC-Quota Thanks to SIO for taking up the issue in line with the recent Supreme Court verdict on OBC quota. It is encouraging to see SIO taking great interest in educational affairs. Its aim is to nurture 2008-05-11 http://www.radianceweekly.com/editorial.php?content_id=2040&issue_id=107&issue_date_from=2008-05-11&title=Why-Haven039t-Thou-Acted-Ever-Since The vote-bank politics is the most serious flaw in our democratic set-up. It is this flawed policy that the Gujarats, the Nandeds and the Tenkasis, to name a few, do happen and the perpetrators a 2008-05-11 http://www.radianceweekly.com/inside_india.php?content_id=2048&issue_id=107&issue_date_from=2008-05-11&title=JAMIAT-CHIEF-SAYS-BIAS-BREEDS-TERROR Jamiat Ulema-i-Hind has described terrorism as an effect of discrimination against the community, saying the symptom couldn’t be rooted out if the disease wasn’t cured.“Terroris 2008-05-11 http://www.radianceweekly.com/Islam-Vs-West.php?content_id=2054&issue_id=107&issue_date_from=2008-05-11&title=A-Critique-of-Fitna 039Let039s-build-confidence-and-trust039 “Gentlemen, “In the wake of the publication of the slanderous film ‘Fitna’ by the right-wing Dutch MP Geert Wilders, I wish to offer the following thoughts: 2008-05-11 http://www.radianceweekly.com/muslim_world.php?content_id=2060&issue_id=107&issue_date_from=2008-05-11&title=ASSET-FREEZING-POWERS-OF-UK The High Court in London ruled that orders imposed under UN laws to freeze terror suspects’ assets are not lawful because they “bypassed” parliament. The imposed orders are &ldquo 2008-05-11 http://www.radianceweekly.com/Quotes-Unquotes.php?content_id=2066&issue_id=107&issue_date_from=2008-05-11&title=Incredible-India People must have faith in the United Progressive Alliance government’s ability to control prices.  – P. Chidambaram, Union Finan 2008-05-11 http://www.radianceweekly.com/Sports.php?content_id=2072&issue_id=107&issue_date_from=2008-05-11&title=Shame-of-Cricket The idea being floated by corporate moguls that cheerleaders add to the excitement of cricket is a failed attempt to fool gullible masses into believing that sleaze is kosher in a modern soc 2008-05-11 http://www.radianceweekly.com/cover_story.php?content_id=2041&issue_id=107&issue_date_from=2008-05-11&title=Time-to-Strengthen-Indo-Iranian-Relations India and Iran were ancient civilizations whose relations spanned over centuries. It may be recalled that by 1947 both India and Iran experienced a complex fall-out of the World War II. No doubt 2008-05-11 http://www.radianceweekly.com/inside_india.php?content_id=2049&issue_id=107&issue_date_from=2008-05-11&title=TENKASI-BLASTS-SOUGHT-TO-IGNITE-COMMUNAL-CLASHES-PATIL The intention behind the bomb blasts outside the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) office in Tamil Nadu in January this year was to spark Hindu-Muslim clashes, Home Minister Shivraj Patil said on 2008-05-11 http://www.radianceweekly.com/Islamic-Finance.php?content_id=2055&issue_id=107&issue_date_from=2008-05-11&title=Islamic-Banking A-Derivative-of-Islamic-Economics Islam has a particular worldview and value system and gives specific guidance and instructions encompassing almost all aspects of life, including economic life of man. The Islamic system of life 2008-05-11 http://www.radianceweekly.com/muslim_world.php?content_id=2061&issue_id=107&issue_date_from=2008-05-11&title=GAMAL-MUBARAK-AS-PRESIDENT-NOT-ACCEPTIBLE Mahdi Akef, chairman of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) of Egypt rejected Gamal Mubarak, the son of the current Egyptian President, as a possible presidential candidate. Akef clarified, in a statement, 2008-05-11 http://www.radianceweekly.com/radiations.php?content_id=2067&issue_id=107&issue_date_from=2008-05-11&title=With-Baum-as-Friend-Shakespeare-Needs-No-Enemies By 2010, only 350 million people will be speaking English as their first language, while around two billion – a third of the world population, will be speaking the language as their second. 2008-05-11 http://www.radianceweekly.com/View-From-Dubai.php?content_id=2073&issue_id=107&issue_date_from=2008-05-11&title=Meanwhile-in-Darfur It seems like only yesterday. But it’s nearly two years ago that I did an impassioned piece on the tragedy of Darfur. Thank God, it managed to make its point. It was widely noticed and talk 2008-05-11 http://www.radianceweekly.com/cover_story.php?content_id=2042&issue_id=107&issue_date_from=2008-05-11&title=A-Whiff-of-Fresh-Breeze-from-Tehran The 6-hour “transit visit” of the Iranian President has produced more hope than hype in South Asia, compelling the West-Asian Capitals also to look beyond immediate requirements and s 2008-05-11 http://www.radianceweekly.com/inside_india.php?content_id=2050&issue_id=107&issue_date_from=2008-05-11&title=039GUJARAT-POLICE-WERE-INACTIVE-DURING-RIOTS039 Former Director General of Police (DGP) Gujarat and Special Rapporteur, National Human Rights Commission, P.G.J. 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They 2008-05-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/muslim_world.php?content_id=2031&issue_id=106&issue_date_from=2008-05-06&title=SOMALI-CIVILIANS-KILLED-IN-MOGADISHU-MOSQUE Ethiopian troops slaughtered nearly 30 Somali civilians taking shelter inside a mosque from raging clashes between Ethiopian forces and Islamic Courts fighters in Mogadishu, reports said on April 2008-05-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/report.php?content_id=2037&issue_id=106&issue_date_from=2008-05-06&title=Terrorism-is-the-by-product-of-politics-Puniyani Dr Ram Puniyani, noted social activist and Secretary of Akhil Bharatiya Dharma-nirapeksha March (ABDM) stated that terrorism was a by-product of politics of opportunism. It has no religion but so 2008-05-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/readers_pulse.php?content_id=2014&issue_id=106&issue_date_from=2008-05-06&title=CJI-under-RTI-Act-or-Not It refers to contradictory views of Chief Justice of India and Lok Sabha Speaker on the issue of CJI being covered under ‘Right To Information Act’ for information relating to office 2008-05-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/Eagle-Eyed.php?content_id=2020&issue_id=106&issue_date_from=2008-05-06&title=Issues-Are-Fragile Handle-them-with-care Islam is the favourite ‘punching bag’ of western civilization and its oriental proponents. It is not an empty rhetoric as some people believe or pretend to believe. It is well articul 2008-05-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/inside_india.php?content_id=2026&issue_id=106&issue_date_from=2008-05-06&title=BAN-BAJRANG-DAL-LIKE-SIMI-DIGVIJAY-SINGH Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh on April 23 demanded that Hindu extremist organisation Bajrang Dal should also be banned like SIMI. Talking to pressmen at Indore, Singh alleged that Bajra 2008-05-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/muslim_world.php?content_id=2032&issue_id=106&issue_date_from=2008-05-06&title=LONDON-MUSLIMS-MOBILISE-FOR-LIVINGSTONE With the London mayoral and local election fast approaching, Muslims are campaigning and mobilising votes for incumbent Ken Livingstone, citing a record for tolerance and support. “Livingst 2008-05-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/report.php?content_id=2038&issue_id=106&issue_date_from=2008-05-06&title=Legal-booklets-offer-hopes-to-Muslims-seeking-justice Data that has not been included in the final report of the Rajinder Sachar Committee exposes a gloomy reality of Muslims in India: Muslims are in disproportionately higher numbers as prison inmat 2008-05-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/readers_pulse.php?content_id=2015&issue_id=106&issue_date_from=2008-05-06&title=Largest-Terrorist-Network The Naxal Movement was started in sixties by Charu Mujumdar and Kanu Sanyal. Today thousands of armed Naxal rebels are indulging in violence, murders, loot, arson, etc, in 167 districts of 14 sat 2008-05-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/Human-Behaviour.php?content_id=2021&issue_id=106&issue_date_from=2008-05-06&title=Beliefs-and-Bad-Behaviour Bad behaviour, whether mere rudeness or criminal activity, boils down to a lack of good standards. I don’t agree with the founder of Boys Town that there’s no such thing as a bad boy, 2008-05-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/inside_india.php?content_id=2027&issue_id=106&issue_date_from=2008-05-06&title=GOVT-SAYS-NO-TO-MOVE-FOR-STRICTER-SATI-LAW The United Progressive Alliance government has dropped attempts to strengthen the anti-Sati law, more than 20 years after it was first enacted. The amendments to the Commission of Sati (Preventio 2008-05-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/muslim_world.php?content_id=2033&issue_id=106&issue_date_from=2008-05-06&title=UN-039EXTRAPOLATES039-HIGHER-DARFUR-TOLL The UN undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs has admitted that the new death toll for the Darfur conflict he gave the UN Security Council was not accurate. “I am not saying I am s 2008-05-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/Sense-Beneath-The-Surface.php?content_id=2039&issue_id=106&issue_date_from=2008-05-06&title=Secular-Challenge The Twin Towers collapsed and 3,000 people were killed. On the fifth anniversary, the names of 2,749 people were read out at a ceremony. Ahmedinejad wonders why the US never published their names 2008-05-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/editorial.php?content_id=2007&issue_id=106&issue_date_from=2008-05-06&title=Building-a-Better-Society Eminent scientist and thinker Stephen Hawking has called for a massive investment in establishing human colonies on the Moon and the Mars, pleading that the world should earmark about 10 times, o 2008-05-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/cover_story.php?content_id=2016&issue_id=106&issue_date_from=2008-05-06&title=CIVIL-SOCIETY- The-New-Superpower The bedrock of civilization rests on three institutions: Family; Business; and The State. A fourth institution called civil society has also always 2008-05-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/Human-Behaviour.php?content_id=2022&issue_id=106&issue_date_from=2008-05-06&title=DIRECTIVE-TO-APPOINT-MUSLIM-POLICE-INSPECTORS-WELCOMED National general secretary of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and Member of Parliament Tariq Anwar has welcomed the central government directive to all states to appoint at least one Muslim insp 2008-05-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/inside_india.php?content_id=2028&issue_id=106&issue_date_from=2008-05-06&title=JALALUDDIN-UMARI-LAUNCHES-HIS-WEBSITE Renowned Islamic scholar and Ameer Jamaat-e-Islami Hind Maulana Syed Jalaluddin Umari, has launched his personal website. The website www.jalaluddinumari.com, which will be available in both Urdu 2008-05-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/muslim_world.php?content_id=2034&issue_id=106&issue_date_from=2008-05-06&title=RABBI-PRIEST-DEFEND-NEW-JERSEY-IMAM Christian and Jewish leaders in New Jersey are united against the possible deportation of prominent Imam Mohammad Qatanani, citing his distinguished record in promoting interfaith dialogue and pe 2008-05-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/from_darkness_to_light.php?content_id=2008&issue_id=106&issue_date_from=2008-05-06&title=I-Came-into-the-Light I am ethnically a Russian Jew. My quest began when I was 19 years old. I was recovering from my stint with Scientology (yes, I was brainwashed into it). My belief in God was uncertain. My goals i 2008-05-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/cover_story.php?content_id=2017&issue_id=106&issue_date_from=2008-05-06&title=CIVIL-SOCIETY Three-Dimensional-System-A-Must Islam plans to achieve its objective of Grand Peace and takes all possible steps in that direction. A society devoid of peace cannot be a civil society. A civil society is one that has a two-way 2008-05-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/inside_india.php?content_id=2023&issue_id=106&issue_date_from=2008-05-06&title=SILLOD-TALUKA-OF-AURANGABAD-FACES-COMMUNAL-VIOLENCE Hindu-Muslim riots flared up after Friday prayers on April 18 in Bharadi village, Taluka Sillod of Aurangabad in Maharashtra. Incidents of destruction of properties, including setting shops on fi 2008-05-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/muslim_world.php?content_id=2029&issue_id=106&issue_date_from=2008-05-06&title=MUSLIMS-CALL-TO-ADOPT-MAKKAH-TIME Muslim scientists and clerics have called for the adoption of Makkah time to replace GMT, arguing that the Saudi city is the true centre of the earth. Makkah is the direction all Muslims face whe 2008-05-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/Obc-Quota.php?content_id=2035&issue_id=106&issue_date_from=2008-05-06&title=Reservation-Restoredacirc€brvbarButacirc€brvbar “In giving rights to others which belong to them, we give rights to ourselves and to our country.” – John F. Kennedy The recent Supreme Court judgment to uphold 27% 2008-05-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/readers_pulse.php?content_id=2012&issue_id=106&issue_date_from=2008-05-06&title=On-Reply-to-Naipaul I congratulate Prof. U. Mohamed Iqbal for his brilliant point-by-point reply to the views of Sir V.S. Naipaul, on Islam. (Radiance Viewsweekly, 16-22 March 2008). Sir Naipaul, may be a p 2008-05-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/cover_story.php?content_id=2018&issue_id=106&issue_date_from=2008-05-06&title=Civil-Society-or-Evil-Society Human history bears witness that voices against injustice have always been raised. A large part of human history has been struggle of many against a few. These voices took as many forms as their 2008-05-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/inside_india.php?content_id=2024&issue_id=106&issue_date_from=2008-05-06&title=quotISLAMIC-TERRORISM039-IS-A-CONSPIRACY-OF-COMMUNAL-FORCES-TEESTA There is no confrontation between Islam and democracy. 1400 years ago Islamic teachings warned against cruelty, exploitation, injustice, equality and taught about the rights of women and how to e 2008-05-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/muslim_world.php?content_id=2030&issue_id=106&issue_date_from=2008-05-06&title=ISRAEL-REJECTS-HAMAS-CEASEFIRE-OFFER Israel on April 25 rejected a Hamas offer for a six-month truce in the Gaza Strip that could be extended to the occupied West Bank. “Hamas is biding time in order to rearm and regroup,&rdqu 2008-05-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/payaam-e-maghrib.php?content_id=2036&issue_id=106&issue_date_from=2008-05-06&title=Communicating-with-the-Qur039an Auron ka hai Payaam aur, mera Payaam aur hai, / Ishq key dardmand ka tarz-e-kalaam aur hai!  (Iqbal) Here is some of what it takes to communicate with the Qur’an & 2008-05-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/readers_pulse.php?content_id=2013&issue_id=106&issue_date_from=2008-05-06&title=Ban-Alcohol Whether colas contain pesticides or not, or addiction to these drinks can lead to diabetes or not, some people don’t want to take risk and want to ban them. How can they forget that alcohol 2008-05-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/cover_story.php?content_id=2019&issue_id=106&issue_date_from=2008-05-06&title=NGOs-and-Tribal-Development-in-India-Issues-and-concerns From time immemorial India has a natural propensity for voluntary works by virtue of which “Moksha” was said to be attained. The trend persists obstinately. However the nature and mod 2008-05-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/inside_india.php?content_id=1987&issue_id=105&issue_date_from=2008-04-25&title=ONE-ARRESTED-FOR-GUJARAT-MASSACRE The Special Investigation Team (SIT), formed by the Supreme Court to inquire into cases of the 2002 communal riots in Gujarat, has arrested a long time absconder in the infamous Gulbarg massacre. 2008-04-25 http://www.radianceweekly.com/muslim_world.php?content_id=1993&issue_id=105&issue_date_from=2008-04-25&title=CARTER-DEFIES-THE-US-POLICY Defying U.S. and Israeli policy shunning Hamas as a terror group, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter warmly embraced a leader of Hamas during a visit to the West Bank. Israel accused Carter of dign 2008-04-25 http://www.radianceweekly.com/muslim_world.php?content_id=1999&issue_id=105&issue_date_from=2008-04-25&title=SADR-FOLLOWERS-DENOUNCE-AMERICANS-WALL-IN-IRAQ Followers of anti-U.S. Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr denounced the American military’s construction of a concrete wall through their Sadr City stronghold in Baghdad, the scene of renewed clas 2008-04-25 http://www.radianceweekly.com/readers_pulse.php?content_id=2005&issue_id=105&issue_date_from=2008-04-25&title=Of-Pitches-and-Curators Team India’s incredible efforts have given them a spectacular win against the Proteas at Kanpur final test. The pitch curator Shiv Kumar has been exhibited as the real hero behind the win a 2008-04-25 http://www.radianceweekly.com/editorial.php?content_id=1974&issue_id=105&issue_date_from=2008-04-25&title=Whither-Justice Justice sustains the universe, protects and embellishes an individual and supports and holds society together. Lack of justice debases individual and disintegrates society. Justice is the basic a 2008-04-25 http://www.radianceweekly.com/Karnataka-Elections.php?content_id=1982&issue_id=105&issue_date_from=2008-04-25&title=A-Microcosm-of-National-Politics The State of Karnataka goes to three-phase polls in May. Karnataka has shown amusing poll patterns in the past inasmuch as it has perplexed the poll pundits. Voters in the state at least twice in 2008-04-25 http://www.radianceweekly.com/inside_india.php?content_id=1988&issue_id=105&issue_date_from=2008-04-25&title=SIMI-LINK-JAMAAT-TERMS-HT-REPORT-039BASELESS039-AND-039DEFAMATORY039 “The exclusive front-page report which appeared in the Hindustan Times today (Mumbai and Bhopal editions) linking Jamaat-e-Islami Hind with the banned Students Islamic Movemen 2008-04-25 http://www.radianceweekly.com/muslim_world.php?content_id=1994&issue_id=105&issue_date_from=2008-04-25&title=CYPRUS-MP-STRESSES-TO-CHECK-ISLAMOPHOBIA Andros Kyprianou, head of the Cyprus delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, has called on European governments to address growing Islamophobia faced by Muslim communitie 2008-04-25 http://www.radianceweekly.com/muslim_world.php?content_id=2000&issue_id=105&issue_date_from=2008-04-25&title=IAEA-CALLS-FOR-MORE-DIALOGUE-ON-IRAN UN nuclear watchdog chief Mohammed ElBaradei called for more dialogue between the international community and Iran on the country’s nuclear issue. El Baradei, general secretary of Internation 2008-04-25 http://www.radianceweekly.com/Quotes-Unquotes.php?content_id=2006&issue_id=105&issue_date_from=2008-04-25&title=Martyrdom-without-Death There is no vacancy for the post of Prime Minister.  – Jayanthi Natarajan, Congress spokesperson   2008-04-25 http://www.radianceweekly.com/cover_story.php?content_id=1975&issue_id=105&issue_date_from=2008-04-25&title=In-Khaki-Terror Stigmatised as a terrorist, after five harrowing months in prison in Hyderabad, Ibrahim Junaid, a young man of 25 years, is now out on bail, trying desperately to prove his innocence, and to comp 2008-04-25 http://www.radianceweekly.com/MIDDLE-EAST.php?content_id=1983&issue_id=105&issue_date_from=2008-04-25&title=Blessed-are-the-Peacemakers Two scenes from the Middle East this week offer an amazing study in contrast. They demonstrate how the region has dramatically changed over the past few years. And yet, the more the Mid 2008-04-25 http://www.radianceweekly.com/inside_india.php?content_id=1989&issue_id=105&issue_date_from=2008-04-25&title=IUML-DEMANDS-SEPARATE-QUOTA-FOR-MUSLIMS President Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) G.M. Banatwalla has welcomed the Supreme Court nod to 27% reservation for Other Backward Castes (OBCs), but expressed his disappointment over the exclu 2008-04-25 http://www.radianceweekly.com/muslim_world.php?content_id=1995&issue_id=105&issue_date_from=2008-04-25&title=US-DEFENDS-DETENTION-OF-HUZAIFA-PARHAT Lawyers for the US Department of Justice defended the six-year detention of Huzaifa Parhat, a Chinese Uighur Muslim, at Guantanamo Bay in oral arguments before the US Court of Appeals. Th 2008-04-25 http://www.radianceweekly.com/muslim_world.php?content_id=2001&issue_id=105&issue_date_from=2008-04-25&title=SAUDI-NON-OIL-EXPORTS-INCREASE The Saudi Department of General Statistics and Information said in its report that the total value of the Kingdom’s imports last year increased by 29 per cent to SAR338.088bn compared to SA 2008-04-25 http://www.radianceweekly.com/cover_story.php?content_id=1976&issue_id=105&issue_date_from=2008-04-25&title=Tyranny-versus-Terrorism Facts-and-Figures With the fifth anniversary of 9/11, there will be the repetitions of calls to condemn Terrorism, and to do so unconditionally. But, why condemn terrorism unconditionally? Terrorism is bad but Tyr 2008-04-25 http://www.radianceweekly.com/MIDDLE-EAST.php?content_id=1984&issue_id=105&issue_date_from=2008-04-25&title=Push-Jimmy039s-Cart-of-Peace Perhaps Senator Barack Obama does not want to know that in 2007 alone the ratio of Palestinians to Israelis killed was 40 to 1, up from 4 to 1 during the period 2000-2005; that Israel’s esc 2008-04-25 http://www.radianceweekly.com/inside_india.php?content_id=1990&issue_id=105&issue_date_from=2008-04-25&title=RTI-NEW-RULE-RESTRICTS-QUANTUM-OF-INFO Karnataka Information Commission (KIC) recommended that the State Government amend the Karnataka Right to Information (RTI) Rules 2005 to restrict the quantum of information sought in a single appl 2008-04-25 http://www.radianceweekly.com/muslim_world.php?content_id=1996&issue_id=105&issue_date_from=2008-04-25&title=NIK-AZIZ-WANTS-DAP-TO-VISIT-KELANTAN Nik Aziz, the PAS (Parti Islam Se-Malaysia) leader, said he could not understand why DAP (Democratic Action Party) leaders were so afraid of the establishment of an Islamic state when most non-Musl 2008-04-25 http://www.radianceweekly.com/readers_pulse.php?content_id=2002&issue_id=105&issue_date_from=2008-04-25&title=Priyanka039s-Gesture The meeting of Priyanka Gandhi with Nalini Sriharan is not an act to be wondered at or be discussed in the context of revenge. Since “revenge” was the factor that motivated Satan to d 2008-04-25 http://www.radianceweekly.com/muslim_affairs.php?content_id=1979&issue_id=105&issue_date_from=2008-04-25&title=Mushawarat-Voices-on-Various-Issues-Confronting-Muslims The Working Committee of the All India Muslim Majlis-e-Mushawarat (AIMMM), the umbrella body of the Indian Muslim organisations, met in New Delhi on April 12 and deliberated on a set of organisat 2008-04-25 http://www.radianceweekly.com/policital_jiggery_pokery.php?content_id=1985&issue_id=105&issue_date_from=2008-04-25&title=The-Menace-of-Communalism Prevention-and-Cure Communalism is the menace not only for the target communities but also for those in whose name communal politics is played. In fact, it has landed the entire nation, its sovereignty and plural st 2008-04-25 http://www.radianceweekly.com/inside_india.php?content_id=1991&issue_id=105&issue_date_from=2008-04-25&title=JAIN-COMMUNITY-DEMANDS-MINORITY-STATUS The Jain community has raised the pitch for minority status on par with the Buddhists, Christians, Sikhs, Muslims and Parsis, listed as notified minority groups under the Delhi Minorities Commiss 2008-04-25 http://www.radianceweekly.com/muslim_world.php?content_id=1997&issue_id=105&issue_date_from=2008-04-25&title=AL-AZHAR-BRANCH-IN-MALAYSIA Al-Azhar University opened a branch campus at the Yayasan Sofa Negeri Sembilan Complex, near Kampung Bukit Sembilan in Malaysia. The establishment of the branch campus outside the Middle East also 2008-04-25 http://www.radianceweekly.com/readers_pulse.php?content_id=2003&issue_id=105&issue_date_from=2008-04-25&title=Highly-Condemnable How much it may be condemned it’s too much less, on the addressing speech, by a so called Islamic spiritual leader of Turkey Sheika Cemalnur Sargut, leader of the Istanbul bran 2008-04-25 http://www.radianceweekly.com/Hamas.php?content_id=1980&issue_id=105&issue_date_from=2008-04-25&title=Hamas-No-Peace-Obstacle-Carter Former US president Jimmy Carter on April 21 insisted that Hamas is not a block to peace in the Middle East and will accept a peace deal negotiated by President Mahmoud Abbas if approved by Pales 2008-04-25 http://www.radianceweekly.com/inside_india.php?content_id=1986&issue_id=105&issue_date_from=2008-04-25&title=PM-PROPOSES-JOINT-PANEL-TO-PREVENT-HARASSMENT-OF-MUSLIM-YOUTHS Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has proposed a joint panel consisting of Muslim leaders and top intelligence and security officials to stop the harassment of young Muslims across India in the name 2008-04-25 http://www.radianceweekly.com/inside_india.php?content_id=1992&issue_id=105&issue_date_from=2008-04-25&title=SIO-CHILDREN-WING-PROTESTS-AGAINST-SEZ Taking a cue from their elders, a group of children from Permude, Tenka Yekkaru, Kuthethur and Delanthabettu staged a demonstration against the Mangalore Special Economic Zone project at Mangalor 2008-04-25 http://www.radianceweekly.com/muslim_world.php?content_id=1998&issue_id=105&issue_date_from=2008-04-25&title=FLOATING-DESALINATION-PLANT-IN-JEDDAH Jeddah’s water shortage problem would be solved temporarily with the arrival of a floating desalination plant at its shores. Abdullah Ahmed Bajunaid, CEO of Bawarij International, said the pl 2008-04-25 http://www.radianceweekly.com/readers_pulse.php?content_id=2004&issue_id=105&issue_date_from=2008-04-25&title=Let039s-Introspect Most of us associate merit with the marks a particular candidate scores in an entrance examination or board. Is this measure true? Can a student who has studied in rural India with no coaching ce 2008-04-25 http://www.radianceweekly.com/Hindutva.php?content_id=1981&issue_id=105&issue_date_from=2008-04-25&title=Advani039s-Autobiography-is-RSS-Version-of-Events Many reviews have already come out of this book, spanning the life of Lal Krishna Advani, known for thrusting the RSS-BJP politics on the body politic of democratic India. Starting from his role 2008-04-25 http://www.radianceweekly.com/muslim_world.php?content_id=1956&issue_id=104&issue_date_from=2008-04-20&title=US-IMAMS-RABBIS-PROMOTE-TOLERANCE Twelve imams and rabbis are starring a commercial to fight Islamophobia and anti-Semitism in the US and promote tolerance among their fellow religionists. “This is serious work,” Rabb 2008-04-20 http://www.radianceweekly.com/report.php?content_id=1962&issue_id=104&issue_date_from=2008-04-20&title=Do-not-open-OBC-quota-vacant-seats-for-general-category-SIO Students Islamic Organisation of India (SIO) has hailed the Supreme Court’s verdict to stop undeclared reservation for elites. “The Supreme Court judgment has created confidence in th 2008-04-20 http://www.radianceweekly.com/readers_pulse.php?content_id=1968&issue_id=104&issue_date_from=2008-04-20&title=Rarest-of-the-Rare The black dots are unfolding one by one in Gujarat. Sabarmati train burning, then riots, murders, looting, killing, burning are big dots on the “Gujarat-ni Asmita”. Bakery burning, Bi 2008-04-20 http://www.radianceweekly.com/editorial.php?content_id=1943&issue_id=104&issue_date_from=2008-04-20&title=India039s-Own-War-on-Terror Real-Target-the-Muslims-Not-SIMI 9/11, which is now appearing more as a home-made conspiracy of US administration, is being used under the name of ‘war on terror’ as a weapon against Islam. Recent events and propagan 2008-04-20 http://www.radianceweekly.com/inside_india.php?content_id=1951&issue_id=104&issue_date_from=2008-04-20&title=SIT-BEGINS-INSPECTION-IN-RIOT-AFFECTED-AREAS-IN-GUJARAT The Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team on April 8 began its probe into the 11 most serious incidents that occurred during the anti-Muslim communal carnage in Gujarat in 2002. Over 2008-04-20 http://www.radianceweekly.com/muslim_world.php?content_id=1957&issue_id=104&issue_date_from=2008-04-20&title=ISLAM-CHRISTIANITY-DICTIONARY-IN-THE-MAKING A dictionary on commonalities and differences between Islam and Christianity is being drafted by three US-based researchers with contributions from religion professors, priests, imams and interfa 2008-04-20 http://www.radianceweekly.com/Riots-And-Justice.php?content_id=1963&issue_id=104&issue_date_from=2008-04-20&title=Cry-for-Justice The Supreme Court order for fresh probe into some Gujarat riot cases, like Naroda Patiya, Naroda etc. (March 25, 08) comes as a welcome relief in the dark times when most of the times justice is 2008-04-20 http://www.radianceweekly.com/readers_pulse.php?content_id=1969&issue_id=104&issue_date_from=2008-04-20&title=Will-Modi-be-Booked The Supreme Court order for fresh probe into some Gujarat riot cases has come as a sign of relief in the dark times of the Gujarat riots history. Gujarat, which is famous for the flip flop&n 2008-04-20 http://www.radianceweekly.com/cover_story.php?content_id=1944&issue_id=104&issue_date_from=2008-04-20&title=Centre039s-Scholarship-for-Minorities- Nitish-Administration-Let-It-Lapse One example is enough to confirm the anarchy and chaos prevailing in the Bihar government, especially in its Minority Welfare department. While chief minister Nitish Kumar wastes no time to claim 2008-04-20 http://www.radianceweekly.com/inside_india.php?content_id=1952&issue_id=104&issue_date_from=2008-04-20&title=MUSHAWARAT-URGES-GOVT-TO-PROBE-SIMI-LINKED-ARRESTS “The harassment, torture and arrests of a number of Muslims at several places in Madhya Pradesh, at the stance of Saffro-nazis has dismayed and alarmed Muslims of the State,” said Sta 2008-04-20 http://www.radianceweekly.com/muslim_world.php?content_id=1958&issue_id=104&issue_date_from=2008-04-20&title=MALAYSIA-PM-HINTS-AT-POWER-HANDOVER Malaysia’s embattled Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi has hinted at a handover of power to his deputy following last month’s election debacle. “I am not one who is going to retain 2008-04-20 http://www.radianceweekly.com/Sense-Beneath-The-Surface.php?content_id=1964&issue_id=104&issue_date_from=2008-04-20&title=Starving-Millions-Cry-Military-Bosses-Smile Most Americans take food for granted. Even the poorest fifth of households in the United States spend only 16 per cent of their budget on food. In many other countries, it is less. But Nigerian f 2008-04-20 http://www.radianceweekly.com/readers_pulse.php?content_id=1970&issue_id=104&issue_date_from=2008-04-20&title=Muslim-Scientists In his article “The Caliphs Gave News Service and Postal System to the World” (Radiance Viewsweekly,6-12 April 2008), Mr. Mohammad Yacoob has presented a long list of past Mu 2008-04-20 http://www.radianceweekly.com/Energy-Security.php?content_id=1945&issue_id=104&issue_date_from=2008-04-20&title=Energy-Security-and-India The term ‘‘energy’’ covers the entire gamut of energy resources – primary, renewable and non-conventional. Energy is the very basis of modern civilisation and withou 2008-04-20 http://www.radianceweekly.com/inside_india.php?content_id=1953&issue_id=104&issue_date_from=2008-04-20&title=SC-CLEARS-OBC-QUOTA-LAW The Supreme Court on April 10 upheld the law enacted by the Centre in 2006 providing a quota of 27 per cent for candidates belonging to the Other Backward Classes in Central higher educational in 2008-04-20 http://www.radianceweekly.com/muslim_world.php?content_id=1959&issue_id=104&issue_date_from=2008-04-20&title=HAMAS-CONFIRMS-CARTER-MESHAAL-MEETING The Palestinian resistance group Hamas on April 12 confirmed a planned meeting between former US president Jimmy Carter and Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal in Syria. “Preparations a 2008-04-20 http://www.radianceweekly.com/US-Economy.php?content_id=1965&issue_id=104&issue_date_from=2008-04-20&title=Is-Economy-Issue--I-of-the-USA From the ongoing emphasis being given by the three running candidates of both the political parties of the USA for Election-2008 and its echoing continuous discussion in media coverage, it appear 2008-04-20 http://www.radianceweekly.com/readers_pulse.php?content_id=1971&issue_id=104&issue_date_from=2008-04-20&title=Quota-and-Social-Justice Mere giving reservation to the Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in prestigious institutions like IITs and IIMs does not serve the purpose of social justice. Reservation on the basis of caste divides 2008-04-20 http://www.radianceweekly.com/Hate-Juggernaut.php?content_id=1948&issue_id=104&issue_date_from=2008-04-20&title=Schism-Saudi-Blogger039s-Answer-to-Wilders-Film A Saudi blogger has made a six-minute video entitled “Schism” by portraying texts from Christian sources out of context, similar to the way Dutch MP Geert Wilders made his recently-re 2008-04-20 http://www.radianceweekly.com/inside_india.php?content_id=1954&issue_id=104&issue_date_from=2008-04-20&title=JAMIA-INTRODUCES-FIRST-EVENING-SCHOOL-FOR-GIRLS The Jamia Millia Islamia has established an exclusive evening higher secondary Urdu medium school for girls, the first of its kind that will provide various facilities including all women faculty 2008-04-20 http://www.radianceweekly.com/Neocons-Role.php?content_id=1960&issue_id=104&issue_date_from=2008-04-20&title=UN-Official-Calls-for-Study-of-Neocons039-Role-in-911 A new United Nations Human Rights Council official assigned to monitor Israel has called for an official commission to study the role neoconservatives may have played in the 9/11 terrorist attack 2008-04-20 http://www.radianceweekly.com/View-From-Dubai.php?content_id=1966&issue_id=104&issue_date_from=2008-04-20&title=What-a-Billion-Muslims-Think Opinion polls fascinate me. They are, if honestly conducted, perhaps the best possible way of gauging public opinion. At a time when spin is the norm and global media is controlled, manipulated a 2008-04-20 http://www.radianceweekly.com/muslim_world.php?content_id=1972&issue_id=104&issue_date_from=2008-04-20&title=Turkey039s-Delayed-Hijab-Dream With universities refusing to allow veiled students on campus and the ruling Justice and Development Party facing ban threats in court, many students are shelving their earlier hijab dre 2008-04-20 http://www.radianceweekly.com/inside_india.php?content_id=1949&issue_id=104&issue_date_from=2008-04-20&title=039YES-I-PULLED-DOWN-BABRI-MASJID039 Jai Bhagwan Goyal, a hardcore Shiv Sena activist, has reportedly claimed to have confessed that he took part in Kar Seva campaign with an intention to demolish Babri Masjid on December 6, 1992 in 2008-04-20 http://www.radianceweekly.com/muslim_world.php?content_id=1955&issue_id=104&issue_date_from=2008-04-20&title=SECRET-US-IRAN-NUCLEAR-TALKS Former US diplomats and experts have been engaged in secret talks with Iranian academics and policy advisers over Tehran’s nuclear program and frozen diplomatic relations between their coun 2008-04-20 http://www.radianceweekly.com/rejoinder.php?content_id=1961&issue_id=104&issue_date_from=2008-04-20&title=Zakat-Collection-and-Disbursal Radiance (9-15 March 2008) has published a well-written article by Abdur Raheem Shariq discussing the potential that Zakat has of wiping the tears from the eyes and faces of the poor and the wret 2008-04-20 http://www.radianceweekly.com/Role-Of-Ulama.php?content_id=1967&issue_id=104&issue_date_from=2008-04-20&title=Responsibilities-of-Ulama-towards-Islam-Muslims-and-Non-Muslims I would like to say to our emerging ulama that receiving degrees is not the end of their pursuit. They should take it as the beginning of a great mission, which they have to pursue throughout the 2008-04-20 http://www.radianceweekly.com/Book-Review.php?content_id=1973&issue_id=104&issue_date_from=2008-04-20&title=Demystifying-Myths In existing socio-political scenario, communalism is a burning subject of discussion. Then it is obviously a special area of interest for social scientists. Innumerable papers, presentations and 2008-04-20 http://www.radianceweekly.com/inside_india.php?content_id=1950&issue_id=104&issue_date_from=2008-04-20&title=JUDGE-ACCUSED-OF-SUPPORTING-RIOTERS-JOINS-GUJARAT-PROBE The Gujarat government’s decision to appoint retired judge Akshay Mehta in the Nanavati Commission probing the 2002 Godhra incident and the riots thereafter has led to shrill protests from 2008-04-20 http://www.radianceweekly.com/inside_india.php?content_id=1919&issue_id=103&issue_date_from=2008-04-13&title=STATE-HAJJ-UNITS-DEMAND-PROCEDURAL-CHANGES-IN-AIR-INDIA039S-MONOPOLY The state units of the Hajj Committee have asked the Government to terminate the monopoly of Air India as the only carrier of pilgrims. In a bid to put an end to the monopoly of Air India, the Ha 2008-04-13 http://www.radianceweekly.com/Sense-Beneath-The-Surface.php?content_id=1925&issue_id=103&issue_date_from=2008-04-13&title=US-Toll-Reaches-4000-Killed The birth of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) drew hundreds of Muslims to the 3rd annual Shia-Sunni symposium on March 22. The event was attended by Muslim scholars, and activists from So. Califo 2008-04-13 http://www.radianceweekly.com/readers_pulse.php?content_id=1931&issue_id=103&issue_date_from=2008-04-13&title=Re-Discover-Thy-Identity Policemen in India are infamous for their deeds. The worsening of their reputation can be judged from the fact that a policeman taking bribe is not considered news at all. A recent government rep 2008-04-13 http://www.radianceweekly.com/muslim_world.php?content_id=1937&issue_id=103&issue_date_from=2008-04-13&title=KENYA-NEW-CABINET-AGREED-BY-ALL-PARTIES President Kibaki and Prime Minister-designate Raila Odinga finally agreed on the size of the Cabinet – a bloated 40 – with PNU running away with key ministries. It would seem the part 2008-04-13 http://www.radianceweekly.com/policital_jiggery_pokery.php?content_id=1912&issue_id=103&issue_date_from=2008-04-13&title=Communal-Assault-on-Culture-and-Education The BJP governments both in states and at the Centre (during the NDA regime) have not forgotten to play the communal role their mentors had expected them to do. Even when they talked about &lsquo 2008-04-13 http://www.radianceweekly.com/inside_india.php?content_id=1920&issue_id=103&issue_date_from=2008-04-13&title=KIN-MEET-SPANISH-ENVOY-FOR-JAMAL039S-RELEASE With no word yet from Spanish authorities on the imprisonment or release of 50-year-old Mumbai resident Roshan Jamal Khan in Madrid in connection with an alleged terror plot, his wife Farida and 2008-04-13 http://www.radianceweekly.com/View-From-Dubai.php?content_id=1926&issue_id=103&issue_date_from=2008-04-13&title=Mirage-Called-Arab-Unity Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi reminds one of those irrepressible Shakespearean wits. The Bard employed them not only for necessary comic relief but also to offer his own commentary – s 2008-04-13 http://www.radianceweekly.com/readers_pulse.php?content_id=1932&issue_id=103&issue_date_from=2008-04-13&title=Global-Warming What are we doing to save the planet from global warming? This phenomenon is having devastating effects all over the world. There is a growing cry of energy conservation and combating climate cha 2008-04-13 http://www.radianceweekly.com/muslim_world.php?content_id=1938&issue_id=103&issue_date_from=2008-04-13&title=ISLAMIC-ECONOMICS-CONFERECE-IN-JEDDAH A three-day international conference on Islamic economics ended urging Islamic banks to address problems such as poverty and unemployment in Muslim countries. The conference, hosted by King Abdulaz 2008-04-13 http://www.radianceweekly.com/editorial.php?content_id=1913&issue_id=103&issue_date_from=2008-04-13&title=Soaring-Food-Prices-Alarm-Bells-Ring The last two decades have witnessed relative food security throughout the world, with exception of some African countries as trouble spots because of droughts and famines. India also, by the Grac 2008-04-13 http://www.radianceweekly.com/inside_india.php?content_id=1921&issue_id=103&issue_date_from=2008-04-13&title=FIRST-MUSLIM-GENERAL-APPOINTED-IN-ARMY For the first time in its post-independence history, the Indian Army has a Muslim General from Kashmir. Major General Mohammed Amin Naik, a resident of Tral, a picturesque township 39 kms south-e 2008-04-13 http://www.radianceweekly.com/rejoinder.php?content_id=1927&issue_id=103&issue_date_from=2008-04-13&title=The-Prophetic-Mission-is-Quite-Relevant I sincerely thank Radiance for bringing out Seerah Special issue (30 March-5 April 2008) with thought-provoking articles and brilliant analysis of the contrast between the present world 2008-04-13 http://www.radianceweekly.com/readers_pulse.php?content_id=1933&issue_id=103&issue_date_from=2008-04-13&title=Olympics-Boycott Olympics boycott by Tibetan is not the right way to solve their problem. The Tibetans are regularly creating problems for other countries too. On March 21, days after the trouble in Lhasa and sur 2008-04-13 http://www.radianceweekly.com/muslim_world.php?content_id=1939&issue_id=103&issue_date_from=2008-04-13&title=INUVIK-MUSLIMS-BUY-LAND-FOR-TOWN039S-FIRST-MOSQUE Two empty, snow-covered lots in Inuvik, N.W.T., could soon be home to Canada’s most northerly mosque. The Muslim association in the Arctic town of 3,500 recently purchased the lots, after t 2008-04-13 http://www.radianceweekly.com/inside_india.php?content_id=1916&issue_id=103&issue_date_from=2008-04-13&title=CENTRE-UNABLE-TO-CONFRONT-HINDUTV The Communist Party of India (M) expressed resentment over the inability of the United Progressive Alliance government to confront Hindutva forces. It demanded legislation to deal with communal v 2008-04-13 http://www.radianceweekly.com/kerala_newsletter.php?content_id=1922&issue_id=103&issue_date_from=2008-04-13&title=039MUKKAAL039-CENT-COLONY-Historic-Win-for-Popular-Struggle Forty one families whose lives had been in misery since their eviction in the name of development, got justice through the popular agitation led by the Solidarity Youth Movement. For the resident 2008-04-13 http://www.radianceweekly.com/Satire.php?content_id=1928&issue_id=103&issue_date_from=2008-04-13&title=St-039Jackal039-Academy-A-Night- School-cum-Maternity-Hospital An acquaintance of mine narrated that his friend, who lives in Delhi’s Batla House locality, once casually remarked: “In winter the Fajr Adhan (pre-dawn call for prayer) here 2008-04-13 http://www.radianceweekly.com/Letter-Writing.php?content_id=1934&issue_id=103&issue_date_from=2008-04-13&title=A-Letter-Which-I-Forgot-to-Write You might have known Dr. Hameedullah. He was a world renowned Islamic scholar. Born in Chennai, he was an illustrious son of brother of Qazi Ubaidullah, the first Chief Qazi of Tamil Nadu. 2008-04-13 http://www.radianceweekly.com/muslim_world.php?content_id=1940&issue_id=103&issue_date_from=2008-04-13&title=POLIITICAL-PROCESS-LIKELY-IN-BANGLADESH The caretaker government of Bangladesh is likely to begin the much-awaited dialogue with political parties this month. “The government is presently making preparations to hold the dialogue ve 2008-04-13 http://www.radianceweekly.com/inside_india.php?content_id=1917&issue_id=103&issue_date_from=2008-04-13&title=NHRC-ASKS-MODI-TO-SUBMIT-DETAILED-REPORT-OF-MUSLIM-PRISONERS National Human Rights Commission has strongly criticised Narendra Modi, Chief Minister of Gujarat while asking him to submit the exact figure of Muslim prisoners languishing in different prisons 2008-04-13 http://www.radianceweekly.com/Letter-From-The-West-Indies.php?content_id=1923&issue_id=103&issue_date_from=2008-04-13&title=Reject-A-Culture-of-Excuses Alhamdulillah! Tabaarakallah! Ever since we learned, in one of Dr. Pasha’s International Qur’an Programmes, these meaning and significance of these two most profound 2008-04-13 http://www.radianceweekly.com/report.php?content_id=1929&issue_id=103&issue_date_from=2008-04-13&title=Madhya-Pradesh-police-arrests-MG-journalist “Late last evening the police in the BJP-ruled state of Madhya Pradesh arrested a Delhi-based journalist who had gone there to report on recent arrests in the state,” said a Press Ale 2008-04-13 http://www.radianceweekly.com/muslim_world.php?content_id=1935&issue_id=103&issue_date_from=2008-04-13&title=CALL-FOR-BOYCOTT-OF-039ISRAEL-AT-60039-CELEBRATIONS Over one hundred organisations, including civil society groups, non-governmental organisations, trade unions, popular committees and political organisations have signed the appeal for boycott of 2008-04-13 http://www.radianceweekly.com/muslim_world.php?content_id=1941&issue_id=103&issue_date_from=2008-04-13&title=POLICE-CLOSE-OFF-LHASA039S-MUSLIM-QUARTER Police closed off Lhasa’s Muslim quarter on April 4, two weeks after Tibetan rioters burned down the city’s mosque during the largest anti-Chinese protests in nearly two decades. Offi 2008-04-13 http://www.radianceweekly.com/inside_india.php?content_id=1918&issue_id=103&issue_date_from=2008-04-13&title=NO-NEED-FOR-SEPARATE-LAW-TO-DEAL-WITH-COMMUNAL-CLASHES-ARC The UPA Government may have tried to take the credit for introducing the Communal Violence (Prevention, Control and Rehabilitation of Victims) Bill, but the Administrative Reforms Commission has 2008-04-13 http://www.radianceweekly.com/cover_story.php?content_id=1924&issue_id=103&issue_date_from=2008-04-13&title=Terrorism-and-Truths-behind-It Terrorism is talked about too much everywhere in the world but hardly people know what actually terrorism is. This is by confusion, because terrorism has been mixed up with ordinary law offences 2008-04-13 http://www.radianceweekly.com/readers_pulse.php?content_id=1930&issue_id=103&issue_date_from=2008-04-13&title=Terrorism-Propaganda Terrorism is a unanimous prodigy which flatly disowns any religion, faith, creed or caste. It only acknowledges mass killings and carry out its modus operandi under different names such as Maoist 2008-04-13 http://www.radianceweekly.com/muslim_world.php?content_id=1936&issue_id=103&issue_date_from=2008-04-13&title=UK-MEDIA-DISTORTS-REPORTS-ON-MUSLIM-DOCTORS “Inaccurate and Islamophobic and racist.” That is the verdict of Liverpool’s largest children’s hospital over claims that its Muslim medics protested against new hygiene g 2008-04-13 http://www.radianceweekly.com/muslim_world.php?content_id=1942&issue_id=103&issue_date_from=2008-04-13&title=MEMORISE-THE-QUR039AN-AND-BE-FREE Sitting at the head of a class, correcting a student’s recitation of the Holy Qur’an, Ata, 29, seems like any other Qur’an teacher. However, what differentiates this tutor from 2008-04-13 http://www.radianceweekly.com/readers_pulse.php?content_id=1888&issue_id=102&issue_date_from=2008-04-06&title=Provide-Interest-free-Loan-to-Farmers The decision to waive farmers’ loans has attracted a national debate. Even after repayment of amounts towards the interest three to four times that of the loan taken, farmers find their pri 2008-04-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/muslim_world.php?content_id=1894&issue_id=102&issue_date_from=2008-04-06&title=IRAN-WANTS-COMPENSATION-FOR-UN-SANCTIONS Iran is demanding compensation for what it says are unlawful sanctions imposed by the U.N. for refusing to suspend uranium enrichment, the Mid-East nation’s foreign minister said in a lette 2008-04-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/muslim_world.php?content_id=1900&issue_id=102&issue_date_from=2008-04-06&title=INDIAN-SCHOOL-IN-SAUDI-ARABIA The Consulate General of India is serious about starting an international Indian school in Makkah. “We have submitted the proposal to authorities concerned and are hopeful about their forma 2008-04-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/inside_india.php?content_id=1906&issue_id=102&issue_date_from=2008-04-06&title=LEFT-ASKS-UPA-TO-BOYCOTT-ISRAELI-ARM-MAKERS Concerned over the manner in which arms deals with Israel are being conducted, the Left parties have urged the UPA government to immediately take action against the errant firms which indulged in 2008-04-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/View-From-Dubai.php?content_id=1883&issue_id=102&issue_date_from=2008-04-06&title=Pakistan-in-Interesting-Times May you live in interesting times! A Pakistani colleague often revisits this ancient Chinese curse when discussing the state of affairs in his country. Given the eventful history of Pakistan righ 2008-04-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/readers_pulse.php?content_id=1889&issue_id=102&issue_date_from=2008-04-06&title=Unconstitutional-Outrageous Only the courts are authorized to pass judgements against groups or individuals based on concrete evidence. At the same time the accused have a fundamental right to defend themselves in a court o 2008-04-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/muslim_world.php?content_id=1895&issue_id=102&issue_date_from=2008-04-06&title=INDONESIAN-LEADER039S-VISIT-TO-IRAN Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s recent visit to Iran to meet President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad was intended to help mediate an understanding between Iran and the West on Iran&rs 2008-04-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/inside_india.php?content_id=1901&issue_id=102&issue_date_from=2008-04-06&title=RELIGIOUS-INTOLERANCE-HAS-RISEN-IN-INDIA-ASMA United Nations’ Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on Freedom of Religion or Belief Asma Jahangir has said that religious intolerance has risen in India in the last decade 2008-04-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/inside_india.php?content_id=1907&issue_id=102&issue_date_from=2008-04-06&title=POSTAGE-STAMP-ON-MAJAAZ-RELEASED A special postage stamp commemorating the noted Urdu poet Asrar-ul-Haq “Majaaz” was released by Vice President Hamid Ansari on March 28. The Vice President presented a set of the stam 2008-04-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/editorial.php?content_id=1876&issue_id=102&issue_date_from=2008-04-06&title=Let039s-See-Whether-It-Works-Properly-or-acirc€brvbar Gujarat carnage 2002 is a blot on the fair name of our democratic and multi-religious country. It will remain so unless justice is done to the victims and culprits are punished by due course of law 2008-04-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/Urbanisation.php?content_id=1884&issue_id=102&issue_date_from=2008-04-06&title=The-Urban-Millennium The United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN–HABITAT) is the United Nations agency for human settlements to promote socially and environmentally sustainable towns and cities with the 2008-04-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/readers_pulse.php?content_id=1890&issue_id=102&issue_date_from=2008-04-06&title=IIM-A-Fee-Hike The Indian Institute of Management – Ahmedabad has decided to hike its fee by over 200 per cent. The move has once again brought to the fore the question of affordability of higher educatio 2008-04-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/muslim_world.php?content_id=1896&issue_id=102&issue_date_from=2008-04-06&title=HIZBULLAH-TO-PURSUE-COMPROMISE Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said that the opposition is determined to reach a political settlement to Lebanon’s ongoing political crisis. In what was described as the most mode 2008-04-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/inside_india.php?content_id=1902&issue_id=102&issue_date_from=2008-04-06&title=DMC-TO-ORGANISE-FREE-LEGAL-HELP-FOR-MINORITIES The Delhi Minorities Commission has launched a new initiative to provide free legal counselling for the benefit of minorities in Delhi. The Commission’s chairman, Mr. Kamal Faruqui, along w 2008-04-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/inside_india.php?content_id=1908&issue_id=102&issue_date_from=2008-04-06&title=HASSAN-GHAFOOR-APPOINTED-NEW-MUMBAI-POLICE-COMMISSIONER Hassan Ghafoor has been appointed Mumbai Police Commissioner. He has now become a second Muslim to hold the post of Mumbai Police Commissioner since independence. Earlier, late Syed Majidullah wa 2008-04-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/cover_story.php?content_id=1879&issue_id=102&issue_date_from=2008-04-06&title=Gujarat-Riots-Cases Live-Not-Dumped Gujarat riots cases have life. Hopes for justice are not yet dead. The recent ruling of the Supreme Court, although short of the expectations of the civil society, has enlivened the major cases t 2008-04-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/Sense-Beneath-The-Surface.php?content_id=1885&issue_id=102&issue_date_from=2008-04-06&title=Lurking-Collapse-or-Globalisation-Bonanza The 16-minute recording, which a woman first took to The New York Times and then to the Queens district attorney, suggests the vast power of immigration law enforcers, and desperation on the part 2008-04-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/readers_pulse.php?content_id=1891&issue_id=102&issue_date_from=2008-04-06&title=Taslima039s-Departure Some people regret the departure of Taslima Nasreen from India. Taslima no doubt is a highly educated lady. But unfortunately she was misled by anti-Islam teachers in her early age.  she cou 2008-04-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/muslim_world.php?content_id=1897&issue_id=102&issue_date_from=2008-04-06&title=XINJIANG-THE-039OTHER-TIBET039 While reports of unrest in Tibet frequently grab headlines around the world, little attention is given to what several human rights groups have dubbed China’s “other Tibet”. Chi 2008-04-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/inside_india.php?content_id=1903&issue_id=102&issue_date_from=2008-04-06&title=CIVIL-RIGHTS-GROUPS-REFUSED-PERMISSION-TO-SCREEN-FILM Civil Rights Groups are peeved at the Jaipur district administration which refused them permission to screen a documentary film exposing the politics of fake encounters in Gujarat. They have expr 2008-04-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/policital_jiggery_pokery.php?content_id=1909&issue_id=102&issue_date_from=2008-04-06&title=Communalism-via-Political-Manoeuvrings Blending of communalism with politics in India is as old as the history of politics. After independence communal organisations were not satisfied with their earlier indirect political role. They 2008-04-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/Hate-Juggernaut.php?content_id=1880&issue_id=102&issue_date_from=2008-04-06&title=Wild-er-Wild-West Either Geert Wilder is mentally unstable or he is a typical Islamophobic politician who thinks that one can become famous overnight by offending 1.3 billion Muslims. After posting on the Internet 2008-04-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/Muslim-Contributions.php?content_id=1886&issue_id=102&issue_date_from=2008-04-06&title=The-Caliphs-Gave-News-Service-and-Postal-System-to-the-World The book, The Timeline of History, published during the fourth quarter of the 20th century, documents historical facts by establishing a linkage between people and events, and records in 2008-04-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/readers_pulse.php?content_id=1892&issue_id=102&issue_date_from=2008-04-06&title=On-Imperialism-Issue Being associated with an organisation which is carrying out inexorable struggle against imperialism (morphed into globalisation), I read many a write-up on the topic during the past few years. Bu 2008-04-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/muslim_world.php?content_id=1898&issue_id=102&issue_date_from=2008-04-06&title=DIRECTORY-OF-MUSLIM-SCIENTISTS The Committee on Science and Technological Cooperation (COMSTECH) of Pakistan is producing a directory of Muslim scientists working on research projects across the world. The volumes 2008-04-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/inside_india.php?content_id=1904&issue_id=102&issue_date_from=2008-04-06&title=DETAILS-OF-PANEL-REPORT-ON-DALIT-MUSLIMS-SOUGHT Many members of Rajya Sabha on March 27 strongly demanded that the Government should make public recommendations of the Justice Ranganath Misra Commission regarding the plight of Dalit Muslims an 2008-04-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/Quotes-Unquotes.php?content_id=1910&issue_id=102&issue_date_from=2008-04-06&title=Who-will-Bell-the-Cat I was unaware of the decision to have the then External Affairs Minister Jaswant Singh escort the terrorists to Kandahar.    &nbsp 2008-04-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/Indo-Sino-Relations.php?content_id=1881&issue_id=102&issue_date_from=2008-04-06&title=Talk-to-China-with-Chin-Up The sympathy and support for the oppressed that the nation saw during the crisis in Vietnam is conspicuous by absence today, when the Tibetans are locked in a life and death struggle. It was also 2008-04-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/radiations.php?content_id=1887&issue_id=102&issue_date_from=2008-04-06&title=Tauba-Tauba-Maulana-II For some time, two unrelated issues have been vociferously agitating my less-than-morbid mind: hypocrites and graveyards. Can you delve deep into their relationship, if any? There was 2008-04-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/muslim_world.php?content_id=1893&issue_id=102&issue_date_from=2008-04-06&title=SHARI039AH-AS-A-LEGAL-SYSTEM The International Conference of the Presidents of the Supreme Courts that concluded in Abu Dhabi focused on the justice delivery and challenges of the 21st century and Islamic Shari’ah as a 2008-04-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/muslim_world.php?content_id=1899&issue_id=102&issue_date_from=2008-04-06&title=ENCYCLOPAEDIA-ON-HAJJ Prince Salman ibn Abdulaziz, governor of Riyadh region, is to launch a project to develop an encyclopaedia on Hajj and the two Holy Mosques in Makkah and Madinah. Fahd Al-Simari, secretary-genera 2008-04-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/inside_india.php?content_id=1905&issue_id=102&issue_date_from=2008-04-06&title=CABINET-OKAYS-RS-3780-CRORE-TO-IMPROVE-MINORITY-AREAS The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) has allotted Rs 3,780 crore centrally sponsored scheme which will be aiming to improve basic amenities and socio-economic parameters in 90 Mu 2008-04-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/Rohingya-Plight.php?content_id=1911&issue_id=102&issue_date_from=2008-04-06&title=Cry-Rohingyas-Cry Thailand’s Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej said after emerging from a two-hour meeting of the National Security Council on March 28 that the Thai Navy is exploring a deserted island to plac 2008-04-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/Insider-Outsider.php?content_id=1882&issue_id=102&issue_date_from=2008-04-06&title=Strong-Medicine-for-Bal-Raj-Syndrome The medicine to cure the disease called Bal-Raj Syndrome may sound too harsh, immoral and not good for the health of the country. But how will the two Thackerays react if some one from North Indi 2008-04-06 http://www.radianceweekly.com/cover_story.php?content_id=1851&issue_id=101&issue_date_from=2008-03-31&title=The-Prophet-and-Commercial-Activities Prophet Muhammad (may Allah bless and greet him) belonged to a traders’ clan. He engaged in trading before prophethood was bestowed upon him. He married a prominent tradeswoman of Makkah. As 2008-03-31 http://www.radianceweekly.com/Research-and-Development.php?content_id=1857&issue_id=101&issue_date_from=2008-03-31&title=And-Say-quotMy-Lord-Increase-Me-in-Knowledgequot---II Muslims make up a quarter of the world population, but they possess only 6% of the world’s wealth. Two-thirds of the world’s poor who live on less than US $2 a day are Muslims. Among th 2008-03-31 http://www.radianceweekly.com/muslim_world.php?content_id=1863&issue_id=101&issue_date_from=2008-03-31&title=INDONESIA-WARNS-AGAINST-DUTCH-MP039S-FILM Indonesia has said the film Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders plans to release about the Qur’an could derail interfaith dialogue and harm efforts toward global stability and peace. The film 2008-03-31 http://www.radianceweekly.com/muslim_world.php?content_id=1869&issue_id=101&issue_date_from=2008-03-31&title=MUSLIM-BROTHERHOOD-IN-MUNICIPAL-ELECTIONS The Muslim Brotherhood decided to run in the Municipal elections on April 8, in order to practise its constitutional and legal rights, and play a vital role in building the society and develop 2008-03-31 http://www.radianceweekly.com/inside_india.php?content_id=1875&issue_id=101&issue_date_from=2008-03-31&title=COURT-ALLOWS-NARCO-ANALYSIS-TEST-OF-VANZARA-12-OTHERS The Ahmedabad Sessions Court on March 14 permitted narco-analysis test of suspended DIG DG Vanzara and 12 others who are behind bars in connection with the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case. I 2008-03-31 http://www.radianceweekly.com/cover_story.php?content_id=1846&issue_id=101&issue_date_from=2008-03-31&title=Ever-Increasingly-Relevant And verily the hereafter will be better for you than the present.” (93:4) There are facts and facts. Some facts do not touch our lives at all and so they are blissfully irrelevant to 2008-03-31 http://www.radianceweekly.com/View-From-Dubai.php?content_id=1852&issue_id=101&issue_date_from=2008-03-31&title=Something-Rotten-in-the-State-of-Denmark A journalist friend of mine, his tongue firmly in cheek, calls it ‘Oh I See!’ in a not so veiled reference to the seldom fruitful deliberations of the OIC. Which is why it’s inter 2008-03-31 http://www.radianceweekly.com/readers_pulse.php?content_id=1858&issue_id=101&issue_date_from=2008-03-31&title=Rs19080747cr-Interest It is very disturbing to note that Union Budget 2008 provides its highest spending towards payment of interest – Rs190807.47crores, approximately Rs1900 per head. It is much more than what we 2008-03-31 http://www.radianceweekly.com/muslim_world.php?content_id=1864&issue_id=101&issue_date_from=2008-03-31&title=ISRAELI-ARMY-ATTACKS-NON-VIOLENT-PROTEST Dozens of residents of Bil’in, a village near Ramallah, took to the streets in their weekly demonstration protesting against the illegal confiscation of village land through Israel’s co 2008-03-31 http://www.radianceweekly.com/muslim_world.php?content_id=1870&issue_id=101&issue_date_from=2008-03-31&title=PLASTIC-UNIT-BURNT-IN-JEBEL-ALI-FIRE A massive fire reduced a plastic cover manufacturing unit in Jebel Ali Industrial Area in Dubai to ashes, civil defence officials said. No human casualty was reported in the fire. Eyewitnesses said 2008-03-31 http://www.radianceweekly.com/cover_story.php?content_id=1847&issue_id=101&issue_date_from=2008-03-31&title=MUHAMMAD- The-Only-Hope-of-Mankind At the end of the 6th century C.E. humanity had lost all the guidance that came from its Creator and Sustainer as how to live, act and behave on earth. There were no human rights anywhere in the wo 2008-03-31 http://www.radianceweekly.com/Report-from-Chhattisgarh.php?content_id=1853&issue_id=101&issue_date_from=2008-03-31&title=Christians-Lodge-Complaint-against-Togadia Even as the controversial issue of senior VHP leader and former BJP MP Ramvilas Vedanti’s objectionable remarks against Sonia Gandhi and other senior Congress leaders is yet to settle down, a 2008-03-31 http://www.radianceweekly.com/readers_pulse.php?content_id=1859&issue_id=101&issue_date_from=2008-03-31&title=Most-Relevant-Issue From the moment I’ve read the theme of the next ‘key’ issue of Radiance, I am eagerly waiting for it. Testifying the relevance of all aspects of the Prophet’s life 2008-03-31 http://www.radianceweekly.com/muslim_world.php?content_id=1865&issue_id=101&issue_date_from=2008-03-31&title=AMNESTY-REPORT-REVEALS-SECRET-039GHOST-DETENTIONSacirc€™039 Amnesty International has today made a fresh call on the United States government to make known the whereabouts of people subjected to its secret detention operation in the “war on terror&rdq 2008-03-31 http://www.radianceweekly.com/inside_india.php?content_id=1871&issue_id=101&issue_date_from=2008-03-31&title=UP-MUSLIM-LAWYERS-FIGHT-BAR-BAN Muslim advocates in Uttar Pradesh have decided to constitute state and district level legal committees to counter the decision of various bar associations of not taking up terror-related cases. Wit 2008-03-31 http://www.radianceweekly.com/editorial.php?content_id=1840&issue_id=101&issue_date_from=2008-03-31&title=The-Eternal-Message Prophet Muhammad (may Allah bless and greet him) was born in the 6th century in Arabia, 570 years after Jesus Christ, to become the last ring in the golden chain of Messengers of Allah. He reconfir 2008-03-31 http://www.radianceweekly.com/cover_story.php?content_id=1848&issue_id=101&issue_date_from=2008-03-31&title=Prophet-Muhammad-and-Womenacirc€™s-Issues The Problem: Women have been working for their liberation for quite some time now. And considering what their objectives are, I think they’ve been pretty successful. Women have carved a succe 2008-03-31 http://www.radianceweekly.com/foreign_feature.php?content_id=1854&issue_id=101&issue_date_from=2008-03-31&title=Bush-Itching-to-Level-Iran It is time for George W. Bush, who has just 15 months left in office, to think of his legacy. As it is becoming increasingly clear that the $3 trillion wars in Afghanistan and Iraq cannot be deemed 2008-03-31 http://www.radianceweekly.com/readers_pulse.php?content_id=1860&issue_id=101&issue_date_from=2008-03-31&title=Scrapping-of-One-Child-Policy The Chinese government has scrapped the un-Islamic one-child policy of 1979, after realising its bad effects. One couple has to shoulder four parents and eight grand-parents but the youngsters 2008-03-31 http://www.radianceweekly.com/muslim_world.php?content_id=1866&issue_id=101&issue_date_from=2008-03-31&title=LEADERS-OF-SUDAN-AND-CHADAGREE-TO-DIFFUSE-WAR Darfur gets its name from its largest ethnic group in the region the Fur, who dominated the area for hundreds of years. Some 2.5 million people have been displaced in Darfur and hundreds of thousan 2008-03-31 http://www.radianceweekly.com/inside_india.php?content_id=1872&issue_id=101&issue_date_from=2008-03-31&title=STOP-VICTIMISING-MUSLIMS-IN-THE-NAME-OF-TERROR-JALALUDUDDIN-UMRI Democracy is a symbol of multi-cultural diversity in any part of the world as it stands for diverse faiths and religions but to blame a particular section or religion for terrorism is against the v 2008-03-31 http://www.radianceweekly.com/cover_story.php?content_id=1843&issue_id=101&issue_date_from=2008-03-31&title=PROPHETIC-MISSION- Historical-and-Eternal-Elements Prophet Muhammad (may Allah bless and greet him) once underlined his proximity to the Day of Judgement by using the simile of two adjacent fingers of the hand. There is no gap between two such fing 2008-03-31 http://www.radianceweekly.com/cover_story.php?content_id=1849&issue_id=101&issue_date_from=2008-03-31&title=MUHAMMAD- Leader-of-the-Leaders In today’s chaotic world, a plethora of demagogues are leading the humanity astray. The so-called leaders have failed rather miserably in filling the common man’s life with happiness, p 2008-03-31 http://www.radianceweekly.com/payaam-e-maghrib.php?content_id=1855&issue_id=101&issue_date_from=2008-03-31&title=A-Strong-Knowledge-Base Auron ka hai Payaam aur, mera Payaam aur hai, / Ishq key dardmand ka tarz-e-kalaam aur hai! (Iqbal) Life seems to continually throw you into situations and among people that requir 2008-03-31 http://www.radianceweekly.com/readers_pulse.php?content_id=1861&issue_id=101&issue_date_from=2008-03-31&title=US-Losing-the-War The US and its allies are not only losing the war in Afghanistan, but their military alliance, the NATO, is also on the verge of unravelling as a result of this failure. This has also been expresse 2008-03-31 http://www.radianceweekly.com/muslim_world.php?content_id=1867&issue_id=101&issue_date_from=2008-03-31&title=SAUDI-YOUTH-SETS-OUT-TO-CONQUER-MT-EVEREST A 30-year-old Saudi national is ready to leave for Nepal to scale Mount Everest, a feat that will make him the first Saudi to attempt the mammoth climb. “My goal is to unfurl the Saudi flag o 2008-03-31 http://www.radianceweekly.com/inside_india.php?content_id=1873&issue_id=101&issue_date_from=2008-03-31&title=UP-INSTITUTES-ENQUIRY-INTO-ALLEGED-TERRORISTS039-ARREST The UP government has instituted a one-member judicial inquiry to investigate the arrest of two terror accused Mohd Khalid Mujahid and Tariq Qasmi. They were allegedly detained for terror links. Th 2008-03-31 http://www.radianceweekly.com/cover_story.php?content_id=1844&issue_id=101&issue_date_from=2008-03-31&title=Mohammad039s-Message-and-Human-Relations The modern world is characterised by industrial development, technological advancement and mechanical sophistication. Scientists, day in and day out, are actively engaged in developing better techn 2008-03-31 http://www.radianceweekly.com/cover_story.php?content_id=1850&issue_id=101&issue_date_from=2008-03-31&title=India039s-Destiny-Tied-To-Islam Justice is not done when one only says the teachings of the Last Prophet, Muhammad (may Allah bless and greet him) are relevant today. For full justice, the word “relevant” has to be su 2008-03-31 http://www.radianceweekly.com/reminiscences.php?content_id=1856&issue_id=101&issue_date_from=2008-03-31&title=Battles-in-Early-Islam In history one finds two types of wars: in one type the king or his son or brother led the army in the battlefield and in the other the battle was fought, won or lost by the generals on behalf of t 2008-03-31 http://www.radianceweekly.com/Quotes-Unquotes.php?content_id=1862&issue_id=101&issue_date_from=2008-03-31&title=Things-Are-Moving-Faster British Embassy has “quietly” stopped using the phrase “special relationship” with the USA. Instead, the new is to refer to “a close relationship” or 2008-03-31 http://www.radianceweekly.com/muslim_world.php?content_id=1868&issue_id=101&issue_date_from=2008-03-31&title=POTENTIAL-CANDIDATES-HELD-IN-EGYPT Egyptian security forces raids against Muslim Brotherhood potential candidates running for the Municipal elections led to the detention of 831 candidates. The State Security Police raids focused on 2008-03-31 http://www.radianceweekly.com/inside_india.php?content_id=1874&issue_id=101&issue_date_from=2008-03-31&title=MUSLIMS-CHRISTIANS-STAGE-PROTEST-TO-DEMAND-RESERVATION A large number of Muslims and Dalit Christians from across the country took part in a protest march at Jantar Mantar in the Capital on May 14, against the delay in implementation of the Justice Ran 2008-03-31 http://www.radianceweekly.com/cover_story.php?content_id=1845&issue_id=101&issue_date_from=2008-03-31&title=MUHAMMAD The-Best-Product-of-the-Creation There is a popular principle of Physics known as Anthropic Principle. There was a time before Galilee when the scientists regarded the universe as earth-centric; for they considered earth as the ce 2008-03-31 http://www.radianceweekly.com/readers_pulse.php?content_id=1820&issue_id=100&issue_date_from=2008-03-16&title=Better-They-Mend-Their-Ways The violent protest by the students of Jamiat-ul-Banat, Hyderabad was indeed ridiculous and absurd. It’s true that the administration and police are definitely biased against Muslims and th 2008-03-16 http://www.radianceweekly.com/inside_india.php?content_id=1826&issue_id=100&issue_date_from=2008-03-16&title=SC-ISSUES-NOTICE-TO-GUJARAT-GOVT-OVER-JAFRI-WIDOW039S-PLEA The Supreme Court has issued notice to the Gujarat Government on an appeal filed by Zakia Jafri, widow of former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri, who challenged the Gujarat High Court decision to dismiss 2008-03-16 http://www.radianceweekly.com/muslim_world.php?content_id=1832&issue_id=100&issue_date_from=2008-03-16&title=SCIENTIFIC-RESEARCH-AUTHORITY-IN-UAE An independent National Authority for Scientific Research with an initial budget of Dh100 million has been set up to beef up research activity in the country, a top higher education official has 2008-03-16 http://www.radianceweekly.com/muslim_world.php?content_id=1838&issue_id=100&issue_date_from=2008-03-16&title=UK-RESTORATIVE-JUSTICE-MUSLIM-STYLE With many inmates at the British Mount prison in Hertfordshire uncomfortable with the Bible-based justice awareness course, Muslim chaplain Mohamed El-Sharkawy developed a programme appropriate t 2008-03-16 http://www.radianceweekly.com/Ignorance.php?content_id=1809&issue_id=100&issue_date_from=2008-03-16&title=VS-Naipaul-and-Islam Vidiadhar Seepersad Naipaul is gifted, like other creative artists, with a fresh and original observation and communicative skill clear and daring. Still the pull of upbringing and immediate surr 2008-03-16 http://www.radianceweekly.com/Research-and-Development.php?content_id=1815&issue_id=100&issue_date_from=2008-03-16&title=And-Say-quotMy-Lord-Increase-Me-in-Knowledgequot---I We often mention with pride, and truly so, that our great religion, Islam, has always encouraged knowledge. The very first revelation of the Holy Qur’an, to the Messenger, peace and blessin 2008-03-16 http://www.radianceweekly.com/readers_pulse.php?content_id=1821&issue_id=100&issue_date_from=2008-03-16&title=On-Imperialism-Issue---I Your special issue on “Imperialism – Shades & Shadows” was amazing, MashaAllah! It was an impressive coverage on such an important issue, which is always addressed with so m 2008-03-16 http://www.radianceweekly.com/inside_india.php?content_id=1827&issue_id=100&issue_date_from=2008-03-16&title=SECULAR-INDIA-NEEDS-DE-SAFFRONISING-OF-EDUCATION-ARJUN-SINGH Union Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh has said the issue of secularism had been kept in focus and there was considerable success in ‘de-saffronising’ education. He sai 2008-03-16 http://www.radianceweekly.com/muslim_world.php?content_id=1833&issue_id=100&issue_date_from=2008-03-16&title=IRAN-RESENTS-US-PRESENCE-IN-OIC Iran’s Ambassador to the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) Mostafa Boroujerdi said that appointment of US special envoy to OIC Sada Cumber ran counter to governing rules and regu 2008-03-16 http://www.radianceweekly.com/Quotes-Unquotes.php?content_id=1839&issue_id=100&issue_date_from=2008-03-16&title=There-is-Some-Computational-Error I don’t consider this (loan waiver to farmers) a burden but as a duty of the government. I assure you that the programme would be implemented by June 2008.   &nbs 2008-03-16 http://www.radianceweekly.com/radiations.php?content_id=1810&issue_id=100&issue_date_from=2008-03-16&title=Espionage-and-5th-Columnist Once the late Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru asked the young IAS probationers: Which is the most important country for India? The replies were: Soviet Russia, the United States and China. He cor 2008-03-16 http://www.radianceweekly.com/Insider-Outsider.php?content_id=1816&issue_id=100&issue_date_from=2008-03-16&title=Know-the-Shatrus-within-Bihari-Babu Shatrughan Sinha is the only film-star in Mumbai to be addressed by the state identity – Bihari Babu. There is no Punjabi Babu, Bengali Babu, etc. in the tinsel town. Yet it was he who on M 2008-03-16 http://www.radianceweekly.com/readers_pulse.php?content_id=1822&issue_id=100&issue_date_from=2008-03-16&title=On-Imperialism-Issue---II Keep up the good work. The recent issues have been excellent in the content. Especially the articles on imperialism were really fantastic. Many articles have been translated into Urdu by Jasa 2008-03-16 http://www.radianceweekly.com/inside_india.php?content_id=1828&issue_id=100&issue_date_from=2008-03-16&title=POLICE-SEIZE-TWO-STOLEN-COPIES-OF-MUGHAL-ERA-QUR039AN Two copies of Holy Qur’an dating back to the Mughal era and inscribed in gold letters were recovered by the Crime Branch of Delhi Police after the arrest of three persons from Hazrat Nizamu 2008-03-16 http://www.radianceweekly.com/muslim_world.php?content_id=1834&issue_id=100&issue_date_from=2008-03-16&title=IRAN-BRUNEI--TIES Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said that the upcoming OIC Summit will shoulder heavy responsibility to counter anti-Islam propaganda campaign. In a meeting with his visiting Bruneian 2008-03-16 http://www.radianceweekly.com/cover_story.php?content_id=1803&issue_id=100&issue_date_from=2008-03-16&title=Vedanti039s-Remarks-about-Sonia-PM-Generate-Political-Heat The offensive remarks directed against Congress President Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh by former BJP MP from Uttar Pradesh and Vishwa Hindu Parishad leader Ram Vilas Vedanti, during 2008-03-16 http://www.radianceweekly.com/View-From-Dubai.php?content_id=1811&issue_id=100&issue_date_from=2008-03-16&title=It039s-Still-the-Occupation-Stupid In an OpEd piece for the International Herald Tribune three years ago, I wrote: “If Bush wants to usher in a new era of democracy and peace in the Muslim world, he should be prepar 2008-03-16 http://www.radianceweekly.com/Yemen.php?content_id=1817&issue_id=100&issue_date_from=2008-03-16&title=Electoral-System-in-Yemen The electoral system in Yemen provides advanced features. The electoral process is dynamic and maintains a set of regulations and ten mechanisms for administering them. Those mechanisms unde 2008-03-16 http://www.radianceweekly.com/inside_india.php?content_id=1823&issue_id=100&issue_date_from=2008-03-16&title=039COMMUNAL039-EXHIBITION-ON-AURANGZEB-CANCELLED An art exhibition on the life of Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb was closed down in Chennai on March 6 following protests by a section of visitors who objected to the "communal nature" of some 2008-03-16 http://www.radianceweekly.com/inside_india.php?content_id=1829&issue_id=100&issue_date_from=2008-03-16&title=INDIA-MUST-END-MILITARY-TIES-WITH-ISRAEL-KARAT Concerned over Israel’s attacks on Palestinians, civil society organisations have urged New Delhi to end its military and security ties with Tel Aviv. They have also decided to launch a mas 2008-03-16 http://www.radianceweekly.com/muslim_world.php?content_id=1835&issue_id=100&issue_date_from=2008-03-16&title=AL-JAZEERA-APOLOGISES The Al-Jazeera network issued an apology today, following its controversial decision to invite a widely discredited Islamophobe on a popular current affairs programme. The apology comes three day 2008-03-16 http://www.radianceweekly.com/editorial.php?content_id=1804&issue_id=100&issue_date_from=2008-03-16&title=The-Deadly-Habit The habit of smoking and tobacco chewing is emerging, in the light of recent studies, as one of the deadliest killers of human beings. In the 20th century tobacco killed 10 crore people, and it i 2008-03-16 http://www.radianceweekly.com/report.php?content_id=1812&issue_id=100&issue_date_from=2008-03-16&title=Use-Democratic-Possibilities-Involve-in-Political-Process-Ghannoushi Santapuram: Sheikh Rashid al Ghannoushi, the renowned Islamic thinker, has called upon Muslims to make use of the democratic possibilities of the pluralistic society and participate in the politi 2008-03-16 http://www.radianceweekly.com/readers_pulse.php?content_id=1818&issue_id=100&issue_date_from=2008-03-16&title=Unholy-Alliance-in-the-Offing After giving a few sops to the salaried class and a loan-waiver bonanza to the farmers in the Union Budget 2008 as run-up to the ensuing general elections, the Congress Party seems to be all set 2008-03-16 http://www.radianceweekly.com/inside_india.php?content_id=1824&issue_id=100&issue_date_from=2008-03-16&title=ISRAELI-DAIRY-TO-COME-UP-IN-GUJARAT The Israelis will set up their first venture in the country by starting a dairy farm in Gujarat. An Israeli firm, Elbit Imaging, has decided to import 10,000 high-breed cows to set up a $100-mill 2008-03-16 http://www.radianceweekly.com/inside_india.php?content_id=1830&issue_id=100&issue_date_from=2008-03-16&title=GOVT-AWAITS-REPORT-ON-MUSLIM-QUOTA The Government, as per the requirements of the Constitution and law, had asked the National Commission of Scheduled Castes and the National Commission of Backward Classes to examine the issue of 2008-03-16 http://www.radianceweekly.com/muslim_world.php?content_id=1836&issue_id=100&issue_date_from=2008-03-16&title=HIZBULLAH-PREPARED-FOR-WAR-IF-THRUST-UPON Hizbullah is prepared for a new war with Israel, but it will not start one, deputy leader Naim Qassem said. The group also issued a statement criticising UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon’s 2008-03-16 http://www.radianceweekly.com/eves_corner.php?content_id=1805&issue_id=100&issue_date_from=2008-03-16&title=Muslim-Women-in-India The role of women in Indian society is a burning subject today. Yet millions of women, both in rural and urban settings, are facing violence and its various manifestations as a matter of routine. 2008-03-16 http://www.radianceweekly.com/report.php?content_id=1813&issue_id=100&issue_date_from=2008-03-16&title=Take-up-Legal-Social-Work-with-All-Sincerity The country is passing through a phase when there is an exponential rise of violation of civil liberties on one hand and, on the other, genuine voices for preservation of civil society are dwindl 2008-03-16 http://www.radianceweekly.com/readers_pulse.php?content_id=1819&issue_id=100&issue_date_from=2008-03-16&title=A-Welcome-Move Kashmir Singh, an Indian jawan, was arrested in Pakistan in 1973 on charges of spying and sentenced to death by an Army court. He has been released after spending 35 years in Central Jail, Lahore 2008-03-16 http://www.radianceweekly.com/inside_india.php?content_id=1825&issue_id=100&issue_date_from=2008-03-16&title=JAMAAT-LEADER-FLAYS-ADVANIacirc€™S-COMMENT-ON-BUDGET-ALLOCATION The Rajasthan zone of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind has taken strong exception to Leader of the Opposition L.K. Advani finding “communal overtones” in the Union Budget for 2008 and accused him 2008-03-16