Indian Muslims

  • Dropout rate falls in Jammu and Kashmir schools
    By IANS, Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir has seen a steady decline in the dropout rate in schools and the government is making the maximum efforts to expand quality education in the state, a minister has said. Education Minister Peerzada Mohammad Sayeed, in his reply in the state assembly on the gran...
  • Night curfew to continue in Bareilly
    By IANS, Bareilly: While night curfew in the trouble-hit areas of Uttar Pradesh's Bareilly district will continue, the authorities Saturday decided to lift all restrictions on vehicular movement. "Be it two-wheelers or four-wheelers, from today (Saturday) there will not be any restrictions on ...
  • Muslim law board to oppose any anti-Shariat law
    By IANS, Lucknow: In a major development, the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) resolved Friday evening to oppose any court verdict that goes against the tenets of the Islamic Shariat. The decision was taken on the opening day of the three-day AIMPLB conclave at the Nadwatul Ulema U...
  • Akshardham attack accused's plea against witnesses dismissed
    By IANS, Gandhinagar: The Gujarat High Court Friday rejected the plea of Akshardham terror attack accused Shaukatullah Ghauri that two prosecution witnesses be also treated as accused. A division bench of Justices Jayant Patel and R.H. Shukla rejected the plea as being not maintainable. In...
  • Guided by 'zakat', a village funds its road and bridge
    By Asit Srivastava, IANS, Lucknow: Guided by 'zakat' - charity as envisaged by the Quran - villagers of Muslim-dominated Shirajpur in Uttar Pradesh have repaired roads, dug wells, established schools and are now building a bridge. The village is located in Azamgarh, some 300 km from Luckno...
  • SIO leadership meets HRD Minister on Jamia, Foreign University Bill
    By TCN News, New Delhi: The National President of Students Islamic Organization of India Suhail KK and National Secretary Shahnawaz Ali Raihan yesterday met Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal at his Ministry office in Shastri Bhawan to discuss issues related to education, part...
  • Fix responsibility of police in communal violence bill: Muslim forum
    By TCN News, Aligarh: The Forum for Muslim Studies & Analysis (FMSA) today sent a memorandum to Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh demanding amendment in communal violence bill to fix responsibility of police officers in dealing communal riots and suitable punishment to the erring police personne...
  • Batla post-mortem: TCN leads, mainstream, Urdu papers follow
    By Mumtaz Alam Falahi, TwoCircles.net, New Delhi: The Batla House is a hot cake, even one and half years after the bloody shootout took place in the predominantly South-East Delhi locality. TwoCircles.net broke the news about the revealing post-mortem report of the slain terror suspects ar...
  • AIMPLB says no to Communal Violence Bill
    By Faisal Fareed, TwoCircles.net, Lucknow: Demand for revoking the court verdicts which are against the Islamic shariah by legislative procedure will figure during the three day 21st annual convention of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) that began here today. The convent...
  • Feel humbled, honoured with Rajya Sabha nomination: Javed Akhtar
    By IANS, Mumbai : Eminent poet and lyricist Javed Akhtar, who was nominated to the Rajya Sabha Friday, said he feels "honoured" and will strive to live up to the people's expectations. "I feel immensely honoured by this great responsibility entrusted upon me and I shall strive to live up to th...
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Articles

  • Mayawati: Will her garland turn into noose?
    By Amulya Ganguli, IANS, The apparently bizarre nature of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati's politics can be understood by remembering that she is driven by an intense desire to make a mark in politics and, moreover, to do so in a manner which she believes will impress the core group of her supporters, the Dalits. As a newcomer in politics and that too from a depressed community, she has had to build her career from scratch, as it were, without the help of an established party or ...
  • The Jewish-Islamic heritage and its contemporary significance
    By Rabbi Naftali Rothenberg The link between Judaism and Islam is profound and is at the root of both religious cultures. Islam sanctified and interpreted sacred Jewish texts and incorporated principles from Jewish law (Halakha) and Rabbinical sources into Islamic law (Sharia). Judaism owes Islam a huge debt for the emergence of the Jewish philosophical oeuvre of the Middle Ages. This literature, which emerged from a profound dialogue with Islam and was influenced by Islamic thinkers, incl...
  • Minority Ministry ad misinforms public, hoodwinks Muslims
    By Syed Shahabuddin, The full page Advertisement by the Ministry of Minority Affairs on 18 February, 2010 on its achievements under Prime Minister’s 15 Point Programme for the Welfare of the Minorities has been designed to misinform the public and to bluff the minorities and particularly hoodwink the Muslims. Indeed, the Advertisement conceals more than it reveals. Religious minorities constitute clearly 20% of the national population, of which nearly 15% are Muslims. The Advertisement...
  • Muslim MPs tell TCN why they oppose women quota bill
    By Mumtaz Alam Falahi, TwoCircles.net, If the Women Reservation Bill is passed by Parliament in its present form, not only Muslim male political leadership will be wiped out but there will be zero representation of Muslim community in legislatures at national and state levels. Three eminent and vocal Muslim Members of Parliament, Ejaz Ali, Sabir Ali (two were suspended from Rajya Sabha on the issue last week) and Asaduddin Owaisi talked to Mumtaz Alam Falahi of TwoCircles.net to say wh...
  • Logic of women's reservation
    By M. Burhanuddin Qasmi It is an unfortunate fact that in a democracy nothing is achievable without united agitations. This time again the Muslim social and political leadership in India is failing to unite strongly against a very genuine demand and clear hypocrisy against them in guise of women empowerment. Electronic media too seems part of the mockery being on play by the UPA chief Sonia Gandhi to overthrow her parties weaknesses in the parliament. One wonders, why the 24 hours by s...
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