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COMMUNITY NEWS: 16-30
November 2001
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MPL Board demands action against VHP
New Delhi: Expressing his anger, Qazi Mujahidul Islam Qasimi, President of
All India Muslim Personal Law Board has demanded action against VHP leaders
Ashok Singhal, SC Dixit, Parveen Tagadia, Giriraj Kishore and other Parishad
activists who forced their entry in the disputed Babri Masjid land contrary to
the court order. He said that their action was not only a joke with the law, but
also a sinister plan worked out in view of the forthcoming UP elections. The
purpose behind this step is to fan anti-Muslim sentiments and create havoc, so
that an atmosphere of Hindu-Muslim hatred is created and to draw benefits in the
elections, he said. He requested Muslims to understand the conspiracy and not to
be carried away by such actions, so that the BJP does not succeed in its hidden
agenda.
Qazi Mujahidul Islam Qasmi also expressed deep anguish on the unfavourable
current situations of the country and the mischiefs of communal forces which
have led to violent incidents. The Qazi has expressed anger over the
carelessness and excess of the police in Maharashtra’s Malegaon and its
outskirts. In his fax messages, the Qazi has told various politicians including
Maharashtra Chief Minister, Congress President, former Chief Minister AR Antulay
etc, to take necessary steps against guilty police officers and district
administrators.
Corruption in Waqf Board
Ambala: Punjab Waqf Board high command has sacked a senior corrupt officer.
Complaints against the offender were being received intermittently for the last
six years. Jameelur Rahaman, President of Malerkotla Muslim Welfare Samiti had
also made complaint against the officer, which was followed by CBI raid on the
offender’s house. The officer was appointed 30 years ago on a 5-rupee-day
salary. Today he owns millions of rupees along with land properties both
registered and unregistered. The officer has also lived in Ludhiana and is
accused of black-marketing there. It should be noted that earlier two other
employees had been sacked in this connection. People are happy over the campaign
against corruption.
Okhla councillor to be disqualified
New Delhi: Independent Municipal Councillor Asif Muhammad Khan may be
disqualified for Municipal Council by the Code of Conduct Committee of special
Municipal councillor of Delhi Municipal Corporation. Committee President Dharam
Parkash told newspersons that the issue of Asif Muhammad Khan would be raised in
the next meeting of the Committee, in which recommendations would be made to
disqualify him for his illegal and anti-national activities. It should be noted
that the councillor had pasted posters of Osama bin Laden, for which he is till
now languishing in jail (As a fact those posters carried nothing objectionable).
The Committee President said that ample proofs have been collected against the
councillor and that there is information for his having links with various
organizations. If he is disqualified, he will never be able to stand for
election which would put a question mark on the political future of the
councillor.
Meanwhile a Delhi session court had once again rejected the bail application of
the councillor for the third time as per the argument of a government advocate
that the councillor is a member of the recently banned organization Student
Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) besides having hand in various other illegal
activities.
Urdu schools upgraded in AP
The Andhra Pradesh government has sanctioned 1293 new posts of teachers in
government Urdu medium schools, which have been recently upgraded. Of these, 701
are in Telangana districts. The total number of vacant posts notified in Urdu
medium schools in DSC 2001 are 1633. The total number of Urdu primary schools
upgraded into upper primary is 72. Maximum number is in Telangana, with
Hyderabad having - 13. The number of Urdu primary schools sanctioned during
2001-2002 is 1047, with one SGT post each.
New embarkation points for Hajis
New Delhi: The Centre has decided not to hire planes to carry the
70,000-strong contingent for the next Haj beginning in February, and instead use
the aircraft of Air-India and Indian Airlines. The Indian Airlines will be
flying the Haj pilgrims to Saudi Arabia for the first time. It will operate 30
flights from Srinagar and 20 from Hyderabad. While talking to media persons,
civil aviation minister Syed Shahnawaz Hussain said that the government has also
decided to make Srinagar, Lucknow and Kozhikode as new embarkation points for
the next Haj in view of the large Muslim population living in and around these
cities.
Infighting harms Urdu Academy
New Delhi: The fight between the newly elected vice chairman of Urdu Academy
and its secretary has begun to harm the literary, educational and cultural
affairs of Urdu Academy. Neeta Bali, Delhi Government Secretary for Arts and
Culture in her letter to Urdu Academy has issued orders that the Academy should
take prior permission of the Governing Council before incurring any expenses.
Mansoor Usmani, Secretary of Urdu Academy while expressing anger on the
government’s orders said that this will affect the work of Urdu Academy. While
the newly elected Vice Chairman Altaf Azmi said that the secretary of the
Academy himself is responsible for this, who is ignoring the Governing Council
and the vice chairman and wants to act according to his own will.
The meeting of the Governing Council of Urdu Academy was held on 30 August 2001,
when Mansoor Usmani was on transfer. The budget of the year was presented
briefly. Neetabali was also present in that meeting. On 12 October, she wrote a
letter to Mansoor Usmani asking him not to spend money without approval of the
Council. She also told him to give his reply. When the secretary sent his reply
to her, she again said that his reply was not satisfactory.
The Neeta Bali in her letter to Usmani said that according to the Academy’
rules, its budget must be approved by the Governing Council. But since the
Council did not approve the budget, all the expenses incurred by the secretary,
Usmani are rejected. The vice chairman said that the Council, before approving
the budget, had asked for detailed break-up of the expenditure which was not
done by the secretary. Hence the budget remained unapproved. Defying the Council
and Delhi government secretary, Neeta Bali, the Academy Secretary Usmani said
that despite her instructions not to effect expenditures without Governing
Council’s approval, expenditures will have to be incurred otherwise Academy’s
works like adult education, teachers salaries and many other programmes will
suffer. The overall result of the fighting between the two officials is that the
work of Urdu Academy will be seriously hampered unless things are sorted out.
One-sided police action
Moradabad: Muslims were angry when police did not allow them to offer namaz
in Budhnagar Khandwa village of tahsil Chandusi in Moradabad. There is mixed
Hindu-Muslim population in this village but there is no mosque. Villagers have
been offering namaz on Faqira Pahalwan’s vacant land. Many times villagers
came close to fight over the construction of a mosque there. In 1999, the
villagers offered namaz on Faqira’s land, which led to the objection by the
other community and caused tension. At that time police placed restrictions on
performing namaz there. Later, in the month of Ramadan they again performed
namaz there. This once again brought the two communities face to face.
Meanwhile, Faqira died and people of the village bought the land for the
construction of a mosque there. On 26 October 2001, the villagers decided to
offer Jum’a prayers there. This came to the knowledge of the local secret
police which has been keeping a tight vigil. In view of tension, police stopped
Muslims from performing namaz there. This in turn led to the anger of the Muslim
community. The trouble which started three years ago has still not been sorted
out and has left a question mark on the performance of the police and district
administration.
Two Hyderbadis detained
Hyderabad: A media report emanating from United States says that the FBI was
looking into possible links between Mir Ayub Ali Khan and Muhammad Azmat Jawed
of Hyderabad with the hijackers who carried out the attacks of 11 September. The
report also said that the authorities were also looking for a possible link
between the two and the anthrax outbreak after they found old American magazines
with an article on biological weapon in their apartment in New Jersey. The media
report based on an excerpt of a report from The Dulles Morning News, which was
carried by a local newspaper has led their families in Hyderabad into deep
shock. The duo had been reportedly seen with the hijackers in a mosque in
Brooklyn in New York and at a general store. Ayub Ali Khan’s ailing mother
collapsed on hearing about the new twist of the episode. His sister Fatima is
worried about his safety and says, sobbing uncontrollably, that he is a very
quiet and silent man. He might be under deep depression and will die under
torture. The scene at Azmat Jawed’s house was no different where his father is
suffering from a heart-ailment ever since his son was detained by the American
authorities. The FBI team, which had come to Hyderabad, had told the families
that they had not found any evidence of their involvement in the attacks and
that they were held only for the violation of immigration laws. Fatima is afraid
that they are being framed in baseless charges and asked as to how his brother
would understand about those scientific things when he is not even a graduate.
She insisted that her brother was innocent.
Police kills innocent Muslim youth
Meerut: In a heart-rending incident Meerut police shot dead an innocent
Muslim youth in a fake encounter, which has revived the memory of Smita Bhaduri
incident. The police shot Rafaqat Ali, a resident of Ijrara village, with
volleys of bullets when he was going to attend a BSP meeting in Kharkhoda,
situated on Meerut-Hapur road. According to police sources, the SO of Mandali
police station in a wireless message had informed that in a Kharkhoda bound
Maruti car there were many dangerous criminals. SO Mansingh Dagar of Kharkhoda
police station reached there with other police force and stopped the car. The
armed police personnel dragged Rafaqat out of the car. When Rafaqat could not
suffer the beating and fled to the fields, the police with the help of the
villagers surrounded him and shot him dead with AK 47. It may be recalled that
in a similar case, the police had shot down Smita Bhaduri of Modipuram area. The
police were shocked when people of the area protested against the murder of
Rafaqat. When police came to know their fault, they left no stone unturned in
forging as many as 26 false cases against Rafaqat. The investigations are going
on.
Kanpur councillor killed
Kanpur: Waseem alias Pappu Katori, a Samajwadi Party member of Kanpur
Municipal Corporation was shot dead near Iftikharabad colony on 23 October, the
police said. Waseem was shot at by three pistol-wielding persons while he was
going somewhere, sources said.
Ban Bajrang Dal
Jaipur: Rajasthan home minister Gulab Singh Shekhawat has said that the
government of Rajasthan would prepare and send the records of communalism being
spread by the Bajrang Dal to the central government. He added that the
programmes such as ‘trishul diksha’ run by Bajrang Dal may be dangerous for
the peace and harmony of the country. He further said that despite several
requests by the state administration, the central government has not banned
Bajrang Dal.
Call to boycott western goods
Jaipur: Rajasthan Muslims Forum organized a joint prayer against US attacks
on Afghan people. More than 50,000 Muslims participated in the prayer and
condemned the strikes on the innocent Afghan people. This was the first
organized reaction from the community in the state. Several Muslim organizations
took part in it. A resolution was passed and two copies of it were sent to the
President and the Prime Minister of India. Habib Khan, a social worker, said
that we Muslims share the grief of those killed on 11 September, but the way
America is attacking innocent civilians, targeting mosques, hospitals and relief
agencies, it seems that America is devastating Afghanistan in the name of
terrorism. Convenor of the meeting Qari Moinuddin called people to boycott
American products.
Boycott of American goods
Muzaffarnagar: Thousands of Muslims took to the streets protesting against
American attacks on Afghanistan and goods manufactured by America and allied
countries were set afire. This followed the fatwa of about 500 ulama of Deoband
and other madrasas asking people to boycot American and British products. People
were so excited that they even broke American and British-made television sets
on roads. Mufti Zulfiqar Alli of the Imam Sanghthan, who was leading the
procession, said while addressing the people, ‘We condemn US and British
brutal attacks.’ He also said that people were acting upon the fatwa issued by
the muftis in the entire country. Dr Jamaluddin Qasmi of Jamiat-ul-Ulama said
that it is incumbent upon the peace-loving people of the entire world in general
and upon Muslims in particular to condemn America which is promoting terrorism
in the name of curbing it. Meanwhile a Coca Cola spokesman said that the sale of
Coca Cola and Pepsi was badly affected in the city. He further said that they
had returned two trucks of Coca Cola without unloading them. q
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