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 Resolutions of All India Muslim Majlis-e-Mushawarat
Markazi Majlis-e-Mushawarat, 11 February, 2006
Obituary
The MMA expresses its deep sense of
sorrow at the demise of Dr. A.U. Shaikh, Educationist, Administrator,
Mumbai, Justice Shamsul Hasan, Retired Judge High Court, Patna,
23.12.2005, Dr. Abdullah Abbas Nadvi, Islamic Scholar and Educationist,
Meena, 1.1.2006, Dr. Zaki Badami, Islamic Scholar, London, 24.1.2006,
Dr.Akhtar Husain, Physician and CFM, Chicago, 31.1.2006, Mr. Mohd. Wali
Khan, Pathan Leader and Maulana Asad Madani, President, JUH, Delhi,
6.2.2006.
The MMA offers its condolences to
the bereaved families and prays to Allah for the Maghferat of the departed
souls.
On Aligarh Muslim University
The Markazi Majlis-e-Mushawarat (MMM)
has been shocked and surprised by the Judgements of the Allahabad High
Court on the declaration of the AMU (Amendment) Act, 1981 and the denial
of minority status to the AMU. However, the MMM shares the feelings of
Muslim community but remains optimistic that the dark clouds shall be
dissipated before the next academic session begins if either the Supreme
Court, on appeal by the University and the Union Government, restores the
minority character or, if necessary, the Union Government promptly
translates its repeated commitment into appropriate legislative measures.
The MMM suggests to the AMU
authorities as well as the Union Government to coordinate their appeal to
the Supreme Court and that they simultaneously work on suitable amendments
to the Constitution as well as the AMU Act of 1987 to place it beyond any
doubt that the phrase ‘educational institution of their choice’ in
Article 30(1) includes a university and that the AMU is a minority
educational institution, established by the Muslim community and
incorporated by the AMU Act of 1920.
The MMM appeals to the Muslim
community not to allow itself to be exploited by political adventurers by
launching an agitation but to help build up a national consensus by
placing its point of view before the people, the Union Government, the
important political parties and the mass media.
On Ministry of Minority Affairs
The Markazi Majlis-e-Mushawarat (MMM)
welcomes the creation of the Ministry of Minority Affairs as the
realization of an idea which it has espoused consistently for many years
and hopes that all government institutions and schemes which relate
exclusively to the minorities shall be transferred to the Ministry and
that it shall also be given to monitor the benefits that access to the
minorities under other general schemes and common institutions.
The MMM welcomes the appointment of
a senior leader of the stature and experience of Shri A.R. Antulay as the
first Minister for Minority Affairs and suggests that he should establish
a National Advisory Council on Minority Affairs, which should include,
inter alia, the heads of Muslim organizations and institutions and
personalities of national eminence.
The MMM thanks the Prime Minister
for this innovative step and reiterates its suggestion to take the
initiative for the formation of a Joint Parliamentary Committee on
Minority Affairs. The MMM also takes the opportunity to request the
Minister of Finance to august the grant-in-aid to various minorities
institutions and the Planning Commission, while formulating the XI Plan,
to pay due and proper attention to the welfare and development of the
minorities.
On the Communal Violence Bill, 2005
The Markazi Majlis-e-Mushawarat (MMM)
has taken note of the assurance by the Minister of Home Affairs to give
due and transparent consideration to all public suggestions on additions,
deletions and alterations to the Draft Bill to make it not only
comprehensive but also adequate to meet the demand of the situation.
The MMM has tried its best to
formulate a Muslim consensus on the Bill and authorizes the President to
submit a Memorandum as soon as possible to the Minister of Home Affairs
containing its suggestions for improving the Bill from the point of view
of the communities which have been generally targetted in such violence.
On the National Commission on
Minority Educational Institutions (Amendment) Ordinance, 2005
The Markazi Majlis-e-Mushawarat (MMM)
appreciates the expeditious manner in which the NCMEI Act, 2005 has been
amended by an Ordinance to make it more effective and thanks the Minister
of Human Resource Development for fulfilling his assurance.
The MMM takes this opportunity also
to express its deep appreciation to the Union Government for exempting
minority educational institutions from reservation in favour of the
Backward Classes in all government-aided institutions and reiterates its
demand that there should be reservation in all government and
government-aided institutions in favour of religious minorities in every
State in proportion to their proportion in population.
On Creation of National Wakf
Development Corporation and Restoration of Punjab Wakf Board
The Markazi Majlis-e-Mushawarat (MMM)
demands the establishment of a National Wakf Development Corporation with
adequate capital with an organic link with similar Corporations in all
States of Wakf concentration.
The MMM also urges the Union
Government to restore the Inter-state Wakf Board covering Punjab, Haryana,
Himachal Pradesh and U.T. of Chandigarh because after its break up none of
the States have been able to form viable State Wakf Boards in accordance
with the Wakf Act, 1995 because of limited Muslim population. This has
caused immense distress and handicap to the management and progress of
religious institutions in three States and one U.T. The MMM also demands
that similar inter-state Wakf Boards be established in other regions,
particularly in the N.E. and in the case of other U.T’s.
The MMM also urges an amendment to
the Wakf Act, 1995, to raise the status of the Central Wakf Council from
that to an attached office to the Ministry of Welfare to that of an
autonomous body and establish organic linkages between the
Central Wakf Council and the State Wakf Board.
On Sighting of Moon
The Markazi Majlis-e-Mushawarat (MMM)
is shocked by increasing clash of opinion among various religious bodies
on sighting of the first moon in various parts of the country. Sometimes
rival bodies in the same state or place announce different dates. Such
sectarianism and the absence of coordination makes the Muslim community an
object of ridicule.
The MMM appeals to the religious
bodies of national eminence to devise a national as well as regional
set-up consisting of Ulema of all schools to appoint suitable persons for
moon sight in all important district towns and obtain and convey to them
in advance the astronomical data on when and where to look for the first
moon and the duration of its visibility.
On Sectarian Violence
The Markazi Majlis-e-Mushawarat (MMM)
takes this opportunity to deplore the rise in sectarian violence,
particularly caused by rivalry for control of Masjids. The MMM solemnly
declares that all Masjids are open to all Muslims, irrespective of sect,
baradari or organization and that the management committees should be
appointed democratically from among the representatives of all sects
living in the vicinity of the Masjid.
On Jammu and Kashmir Question
The Markazi Majlis-e-Mushawarat (MMM)
welcomes the initiative by the Prime Minister of holding dialogue with all
political elements and social groups in the State of J&K.
The MMM has noted that while both
India and Pakistan are taking confidence-building measures, they do not
appear to have made much headway for the settlement of the Kashmir
dispute. The MMM suggests that the Government should place all suggestions
made by our think tanks or by Pakistan and by Kashmiri leaders before the
people for a free debate which alone can build a national consensus on
possible and viable approach towards a final settlement. The MMM also
proposes systematic consultation by the Government with major political
parties as well as eminent opinion-makers.
On Palestinian Election
The Markazi Majlis-e-Mushawarat (MMM)
is of the considered view that the democratic mandate given by the
Palestinian people to the Hamas must be respected and they should be
permitted to form the Government, notwithstanding any reservation
expressed by Israel or by the USA.
The MMM also urges that the Hamas
that once formed its Government should take up the thread of negotiation
with Israel as well as the UN and other States involved without any
precondition. Such negotiations following a cease-fire and resumption of
normal movement of people and goods shall imply de facto mutual
recognition, without Israel formally abandoning the concept of Ertz-Israel
or the Hamas, any legitimate rights of the Palestinians.
On IAEA’s Resolution against Iran
The Markazi Majlis-e-Mushawarat (MMM)
of the AIMMM deplores the decision of the Executive Board of the IAEA on 4
February 2006 to refer the Iran case to the United Nations Security
Council, while diplomatic negotiations were still in progress. Since Iran
has not violated the NPT by undertaking enrichment of uranium and by all
accounts it is still years’ away from the production of nuclear weapons,
even if it so intends and also because Iran’s negotiation with Russia
for outsourcing the enrichment of uranium were still in progress, the MMM
regrets that India voted in favour of the resolution. This vote is being
universally seen as submission to U.S pressure.
The MMM has, however, noted that
the Resolution gives another 4 weeks for diplomatic negotiations before
the Security Council considers the Iran case, and, for once, calls upon
all States of the region to stop production of weapon of mass destruction.
This provides an opportunity for the
Security Council to take note of the growing nuclear arsenal of Israel,
which, not having signed the NPT, has been freely developing nuclear and
other weapons of mass destruction without let or hindrance.
The MMM feels that to make the
region free from all weapons of mass destruction, the international
community must pressurise Israel to declare its stockpile and facilities
and stop production and stop piling all nuclear weapons. Unless this is
done, all States in the region, whose collective military strength does
not match Israel’s will continue their quest of security in all possible
ways.
On Blasphemy against the Holy
Prophet (PBUH) in Europe
The Markazi Majlis-e-Mushawarat (MMM)
strongly condemns with deep indignation the publication of caricatures of
the Holy Prophet (PBUH) by a Danish paper and its re-publication in
several European papers and looks upon it as a despicable expression of
Islamophobia which has been on the rise in the West particularly after
9/11 and as a provocative move, designed to humiliate the Muslims and to
misrepresent Islam and to incite hatred and contempt against them among
the people of the West who are for peace have opposed war against Muslim
States
The MMM rejects the justification
for this deliberate act of blasphemy in terms of Freedom of Press. All
freedoms have limits and entail responsibility and sensitivity to the
values and interests of the others.
The MMM considers that all European
states in one form or the other practice double standards and Islamophobia
has behind it the West’s historic hostility to the world of Islam.
The MMM realizes that the West is
not prepared to countenance the resistance of Muslim communities to
cultural assimilation at the cost of their religious identity but the
plurality of the world today demands mutual respect and tolerance and
nationalism calls for national integration but not assimilation.
The MMM fully supports the right of
the Muslim world to register its protest but is convinced that an
excessive and violent response, which is against the tenets of Islam, only
serves the agenda of those elements in the West which are writing a
scenario for eventual collision between Islam and the West.
The MMM, therefore, urges Muslim
communities all over the world, and particularly in India, to eschew
violence and articulate their feelings peacefully and through the
representatives of the Western Governments and mass media in their
countries and their own governments.
Sd/- Syed Shahabuddin
ALL INDIA MUSLIM
MAJLIS-e-MUSHAWARAT
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