1-15 October 2010
Table of Contents
Husaini Tigers frustrate enemy plots (Haider Abbas) 1
Missing explosives: tip of the iceberg (AG Khan) 1
Cartoon MG/Yusuf 1
Issue / Opinion
Ayodhya Verdict (Rajindar Sachar) 2
The emerging threat of “Patriotism” (Mushtaque Madni) 2
Geelani as CM of Jammu & Kashmir (Ghulam Muhammed) 2
National
“Terrorism in India cannot be put to an end without reconstitution of IB”: Mushrif during release of Who Killed Karkare? (NA Ansari) 3
Muslims desert Eidgahs on Eid in several MP towns (AG Khan) 3
National
Six years rigorous imprisonment to BJP MLA in Kandhamal riots 4
Dalit disenchantment 4
Bihar Polls: Modi drolls 4
Kashmiri refugees’ allowance raised (MG Staff) 4
Supreme Court stays Akshardham attack sentences (NA Ansari) 4
BJP governments receive PM’s pat (AG Khan) 4
Space for peaceful protest in Kashmir Valley (Mustafa Khan) 4
National
Divided BJP fails to harmonise with the RSS on Jharkhand and Ayodhya (Mohammad Naushad Khan) 5
Maximum illegal religious places are in UP 5
Congress reduced Muslims to drivers, cleaners and scrap dealers: Gadkari (Gujarat Today, 8 Sept. 2010) 5
Seven hurt in communal clash 5
What happened at Ayodhya 155 years ago? (Aziz Haider) 5
National
“I offer my seat to Kavita Karkareji”: Azam Khan (Muhammed Azam Khan) 6
Kalb-e Sadiq on Babri (Masood Hasan) 6
National
Enemy Property Act: a backgrounder (AG Khan) 7
State Terrorism
My 75 days of horror in the hands of ATS 8
State Terrorism
Conclusion of p.no. (8) 9
National
Advani & Modi lose sense of shame (Abdul Hafiz Lakhani) 10
Key encounter witness slips away (Abdul Hafiz Lakhani) 10
Blind flaterry by NAMO (Abdul Hafiz Lakhani) 10
Twist in encounter case (AH Lakhani) 10
Modi idea fizzles out (AH Lakhani) 10
Human Rights / Terrorism
Shastra Pujas: what is religious about worshipping arms? (Subhash Gatade) 11
‘Sir, don’t shoot me, I am on fast’ (NA Ansari) 11
Police clueless about Muzaffar’s murder 11
AWMELA’s memo to President on Batla House encounter (Salman Sultan) 11
Issues
Rise in Participation of Muslim Children in Elementary Education (Syed Shahabuddin) 12
Construction of Ram temple in Ayodhya is possible (Sandeep Pandey) 12
Issues
How I found the riot-affected Ratlam (V.K. Tripathi) 13
Muslim Rashtriya Manch, RSS net (NA Ansari) 13
Analysis
AFSPA & Kashmir Crisis (Nilofar Suhrawardy) 14
Pyromaniacs and brass knuckles (Ali Khan Mahmudabad) 14
Defining the Assamese people (M. H. Rahman) 14
Jammu & Kashmir
Dateline Srinagar: Afsana Rashid 15
Crippled life amid curfews and shutdowns 15
All parties delegation fails to feel the pain of Kashmiris (Afsana Rashid) 15
Newsmakers
Mufti Abdul Qayyum of Aligarh (Naved Masood) 16
Special Reports
Deganga riots in West Bengal (Sabir Ghaffar) 17
Torchlight demo on Batla anniversary (Tarique Anwar) 17
“Hindu freedom fighters” on the prowl (Zafarul-Islam Khan) 17
Cartoon M/G Yusuf 17
Community News
CPM-Muslim honeymoon over 18
Crown witness Narendra Amin transferred to Vadodara jail 18
Zadaphia’s voluntary disclosures to hurt Modi 18
Prof Joseph condemns Church circular 18
Release of Hindi edition of Nirmal Singh’s Urdu poems 18
Digvijay Singh does not know if Indian Mujahidin exist (Abu Zafar Adil Azmi, TCN) 18
Moghul era Qur’an copy to be auctioned in Germany 18
Tie and belt with picture of Saraswati distributed among Muslim students 18 American visa denied to one more Muslim journalist 18
Dalit leader jailed in Madhya Pradesh for supporting Babri 18
Curative petition boomerangs on Geetha Johri 18
Community News
341 cases settled by Delhi Darul Qaza 19
Welfare Foundation raises questions on minority schemes 19
Extension lecture on ‘Cancer Research’ at Shibli College (Salman Sultan) 19
Digvijay Singh to raise Batla encounter before PM, Sonia (Manzar Imam) 19
Demand for salaries to imams as per Pay Commission 19
Community News
Saffron terror: hornet's nest 20
Hindutva terrorist in UK: Muslims outraged (M Ghazali Khan) 20
Amit Shah moves Supreme Court against CBI enquiry 20
Amit Shah hospitalised 20
Geetha Johri's disclosures will trap Mathur or Pande 20
Look-out notice issued by CBI 20
Contempt of court notice to Modi 20
What prompted Zadaphia to approach SIT? 20
Community News
“UPA to train one crore poor Muslims” 21
Indian Muslim leaders on attacks on Christian properties 21
Muslim leader condemns the intention of burning Bible 21
NHRC fails people of J&K 21
An Open Letter to Rahul Gandhi on Kashmir (Dr Zafarul-Islam Khan) 21
Paid news report: Rajya Sabha slams Press Council 21
Fresh probe ordered into Ishrat case 21
Community News
Notice served over attack on suspected terrorist Tihar 22
AWMELA organizes Haj training camp in Azamgarh (Salman Sultan) 22
Winding up of Urdu academies needed for its promotion 22
Darul Qazas are not Talibani courts 22
Mirwaiz and Yasin Malik come together (Afsana Rashid) 22
Bomb blast prisoner feared killed in encounter 22
Sadhvi Pragya in hospital 22
International
US Initiatives for Palestinians and Prospects of Peace (Arshi Khan) 23
International
American Muslims nine years after 9/11 (Abdus Sattar Ghazali) 24
UN experts: Israel flotilla raid broke int'l law (Frank Jordans) 24
International
Remembering Israeli massacre at Sabra–Shatila after twenty eight years (Latheef Farook) 25
International
American Conservatives targeting Islam and Obama (Karamatullah K. Ghori) 26
Book
Islam and Creative Western Literature (Book: Blessing in Disguise : Islam and Creative Western Literature, Editor: Dr. Syed Mashkoor Ali, Publisher: Surabhi Publications, Jaipur, Year: 2009, Pages: XII+236, Price: Rs. 495/) (AG Khan ) 27
Thoughts of Jamaluddin Afghani (Book: Selected Papers of Jamaluddin Afghani
Compiler & Translator: Hamid Naseem Rafiabadi, Publisher: Jay Kay Bookshop, Srinagar, J&K, Price: Rs 225, Pages: 112) (Mushtaq Ul Haq Ahmad Sikander) 27
Islamic Perspectives
On Women’s Rights in Islam - i (Asghar Ali Engineer) 28
Give in charity – before death visits you (Abdul Ghaffar Khan) 28
MG Classifieds 29
Rejoinder / Opinion / Letters
MG (Trafdar Zaman) 30
Marxists bare their Stalinist fangs (Dr. M. Waseem Raja) 30
How much “unbiased” is BBC? (Sultan A Patel) 30
How long will parties exploit Ayodhya Dispute? (Mohd Ziyaullah Khan, Syed Abdallah Rizvi, Abdul Hafiz Lakhani, Dr Mookhi Amir Ali, Dr. Abdul Hameed Maqdoomi, Mukul Dube, S.M. Pasha, M Naushad Ansari) 30
Kashmir-who-failed-where (Ehmed Shefiq, Nasir Hussain, Dr. Abdul Hameed Maqdoomi, Shafaque Alam) 30
An Open Letter to Rahul Gandhi on Kashmir (These are reactions to MG editor’s open letter to Shri Rahul Gandhi, reproduced on p.21 of this issue, which was sent and made public on 17 Sept 2010. These reactions, with the exception of the last two, were posted on MG’s Facebook site) 30
Rejoinder / Opinion / Letters
Bhagwa Terrorism? Why it bloomed? (S Haque) 31
Congress hypocrisy (S Akhtar) 31
The lecturer - new developments (Xavier William) 31
Patna police burnt a Muslim as per Hindu rituals (S Haque) 31
Namaz is prohibited in Sushashan region of Bihar (S Haque) 31
The essence of Islam is submission to God's will (MFRahman) 31
Political dynasty (Madhu Agarwal) 31
Smile please (Nazneen O. Saherwala) 31
The Games (Vinod Raina) 31
Join the dots (Shafaque Alam) 31
Pakistan’s Cricket shame (Faheemuddin) 31
Behind the 9/11 attack (Shafaque Alam) 31
Well done Justice SN Dhingra (Subhash Chandra Agrawal) 31
Right to Education bill 2009 and Muslim's concern (Abdul Hannan Siwani Nadwi) 31
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Kanti Weekly / Kanti Monthly 20
Taarikh Tadween Sunnat (Islamic Studies Research Academy) 21
Idarah Al-Hasanaat (Rampur) 25
Free Online Health Consultation 29
Urdu Book Review 29
India’s first and only Scientific and Informative Urdu 29
Charity Alliance and Zakat Foundation of India distributed food packets among 86 families in Murshidabad on 25 August 2010 (Li Ma’rifatil Qur’an) 32
Ram Janmabhoomi banaam Babri Masjid 32
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Who Killed Karkare? 32






