16-31 August 2011
Table of Contents
Educational Encyclopedia of Islam launched (Saiyed Danish) 1
Cartoon (MG/Yusuf) 1
Issue / Opinion
In the name of democracy, surrender (Ghulam Muhammed) 2
Temples unmasked (Dr Sumit S Paul) 2
Vastanvi Verdict is in sync with Muslim sentiments (Aleem Faizee) 2
National
Why did Reshma become a celebrity? (TwoCircles. net) 3
Khurshid claims spending over 64% minority funds (Abdul Bari Masoud) 3
Nitish implements RSS agenda (theindianawaaz.com) 3
Six rioters sentenced (AG Khan) 3
Sunil Joshi murder: 3 produced in court (AG Khan) 3
Indian artists boycott Tel AVIV museum show 3
National
Christian persecution report (EFI - mail@efionline.org) 4
India ask Israel to halt settlements (Mohammad Naushad Khan) 4
Surankote encounter was fake (dailykashmirimages.com) 4
Gujarat riots report leaked to RSS man (Poornima Joshi and Gyanant Singh, Mail Today) 4
NHRC takes up J&K custodial death case 4
National
Maulana Vastanvi’s removal was pre-planned (Shahnawaz Badar Qasmi) 5
Darul Uloom’s clarification regarding Vastanvi episode (Trarnslated from Urdu) 5
Maulana Ghulam Muhammad Vastanvi explains his position (Translated from Urdu) 5
National
Mamta boost to the Muslim community 6
Huge haul of explosives in Hyderabad 6
Govt received info on Swiss bank accounts: FM 6
Terror has political goals, religion should be for humanism (Ram Puniyani) 6
National
Right to Education Act will harm diverse India (Haider Abbas) 7
Congress and BJP flex muscles over corruption and terror (Mohammad Naushad Khan) 7
National
A Reflection on Bollywood Film “Aarakshan” (Madhu Chandra) 8
“50% of poor in India are SCs” 8
Media – protector of Saffron Terror? (Mushtaque Madni) 8
NHRC manages to retain “A”status (MG News Desk) 8
Banks failed to achieve minority lending target (MG News Desk) 8
Girl paraded naked in Guj. minority institution (MG News Desk) 8
National
Munsif channel will be the voice of voiceless: Hyder Adil (Abdul Bari Masoud) 9
Qur’an is the life mission of this Kashmiri businessman (Mushtaq ul Haq Ahmad Sikander) 9
National
Unholy nexus to save Modi loyals in post-Godhra cases (Abdul Hafiz Lakhani) 10
Teesta gets bail (Abdul Hafiz Lakhani) 10
Modi starts damage control (Abdul Hafiz Lakhani) 10
More policemen will be on CBI radar (Abdul Hafiz Lakhani) 10
RTI activists meet Governor (Abdul Hafiz Lakhani) 10
Human Rights / Terrorism
“The NIA will not do anything wrong”: Malegaon 2006 near denouement (Mustafa Khan) 11
Inter-agency stand offs responsible for laxity in terror watch (Saiyed Danish) 11
Tulsi fake encounter re-constructed (AG Khan) 11
Indresh, Pragya figure as suspects in NIA chargesheet on Ajmer blast (MG News Desk) 11
‘Deal with Saffron terror sternly’: PC (MG News Desk) 11
CBI investigating Dara encounter case seeks protection for its team (MG News Desk) 11
Issues
Mushawarat on national and international situation 12
No sharaee restriction on women travelling with non-mahrams if their safety is assured (NA Ansari) 12
Issues
United Colours of fundamentalisms (Ram Puniyani) 13
Analysis
Kashmiris need more attention! (Nilofar Suhrawardy) 14
Reservation & Caste Hindus (Tej Singh) 14
45% of UP rape cases in 2010 were of Dalits 14
Jammu & Kashmir
Dateline Srinagar: Afsana Rashid 15
Valley in turmoil over Sopore custodial killing 15
Molestation case against soldier 15
CRPF withdraws from Srinagar 15
Report on disappearances released 15
Smart cards for services delivery 15
Newsmakers 16
Top Saudi honour for Ambassador Talmiz Ahmad (Haider Abbas) 16
Peerzada Saeed Husain Khan ()Haider Abbas) 16
Special Reports
Chishti Awards go to Shastri & Bilqees 17
Charity Alliance work in Murshidabad (Dr Zafarul-Islam Khan) 17
Prof. Zilli participates in Cambridge conference 17
Cartoon (MG/Yusuf) 17
Community News
New book on Qur’an translations 18
Land deal for Ambani’s Antilla may come under CBI lens 18
Jamia Urdu delegation meets Rahul, wants recognition 18
Jamia Professor Lectures in Bihar Legislative Council 18
Campaign for the promotion of Urdu (NA Ansari) 18
Two Urdu scholars get Gaurav Award 18
Rizwana gets Gold Medal 18
Miserable plight of handicapped destitute 18
Naroda case: Rais Khan’s plea rejected 18
MNS opens office in minority-dominated area 18
Flesh trade does not exist in the state: J&K govt 18
Community News
IUML protest and demands 19
Sadiq fake encounter: CBI lodges FIR of conspiracy 19
Court’s notice on the appointment of Ajmer’s administrator 19
Eight girls questioned in Sopore blast case 19
Minority youth to be provided training for jobs in W.B. 19
Rickshaw-puller poet 19
Arabic translation of Asif Barelvi’s Urdu poems 19
RTI activists of Gujarat demands compensation for attack 19
Peace party looks for conditional ties with BSP 19
Centre hints states not to implement Ranganath report (theindianawaaz.com) 19
Subramanian Swamy’s house compound vandalised 19
Mumbai NGOs seek justice for Malegaon youths (ummid.com) 19
NCPUL for associating Urdu with employment (NA Ansari) 19
Community News
Harvard stands by Swamy 20
Swamy’s article: court seeks police report 20
“Stop Racial Profiling of Muslim Institutions”: Welfare Party 20
Gujarat police officer Sanjiv Bhatt suspended 20
Gujarat scholar accepted for Fullbright (Abdul Hafiz Lakhani) 20
Kashmir eats 51,000 tons of mutton a year 20
Bail to Malegaon blast accused exposes double standard (ummid.com) 20
Sahitya Academy built after demolishing part of Firoz Shah’s Jama Masjid (NA Ansari) 20
Community News
Hang fake encounter cops: SC (PTI) 21
Cover- up renews call for CBI probe in riots cases (Poornima Joshi - mailtoday.in) 21
Sajjan blames NDA for riot taint 21
Naga women’s group calls for a decent dress code 21
Breather to India as Saudi ready to help meet oil needs 21
“RSS is not anti minority”(!): former SC judge 21
SIMI’s Munir Deshmukh’s bail cancelled 21
Ishrat fake encounter: twists and turns (AG Khan) 21
Community News
Hindu commander killed in Jammu 22
Revolt in JD-U over RSS interference in Nitish government 22
Bias thwarts minority development, say reports (hindustantimes.com) 22
Jamiat Ulama-e Hind Halal Trust reliable institution 22
M.P. Catholics demands representation in minority panel 22
Chargesheet filed in German Bakery case 22
South Delhi Darul Qaza settled 11 cases this year (!) 22
A third of India’s trade is with OIC (Shafeeq Rahman, tehelka.com) 22
International
Norway attack: Europe’s double standards (Ali Khan Mahmudabad) 23
Former Intel Chief: Call Off The Drone War (And Maybe the Whole War on Terror) (Noah Shachtman) 23
Jerusalem: Israeli "Tolerance Museum" to be built on Muslim tombs 23
Cartoon (MG/Yusuf) 23
International
The Riots: is it Poverty or Greed? (Yamin Zakaria) 24
U. S. wastes $34 billion in Afghan and Iraq contracting 24
Outsourced: US clinical trials go overseas (english.aljazeera.net) 24
British actress embraces Islam (onislam.net) 24
International
The Decline and Fall of the American Empire (Paul Craig Roberts) 25
Native seeds in danger of being monopolised 25
International
Blackmailing Iraq: the latest American Ploy (Karamatullah K. Ghori) 26
Book
US: a rogue that refuses to relent (and reform) – i: Book: War on Terrorism or American Strategy for Global Dominance: Islamic Perspective on Afghan-Iraq War
Author: Manzoor Alam, Publisher: Vantage Press, New York, Year: 2009, Pages: 408+XIV, Price: $ 18.95 (Dr AG Khan) 27
Islamic Perspectives
Islam ensures human rights (Ahmad Wahaj Al-Siddiqui) 28
Which charity is best? (Adil Salahi) 28
MG Classifieds 29
Rejoinder / Opinion / Letters
MG (Jasim Mohammad, M.Omar Sheriff) 30
Website link (Iqbal) 30
Anna Hazare’s Team out to Subvert Indian Parliamentary Democratic System (Dr. M. Hashim Kidwai, Dr Mookhi Amir Ali) 30
Wrong and unfair criticism (Dr. M. Hashim Kidwai) 30
Has Vastanvi been wronged? (Aziz A. Mubaraki) 30
NCM takes stand for falsely implicated Muslims (Syed Sultan Mohiddin) 30
Muslim leaders and Muslim reservation (S. Haque) 30
Bomb-Blast-Barbaric and Condemnable (G. Hasnain Kaif) 30
Harijans (Badri Raina) 30
Give them the gallows (Dr Mookhi Amir Ali) 30
Blasphemy (Danish) 30
Data collected by MP is a mirror to Millat (S. Haque) 30
Beware of American Imperialism (G. Hasnain Kaif) 30
UPA’s Lokpal Bill, Jehangir’s “Insaaf”? (Dr Mookhi Amir Ali) 30
Slut walk (Besharmi Morcha) in Delhi (Madhu Agarwal) 30
Izharul Haque selected for Bihar Sikcha Ratan Award (S. Haque) 30
An advice to Yeddyurappa (Dr Maqdoomi) 30
Hospital and its service (Dr Mookhi Amir Ali) 30
Rejoinder / Opinion / Letters
American economy falters (Syed Sultan Mohiddin) 30
R.S.S., Hitler and Breivik (S. Haque) 30
RR’s acid test (Dr Mookhi Amir Ali) 30
Why the U.S. should work out a political solution in Libya (PA Mohamedameen) 30
Obama’s solution to Middle East crisis (Hem Raj Jain) 30
Peace is better than war (Y.R. Pathan) 30
Why is the Neocons Biased towards American Muslims? (Kodimirpal) 30
Zamzam water (Dr AH Maqdoomi) 31
Sonia's operation outside India (Wakeel Ahmad) 31
"Islamic terrorism" or "Jihadism" is not accurate (Abdul Hannan Siwani Nadwi) 31
AMU mess (Qaiser) 31
The slave mentality (Dr Ghayur Ayub) 31
Ittehadi Fatwa against tilak (Al-Haj Syed Fakhruddin Ahmad) 31
Gita lessons for M.P. schools (S. Haque) 31
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Health Consultation 29
Urdu Book Review 29
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