16-31 January 2011
Table of Contents
RSS has forged nexus with Mossad (Amaresh Misra) 1
Enquiry has already cost AMU Rs 50 lakh! (Mushtaq Ahmad) 1
Cartoon MG/Yusuf 1
Issue / Opinion
Will India learn a lesson from Australia? (Alim Naqvi) 2
“Follow the money trail” – Deep Throat’s advice to Indian Muslims
(Ghulam Muhammed) 2
National
Mushrif Vindicated (MG News Desk) 3
Muslim education is a must for India’s growth: AFMI (Abdul Hafiz Lakhani) 3
“Quote, Unquote” (Rajinder Puri, Tariq Ramadan) 3
National
J&K army minting gold out of sand (AG Khan) 4
Gujarat cops hound scribe for exposing mass graves of riot victims
(Mohammad Naushad) 4
Mumbai Riots: 10 acquitted after 18 years (AG Khan) 4
Kandhamal riots: 18 convicted (AG Khan) 4
Excerpts from the ATS chargesheet in Malegaon case 4
“Cong not opposed to Ram Mandir in Ayodhya” 4
Togadia spews venom at Deoband (MG News Desk) 4
National
Sadbhawana Yatra from Ayodhya to Wardha for national solidarity
(Mohammad Naushad Khan) 5
Hullabaloo over change of terrorism’s colour (Manzar Mehdi Faizabadi) 5
Al-Misbah Qur’an Learning Software launched (Mazin Khan) 5
National
Burney’s book: burning issues eclipsed behind controversy over Digvijay’s disclosure 6
Venom he sowed, blasts he reaped (AG Khan) 6
Beyond the Politics of Ban (Mahtab Alam) 6
National
Why still politicking over Karkare! (Mustafa Khan) 7
Singh continues his attack on Sangh (AG Khan) 7
The Man who dared to defy the majority (Sumit S Paul) 7
Another twist in Ayodhya tail (Haider Abbas) 7
National
Malegaon blasts of 2006 in retrospect (Mustafa Khan) 8
Hanif gets justice: Aussies apologise, pay compensation (AG Khan) 8
National
Why are we indifferent to Pasmanda Muslims? (Kaleem Kawaja) 9
Pakistani hand in Samjhauta Express ruled out (AG Khan) 9
‘Munshi Nawal Kishore played an important role in the promotion of Indo-Islamic culture and civilization’ (NA Ansari) 9
National
Plans to arrest Teesta after vibrant Gujarat summit (Abdul Hafiz Lakhani) 10
Togadia spews venom for Babri Masjid (Abdul Hafiz Lakhani) 10
Gujarat survey about minorities (Abdul Hafiz Lakhani) 10
Muslims felicitate BJP minister (AH Lakhani) 10
Prize distribution at Surat (AH Lakhani) 10
Stop harassing Muslims in Gujarat (AG Khan) 10
Human Rights / Terrorism
Who hides behind “Indian Mujahideen”? (Shahid Siddiqui) 11
Azamgarh labeled Atankgarh (AG Khan) 11
RSS premises host detonator trials (MG Newsdesk) 11
Suspect in Varanasi bomb blast released (MG Newsdesk) 11
Varanasi blast: SIM card buyer absconding (MG Newsdesk) 11
Samjhauta Express probe embarrass a govt. (MG Newsdesk) 11
Court indicts police in Wamiq Farooq killing (MG Newsdesk) 11
American spy in Delhi police: search launched (MG Newsdesk) 11
PFI denies SIMI links (MG Newsdesk) 11
Issues
Communal Riots 2010 (Asghar Ali Engineer) 12
Issues
Sudarshan, RSS ideology and scandalous statements (Ram Puniyani) 13
Indresh: two-in-one messiah-conspirator (AG Khan) 13
Analysis
Today’s “Educated” Indian Muslim (Nilofar Suhrawardy) 14
Assam under National Register of Citizens cloud (Abdurrahman Aman) 14
Jammu & Kashmir
Dateline Srinagar: Afsana Rashid 15
Need to reduce trust deficit: Interlocutors 15
“Nexus between stone-pelters, militants” 15
Week-long curfew in Inderkote-Sumbal 15
Govt. indulges in torture: JKCCS 15
Friday prayers prevented in Jama Masjid 15
Bail to lecturer arrested over exam paper 15
“Militants killed Lone & Mirwaiz Farooq” 15
Newsmakers
Wajida Tabassum: a defiant writer (AG Khan) 16
Special Reports
Breaking the siege of Gaza (Sandeep Pandey) 17
Maulana Asrarul Haque Qasmi gets AFMI award (Manzar Imam) 17
Cartoon MG/Yusuf 1
Community News
Academic Excellence awards presented 18
Mumbai’s Rafiq Nagar slum kids face acute malnutrition 18
Gogoi in reconciliation mode with the AUDF 18
Scheme of coaching candidates for IAS 18
UP Madrasa Board recognises one hundred new madrasas 18
120 booked after clashes between Deobandis and Barelvis 18
Award for Kashmir University’s film on global warming 18
Christ’s birth celebration at India Islamic Cultural Centre 18
Congress demands immediate action on Liberhan 18
Muslims face persecution in Congress regime 18
Indonesia interested in investing in J&K’s tourism 18
Kupwara people interact with interlocutors 18
SMS ban in J&K lifted after six months 18
Husn-e Tadbir to publish special issue on madaris 18
Rajasthan Waqf Board elects new Chairman 18
Campaign for primary education in madrasas 18
Community News
Saudis visit Bhuj and Rajasthan farms 19
SK Sultan saves many lives 19
No need of an official confirmation for a Muslim’s will 19
Qur’an in Marathi at literature festival in Mumbai 19
Publish Nehru-Sheikh Abdullah pact: Azam Khan 19
Machil fake encounter: Army insists for court martial 19
Professor booked for obscene question paper in J&K 19
Dara Shikoh: ‘Rewriting’ a different history (Based on a book review by Abhishek Kaicker, a doctoral student of history, Columbia University) 19
Bengali Baba Syndrome (AG Khan) 19
Haji Sikandar Bhai: 24 years of a noble mission 19
ZFI apprises Abdul Kalam of govt apathy on Sachar report 19
Zubair Malek gets community award in America 19
Scholars without scholarships 19
Sufiya Madani chargesheeted for burning bus 19
Seminar on Ghalib and his poetry 19
Islam is the best system for eradicating poverty: V.S. Vyas 19
Nawabgarhi panchayat takes commendable decision 19
Community News
Khwaja Hali Award presented 20
Dr. Nabiha Yousuf interacts with AMU students 20
Islamic Convention: Qur’anic message lead to science 20
BJP headquarters carry out temple demolition 20
Symposium on Urdu elegy at Ghalib Academy 20
Firaq Memorial Lecture on Amir Khusro 20
Rs 10 cr sanctioned by Bihar govt for minority schools 20
Hindus observe Muharram in Tamil Nadu village 20
Swami Agnivesh must apologise to Muslims: Punjab Imam 20
Deal sternly with Qadiani mischief: Ahrar 20
Waqf Board has no money to pay employees and widows 20
Sheikh Abdullah’s grand-daughter voices female woes 20
Mehfil-e-Gang-o-Jaman: literary meet at Ghalib Academy 20
Community News
Mosque demolished in Guj. by mistake 21
Unani therapy: civilisational accomplishment 21
Kerala madrasas ahead of their northern counterparts 21
Attempt to occupy Masjid land in Darya Ganj 21
Nanavati panel granted 15th extension 21
Bhat advocates merger of Urdu and Hindi media 21
Low-waist jeans indecent: Coastal Kerala cops 21
8000 Kashmiris disappeared since 1989 21
Kashmir’s new top cop talks tough on Baramulla deaths 21
PFI not terrorist organisation: SC 21
School boy shatters cricket record 21
Community News
Cabinet committee to reconsider AFSPA proposals 22
Another mosque rehabilitated in Punjab 22
new generation drifting away from Urdu and Hindi 22
Jama Masjid without Juma prayers 22
Panel rejects govt plan to boost fertility rate of Parsis 22
SIT seeks amicus curiae in Ishrat case 22
Unrest continues in the Valley depite freezing cold (Afsana Rashid) 22
International
US: Incipient Fascist State (Paul Craig Roberts) 23
Israel Planned to Keep Gaza’s Economy ‘on the Brink of Collapse’: Wikileaks (Robert Mackey) 23
Seattle: Anti-Israel campaign called off (Yitzhak Benhorin) 23
Wikileaks and Israel: Gilad Atzmon (Gilad Atzmon) 23
International
Mossad Killing All Muslim Nuclear Scientists (english.farsnews.com) 24
Brazil hosts first Palestine embassy in Americas (Raymond Colitt) 24
Mossad behind Egypt riots (Ynet news) 24
Israel never really wanted peace (Elie Podeh) 24
International
Wikileaks: Israel Plans Total War On Lebanon, Gaza (Juan Cole) 25
Israel ex-President Moshe Katsav found guilty of rape 25
Israel's racist & unethical laws (David Shulman) 25
International
No Respite in Crises for Pakistan (Karamatullah K. Ghori) 26
Book
Modern relevance of a medieval Islamic scholar, Book: Ibn Taymiyya and his times, Authors: Yossef Rapoport and Shahab Ahmed (eds), Publisher: Oxford UP, Oxford, UK, Year: 2010, Pages: xiv+400, Price: Rs 595, ISBN: 978-0-19-547834-1
(Zafarul-Islam Khan) 27
Islamic Perspectives
Food in Islam (Zafarul-Islam Khan) 28
Love God or Fear God? (Asghar Ali Engineer) 28
How Islam is the solution? (Abdul Hannan Siwani Nadwi) 28
MG Classifieds 29
Rejoinder / Opinion / Letters
MG (G.A.Rahim, Razi Ashraf, Dr Syed Shahid Wahid, Yunus Chitalwala) 30
Rape of Nizam state (Imran A. Khan) 30
Corruption (Razi Ashraf) 30
Child labour in Muslim society (Muhammad Habibuddin) 30
Remarks by Mahmood Madni (Farooq Abdul Gaffar Bawani) 30
Gaza caravan (Sean Clinton, Dr. Arshi Khan) 30
Impartial probe needed in 26/11 (Khalid Hasan) 30
Tibet in Kashmir: a tale of suffering and alienation (Chime Tenzing) 30
AMU gets Rs 2.30 grant for lab (Shakeel Ahmad Frank) 30
Hyderabadi souls in Parlok (S. Akhtar) 30
Raza Library awards scholars (Robert) 30
Ramjanmsthan mandir is in Ayodhya (Dr. Muhammad Mukhtar Alam) 30
Confession by Aseemanand (Syed Sultan Mohiddin) 30
Digvijay Singh on Karkare (Ghulam Mohiyuddin, Mohd Ziyaullah Khan) 30
Rejoinder / Opinion / Letters
Vinita Kamte on 26/11: Mumbai Police is hiding truth (Anonymous) 32
Don’t judge Islam by what few terrorist are doing (Aziz A.Mubaraki) 31
Mohammad Haneef case a trendsetter (Syed Sultan Mohiddin) 31
Atrocities in Kashmir (Farooq Abdul Gaffar Bawani) 31
Justified demands to seek resignation of NHRC chief (Subhash Chandra Agarwal) 31
Police fired bullets on a Muslim (S. Haque) 31
The charge of sedation on Sen is erroneous (Dr. Abdul Hameed Maqdoomi, Mukul Dube) 31
Media and political party (Mohd Ziyaullah Khan) 31
Environmental havoc (Farzana Z Khan) 31
Yoga cannot eliminate corruption (Abdul Hameed Maqdoomi) 31
Timid Urdu media (S. Haque) 31
Taking law in hands (Subhash Chandra Agrawal) 31
Resign gracefully (Syed Sultan Mohiddin) 31
Whom to obey first? (S.A.U. Patel) 31
CBI enquiry of Kalmadi (Dr. Abdul Hameed Maqdoomi) 31
Binayak Sen (Mukul Dube) 31
Folly in diplomacy (Dr. Abdul Hameed Maqdoomi) 31
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