16-31 May 2011
Table of Contents
NIA should investigate UP blasts of 2007 (Haider Abbas) 1
Rizvi College voted India’s most favourite (NA Ansari) 1
Cartoon (MG/Yusuf) 1
Issue / Opinion
India would have been a better place without Satya Sai Baba (Sanal Edamaruku and Ram Puniyani) 2
National
BSP, JDU & CPIM have same policy for Muslims (Haider Abbas) 3
Shah Waliullah’s contributions applauded (Ghitreef Shahbaz) 3
BBC looking for traditional Indian family 3
“Quote, Unquote” (John Maclithon aka Sir Mark Tully) 3
National
Agnivesh assures Jamiat of retracting his statement (AG Khan) 4
Blasphemous sketches condemned (Ghitreef Shahbaz) 4
NAC approves draft on communal violence (MG News Desk) 4
Award instituted in the name of Nirmala Deshpande in Pakistan (MG News Desk) 4
It took 3-4 yrs to convince my party on RSS terror: Digvijay (MG News Desk) 4
Dalit kids: even their books are “untouchable” (MG News Desk) 4
Profiling of Christians continues despite revocation order by MP Govt (MG News Desk) 4
National
Communal riot in Meerut (NA Ansari) 5
Experts reconstructed Ishrat encounter (AG Khan) 5
Modi’s massive cover-up job (Mustafa Khan) 5
Purulia arms drop: more than meets the eye (Mohammad Naushad Khan) 5
National
“Rajasthan minorities are 2nd class citizens” (Mohammad Naushad Khan) 6
Maharashtra tops in riots cases during 1998-2008 (Mohammad Naushad Khan) 6
Indian Muslims’ reaction on Osama’s killing (MG News Desk) 6
National
Jamiat Ulama starts its satyagrah 7
BJP wants Ram Rajya in U.P. (Mohammad Naushad Khan) 7
National
Modi government deprives Muslim students of education: SIO (Abdul Hafiz Lakhani) 8
Hunjura: Both govt & society have failed victims (Mushtaq Ul Haq Ahmad Sikander) 8
National
Justice still eludes Christian victims, and many are to blame for it (John Dayal) 9
Masks snatched: Hindutva extremists exposed (MG News Desk) 9
Pragya reports to court in an ambulance (MG News Desk) 9
CP fake encounter case: justice delayed but not denied (Mohammad Naushad Khan) 9
National
Gujarat police officers have no faith in SIT (Abdul Hafiz Lakhani) 10
Sanjiv Bhatt gets support from police (Abdul Hafiz Lakhani) 10
Ishrat case hots up in Gujarat (Abdul Hafiz Lakhani) 10
Human Rights / Terrorism
Bring charges for newly discovered massacre of Sikhs: HRW 11
Dalit students committing suicide in last 4 years in premier institutions (Anoop Kumar) 11
Caste Discrimination in IIT Delhi 11
Gujarat records 7282 cases of human rights violation (AG Khan) 11
Gujarat human rights violations report submitted (AH Lakhani) 11
NHRC slams NGOs report as misleading (Mohammad Naushad Khan) 11
NIA produces Aseemanand, associate in CBI court 11
Issues
Issueless BJP falls back on Mandir issue (Mohammad Shahid) 12
The birth of the Muslim Majlis-e Mushawarat (S.M. Pasha) 12
Issues
Madhya Pradesh: shadows of Hindu Rashtra (Ram Puniyani) 13
Punish not only Osamas but also Bushes! (Javed Jamil) 13
Analysis
The Muslim-Vote In West Bengal Polls (Nilofar Suhrawardy) 14
Ayodhya dispute: ideas for an amicable settlement (Yugal Kishor Shastri) 14
Multi-faith complex suggested at Ayodhya (NA Ansari) 14
Jammu & Kashmir
Dateline Srinagar: Afsana Rashid 15
Hurriyat leader Abbas Ansari’s “expulsion” 15
JKLF’s Yasin Malik arrested, released 15
Omar “enjoying” defections: PDP 15
Militants waiting to sneak: Police 15
Man killed over appointment of imam 15
Soldier kills, injures colleagues 15
Newsmakers 16
Prof. Ahsan Jan Qaisar 16
Special Reports
Darul Ehsan, Home for Special Children Held (Mushtaq ul Haq Ahmad Sikander) 17
Campus Front gets new team 17
Army’s crimes in Kashmir 17
Cartoon (MG/Yusuf) 17
Community News
Global University to come up in Rampur 18
Jindal Prize for development and science 18
Kandhamal returns to normalcy 18
Gita lessons in MP schools 18
Sectarian fight leads to the death in mosque 18
Seminar on challenges to women and Islam (Mushtaq ul Haq Ahmad Sikandar) 18
Release Chishty: Mahesh Bhatt and Kuldip Nayar 18
JMI profs discover new formulae re. simple pendulum 18
Lecture on Islam and the West 18
Muslim advisory Committee in Delhi Minorities Commission 18
Welfare Party is backed by civil society 18
Community News
German grant for Delhi monument 19
Delhi contemplates new policy on unauthorised shrines 19
One more mosque rehabilitated in Punjab 19
Research programme in Sikkim Studies launched in JMI 19
Support for Haj subsidy and demand for increased quota (NA Ansari) 19
Pre-Matric scholarships for minorities more than doubled 19
Malegaon accused on hunger strike against non-trial 19
2006 Malegaon Blast: Court directs CBI to file report 19
Demand for Ashram shalas in Muslim areas too 19
Asad Pathan selected for cricket training 19
Case registered against Togadia for inflammatory speech 19
Community News
Sa’di’s special place among Indian people 20
Understanding Qur’an in the light of science an achievement 20
Kasiwal scholarships for promising students of JMI 20
HC queries Centre on plea to set up human rights courts 20
Divorced Muslim woman harassed by hooligans 20
Release of book on materials management 20
Mazhar Imam’s interest in literature developed early 20
Restore Hindu shrines in Valley: APMCC 20
Movement against Maha. govt’s anti-Muslim activities (NA Ansari) 20
Community News
Discussion on AMU’s current situation 21
Rahmani prepares Muslim youth for railway services exams 21
HC refuses bail to Asgar, convicted for Pandya’s murder 21
Four hours increase in Iran’s Sehr Urdu TV service 21
One dead in clash on the appointment of Masjid imam 21
Student at the age of (90) 21
JMI to start 10 new professional courses 21
Communal riot in Gujarat 21
Mazahirul Uloom’s case returns to Supreme Court 21
Fiftieth anniversary of daily Urdu Times 21
Room of a Dalit officer “purified” with cow urine 21
Community News
Computer labs in Arabic madrasas 22
Scholarships distributed among Urdu girl students 22
Nawaz Deobandi honoured 22
Centre for Islamic Finance confers with GoI secretary 22
Islam and the West: A new beginning in bridge building 22
Muslims angry over French ban on burqa (AG Khan) 22
Lucknow University denies exam forms to Muslim girls (Mohd. Faisal Fareed, TwoCircles.net) 22
AIMPLB opposes Right to Education Act 22
MIM donates Rs 55L to fight Babri case in SC 22
Seminar on Human & Minority Rights 22
AMU closed sine die 22
International
Take your money and get lost (Khalid Amayreh) 23
Chomsky on Osama bin Laden’s Death (Noam Chomsky) 23
Cartoon (MG/Yusuf) 23
International
The New Colonialism (Paul Craig Roberts) 24
Over half of Egypt wants end to Israel peace (chron.com) 24
Osama and the US (Fidel Castro Ruz) 24
International
Hamas-Fateh reconciliation: a great day for Palestine (Khalid Amayreh) 25
‘Gentile sperm leads to barbaric offspring’ 25
Justice Sachar on Libya 25
International
The Jury will still be out on Osama (Karamatullah K. Ghori) 26
Book
A Sociological study of Kashmir, Book: Sociological Papers on Kashmir, Author: Dr Bashir Ahmad Dabla, Publisher: Jay Kay Books, Srinagar, Kashmir, Year of Publication: 2010, Pages: 460 (2 volumes), Price: Rs 1990 (Mushtaq Ul Haq Ahmad Sikander) 27
Muslim Brotherhood, Book: Ikhwanul Muslimoon (Urdu), Author: Ubaidullah Fahad Falahi, Publisher: Al-Qalam Publications, Truck Yard, Baramulla, Kashmir-193101 - distributed by Urdu Book Review, 1739/3 (Basement), New Kohinoor Hotel, Pataudi House, Darya Ganj, New Delhi 110002, Pages: 312. Price: Rs 210. Year: 2011, (MG Desk) 27
Islamic Perspectives
What about a world without Islam - i (Asghar Ali Engineer) 28
Why do we fail on the financial fronts? (Nisaar Y. Nadiadwala) 28
MG Classifieds 29
Rejoinder / Opinion / Letters
MG (G.A. Rahim, Elias Uddin) 30
So much charity, aukaf, but still we are backward (Anwar Masood Siddiqui) 30
Anna Hazare's crusade against corruption (Dr. M. Hashim Kidwai) 30
Gujarat pogroms (Farooq A. Gaffar Bawani) 30
Israel is the bigger enemy (Sheikh Gulzaar) 30
Osama, at what cost? (Khwaja Umer Farooq, Ghulam Muhammed) 30
Gujarat violence a matter of national shame (G. Hasnain Kaif) 30
Welfare Party (Pareethu Bava Khan) 30
Jamia’s minority status (Khalil-ur Rahman Khan) 30
Are we democratic country? (S. Haque) 30
Purulia arms drop case (Syed Sultan Mohiddin) 30
US and Gujarat (Mukul Dube) 30
Deaf and Dumb State (Madhu Agarwal) 30
26/11 attack on Mumbai not serious enough: US (Subhash Chandra Agarwal) 30
Acquittal of Muslims from terror charges-unnoticed (S. Haque) 30
Anna Hazare’s defamation (Dr Mookhi Amir Ali) 30
Let’s give a push to the Jan Lokpal Bill (Aziz A. Mubaraki) 30
Rejoinder / Opinion / Letters
Peoples faith in CBI restored (Syed Sultan Mohiddin) 30
Road safety (Mohd Ziyaullah Khan) 30
Nuclear Disarmament and Peace (Dr Mookhi Amir Ali) 30
Prime minister must be under Lokpal Bill (Subhash Chandra Agarwal) 30
Environment (Dr Mookhi Amir Ali) 30
Prince of Arcot (S M Pasha) 30
Jaitapur project (Syed Sultan Mohiddin) 30
Press Freedom Day (Mohd Ziyaullah Khan) 31
Indo-Pak relation (Syed Sultan Mohiddin) 31
Let history judge Osama (Kodimirpal, Hem Raj Jain, Mohd Ziyaullah Khan, Yunus Chitwala) 31
US operation Geronimo (Dr AH Maqdoomi) 31
Paanipuri case and male chauvinism (Mookhi Amir Ali) 31
Book on Shivaji and Mahatma (Zuber Ahmed Khan) 31
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