Table of Contents

Why are Hindutvadis Voting for Modi? (Aslam Abdullah) 1

K Rahman Khan humiliates upright officer 1

Cartoon (MG/Yusuf) 1

 

Issue / Opinion

Likely impacts of BJP and AAP on the Indian society  (Dr Rahul Pandey) 2

“Democracy” at the cost of Muslims    (iosworld.org) 2

 

National

Due to the curse of dowry, Muslim girls prefer to marry and live with non-Muslims (Shakeel Ahmad Rahmani) 3

Ayatullah Khamenei’s fatwa welcomed (N. A. Ansari, based on report in Hamara Samaj Urdu daily, Delhi, 19 March, 2014) 3

Outfits like Boko Haram and ISIS are terrorists and enemies of Islam and Muslims: Mushawarat 3

SC refers plea challenging SIMI ban renewal to larger bench  3

 

National

Three-fourth of country’s population below the poverty line: JNU Professor   4

Councillor attacked and abused because of her proximity to Muslims   (N. A. Ansari) 4

Rajasthan ATS arrests student let off by Delhi Police     4

European professors warn against Modi govt   4

92-year old Afaq Khan in jail for 38 years   (N. A. Ansari ) 4

“Pink Revolution” (S.M.Pasha) 4

 

National

Urdu media’s PR job for Modi      (Abdul Bari Masoud) 5

Mushawarat condemns detention of Dr Ghulam Qadir Lone in Kashmir  5

Congress alleges Modi of having links with Hawala traders  5

Bajrang Dal activists vandalize toll booths; misbehave with lady DySP in Brahmarakootlu (sahilonline.org — 27 Apr 2014) 5

Abu Asim on “True Muslim” (Masoom Moradabadi) 5

 

National

Worshipping Gods in the times of Elections (Ram Puniyani) 6

Dal Khalsa sends alarm bells ringing on the rise of majoritarian extremism (Some Thoughts on Campaign 2014) 6

 

National

Bodo Terrorists kill over 50 Assamese Muslims  (NA Ansari) 7

Secularism & Muslims:For Muslims, it's an issue of equality  (M.R. Shamshad) 7

 

National

Amit Shah: the stormy petrel   (Mustafa Khan   ) 8

Bangladeshi migrants, refugees, intruders – the reality  (Dr. Mumtaz Naiyer) 8

 

National

What we saw in Bangladesh: Two Indian Journalists     (Mumtaz Alam and Atif Jaleel, Indiatomorrow.net) 9 

Is the Internet killing religion?   9

 

National

Kashmir on the boil amid calls to boycott polls            (Afsana Rashid) 10

Condemning Azamgarh All The Time     (Sumit Paul) 10

Eunuchs not always Nature’s freaks (Sumit Paul) 10

Hindi film singers singing ghazals: sacrilegious!  (Sumit Paul) 10

 

Analysis

Muslims “scared” of “Modi-government?” (Nilofar Suhrawardy) 11

Is Democracy merely rule by majority?  (Syed Khurshid Anwar) 11

 

Men & Women In News

New vice chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia  12

 

Special Report

Lecture on the current situation in Egypt  (Nadim Ahmad) 13

“Narendra Modi threat to human rights”  13

Sir Syed Awareness Forum Organises Seminar On Tipu Sultans’s India On His Death Anniversary  13

 

Community News

Azim Premji Foundation team visits AMU            14

Banks told: pay more attention to lending to minorities       14

J&K has maximum smokers                       14

BC people changing religions not to be deprived of facilities                           14

Meat export growing in Gujarat: Congress reply to Modi                              14

After AMU, JNU & BHU to open branches in Bihar                               14

Making marriage registration compulsory not proper: MPLB                             14

Illegal occupation of Waqf lands is now a non-bailable offence                    14

Petition challenging clean chit to Modi dismissed by SC                 14

Special status to J&K under Art 370               (N. A. Ansari) 14

 

Community News

Modern courses for Madrasa students in PIMT                        15

Students of Anjuman College win prize in fighter plane design                     15

"Deewan-e-Shaida" released                            15

Wakf board speeds up probe against mutawalli                          15

Non-Urdu staff in Urdu medium schools                       (N. A. Ansari) 15

The cynical cycle of terror arrests continues in Rajasthan        15

 

International

Israel may prevail now, but its doomed eventually (Khalid Amayreh) 16

Why Deal When Israel Holds All The Cards (Eric Margolis) 16

Kerry Warns Israel Could Become “An Apartheid State” 16

 

International

US Economy Is A House Of Cards   (Paul Craig Roberts) 17

“Palestinins want from India political solidarity to end colonialism” 17

 

International

Was John Kerry Wrong on Israeli Apartheid? (Karamatullah K. Ghori) 18

Risk of nuclear accidents is rising, says report on near-misses 18

 

Books from Pharos Media, publishers of MG 19

 

Islamic Perspective

Six Great Converts to Islam  (Firas Al-Khateeb ) 20

 

Books

Turkey publishes Islamic Encyclopedia on the internet  21

Book: Qurani Mutala’at -- Samaji, Ma’ashi wa Siyasi Masael kay Hawalay say (Urdu), Publisher: Islamic Book Foundation, New Delhi, Year: 2014, Pages: 152, Price: Rs 120  21

 

MG Classifieds 22

 

Rejoinder / Opinion / Letters

Indian society in danger because of moral anarchy (Dr. M. Hashim Kidwai) 23

No reason to rejoice for Muslims  (S. Haque ) 23

Profession And Election      (Agustín PÉREZ CERRADA) 23

Assam violence    (Abdul Hameed Yousuf) 23

Political corruption galore   (Subhash Chandra Agrawal) 23

Muslim Terror -- Boko Haram et. al,   (Syed Shahabuddin) 23

Do or die situation for Indian Muslims! (Malik Ajmal) 23

An ideology less and glorious past less political party   (Dr. M. Hashim Kidwai) 23

Media coverage of Namo rallies     (Wakeel Ahmad) 23

Padma award  (Subhash Chandra Agrawal) 23

Election    (Sultan Akhtar) 23

Gone with the wind?  (S. A. U. Patel) 23

Democratic AAP  (Muhammad Azam) 23

Azam Khan is correct: Kargil liberated by Muslim soldiers!    (M Naqqaad) 23

Muslim Brotherhood is not terrorist (Mohamed Ameen) 23

Outfits like Boko Haram and ISIS are terrorists (Shahnawaz Warsi) 23

Detention of Dr Ghulam Qadir Lone (Junaid Bhat) 23

Assam Anti-Muslim Communal Violence by Bodo Terrorists (Khalid Noor Mohammed) 23

Gujarat has been peaceful? (Ayub Khan) 23

Media-money connection exposed (S. Haque) 23

 

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