Upside down pictures of India’s national flag, chapters to teach the Hindi alphabet that say ‘b’ for ‘bomb’ and ‘ch’ for ‘chaku’ (knife)…These glaring anomalies have surfaced in two textbooks used in some Uttar Pradesh schools.
The books are being used under the state-run Uttar Pradesh board and the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), leaving parents fretting and education authorities scurrying for cover.
The annual budget of a country reflects the Government’s priorities. It is, in fact, the preface of the financial year’s book. However, there is no noticeable mention of Muslims and other minorities in the budget presented by the Finance Minister in the Parliament for 2012-13. It indicates that the Central Government does not seem to be interested in the welfare of Muslims and other minorities during 2012-13.
People often assume that you’ve been forced to wear hijab rather than Islam and that it is your own choice.
Melanie Jane is a new British revert to Islam.
In this recording, she describes how she found Islam when she moved to work in Dubai.
The following is a partial transcription of this video.
Kind Caring Parents
“I think I’m a product of my upbringing.
COVA (Confederation of Voluntary Associations), a national network of voluntary organizations dedicated to the issues of social harmony, peace and justice conduced investigations into the recent Hyderabad riots. According to the fact-finding report released today, the five-member team made the observation that local police could have prevented the violence if they had deployed forces quickly to the desecrated places of worships.
The story of Luqman is mentioned in Sura Luqman (31:12-19). More about Luqman is stated in Ibn Kathir’s book, “Stories of the Prophet”. A summary of that story is stated below.
Luqman Ibn ‘Anqa’ Ibn Sadun or, as stated by As-Suhaili from Ibn Jarir and Al-Qutaibi, Luqman Ibn Tharan, was from among the people of Aylah (Jerusalem). He was a pious man who exerted himself in worship and who was blessed with wisdom.
With less than three months before President Pratibha Patil demits office, a host of possible successors have now surfaced. But a poor Congress show in recent state elections may ensure regional parties hold the key to who will be India’s 13th president.
Several names are doing the rounds. Some have been possible contenders earlier as well, while some names have taken people by surprise, even as they are generating a lot of traction, particularly among the young and the educated.
Who are they?
He’d just started at a Midtown Manhattan hedge fund — the kind of elite enclave where overachievers in button-downs go to make a few hundred grand before heading off to Harvard Business School. But Mr. Iqbal, 27, a graduate of the Wharton School, wasn’t acting like a typical finance guy. He didn’t introduce himself around the office. Nor did he grab lunch with the other traders.
Thirty three-year-old rightwing extremist, Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 77 people in Norway in July last year, is currently undergoing trial.
Unapologetic about what he did, Breivik told the court that he would “have done it again”.
Breivik, who had published a 1,500-page manifesto on the day of the attacks, said that he was a part of the Knights Templar — a network of militant nationalists – which he had founded with three others in London in 2002.
What will be the call of people in Paradise (Jannah)? Their behavior of remembering Allah and thankfulness would be quite similar to what they did in this world. See below the verses related to this and the explanation by Sheikh Moududi in Tafheem Al-Quran.
A workshop titled ‘Empowering Women: Legislation under Human Rights’ was organised at the Resource Centre Murree (RCM) on Tuesday.
The Fatima Jinnah Women University’s Women Research Resource Centre organised the workshop in collaboration with the Human Rights and Minorities Affairs Department of the Punjab Government.
Three decades after his father, legendary Telugu actor Akkineni Nageswara Rao, started the Telugu film industry’s migration from Madras (now Chennai) to Hyderabad, his actor son Akkineni Nagarjuna has embarked on an ambitious plan to attract Bollywood and Hollywood to “world-class production facilities” in this southern metropolis that has grown into another destination for technology companies.
Pakistan’s fashion fraternity has welcomed India and Pakistan’s decision to open more trade routes and hope to expand their reach by collaborating with Indian wholesalers, brands and opening retail outlets here.
Seven months after the demise of former Indian cricket captain and Nawab of Pataudi Mansoor Ali Khan, who had a royal connection with Bhopal, his wife Sharmila Tagore and actor son Saif Ali Khan have successfully established a deep emotional link with people of the City of Lakes that goes beyond the royal heritage.
This time the mother-son duo had come together for the first time. Saif, a Bollywood star, and Sharmila, a 1970’s actress but locally addressed as Ayesha Begum, were seen freely intermingling with hundreds of ordinary citizens in city last week.
An important habit that we all need to cultivate in ourselves is that of assessing ourselves and our actions constantly. We need to ask ourselves whether we are engrossed in certain sinful behaviors but our habits, a carefree attitude, our intoxications with certain desires, or not fearing Allah has made it difficult to escape the traps of those behaviors.
In such situations, use whatever light of truth that remains in your heart to pause and assess the gravity of your behaviors. Follow that light and you will find a way out.
Consider the following advice by Ibn Al-Qayyim:
(Siasat News) Citizens of Hyderabad were disturbed on account of recent communal violence in the city. Every citizen has inhibition about the disruption of peaceful life. The properties of the Muslims were damaged in an organized way. The economy of the Muslims wash shattered. The Muslim community is leading the life of uncertainty.
The Supreme Court Thursday upheld the constitutional validity of the right to education (RTE) act that mandates unaided private schools to keep 25 percent seats for students from economically and socially weaker sections of society.
However, the court made it clear that this quota would not be applicable to unaided minority institutions.
The apex court bench of Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia and Justice Swatanter Kumar upheld the constitutional validity of Section 12 1C of the RTE act that provides 25 percent reservation for students from weaker sections of society.
Nirmal Mehra, was 70, and principal of a well-known school in Delhi when signs of dementia began to show up. Mehra, an army officer’s wife and highly popular among her social group, started getting confused about directions and people.
As her disease became more severe, Mehra began losing memory of recent events and even stopped identifying her own family members.
The communal genii whose support the Congress invoked to oust Kerala’s first Communist government more than 50 years ago are still around and turning the state’s politics viral.
Across the fractured polity there is animated discussion on how the decision of the Indian Union Muslim League, the second largest constituent of the Congress-led United Democratic Front, to press its year-old demand for an additional ministerial berth will affect the communal balance.
With the next assembly elections drawing nearer, cow seems to have become a `political tool’ in Gujarat.
But the development in the last seven months indicate that BJP’s space as far as use of cow as a political commodity seems to have been completely taken over by the Congress apparently for political gains, without taking into consideration how much communal tension it can generate in a state being used as Hindutva’s laboratory by the BJP to polarize the voters.
Rigth from AP till New Delhi, there were many forces actively involved to stop the campaign of Urdu newspapers for the protection of Wakf properties. Threats were given that Govt. advertisements would be stopped. Despite these threats, Siasat, Munsif and Rahnuma-e-Deccan continued their campaign as a result which the people of the state were made aware of the existence of Wakf Properties and their destruction.
The Quran is not only unique in the way in which it presents its subject matter, but it is also unique in that it is a miracle itself. By the term “miracle,” we mean the performance of a supernatural or extraordinary event which cannot be duplicated by humans. It has been documented that Prophet Muhammad (S), challenged the Arabs to produce a literary work of a similar caliber as the Quran, but they were unable to do so in spite of their well-known eloquence and literary powers. The challenge to reproduce the Quran was presented to the Arabs and mankind in three stages:
Highlighting the role of Urdu media for the cause of saving Wakf properties, India’s leading newspaper The Times of India was published this article on Feb 1, 2008.
Urdu dailies take up wakf cause
Muslim in Indian cities – Trajectories of Marginalisation is an impressive work of scholarship. The book adds to the debate and discussions on the condition of Muslims following the publications of Sachar Committee and the Ranganath Mishra Committee reports. This book is a worthy addition in understanding the abysmal situation of Muslims in cities. The book covers Muslims in 11 cities – Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Lucknow, Aligarh, Bhopal, Hyderabad, Delhi, Cuttack, Calicut and Bangalore through 11 chapters apart from the Introduction and an erudite Conclusion.
(Firoz Bakht Ahmed) If at all there is a long-time, systematic daylight robbery in India, it is in the wheeling and dealing of land by the Waqf boards — given to them in the name of Allah by the affluent for the upkeep of orphans, widows, divorced women, educational and charitable purposes.
Immersed in American culture, US-born Muslims are increasingly taking leadership roles in mosques, presenting a new generation of imams entitled to guiding youths through the post-9/11 era.
“These are the people who know the culture, who know how to eat hamburgers and know baseball,” Sudanese-born Mustafa Kuko, the imam of the Islamic Center of Riverside, told Standard Examiner earlier this week with a laugh.