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National Unity
Communal Amity
Cultural Identity
Social Justice
Rule of Law
Dignified Democracy

THE TIMES OF LEAGUE

Volume : 5

Issue - 3

JAMATHUL AVVAL

MARCH - 2015

Pages - 8

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IUML Pesident E. Ahamed calls for stringent

steps to bring minorities into mainstream
Expressing
apprehension
over the delay in implementing
the minority welfare schemes,
MP E Ahmad from the Indian
Union Muslim League has called
for stringent steps to bring the
minorities into the mainstream.
The representation provided
for the Muslims in development
initiatives is meagre to meet their
requirements. When it comes
to such calculations, corporates
are given top priority than the
minorities. This tendency is posing
threat to the social and financial
balance of the country, Ahmed
said in the Lok Sabha here.
He was speaking on Thursday,
February 26 while participating in
the discussion over the motion of
thanks to the address by President
of India.
Ahmed went on to say that the

Union Government should keep

an eye on the corporate powers
to avert the possible sabotage
of the welfare projects by the
corporate sector. The laxity of
the government in addressing
the shortage of representation in
government employment sector

also drew heavy criticism from the

IUML national leader.
Fighting back against the antiminority propaganda, which comes
forth to the political scenarios,
Ahmed said that none can ignore
the emotions of Muslims in the
country (as) they are an inevitable

part of the population and second

in the total Muslim population in
the world.
There are no productive
measures taken up to encourage
the Arabic and Urdu languages.
While drafting the school and
college syllabus the authorities
concerned are turning a blind eye
towards the contributions of the
minorities, he said.
Ahmed, however, was all praise
about the assurance, given by
the President that all sects will be
provided with due representation
in the development initiatives
being taken up by the government.
He also heavily criticised the
recent controversial statements by
the RSS leader Mohan Bhagwat,
levelled against Mother Teresa,
terming it as planned attacks
against the Christian community.

HEED TO PRIME MINISTERS ADVICE,

STOP MINORITY BASHINGS
The IUML National General
Secretary
and
Tamil
Nadu
state IUML president Professor
K.M.Khader Mohideen
urged
the Hindu Outfits to heed to the
Prime Ministers advice on minority
bashings.
Professor K.M.Khader Mohideen
had a parleys with the press after
the conclusion of state youth
league meeting held on March 1,
2015 at the party headquarters in
Chennai.

Prof. K.M.Kader Mohideen Urges the Hindu Outfits

Welcomes Nayi Manzil

Scheme
He said the Budget Report of
2015-16, had many beneficial
schemes. He welcomed the
announcement of Nayi Manzil
Scheme which will enable the
minority youth without formal
school leaving certificate to

find employment, but said the

Government must ensure its
successful implementation.
Heed to Prime ministers
advice
He narrated that after the

installation of the BJP Government

at the centre many Hindu Outfits
had come out openly and unleashed
indiscriminate propaganda against
the minority communities, hurting
their feelings. The Prime minister

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by observing a long period of

stony silence invited criticism
from various sections of the
Indian community and at last he
broke the silence and advised

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My governments religion is India first: Modi

M. Abdul Rahman, Ex. M.P.,

Prime Minister Narendra Modi

said his government, which
followed the religion of India first,
was working keeping in mind the
thought of development of all
with particular emphasis on the
northeastern part of the country.
Replying to the discussion in the
Lok Sabha on the motion of thanks
to President Pranab Mukherjees
address, he also said his government
corrected the land acquisition act
for the sake of farmers, and if there
is anything anti-farmer in the law
they are ready to change it.
He also stressed the government
had compelled the nation to talk
about black money.
He said his government was
working for all states without
differentiating which party was in
power there.
We dont look at colour of the
partys flag in a state but look at the
tricolour, he said, adding that his
government was not discriminating
among the states on the basis of
their governments.
He also claimed that it was the
first time after Independence,
that the budgets of the states
have more money than that of the
centre, adding this has been done
to empower states.
We strongly believe that states
are to be empowered and taken
forward, he said, adding he had a
chance to roam around the country
for over 40 years and knew it well.
Mentioning the northeastern
region, he asked rhetorically why
he would visit such places from
where only one or two MPs come.
Answering himself, he said it
had nothing to do with politics.
I am not after political gains.

I go there to see how those

areas could be developed... they
have tremendous potential to
be developed... be prosperous
areas, he said.
Modi also cautioned communal
forces, asserting the countrys
diversity was its real strength
and nobody would be allowed to
disturb it. He said the constitution
has everything that the country
stands for and the nation was
being run on its basis only.
Nobody is allowed to take
the law in his hands. My
governments religion is India
first...my governments religion
is constitution first, he said amid
loud cheers from members of the
BJP and its allies.
Touching upon the contentious
issue of land acquisition, Modi
said despite knowing well why the
previous UPA government was
trying to get the land acquisition
bill passed, his party stood behind
it and helped it become an act.
We knew that they were doing
it for political gains in their last
months in the government but we
still supported it and it became

an act, he said, adding that when

the BJP came to power, the states
started pointing towards problems
it had, so we are trying to make
required changes in it and thats
it.
My government is doing
corrections and if you still feel
theres something wrong, I am
ready to make changes, he said.
This is a small solution to
correct the mistakes. We dont
reject your attempt, we are just
adding something, Modi said.
If there is anything anti-farmer
there, we are ready to change it.
Take political mileage out of it I
have no problem. I will still give
the credit to those who made the
law publicly, he said hinting at the
Congress-led UPA which passed
The Right to Fair Compensation and
Transparency in Land Acquisition,
Rehabilitation and Resettlement
Bill in 2013.
The Congress, which led the
government that passed the bill,
must not be arrogant, he said.
On black money, he said: We
have compelled the nation to talk
about black money. This is a big
thing. Our first decision in our first
cabinet meeting was the decision
on (forming) SIT on black money.
Modi, while emphasising his
governments cleanliness drive,
said his government is in the
process of building toilets across
the country and a large number
have already been built.
Cleanliness directly affects
tourism. Tourism has increased
after we have started this drive,
he said.

Heed To Prime Ministers Advice.... (Contd from Page... 1)

the Hindu outfits not to indulge
in hatred campaign. He urged
the Hindu outfits to heed to the
Prime Ministers advice and should
stop forthwith the malignant
propaganda against the minorities.
IUML Remains in the
Secular Front
He lashed out at the AIADMK
Government in Tamil Nadu
for preventing the opposition
members from discharging their

legitmate democratic function in

the Assembly. He said that his
party continued to remain in the
Secular Alliance and appealed to
the parties that oppose the Centre
and the State Governments to
help to form a secular front under
the leadership of the DMK party.
Muslim Youth League
Conference
He said in order to instill the
partys cardinal principles such as

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National Integration, Communal

Amity and Protection of separate
identity of Minority in the minds of
the youth the party had resolved
to organize a state level youth
league conference in the month
of August. He announced that
5200 uniformed volunteers would
participate in the rally and the
party resolved to conduct public
meetings all over the state to
highlight the importance of the
Youth League Conference.

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India has highest religious social hostilities: Pew study

Washington: India had the
highest level of social hostilities
involving religion in 2013, while
China had the highest level
of government restrictions on
religious beliefs and practices,
according to a new study.
Worldwide, social hostilities
involving
religion
declined
somewhat in 2013 after reaching
a six-year peak the previous year,
according to the Pew Research
Centers latest annual study on
global restrictions on religion
released here Thursday.
File photo of a relief camp
where victims of Muzaffarnagar
riot took refuge after September
2013 communal tension.
But roughly a quarter of the
worlds countries are still grappling
with high levels of religious
hostilities within their borders, it
found.
These types of hostilities run the
gamut from vandalism of religious
property and desecration of sacred
texts to violent assaults resulting
in deaths and injuries.
Looking at the overall level of

File photo of a relief camp where victims of Muzaffarnagar

riot took refuge after September 2013 communal tension.
restrictions - whether resulting
from government policies or from
hostile acts by private individuals,
organizations and social groups the study found that restrictions
on religion were high or very high
in 39 percent of countries.
Because some of these countries
(like China and India) are very
populous, about 5.5 billion
people (77 percent of the worlds
population) were living in countries
with a high or very high overall
level of restrictions on religion in
2013, up from 76 percent in 2012
and 68 percent as of 2007.

The number of countries and

territories with a very high
level of social hostilities involving
religion fell from 20 in 2012 to 17
in 2013.
Most of the countries and
territories
in
this
category,
including Israel, India, Pakistan,
the Palestinian territories and
Nigeria, already had very high
social hostilities.
There was a decrease in the
number of countries in which
Hindus were harassed, from 16 in
2012 to nine in 2013. The number
of countries in which Buddhists

were harassed stayed roughly the

same (12 in 2013, compared with
13 in 2012).
The worlds two largest religious
groups, Christians and Muslims,
who together make up more than
half of the global population,
continued to be harassed in most
countries.
There was a notable increase
in the number of countries in
which Jews and adherents of folk
religions were harassed, the study
found.
Among the worlds 25 most
populous countries, the highest
overall levels of restrictions
were found in Myanmar, Egypt,
Indonesia, Pakistan and Russia,
where both the government and
society at large impose numerous
limits on religious beliefs and
practices.
The new study also found that
the share of countries with high or
very high levels of social hostilities
involving religion dropped from
33 percent in 2012 to 27 percent
in 2013, the most recent year for
which data are available.

Non-ideological, open dialogue among religions

needed to promote human rights
India has called for a nonideological and open dialogue
among religions and civilisations
to promote and strengthen human
rights around the world.
An open and constructive
dialogue among and within
religions, cultures and civilisations,
taking into account different
national circumstances, facilitates
the promotion of a culture
of
understanding,
tolerance,
moderation and respect for
diversity, B. N. Reddy, Indias
Acting Permanent Representative
to the UN in Geneva, told the UN
Human Rights Council (UNHRC)
on Tuesday,
This pragmatic and nonideological approach, he said,
can contribute greatly to the
enhancement of international
cooperation for the promotion of
human rights.
Reddy was speaking on behalf

of India and 27 other likeminded group of countries at the

UNHRC meeting on Enhancing
International Cooperation in the
field of Human Rights. The group
included Pakistan and countries
as diverse as Russia, China, Saudi
Arabia and Venezuela.
Laying out a holistic approach
to human rights, Reddy said
the challenge in a world riven
by persistent poverty and
staggering inequalities called for
an approach based on the Right To
Development.

Security, development and

human rights are mutually
dependent and interrelated and
they should not be treated in
separate silos, according to Reddy.
Global communitys collective
response
to
human
rights
challenges has been limited in
scope and priorities, often driven
by narrow objectives that tend to
ignore the underlying causes, he
added.
An approach based on the
Right To Development, which is an
inalienable universal human right,
can provide the right framework to
promote international cooperation
and to comprehensively address
human rights challenges and
simultaneously strengthen the
three pillars of the UN system.
The Right to Development
Declaration adopted by the
UN General Assembly in 1986
declared that everyone is entitled

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to participate in, contribute to, and

enjoy economic, social, cultural
and political development, in which
all human rights and fundamental
freedoms can be fully realised.
Suggesting that the UNHRC
should take the lead in giving the
declaration priority, Reddy said its
concepts should be mainstreamed
in the work of all UN system
organisations, including in the
areas of finance and trade.
Martin Kohor, the executive
director of the South Centre,
noted that basic needs were now
considered basic human rights. He
cited the right to food, which he
said had achieved constitutional
status in India.
India was re-elected to a second
three-year term on the UNHRC last
October, earning 162 votes in the
General Assembly in New York, the
highest for an Asian nation.

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IUML-National Secretary E T Mohammed Basheer MP addressess the

valedictory conference of the one year long silver jubilee celebrations of
the Samastha Kerala Sunni Students Federation (SKSSF) at Puzhakkal in
Thrissur district

IUML National General Secretary Prof. Kader Mohideen hands over

IUML Telangana State Office bearers list to its State President Mohammed
Imthiyas Hussain and State General Secretary Abdul Ghani

Union Budget 2015 promises new education and

livelihood prog for minority youth for school dropouts
The
Centre
on
Saturday
announced Nai Manzil, an
integrated education and livelihood
scheme to help school dropout
youth from minority communities
help find better employment.
The government also continued
with the same allocation for the
minority ministry Rs 3738 crore
as last year.
An integrated education and
livelihood scheme called Nai
Manzil will be launched this year
to enable Minority Youth who do
not have a formal school-leaving
certificate to obtain one and find
better employment, Arun Jaitley,
Union Finance Minister, said while
presenting the annual union
budget for the year 2015-16.
The allocation for the Ministry of
Minority Affairs is being protected,
Jaitley said, adding, The BE

(budget estimate) for the

year is Rs 3,738 crore.
As
reported
by
TwoCircles.net
on
the
occasion of Minority Rights
Day in December 2014, the
change in regime BJPled NDA was elected with
an overwhelming majority
in May 2014 has not
meant any change in the
apathetic state of affairs that was
the hallmark of the previous UPA
government for last two terms.
The Ministrys annual budget
provision had stood at Rs 3711
crore under Plan for year 201415. The total plan outlay was Rs
2469.00 crore with another Rs
1232.00 crore for Multi-Sectoral
Development
Programme
for
Minorities.
As against the budget estimate

for 2014-15 for Rs 1232.00 crore,

the revised estimate remained
at only Rs 767.00 crore. It
means for whatever reasons, the
government was not able to spend
the allocated budget amount for
the last year. Despite that the
government allocated Rs 1232.00
crore during this financial year,
possibly the reason why Jaitley
said, The allocation for the
Ministry of Minority Affairs is being
protected.

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TwoCircles.net could not

immediately establish the
reason why these funds had
remained unspent in the last
financial year.
Reacting to the budgetary
provisions for the minorities,
Dr SQR Ilyas, Welfare Party
of India (WPI) national
president, said: There is
no change in the budget
allocation for minorities, whatever
little increase is there is because
the government didnt release
the 4rth quarter fund of the last
budget which has been added to
the present allocation.
The
Union
Budget
also
announced support an exhibition
The Everlasting Flame to showcase civilization and culture
of Parsis, a miniscule minority
community.

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Regular untiring attempt to tarnish the

image of Muslims: Ooman Chandi
Mr Ooman Chandi, chief
minister of Kerala said today here
that some forces are destroying
the composite culture of India
by targeting democracy and
secularism. We need to be alert
and not allow them to succeed in
their designs.
On the 60th foundation day of
Samastha Kerala Sunni Yuvajana
Sangam (SYS) , an organization of
Sunni youths of Kerala which is a
driving force behind the academic
and developmental work of the Sufi
Muslims, the chief minister said
there is regular untiring attempt
to tarnish the image of Muslims
all over India . They are carrying
on a negative propaganda and the
situation demands that clerics and
Mashaikh shall all come forward
to promote peace and tolerance,
co-existence and togetherness.
Mr Ooman Chandi stressed upon
education of Muslims and appealed
them to be more organized and
alert against any evil and ensure
that peace and tranquility remains
the main identity of a civilized
nation.
India has got great cultural
heritage. Our tradition is rooted
in
religious
tolerance
and
broadmindedness. Though our
cultural heritage has been praised
and appreciated by all, what
happens presently is to weaken
it. As this tends to produce farreaching bad effects, it should be
opposed by all. The voice rising
against communalism should not
be based on communalism itself.
This is the strength of religious
harmony. The strong stance is
necessary to oppose this narrowmindedness. He emphasized that it
is high time took pledge to retrieve
our tradition and the heritage.
I am directly convinced of
organizing
power,
discipline
and party strength of SYS. The
attraction of SYS is their discipline.
Though there is a huge gathering,
the work with discipline is model
for others. Oommen Chandy
added.

General Secretary of the All

India Sunni Jamiate Ulama and
Jamia Markaz Al Saqafat e Sunnia
Ustad Abu Bakar expressed his
concern over spread of use of
drugs and said it is very important
to save the younger generation
from this addiction . Musliar
Shaikh Abu Bakar further said that
it is the duty of the clerics to come
forward against drugs and drinks.
Addressing a large gathering
here on this occasion Hazrat
Maulana
Syed
Mohammad
Ashraf Kichchawchchvi president
and founder of All India Ulama
&Mashaikh
Board
said
no
community can develop without
education, so we must prioritize
establishing quality centers of
modern education. He said that

the whole world is indulging in

unethical practices and to stop the
world from these practices Muslims
will have to come forward.
Hazrat Maulana Syed Mohammad
Ashraf kichchawchchvi said that
organizational strength is always
important in activities like this and
south, especially Kerala needs to
be followed in this field.
He lauded the work done by
Musliar Shaikh Abu Bakar the
head of the educational and social
Sunni Suf movements in south
India. Syed Mohammad Ashraf
Kichchawchchvi said this must
serve as a model for the whole
India so that every Muslim boy is
literate and organized, dedicated
and disciplined to serve the

community and country. He further

assured that Maulana Shaikh Abu
Bakar will get full support and
cooperation from AIUMB in North
India.
Sayyid
Muhammed
Ashraf
Kichchawchchvi was the chief
guest in the conference which was
presided over by Sayyid Umarul
Farooq Al bhukhari Posott. Sayyid
Ahmad Husain Shihab, Aboobakar
Musliyar
Veembanad,
Abdu
Musliyar Thanaloor, Abbas Musliyar
Manhanadi, Hameed Musliyar
chalad, MM Haneefa Moulav i,
OK Abdullakkutty Makhdoomi,
PC Ibraheem Master, Shafi Saadi
Karnataka, Muhammed Ali Haji;
Star of Asia, Ali Dharimi have
attended the programme.

Kerala IUML President Syed Hyder Ali Syhab Thangal hands over the key of the house to Superdo
star Sujith under Baithu Rahma Scheme. Seen in the picture are P.K. Basheer MLA., Malapuram Distrit
General Secretary, P. Abdul Hameed, Syed Munavar Ali Shiab Thangal, P.V. Muhammed Adikore,
MSF Kerala State President Ashraf Ali,
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Owaisi raises reservation for Muslims, freedom of

religion, fake encounters in Parliament
Raising the issue of reservation
for Muslims, freedom of religion,
the purported ghar wapsi as well as
the reinstatement of IPS officers in
Gujarat accused of fake encounter
case, Asaduddin Owaisi, AIMIM
president and Hyderabad MP,
came down heavily on the BJP-led
government at the Centre.
Owaisi, who heads the All India
Majlis-e-Ittehadul
Musalimeen
(AIMIM) was speaking in the Lok
Sabha while participating in the
discussion on motion of thanks
on the Presidents address on
February 26.
Your Maharashtra government
talks about giving reservation
to Marathas, which you are not
opposing. But what about Muslims
whose empirical data shows that
they are socially and educationally
backward? Why is it that you
are not allowing reservation
for Muslims? Why are you not
removing the legal obstacles for
4.5 % reservation to minorities?
Is this Sabka Saath Sabka Vikas?
he asked during his speech.
Asaduddin Owaisi in Lok Sabha
If you believe in Sabka Saath
Sabka Vikas, why is it that you
are removing all obstacles for
reservations to be provided to Jats
but not to Muslim minorities? the
MIM leader asked.
The Prime Minister says, I will
give you a Quran and I will give you
a computer, he said and added:
We do not want Quran. Quran is
in our hearts. Give us reservation.
Empower us with reservation.
Give demand-driven scholarship to
all Scheduled Castes, Scheduled
Tribes and Backward Class
students.
Referring to the statement of the
chairman of the Joint Intelligence
Committee in the White House
Summit of Counter Terrorism,
Owaisi noted that he has rightly said
that Indias core strength is liberal,
plural and secular democracy.
But I would like to know from
the Government, if it believes in
secular and plural democracy,
whether this Government will
appeal against the trial court
judgment of December 30, 2014
of the Mumbai High Court which
had given a temporary leeway to
the ruling party President? he

asked.
Calling Kausar Bi, who was
allegedly
drugged,
raped,
murdered, her body burnt and
thrown into a river in Gujarat, as
his sister, the MIM leader wondered
if she will ever get justice.
Appreciating
that
the
Government has taken a decision
to remove the Governor of
Madhya Pradesh because his
name was mentioned in an FIR,
Owaisi wondered as to why not
same sense of ethics was shown
in Gujarat, where IPS officers
who are facing grave charges of
murders in encounters are being
taken back into service?
If a Governor can be removed,
when he can be asked to resign,
why are you not practicing this

yourself? he asked amidst

interruption from BJP MP Nishikant
Dubey. I know it hurts when the
truth is being said over here.
The Hyderabad MP also reminded
the House that on February 17,
the Prime Minister spoke about
freedom of religion, but within a
week, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat
whom he called PMs spiritual,
intellectual and ideological guru
made an obnoxious statement
about a Nobel Laureate.
Referring to the recent incident
of Khushinagar in Uttar Pradesh,
where reportedly about 150
Muslim families have fled from the
village due to fear of BJPs Yogi
Adityanath, the Hyderabad MP
wondered why the government is
not able to rein in the communal

elements from the right wing

Hindutva groups.
Earlier, opposing the motion of
thanks to the Presidential address
moved by BJP MPs Anurag Thakur
and Nishikant Dubey, Owaisi said
the Presidents address has let
down 60 % of our population
which is youth.
The Prime Minister, in his Mann
ki Baat talked about drug menace.
But not a single word is mentioned
about how this government will
control drug menace which has
killed more than 26,000 youths
in 10 years. Every year, 2500
youths are dying. We have more
than three million drug addicts
in our country and not a single
word is mentioned about how this
government will control the drug
menace.
While concluding, he quoted Dr
Bhim Rao Ambedkar to caution the
Prime Minister. Bhakti in religion
may be a road to salvation of soul,
but in politics, bhakti or this hero
worship is sure road to degradation
and eventual dictatorship, he
said, adding, Prime Minister,
understand this is a Parliamentary
democracy, not a Presidential form
of democracy.

Break silence on
Mother Teresa, Modi told
Questioning the silence of Prime Minister
Narendra Modi, a forum of minorities on
Tuesday demanded an apology from RSS
chief Mohan Bhagwat for his comments on
Mother Teresa.
The
State
Forum
of
Minorities
Organisations held a demonstration here
condemning the mischievous intention
and aims of Bhagwat behind his malicious
allegation against Mother Teresa.
Bhagwat
must
substantiate
his
allegation or beg apology unconditionally.
The people who have assembled here
also question the silence of our prime
minister and demand a statement from
him, Forum convener Heor Mulick said.
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief
Bhagwat has been receiving flak after
saying that the Nobel laureates service to the poor was aimed at converting them to Christianity.
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13 years of Gujarat genocide

Indian Judiciary fails to deliver justice
Civil Liberties Monitoring
Committee on the completion of
13 years of Gujarat genocide has
expressed its deep concern over
the failure of Indian judiciary
on dealing with the cases of
Gujarat carnage criminals and
has hcondemned its attitude over
the callousness on crimes against
humanity. On this occasion this
committee reminds the people
of India of the heinous Gujarat
genocide of Indian Muslims by the
Hindutva forces who are presently
rulers of India. The bitter fact of
13 years of Gujarat genocide is
that the victims of genocide are
still deprived of justice, their right
to life with human dignity is at
stake and on the other hand the
few criminals who were arrested
and convicted for the dreadful
crime have succeeded in getting
out of jail and those who were
still to be punished and who are
masterminds as well have become
the prime minister of the country
and are occupying post of president
of ruling party and different major
positions in the government said
the committee in a statement.
On this occasion, we strongly
slam the approach of Indian
judicial system towards delivering
the justice to the victims as it has
failed to protect the standard of
justice in the matter of victims of

Gujarat genocide. A large chunk

of people believe that there are
people in Judiciary who possess
soft corner towards Hindutva
elements due to which the
criminal procedural system is not
implemented in fair manner due
to which the convicted are out of
jail and are roaming freely without
any shame it said.
Not only this, even the serious
matters which were under the
investigation of Supreme Courts
supervision have failed instead of
progressing ahead. After Narendra
Modi becoming Prime Minister and
the Hindutva forces ruling the
country, the whole investigation
on the serious and heinous crimes

is going in reverse gear. On the

completion of thirteen years of
Gujarat genocide, few questions
arise in the mind of every concerned
citizen as to why the victims of
genocide are homeless and their
right to live with human dignity
have been curbed, why still they
do not have proper living facilities,
why many are still not allowed to
return to their homes, why the
relief camps have been evacuated
forcibly and why many are living
on the roads of the borders of
other states. And on the other
hand, the mastermind of pogrom
& responsible for the miserable life
of Muslim community has become
the prime minister of India.

Telangana constitutes panel for Muslim reservation

The Telangana government on
Tuesday constituted a commission
to study the socio-economic and
educational status of Muslims in
the state and recommend increase
in the quantum of reservation for
the community.
Muslims in Telangana currently
enjoy four percent reservation in
education and employment.
The commission has been
constituted by Telangana Rashtra
Samithi (TRS) government as a
follow-up on its poll promise to
provide 12 percent reservations to
Muslims.
The three-member commission
to be headed by retired IAS officer

G. Sudhir will submit a report to

the government within six months.
An order issued by the minorities
welfare department said there was
a need for the study to enable the
government to formulate policies
for the amelioration and upliftment
of Muslims to bring them on par
with other sections of society.
The commission will recommend
the steps to be taken to remove the
impediments in the improvement
of the overall social, educational,
economic conditions of the Muslim
Community and to provide for
reservation in education and
employment to poor deserving
Muslims, wherever necessary.
M.A. Bari, a retired government

official, will be a member while the

second member will be appointed
later.
Meanwhile, the state government
also constituted a three-member
commission to study and prepare
a comprehensive report on the
relative increase of Scheduled
Tribes (STs) population in the state
and their social and economic
backwardness.
The TRS had also promised 12
percent quota for the STs.
The panel, to be headed by
retired IAS officer S. Chellappa,
will examine the representations
of some communities for inclusion
in STs.

March - 2015

On the occasion of 13th year

of Gujarat genocide we want to
remind the people of India that
the carnage which was the result
of Hindutva laboratory of Gujarat
model extended its tentacles to
the whole country; the outcome
of this experiment is 2014 election
result where such type of persons
are elected who want to wipe out
the constitution of India and the
sadhus and sadhvis calling Hindu
community women to produce
more children, also calling nonHindus as Haramzade, ghar
wapasi, love jihad, attacks on
Christian churches in the capital
city, surya namaskar, change in
school syllabus, riots in different
parts of the country which are
unreported and recent attack on
Mother Teresa.
On the 13 years of Gujarat
carnage the criminals are in power,
judiciary is helpless, investigating
agencies are working as per the
wishes of the rulers. The only
hope is the secular and democratic
people of India who can restore
the value of idea of India. Hence
we appeal to the people of India
to teach a lesson to the politicians
who gained the power on the
bloodshed of human beings said
the statement .

HAJ COMMITTEE OF INDIA

Qurrah - Haj - 2015

State
Andra Pradesh
Andaman & Nicobar (UT)
Chandigarh (UT)
Chhattisgarh (UT)
Dadra Nagar Haveli (UT)
Daman & Diu (UT)
Delhi (NCT)
Goa
Gujarat
Haryana
Himachal Pradesh
Jammu and Kashmir
Karnataka
Kerala
Lakshadeep (UT)
Madya Pradesh
Maharashtra
Manipur
Orissa
Punjab
Puducherry (UT)
Rajasthan
Tamil Nadu
Uttar Pradesh

Qurrah Date
18 March 2015
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16 March 2015
26 March 2015
20 March 2015
16 March 2015
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ISIL destroys Islamic Civilization, Turkish President Erdoan says

The Islamic State of Iraq and the
Levant (ISIL) is trying to destroy
everything in Islamic culture,
President Recep Tayyip Erdoan
has said, likening its acts to the
burning of 36 libraries in Baghdad
during the Abbasid era by the
Mongols, and the burning of 1
million Islamic books in Andalusia
upon an order by a Spanish
cardinal.
Today, a terrorist organization
active in Syria and Iraq is taking
the same path, trying to destroy
everything in our civilization,
culture and roots, Erdoan said
during the opening of a classical
arts exhibition in Istanbul, referring
to ISIL.
A library in Mosul, which
was holding 8,000 rare works,

was
unfortunately
set alight by the
organization.
A
similar thing was
also practiced in
Timbuctoo [in Mali,
Western Africa], he
said.
Our
civilization
has managed to
sustain its existence
against
all
such
cultural massacres and attempted
genocides. God willing, we will
continue to do so, Erdoan said.
Our civilization attaches a
great importance to knowledge
and learning, books and libraries,
he said, adding that the Prophet
Muhammad preached that Muslims
must keep learning until the last

day of their life.

Maybe it was the Chinese who
discovered paper, but it was our
ancestors who used it deservedly
and then took it to the West and
other places, he said.
In his speech, Erdoan thanked
Mehmet ebi, the curator of the
exhibition, its sponsor Dou

Holding, the Mimar Sinan Fine

Arts Academy and the Istanbul
Art Museum Foundation, for their
contributions to the exhibition.
The show was organized by the
Islam and Culture Arts platform
and includes precious calligraphic
works of Quranic verses, in
addition to other artifacts.
President Erdoan also revealed
that a large center for Islamic
artifacts would be opened on
the Anatolian side of Istanbul,
alongside the under-construction
mosque on amlca Hill.
A 5 million-book library will also
be opened inside the gargantuan
new presidential palace in Ankara,
he also stated.

German footballer Danny Blum converted to Islam

Young German footballer Danny Blum has announced his reversion to Islam, describing it as a
religion of hope and strength.
Danny Blum said, Islam gave me strength. Pray calms my soul.
I was short-tempered, erratic and did not know where I belong, he added.
misconception
Blum joined FC Nrnberg in Bavaria last July. The team plays in the he Second Division of
professional football in Germany, the Bundesliga.
Shortly after joining the team, he injured his knee and was forced eventually to take six
months off.
A few weeks ago, he took the decision to revert to Islam, joining the worlds fastest growing
religion. Living in the lap of luxury. Every weekend make alarm. No responsibility for anything.
And what actually comes after retirement? the questions came to Blum as he sat at home.
I have visited a mosque and I immediately risen the heart. I felt this is something for me and
wanted to know more, Blum told Bild.
Ever since, he prays five times a day and eat halal food. Informing his parents with his decision, the 24-year-old player said they were scare at
first.
They are devout Christians. But soon they said that I have to go that route if I believe that it is right, he said.

No more beef in Maharashtra

Beef, the popular red meat, was
on Tuesday banned in Maharashtra
with presidential assent being
accorded to the relevant legislation
-- two decades after the assembly
had passed it during the former
Shiv Sena-BJP government in the
state.
Presidential
assent
was
accorded to the Maharashtra
Animal Prevention (Amendment
Bill), 1995, which bans even the
slaughter of bulls and bullocks, but
will allow the slaughter of water
buffaloes, considered to yield an
inferior quality of beef.
The state had already banned
cow
slaughter
under
the

Maharashtra Animal Prevention

Act, 1976, barring bulls or bullocks,
the culling of which was permitted
with certain regulations.
Thanks a lot Hon President
Sir for the assent on Maharashtra
Animal Preservation Bill. Our
dream of ban on cow slaughter
becomes a reality now, a pleased
Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis
said in a tweet.
BJP MP Kirit Somaiya, who
had led a delegation to President
Pranab Mukherjee on the issue
recently, termed the assent as a
historic step with cultural as well
as economic implications for the
state.

He said the bill passed by the

Maharashtra legislature in 1995
was forwarded for the presidents
assent in 1996.
Subsequent governments in
the state failed to do the needful
and get the Bill implemented. We
had committed to do this in our
manifesto and have fulfilled it,
Somaiya said.
Mumbai alone consumes around
90,000 kg beef daily, with around
25 percent accounting for water
buffalo meat, called carabeef,
through 900 licensed and hundreds
more illegal outlets.
However, all the culling and
processing of around 450 large

animals which are slaughtered

daily is carried out only at the
Deonar Abattoir, Asias largest in
north-east Mumbai.
Since the past several weeks,
beef traders in a majority of the
states cities and towns have
been on strike protesting against
harassment by right-wing and
Hindu groups, who are also
demanding closure of Deonar
Abattoir.
Beef traders apprehend that
the new development will render
several thousands unemployed
and also hike the prices of mutton,
chicken, fish and other meats,
both in the retail markets and in
restaurants and hotels.

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