Council of Indian Muslims (UK)

By Asad

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Governments all over the world use different methods to muzzle freedom of press. The most common way is to bribe media houses by giving them advertisements. Other popular methods practiced to silence the press are: co-opt the media or embed senior journalists. And if all these don’t work then kill them as it happened to Syed Saleem Shahzad in Pakistan and Jyotirmoy Dey in India’s financial capital Mumbai. In India, cases like Dey are rare. Still several state governments have adopted subtle ways to tame the free media. Among them the Nitish Kumar government of Bihar has mastered the art of keeping the local and national media quiet by offering them government largesse.

Sanjiv Bhatt tell Supreme Court that Modi asked top cops not to go after rioters

Arpit Parashar
New Delhi

Senior IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt has filed an affidavit filed before the Supreme Court that Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi asked police officers to be indifferent to rioters and calls for help from victims during the 2002 communal riots. Two months ago, in February, Tehelka had scooped this statement made before the Special Investigation Team (SIT). 

M Ghazali Khan

Eleven Muslims were sentenced, on 1 March 2011, to death for burning a passenger train in 2002 in Godhra, a small town in western Indian state of Gujarat

A special court trying the 94 accused, awarded life sentences to another 20 and acquitted remaining 63.

M Ghazali Khan

London: 23 March Multiculturalism, love for humanity and tolerance is not a new concept but something that was introduced by Muslim sufis in India centuries ago, said the Indian High Commissioner to the UK Nalin Surie. He was speaking at a dinner hosted in his honour last night jointly by the North London Muslim Community Centre (NLMCC) and North London Muslim Housing Association (NLMHC).

To:  US Dept of State and Office of Foreign Affairs Canada

Move on? What does that suppose to mean?

Dr. Tayyaba Qidwai

I guess Minorities of India should learn the new definition of Secularism, which is – a concept which rejects all forms of religious faith and worship in its political and social system, but whose judicial system makes landmark judgements based on religious myths and legends ! 

HILAL AHMED

There are three areas which I think we need to underline.

A. Technical problem: The question of applied principles

I ask a very fundamental question: How could a modern secular judiciary- technically an institutionalized ‘interpreter’ of the Constitution- determine the legal disputes related to religious places of worship on the grounds of ‘faith-based’ evidences?

British Indian Muslims have strongly condemned the issuance of entry visa to one of the Babri mosque demolisher Sadhvi Rithambara who arrived in Birmingham on 21 September 2010. 

M Ghazali Khan

Some of the well known international figures who have undergone tough and humiliating body search onboard US airlines, detention at the American airports and sometimes deportation, include former Indian President APJ Abdul Kalam, Bollywood actor Shahrukh Khan and British singer Yusuf Islam, formerly Cat Stevens. Similarly known figures banned from entering into Britain include Egyptian cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi and Indian televangelist Dr Zakir Abdul Karim Naik.