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Indian Muslims urge the government to stop harassment
Articles
By IndianMuslims.info Staff
Post-7/11 days have been proving really very hard rather the cruellest in over a decade to Indian Muslims. This warrants a just, unbiased and judicious study of the situation.
As the ground reality we have been experiencing on our pulse as well as the Urdu Press reporting in great detail during the last three weeks since seven serial blasts ripped a suburb train in Mumbai on July 11, Muslims continue to be harassed and detained by police and intelligence agencies, and projected as potential terrorists by a section of the mainstream print and electronic media as well as the RSS-VHP-BJP-Bajrang Dal conglomerate. This disquieting situation eventually puts the second largest majority, which forms the nucleus of minorities in the country, at the receiving end and thus in the defensive.
Urdu newspapers are replete with the protest and resentment lodged by the leaders, Ulema and concerned members of the community.
The Hindustan Express of July 29 made a front-page banner headline to record as many as 19 Muslim parliamentarians belonging to the various political parties calling on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to apprise him of the resentment rife in the rank and file of Muslims at the continued harassment of members of the community the country over.
The Muslim members of Parliament came together to demand an immediate end to the harassment of Muslims. They also drew the attention of Prime Minister towards the counting of Muslims and Christians in Maharashtra. The Prime Minister promised to talk to the Union Home Minister and Chief Minister of Maharashtra in this regard.
On erecting a bullet-proof steel cordon round the make-shift temple on the site of Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, the Prime Minister promised not to take any step on the issue without taking them into confidence.
Muslim legislators also urged the Prime Minister to make concerted efforts to get the Israeli aggression on Lebanon and Palestine stopped. The Prime Minister said New Delhi would not strengthen its relations with Israel at the cost of Palestine. He assured them that the government will do whatever it can in this regard.
The paper reported that this is the first time since the demolition of over five centuries old Babri Masjid in December 1992 that Muslim parliamentarians cutting across party lines joined hands to raise the voice of the community.
The Rashtriya Sahara of July 30 reports Mirza Muhammad Usman, member All India Congress Committee appreciating the Muslim parliamentarians’ move, saying this straightforward stand records Muslim unity that is urgent need of the hour and sets good precedent for future.
The Inquilab of July 31 reports that Police Commissioner of Maharashtra D. Shivanandan assured Muslim leaders, who had called on him to complain against police excesses in late night searching of Muslim houses and arrest of Muslims in Bhiwandi, that the police would take action against only those about whom they would get solid proof and evidence and practise restraint in house searching and detention.
The paper adds that Member of State Assembly Bashir Musa Patel and renowned Muslim leader and lawyer Abdul Majeed Memon told the presspersons: “We as a delegate called on the Police Commissioner this morning and complained to him against indiscriminate detention and harassment of Muslims. The Police Commissioner sent for all the four high police officials probing these matters (Mumbai blasts and afterwards) and directed them to practise restraint.”
The Munsif of August 1 reports that Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil, while replying to a question regarding Mumbai blasts in Rajya Sabha, said he would not declare any particular community responsible for the recent terror incidents occurred in Mumbai and other parts of the country.
Noor Jahan Tharwat, in her article “Jo bhi qatil hai, hamara hi tamannai hai” first published in the Inquilab on August 1 and reproduced in the Express the next day, writes: “This is the national tragedy of Indian Muslims that in this democratic and secular country their identity has always been doubtful and suspicious in one way or the other… For the last 30 years fascist organisations like Vishwa Hindu Parishad, Shiv Sena, Bajrang Dal and B.J.P. born out of the womb of R.S.S. are quite unwilling to bear the peaceful existence of Muslims. The Muslim genocide of Gujarat is the expression of this (phenomenon). Chief Minister of Gujarat Narendra Modi emerged as so great an enemy of the innocent and peace-loving community whose example can be found in none but Hitler. But how great a tragedy it is that a certain section is hell bent upon declaring the Muslim community rather than this greatest terrorist (Modi) for violence and terrorism in the country. It would not be wrong to say that the electronic media is playing an important role in this. It is projecting Muslims as terrorists. And the result is that today Indian Muslims are confronted with the circumstances of the Partition days.”
Participating in an anti-terrorism conference held in Bhopal, president Jamiat Ulema-i-Hind Maulana Arshad Madani said terrorism is a curse and equating it with a religion is not only wrong but also amounts to contempt to that religion. “Those who are swift to equate terrorism with Islam should tell us how many Muslims there are in L.T.T.E., the Bodos, Maoists and Naxalites who are all committing terror acts,” he challenged.
Though it was the then BJP-led NDA government that created the myth of madrasas being the breeding ground of terrorists, and the present Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil while addressing a seminar organised by Markazi Jamiat Ahle Hadith recently in the Capital made it clear that madrasas are centres of education and have nothing to do with terrorism, the UPA government at the Centre seems not to have shed its concern on the issue. The Express and the Inquilab of August 1 front-paged the opening of an office of the country’s secret agency Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) for the first time in Lucknow, capital of the biggest North Indian State of Uttar Pradesh to keep an eye on Indo-Nepal border and especially the activities of madrasas running in the border areas of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. Prior to this, the report includes, the agency had been active in these areas right on the instructions of its New Delhi headquarters.
In an article published in the Sahara of July 16 and later reproduced in the Urdu biweekly Dawat (July 25), Mudra Rakshas writes: “After all why it so happens that only in a country in which the President is a Muslim, Prime Minister a Sikh and the chairperson of U.P.A. a Christian, such terror acts take place and a haste is made to link them with Islamic organisations. Is it that all the three feel the dire necessity to prove themselves to be pro-Hindutva at all costs?”
2 August 2006
http://www.indianmuslims.info/artic...s_urge_the_government_to_stop_harassment.html
Articles
By IndianMuslims.info Staff
Post-7/11 days have been proving really very hard rather the cruellest in over a decade to Indian Muslims. This warrants a just, unbiased and judicious study of the situation.
As the ground reality we have been experiencing on our pulse as well as the Urdu Press reporting in great detail during the last three weeks since seven serial blasts ripped a suburb train in Mumbai on July 11, Muslims continue to be harassed and detained by police and intelligence agencies, and projected as potential terrorists by a section of the mainstream print and electronic media as well as the RSS-VHP-BJP-Bajrang Dal conglomerate. This disquieting situation eventually puts the second largest majority, which forms the nucleus of minorities in the country, at the receiving end and thus in the defensive.
Urdu newspapers are replete with the protest and resentment lodged by the leaders, Ulema and concerned members of the community.
The Hindustan Express of July 29 made a front-page banner headline to record as many as 19 Muslim parliamentarians belonging to the various political parties calling on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to apprise him of the resentment rife in the rank and file of Muslims at the continued harassment of members of the community the country over.
The Muslim members of Parliament came together to demand an immediate end to the harassment of Muslims. They also drew the attention of Prime Minister towards the counting of Muslims and Christians in Maharashtra. The Prime Minister promised to talk to the Union Home Minister and Chief Minister of Maharashtra in this regard.
On erecting a bullet-proof steel cordon round the make-shift temple on the site of Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, the Prime Minister promised not to take any step on the issue without taking them into confidence.
Muslim legislators also urged the Prime Minister to make concerted efforts to get the Israeli aggression on Lebanon and Palestine stopped. The Prime Minister said New Delhi would not strengthen its relations with Israel at the cost of Palestine. He assured them that the government will do whatever it can in this regard.
The paper reported that this is the first time since the demolition of over five centuries old Babri Masjid in December 1992 that Muslim parliamentarians cutting across party lines joined hands to raise the voice of the community.
The Rashtriya Sahara of July 30 reports Mirza Muhammad Usman, member All India Congress Committee appreciating the Muslim parliamentarians’ move, saying this straightforward stand records Muslim unity that is urgent need of the hour and sets good precedent for future.
The Inquilab of July 31 reports that Police Commissioner of Maharashtra D. Shivanandan assured Muslim leaders, who had called on him to complain against police excesses in late night searching of Muslim houses and arrest of Muslims in Bhiwandi, that the police would take action against only those about whom they would get solid proof and evidence and practise restraint in house searching and detention.
The paper adds that Member of State Assembly Bashir Musa Patel and renowned Muslim leader and lawyer Abdul Majeed Memon told the presspersons: “We as a delegate called on the Police Commissioner this morning and complained to him against indiscriminate detention and harassment of Muslims. The Police Commissioner sent for all the four high police officials probing these matters (Mumbai blasts and afterwards) and directed them to practise restraint.”
The Munsif of August 1 reports that Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil, while replying to a question regarding Mumbai blasts in Rajya Sabha, said he would not declare any particular community responsible for the recent terror incidents occurred in Mumbai and other parts of the country.
Noor Jahan Tharwat, in her article “Jo bhi qatil hai, hamara hi tamannai hai” first published in the Inquilab on August 1 and reproduced in the Express the next day, writes: “This is the national tragedy of Indian Muslims that in this democratic and secular country their identity has always been doubtful and suspicious in one way or the other… For the last 30 years fascist organisations like Vishwa Hindu Parishad, Shiv Sena, Bajrang Dal and B.J.P. born out of the womb of R.S.S. are quite unwilling to bear the peaceful existence of Muslims. The Muslim genocide of Gujarat is the expression of this (phenomenon). Chief Minister of Gujarat Narendra Modi emerged as so great an enemy of the innocent and peace-loving community whose example can be found in none but Hitler. But how great a tragedy it is that a certain section is hell bent upon declaring the Muslim community rather than this greatest terrorist (Modi) for violence and terrorism in the country. It would not be wrong to say that the electronic media is playing an important role in this. It is projecting Muslims as terrorists. And the result is that today Indian Muslims are confronted with the circumstances of the Partition days.”
Participating in an anti-terrorism conference held in Bhopal, president Jamiat Ulema-i-Hind Maulana Arshad Madani said terrorism is a curse and equating it with a religion is not only wrong but also amounts to contempt to that religion. “Those who are swift to equate terrorism with Islam should tell us how many Muslims there are in L.T.T.E., the Bodos, Maoists and Naxalites who are all committing terror acts,” he challenged.
Though it was the then BJP-led NDA government that created the myth of madrasas being the breeding ground of terrorists, and the present Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil while addressing a seminar organised by Markazi Jamiat Ahle Hadith recently in the Capital made it clear that madrasas are centres of education and have nothing to do with terrorism, the UPA government at the Centre seems not to have shed its concern on the issue. The Express and the Inquilab of August 1 front-paged the opening of an office of the country’s secret agency Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) for the first time in Lucknow, capital of the biggest North Indian State of Uttar Pradesh to keep an eye on Indo-Nepal border and especially the activities of madrasas running in the border areas of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. Prior to this, the report includes, the agency had been active in these areas right on the instructions of its New Delhi headquarters.
In an article published in the Sahara of July 16 and later reproduced in the Urdu biweekly Dawat (July 25), Mudra Rakshas writes: “After all why it so happens that only in a country in which the President is a Muslim, Prime Minister a Sikh and the chairperson of U.P.A. a Christian, such terror acts take place and a haste is made to link them with Islamic organisations. Is it that all the three feel the dire necessity to prove themselves to be pro-Hindutva at all costs?”
2 August 2006
http://www.indianmuslims.info/artic...s_urge_the_government_to_stop_harassment.html
