Citizens for Justice and Peace
Hindutva leaders raise questions on secularism
23-Sep-2015
NEW DELHI, September 23, 2015 RSS feels the term was undemocratically inserted in Preamble There are signs of a departure in the political language used by the Sangh Parivar to counter “secular” parties, with key BJP and Sangh ideologues questioning secularism as a concept. Till now, the dominant language used by Parivar bigwigs had been…
Deoband: birth of girl child no ground for ‘talaq’
23-Sep-2015
Mohammad Ali Meerut, September 23, 2015 Darul-Uloom-Deoband, the influential Islamic seminary on Tuesday, came out with something which would cheer many of those who find it in the news mostly for wrong reasons. The seminary declared that practice of ‘talaq’ (divorce) to wife because she gave birth to a baby girl is ‘illegal’ and ‘haraam’…
Muslim man performs last rites of Hindu friend
23-Sep-2015
Bhopal, Sep 22, 2015, (IANS): Rising above religious boundaries, a Mulsim man has performed last rites of his Hindu friend Santosh Singh Thakur in Madhya Pradesh’s Baitul district. After arranging all the necessary items required for the last rites, Abdul Razzak cremated Santosh’s body in accordance with the Hindu rituals. Santosh collapsed in a hospital…
HC stays sedition circular, seeks details
23-Sep-2015
A PIL against circular states it is beyond govt’s legal power or authority and that it is an attempt to ‘silence citizens’ Mustafa Plumber @plumbermushi The Bombay High Court on Tuesday directed the state not to implement its circular issued by the home department defining guidelines for the police to book people under sedition charges.…
For Muslims in this UP village, qurbani on Bakri Eid is illegal
23-Sep-2015
Sep 23 2015 : The Times of India (Mumbai) Pervez IqbalSiddiqui Musahra (Sant Kabir Nagar) Eid-ul-Zuha is a festival of qurbani (sacrifice)–but not for Muslims of Musahara, a nondescript village in eastern Uttar Pradesh’s Sant Kabir Nagar. In the season of bans, the district administration here has issued an order forbidding sacrifice of animals for…
Temple town Ayodhya relaxes year-round meat ban for Eid
23-Sep-2015
Sep 23 2015 : The Times of India (Mumbai) Arshad Afzal Khan Ayodhya: TNN While Muslims of Musahra village in Uttar Pradesh’s Sant Kabir Nagar are struggling for their right to offer qurbani (sacrifice) on Eid ul-Zuha (See P 14), next-door Ayodhya presents a contrast. There is a total ban on slaughter and sale of…
Nothing wrong in probing Sri Ram Sene: writers
23-Sep-2015
Karnataka Bureau Bengaluru, September 23, 2015 The forum of progressive writers and activists, which organised a protest in Dharwad earlier this month against the killing of scholar M.M. Kalburgi, has reiterated its demand that the role of fringe Hindutwa groups such as Sri Ram Sene and religious fundamentalists in the murder be probed. In a…
Muslims come out on Eid to help drought-affected people
23-Sep-2015
Thursday, September 24, 2015 By A Staff Reporter Coinciding with the festivities of Bakri-Eid, the Muslim community on Wednesday came out to support the drought-affected people of Marathwada region of Maharashtra. Clergymen and intellectuals from the community too have joined NGOs and volunteers to help the scarcity-hit people. The Social Education and Welfare Association (SEWA)…
Secularism ‘irrelevant’ in Indian context, says Vaidya
22-Sep-2015
Perversion of the concept of secularism in India has resulted in the terming of nationalists as communal and people with communal thinking being hailed as secular. MANMOHAN VAIDYA, RSS’s publicity chief NEW DELHI: In what could trigger a fresh round of political controversy, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, ruling BJP’s ideological mentor, suggested the concept of…
Senior journalist Nikhil Wagle gets threat from Sanatan, rejects security cover
22-Sep-2015
By: Express News Service | Mumbai | Updated: September 22, 2015 1:35 am The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the Govind Pansare murder case has revealed that senior journalist Nikhil Wagle was on the radar of Sameer Gaikwad, the Sanatan Sanstha member arrested in the Pansare murder case on September 16. The police have offered…