Demography has come to be used as an effective tool for communal polarisation as could be seen by the release of the Census 2011 figures based on religious groups. The timing was to suit the Assembly elections in Bihar where the BJP is fighting a do-or-die battle to defeat the JDU-RJD-Congress’s Grand Secular Alliance. The…
India and Pakistan should not allow Hurriyet to mar the talks and peace prospects between two nations. The cancellation of the talks between National Security Advisors of India and Pakistan does not portend well for regional peace and amity. The leadership on either side has shown lack of statesmanship by cancelling the talks that could…
The recently concluded conclave on Waqfs in India has called for intensified efforts and participation of general Muslims in protection of the Waqf properties scattered all over the countries. Waqf is generally presumed to be the third largest category of land following the lands owned by the Government and the Indian Railways. However, one would…
The fact that 80% of the world’s refugees are Muslims should lead us to recognize that the refugee problem is a issue mainly concerning the Muslims. Refugees are a group of forcibly displaced persons, who leave their home or country of origin due to persecution (or fear of it) on account of their race, religion,…
Thanks for the lovely article on Sir Mirza Ismail by Syed Tahsin Ahmed in Islamic Voice, June 2015. A brilliant story about a man who seems to have done some brilliant things in life. Mirza Ismail’s views about serving people of other faiths is particularly touching and inspiring. Roshanara Begum, Bangalore
I have recently read your article titled, “Muslims Donate Land for World’s Largest Temple” in the June 2015 issue of Islamic Voice. One thing I could not understand is that, what is Islamic about this news? How could you even publish an article on this topic? According to my knowledge, IV is an Islamic magazine,…
Egypt is on the road to self ruin. Four years after the protests on the Tahrir Square erupted into a revolt against Hosni Mubarak’s tyrannical rule, the country is firmly back into the hands of despots who are trampling upon the civil liberties with much more elan. Its compliant judiciary has pronounced death sentence against…
Mere numbers do not add up to anything. Muslims would need to upgrade quality of people. People are today looked at as a vital resource. But only when they are educated, skilled, creative, productive and disciplined. Going by this prerequisite, one can barely draw satisfaction from the religious demographic projections made by the Pew Research…
The denial of justice to the victims and those who survived the massacre of the youth of Hashimpura and Maliana is so blatant that it could well deserve the tag of ‘murder of justice’. Justice was not only delayed but was also completely denied to the families whose youth were killed en masse in cold…
The victory of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the stunning defeat of the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) in the Delhi Assembly elections should not come as a surprise. The BJP has paid for its overconfidence which had allowed it to ride roughshod against the zonal party bigwigs and paradrop outsiders on the unwilling cadres.…
