Participants at the symposium expressed concern over increasing role of money and criminals in elections. Bengaluru: A recent symposium on ‘Electoral Reforms and Constitutional Ideals’ evoked wide-ranging responses from a bevy of intellectuals and legal luminaries in the context of making the Indian democracy more representative of the diversity of its people. Speaking at the…
This story has been extracted and translated from an Urdu speech of Maulana Khalilur Rahman Sajjad Noamani, a scholar and a social worker from Lucknow. Noamani relates his interactions with RSS activists on Youtube following a chance encounter with them while rendering social service in saving a Hindu girl. Nations decline not merely because of…
Some Muslim scholars, based in certain Arab countries and in the West, are developing a contextually-relevant fiqh for women, or what is called fiqh al-nisa. By Waris Mazhari Prejudices against women are a universal phenomenon, found in almost every human society. When such prejudices are sought to be given religious sanction, it becomes much more…
I think that it is crucial for Muslim women to start studying Islam for themselves, for, undoubtedly, they can better understand the Islamic notion of gender justice than many men. By Waris Mazhari In recent years, scores of books, mainly in English, have been published on what is termed by its proponents as ‘Islamic Feminism’.…
The newer generation of Muslim women is trying to understand their social position from the Qur’an itself. Across the Muslim world, Islamic feminists are combing through centuries of Islamic jurisprudence to highlight the more progressive aspects of their religion. By Moin Qazi “Learn this now and learn it well, my daughter: Like a compass needle that points…
Around four lakh Rohingyas pushed into Bangladesh; 176 villages torched; UN describes ‘textbook example’ of ethnic cleansing With nearly 400,000 Arakanese Muslims pushed out of their homes into Bangladesh, the issue of Rohingyas has burst into the international limelight since Burmese Army crackdown on August 25 in Rakhine. Rakhine region of Myanmar was previously known…
Thousands of people in Bangladesh, mostly religious and ethnic minorities, protested on the streets of Dhaka to condemn ongoing deadly violence against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar’s Rakhine State. A coalition of 19 religious and ethnic minority organizations that included the Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council, Bangladesh Minorities Rights Forum, Bangladesh Buddhist Federation, Bangladesh Christian…
I am thoroughly disgusted with the verbosity I encounter on the Internet, irrespective of where it is coming from: Sunni, Barelvi, Deobandi or any other mouth. By Waheeduddin Ahmed One of the greatest blessings for mankind in modern times is the Internet technology. Through it, information of any kind and on any subject is at…
How many times have we sat and thought about the future – of coming generations – without playing victim? By Fauzan Alavi As a community, we have been in the eye of the storm globally ever since 9/11. We have been justifying our stand as good Muslims “ but is it actually making any difference?…
The ban is highly divisive and discriminatory. It has divided citizens into two groups: those who do not eat cattle meat and think themselves to be morally superior, and those who are regarded as morally inferior because they eat such meat. By Dr Mohammad Manzoor Alam Like note ban, nobody knows whom the current beef…
