VIOLENCE AGAINST MUSLIMS,PETITION TO CHIEF JUTICE OF OF INDIA

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The Honourable Chief Justice of India: Appeal for suo moto action against Dr. Pravin Togadia for conspiracy of violence against Muslims By Nilim Dutta New Delhi Sign Nilim’s petition To The Honourable Chief Justice of India Supreme Court of India New Delhi Sir, We felt compelled to directly write to you because our belief has been reinforced by experience that little is done to prevent atrocities against religious minorities, or to prosecute such atrocities, when repeatedly inflicted by the Vishwa Hindu Parishad or its President Dr. Pravin Togadia. Our notice had been drawn to an incident reported by Vijaysinh Parmar in the Times of India (url enclosed below) dated 21 April 2014 titled: Evict Muslims from Hindu Areas: PravinTogadia. Url of the internet edition: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Evict-Muslims-from-Hindu-areas-Pravin-Togadia/articleshow/34017292.cms The news report has been quoted below literatim. [RAJKOT: Vishwa Hindu Parishad's (VHP) president Pravin Togadia sent temperatures soaring in Bhavnagar on Saturday evening with a hate speech that targeted Muslims for buying properties in Hindu areas. At night, Togadia joined a group of VHP and Bajrang Dal members on a street protest outside a house purchased by a Muslim businessman near Meghani Circle. While saffron groups have been regularly organizing 'Ram Dhuns' and 'Ram Darbars' to thwart such deals, Togadia went a step further by asking the protesters to take complete control of the house and put a 'Bajrang Dal' board on it. Togadia told the gathering that there were two ways to stop such deals. One is to pressurize the state government to bring in Disturbed Areas Act in Bhavnagar, which prevents inter-community sale of immovable property. The second is to take forcible possession of the house and fight a legal battle later which will go on for years. He gave the Muslim occupant 48 hours to vacate the house. "If he does not relent, go with stones, tyres and tomatoes to his office. There is nothing wrong in it. Killers of Rajiv Gandhi have not been hanged ... there is nothing to fear and the case will go on," Togadia told the charged-up gathering. "I have done it in the past and Muslims have lost both property and money," he said. He also said that this election is the best time to pressurize political parties to ensure safety of Hindus. "Don't be reluctant to pressurize Congress or BJP for the sake of Hindus' safety," he said. After the event was over, tension was palpable and police feared that the mob might attack the house. A team of policemen has been stationed outside the house to avert any trouble. ] Gujarat’s history of recent past makes the likelihood of the State of Gujarat to act lawfully against Pravin Togadia or the Vishwa Hindu Parishad extremely slim and in violation of the Article 15 of the Indian Constitution. It is our fervent appeal to you to take note of the reported incident and direct the State of Gujarat to take appropriate steps to investigate the matter swiftly and if found true, take measures to prosecute Pravin Togadia as per law. Writing to you directly may not be the instrument for judicial remedy in an ordinary situation, but considering the communally polarized atmosphere and the deep sense of alienation felt by ordinary Muslims due to our repeated failures to protect their lives and uphold their rights, we have been left with little choice. We are am doing so because as ordinary Indian citizens, we still have faith in the Supreme Court of India as among the few institutions left in this nation which still has not largely failed in its obligation to uphold the rights enshrined in the Constitution of India for the citizens of this nation regardless of their faith, ethnicity, gender or place of birth. We appeal to you to invoke the authority vested in you to uphold the rights enshrined in the Constitution and set an example that aggrieved ordinary citizens have a means of being heard when their rights have been trampled upon just because they belong to a religious minority in this nation. In anticipation of your just and timely intervention, Thanking You, With Deepest Regards, Sign Nilim’s petition

MUSLIMS LIVING IN INDIA SHOULD GO TO PAKISTAN,BJP SAYS

Godda, Jharkhand: In remarks that are bound to create a big political storm, a BJP leader from Bihar suggested at a rally today that those who oppose his party's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi will have "no place in India" after the results of the general election are announced.

"Those who want to stop Narendra Modi (from becoming prime minister) are looking towards Pakistan. In the coming days, they will have no place in India. They will only have place in Pakistan," Giriraj Singh said while addressing a gathering in Godda district of Jharkhand. (Watch video)

Mr Singh made the remarks in the presence of senior party leader and former president Nitin Gadkari. He is the party's candidate from Nawada in Bihar. (India Votes 2014: Complete Coverage)

Opinion polls suggest that the Narendra Modi-led BJP could to win the maximum seats in the national election.

Voting, spread across nine phases, ends on May 12. Results will be declared on May 16.

http://www.ndtv.com/elections/article/election-2014/there-ll-be-no-place-in-india-for-modi-critics-says-bjp-leader-giriraj-singh-510775?pfrom=home-lateststories

WHAT DOES IT MEAN? THE RABB OF THE WORLDS

WHAT DOES IT MEAN?

THE RABB OF THE WORLDS,

(From part of surah AL-HADID Juz: 27)

All that is in the heavens and earth glorifies Allah, Who created the heavens and earth in six periods (days) and has the knowledge of everything

Foot notes: six days cloud be earth days or the heaven days, one day in the Heaven  is equal to fifty ( 50,000) thousand years.

In the name of Allah, the compassionate, the Merciful.

All that is in the heavens and the earth glorifies Allah, and He is the All-mighty, the All-Wise. To Him belongs the kingdom of the heavens and the earth; it is He Who gives life and causes death; and he has power over all things. He is the first and the Last, the Evident and the Immanent, and He has the knowledge of all things. It is He Who created the heavens and the earth in six periods, then firmly established Himself on the throne of authority. He know all that enters the earth and all that emerges from it. All that comes down from Heaven and all that ascends to it; and He is with you wherever you are. Allah is aware of all your actions. To Him belongs the kingdom of the heavens and the earth, and all affairs go back to Allah for decision. He causes the night to pass into the day and the day to pass into the night, and he has knowledge of the inmost secrets of your hearts. 

US Muslims Launch Umbrella Group

WASHINGTON DC – Leaders of ten major national American Muslim organizations have come together to announce the launch of an umbrella group that will serve as a representative voice for Muslims as that faith community seeks to enhance its positive impact on society.
"This is an announcement which has been long-awaited by the Muslim-American community," Oussama Jammal, secretary general of the newly formed U.S. Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO), said in a press conference on Wednesday, March 12, Anadolu Agency reported.

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"We’re delighted that these major organizations have gotten together in response to the aspirations and hopes of the American Muslim community to have a voice and an umbrella organization."
It includes ten organizations namely; the Mosque Cares, Muslim American Society (MAS), American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Islamic Circle of North American (ICNA), Muslim Legal Fund of America (MLFA), Muslim Alliance in North America (MANA), Muslim Ummah of North America (MUNA), American Muslim Alliance (AMA) and The Mosque Foundation (Chicago).
Nihad Awad, the executive director of CAIR, said that the formation of the group, which took more than two years, will help Muslim-Americans to better communicate with one another, and with the American public.
The new national council's first priority will be to build on Muslim citizenship rights by conducting a census of American Muslims to create a database that will be used to enhance civic and political participation in upcoming elections.
"A detailed census will allow the larger Muslim community to better participate in our nation's political process," Jammal said.
Though there are no official estimates, the US is home to an estimated Muslim minority of six to eight million.
An earlier Gallup poll found that the majority of Americans Muslims are loyal to their country and optimistic about their future in the United States.
A recent survey found that American Muslims are the most moderate around the world.
It also showed that US Muslims generally express strong commitment to their faith and tend not to see an inherent conflict between being devout and living in a modern society.

 http://www.onislam.net/english/news/americas/470215-us-muslims-launch-umbrella-group.html

Black boxes, air safety and the need to know what happened to MH370

Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 departed from Kuala Lumpur’s International Airport shortly after midnight on March 8 carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew members. It disappeared about 50 minutes later. Beyond that, there’s little investigators know about the flight, what caused its disappearance or even where the plane may have ended up.
Experts say the mystery surrounding Flight MH370 shows the limits of modern aviation technology — and perhaps even more, it highlights the public’s unrealistic expectations about what can immediately be known about airplane incidents in an age when most information is just a few clicks away.
First, what officials do know: The Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777-220ER left the airport with no signs of distress and stopped transmitting data somewhere over the South China Sea, possibly south of Vietnam’s Ca Mau peninsula. The flight was reportedly at a cruising altitude of 35,000 feet, and the weather was clear. No abnormal calls were made by the first captain, who had 18,000 hours of flying experience under his belt.
Mostly everything else remains unclear. As Malaysia’s civil aviation chief, Azharuddin Abdul Rahman said after the crash, “There are many theories that have been said in the media. Many experts around the world have contributed their expertise and knowledge about what could happen, what happened ... We are puzzled as well.”
But some say aviation disasters don’t have to be so mysterious.  
Flight data are stored in black boxes (they’re most often actually orange), which go down with the plane in the event of a crash — one of the main problems with relying on the technology.
Calls for a change to industry reliance on black boxes became especially strong after an Air France flight between Paris and Brazil crashed into the Atlantic Ocean in 2009. It took investigators two years to find the data recorder.
Several institutions, including the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, have spent millions of dollars to develop technology to supplement or replace black boxes. Some have called for a satellite system that would relay information in real time from planes to the ground.
But many experts say these systems would be impractical or simply not worth the cost. They point out that in disaster investigations, the Air France flight was the exception, not the rule.
“If you look at the history of accidents — even in very difficult cases, the flight data recorder was ultimately recovered — so the case for safety isn’t really there,” said R. John Hansman, a professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT.
A study by L-3 Aviation Recorders found that a major U.S. airline would have to spend $300 million a year for real-time recording. Many say its advantages aren't worth that cost, considering how rare airline accidents are.
“Everything is a cost-benefit analysis,” said George Bibel, a professor of physical engineering at the University of North Dakota. “But so far, investigators have never failed to find a black box.”
Krishna Kavi, director of the Net-Centric Software and Systems Center at the University of North Texas believes that with the right government initiative, satellite information systems would eventually become affordable and practical for use on airlines.
"Until FAA and sister agencies in other countries mandate steaming of data, commercial airlines will not implement them," he wrote in an email to Al Jazeera. "Remember how opposed automotive industry was to air bags and even seat belts?"
But Bibel, Hansman and others believe the public’s thirst for data immediately after crashes and disappearances and the dozens of theories that spring up around those incidents say more about human nature than about aviation safety.
“In every instance like this, for the few days when you don’t have data, people come up and say, ‘We should have real-time data downstreaming,’” Hansman said. “The only advantage is you’d find the data maybe a few days earlier. Is that worth hundreds of millions of dollars?”
The mysterious circumstances surrounding Flight MH370 make it easy for the public to jump to conclusions. In the two days since the disappearance, people have posed theories ranging from pilot error to mechanical failure to hijacking to terrorist attack. But experts warn that the best thing to do in situations like this, no matter how hard it might be, is just to wait until concrete data emerge before drawing conclusions.
“Until then, it’s just a bunch of talking heads, and I’m one of them,” Bibel said. “It’s pure speculation.”

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/3/10/why-do-we-know-solittleaboutmalaysiaairlinesflightmh370.html

Muslims of BTAD are exiled in their own land post 2012 riots

By Nilim Dutta,
N 26˚ 30’ 10.4”
E 90˚ 01’ 24.9”
If one types in the above location coordinates into the ‘search’ in Google Earth, it immediately takes one to the image of an empty field somewhere in Gossaigaon Revenue Circle of Kokrajhar District, one of the four Districts in the Bodoland Territorial Area Districts (BTAD) of Assam, in the satellite topographic imagery dated 3 May 2010.
When I arrived in that paddy field just off the National Highway 31C on 2 March 2014, nearly four years after that satellite image was taken, the field was no longer empty. More than a hundred ramshackle shelters built with bamboo and covered with multicoloured tarpaulin sheets now dotted the patch of land. For many suffering the paranoia of a relentless ‘silent’ Bangladeshi invasion of Assam, these could even be passed off for new encroachment of Bangladeshi settlers who have sneaked into Assam in recent years.

A visitor would, however, find that most of them speak fluent Assamese, using beautiful literary vocabulary of the written language, even though with a distinct accent. He or she would find many of the younger women to be assertive and articulate, a clear hint of being educated, and speaking in Assamese with the fluency of someone who have been speaking the language all their lives. This alone should dispel any notion of their identity, but they have further proof of where they come from, receipts of land revenue their forefathers had paid as early as 1935 to the Government of Assam under the British in a village about 20 Kilometers north east of their present settlement called Ramfalbil in the neighbouring Dotma Revenue Circle of the same Kokrajhar District.


Joymaguri settlement of the displaced Muslims from Ramfalbil. A Google Earth image. How have they ended up in this squalid settlement in Joymaguri village in the Gossaigaon Revenue Circle of Kokrajhar District?
When the violence against the Muslim villagers broke out in Kokrajhar and Chirang districts in July 2012, these Muslim villagers from Ramfalbil were compelled to flee with their lives to relief camps in Bilasipara in the neighbouring Dhubri District of Assam. Unlike most other villagers from their community who are overwhelmingly cultivators or agricultural labourers, a majority of them were petty businessmen, traders and shopkeepers, and perhaps comparatively more upwardly mobile. When government relief camps for the Muslim victims of the 2012 violence began to be forcibly closed down, even before any compensation were paid, or even before they were enabled to return to the destroyed homes they had fled from, 163 families, mostly from Ramfalbil, finally found their way into this patch of land in Joymaguri.
The land the displaced Muslim villagers now live on, however, is not government land that any accusation of encroachment can even arise but ‘myadi land’ belonging to two generous elderly Muslim gentlemen of Joymaguri village, Karim Ali and Qader Ali. Karim Ali, on whose land the greater part of the present settlement of the displaced Muslim villagers from Ramfalbil is situated, was among those whom I had the wonderful opportunity to meet that afternoon. For someone who has lost all earning from that land, and who can actually ill-afford that loss, it is indeed a generous gesture. It is gestures like these that reaffirm our faith on humanity.


A displaced Muslim family in front of their squalid dwelling in the Joymaguri settlement.
Photo: Smita Dutta, Copyright: SRAO 2014 It has been now been almost 20 months since they were left dispossessed, but not a single family out of the 163 that came to settle in this patch of land has been compensated by the government. None has received even a penny towards their rehabilitation. Of the 163 families who had come, 60 have left in search of livelihood, leaving their belongings with their neighbours in the camp. 103 families, however, continue to live there. There are enormous obstacles and discriminations they have to face almost daily. Their children have to go to a school more than 3 Kilometers away and they have to walk all the way on a busy four-lane National Highway and cross over to the other side to reach the school, called the Bhadiaguri Middle English School. In school, their classmates often ridicule them for being shabbily dressed and without uniforms. And, sometime in the last month, their teachers have told them that if they can’t afford uniforms, don’t shall not be allowed to attend classes after 20 March. Some of the young girl students have alleged that bicycles and school bags that were meant for them under some scheme were not given to them. If being dispossessed and rendered destitute was not enough, now even the difficult struggle of these children to rebuild a future is being sought to be subverted.
One of the repeated claims that is still made to explain the violence against the Muslims in Kokrajhar and Chirnag between July and November 2012 is that Bangladeshi Muslims, or at least Muslims from outside the BTAD districts had rapaciously infiltrated into even the ‘tribal belts & blocks’ in these districts which triggered the conflict. Nothing can be further from the truth. The fact that many of the families possess land revenue receipts which go back as far as 1935 is testimony to when they had settled there, even before a East Pakistan came into existence, let alone Bangladesh. Census data shatters a few more myths.


Karim Ali who has shown enormous generosity in allowing 163 displaced Muslim families to build shelters and live on his land. Photo: Smita Dutta, Copyright: SRAO 2014 As per Census of India 1991, total number of households in Ramfalbil was 349 and population was 2071 persons.
A decade later, as per Census of India 2001, even though the number of households in Ramfalbil rose by a slight 5.73 percent to 369, actual number of persons declined by -3.81 percent to 2005 persons.
Also, Census of India 2001 reveals that out of a total of 2005 persons who were residents of Ramfalbil, only 887 belonged to the Scheduled Tribe category or were Bodos. It is evident that only 44.24 percent of the population in Ramfalbil belonged to the Scheduled Tribe category or were Bodos.
Thirteen years later, and after the violence of 2012, an overwhelming percentage of the resident population of Ramfalbil is likely to be exclusively Bodo. It would also be pertinent to note that it is here in Ramfalbil, right on the National Highway 31C, on the night of 17 January 2014, five Hindi speaking bus passengers were taken off buses coming from Siliguri in West Bengal and brutally shot dead at point blank range by the militants of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (Sangbijit). This incident further influenced the decision of the displaced Muslims living in the settlement in Joymaguri not to even try to return the homes they had left behind in Ramfalbil.


These smiles of the children hide the enormous struggles they carry on in their lives beneath tattered tarpaulin sheets. Photo: Smita Dutta, Copyright: SRAO 2014 In another month, Monsoons in Assam will begin. There will be many evenings when heavy rains will deluge their tiny little huts and extinguish the fires in the hearths, leaving the families to go hungry. Rain seeping in through the tattered tarpaulins will leave their beds, clothes and meager belongings soaked.
On such nights, many of them will lie awake in their rain soaked beds, silent in their grief, thinking, “How much longer will we have to suffer these indignities to be embraced as Assamese?”
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(Nilim Dutta is Executive Director, Research & Operations, Strategic Research & Analysis Oraganisation (SRAO), India and tweets at @NilimDutta)

 http://twocircles.net/2014mar07/bengali_speaking_muslims_btad_are_exiled_their_own_land_post_2012_riots.html

This is Allah your Rabb

In the name of Allah, the compassionate, the Merciful.                                                                                                                                                              

The fact is that your Rabb is the same Allah Who created the heavens and the earth in six yome (time periods) and is firmly established on the Throne of authority, and is directing the affairs of the universe. None can intercede for you, except the one who receives His permission. This is Allah your Rabb, so worship Him: will you not receive admonition? To Him you shall all return. Allah’s promise is true. He is the one Who originates the process of Creation and repeats it (will bring it back to life) so that He may justly reward those who believed in Him and did righteous deeds. As for those who disbelieved, they shall have boiling fluids to drink and shall undergo painful punishment because they rejected the truth. He is the One Who gave the sun its brightness and the moon its light, established her phases that you may learn to compute the years and other such counts (days, weeks, months). Allah created them only to manifest the truth. He has spelled out His revelation for who want to understand (Allah has revealed the most beautiful message, a book (Qur’an) consistent in its verses yet repeating its teachings in different ways.)

Music Composer Yuvanshankar Raja embraced Islam

Music composer Yuvanshankar Raja has rubbished rumours that he has gotten married for the third time. 
The 34-year-old composer tied the knot with his long-time girlfriend Sujaya Chandran in 2005, but they parted ways in 2008. Yuvan entered into wedlock for the second time with Shilpa Mohan in 2011 and reportedly lives with her.
Rumours had recently surfaced that Yuvan has married for the third time. However, the music composer denied getting married and clarified the same on micro blogging site Twitter.
The son of noted music director Ilayaraja has also revealed on his twitter handle that he is following Islam. "I'm not married for the third time. That news is fake and yes I follow Islam and I'm proud about it. Alhamdhulillah."
"My family supports my decision and there is no misunderstanding between me and my dad," he further said.

 http://www.ibtimes.co.in/articles/538037/20140210/yuvan-shankar-raja-marriage-islam-convert-yuvanshankar.htm

Yuvan Shankar Raja embraces Islam

Yuvan Shankar Raja took to his micro-blogging page yesterday to announce something very personal. While dismissing rumours about him getting married for the third time, the composer also tweeted that he is now following Islam. "Yes, I follow Islam and I'm proud about it. Alhamdhulillah. My family supports my decision and there is no misunderstanding between me and my dad," he said.

While we tried to reach Yuvan regarding this, a source close to the music director revealed, "Yuvan was very attached to his mother and soon after she passed away, he started missing her a lot. He also met a spiritual guru, but we cannot say what exactly made him follow Islam," and maintained that, he was definitely not inspired by fellow composer AR Rahman (who had converted to Islam) in his decision.
Yuvan, the source said, has been practicing Islam for almost a year now.

"He has been doing namaz five times a day all these months. He is not missing his prayers even when he is at work and ensures that he allots time for it at his studio as well," said the source. The source added that Yuvan is now in the process of converting to Islam. "Currently, he is planning to convert to Islam and is also thinking of going for a change of name. But, he is yet to decide on these. Since it is his personal decision, his family members respect it."

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/tamil/movies/news-interviews/Yuvan-Shankar-Raja-embraces-Islam/articleshow/30113638.cms

THE ADIRAI DAY,IN THE UNITED STATES

Assalaamu Alaikum,

 Alhamdulillah, by the the grace of Allah we blessed to be alive and see 2014.

 Lot of unfortunate from our family & Friends didn't make it.

 Since most of us were busy during December, we couldn't organize the AAF gathering.

 InshaAllah, we have scheduled our AAF gathering on Jan 26th.

 To accommodate everyone, we planned to have a dinner instead of Lunch.

 If it is inconvenient for everyone please let us know, we can change the plan back to Lunch.

 

Also, InshaAllah on Jan 21st, we (AAF executive members) planning to go meeting all the Adirai brothers 

who work at restaurant directly.

Please let us know your availability, location & timing.

InshaAllah, during spring (End of March or Beginning of April) we planning to have a Adirai day.

A whole day family event (Games, Prizes & Food) at some community park.

Please do forward/pass this information to all your friends and family members.

Jazakallah