Muslim organisations cancel gatherings due to political pressure - By Zeeshan Shaikh - THE FREE PRESS JOURNAL, MUMBAI, INDIA

 A Senior Journalist, Kuldeep Nayar quotes  his sources to write in his widely published weekly column that the August 11, 2012 Azad Maidan rampage was an organised mayhem by the Congress. Bal Thakerey too declared that Orissa riots organised by Congress has the same modes operandi as Azad Maidan rampage. If there is some truth to these political analysis, it would seem that all Congress wanted was to force Mumbai's Muslims to refrain from any mass political movement that could challenge the status quo. Its recent pressure on Muslims would be part of the same tactic to control Muslim political consolidation in Mumbai.

All 50 innocent Muslim boys arrested by Mumbai police and subjected to criminal torture in the jails and lock up should be immediately released by Maharashtra's Congress/NCP coalition and they should all be compensated for their unlawful detention and torture.

Ghulam Muhammed, Mumbai


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Muslim organisations cancel gatherings due to political pressure   ZEESHAN SHAIKH Mumbai   In the aftermath of the Azad Maidan riots, two conferences and a protest march held by moderate Muslim organisation was cancelled at the last moment due to political pressure and by the request of Mumbai police to the organisers. A moderate Muslim organisation Jamat- e- Islami's Maharashtra wing had to cancel a conference and a protest march which they had planned for last couple of months but looking at the tense situation in the city they were requested to postpone their programmes. ' In The Name of Terror', for which the organisation had invited several leaders from the country was planned some months back but due to Azad Maidan riots of August 11,   " Arranging a peaceful conference is our fundamental right but after the senior police officials from Mumbai requested us to postpone the programme due to the tense situation in the city we did it in interest of our city" ASLAM GHAZI, PRESIDENT JAMAT- E- ISLAMI the organisers didn't got the permission to continue their peaceful gathering at Birla Matoshree Hall on September 15. Aslam Ghazi, president of Jamat- e- Islami's Maharashtra wing said that, " arranging a peaceful conference is our fundamental right but after the senior police officials from Mumbai requested us to postpone the programme due to the tense situation in the city we did it in interest of our city". However Ghazi denied about any political pressure was applied on the organisation to stop their conference. yaum- e- Quds ( a worldwide protest march carried out by Muslims on last Friday of Ramzan for the freedom of Palestine), was cancelled by the organisers on the last day due to political pressure. Zaheer Abbas Rizvi an Islamic Scholar and one of the co- organisers of aum- e- Quds said, the protest march is been carried out by Muslims from Mumbai since 1979. This was the first time when the peaceful march of around 100 person from Dongri Imambada to August Kranti Maidan was cancelled after police didn't provided the permission to march. " Anything could happen in the protest march and after Azad Maidan riots we have seen the mob mentality, so we decided to follow the instruction of police to maintain law and order situation in the city". A press conference which was planned by Maulana Qamar Raza Ashrafi, on Tuesday against a newspaper which made derogatory remarks on Maulana Moin Ashraf, was cancelled after political pressure and request of Mumbai police.