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Below is a must read link to a truly inspirational story
http://veiledmuslimah.wordpress.com/2012/07/02/the-husband-who-was-too-shy-t
o-look-at-his-wife-a-moving-story/

Shahnaaz Bemath's Blog

ISLAM is not about we are better THAN you. ISLAM is all about ''let me show
you something that is better FOR you."

The Husband Who Was Too Shy To Look At His Wife (a moving story)

This story was recounted by Prof. Khalid Al-Jubeir, consulting
cardiovascular surgeon, in one of his lectures:

Once I operated on a two and a half year old child. It was Tuesday, and on
Wednesday the child was in good health. On Thursday at 11:15 am - and I'll
never forget the time because of the shock I experienced - one of the nurses
informed me that the heart and breathing of the child had stopped. I hurried
to the child and performed cardiac massage for 45 minutes and during that
entire time the heart would not work.

Then, ALLAH decreed for the heart to resume function and we thanked HIM. I
went to inform the child's family about his condition. As you know, it is
very difficult to inform the patient's family about his condition when it's
bad. This is one of the most difficult situations a doctor is subjected to
but it is necessary. So I looked for the child's father whom I couldn't
find. Then I found his mother. I told her that the child's cardiac arrest
was due to bleeding in his throat; we don't know the cause of this bleeding
and fear that his brain is dead. So how do you think she responded? Did she
cry? Did she blame me? No, nothing of the sort. Instead, she said
"Alhamdulillah" (All Praise is due to ALLAH) and left me.

After 10 days, the child started moving. We thanked ALLAH and were happy
that his brain condition was reasonable. After 12 days, the heart stopped
again because of the same bleeding. We performed another cardiac massage for
45 minutes but this time his heart didn't respond. I told his mother that
there was no hope. So she said: "Alhamdulillah. O ALLAH, if there is good in
his recovery, then cure him, O my Lord."

With the grace of ALLAH, his heart started functioning again. He suffered
six similar cardiac arrests till a trachea specialist was able to stop the
bleeding and the heart started working properly. Now, three and a half
months had passed and the child was recovering but did not move. Then just
as he started moving, he was afflicted with a very large and strange
pus-filled abscess in his head, the likes of which I had never seen. I
informed his mother of the serious development. She said "Alhamdulillah" and
left me.

We immediately turned him over to the surgical unit that deals with the
brain and nervous system and they took over his treatment. Three weeks
later, the boy recovered from this abscess but was still not moving. Two
weeks pass and he suffers from a strange blood poisoning and his temperature
reaches 41.2°C (106°F). I again informed his mother of the serious
development and she said with patience and certainty: "Alhamdulillah. O
ALLAH, if there is good in his recovery, then cure him."

After seeing his mother who was with her child at Bed#5, I went to see
another child at Bed#6. I found that child's mother crying and screaming,
"Doctor! Doctor! Do something! The boy's temperature reached 37.6°C
(99.68°F)! He's going to die! He's going to die!" I said with surprise,
"Look at the mother of that child in Bed#5. Her child's fever is over 41°C
(106°F), yet she is patient and praises ALLAH." So she replied: "That woman
isn't conscious and has no senses". At that point, I remembered the great
Hadith of the Prophet (Sallallaahu Alaihi Wa Sallam): "Blessed are the
strangers." Just two words. but indeed two words that shake a nation! In 23
years of hospital service, I have never seen the likes of this patient
sister.

We continued to care for him. Now, six and a half months have passed and the
boy finally came out of the recovery unit - not talking, not seeing, not
hearing, not moving, not smiling, and with an open chest in which you can
see his beating heart. The mother changed the dressing regularly and
remained patient and hopeful. Do you know what happened after that? Before I
inform you, what do you think are the prospects of a child who has passed
through all these dangers, agonies, and diseases? And what do you expect
this patient mother to do whose child is at the brink of the grave and who
is unable to do anything except supplicate and beseech ALLAH? Do you know
what happened two and a half months later? The boy was completely cured by
the mercy of ALLAH and as a reward for this pious mother. He now races his
mother with his feet as if nothing happened and he became sound and healthy
as he was before.

The story doesn't end here. This is not what moved me and brought tears to
my eyes. What filled my eyes with tears is what follows:

One and a half years after the child left the hospital, one of the brothers
from the Operations Unit informed me that a man, his wife and two children
wanted to see me. I asked who they were and he replied that he didn't know
them. So I went to see them, and I found the parents of the same child whom
I operated upon. He was now five years old and like a flower in good health
- as if nothing happened to him. With them also was a four-month old
newborn. I welcomed them kindly and then jokingly asked the father whether
the newborn was the 13th or 14th child. He looked at me with an astonishing
smile as if he pitied me. He then said, "This is the second child, and the
child upon whom you operated is our first born, bestowed upon us after 17
years of infertility. And after being granted that child, he was afflicted
with the conditions that you've seen."

At hearing this, I couldn't control myself and my eyes filled with tears. I
then involuntarily grabbed the man by the arm, and pulling him to my room,
asked him about his wife: "Who is this wife of yours who after 17 years of
infertility has this much patience with all the fatal conditions that
afflict her first born?! Her heart cannot be barren! It must be fertile with
Imaan!"Do you know what he said? Listen carefully my dear brothers and
sisters. He said, "I was married to this woman for 19 years and for all
these years she has never missed the [late] night prayers except due to an
authorized excuse. I have never witnessed her backbiting, gossiping, or
lying. Whenever I leave home or return, she opens the door, supplicates for
me, and receives me hospitably. And in everything she does, she demonstrates
the utmost love, care, courtesy, and compassion." The man completed by
saying, "Indeed, doctor, because of all the noble manners and affection with
which she treats me, I'm shy to lift up my eyes and look at her. So I said
to him: "And the likes of her truly deserve that from you."

The End.

ALLAH says: And We will surely test you with something of fear and hunger
and a loss of wealth and lives and fruits, but give good tidings to the
patient; Who, when calamity strikes them, say, "Indeed we belong to ALLAH,
and indeed to HIM we will return." Those are the ones upon whom are
blessings from their Lord and mercy. And it is those who are the [rightly]
guided. (Surah Al-Baqarah 155-157)

 

Assalamu Alaikum

Salim

Umm Salamah (the wife of the Prophet) said: I heard the Messenger of ALLAH
(Sallallaahu Alaihi Wa Sallam) saying: "There is no Muslim who is stricken
by a calamity and says what ALLAH has commanded him - 'Indeed we belong to
ALLAH, and indeed to Him we will return; O ALLAH, reward me for my
affliction and compensate me with that which is better' - except that ALLAH
will grant him something better in exchange." When Abu Salamah [her former
husband] passed away, I said to myself: "What Muslim is better than Abu
Salamah?" I then said the words, and ALLAH gave me the Messenger of ALLAH
(Sallallaahu Alaihi Wa Sallam) in exchange. (Sahih Muslim Sharief)

-

~The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart

Why I choose Team Anna By Yogendra Yadav - The Indian Express

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/why-i-choose-team-anna/984727/0

Why I choose Team Anna

YOGENDRA YADAV : Tue Aug 07 2012,

 

In choice between two less than pure sides, I prefer protesters’ infirmities to rulers’ intransigence

Feel disappointed with your decision to join this movement which has mediocrity and righteousness at its core...” This was an SMS from an old friend whose opinion matters to me. The context was the “Anna movement” and its decision to “embrace politics”. I was one of the signatories to the statement that called upon the fasting leaders to give up on their expectations from the political establishment and instead work towards creating an alternative political force, not necessarily a political party. Hence the message.

I could have ducked it, and pointed out that at the time of writing this I have not “joined” Team Anna. Those of us who signed the statement requesting Anna and his associates to call off the fast did so precisely because we were outsiders. I spoke from the podium as a friend and well-wisher, but not as a member. I could have also pointed out that every time I spoke from the stage, at Ramlila Maidan in August and December last year and at Jantar Mantar, I underlined a friendly disagreement with the movement. Yet the fact remained that I did extend moral support to the movement. This is what she questioned and I could not duck behind a formality.

I could have simply overlooked the message, as one odd response among many. Of the many responses that I have received in the last few days, the dominant voice has been positive, if not enthusiastic. I dare not speak of the aam aadmi, but the subset that I get to hear in my everyday life — ordinary TV viewers, middle class persons with casual interest in politics, lower middle class men who engaged me at Jantar Mantar and on the streets and ordinary activists in the movement circles who cared to call — had on balance supported this move. They had questions about its success but not about its rationale.

At the same time, the more intellectual, discerning and politically more astute responses have been more critical. Many of the finer minds and committed spirits have cautioned me against extending support to the movement. They may be in a minority. But this small voice is often the shell that protects one’s conscience. This SMS lay in that domain where brute majority must not prevail.

I could have, of course, disagreed with my friend. The Anna movement may have been anything, but mediocre it is not. The group of young activists involved in this movement has been amazingly innovative in its approach and strategy. They dared to make established political wisdom stand on its head. And the meticulous planning that went into the movement is anything but mediocre. Or, I could have retorted by asking how could she complain about the “righteousness” of a bunch of activists on the street in the face of shameless wrongdoings by those who wield unlimited and unaccountable power. How could we notice imagination deficits of the protesters, when compared to the heaps of lies that the government has dished out to protect its ministers and allies?

At least, the protesters have learnt a thing or two over the last one year. They have tried to distance themselves from blatant anti-politics and institution-bashing and from the ideological stream represented by Ramdev. The political establishment, on the other hand, is as coarse and smug, if not more, as it was last year.

That may have been a smart response but not fully honest. Faced with a real-life choice between two less than pure sides, one cannot but prefer the infirmities of the protesters to the insensitivity and intransigence of the rulers. Yet that does not justify the failures of Team Anna. Over the last 16 months, I have, more than once, felt uneasy about the stridency and hyperbole deployed from the podium. I wished Team Anna were more attentive to the constructive criticism and alternative proposals offered by their erstwhile colleagues in the NCPRI. I felt, and said so from the podium in Ramlila Maidan, that politicians’ corruption must not be used to cover our own. And yes, I could not disagree with her: monotonous righteousness that refused to look within often made me cringe.

I wanted to tell her something else. Anna movement was not my first real-life encounter with social and political movements. Over the last three decades, I have worked closely with a number of non-party political formations and non-mainstream parties. I have sat through a number of painful discussions and negotiations about transiting from “non-political” to “political”. And I know how lack of viability and visibility has finished some of the best political alternatives of our times before they could take off.

I wanted to tell her about my political guru, Kishen Pattnayak. For a full-time politician and former member of Lok Sabha, he was unbelievably self-effacing; you felt embarrassed talking about him in his presence. He did not draw any attention to himself; the media paid virtually no attention to him. He was as close to a fusion of morality and politics as I have seen in my life. He did not compromise on his principles, but he kept losing colleagues and followers to mainstream parties. He was the opposite of mediocrity: I think of him as one of the original minds of our time. His own followers did not quite understand him and the academia did not glance at someone who did not write in English. He was not frustrated or dejected. But the kind of alternative politics he spent his life building never ever took off.

I know what I do not wish to say to her. I am not saying that politics is not for the intelligent or the thin-skinned. I am not saying that palitiks mein sab chalta hai. I guess I wish to draw her attention to a deeper paradox of modern politics: politics opens at once the possibility of ethics in public life and also becomes the source of its routine negation. 

In our times, the pursuit of goodness draws you to politics, at the same time immersion in politics has a built-in drag away from goodness. For those who keep their eyes, ears and soul open, political choices are always very delicate, very complex, very painful.

I could not have said all this in an SMS. So I wrote this article.

The writer is senior fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi.
express@expressindia.com

How Shahid Siddiqui bagged the Narendra Modi interview - Brijesh Pandey - TEHELKA Magazine, India

Some inaccuracies and some elaboration of the facts mentioned in the following Tehelka article - How Shahid Siddiqui bagged the Narendra Modi interview:

1. Shahid Siddiqui, in strict official terms, was neither a member of Samajwadi Party, much less its spokes person. Give this credit to Electronic Media, especially NDTV who choose their own favourites to bring in and anoint them as answering for one party or other. NDTV brought in, both Shahid Siddiqui and Kamaal Faruqui to comment on SP current news. Kamaal Faruqui was correct enough to declare that whatever comments he is making on TV, it is his personal view and he does not represent Samajwadi, even though SP has gone through summery public endorsement of both these Muslim names, as joining their ranks in a rank political exercise. It appears, it was NDTV that made them both SP spokespersons of their (NDTV’s) choice.

2. According to NAI DUNIYA text, Shahid Siddiqui did not mention in his introductory remarks that he was at Zafar Sareshwala's place. He just mentions that he was in Mumbai for Esha's wedding and joined a get-together where Salim Khan and Mahesh Bhatt were there. The suggestion to interview came from Mahesh Bhatt, as Shahid writes in the Urdu text. Zafar was given the task to use his connection to forward the request for an interview.

3. Zafar Sareshwala belongs to a sharebroking group headed informally by Arshad Vahidna, who was very close to Dhirubhai Ambani and handled some of his stock market operations. When Modi visited London, Zafar sought an appointment and asked for the rehabilitation and compensation of his office in Ahmedabad, ruined in the riots. Modi was quick to respond and got a Muslim name that only cared for his own personal rehabilitation and was in turn obligated to Modi to promote his name in Muslim community. The entire Muslim community has condemned his moves. But as a very ambitious businessman and points man, he persists in trying to fix up deals for his contacts.

4. Zafar Sareshwala appears a practicing Muslim with proper Muslim beard and performing all his religious duties with feelings and sense of commitment. For that a section of the Muslims, especially the business community of Memons, do give him public hearing, but his moves on Modi is appreciated only by business community in a manner of opportunism. His pushing of Maulana Ghulam Muhammed Vastanvi towards the good books of Modi, too was believed widely as a separate deal for Maulana Vastanvi's genuine needs of his sprawling madarsa. It is not clear if Modi in anyway obliged him publically. He might have eased on some government restrictions. It is on public record that Vastanvi missed the most prestigious post at Darul Uloom, due to his soft words for Modi. Maulana did not realize that Muslim community is not ready to forgive, much less forgive Modi's alleged involvement in state sponsored genocidal riots against Muslims in Gujarat.

Incidentally, Brijesh Pandey is wrong, when he writes Vastanvi to be a Bohra. Maulana Vastanvi is a Sunni Muslim from Gujarat.

5. Shahid Siddiqui's most damaging aspect of the interview was that it was not a cross examination like that of Karan Thaper. Shahid asked question and let him reply -- right or wrong. Shahid never crossed him, if he felt Modi is all making up and treated him like a child listening to his grandmother's fairy tales. Thus Shahid gave Modi the chance to project a false and questionable account of what actually happened. That is tantamount to a dubious journalistic coup. As people rightly felt, Shahid was merely ingratiating himself with Modi for any future political moves of his own. He therefore cannot expect any sympathy from his Muslim readership or the Muslim community at large.

6. If and when Modi said those now famous words of bravado: Hang me if you find me guilty'; Shahid had no guts to ask him to step aside from his post and face the law and only when he is cleared, to take up official duties. After all Modi's own leader, LK Advani had set a precedent earlier. Shahid should have hanged him then and there over his slogan and asked for his resignation. He could only then claim to have been brave and not otherwise for asking pat questions that Modi has faced again and again during last so many years.

7. In short, Shahid Siddiqui has sold Muslim victims short. He should apologize not only to Muslims, but all those across all communities that have condemned Modi and hold him to be an unfit person to hold any public office.


Ghulam Muhammed, Mumbai
ghulammuhammed3@gmail.com

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http://www.tehelka.com/story_main53.asp?filename=Ne110812Modi.asp

 

From Tehelka Magazine, Vol 9, Issue 32, Dated 11 Aug 2012

CURRENT AFFAIRS   THE MODI INTERVIEW

Modi reaches out and finds empty space

Who swung his unexpected interview in an Urdu daily? Who all stood to gain? And what’s the BJP cadre saying in Gujarat? Brijesh Pandey on Shahid Siddiqui’s Modi scoop

Seeking redemption Modi speaking at a Sadbhavana meeting Photo: Shailendra Pandey

WHEN URDU weekly Nai Duniya came out with a four-page, interview of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, it kicked up a storm in political circles. The headline on the front page screamed: “Hang me if I am guilty.” The interview was done by editor-in-chief Shahid Siddiqui, who also happened to be the spokesperson of the Samajwadi Party (SP).

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The timing of the interview, six months prior to the Assembly elections in Gujarat, has led many to call it Modi’s political gambit. With this, he is seen to be reaching out to the Muslim community without compromising on the core issue of Hindutva, a stance that many in the Gujarat BJP are unwilling to accept.

Such has been the impact of this interview that within 48 hours of its publication, SP leader Ramgopal Yadav came out with the statement that Siddiqui had nothing to do with the party. “Forget being a spokesperson, he is not even a member of the Samajwadi Party,” said Yadav.

SP spokesperson Rajendra Chowdhary has even accused Siddiqui of using journalism to further his political ambitions. While that may be true, it cannot be denied that Siddiqui was well within his rights as a journalist to interview Modi. In fact, he is vocal about his dislike for the Gujarat CM. “This is like shooting the messenger,” he fumes. “I have always maintained that Modi is a criminal and he should be punished. The Samajwadi Party and Congress are getting Muslim votes by raising the bogey of Narendra Modi.”

So how did this interview happen?

According to Siddiqui, it was all made possible because of Zafar Sareshwala, an Ahmedabad-based businessman close to Modi. Doing television debates on issues such as the denial of a US visa to Modi, to how Muslims should get over the 2002 riots, to backing Ghulam Vastanvi, a Bohra Muslim who was forced to quit as the vicechancellor of the Darul Uloom in Deoband because of his pro-Modi utterances, Zafar was a familiar face on TV, telling the world how things have changed for the better for Muslims in Gujarat. Along with his brother Owes, Zafar belongs to that select group of people who have direct access to Modi.

It was Zafar who suggested that Siddiqui interview Modi. “I was at Zafar Sareshwala’s place with Mahesh Bhatt and Salim Khan, when Zafar said that Muslims are being treated properly in Gujarat,” says Siddiqui. “I got very angry, called him (Modi) a murderer. Zafar was convinced that the situation was different. Anyway, Modi doesn’t give interviews to anybody. He then enquired whether I had approached Modi for an interview. I gave him my mobile number and email id, and asked him to give it to Modi’s office and let them know that I was interested in interviewing him. Soon enough, I got a call from Modi’s office asking me about the nature of questions that I was going ask. I told them that my questions would be spontaneous and that the interview would be completely open. They said then you have to publish every word of it. I agreed. That’s how the interview was fixed.”

Ethics vs trade-offs Shahid Siddiqui Photo: Vijay Pandey

Not everyone is buying Siddiqui’s story. According to Zafar Islam, editor of The Milli Gazette: “I get that newspaper through my hawker but I didn’t get it that day. However, the interview was everywhere, on every channel. Even The New York Times published the extracts. It’s very clear that a lot of work has gone behind it. Otherwise, tell me honestly, who notices the Urdu press in India? Being a journalist, it is his right to interview anybody but it should not become a public relations exercise. The way Modi’s photo was printed on the cover surely smacks of something else. Otherwise in the same Nai Duniya, Modi has always been shown as something of a devil.”

Criticism has also been levelled at the intent of the interview. “It’s laughable that Modi hopes of reaching out to the Muslims through an interview when over a lakh Muslims are still languishing in camps and living a life worse than animals,” says Khan Mohd Aatif, a renowned Muslim intellectual and former two-time BJP MLA from Lucknow. “Some kind of give-and-take must have happened between Modi and Siddiqui. But they don’t realise that the Muslim awam is not a fool.”

A senior Muslim leader of the Samajwadi Party admits that the party, especially the Muslim leadership, was taken aback by the interview. “When Muslims form a core of your votebank and one of your spokespersons goes ahead and interviews Modi, what more needs to be done to rile the community?” he says on condition of anonymity. “Modi might have thought of this as a wise move, but I don’t think the community that has seen such a massive pogrom, is going to be fooled by this interview. Just saying I am ready to be hanged, does not change anything. You are ruling the state with an iron hand, who will hang you?”

Nai Duniya’s edition dated 30 July

Interestingly, the interview has not only incensed the Muslims of UP, the Gujarat BJP, too, seems upset and has gone to party president Nitin Gadkari over it. Party insiders feel that in an attempt to portray an inclusive image for himself, Modi has risked the party’s votebank in Gujarat. Senior leaders in the state unit have asked Gadkari to instruct Modi to chalk out a strategy for the upcoming Assembly elections, and not concentrate on the general election. A senior minister known to be a Modi rival has told Gadkari that they risk losing the Gujarat election if Modi carries on with his campaign for the 2014 Lok Sabha election, as the BJP will then be seen to have compromised on its Hindutva stand.

In fact, Gadkari has reportedly told a senior RSS leader close to Modi that he should first save his chair in the state. Only then can he have the luxury of appeasing the minorities in 2014.

While many in the capital are hailing this interview as a Modi masterstroke, Khan Mohd Aatif says the wounds are too deep to be healed by interviews alone. “If it is a question of Modi hoping to appease, then he is up against it,” he says.

Brijesh Pandey is a Special Correspondent with Tehelka. 
brijesh@tehelka.com

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My interventions in media through FACEBOOK - Ghulam Muhammed, Mumbai

My interventions in media through FACEBOOK

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Madhu Trehan

2 minutes ago

Ghulam Muhammed

• I have watched your presentation on NDTV on the subject of Anna Hazare and his movement. I felt your presentation suffered with acute personalized view without giving any quarters for rational and historical perspective to the going ons. Just because you do not like this old business of religiousness mode of public mobilization, given possibly your 'modern' background, you cannot deny that not only it has worked in the past and even now it worked, or seasoned politicians like Congress as well as RSS/BJP both would not have descended on the scene with unusual alacrity. Granted there is a difference between perception and reality; the age of communication is now overwhelming geared to perception. On that count, a nondescript person, from a remote village did attract, not only physical massing of masses of whatever counting, but had registered his own solid record of 4 decades of fighting corruption, successfully in his own state of Maharashtra, with the people at large at national and even international level. He got ministers and babus resigning in Maharashtra, without any approach to courts. Only his public agitation and that too without big crowds, did succeed in bringing shame to politicians and bureaucrats and forcing them to resign. It is natural for him and Team Anna to adopt him to go national. Now just because a Madhu Trehan, feel fasting and hoisting a single person is immoral, fascist, or antiquated, which is quite so in essence if an argument is woven around it. But here it forced the political establishment to at least move some distance over Lokpal bill; which the parliamentarians on their own could not achieve for last 40+ years. Anna and his team should at least be acknowledged as catalysts.
  
  I felt with your credentials as journalist with a keen mind, you could have possessed an open mind to see other people's perspective too and realized how your public argument was flawed by your personal prejudices.

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George Alagiah

2 hours ago

Ghulam Muhammed

• I saw your Mixed Britannia. It asked 2 questions. Why Germany acted against race mixing while England was against race profiling and more accommodating to mixed relationship. Don't get surprised if I come out with a politically incorrect analysis. The key to a correct diagnosis of the problem is the presence of Jews in the 2 societies. In Germany, Hitler movement was against Jews. In England, Jews were more assimilated and were able to push multi-culturism for their own protection.
  
  Second question: Why England recruited the mixed soldier class from the colonies to 'serve the mother land'. England needed soldiers and had to depended on colonies for recruits. Moody question was addressed and solved, as there was no choice. 'The Empire would have broken up.' Naturally, those that remained back on the island and that arrived later when post-war economy had to be powered by immigrant labour ; interactions between races was inevitable and UK tolerated it, and will tolerate till the time, it does not need them. Jews will be in the forefront of sending immigrants back home.
  
  Moral: Do not underplay role of the Jews, good or bad. They must be given their full exposure. Without putting them in place, none of our analysis will be complete and tenable.

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The mystery behind Pune serial Bomb blasts ? By Ahmed Sohail Siddiqui - bismillahnews.com

http://www.bismillahnews.in/?page_id=1027

The mystery behind Pune serial


Bomb blasts ?







Photo Courtesy: New Indian Express - [Bismillahnews.in-01-08-12-New Delhi-Sohail Siddiqui]




By Ahmed Sohail Siddiqui

Does any civilized country welcomes its first Dalit Home-Minister in such a fashion as Brahmins have? The resentment to tolerate a Dalit in the most powerful seat by the caste Hindus is an open indication that either the Dalit Home Minister Sushil kumar Shinde has to continue with the policies of his caste Hindu Uppercaste precede rs namely LK Advani,Shivraj Viswanath Patil and P Chidambaram or there would be more Diwali.Poor shinde with in 24 hours of this threat publicly announce that the policies of P Chidambaram were correct and he would continue with them.The scared Home-Minister cancelled his first visit as home-minister to Pune encouraging the moral of Fascist Brahmins.

Since Independence after 27 home ministers in various congress and non-congress governments Sushil kumar Shinde is the 28th and first Dalit Home-Minister of India.This post in the past has been handed over to only to three persons from minorities Mufti Mohammed Saeed, Sardar Buta Singh and Giani Zail Singh.Below is the complete list of Home-Ministers since Independence.

# Picture Name State Term Began Term Ended Prime Minister(s) served under

1 Vallabhbhai Jhaverbhai Patel Gujurat 15 August 1947 15 December 1950 Jawaharlal Nehru

2 Chakravarti Rajagopalachari Tamil Nadu 26 December 1950 25 October 1951 Jawaharlal Nehru

3 - Kailash Nath Katju Madhya Pradesh 1951 1955 Jawaharlal Nehru

4 - Govind Ballabh Pant Uttaranchal 1955 1961 Jawaharlal Nehru

5 Lal Bahadur Shastri Uttar Pradesh 4 April 1961 29 August 1963 Jawaharlal Nehru

6 Gulzarilal Nanda Punjab Province (British India) 29 August 1963 14 November 1966 Jawaharlal Nehru

8 Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi Uttar Pradesh 27 June 1970 4 February 1973 Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi

9 Uma Shankar Dikshit Uttar Pradesh 1973 1974 Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi

10 Kasu Brahmananda Reddy Andhra Pradesh 

11 Chaudhary Charan Singh Uttar Pradesh 24 March 1977 1 July 1978 Morarji Desai

12 Morarji Desai Gujarat 1 July 1978 28 July 1979 Morarji Desai

13 Yashwantrao Balwantrao Chavan Maharashtra 28 July 1979 14 January 1980 Chaudhary Charan Singh

14 Giani Zail Singh Punjab January 14, 1980 June 22, 1982 Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi

15 Ramaswamy Venkataraman Tamil Nadu 22 June 1982 2 September 1982 Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi

16 Prakash Chandra Sethi Madhya Pradesh Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi

17 Pamulaparti Venkata Narasimha Rao Andhra Pradesh 19 July 1984 31 December 1984 Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi

18 Shankarrao Bhavrao Chavan Maharashtra 31 December 1984 12 March 1986 Rajiv Ratna Gandhi

19 Pamulaparti Venkata Narasimha Rao Andhra Pradesh 12 March 1986 12 May 1986 Rajiv Ratna Gandhi

20 Sardar Buta Singh Punjab 1986 1989 Rajiv Ratna Gandhi

21 Mufti Mohammad Sayeed Jammu and Kashmir 1989 1990 Vishwanath Pratap Singh

22 Chandra Shekhar Singh Uttar Pradesh 10 November 1990 21 June 1991 Chandra Shekhar Singh

23 Shankarrao Bhavrao Chavan Maharashtra 21 June 1991 May 1996 Pamulaparti Venkata Narasimha Rao

24 Indrajit Gupta West Bengal 1996 1998 Haradanahalli Doddegowda Deve Gowda

Inder Kumar Gujral

25 Lal Kishanchand Advani Sind Province 19 March 1998 22 May 2004 Atal Bihari Vajpayee

26 Shivraj Vishwanath Patil Chandigarh 22 May 2004 30 November 2008 Manmohan Singh

27 Chidambaram Palaniappan Tamil Nadu 30 November 2008 - Manmohan Singh

Defusing the unexploded bomb : Photo Courtesy: New Indian Express

Who is behind these blasts?

One thing is clear to the government that the hold of Brahmans when ever is loosened on the sensitive Home-Ministry they blackmail the government and the country in such fashion.The doubt in this case is on moles with the police force who could have done this.The first day statement by government sources were claiming that a Hindu injured victim carrying the bomb packet on his bicycle was the prime suspect and with in hours the Maharashtra police said they have no evidence and CCTV coverage due to non functioning of cameras could not be procured. [ http://newindianexpress.com/nation/article581929.ece ] Helpless the angle of investigation turned its finger of suspicion on patent "Indian Mujahideen".So friends the policies adopted by LK Advani followed by Shivraj Patil and P Chidambaran are intact even in the rule of first Dalit Home Minister.[ http://newindianexpress.com/nation/article581883.ece ]

Will Anti-Muslim policy of Brahmins help secular India?

For a short time during UPA-1 it looked like Chidambaram by laying his hands on saffron terrorists is moving judiciously in the right direction to catch the terrorists. But the saffron brigade netted him in scams and bargained with him to retain LK Advani formed policies in Home-Ministry.His last four months saw almost all saffron terrorists getting bail on the ground of no charge sheet by CBI/SIT.SIT gave total clean chit to MODI and states successfully have initiated new pattern of Anti-Muslim violence from kosi-kalan,esthaan,Bharatpur,Adoni etc and most importantly in Assam beating all previous records.The conspiracy angle in the post godhra Anti-Muslim pogrom which should have put LK Advani, Narendra Modi and thousands of right wing workers, politicians behind bars was totally demolished, courtesy Teesta Setalvad and her NGO fooling Muslim victims.Work done satisfactorily Chidambaram is back in finance Ministry handing over the charge to Brahmin bureaucracy with Shinde a Dalit HM remaining a show boy only. 

The batton now has been passed on to a Dalit Home-Minister who is himself a victim of Brahman terrorism after the pune serial blasts so what can be expected from him ?

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(The writer is Editor in Chief of web-magazine: bismillahnews.com)

Homeless in Kokrajhar - By Subrata Nagchaudhury - The Sunday (Indian) Express - Mumbai

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/homeless-in-kokrajhar/980803/0

Homeless in Kokrajhar

Subrata Nagchoudhury : Sun Jul 29 2012,

A road slices Gokulkata village in Kokrajhar into two. On one side lived its Muslim residents, on the other the Bodos. But after four days of rioting, no one lives here any more.

What’s left in Gokulkata are rows of burnt houses. The houses with bamboo poles and tin shades have been reduced to ashes while the once-concrete houses are now just sooty walls. Bodies of dead ducks and goats lie amongst the debris. The living have all fled and no one knows when they will be back.

In the past week, villages across Kokrajhar have emptied out, leaving behind burnt homes and an eerie silence.

On Wednesday, Idris Ali walked 35 km with seven others from his family and four cattle from his village Sapkata to the Hatidhura relief camp, only to find it full. So, he continued walking, looking for a relief camp that would take him in.

Ali says the attack on his village last week looked like it had the patronage of the administration. The attackers, he says, came in green camouflage outfits and were seen talking to local security forces before they targeted Muslim houses.

At Tamahata relief camp, Azizul Haque from Moktaigaon village relives the attack that nearly killed him. “I was fired at from close range and a bullet grazed my stomach. I was taken to Gosaigaon hospital first and then to Kokrajhar hospital where again a group of Bodo youth attacked me. I am alive only by Allah’s grace,” says Haque.

At another relief camp in Jaraguri in Gosaigaon block of Kokrajhar, where 3,400 Bodo refugees are taking refuge, Longshri Basumatary of Burichitam village is still perplexed over how the relationship between the two communities soured so quickly. “We had extremely cordial relations with our Muslim neighbours. We used to go to their houses, have tea with them, share meals with them and they too would come over to our homes. The same people set fire to our houses and drove us out,” she says.

Bhadreshwar Basumatary, a forest guard in the camp, says that for the last few years he has been cultivating his one-acre farm along with Muslim farmers in his village Dawaguri. The Muslim farmers tilled his land and he would share his produce with them. They also took care of his banana orchard. With the relationship between the Muslims and Bodos now turning bitter, Bhadreshwar is worried about who will tend to his paddy crop.

Simmering discontent

Trouble in Kokrajhar had been brewing for the last few weeks after minority student unions and non-Bodo tribes began pressing their demand for greater representation in the Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC). On July 6, two Muslim youths were shot at. Suspicion fell on the Bodos. Nearly a fortnight later, on July 20, more violence followed. Pradip Bodo, a former cadre of the Bodoland Liberation Tigers (BLT), and three of his friends were killed, which triggered full-scale rioting.

The riots have brought onto the surface simmering tensions between the two communities. Ever since the clashes between Bodos and migrant Muslim groups in 2008, Kokrajhar, the seat of administration of the BTC, has held an uneasy peace. The area under the BTC’s jurisdiction has seen undercurrents of tension even after the Bodo Accord of 2003.

Rashmi Kant Basumatary, a Bodo leader who is overseeing the Gambaribil relief camp, says the rioting may have ceased but it’s “certainly not the end of it.” “The Muslims have been trying to assert themselves more and more in recent times. Several student bodies of the minorities are spearheading this campaign,” says Rashmi.

At the root of the problem is a “crisis of land”, he says. “They (Muslims) need land to expand as their population is growing.”

Meanwhile, Maulana Badruddin Ajmal, an MP of the All India United Democratic Front from Dhubri, says Muslims have been uprooted in a planned manner with the help of the administration.

There are a number of reasons underlying the tension between the Muslims and Bodos in Kokrajhar. Discrimination is one of them. Minorities and non-Bodo tribes feel only the Bodos have benefited from the setting up of the BTC.

The BTC, says Sarath Narzary, former principal of the Kokrajhar Government College, has not been able to fulfill the aspirations of the people. “It has been constrained with limited powers and limited resources and has proved beneficial for a handful of people. Non-Bodo communities feel that the creation of the BTC has opened up vast opportunities for the Bodo people, which, in fact, is not true. This feeling that ‘they are enjoying the fruits of power while we are deprived’ could be one of the prime causes of the worsening relations between the Bodos and the non-Bodos,” says Narzary.

The issues of discontent are many. Population pressures, land rights, self determination, illegal migration and occupation all led to a tipping point. Khampa Borgoyri, deputy chief of the BTC, says it’s time the council undertakes a survey of the land holding status within the BTC area. “We are sure that over 35 per cent of government vacant khas land has been encroached upon by illegal settlers,” he says.

The region has seen much violence in the last few years. U G Brahma, former president of the All Bodo Students’ Union (ABSU) and a former Rajya Sabha member, says at least 200 Bodos have been killed in the last couple of years in isolated attacks from unidentified assailants.

The last few years have also seen mounting pressure from Muslim groups to dissolve the BTC and also to exclude those areas from the BTC where the Bodos are not in a majority. Bodos, says Ajmal, constitute only 27 per cent of the population of the BTC.

The growing clamour against Bodo influence has culminated in the formation of a Non-Bodo Suraksha Samity, which, according to political sources, wants to bring various non-Bodo communities under one umbrella. At the helm of its activity are surrendered ULFA members, extreme Left outfits and various Muslim student bodies.

Moinuddin, president of the All Bodoland Minority Students’ Union, alleges that the Bodos want to increase their numbers in the BTC and push for a separate state. “The recent flare-up coincides with the raising of demands for a separate statehood of Bodoland,” he says.

As the accusations and counter-accusations continue, in the relief camps across Kokrajhar, villagers dream of the day they will return home.

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As Tensions in India Turn Deadly, Some Say Officials Ignored Warning Signs - By Gardiner Harris - The New York Times

The delay in getting army to step in, holds the key to Assam State Government's sinister policy to fish in the muddle waters and using carrot and stick approach, prepare for the next elections. It is downright a criminal act, when State itself by its acts of commission or omission, is directly responsible for deaths, destruction and mass exodus due to ethnic cleansing. Those responsible for the security, either in the state or at the center, should be made to resign and stand trial.

Ghulam Muhammed, Mumbai
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As Tensions in India Turn Deadly, Some Say Officials Ignored Warning Signs

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Women from the Bodo tribe, which is feeling squeezed by Muslims from Bangladesh, at a relief camp on Thursday in Assam State.

By GARDINER HARRIS

Published: July 28, 2012

NEW DELHI — There is a numbing familiarity to the riots that struck the eastern Indian state of Assam this month, leaving 48 dead and 400,000 people homeless. The violence had been building for months and even years — thousands of years.

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Recent clashes in Kokrajhar reflected years of tensions.

So why, critics ask, were the authorities caught by surprise despite clear warnings of impending conflict?

“The district authorities should have seen the tension building up and acted sooner to prevent the kind of violence that we have seen since,” said Meenakshi Ganguly, South Asia director of Human Rights Watch.

The Bodo tribe in the finger of land between Bangladesh and Bhutan has long been feeling squeezed by Muslim Bengalis immigrating from Bangladesh, one of the most densely populated countries on the planet. In addition to having less communal ideas about land ownership than the Bodos, the Bengalis, whose numbers are growing, increasingly threaten the Bodos’ dream of having an independent state.

The Bodos, many of whom have been converted to Christianity, now represent just 10 percent of Assam’s population of 31 million, but have ancestral claims to roughly half of its land.

Four years ago, Bodos and Bengalis, who speak different languages, clashed in Assam, leaving 70 people dead. Tensions began to build anew on May 29, when a local Muslim youth group called for a strike in Kokrajhar to protest the removal of a signboard from a mosque. A series of drive-by killings followed until generalized violence exploded on July 19.

State officials said they were caught unaware. “We had requisitioned the army on the very first day, but it took four, five days for the forces to reach the state,” Tarun Gogoi, chief minister of Assam, said Friday at a news conference.

U. G. Brahma, a former member of Parliament from the region, said police and other government officials did nothing to stop the violence for several days. “This is a deliberate act of negligence,” Mr. Brahma said in a telephone interview.

Mr. Gogoi said no further violence had been reported for at least two days, although bodies from earlier outbreaks continued to be found and homes were still being burned.
Mr. Gogoi rejected the charge that the government was slow in its response and said he had no intelligence before the rioting suggesting the need for troops. Such riots have been part of India’s history since its violent birth in 1947, but its roots go back far longer.

Indians’ genetic variability is vast. Scores of languages are spoken, 15 of which appear on the nation’s currency. The Hindu, Muslim, Christian and Buddhist religions are all strongly represented.

And then there is the issue of land, a scarce resource in a nation of nearly 1.2 billion people.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh visited two relief camps in Kokrajhar on Saturday. He called the fighting “a blot” on India, The Associated Press reported, and promised to provide $3,600 to each family of those killed and $900 to those seriously injured.

Sultan Alam, a member of a Muslim student group in Assam, called for an inquiry by the nation’s top law enforcement agency. “The minority community here has been ruined by the violence,” he said in a telephone interview, demanding more benefits for Muslims. “We just want our rightful share in everything.” A representative of a rival Bodo student group could not be reached for comment.

Opposition lawmakers accuse the Congress Party, the dominant party in the governing coalition, of turning a blind eye to the immigrant issue, since Muslims tend to support the coalition.

Vijay Goel, general secretary of the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party, said the influence of Muslim immigrants in elections had grown too great. “We want the illegal immigrants to be identified and deported,” he said, according to news media reports.

At the news conference, Mr. Gogoi said politics played no role in his decision making and blamed his political opponents for the violence. “The situation has flared up because of the N.D.A. regime,” he said, referring to the National Democratic Alliance, an opposition coalition that includes the Bharatiya Janata Party. “It is not me who is playing vote bank politics. I do not need a single vote of the illegal migrants.”

Bengali Muslims have been a significant part of Assam’s population since India’s founding, and separating the recent arrivals from those who have been in the state for decades would be difficult. Each side in the conflict has long-held grievances.

Ms. Ganguly said the state should have done far more in recent years to ease tensions. “This is a battle over resources, not religion,” she said.

Mr. Gogoi promised action.“The only solution to these waves of ethnic conflicts is development, and tomorrow the state government will seek some kind of development package from the prime minister,” Mr. Gogoi said Friday, joining a long line of state officials seeking more money from India’s central government.

Malavika Vayawahare contributed reporting from New Delhi, and Samrat from Mumbai, India.