In the sunrise of bipolar politics BJP has the best chance to be the alternative

By Rajendra Prabhu

In the final count the Indian polity has now a chance to work out a largely two-party system between the Congress and the BJP. This is the huge gain from the election. To see this election as an endorsement of one party and defeat of the other is to overlook the larger picture.

The winner takes all in this election game as in a Russian roulette. And the ifs and buts of history are scattered around for the academicians to analyse like the hidden clues in a forensic investigation. But I am not going into the numbers game as all the political astrologers and the private practitioners of the game have eaten the dust.

For the first time in half a century the Marxists have been right in admitting their wrong. Their politburo has said post-election that the Third Front that their leadership floated with such passion was “neither credible, nor viable”. In reality, the joker in the pack was that Third Front of such disparate elements and personal power-seekers as Jayalalithaa and Mayawati, each one with her own bloated importance and assorted others with their limited agenda.

Prakash Karat, who had Dr Manmohan Singh twisted around his thumb in the first four and half years of the UPA rule, set up this Third Front game hoping to field such a combine of contradictory elements that they would all be at his doors every second day for the saving formula as they fight among themselves—reminding us of the days of the Janata Dal-led governments of 1996-1998, which were put together and sustained by Karat’s predecessor.

That the Third Front would be “neither credible nor viable”, even an infant in politics could discern. And the Marxists are not kids, nor Karat a babe in the wood. They wanted this unviable combo to rise to power because that way the Left could still dictate the terms and Karat could be the kingmaker as Surjeet had been for two years in the mid-90s. The Karat dream of enabling communists to dominate the power structure even though they have just three states out of 28 under their influence came tumbling down like Jack and Jill in the nursery rhyme when the electorate—the wise Indian electorate—pulled the rug from under the Third Front. In fact the idea of the country being ruled by the combo of dog-eating-dog so scared the people that they went all the way to ensure that the right to rule would go to a single national party.

The countrywide scare at the Third Front pack was so wide spread and so troubled the people that they went overboard, it seemed. Just like in 1977 when they evicted the Congress from power using the Janata Party and then in 1980 they punished the Janata Party for its bickering with clean sweeps. Even the most knowledgeable among the Congress leaders did not expect anything beyond 160 to 180 for the party by itself and maybe 200 or 215 with its remaining allies. Scared by the prospects of continuous instability of ever-changing governments, the people did not want to leave anything to chance.

Public memory is not so short as to forget that the Deve Gowda-led government lasted one year, the successor Gujral government another 12 months—and before that the VP Singh government just 11 months and the Chandra Shekhar breakaway rule hardly five months. And that Prakash Karat was threatening the Dr Singh-led government with overthrow every second day, the public anxiety at any tottering ruling combine was understandable and their choosing a largely stable one a tribute to their political sagacity.

It may be difficult for the BJP, which has been relegated to the second position, to be satisfied at the over-all scenario. But if it has the national vision of a two-party system in the country that was threatened by a fractured politics, its leader must thank God that it has all worked out this way. Don’t look at your own loss in the finals, look at all the others who have been swept away, leaving the board uncluttered by the Mayawatis, the Jayalalithaas, Chandrasekhar Raos, the little satraps and the big bullies, the tails that seemed to wag the dogs and the dogs that barked but had no teeth to bite. See what has happened to the PMK and MDMK for instance—Vaiko wanted Indian army to march into Sri Lanka, a most unwise act at this juncture and PMK’s Dr. Ambumani while in power had the entire medical community humbled to exasperation, riding to power with a community-based agenda. Little kingdoms like Telengana have been shown to be a personal agenda and big dreams like India being ruled from Lucknow and all the corners chock-a-block with statues of the queen crashed cutting to size bloated egos. It is India that has won, not so much the Congress. We now have a government that has no excuses to offer.

India winning is not a rhetoric. The decisive defeat of the extremist agenda in Kerala—an agenda that the Marxists had supported and paraded—is a huge gain. The Kerala Muslim dominated-areas have rejected the Madhani game specifically in the Ponnani constituency where the Marxists were willing even to rub their other Left allies on the wrong to woo the Islamic extremism. In UP the Amar Singhs and the Mayawatis who competed for the so-called Muslim vote bank were disappointed; and in J&K separatists and the semi-separatists were all eliminated with the moderate NC back in the reckoning.

In the final count the Indian polity has now a chance to work out a largely two-party system between the Congress and the BJP. This is the huge gain from the election. To see this election as an endorsement of one party and defeat of the other is to overlook the larger picture. One of the two national parties has the baton, the other the lynx-eyed vigil. Next time the two could change places. In the over-all picture a few exceptions may be there like Bihar and Orissa where the good image of the local leader has won an encore eclipsing the national trend. But India is not a Nano, even though the Tata product has caught the popular imagination; it is an omnibus. The test is whether the vehicle would be working, whether there is one driver for each vehicle and whether it is over-all efficient for the journey ahead taking its motley crowd along.

For the BJP, which must now sit in the opposition for five years, the challenge is to understand the demographic reality of the country and the dividend it can gain from a wider appeal. The last set of elections since 2006 have established that people by and large have moved from assertion to aspiration. In so many newspaper reports on the election scene there were mentions of villagers wanting education in public schools, English medium, and beauty parlours in slums, big buck jobs, quality goods and better life. The satellite television today reaches out to 80 million homes, a good part of it in rural areas and in poorer localities. It is transforming attitude and values. Except Bangalore, all other metros have voted for the Congress and also the cities and the large towns. The Congress had its first triumph in 20 years in the rural areas of eastern UP.

The BJP can also draw a lesson from the refusal of the electorate to put security before all other issues while its own campaign was all on its claim as the party that can secure India against terrorism. It could have foreseen that the Kandahar event would damage its main thrust in this election as a party that can secure India and settled first its own internal contradiction on who did what in that 10-year-old story.

It seems that the bulk of the Muslim community now wants to distance itself from linkage to terror—defending lawyer of the Mumbai terror accused Kasab was evicted by the Muslim Gymkhana—and aspirational agendas are making a dent among Muslim common people as they see other communities going forward through education, jobs for women and acquiring of modern skills rather than the traditional ones. Ponnani, Nandigram, Kishenganj, Jammu, so far away geographically and culturally, have just one lesson in common: everybody wants a pan-national agenda. Political parties that reinvent themselves like the Labour did in UK return to power. The big lesson of history is that people should not be prisoners of history itself.

Is Muhammad Predicted in Hindu Scriptures?

Some Comments on the Thoughts of Pundit Vedaprakash Upadhyay

Various Muslim websites have published an article concerning the Muhammad in the Hindu Scriptures. According to these articles, Hindus believe that there will be a guide and leader, called the Kalki Avatar who will rise in the last days. Many Hindus believe that the Kalki Avatar will be the 10th incarnation of the Hindu god Vishnu.

The Vishnu Purana (4.24) says:
"When the practices taught by the Vedas and the institutes of law shall nearly have ceased, and the close of the Kali age shall be nigh, a portion of that divine being who exists of his own spiritual nature in the character of Brahma, and who is the beginning and the end, and who comprehends all things, shall descend upon the earth. He will be born as Kalki in the family of an eminent brahmin of Sambhala village, endowed with the eight superhuman faculties. By his irresistible might he will destroy all the barbarians and thieves, and all whose minds are devoted to iniquity. He will then reestablish righteousness upon earth; and the minds of those who live at the end of the Kali age shall be awakened, and shall be as pellucid as crystal. The men who are thus changed by virtue of that peculiar time shall be as the seeds of human beings, and shall give birth to a race who shall follow the laws of the Krita age, the Age of Purity. As it is said, "When the sun and moon, and the luner asterism Tishya, and the planet Jupiter, are in one mansion, the Krita age shall return."

There are several men who claim to be the Kalki:
The article begins with a logical fallacy of the Appeal to Authority:
One hindu research professor, in his stunning book, claims that description of avatar found in the holy books of hindu religion is in fact that of the prophet muhammad(s.a.w). A little while ago, in India a fact revealing book has been published, which has been the topic of discussions and gossip, allover the country. Amazingly the author of this book is a fair-minded famous professor, who happens to be a Hindu. His name is Pundit Vedaprakash Upadhai and the name of his fact revealing book is "kalki avtar". The author is a hindu Brahmin by caste of Bengali origin. He is a research scholar, a seeker of the truth and a well known pundit in allahabad university. After years of research work, he published this book and other eight pundits have endorsed and certified his points of argument as authentic.

According to Hindu belief and their holy books, the description of the guide and the leader, named kalki avatar, fits that of prophet Muhammad(so.a.w)of Arabia. So the Hindus of the whole world should look into this new information not wait any longer for the arrival of kalki avatar (the spirit) as he already arrived 1400 years ago. The author produces following sound evidences from the vedas and other holy books of Hindu religion in support of his claim:-
Now we proceed to examine the proof:
1. In purana (a holy book of Hindus) it is stated that kalki avatar would be the last messenger of god in this world for the guidance of the whole world and all human beings [According to Islam, prophet Muhammad (s.a.w) is also considered the last messenger of god in this world who was sent to guide all human beings].

The Vishnu Purana does not say that the Kalki Avatar will be the last messenger. This Purana does say that the Kalki Avatar:

• Exists of his own spiritual nature in the character of Brahma
• Is the beginning and the end
• Comprehends all things
• Will be born as Kalki in the family of an eminent Brahmin of Sambhala village
• Will be endowed with the eight superhuman faculties

None of these descriptions apply to Hazarat Muhammad.
2. According to a Hindu religion prediction, the birth of kalki avatar,would take place in an isle which again according to Hindu religion is Arab region.

This is an error in geographical terminology. An isle is an island, Arabia is a peninsula.
3. In books of Hindus, the names of the father and the mother of kalki avatar are given as vishnubhagat and sumaani respectively. If we examine the meanings of these names we shall come to a very interesting conclusion: take vishnubhagat, vishnu (meaning god) + bhagat (meaning slave)= slave of god Allah (god) + abd (slave in Arabic) = slave of god (Abdullah in Arabic name of Mohammed's father)

Sumaani = peace or calmness

Aamenah (Arabic) =peace or calmness [name of mother of prophet Muhammad (s.a.w)]

This is an error in philology. In other words, if the names are literal, then they do not match. A servant of Vishnu would not be equivalent to a servant of Allah, unless one admits that Vishnu is Allah.
4. In religious books of Hindus, it is mentioned that the staple food of kalki avatar would be dates and olives and he would be the most honest and truthful person in the region. Without any doubt the prophet Muhammad (s.a.w) is acclaimed to possess these qualities.

The Hadith are a collection of oral traditions which record the most minor details of Muhammad's life and habits. He did enjoy dates, however, there is no mention of him eating olives, although there are some references to olive oil.
5. It is stated in Vedas (holy book of Hindu religion) that the birth of kalki avatar would take place in an honorable clan. This perfectly fits the quraysh where the prophet Muhammad (s.a.w) belonged to. [very honorable clan for more details u can read the history of prophet(s.a.w) to see the qualities that they possessed which made them one of the strongest clans].

No, the Vishnu Purana clearly says "He will be born as Kalki in the family of an eminent brahmin of Sambhala village". Muhammad was not born in Sambhala village, he was born in Arabia, and no one has ever claimed that Muhammad came from a Brahmin family. Additionally, is there any objective reason to believe the Quaraysh to be more honorable than other clans?
6. God would teach kalki avatar through his messenger (angel) in a cave. Allah taught prophet Muhammad (s.a.w), through is messenger angel jibraeel(gabreal) in a cave known as gaar-e-hiraa(a cave in mount hiraa).

The Purana says no such thing. Hindus believe that the Kalki Avatar is a God [Vishnu] who has been reincarnated 10 times and not a mere messenger. Muhammad claimed himself to be a messenger and would have been grossly offended by the suggestion that he was the incarnation of a Hindu God. There is a huge difference between the concept of Propethood in Islam and the concept of the Avatar in Hinduism and one cannot impose an Islamic meaning on a Hindu title.

7. God would avail kalki avatar with a very speedy horse to ride and travel the whole world and the seven skies; indication of buraaque(horse) and me'raaj (the night when prophet traveled the seven skies).

Muhammad never traveled the whole world, he was reported to have traveled to the "farthest Masjid", although, according to Ibn Ishaq's Sirat Rasulullah, Muhammad's wife Aishah claimed that his body never left the bed that night. Incidentally, this story [the Miraj] is very similar to the story of Zoroaster's ascent into the seven heavens on a mythical beast called a "Gryphon".
8. God would also avail kalki avatar with divine help. This was particularly proved in the battle of uhud.

The Kalki Avatar has, according to the Purana, "irresistible might" and is divine ["character of Brahma"]. Therefore, he does not need divine help, he provides divine help.
9. Another dazzling account given about kalki avatar was that he would be born on the 12th of a month. whereas the prophet Muhammad (s.a.w) was born on the 12th of the rabiul awwal (Islamic calendar).

This assumes that Hindus used the same calendar as Muslims. There is also disagreement among Muslims scholars concerning exactly when Muhammad was born. In fact, some Islamic sources claim that Muhammad's birthday (Mawlid) was first celebrated 3 centuries after the death of Muhammad.
10. Kalki avatar would be an excellent horse rider and a swordsman. The author here draws the attention of Hindus that the real days of horses and swords have gone and the present time is of guns and missiles. So it would be foolish on the part of those who still expect kalki avatar, who should be an excellent rider and swordsman to come. In fact, the divine book, holy qur'aan contains qualities and signs attributed to kalki avatar reflecting on the prophet Muhammad (s.a.w).

Nearly every hero in the ancient world used swords and horses, therefore, this criteria doesn't point out anyone in particular. However, some Hindus believe that the Kalki Avatar will be a machine-man, who will come to earth on a white horse with a blazing sword in his hands. This future incarnation of Vishnu will appear at the end of Kali Yuga (evil eon) and would solve the problem of Adharma (unrighteousness). He will punish all evil people in this world, destroy the world, and recreate a golden age of peace and harmony. Clearly, Muhammad did not do many of these things.
If the author of this book were a Muslim, he could have been arrested or he could have been murdered and all the copies of this book would have been confiscated; even a ban would have been extended on its further publications.

A riot and violence would have broken out against innocent Muslims and their blood would have been shed (These are just some of the things that could have happened as Muslims could have been accused of false propaganda, etc). However, these facts are verified and supported by the eight eminent Hindu pundits. What the author and the eight other eminent pundits say is that the Hindus who are still anxiously awaiting the arrival of kalki avatar are simply subjecting themselves to a never ending pain, because such a great messenger has come and departed from this world fourteen centuries ago.

This type of censorship and blatant violation of human rights would be far more common in Pakistan than in democratic and secular India. But as long as Pseudo-Secularisist continue to form government at the centre these things are natural.
Editor Note :- Salaamun Alkum Article does not say that Hindu religion is authentic religion. It is said that even Hindus knew about the last Prophet and did not excepte it is their fault Quran said . They know this Prophet like they know their sons. All Prophet predicted for the last prophet even the new and old Testament of Bible In present condition you can find about the last Prophet of Islam. So in the Day of Judgment they can't deny the Fact that they don't know who was the last Prophet.

If the author does not believe that Hinduism is an "authentic" religion, why does he appeal to Hindu scriptures? It is intellectually dangerous for Muslims to draw conclusions concerning what they believe to be the truth from sources they consider to be of questionable veracity. An Avatar is a reincarnation of a god - an idea that Muhammad would have immediately condemned as shirk, the most serious of all sins. In addition to the many factual flaws in this argument, there is another very serious problem.
The largest issue here is the moral and ethical problems associated with this type of polemic. This argument is an "outwitting" which essentially says that "the ways justify the means". In other words, Hindus should believe something, ... anything about Muhammad. Why is this a problem?
Suppose that a Hindu accepts the idea that Muhammad was the Kalki Avatar, or 10th reincarnation of the Hindu god Vishnu, would he or she be a Muslim? Or, taking this scenario a little further, suppose a large number of Hindus adopted this idea, how would they be viewed by the Ummah (Muslim Community)?

Would these people be considered Muslim or would they be another heterodox sect like the Nation of Islam, Ahmadis, Qadianis, or Bahá'ís - and would they be mistreated, persecuted, and killed as some of these groups were/are for their beliefs?

~:WHO ARE THE MOST COMMUNAL ??!!:~

BY UPANANDA BRAHMACHARI

Mr. Joyti Basu, the Ex Chief Minister of Bengal was admitted into AMRI, a specialized hospital of Kolkata, for his treatment after getting a serious injury in his bathroom some days ago.

In the course of curtsey visit to that hospital, two big communal personalities of Bengal Nurar Rahaman Barkati, the Sahi Imam of Tipu Sultan Mosque, Kolkata and Md. Idrish Ali, Leader of Minority Front performed some islamic rituals in the hospital and tied a islamic band in the hand of this veteran and legendry Communist leader for his better health.

This infamous Sahi Imam of Kolkata Tipu sultan Masjid has issued a fatwa awarding 5 Lakhs rupee for the Quwtal (beheadment) of Taslima Nasrin, a humanitarian writer appreciated by whole world. And Idrish Ali is none other than the master mind of communal riot held in Kolkata on 21.11.07 caused a direct action against the civil society in Kolkata. This Sahi Imam also paid a visit to the Singur Dharna Manch ( long sitting demonstration & agitation) organized by Mrs. Mamata Banerjee, the top leader of Trinamul Congress and Krishi Jami Jeevan Raksha Samity.

Such communal leaders are now being welcomed by all the Leftist and Rightist Political Forum and Parties for their mileage. Actually masks are unveilled now. They were communal, presently they are playing their communal cards for a permanent communal disharmony in the future Bengal. But the question is, who are the most communal ?
In the changed situation upon a backlash in the protest of SEZ in the West Bengal , the rulling Left Front Government led by the CPIM was in the backfoot from the beginning. Mr. Siddhikullah Chowdhury, Chief of Jamate Ulemae Hind (W.B) promtly appeared for the deep fishing in the troubled water . In the name of protesting SEZ , his cyclonic tour across the Bengal put more Oxygen to Muslim brethren awaiting for a revamped Islamic movement.
When the anti SEZ agitation in Singur, a Hindu majority area, was brutally knocked down for the first time by the hooligan police force of Bengal, Siddikullah perhaps yawned a lot. But he left no time to jump for saving Nandigram from SEZ, as this area eventually populated by his Muslim brethren. Afterwards Siddikullah’s huge rallies in different places at Bhangore, Deganga, Baruipur and in other Muslim majority districts, put off sleep of the CPIM top leader. In every corners of Bengal, in the name of protest SEZ, Mr. Siddikullah tried to consolidate muslim vote bank before the ensuing Panchayet Election in West Bengal. In a very communal manner they preached their religious good to capture the Bengal by muslim fanaticism.
It was not desirable by the CPIM think-tanks, as they always sponsored the muslim communalism in Bengal, in the interest of winning the election by Muslim vote bank. To take over the control upon the loosing situation, the CPIM created a new wing, Jamat-e-Ulemae-Bangla to have a rapport with the unsettled Muslim people. More over, Mr. Joyti Basu the apostle of Bengali Marxist and the Chief Mentor of the ruling Buddha Bhattacharya led Left Front Govt. , declared clearly that Jamate Ulmae Hind (JUH) is a communal force as they have communal records and there is no non-Muslim members in the JUH. ( Thank God ! upon the subsequent plea the BJP cannot be termed as communal as they have Nazma Hepatullah , Mukhtar A Naqvi or the Sehenawaj Hussain as very honoured members and active leaders).
Though Mr. Siddhikullah vehemently protested Mr. Joyti Basu, but they did not spare a single rally of JUH without distribution of pamphlets, booklets etc. highlighting Jehads , Pan Islamic Ideas or Glorification of Saddam Hossian by some hard-core activists, covertly or overtly . Simply in the name of protesting SEZ, the JUH engineered a new dimension to rule over the politics in Bengal. Critics may narrate the revival of the ghost of Salimullah ( Founder of Muslim League in 1906 ) in the shape of Siddikullah again, just after 100 years.
However, the ruling LF are not ready to leave the ground any way. Consequently they invited Mr. Sayed Ahamed Bukhari , the Sahi Imam of Jama Masjid, Delhi for his guest appearance in Bengal to win the heart of annoyed Muslim people. But the experience of Sahi Imam was too bitter at Nandigram on 12.06.07, including a total rejection there. Immediately he cancelled his planned tour in the nine Muslim majority districts in W.B. as a state guest.On his way to returning Delhi , at Kolkata Air Port, he praised the LF Govt. as a saviour of Muslim in Bengal and depicted Siddhikullah as a destroyer of communal harmony in Bengal. Earlier the Sahi Imam of Delhi was greeted by the Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya at Writers Buildings, Kolkata on 11.06.07.
Every body knows the Sahi Imam’s orthodox approach for anything. The Bukharis- Abdullah or Sayed Ahmed all are same in spreading intolerence and intoxication for upholding the Islamic Fundametalism in India. May it be the case of Sahabanu , commom civil code , the case of population control or the Islamic Terrorism sponsored by the ISI or the spreading of the Islamic Jehad through Madrasha Curriculum, the propoganda of the Imams are same, not the Nation but the Islamic India. This school is now accepted by the CPIM for their advantage. Now these men are made natural allay of the so-called Secular and Scientific Party like CPIM.
But this is not a new thing in the history of Communist Party of India.The Gangadhar Adhikary-Sajjad Jaheer Thesis or the staunch advocacy of “Right to Secession” by Mujaffar Ahmed known as Kaka Saheb , helped a lot for the partition of India as they thought that “The Pakistan is just progressive and national demand”. Mr. Joyti Basu, then a trade union leader, appeared directly for the partition meeting at the foot of Ochterlony Monument on 16.08.1946 convened by the Muslim League. As a result Calcutta witnessed the Great Calcutta killing and a massive Hindu Carnage in 1946. The festoons and flags of CPI and Muslim League were seen tied in the same rope. The tie-up with the Muslim fanatics by the communist has made a communal tradition in India. After independence the Namboodripad Govt. in Kerala declared Mallapuram as a first Muslim District in India. Now the Chief Minister of W.B, Buddhadeb Bhattacharya is likely to set up a Minority University upon Aligarh model to optimise the Islamic Fundamentalism in intelectual level. The Aligarh line promoted the intelectual base for muslim seperatism in pre-independence India. Now Buddhadev Bhattacharya is fully backing the Madrashas and allowing special provision for employment , financial help and maximum package to the Muslims.The borders of West Bengal have turned as a extended teritory of Islamic Bangladesh, rather ISI base camp to convert India as a Islamic country. Such a pro-muslim, pro-fanatic line taken up by the present CPIM in W.B is only the reflection of hoary past. Very recently top CPIM leaders like Md. Selim,M.P., Abdus Satter, M.L.A. attended a meeting in Muslim Institute, Kolkata, convened by Jamat e Islami Hind. The equation is now like that : Jamat e Ulemae Hind nearer to Trinamul Congress and Jamat e Islami Hind nearer to CPIM. What a secular situation !! We also see the SIMI (a banned Islamic Jehadi Group responsible for all the major blasts took place in India) friends like Amar Sing with Mamata Banerjee who intends to be Mamtaz Bibi or Khatun ( God knows) through her muslim appeasements.
The anti SEZ agitation in Bengal may be equaled with the peoples anti establishment movement to end up a 32 years dictatorship , cadre-raj and all round degradation of so-called pro people L.F Govt. in Bengal. Everybody now wants to capture the power by taking the mileage from SEZ movement . There are ‘Krishi Jami Raksha Committee’connected with Ms. Mamata Banerjee or the ‘Bhoomi Uchchhed Protirodh Committee’ etc. in full swing . But the naxalite groups launched a separate platfrom named ‘Gana Unnayan O Jana Adhikar Mancha’, again. Veteran naxalite leader Santosh Rana has a key role to boost up political planning for Peoples Democratic Conference of India (PDCI), highlighting Mulana Siddhikullah Chowdhury as a unanimous leader of Bengal. This naxalite groups and so-called human right activists protest brutal police firing at Nandigram on 14.03.07 and Singur earlier . But they relish the blood bath of 55 police scurity personnel at Bijpur, Chattishgarh on 15.03.07. The Maoist group finished the lives of these sleeping security men with a massive grenade attack upon a police chowki at Rani Bodali. This naxalites with anti SEZ and Siddikullah always convey their red salute to the trigger-happy activists of different maoist, ML groups in Purulia , Bankura ,West Medinipur or elsewere in India and outside. Naxalites have successfully penetrated in anti SEZ movements in W.B. This will move the Bengal in the Andhra, Bihar or Jharkhnad line. Obviously, this naxalites have no botheration about the growing Islamic Fundamentalism in India . They want power anyway showing the bogey of Hindu Fundamantalism which is nothing but a far fetched idea.
Now the naxalite generated PDCI , already held its 2nd state conferrence on 23rd June at Muslim Institute , Kolkata. PDCI announced to contest everywhere in the Panchayet Election, filing the Muslim and Pro Muslim Dalit candidates everywhere. Afterwards PDCI successfully won many seats in three stage Panchayet election in Bengal to register their communal entry in Bengal Politics.
If BJP wins seats, the situation is communal enough. But the victory of PDCI or Muslim League is not injurious to the health of Secular India or Progressive Bengal. O.K. We may extend more appeasement to be more secular. But in the ground reality, once we gave importance to Mr. Jinnah in the pre-independence and paid a cost of separation. Now imposing that importance upon Siddhikullah , Bukhari or Barkatis shall invite the same repetation . Who can say no ?
As a result of it, the unholy spirits of Islamic fundamentalism have been trying successfully to capture every nook of our motherland.

The UPA in the central and the LF in the W.B has the same stand to promote the policy of Muslim appeasement. And the Siddhikullah , Bukharis or Barkatis are gaining strength more and more to divide the country again under the regime of Pan Islamic Fundamentalism with the help of Secular Political Parties of India. We have to find out the root cause in Quranic Doctrine for this . Then the question captioned for this article may be answered without any hesitation.

Taliban-Style Justice Stirs Growing Anger
Sharia Being Perverted, Pakistanis Say

"Islam is our identity and our system of life, but variety and choice are part of it. People should dress modestly, but women don't have to cover their faces and men don't have to grow long beards," said Khurshid Ahmad, an Islamic scholar and national legislator.

[My addition: If Islam is the identity of Pakistan where Muslims are in majority what is our identity (Indians), where Hindus are in Majority??!! Hence such dangerous concepts ("Islam is our identify") propagated by Pakistani Media and their rotten legislatures, is a danger to the society and to the world community, as a whole. Just tell me what is the identity of Hindus, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists, etc. living for years in Pakistan?? Are they also be considered Muslims??!! Hence sooner this country and such other countries which propagate these kinds of dangerous concepts, are dissolved by the UNO better will be for the world community. The concept of Pakistan worked out by the British and supported by our Congress and Communist friends at that time (during the time of Partition of India) was a blunder and crime on India and Indians]

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- When black-turbaned Taliban fighters demanded in January that Islamic sharia law be imposed in Pakistan's Swat Valley, few alarm bells went off in this Muslim nation of about 170 million.

On the left is the photo of Pakistanis waving their national flag and chanting anti-Taliban slogans at a rally in Islamabad. The Taliban's draconian practices have horrified many Pakistanis.

Sharia, after all, is the legal framework that guides the lives of all Muslims.

Officials said people in Swat were fed up with the slow and corrupt state courts, scholars said the sharia system would bring swift justice, and commentators said critics in the West had no right to interfere.

Today, with hundreds of thousands of people fleeing Swat and Pakistani troops launching an offensive to drive out the Taliban forces, the pendulum of public opinion has swung dramatically. The threat of "Talibanization" is being denounced in Parliament and on opinion pages, and the original defenders of an agreement that authorized sharia in Swat are in sheepish retreat.

The refugees are the "victims of ignorant cavemen masquerading as fighters of Islam," columnist Shafqat Mahmood charged in the News International newspaper Friday. He said that the "barbarian horde" that invaded Swat never intended to implement a sharia-based judicial system and that they just used it as cover. "This is a fight for power, not Islam," he wrote.

Such widely expressed views make a clear and careful distinction between the Taliban version of Islam -- often described as narrow-minded, intolerant and punitive -- and what might be called the mainstream Pakistani version of Islam, which is generally described as moderate and flexible.

Pakistan is a vast country with many sects and varieties of Islam, but experts here said most Pakistani Muslims agree that their religion has two complementary aspects. One is a set of unchangeable principles that guide their behavior, values, faith and relationships. The other is a practical application of these principles, which may adapt and evolve according to changing times and conditions, including war, weather, technology and taste.

"Islam is our identity and our system of life, but variety and choice are part of it. People should dress modestly, but women don't have to cover their faces and men don't have to grow long beards," said Khurshid Ahmad, an Islamic scholar and national legislator.

"The Koran is very clear that there should be no coercion in religion. You cannot cram it down people's throats. This is where the Taliban destroyed their own case."

Yet the demand for sharia courts in Swat was not just a Taliban fiction. It was the result of deep public dissatisfaction with a secular state court system criticized across the country as slow and corrupt, with cases dragging on for decades and influential people often able to buy off police and win cases over their poor adversaries. Islamic courts are generally smaller, faster and cheaper.

Under Pakistan's constitution, both types of courts function, but sharia courts have limited jurisdiction over certain crimes such as extramarital sex and murder. Sharia court judges have legal as well as religious training, and their verdicts can be appealed to state superior courts; nowhere do they have the kind of absolute powers the Taliban sought in Swat.

In March, many Pakistanis were horrified when a videotape surfaced that showed Taliban enforcers publicly whipping a teenage girl in Swat accused of having an affair. But experts here said this summary punishment without evidence or trial was un-Islamic and had nothing to do with sharia.

They said that if the girl had been brought before a real sharia court, the case would have been judged according to extremely high standards of proof, including testimony by four witnesses to the alleged illicit relations, and thus she might have gone free.

"When people talk about sharia law and punishments like cutting off a thief's hand, they don't realize there are 13 preconditions that have to be met before that punishment is ordered. That's why nobody's hand is ever cut off here," said Raja Zafar ul-Haq, an Islamic scholar and political activist.

In theory, he said, there is no contradiction between Islam and democracy in Pakistan. The constitution says no law may contradict the Koran or the teachings of the prophet Muhammad. But in practice, the state justice system is so slow and biased that people are fed up.

"Unless there are major reforms," he said, "the demand for sharia may spread all over the country."

There is a growing movement in mosques and seminaries throughout Pakistan today to abolish the modern justice system and make sharia the supreme law of the land. Radical Islamic clerics in major cities give emotional weekly sermons, urging their followers to turn from decadent Western ways and spread vigorous moral purity.

Yet Pakistan has had bitter experiences with the overzealous application of sharia, especially when it has been combined with force. During the military dictatorship of Mohammed Zia ul-Haq from 1977 to 1988, a system of "Islamization" was imposed that mandated extreme sharia punishments, including stoning and flogging, for committing adultery and drinking alcohol.

These laws, which were known as the Hudood Ordinance and were finally amended and reformed in 2006, inflicted particular suffering on women. For one thing, if a woman tried to accuse a man of rape, she often ended up being found guilty of adultery and punished severely, while the man went free for lack of evidence.

Criticism of such draconian practices, which faded after Zia's death in 1988, has suddenly revived as horror stories of Taliban-style justice have filtered out of the Swat Valley. Newspapers are filled with letters from readers expressing outrage at the perversion of Islam being perpetrated there and warning that the Taliban is trying to force a modern country back to medieval times.

And yet some observers have noticed a subtler, more insidious trend. It is not only the fire-breathing sermons by radical mullahs calling for a "sharia nation" or the rantings of Taliban leaders who accuse the entire Muslim government of being "infidel."

These observers describe a creeping social and intellectual chill that several have called "the Talibanization of the mind."

It is a growing tendency for women to cover their faces, for hosts to cancel musical events, for journalists to use phrases that do not offend powerful Islamist groups, for strangers to demand that shopkeepers turn off their radios.

"With each passing month a deeper silence prevails," columnist Kamila Hyat recently wrote in a widely circulated article. The public is afraid, uncertain and retreating into religion because the country's leaders are failing to address its problems. "Just as we fight to regain territory" from the Taliban, Hyat wrote, "we must struggle to regain the liberties we are losing."

Horror Stories Coming out of the Family Closet:

Miss India Pooja Chopra's dad told her mum to kill her or forfeit marriage:

London: Pooja Chopra's survival is being celebrated throughout India. However, when the Miss India World 2009 was 20 days old, her mother was asked by her husband to make a choice - kill her child or forfeit the marriage.

Despite knowing that she would be thrown out the house, mum Neera decided to keep her daughter, and thus defied the wishes of a bullying husband who wanted the baby destroyed.
Now, twenty-three years later, Pooja, a vivacious young woman, has become a quintessential example of the axiom: every cloud has a silver lining.
She has also become a symbol for the campaign against a tradition that values boys above girls.
"When my mum walked out on my dad, she said to him, 'One day this girl will make me proud'. All my life I've wanted my mum to be proud of the decision that she chose me," The Times quoted Pooja, as saying.
Her success has brought Neera into the limelight.
Neera's husband had a respectable job but was a philanderer, prone to domestic violence.
After the birth of her first child, a girl named Shubhra, he made her life a misery. When she became pregnant again, seven years later, Neera clung to the hope that if the baby was a boy her marriage could be saved. Instead she had Pooja. Her husband and his relatives refused to visit the baby in hospital.
"I had to make a choice. I left the house with my girls and I haven't seen my husband since," Neera said.
He married another woman and refused to give any financial support to his daughters. Neera worked incessantly to provide for them: "I used to struggle for shoes, socks, uniforms. Sometimes I couldn't put two square meals a day on the table."
Pooja had nothing to say to her father, who "does not exist" for her.
"I don't even know if my father knows it is me, his daughter, who has set out to conquer the world. Today, when people call to congratulate me, it's not me they pay tribute to, but to [my mother's] life and her struggle. She's the true woman of substance," she said.

Islamic Authority in Malaysia Bans Moderate Muslim Mosque

Source: www.salem-News.com

Ahmadiyya Muslim Community persecuted for its spiritual beliefs and threatened with imprisonment and fines.

PETALING JAYA, Malaysia - The Selangor Council of Islamic Religion in Malaysia has issued a notice ordering the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Malaysia (AMC Malaysia) to immediately stop offering Friday Prayer services at the national AMC headquarters, the Bait-us-Salam Mosque.

Various other activities of AMC Malaysia have also been banned under the terms of the notice and members of the AMC have been threatened with imprisonment and fines if they do not comply.

The Selangor Council of Islamic Religion which is also known as ‘Majlis Agama Islam Selangor’ (MAIS) is the highest Islamic authority in the Selangor State apart from the Sultan of Malaysia.

On April 24, 2009 several MAIS officers came to the Bait-us-Salam Mosque and issued a notice under the ‘Selangor State Enactment on the Administration of Islamic Law 2003.’ The notice stated:

1) AMC Malaysia no longer has permission to offer Friday prayers at the Bait-us-Salam Mosque.

2) AMC Malaysia no longer has official permission to use Bait-us-Salam as a Mosque.

3) AMC Malaysia no longer has permission to conduct activities related to the mosque such as appointing officers and managing the premises.

Furthermore a notice has been placed around the Mosque stating ‘Qadiani Bukan Agama Islam.’ This translates as ‘Ahmadiyya is not an Islamic Religion.’

In its order, the MAIS has stated that failure by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community to comply with the terms of the order will result in imprisonment of up to one year and/or a fine up to RM3000 (~$850 USD).

This State-sanctioned ban of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Mosque is symptomatic of wide-ranging human rights abuses in Malaysia, particularly against vulnerable religious minorities.

AMC USA calls on the United States Government to urge the Malaysian Government to repeal the MAIS notice and bring Malaysian laws in accord with basic international human rights norms.

Background on AMC:
The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community (AMC) is a dynamic, reformist and fast growing international movement within Islam. Founded in 1889, AMC spans over 180 countries with membership exceeding tens of millions. AMC USA, established in 1921, is the first American-Muslim organization.

AMC is the only Islamic organization to believe that the long-awaited messiah has come in the person of Mirza Ghulam Ahmadas (1835-1908) of Qadian.

Ahmadas claimed to be the metaphorical second coming of Jesusas of Nazareth and the divine guide, whose advent was foretold by the Prophet of Islam, Muhammadsa.

AMC believes that God sent Ahmadas, like Jesusas, to end religious wars, condemn bloodshed and reinstitute morality, justice and peace.

Ahmadas’s advent has brought about an unprecedented era of Islamic revival and moderation. He divested Islam of fanatical beliefs and practices by vigorously championing Islam’s true and essential teachings.

New launches trigger demand in realty sector

NEW DELHI: After witnessing an acute slowdown during the third and fourth quarter of 2008, the real estate sector has shown some recovery in the Make home loan repayment easyEMIs and tenureLand as investment Buying house? Quote price first quarter of 2009 ending March 31.

If trends of absorption for the period January-March 2009 are any indication , a report prepared by PropEquity Research suggested there has been a surge in absorption in majority of the cities.

A recent study conducted by PropEquity across Mumbai, Bangalore , Chennai, Hyderabad, and Gurgaon in NCR reveals that absorption has been high among the residential new launches in the first quarter of 2009 in Mumbai, Chennai and Gurgaon.

The study attributes the success rate in absorption to the price correction and reduction in unit sizes introduced by developers in these cities. However, Bangalore and Hyderabad, which witnessed fewer new launches during the period, experienced a low absorption.

The real estate sector experienced one of the worst kinds of slowdown in demand because of rise in the interest rates in the January-March 2008, by almost 2 percentage points, to 12%. At the same time, the prevailing prices of residential apartments in most of the cities made them unaffordable for most buyers. The situation further worsened after global financial markets got affected due to the failure of banks and brokering houses in the US and Europe.

This also affected Indian real estate market very badly and demand plummeted. According to the report , While October-December 2008 saw the nadir with absorption of only 1,113 units in Mumbai, the first quarter of 2009 witnessed the launch of over 14,478 residential apartment units and a corresponding absorption of 5,746 units. As against this, during October-December 2008, 3,096 units were launched, the report said. That means, in the first quarter of 2009, 40% of the launched apartments were sold, which is considered to be a good turnover.

Similarly, in Gurgaon, during January-March 2009, 815 units were sold while 4,490 units were launched. As against this, in October-December 2008 quarter, only 587 units were sold from 3,708 units launched. Therefore, both the absorption and launch figure showed sign of recovery. The first quarter of 2009 showed a significant turnaround in realty activity in Chennai as well. While the number of apartments launched during Make home loan repayment easyEMIs and tenureLand as investment Buying house? Quote price the fourth quarter more than doubled to 3,764 units from 1,567 units in the quarter ending December 2008, the absorption increased by more than three times to 1,450 in the quarter ending March 2009, from 468 in the previous one. In Bangalore, however, the number of apartments launched in the first quarter of 2009 declined to 2,571 units from 4,149 units in the previous quarter. But, the absorption level improved slightly, to 764 units, as against 739 units in the previous quarter.

In Hyderabad, both the number of units launched and absorbed declined to 1,286 and 347 in the first quarter of 2009, from 2,512 and 440 respectively in the last quarter of 2008.

The report says the main reason for increase in absorption of the new launched products is drop in the per sq ft rate and the reduction in the size of the units, which brought their prices within the affordable range of buyers. The report says most of these units were launched at a price almost 40% lower than the average pricing of apartments that were available in the first quarter of 2008. The average unit size of these apartments was also lower by almost 35%. As a result, 74% of the residential apartment absorption that took place in Mumbai in the first quarter of 2009 constituted the new launch products.

According to Samir Jasuja, founder & CEO of PropEquity, “The increase in this high absorption trend can be attributed to price correction and reduction in unit sizes adopted by developers. This encouraging trend is indicative that the markets are poised for a recovery if proactive measures are adopted by the real estate community to offer the right product at the right price to the consumers.”

This trend continued in Gurgaon and Chennai where the new launches have witnessed high absorption after the unit sizes were reduced and average prices corrected by almost 15% to 25%. As anticipated, 61% of the total absorption in Gurgaon and 58% of the total absorption in Chennai in the first quarter of 2009 was constituted by the newly launched residential apartment units.

Justices, justicing and politics of justice:

The Politics of Teesta (Setalvad) Javed

Teesta carefully hides her Muslim Surname Javed and uses Setalvad to fool the Indians into believing that she is a Hindu. She is a convert to Islam but still uses her Hindu maiden name due to obvious reasons

By: V SUNDARAM

(vsundaram@newstodaynet.com)

Perhaps Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), had ‘politicised’ Judges of post-Independent decadent India in mind when he wrote: ‘My way of joking is to tell the truth’. As a former public servant belonging to the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) and now as a freelance journalist, I am shocked by the recent direction of the Supreme Court, ordering a probe into the alleged role of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, his Ministers, MLA’s, Civil Servants and Police Officers in the 2002 Gujarat Riots. The apex court has asked the Raghavan Committee to probe Modi’s role and submit its report in the next three months time. The decision came on a plea filed by the wife of slain ex-MP, Ehsan Jaffri and social activist Teesta Setalvad.

The character and antecedents of Teesta Setalvad, who specializes in the ‘political’ manufacture of imaginary and fraudulent evidence, have been clearly brought out by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) headed by former CBI chief R K Raghavan, who has clearly informed the Supreme Court just about two weeks ago that Teesta and her NGO had cooked up the tales of gory killings during the riots in Gujarat in March 2002, immediately after the Godhra Massacre.

After seven years of filing lawsuit on behalf of the victims of 2002 post-Gujarat riots, social activist Teesta Setalvad received a big blow on 13 April 2009. The Special Investigation Team headed by former CBI chief R K Raghavan, told the Supreme Court that Teesta’s NGO had cooked it up and levelled false charges against the then police chief P C Pandey and witnesses were tutored to give evidence on those imaginary incidents. The SIT report also slammed the human rights groups for publicizing the incidents in its report filed before the court. The report filed by the SIT said the story of the gang rape of pregnant Muslim woman Kausar Banu by a mob was fabricated. It said the incident of the dumping of bodies into a well by rioters at Naroda Patiya never happened.The report also debunked allegations that the police botched up investigations into the killing of British nationals, who were on a visit to Gujarat. Based on Raghavan’s Report, the Supreme Court has rejected her plea to hand over the case to the CBI. The State Government have also pounced upon the fact that an affidavit submitted to the NHRC in the name of Zahira was actually signed by Teesta Setalvad.

If I have to believe newspaper reports, the Chief Justice of India is also reported to have given this testimonial, if not tribute, to Teesta Setalvad. The Supreme Court expressed its outrage over certain recent articles written by Self Styled Social activist Teesta Setalvad which appeared in a Malayalam Daily. It has been reported that Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan called her attack on the Judiciary ‘shameful’ and ‘not in good taste.’ He also asked: ‘Who is this Teesta Setalvad. Is she a spokesperson of these persons or petitioners. If she is representing these persons (Godhra accused) we do not want to hear them,’ The Chief Justice, was particularly perturbed over the allegations that hearing on post-Godhra cases were fixed in such a way that it gets adjourned. The Chief Justice of India also said ; ‘It is shameful’.

Within a few days of SIT exposing the fraud of Teesta Setalvad, on another Petition jointly filed by Ehsan Jaffri and social activist Teesta Setalvad, the Supreme Court has thought it fit to refer the matter to the SIT to investigate into the allegations made by them against Chief Minister Narendra Modi in their joint petition.
About 3 weeks ago, Kapil Sibal had warned that Narendra Modi would be arrested in a matter of days if he ever dared to politically attack the Congress Party. Anyone can see that Kapil Sibal does not believe in the democratic process. He has total faith only in the Sonia Congress brand of total subversion of our democratic process. Anyone can clearly see that Kapil Sibal would not mind using the might of his transitory Public Office to deny not only freedom of speech but also freedom after speech to Narendra Modi by putting him in prison. Chief Minister Narendra Modi has responded manfully to the menacing threat from Kapil Sibal and charged the Sonia Congress Party of hatching a conspiracy to put him behind bars. Within 3 weeks of Kapil Sibal’s open threat to Narendra Modi, the Supreme Court have also ordered the Special Investigation Team to probe into his role in the 2002 post-Godhra riots.

Addressing an election rally in Anand and Palanpur, Modi has asked the following right public question on behalf of not only the people of Gujarat who have officially elected him as Chief Minister but also on behalf of all the people of India : ‘15 days before, the Supreme Court advocate Kapil Sibal had issued a threat that if I did not stop talking against Congress, I would end up in jail. The Supreme Court order has come just after 15 days. What does all this mean?’

Asserting that he will live and die’ for Gujarat, Modi has said, ‘I don’t know what is going to be my fate but I know that I will not stop my fight against terror. After three months, I might be in jail but people of Gujarat should remember one thing that I will live for Gujarat and die for Gujarat. The Sonia Congress has been creating this ruckus in a planned and organized manner for the last seven years but has so far failed to cut ice. Let them keep me in jail for my entire life, but I will not deviate from the path of truth.’ To sum up, Modi has viewed this lurid drama as a vicious political conspiracy by the Sonia Congress Party. I fully endorse the view of this great heroic leader of the masses of India who are hoping that sooner than later he would be India’s Prime Minister. The common people of India are of the view that Narendra Modi is the only political leader in India today who is giving cubic content to the following inspiring words of Dr B R Ambedkar (1891-1956): ‘I am not soft clay, which is easily diluted in the water and loses its identity. I am like that solid stone, which is capable of changing the courses of the powerful flow of the rivers. Wherever I am and whatsoever contact I may maintain, I shall always remain solid maintaining my separate identity and never loosing my individuality.’

The recent direction given by the Supreme Court to the SIT to investigate into the role of Modi and his officers into the Post-Godhra massacre in Gujarat in 2002 also raises certain valid legal and constitutional issues relating to the overriding primacy of the sacred and inviolable democratic process under the Representation of Peoples Act. Once the democratic process has been set in motion, even the Prime Minister or the Chief Minister is not allowed by the Central Election Commission to make any new announcements of policy. In the interest of equity and natural justice and more particularly, keeping in mind a paramount need for maintaining a level playing political ground between different contending political parties, the same embargo placed on the Prime Minister’s / Chief Minister’s executive discretion during the period and process of election, should also be made applicable to the judiciary as well. Unwittingly, the Courts of Law in India should not create a situation where a political advantage accrues to one political party on the eve of a general election following one of its routine interim directions on an issue dating back to 2002 (and not 2009) to the political detriment of the other competing political parties. I earnestly hope that the Law Commission of India would take up this issue for immediate consideration and reasonable resolution in the larger interest of survival of people’s democracy in India.