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by Anna Douglas Source:  The Herald Two dozen Christian pastors in York County have joined together to publicly call on members of their faith to embrace Muslims as their brothers and sisters. The Rev. Sam McGregor, pastor at Allison Creek Presbyterian Church near Lake Wylie, said he has jump-started the local effort because of recent threats against Muslims in the United States that came to light during the trial of Robert Doggart. Doggart, a failed congressional candidate from Tennessee, pleaded guilty this month to plotting to kill Muslims who live in a religious community in New York. The FBI uncovered and stopped Doggart’s plan. A similar community, called Holy Islamville, has existed in York County for nearly 30 years. Members of the local community have said they’re fearful for their own safety after hearing of Doggart’s violent plans in New York and learning that he tried to recruit people from South Carolina to help him. “We have got to take a stand,” McGregor said...

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MANJARI KATJU The Hindutva agenda is moving forward, the voices of minorities are being marginalised and social hatred is being spread, but the political order continues to escape blame. At a time when Prime Minister Narendra Modi is completing one year in office, Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi made an embarrassing statement. The beef ban, Mr. Naqvi said, “is not a matter of loss or profit; it is an issue of faith and belief.” All those who want to eat beef can “go to Pakistan,” he added. The Bharatiya Janata Party’s rise to power in 2014 with an absolute majority for the first time in the history of independent India was termed by some as a Modi victory. During the election campaign, the Sangh Parivar, to which the BJP belongs, did not seem too pleased with the development and personality-oriented campaign style of the party. But with the BJP’s landslide victory, things took a different turn. Vishwa Hindu Parishad leader Ashok Singhal ...

By M Reyaz, TwoCircles.net, In 2008 during my final year of BA (Honours), I went to Lahore, Pakistan to participate in an inter-college drama festival. The hospitality of our host at GC University as also general Pakistanis had left us Indians humbled. They went an extra mile in making us feel comfortable. I remember at Anarkali market, how shopkeepers would insist on not taking money once they realized that we are Indians, or generously gave discounts. “Aap Mehman Ho Hamare,” they would often say. When relaxing in my hotel room surfing different channels, the room service staff asked me in bewilderment why I was not watching cricket. I vividly remember his heavily Pathani accented Urdu: “Utthapa baot achcha khel raha hai, aap match nahi dekte?” It was an India-Australia cricket match that day. “I like Sachin and Sehwag a lot,” he continued. Another evening, a stranger introduced himself as Khalid Riaz, a businessman from Bhawalpur, as he came to our room unannounce...

They were defeated by Ghazni, Ghuri, Khilji, Babur, Akbar, the Marathas and the British. The home minister, Rajnath Singh, wishes our school textbooks told us more about the Rajput king Rana Pratap, and less about the Mughal emperor Akbar. I, on the other hand, wish they explained why Rajputs fared so miserably on the battlefield. A thousand years ago, Rajput kings ruled much of North India. Then they lost to Ghazni, lost to Ghuri, lost to Khilji, lost to Babur, lost to Akbar, lost to the Marathas, and keeled over before the British. The Marathas and Brits hardly count since the Rajputs were a spent force by the time Akbar was done with them. Having been confined to an arid part of the subcontinent by the early Sultans, they were reduced to vassals by the Mughals. The three most famous Rajput heroes not only took a beating in crucial engagements, but also retreated from the field of battle. Prithviraj Chauhan was captured while bolting and executed after the second...

 April 18, 2015 at IOS Conference Hall, New Delhi http://www.iosworld.org/7thQazi_Mujahidul_Islam_Memorial.php

  Source : http://www.deccanherald.com/content/477586/milli-council-wants-mysuru-model.html Executive committee of the All India Milli Council (AIMC) that met, here, on Thursday, urged the authorities concerned to make Mysuru city a model for other cities in the country. The meeting, presided over by AIMC president Mohammed Abdulla Mughisi, delved on building an egalitarian society. Deputy Commissioner C Shikha and Police Commissioner B Dayananda, who met the leaders of the council, were advised to take steps to develop Mysuru as a model for others. Paying tribute to Tipu Sultan, general secretary of AIMC Mohammed Manzoor Alam said, Tipu never discriminated on the lines of religion. Instead, he spread the message of communal harmony. Addressing the gathering, the DC acknowledged the role of the council in spreading harmony in the country. The police commissioner appealed to the council to educate the youth, particularly in the age group of 18 to 25 years....

Dr Mohammad Manzoor Alam I am returning to this column after a long time. I was kept busy by myriad other pressing engagements. As I had said at the time of the beginning of this column, I intend to reach out to the youth with it, particularly Muslim youth. So far the tradition with this column has been that it has been talking about Islam as lived and practised everywhere. I am getting back to it as a warm-up to the holy month of Ramadhan that looms barely a few weeks away. This time we will be talking more about this world than the Hereafter. However, in Islam there is no clear distinction between the affairs of this world and those of the Hereafter. There is no rahbaniyah in Islam, that is, you do not have to renounce this world to be a Muslim. Another principle of Islam is that the world is a mazra’a for the Hereafter. In Arabic, mazra’a is a farmland where the farmer grows grains. Likewise, a Muslim does good deeds in this world to get its reward in the next world. Hen...

Dr Mohammad Manzoor Alam Narendra Modi government has come to power on a plank of “development”, a thriving economy and people’s economic wellbeing. In practice, it has ended up doing just the opposite. Nobel laureate Amartya Sen says public health and education are the foundations on which development stands. To handle jobs in a vast development enterprise people need different levels of education and training as well as health and fitness to do assigned work efficiently. The first thing that Modi government has done in this regard is heavily cutting allocation to both health and education. Sen says health and education enable people to earn enough to sustain a flourishing market. A government that de-emphasises these two cannot be development friendly or a champion of market. We will come to health in a later article. In this column we have earlier discussed the budget cuts on health and education, two stepchildren of Modi government. Here we revisit for a while stepchild number one...

Ex Indian President Dr. Abdul Kalam Says: "When I was a kid, my Mom cooked food for us. One night in particular when she had made dinner after a long hard day's work, Mom placed a plate of 'subzi' and extremely burnt roti in front of my Dad. I was waiting to see if anyone noticed the burnt roti. But Dad just ate his roti and asked me how was my day at school. I don't remember what I told him that night, but I do remember I heard Mom apologizing to Dad for the burnt roti. And I'll never forget what he said: "Honey, I love burnt roti." Later that night, I went to kiss Daddy, good night & I asked him if he really liked his roti burnt. He wrapped me in his arms & said: "Your momma put in a long hard day at work today and she was really tired. And besides... A burnt roti never hurts anyone but HARSH WORDS DO!" "You know beta - life is full of imperfect things... & imperfect people..." I'M NOT THE BEST & AM HARDLY GO...

Petrol price hiked by Rs 3.96 is too much Worst thing is I would be the first person to taste the hike.. A regular gov exercise..first hike prices & then soothe the protests by lowering prices a little.totally unexpected.There has been no drastic hike in Brent Crude Oil for weeks. I don't mind Rs 3.96 petrol price hike... Rs 4 would have been just outrageous...(is tarah main 4 paise bacha hi raha hoon) Narendra Modi just Tweeted about the Petrol price hike, criticizes the hike, says its a burden on the aam janta! BJP not keeping words, Cong never kept, AAP immature, JantaPariwar illiterate !! M tellin u only kamaalrkhan can save this country RS 3.96