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[1] 17 CHRISTIAN EMPLOYEES FROM INDIA PERSECUTED IN SAUDI ARABIA Sources: Assist News Service, Salem Voice Ministries Seventeen Indian Christian employees are under house arrest and have been suffering severe persecution at a water company in Asir province in Saudi Arabia since August 15. This information was revealed by a man from India’s Kerala State named Manoj who escaped from the Saudi company and managed to get back to India, says a report from Salem Voice Ministries (SVM) news service. “There were 22 youth selected and sent to Saudi Arabia by a recruiting agency during the last week of April, 2007. The company offered them eight hours duty per day, good salary, and flight charges from India,” Manoj told SVM. “But the company did not keep the promises, because the employees were Christians,” Manoj continued. “Employees were told to work in the company 18 hours per day without any rest. They were treated as slaves. Company authorities did not want to consider them even as domestic animals,” Manoj said with tears. “They hardly get proper food in custody. When they are being provided some food, Arabian people are spitting on it and giving them to eat,” SVM News Service said. ------------ [2] From: syed rahman <surahman2000@yahoo.com Date: Fri Sep 7, 2007 Subject: India tops Forbes list of Asia's Fabulous 50 India tops Forbes list of Asia's Fabulous 50 By Arun Kumar http://www.khabrein.info/index.php? option=com_content&task=view&id=5845&Itemid=8\ 8 Washington, Sep 7 (IANS) India is again home to more Forbes' Fabulous 50, of the best of Asia-Pacific's biggest listed companies, than any other country with 12 Indian firms making the cut, including its Big Four information technology outsourcers. --------- [3] From: syed rahman <surahman2000@yahoo.com Date: Fri Sep 7, 2007 Subject: After fatwa, Muslims line up to marry afresh After fatwa, Muslims line up to marry afresh http://www.khabrein.info/index.php? option=com_content&task=view&id=5866&Itemid=8\ 8 Lucknow, Sep 7: Scores of Muslim couples lined up before a cleric in an Uttar Pradesh village for a fresh nikah (marriage) after a fatwa invalidated their marriages. The edict invalidated all marriages in the sect simply because its members had participated in a Namaz-e-Janaza or namazat (funeral), led by the moulvi (cleric) of another Muslim sect 20 days earlier. ------------- [4] From: humanrights <human.rights.india101@gmail.com Date: Fri Sep 7, 2007 Subject: Malaysian Hindus file suit Against UK Government http://www.easterneyeuk.co.uk/ *Suit filed against UKGovernment* 7.9.2007 HINDUS in Malaysia are taking the British Government to court for years of alleged atrocities. P Waytha Moorthy is a solicitor based in Kuala Lumpur who filed a public interest litigation (PIL) at the Royal Courts of Justice in London last week (30). He now has three months to serve a notice to the Foreign Office for damages worth over ?1 million for each of the country's two million Hindus. His move has been supported by Britain-based Hindu Human Rights (HHR), which organised a protest outside the Malyasian High Commission in London on Friday (31) to mark the country's 50th year of independence from the British. Mr Moorthy told Eastern Eye: "Malaysia supposedly became independent 50 years ago but the Hindus of the country have never experienced independence. They are denied the right to practice their religion, their temples are desecrated, they are forcibly converted and are subjected to unbelievable atrocities. "The British Government must take responsibility for their treatment as these Hindus were brought into Malaysia forcibly as indentured labour during the British Raj in India. Before independence was declared for Malaysia, the British Government assured that the peculiar position of the Indians would be protected. "But that never translated into action, which is why on the eve of this anniversary we have decided to file this case." The PIL is also demanding that the Malaysian constitution be declared null and void, all Hindus be granted British citizenship and the Malaysian government be referred to the international court of justice and the international criminal court at The Hague for human rights violations against minority Indians. HHR spokesman Arjun Malik added: "Already subject to heavy discrimination in employment, study and general walks of life, Hindus in Malaysia have begun to suffer in more specific ways. Hindu temples are destroyed and desecrated regularly with the full backing of the government. "Hindus are denied the right to follow their own faith, and even in death, denied the right to a decent Hindu funeral. Forced into the economic and social margins, Hindus have become the prime victims of religious and racial hatred, which few commentators and human rights organisations even bother reporting on. This petition and our protest is aimed at drawing attention to their plight." --------- 5] From: kashif-ul-huda <kaaashif@gmail.com Date: Fri Sep 7, 2007 Subject: Centre asks States, UTs to deploy Muslims in Muslim areas Centre asks States, UTs to deploy Muslims in Muslim areas By TwoCircles. net staff reporter New Delhi : The Congress, during its successive governments at the Centre and/or in the various States, has played the Muslim card exploiting Muslim sentiments and playing with their emotions just to ensure the Muslim vote bank in Muslim concentration areas. The latest in the series is the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government's advice to State governments to deploy Muslims in Muslim areas. In a letter to all State governments and Union Territories issued Wednesday the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) has directed that there should be more Muslim policemen, teachers and health workers in Muslim dominated areas. This is particularly in context where there is great deal of public hearing. So, an election-bound coalition is perhaps preparing for the inevitable by putting Justice Sachar Committee recommendations on a fast track. "This is not unprecedented. Even during Indira Gandhi's time such letters were written to chief ministers; however it's another thing that they were not followed," Member Secretary of the Sachar Commission, Abu Saleh Sharif said. DoPT has also directed Union Home, Health and Human Resource Development ministries to frame guidelines for these postings in minority concentration areas although Home, Health and Education appointments are a prerogative of state governments and the advisory is not binding. The Government has so far accepted 72 out of the 76 recommendations by the Sachar Commission. The Government has however rejected the recommendation to have a caste-based census, and the other contentious issue of Muslim reservations has been put on a backburner. --------- [6] From: Sukla Sen <suklasen@yahoo.com Date: Fri Sep 7, 2007 Subject: Chavez and Marx http://readingthemaps.blogspot.com/2007/09/chavez-is-not-marxist-but-neither-was\ .html Chavez is not a Marxist - but neither was Marx Last month Hugo Chavez used one of the episodes of his television programme Alo Presidente to tell Venezuelans that he is not a Marxist. Louis Proyect's blog has carried a rough translation of Chavez's message: --------- [7] The Agony Of The Deprived Indian Muslims By Aleem Faizee http://www.countercurrents.org/faizee070907.htm Packages and Financial Help require lot of time, as the normal practice in the Government is, however, one fails to know why the Government is failing in its duty for correcting the police attitude towards the Muslims The Girl Blogger From Baghdad Leaves Home By Baghdad Burning http://www.countercurrents.org/burning070907.htm Baghdad Burning, the girl blogger from Baghdad who so movingly chronicled the fall, destruction and deterioration of a city leaves her home in Baghdad and becomes a refugee in Syria ----------- [8] 2 DALITS KILLED, WOMAN RAPED IN SEPARATE ATTACKS IN INDIA Source: Assist News Service Dalits -- members of a group formerly known as “untouchables” which is outside India’s caste system -- continue to face attacks in the nation. An elderly woman named Hirawati, 60, was reportedly beaten to death by four upper-caste women regarding a petty dispute in Varanasi in northern India’s Uttar Pradesh state on Monday, Sept. 3. Salem Voice Ministries News Service reported that Hirawati was allegedly beaten to death in the Chitaipur locality. She was pushed by one of the women following an argument after water spilled out of her bucket. Hirawati died shortly after the attack. Police officials said four suspects have been arrested for their alleged involvement in the murder. Meanwhile, a 45-year-old Dalit man, Brahmadas, was reportedly burned to death by his employers in Simbhalka, Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh, on Friday, Aug. 31. Police also said another Dalit woman was allegedly raped by two persons in the village of Sirpoi, Shajapur, in central India’s Madhya Pradesh state. ------ |
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