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[1 ] Dalit Christians’ forum deplores threat Special Correspondent Thiruvananthapuram: The Council of Dalit Christians (Kerala), a forum of Dalit Christian organisations and representatives of churches, has described as deplorable the threat by some sections to resort to self-immolation if the benefits being enjoyed by the Scheduled Castes are extended to the Dalit Christians and the Dalit Muslims on the basis of the Ranganath Mishra Commission’s report. The Council pointed out in a resolution that it was the Supreme Court which appointed the Commission in connection with a public interest litigation on the issue filed in 2004. The Commission had made a detailed study of the issue through affidavits submitted to it and by holding seminars in various States. It had strongly recommended extending of benefits enjoyed by SCs to Dalit Christians and Muslims. The Commission found that conversion had not brought any progress socially, economically or educationally to these sections and they were being subjected to caste discrimination, it added. http://www.hindu.com/2007/08/09/stories/2007080956221100.htm -------- [2 ] From: Khan Arif <ank2000pk@yahoo.com Date: Sat Sep 8, 2007 Subject: A a confession from a senior journalist. Here is a confession from a senior journalist. “If I’d written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people — including me — would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.”_ Hunter S. Thompson (b. 1939), U. S. journalist. ---- The ideals of freedom of expression could be defined not by what we are free to express but by what we are free not to express. It is the freedom to abstain, refrain and avoid offending people of different creeds and hurting the feelings of fellow human beings, which form the basis of conforming to the moral standards of the modern world. The business of these standards and laws is to free the freedom from confusion and chaos inherent in human life, which is bound to arise if one is free to do whatever one likes without any thought or consideration of its impact on others. . Arif Khan -------- [3 ] From: syed rahman <surahman2000@yahoo.com Date: Sat Sep 8, 2007 Subject: As many as 157,000 Indians to perform Haj this year As many as 157,000 Indians to perform Haj this year http://www.khabrein.info/index.php? option=com_content&task=view&id=5945&Itemid=8\ 8 Hyderabad, Sep 8: As many as 157,000 Indian Muslims would perform Haj this year and all arrangements will be made to ensure their hassle-free pilgrimage to the holy cities of Makkah and Madina in Saudi Arabia, Minister of State for External Affairs E. Ahamed said here Saturday. ---------- 4[ ] Malegaon One Year After The September Blasts By Aleem Faizee http://www.countercurrents.org/faizee080907.htm One year after the blasts, a look at the promises made by the Government reveals that, despite vigorous follow ups, many of the promises are gathering the dust in Government offices Muslims In Gujarat: Victims Of A conspiring State By Vidya Bhushan Rawat http://www.countercurrents.org/rawat080907.htm Gujarat could be saved by a strong people's movement involving every segment of the marginalized sections of our society including Muslims and all those victims of Narendra Modi's rabid anti Dalit, anti tribal and anti farmer policies. It is also time to take these religious lunatics head on otherwise they will deny every one a right to live with dignity and freedom to express An Appeal for Support http://countercurrents.org/subscriberprogramme.htm ----------- [5 ] From: yogi sikand <ysikand@yahoo.com Date: Sat Sep 8, 2007 Subject: American Imperialist Designs on Iran: Threat of Another Devastating Invasion? Bush Plans War On Iran By Prof. Marjorie Cohn 07 September, 2007 Global Research The Sunday Times of London is reporting that the Pentagon has plans for three days of massive air strikes against 1,200 targets in Iran . Last week, Alexis Debat, director of terrorism and national security at the Nixon Center , told a meeting of The National Interest, a conservative foreign policy journal, that the military did not intend to carry out "pinprick strikes" against Iranian nuclear facilities. He said, "They're about taking out the entire Iranian military." ---------------- [6] From: syed rahman <surahman2000@yahoo.com Date: Sat Sep 8, 2007 Subject: 'Ignorance, prejudices rule religious reporting in India' 'Ignorance, prejudices rule religious reporting in India' http://www.khabrein.info/index.php? option=com_content&task=view&id=5972&Itemid=8\ 8 New Delhi, Sep 8: The Indian media's reporting on religious controversies has miles to go as it is still ruled by ignorance and prejudices, said veteran journalists here Saturday. Participating in a symposium on 'Reporting Religious Controversies', a group of senior journalists said the Indian media had to adopt a careful approach while reporting on religious controversies. ------------ [7] Sting case reporter sent to judicial custody Staff Reporter NEW DELHI: A court here on Saturday remanded Prakash Singh, reporter of Live India TV news channel, who is accused of staging a fake sting operation against government school teacher Uma Khurana, to seven-day judicial custody. The Crime Branch of the Delhi police, which arrested Prakash on Friday evening, produced him before Magistrate Ajay Pandey, who remanded him to judicial custody. The police then submitted an application seeking production warrants for Prakash and Uma, who is also in judicial custody, for Monday. The police intend to confront the school teacher with Prakash in the court. The Magistrate accepted the plea of the police. CEO questioned Meanwhile, Live India’s chief executive officer Sudheer Chaudhary was questioned by the Crime Branch in connection with the sting operation which was aired by the channel on August 30. Delhi Police spokesperson Rajan Bhagat said Mr. Chaudhary was questioned for nearly 90 minutes. He told the police that the reporter concerned did not tell him that the tapes were manipulated. He said Prakash did not divulge that the girl used in the tape as a student of the government school was a friend of the reporter concerned. In the aftermath of the sting operation, which alleged that the school teacher was forcing her students into prostitution, violence broke out on Asaf Ali Road near Sarvodaya Kanya Vidyalaya where Uma used to teach. The police arrested her and accomplice Virender Arora. Investigations revealed Virender, along with Prakash, was instrumental in the sting operation as Uma apparently owed him some money. Prakash also roped in a girl, whom he knew but who was neither into prostitution nor a government school student, as the school student alleging that Uma forced her into prostitution. She too has been arrested. http://www.hindu.com/2007/09/09/stories/2007090961051000.htm |
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