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[1] From: syed rahman <surahman2000@yahoo.com Date: Sun Dec 9, 2007 11:31 am Subject: Channel 9X's Pakistani hostess Nawazish Ali rocks Indian capital s Channel 9X's Pakistani hostess Nawazish Ali rocks Indian capital http://www.khabrein.info/index.php? option=com_content&task=view&id=9821&Itemid=88 By Manish Chand New Delhi, Dec 9: "Don't talk about borders. Instead, look at borders in women's saris. And it's time India stopped rolling out the red carpet for a dictator." This is the view of the inimitable Pakistani cross-dressing diva Begum Nawazish Ali who is determined to add some spark to the ongoing conversation between India and Pakistan. Ali, the famous chat show queen of Pakistan, is set to captivate Indians in a new irreverent chat show with 'her' glamour, wit and iconoclasm, and in the process rake up a controversy or two. ---------- [2] Some more statistics of the Narendra Modi regime's 10 per cent growth rate Hindu Temples looted - 704 Hindu mahants [abbot-priests] killed -- 74 Hindu pujaris [priests] killed 56 Suicides by farmers 48 Quoted by senior editor and People's Movement of India, Ahmadabad convener Mr. Digant Oza citing Gujarat Home Minister Amit Shah's answer to a Question in the State assembly ------------- [3] From: jindia <raj.justindia@gmail.com Date: Sun Dec 9, 2007 7:25 pm Subject: Kashmiri Pandits on International Human Rights Day -- NHRC has failed to provide succour: ** *NHRC has failed to provide succour: Kashmiri Pandits* http://news.webindia123.com/news/Articles/India/20071209/844710.html *'Roots in Kashmir' condemns NHRC, International Human Rights groups *09 December 2007, Sunday http://www.merinews.com/catFull.jsp? articleID=128428 On December 10 last year, 'Roots in Kashmir' announced its arrival in a big way. It organized rallies in 11 states in India and a couple of places abroad also. It endeavors to bring to light the real culprits and murderers of innocent Kashmiris. 'ROOTS IN Kashmir' a frontline youth group raising awareness about the atrocities inflicted upon the Hindu minority of Kashmir has condemned the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) for not coming to the rescue of the Kashmiri Pandits. It has been almost 14 years since the formation of the NHRC; it has completely failed to address the grievances of the Pandit community, which is living in the 18th year of exile from their homeland, Kashmir. Kashmiri Pandit children accompanied by activists and common people under the banner of 'Roots In Kashmir' held a silent protest at Indira Park on the eve of International Human Rights Day to bring to light the injustice being done with Kashmiri Pandits. Similar protests were organized in various parts of the country by it at places such as Delhi, Jammu, Bangalore and Pune. To escape persecution, more than 350,000 Kashmiri Pandits had to leave their home and hearths back in the valley of which more than 50,000 refugees are still languishing in uninhabitable refugee camps in Jammu and Delhi. "The NHRC is a phantom we only hear about but haven't seen any evidence of. Our community has submitted memorandums, fought cases and appealed to the senior bureaucrats and officials about the situation but to no avail," said Santosh Razdan who lives with her son in Hyderabad. "We have lived our lives in Kashmir but it sounds like a distant dream today, all because of the negligence of the responsible authorities." she added. In spite of cases of serious nature pending against terrorists like Yasin Malik and Bitta Karate, they roam free and further get all support from the Indian Government; whereas the Pandits continue to live a life of refugee's in their own country. While, Yasin Malik himself is responsible for killing hundreds of innocents in the valley mercilessly; he now claims to be a human rights activist championing the cause of so-called freedom. He has no right morally to speak on such an issue of sensitive nature in which he himself stands guilty of initiating the gun culture and bloodshed in the peaceful valley. The NHRC and the home ministry, government of India have, in a written communication through Right To Information Act 2005, said that they don't have any data on terrorist Bitta Karate of JKLF; while it's a known fact that there are cases pending against him in courts. It also said that they have no information on the number of Pandits killed in the valley since 1989. Further, NHRC has failed to do justice with the community, as till date there has been no probe on the reasons behind the exodus of them. The International Human Rights groups like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have deliberately failed to frame charges against Malik and other serial killers. Their biased nature is quite visible for last almost a decade. The blind attitude to the ethnic cleansing and genocide of the entire Pandit community by these agencies speaks at large of the discrimination being done with the aboriginal people of Kashmir. 'Roots In Kashmir' endeavors to bring to light the real culprits and murderers of innocent Kashmiris. We would like to have an answer as to what happened to our human rights?" said Amrita Kar, Volunteer of RIK. Our demands from the government of India: *1.* An enquiry commission to be set up to come out with a report on reasons of exodus of Kashmiri Pandits. *2.* Capital punishment for terrorists like Bitta Karate and Yasin Malik. *3.* Kashmiri Pandits be declared as Internally Displaced People (IDP's) and thus be given the required benefits. *4.* Reconstruction of desecrated and destroyed shrines. *5.* All property sales after 1989 to be declared null and void. *6.* Better rehabilitation of people living in inhuman camps in Jammu and Delhi. Website: www. rootsinkashmir. org Blog: www. kashmiris-in-exile. blogspot. com E-mail: contact@rootsinkashmir.org Rahul Razdan – 9866682059 Rishik Dhar – 9885807460 Roots in Kashmir, Hyderabad ----------- [4] From: "EMPOWER INDIA" <ttn_empower@sancharnet.in Date: Sun Dec 9, 2007 9:39 pm Subject: One day Sensitization Programe for Elected Local Body Leaders on HIV/AIDS e We cordially invite you....... for the AIDS Illa Gramam, Namathu Latchiyam !!! Panchayat Leaders Take the Lead: Stop AIDS: Keep the Promise!!! Programme Schedule Venue: Kani Palace, Tuticorin Date: 10.12.07, Monday 10.30 a. m Inaugural Address : Hon'ble Speaker of the Tamilnadu State Assembly Mr. R. Avudaiappan EMPOWER with collaboration APAC-VHS-USAID organized one day Sensitization Programe for Elected Local Body Leaders on HIV/AIDS to campaign among this important target groups such as panchayat leaders and municipal chairpersons covering the entire Tuticorin district. There are 408 panchayats in this district. Yours in Global Concern A. SANKAR Executive Director EMPOWER. ------------ [5] From: WebXpurt <webxpurt@yahoo.com Date: Sun Dec 9, 2007 9:54 pm Subject: SILENT MODERATES : NY Times w Islam’s Silent Moderates By AYAAN HIRSI ALI NY Times - 12/7/07 The woman and the man guilty of adultery or fornication, flog each of them with 100 stripes: Let no compassion move you in their case, in a matter prescribed by Allah, if you believe in Allah and the Last Day. (Koran 24:2) IN the last few weeks, in three widely publicized episodes, we have seen Islamic justice enacted in ways that should make Muslim moderates rise up in horror. A 20-year-old woman from Qatif, Saudi Arabia, reported that she had been abducted by several men and repeatedly raped. But judges found the victim herself to be guilty. Her crime is called “mingling”: when she was abducted, she was in a car with a man not related to her by blood or marriage, and in Saudi Arabia, that is illegal. Last month, she was sentenced to six months in prison and 200 lashes with a bamboo cane. Two hundred lashes are enough to kill a strong man. Women usually receive no more than 30 lashes at a time, which means that for seven weeks the “girl from Qatif,” as she’s usually described in news articles, will dread her next session with Islamic justice. When she is released, her life will certainly never return to normal: already there have been reports that her brother has tried to kill her because her “crime” has tarnished her family’s honor. We also saw Islamic justice in action in Sudan, when a 54-year-old British teacher named Gillian Gibbons was sentenced to 15 days in jail before the government pardoned her this week; she could have faced 40 lashes. When she began a reading project with her class involving a teddy bear, Ms. Gibbons suggested the children choose a name for it. They chose Muhammad; she let them do it. This was deemed to be blasphemy. Then there’s Taslima Nasreen, the 45-year-old Bangladeshi writer who bravely defends women’s rights in the Muslim world. Forced to flee Bangladesh, she has been living in India. But Muslim groups there want her expelled, and one has offered 500,000 rupees for her head. In August she was assaulted by Muslim militants in Hyderabad, and in recent weeks she has had to leave Calcutta and then Rajasthan. Taslima Nasreen’s visa expires next year, and she fears she will not be allowed to live in India again. It is often said that Islam has been “hijacked” by a small extremist group of radical fundamentalists. The vast majority of Muslims are said to be moderates. But where are the moderates? Where are the Muslim voices raised over the terrible injustice of incidents like these? How many Muslims are willing to stand up and say, in the case of the girl from Qatif, that this manner of justice is appalling, brutal and bigoted — and that no matter who said it was the right thing to do, and how long ago it was said, this should no longer be done? Usually, Muslim groups like the Organization of the Islamic Conference are quick to defend any affront to the image of Islam. The organization, which represents 57 Muslim states, sent four ambassadors to the leader of my political party in the Netherlands asking him to expel me from Parliament after I gave a newspaper interview in 2003 noting that by Western standards some of the Prophet Muhammad’s behavior would be unconscionable. A few years later, Muslim ambassadors to Denmark protested the cartoons of Muhammad and demanded that their perpetrators be prosecuted. But while the incidents in Saudi Arabia, Sudan and India have done more to damage the image of Islamic justice than a dozen cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad, the organizations that lined up to protest the hideous Danish offense to Islam are quiet now. I wish there were more Islamic moderates. For example, I would welcome some guidance from that famous Muslim theologian of moderation, Tariq Ramadan. But when there is true suffering, real cruelty in the name of Islam, we hear, first, denial from all these organizations that are so concerned about Islam’s image. We hear that violence is not in the Koran, that Islam means peace, that this is a hijacking by extremists and a smear campaign and so on. But the evidence mounts up. Islamic justice is a proud institution, one to which more than a billion people subscribe, at least in theory, and in the heart of the Islamic world it is the law of the land. But take a look at the verse above: more compelling even than the order to flog adulterers is the command that the believer show no compassion. It is this order to choose Allah above his sense of conscience and compassion that imprisons the Muslim in a mindset that is archaic and extreme. If moderate Muslims believe there should be no compassion shown to the girl from Qatif, then what exactly makes them so moderate? When a “moderate” Muslim’s sense of compassion and conscience collides with matters prescribed by Allah, he should choose compassion. Unless that happens much more widely, a moderate Islam will remain wishful thinking. Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a former member of the Dutch Parliament and a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, is the author of “Infidel.” http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/07/opinion/07ali.html Ayaan Hirsi : her interview on Swedish TV @ http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=q6Wrhivp7eQ&mode=related&search= Problem with Censorship @ http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=4JNCg1-u_Kg&feature=related -------- [6] Girl from Qatif Published Date: November 28, 2007 By Badrya Darwish The case of the 19-year-old Saudi woman known as the "Girl from Qatif" has triggered a media frenzy all over the world. Every day there is new information or comments coming out about the case. In 2006, the girl had recently been married and met a high school friend in his car to retrieve a picture of her from him. While in a car with him, two men got into the vehicle and drove them to a secluded area where others waited, and then she and her companion were both raped. She was sentenced to prison and 90 lashes for being alone with a man not related to her and when her lawyer appealed the sentence, he was removed from the case, his license suspended and the penalty doubled to 200. We understand shariah laws are very clear that if a man or woman commits adultery, they should be lashed. But the shariah law is very strict and very clear about this matter. There should be four witnesses seeing the real act of intercourse itself. That is why it's rather difficult to prove adultery for anybody in normal cases. No one claims to have seen this girl having sex with the man in the car. So there's no justification for the judge to punish her on top of her tragedy. She has been raped repeatedly by a gang of ruthless men. Where is her justice? Why isn't she being compensated and taken care of and sent to a doctor for treatment? Is it her mistake that she filed a case against these rapists? Isn't it the rapists who should be severely punished and the judge's anger pouring on them instead of this poor, miserable woman? Shouldn't common sense and justice prevail? We know the woman was with the man in the car and this is against the law. Fine. But she was savagely raped and humiliated. And on top of that the laws are against her. I don't see any justice in this. And don't use religion to justify her sentence. Stop hijacking Islam to punish and abuse and control women. Islam is a merciful religion. I need pages and pages to tell you all the stories about how merciful the Prophet (PBUH) was in real cases of adultery, who themselves admitted their crime to the Prophet (PBUH), and still he showed them mercy. For example, one woman went to the Prophet (PBUH) and admitted adultery. She asked to be punished in this life rather than in the next. But the Prophet (PBUH) told her: You are pregnant, after you have your baby come back. Afterwards she came back and the Prophet (PBUH) told her: You are supposed to breastfeed for two years, after that come back. After that she came back and only then was she punished. In my opinion, the Saudi government should step in and put an end to this tragedy. Give the woman some justice and don't give the abusers and attackers of Islam a matter to chew on. It's enough we're stamped now as a religion of terrorists. We don't need more bad press. http://www.kuwaittimes.net/read_news.php? newsid=MTIzMzMxMTQ3 |
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