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[1] http://www.imc-usa.org/cgi-bin/cfm/PressRelease.cfm?PRID=116 IMC-USA urges President Bush to attend Diwali celebrations; decries India League's anti-Muslim statement FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 24, 2005 Indian Muslim Council-USA, an advocacy group dedicated to the promotion of pluralism in India and the US called upon President Bush to attend the White House celebrations of the Hindu festival of Diwali. IMC-USA is also urging its supporters to call the White House to request the President's attendance at the Diwali festivities. Responding to the media reports that India League's executive director, Don Feder, while asking President Bush to attend the Diwali celebrations, had put the Muslims down by implying they are anti-American where as Hindus are pro-American, Dr. Shaik Ubaid, the President of IMC-USA called the statement "Unfortunate, divisive, ill-informed and unpatriotic." Dr. Ubaid went on to explain, "Hinduism is a major world religion and the President must respect it as he respects Christianity, Islam and Judaism. In fact the President must respect all religions and I am sure he does. This should have been the premise of India League. Why did Mr. Feder have to put Muslims down and imply that Muslims do not like America and Hindus do? India is not a Hindu country. The world's second largest Muslim community of over 150 million Muslims lives in India and when Mr. Bush celebrated Ramadan he was honoring Indian Muslims as well as India. Nor are all Indians robots who follow a single political philosophy. Any one who reads the Indian media knows that some Hindus, as well as the majority of Hindutva-fascists, are anti-American. The Hindutva supporters burnt the effigy of Mr. Bush and attacked American businesses in Gujarat when the US revoked the visa of their leader Narendra Modi because of his involvement in the anti-Muslim pogroms and persecution of Christians." IMC-USA had supported the campaign to get a Hindu commissioner on the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF). "We supported Preeta Bansal as the Hindu commissioner and opposed the extremist Hindutva-fascist candidates as they did not represent Hinduism but represented an exclusivist, violent and fascist-inspired ideology called Hindutva that has been the motivating factor in anti-minorities pogroms in India. India League must stand up for all Indians and join broad-based coalitions of Indians living in the US such as Coalition to Build a Better India, Promise of India and Coalition Against Genocide," Dr. Ubaid said. Both India and the US consider the Muslim world to be vital for their economic and geo-strategic interests and urge their respective Muslim citizens to help build stronger relations with the Muslim countries. The US- Muslim relations date back to the American war of Independence when Tippu Sultan of India and the King of Morocco were the first non-European rulers to recognize the US as an independent nation. Reference: Bush requested to attend Diwali celebrations at the White House http://us.rediff.com/news/2005/oct/22diwali.htm?q=tp&file=.htm Contact person: M.K.Rahman 265 Sunrise Highway, suite 1-355 Rockville Centre, NY 11570 (516) 567- 0783 info@imc-usa.org ----------------------------------- [2] From: Regi P George <george_regi@yahoo.com> Date: Tue Oct 25, 2005 Subject: `Needed, a new proletarian front to fight communalism' `Needed, a new proletarian front to fight communalism' `Communal forces are trying to distort history' K.N. Panikkar THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Noted historian K.N. Panikkar on Monday said communalism has been able to penetrate the working class organisations in the country by taking advantage of the latter's cultural shortcomings. Battle Communalism cannot be fought on the political front alone. It needs to be tacked in the realm of ideas and in the realm of culture. No single proletarian organisation can carry forward this multi-faceted battle against communalism and the most recent threats posed by the forces of globalisation. So a new umbrella organisation, representing all facets of life and a new leadership, is needed to fight communalism and globalisation on all fronts, he said. Dr. Panikkar was speaking after releasing the Malayalam translation of Communist Party of India (Marxist) central committee member Sukomal Sen's book `Working Class of India: History of Emergence and Movement' at a function organised by the Kerala NGO Union here. Globalisation Today, globalisation is driving workers away from the workplace. The forces propagating the consumerist culture by trying to inculcate in the working class, a middle class way of life need to be resisted. It is heartening to note that working class organisations are beginning to realise the need to fight communalism and globalisation at the same time. History books Communal forces are also trying to distort the history of the people of this country by negating the role of the working class in the freedom movement. "In the history books written for schoolchildren by these communal forces, you will not find any reference to the working class," he said. There exists a pressing need to reclaim the history of the people from the clutches of communal forces. Books such as the one written by Mr. Sen can go a long way in helping the working class reclaim history from the communal forces. Mr. Sen's book is authoritative and seminal in two ways; one because its assertions are based on verifiable documents and secondly because the book uses fundamental Marxian principles to provide an interpretation to the events it chronicles. The book shows how the nation-wide strikes called by the working class were attempts at taking forward progressive politics in the country. "Sen's book should be translated in more Indian languages. I have also asked today's organisers to ensure that in the next few months widespread discussions are held based on this book. Moreover, it would be useful if an abridged edition of this book was published," Dr. Panikkar added. http://www.hindu.com/2005/10/25/stories/2005102518140300.htm ------------------------------ [3] From: Vikas Adhyayan Kendra <vak@bom3.vsnl.net.in> Date: Tue Oct 25, 2005 Subject: New Publication on Tsunami Aid or Debt Cancellation! Tsunami Aid or Debt Cancellation! The Political Economy of Post Tsunami Reconstruction Damien Millet ~ Eric Toussaint December 26, 2004, the day after Christmas, darkness dawned on the countries of the Indian Ocean regions. An earthquake measuring 9 on the Richter scale resulted in a tsunami tidal wave that devastated coastal areas of Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Myanmar, the Seychelles and India Read the full text at: <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Mahajanapada/message/8249>; -------------------------------- [4] From: "P. Joseph Raju" <aa5756@wayne.edu> Date: Tue Oct 25, 2005 Subject: Fw: Scream Dear ones I am forwarding this for the information of the participants in this forum. This is a horrible human tragedy . a time to open our hearts and hands with the suffering people. P. Joseph Raju Scream. Spare a scream for the 100,000 dead and 3 million homeless, muted out of world media. Read the full text at: <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Mahajanapada/messages/8251>; -------------------------- [5] From: "P. Joseph Raju" <aa5756@wayne.edu> Date: Tue Oct 25, 2005 Subject: ABC News person of the week: Mukhtar Mai ABC News <http://www.abcnews.go.com/images/site/printlogo.jpg>; Person of the Week: Mukhtar Mai Pakistani Rape Victim Becomes Beacon for Women's Rights Oct. 21, 2005 - - Three years ago, Mukhtar Mai was brutally raped in her remote village in Pakistan. After a long struggle, Pakistan's supreme court convicted her attackers, and she's only able to talk about it now. "I feel very happy, and God will look after me in the future," she said. "I am very, very hopeful that I will get justice." Tomorrow Mai will travel to New York, her first trip out of Pakistan, to receive Glamour magazine's "Woman of the Year" award. And she'll travel around the country to speak on the plight of rural women. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Mahajanapada/message/8250 ----------------------------------------------------------- |
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