October 2018
In the wake of deadly attack on synagogue in Pittsburg PA:
American Muslim groups express solidarity with the Jewish community
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali: American Muslim civil advocacy groups have strongly denounced the killing of worshipers at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh PA. In solidarity with the Jewish community two Muslim organizations have raised around $200,000 to help victims and their families of the synagogue shooting. Robert Bowers, a white supremacist stormed into the synagogue during Sabbath and fired upon innocent men, women, and children attending religious services, killing 11 and wounding 5. The shooting took place during a bris, a baby naming ceremony. Read More
Amnesty India accuses Modi’s government of treating human rights groups like criminals
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali: Amnesty International India has accused the government of Prime Minister Narendar Modi of treating human rights organizations like criminal enterprises. The reaction from the human rights group has come a day after the Enforcement Directorate (ED) carried out searches at two locations of Amnesty International India in connection with the contravention of Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA). Read More
Pakistan rules out any kind of ties with Israel as Netanyahu visits Oman
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali: Pakistan President Arif Alvi on Sunday (Oct 28) ruled out establishing any kind of relations with Israel as he strongly rejected reports that an Israeli aircraft carrying some officials secretly landed in Islamabad and flew away after several hours at the airport here.“Islamabad is not establishing any kind of relations with Israel,” President Alvi told the media before his departure for Turkey on a three-day official visit. Read More
Reform at the UN needed to stop world disorder
By Dr. Habib Siddiqui: The United Nations Organization, like the League of Nations before, was conceived for the noble purpose of ending wars between nations.Yet, we have witnessed, almost non-stop, one war after another. Since the end of the Second World War in 1945 there have been some 250 major wars in which over 50 million people have been killed, tens of millions made homeless, and countless millions injured and bereaved. Read More
Khashogg’s disappearance: Who would have imagined this?
By Dr. Habib Siddiqui: Who would’ve imagined that Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi journalist and Washington Post columnist who had been living in the U.S, would be killed inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul? But now we know better. Thanks to Saudi Arabia’s crown prince MBS, such has become a reality. Read More
Is peace attainable in our time?
By Dr. Habib Siddiqui: Thanks to the Saudi-led coalition, Yemen continues to bleed for the last three years. The country is wrecked by a bloody war between the Houthi rebels and supporters of Yemen's unpopular government. Read More
Global leadership split in Tablighi Jamaat echoes in San Francisco Bay Area
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali: The Tablighi Jamaat, a non-political group which concentrates on individual piety, has split in recent years into three major groups over leadership issue. Since its inception in 1929, the Tablighi Jamaat (TJ) had its global headquarters in Basti Nizamuddin in New Delhi, India. However in recent years Maulana Saad Khandalvi, grandson of the TJ founder Maulana Muhammad Ilyas Kandhalawi has claimed sole leadership of the TJ. This has caused severe split in the TJ as the TJs in Pakistan and Bangladesh have refused to accept the leadership claim of Maulana Saad Khandalvi. Read More
Sabra and Shatila: Carefully Planned Israeli Atrocities Led by Ariel Sharon
By Jeremy Salt: Sabra and Shatila, September,1982, stands as one of the worst single atrocities in modern history. Up to 3500 Palestinians were massacred when Israel’s Falangist proxies surged through the two Beirut camps in September 1982. Israel sought to dump the blame on to the Falangists. “Goyim kill goyim and they come to blame the Jews,” Israel’s Prime Minister, Menahim Begin, complained. In fact, Israel commanded and controlled the entire operation. The punishment meted out by the Kahan commission of inquiry was derisory. Ariel Sharon, the Israeli ‘defence minister’ was demoted but remained in government, after Begin refused to sack him. Despite his own complicity, Begin was not punished and neither were any of the politicians who had agreed that the camps had to be ‘cleaned out.’ World opinion was outraged, but not even this fearful event was sufficient for Israel to be held to account. Unrestrained, Israel remained free to kill at will. Read More
India alarmed at Saudi oil refinery project in strategic Gawadar port
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali: Pakistan's latest announcement about Saudi Arabia's investment in an oil refinery at the strategic port of Gwadar has set alarm bells ringing in India. James M. Dorsey, a senior fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies at Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University, says that Saudi' oil refinery in Gwadar Port could threaten Iran's India-backed Chabahar Port. The deal could additionally involve deferred payments on Saudi oil supplies which will firstly, create a strategic oil reserve close to Iran, and secondly, help cash-strapped Pakistan in payments, Dorsey said. Read More
Poor Indian Muslims being forced to convert to Hinduism
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali: On October 2, 2018, 13-members of a Muslim family in Badarka village of Baghpat, Uttar Pradesh, were converted to Hinduism. Akhtar Ali, 68, was renamed Dharam Singh. Three sons of Akhtar Ali, now Dharam Singh, also converted and changed their names from Dilshad to Diler, Naushad to Narendra and Irshad to Kavi. Those converted also included Akhtar’s three daughters-in-law, two grandsons and four granddaughters. This is the latest case of conversion of Muslims by Hindu extremist organizations backed by Prime Minister Narinder Modi who came into power in 2014 on the agenda of Hinduvita which "forms the basis of an exclusionary national narrative focused exclusively on the rights of Hindus." Read More
The World Disorder
By Dr. Habib Siddiqui: During the 73rd UN General Assembly meeting the world community heard loud and clear from the world leaders and dignitaries that the UN has failed to live up to the lofty goals for which it was created after the World War II. As a matter of fact, human race is in a dire state today than ever before in the last 70 years. Millions of people have been rendered homeless as a result of war, political unrest and economic insecurity that have become the new norms these days. Some four million Syrians have fled their homes to escape murderous assaults from its own government - the criminal Assad regime. Almost a million Rohingya Muslims and Hindus have been forced out of the Rakhine (formerly Arakan) state of Buddhist Myanmar who have now settled inside Bangladesh since September 2017 to escape government-orchestrated genocide there. In next-door India, some 100,000 Kashmiri civilians have been killed by government security forces since 1989 to ensure that the Muslim residents of the restive territory are denied their overdue rights to a long-promised plebiscite to determine whether they want to secede or remain part of the so-called ‘democratic’ India. Under Narendra Modi’s rule, Hindutvadi fascists are rejuvenated and are making a mockery of country’s secular constitution and thousand-year old history of religious co-existence by lynching minority Muslims daily under the pretext of saving ‘sacred’ cows. In the BJP-run state of Assam some 4 million Indians have been rendered stateless a la Myanmar-style. Forty-four years have passed since that memorable day in the UN, and still the Palestinians are without a state. They are denied the right to self-determination. They are waiting for the world, esp. the UNSC, to intervene on their behalf. Will they ever see justice? The idea of peace without justice is an illusion and is morally repugnant. Read More
Sardar Masood Khan: Sacrifices of the people kept the Kashmir dispute alive
“India’s belligerent signaling in the recent days forebodes a new wave of Indian sponsored state terror and atrocities in the Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK). This must be stopped at all costs. India’s irresponsible rhetoric will neither intimidate Pakistan nor deter Kashmiris from pursuing their struggle for freedom and self-determination. On the contrary, such threats strengthen the resolve the people of Jammu and Kashmir to continue to fight for their just cause,” said Sardar Masood Khan, President, Azad Jammu & Kashmir while addressing a gathering of Kashmiri and Pakistani Americans in Brooklyn, New York on October 5, 2018. Read More
Egypt executed 32 people since military coup as dozens remain on death row
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali: Egyptian military junta led by US-client Field Marshall Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, has executed 32 people since al-Sisi overthrew the first democratically elected President Mohamed Morsi in July 2013. According to the New Khaleej, Egyptian authorities have executed 32 people in nine cases since the coup d’état while 64 people are awaiting the death penalty in 13 other cases. There is no precise count of the number of death sentences pending appeals in Egypt, however human rights organizations say they amount to hundreds. Read More
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