Evening NEWS DIGEST
02 Jan.2017: 03 Rabius
Sani 1438: Vol:8, No:78
Politicians cannot seek
votes in name of religion, caste or creed: Supreme Court on Hindutva case
New Delhi: Politicians are
barred from seeking votes in the name of religion, caste or creed the Supreme
Court ruled today in a landmark judgment, ahead of crucial assembly polls+ in
five states. The court also ruled that seeking votes in this manner will be
deemed a corrupt practice and not permissible. The court's bench said today by
a 4:3majority that elections are a secular exercise and that the relationship
between people and whom they worship is an individual choice. Therefore, the
state is forbidden to interfere in such an activity, the court said. A 7-judge
constitution bench passed the verdict in the Hindutva case after hearing
arguments from various petitioners/ respondents. The SC was examining a
politically explosive question arising out of a plea filed in 1990. That
question - Will a religious leader's appeal to his followers to vote for a
particular political party amount to electoral malpractice under Section 123 of
the Representation of People Act. The court gave a wider meaning to Section 123
of the Act to stamp out the use of religion and community affiliation from
elections.TOI
Supreme Court historic
verdict: Politicians can’t use religion, caste, creed or language for votes
Supreme Court terms seeking
votes on basis of religion illegal, but top court isn't laying down a new
format
Religious groups Jamaat,
VHP hail Supreme Court ruling on caste, creed religion vote
New Delhi: Religious
organisations across the ideological divide welcomed the Supreme Court’s ruling
on Monday barring political parties and candidates from seeking votes in the
name of religion, caste, community, race or language. VHP said that the
politics based on caste, community and religion has harmed the country.“Vote
bank politics should be curbed by this decision. This judgement may prove a
landmark in nation-building,” VHP leader added. On the other side of the
divide, Jamat-e-Islami Hind (JIH) said the prohibition to use religion etc. to garner
vote should be strictly implemented. “Although the Supreme Court ruling was not
something new as the existing law already bars people from stoking communal
sentiments to get votes, but now this order should be implemented in letter and
spirit,” JIH Secretary General Mohammed Salim Engineer said.He said that the SC
took notice of it was an evidence of the fact that such practice by political
parties and candidates have been “rampant”.IANS
No coercive action against
man who married minor Muslim girl: Gujarat HC
Ahmedabad:The Gujarat High
Court has ordered that no coercive action can be taken against a 21-year-old
man, who eloped with a 15-year-old Muslim girl and married her in accordance
with Sharia law, which holds marriage of a Muslim minor girl who has attained
puberty legitimate.Justice JB Pardiwala, however, directed the police to carry
out an investigation into the girl's alleged kidnapping after her father, a
resident of Jamnagar, filed an FIR against the man, Jainulaabedin Yusuf Ganji.After
an FIR was registered on Nov.10, 2016 at Jamnagar's 'A' division police
station, Ganji filed an application in the high court for quashing the FIR and
produced the 'nikaahnama' (marriage proof) to prove that he had not kidnapped
the girl. While seeking relief, he also referred to an earlier order passed by
the same court which held marriage of a minor Muslim girl legitimate as she had
attained puberty as per the Islamic law. The court, while setting aside his
application on Nov.22, 2016, said no coercive action shall be taken against him
and directed the police to conduct an investigation, and also file a charge
sheet (against Ganji), if deemed fit (on charge of kidnapping). Following this,
the girl's father filed a modification application telling the court that
Jainulaabedin and his daughter had also signed a live-in-relationship
agreement, while arguing that the police had not initiated any investigation
into the matter.The court, in its order passed on Dec.26, 2016 said, "Let
me remind the investigating officer that this court has not stayed the
investigation. All that the court has said is that no coercive steps be taken
against the applicant (Jainulaabedin)." Jainulaabedin Ganji had eloped
with the girl on Nov.9, 2016 from Jamnagar, and the same day, the two
formalised their marriage as per Sharia law and also entered into a
live-in-relationship agreement, apparently to make sure that their action was
legitimate.PTI
Muslim minor can legally
wed, but can’t sign agreement: Gujarat HC
Gujarat HC Says No Coercive
Action Against Man Who Eloped With 15-Year-Old Muslim Girl
Supreme Court to hear plea
on beef ban case
New Delhi: The Supreme
Court will on Monday hear a plea filed by Congress leader Tehseen Poonawalla
demanding a ban on ‘gau rakshaks’, who are active in several states —
especially those ruled by the BJP that have strict cow protection law. The apex
court earlier agreed to examine rising cow vigilantism across states following
a string of recent cases of violence, especially against Dalits and Muslims, by
members of bovine-protection groups.Poonawalla, in his plea, said violence
committed by these ‘Gau Raksha’ groups have reached to such proportions that
even PM Narendra Modi declared them as
people who are “destroying the society”..ANI
Chief Justice Thakur slams
Modi govt for ‘sitting’ over transfer of HC judges
The Supreme Court on Monday
questioned the Centre as why judges and chief justices of high courts are not
being transfered despite the recommendations of the collegium and asked it to
file a status report on such pending transfers with detailed reasons in two
weeks.The apex court said it gives rise to “speculation and misgivings” due to
continuance of such judges in the same high court and instead of sitting over
the recommendation, the Centre should return back to the collegium for
reconsideration.PTI
Delhi HC seeks J&K,
Centre’s response on J&K HC judge not taking oath to Constitution of India
New Delhi:The Delhi High
court on Monday asked the Advocate General for J&K, as well as the Central govt
to respond on the issue of whether a
plea challenging a provision of the Constitution of India that protects J&K
from automatic application of all laws and constitutional amendments can be
heard by the Delhi High court. The bench of chief Justice G Rohini and Justice
Sangita DHingra Sehgal noted that it found it “appropriate” to get a response
from the Center and the J&K govt since the petitioners alleged that the Judges
of the J&K High court “do not appear to be under oath to uphold the
constitution of India.”Senior Advocate Ravindra K Raizada, who was appearing for
the petitioners, alleged that “Judges in J&K do not take oath to bear true
faith and allegiance to the constitution of India as by law established,” and
argued that a question regarding a Constitutional principle could therefore not
be heard before the J&K HC.The argument came after the Delhi High court
raised the question of why the plea was filed in Delhi and not before the
J&K High Court. Indianexpress
JK has 68.31%
Muslims,Hindus 28.44 %: Census 2011
According to the Census
2011, J&K has population of 1.25 Crores, an increase from figure of 1.01 Crore
in 2001 census.The total population of the state according to the last census
is 12,541,302 of which male and female are 6,640,662 and 5,900,640 respectively.In
terms of the religion, J&K is the India’s only Muslim majority state with
approximately 68.31 % of state population following Islam as their religion
followed by Hinduism with approximately 28.44 % of population.Christianity is
followed by 0.28%, Jainism by 0.02%, Buddhism by 0.90 % and Sikhism by 1.87%.
Around 0.01 % stated ‘Other Religion’; approximately 0.16 % stated ‘No
Particular Religion’.Total Muslim population in state as per 2011 Census is
8,567,485, followed by Hindus who are 3,566,674 in number. brighterkashmir
J&K governor bats for
early resumption of Indo-Pak talks
In Samajwadi Pari-War for
election symbol, cycle could be the biggest casualty
New Delhi:After being
outdone and outmaneuvered by his son Akhilesh Yadav, the dethroned czar of the
Samajwadi Party, Mulayam Singh Yadav, is not giving up without a fight.As the
Yadav family feud shifts from Lucknow to Delhi, all eyes are now on the
Election Commission of India (EC).From occupying party office, now the next
round is all about the cycle--the Samajwadi Party's well-known election
symbol.Laying first claim to the cycle, Mulayam Singh Yadav and brother Shivpal
are meeting EC at 4:30 pm. Mulayam is expected to explain to the poll body that
he is still the president of the party and has first claim over the party
symbol. Mulayam has already termed Akhilesh's crowning as against party's
constitution.Meanwhile, Ram Gopal Yadav, from the Akhilesh camp, the man who is
said to be architect of the coup within SP, is also in Delhi. Akhilesh camp,
however, is yet to approach EC.indiatoday
Mulayam lonelier, on son
Akhilesh’s side are ministers, old aides, family members
Time for Muslims to teach
SP a lesson: Bukhari
Rampur: Muslim voters in UP
should stop thinking about Samajwadi Party and its leaders as the time has come
for the community to consider another option, said Syed Ahmad Bukhari, Shahi
Imam of Jama Masjid, remarking on the ongoing feud in the ruling party.Speaking
with TOI over phone, Bukhari, who had openly supported SP, even sharing the
dais with Mulayam Singh Yadav during the 2012 assembly polls, said, "They
cheated Muslims and supported BJP in forming a govt at the Centre. Only 5 MPs
from Mulayam Singh Yadav's family were sent to the Lok Sabha back then. The SP
leaders have failed to address the issues related to the Muslim community,
which they promised in their 2012 manifesto." Bukhari said, "Muslims should teach the
warring factions within SP a lesson in the upcoming Assembly polls for cheating
them. The community should look for an option and not let the leaders take them
for granted.""TOI
AIMIM begins civic poll
campaign: ‘Rs 7,770 crore of civic budget will be spent for Mumbai Muslims’
Mumbai: Kicking off his
party’s campaign for upcoming civic elections, president of the AIMIM,
Asaduddin Owaisi, promised to use Rs 7,770 crore of the Brihanmumbai Municipal
Corporation’s annual budget to provide amenities to the Muslim population in
the city. Owaisi and other senior leaders of the party, including Aurangabad
MLA Imtiaz Jaleel and Byculla MLA Waris Pathan, addressed a crowd of thousands
at a rally at the Nagpada junction Sunday.Highlighting civic issues such as old
water pipelines resulting in cases of water contamination, lack of storm water
drainage, poor waste management, poor quality of education in municipal schools
and poor hospitals, Owaisi said that despite having an annual budget of Rs
37,500 crore, the BMC had failed to fulfill its responsibilities as a planning
authority. indianexpress
‘He announced several
UPA-era schemes’, Shiv Sena mocks PM Modi’s address
Mumbai:Taking a dig at PM Narendra Modi over his New Year eve address,
BJP ally Shiv Sena on Monday said most of the schemes he announced were
initiated under the UPA rule, and asked what more “sacrifices” would be
required for situation to normalise post note-ban. “People were under the
impression that PM Modi would apply balm on the sufferings faced by them. But,
it does not seem Modi was very serious while he was addressing the nation. More
than 400 people lost their lives standing in queues. Families of all deceased
must be cursing the govt ,” an editorial in Sena mouthpiece ‘Saamana’ said. The
schemes announced by Modi hold no value for families of those who lost their
lives, the ruling ally said. “Many of the schemes announced by Modi are old and
have been running since UPA regime. For instance, Rs 6,000 announced for women
(who undergo institutional delivery) is already running since 2013 under Food
Security Act,”it said.PTI
Fact check: Modi just
extended old schemes in New Year announcement
DEMONETISATION
NRIs can deposit upto Rs
25,000 by showing old notes to Customs at airport
New Delhi: NRIs and Indian nationals abroad can deposit
up to Rs 25,000 of the demonetised currency during the 3 to 6 month grace
period, but only if they show the junked notes to Customs officials at the
airport and get declaration form stamped.The declaration will have to be
submitted at specified branches of the RBI while depositing the junked
currency, a finance ministry notification stated.While the 50-day window for
such deposits at banks or post offices ended on Dec.30, the govt has offered a grace period for those who were
abroad. The window for Indian nationals who were travelling abroad is untill
March 31 and for NRIs, it is June 30, 2017.This facility, however, is
"subject to Foreign Exchange Management (Export and Import of Currency)
Regulations,2015. According to these regulations, bringing back such currency
into the country is restricted to Rs 25,000 per person".Those returning
from Nepal and Bhutan are not permitted to carry specified bank notes (SBNs) of
old 500 and 1,000 rupee notes.PTI
OTHERS
Hope and despair about
Islamic banking in India: HT spl
Mumbai:A few months ago,
reports that RBI, national banking regulator, was planning to introduce rules
that would allow banks to start Islamic banking divisions had excited groups
that want these type of financial services in India.Islamic banking is run on
religious principles that consider the taking and giving of interest as sin.
Customers earn returns on investments through equity, lease rents and
dividends. India does not have norms for such services. According to the
promoters of this kind of financial service, scriptures of other religions,
including Christianity, Judaism and Hinduism, mention the taking and paying of
interest as wrong. This column had reported that a major public sector bank had
announced that it will start a division that will provide interest-free
banking. Those hopes have now died down. Last month, Chandrakant Khaire, a Shiv
Sena Member of Parliament (MP), submitted a plea during zero hour in the Lok
Sabha opposing an “Islamic window” in the banking system. Syed Zahid Ahmad of
Mumbai-based Economic Initiatives, a group that has been campaigning for interest-free
banking products, said that Khaire’s views are important because he is a member
of the Standing Committee on Finance. Khaire, incidentally, represents
Aurangabad, an area with a high proportion of Muslim residents. Khaire’s doubts
about interest-free banking largely comes from a misunderstanding that
borrowings are free of cost. “If the RBI allows banking without interest,
Muslim youth will benefit; where will Hindus go?” said Khaire. “Banking should
not be done in the name of religion. There should be a discussion on the
subject before such facilities are introduced.” Campaign to promote Islamic
banking received another jolt when the minister of state for finance, while
replying to a question in the Lok Sabha on Dec.9, said that though Islamic
finance was explored by the RBI as one of the ideas for financial inclusion,
other schemes like Jan Dhan Yojana and Suraksha Bima Yojna worked too. H Abdur
Raqeeb, convenor, National Commitee on Islamic Banking and general secretary,
Indian Centre for Islamic Finance, said that the discussion on interest-free
banking was made much before the programmes. “We are very disheartened because
the RBI has given a road map for interest-free banking.” Raqeeb, who recently
wrote to two MPs for the revival of SBI Shariah Fund, said that the RBI’s
agenda for the financial year mentioned an alternate system of interest-free
banking. “This is to mainstream people who are away from banking because of
religious reasons,” said Raqeeb. HT
Muslims asked to donate
bank interest to charity
Mumbai: The Association for
Muslim Professionals, an NGO, has started an awareness drive asking Muslims to
utilise the interests earned from their bank deposits for charity.As accepting
interest in not allowed in Islam according to AMP, the NGO has asked Muslims to
give away the interest money in charity so that it can be utilised for
education and employment purposes of the youth. Speaking about the NGO’s move,
Javed Anand of Indian Muslims for Secular Democracy (IMSD) said, “There is
nothing wrong in the interest money being utilised for charity. The fact that
the money is being sought for addressing the education and employment issue in
the Muslim youth is a good initiative,” said Anand.asian age
Patna: Muslim organisations
extend a helping hand to Sikh Guru's 350th birth anniversary celebrations
Patna: Nowadays, Patna the
capital of Bihar is vivacious and vibrant with the ongoing Prakashotsav- 350th
birth anniversary celebrations of Guru Gobind Singh- the 10th Guru of Sikh
community.Takhat Sri Harmandir Sahib, considered as the birth place of Guru
Gobind Singh is situated in Patna where the Prakashotsav scheduled from 1st to
5th Jan. 2017 will witness the visit of an estimated 5 Lakh devotees from all
over the country.Working with the spirit of religious harmony and solidarity
two prominent Muslim organizations Jamaat e Islami Hind Bihar and Imaret e
Sharia have extended their support to the Sikh pilgrims. Nazim of Imarat e
Sharia Maulana Anisur Rahman Qasmi said that two ambulances and a team of 5
doctors will be ready and available round the clock to provide medical
assistance to devotees in case need arises. Rizwan Islahi, the Patna circle
Chief of Jamat e Islami Bihar told MuslimMirror.com that tea stalls at different locations along
the route have been put up for Sikh pilgrims and refreshments will be provided
free of cost.Moreover, stalls have been put up to showcase the oneness of the
Creator of all humanity and literature will be distributed mentioning oneness
of the Almighty, he added. MuslimMirror.com
Bhopal encounter: All state
investigations call my son a terrorist when he was under-trial; want
independent investigation, says Mahmooda Bi
Solapur/Bhopal: Mahmooda
Bi, mother of Khalid Muchale, one of the 8 under-trial prisoners encountered on
Oct.31, has rejected all the three ongoing state investigations in the case and
has petitioned for an independent probe at the Jabalpur High Court. Muchale and
seven other under-trial prisoners who were lodged in Bhopal central prison
under the allegations of being members of banned organization SIMI were killed
in an encounter near Bhopal on the morning of Oct.31.Following this encounter MP
govt initially felicitated police
officials involved in the encounter killing, but after pressure mounted, it
ordered for enquiry into the encounter killing. Presently, MP govt has initiated three investigations: Inquiry
entrusted to a Senior IPS Officer and in charge of Special Investigation team
at Bhopal, a Magisterial inquiry into the matter by a SDM Baresiya and an
inquiry by a retired Judge of MP High Court Justice S K Pande. Subsequent to
the controversial encounter, many petitions were filed before Jabalpur High
Court including one by Mahmooda Bi praying for an independent probe into the
matter. Almost all such petitions have been rejected by the High Court so far
maintaining that no interference is required into already initiated inquiries.
Mahmooda Bi’s writ is still pending before the High court.Mahmooda Bi has
rejected all the investigations directed by MP govt and said, “No matter how many inquiries are
initiated to investigate the matter, it will yield no reasonable results unless
such inquiries are done out of the influence of the authority whose genuineness
in handling the matter is challenged.”“How can it be the fair investigation
when the order for probe itself calls my son a ‘SIMI terrorist’ even though he
was only an undertrial prison and none of the court ever judged him to be a
member of any banned organization?”, she questioned.TCN
Malegaon blasts case: Like
Kalsangra, Dange, no trace of 3 Muslims accused
Mumbai:The claims of
suspended assistant police inspector Mahiboob Mujawar over the disappearance of
Ramchandra Kalsangra and Sandeep Dange, 2 accused in the 2008 Malegaon blasts
case, has made the NIA assure a Mumbai court that it would probe the matter.
However, Kalsangra and Dange are not the only men who have disappeared after
being named as conspirators in the Malegaon bomb blasts cases. 3 Muslim men who
were accused of involvement in the 2006 Malegaon blasts — initially deemed to
have been caused by SIMI activists — are also ‘missing’. While police records
show them as absconding, activists in Malegaon claim their disappearance is far
more surprising as all the eight Muslim men who were their co-accused in the
case were discharged last year by a Mumbai court. Maharashtra ATS and then the
CBI had chargesheeted 13 Muslim men for their role in the 2006 Malegaon blasts.
A total of 9 were arrested, while 4 others, including a Pakistani, were
declared absconders. The 3 Indians include Munawwar Ahmed — the then
36-year-old who was accused of being one of the main conspirators who directed
that the blasts be carried out at at Bada Kabrastan and Hamidiya Masjid
complex.The second was Riyaz Ahmed Shafi Ahmed, accused of placing an IED at
the blast site. The third was Ishtiyaq Ahmed Mohammed Isaaq, deemed a
conspirator in the case. The families of all the three have been waiting for
news of their sons since 2006. “The cases in which they were framed have fallen
through. I fail to understand why they have not been found yet,” said
64-year-old Mohammed Amin, the father of Munawwar.A former muezzin, the
sexagenarian is now living a life of penury. “They say the biggest pain of a
parent is to lose their child. For us, this pain is double because we do not
even know whether our son is dead or alive. I may seem normal to you but this
is false normalcy,” Amin had said outside his ramshackle tin-roofed house in
Pharamacy Nagar on the outskirts of Malegaon.Indian Express
Malegaon blasts accused's
custodial death mystery deepens
Malegaon blasts case:
Mujawar never tried to meet me, did not address letter to me, says ex-DGP
Rs 42 lakh payments to Naik's
IRF employee under NIA scanner:TOI
New Delhi: Probing Zakir
Naik's, NIA is looking into suspicious payments of Rs 42 lakh to Arshi Qureshi,
a guest relation manager with his NGO IRF, who was arrested in July 2016 for
allegedly radicalising some Kerala youths to join the Islamic State terror
group.While checking the financial details of IRF, NIA sleuths recently noticed
payments of Rs 42 lakh to Arshi in bank documents, sources said. Whether this
payment, which has been made over a period of time, has been used to fund any
suspect is being looked at, they said.Sources said they are looking into the
transactions and it could be regular salary payments as well. The bank
documents analysed by NIA sleuths raised eyebrows as recently it was found that
IRF paid Rs 1.5 lakh to Rajasthan-based IS operative Abu Anas in the form of
scholarship payments.TOI
Family grieves death of
Abis Rizvi, Khushi Shah
New Delhi:A day after
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj informed that film producer Abis Rizvi
and fashion designer Khushi Shah have lost their lives in the Istanbul
nightclub attack, the film fraternity and family of the duo expressed grief at
the tragic loss.Expressing shock over the incident, a family member of Khushi,
said: "The family is under total shock, Khushi had gone there for business
work."ANI
Bollywood shocked at Abis
Rizvi’s death in Istanbul attack
For the first time ever,
Haj application process goes digital
Mumbai: Giving a digital
push to the Haj application process for first time, Union Minister of State for
Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi today launched a mobile application in
Mumbai, which will provide information and facilitate e-payments for the
pilgrimage. "It is for the first time that Haj application process is
going to be digital," Naqvi said during the launch of the event at Haj
House in south Mumbai. "This is a major initiative in the govt 's 'Digital
India' programme," he said. PTI
Telangana govt appoints AK Khan as adviser
Hyderabad: AK Khan, who
retired as director-general of the ACB on Dec. 31, was on Sunday appointed
adviser on minority welfare. CM K.
Chandrasekhar Rao issued orders to this effect on Sunday, taking number of
advisers to 9 including ex- chief secretary Rajiv Sharma as chief adviser.Deccan
Chronicle.
Service charge by
hotels/restaurants not mandatory: Govt
New Delhi:In the wake of a
number of complaints from consumers that they are being forced to pay service
charge in the range of 5-20% , in lieu of tips, irrespective of the kind of
service provided to them, govt has said
that a consumer can now refuse to pay the service charge if he/she is not
satisfied with their dining experience. Consumer Protection Act, 1986
stipulates that a trade practice which, for purpose of promoting the sale, use
or the supply of any goods or for the provision of any service, adopts any
unfair method or deceptive practice, is to be treated as an unfair trade
practice and that a consumer can make a complaint to the appropriate consumer
forum established under the Act against such unfair trade practices.
JNU affirmative admission
axe: Varsity set to scrap easier entry rules for deprived students
Crackdown in AMU reveals
anti-Muslim prejudice, again: Abhay Kumar for MuslimMirror
WORLD
US-Israel intelligence
agencies cooperated against Egypt after Morsi elected in 2012
Israel’s signal
intelligence Unit 8200 and America’s NSA spied on Egypt after the election of
Mohamed Morsi as president in 2012, specialist magazine Israeli Defence claimed
on Saturday. In a report based on documents released by WikiLeaks, the Israeli
magazine said that the NSA was asked to expand its cooperation with Unit 8200
to collect information about Egypt. It is alleged that the two agencies
cooperated on many missions against “strategic targets” across the Middle East,
the Gulf States, South Asian countries and the predominantly Muslim states which
once were part of the Soviet Union. Joint US-Israel intelligence programmes,
reported Israeli Defence, collected information about local policies in such
countries, including details about their armed forces, the economy, diplomatic
channels and other issues. Unconventional weapons and active “terrorists” were
also under scrutiny; Lebanon’s Hezbollah, Palestinian resistance movements and
global jihadists have apparently been common targets. Such cooperation, claims
the magazine, has led to the development of strong ties between the NSA and
Unit 8200. Agencies exchange raw data and intercept communications; provide
analyses; and build joint target banks. Each has representatives of the other
in their offices as well as in their countries’ embassies. middle east monitor
Egypt-Hamas rapprochement
getting more likely, claims Israeli report
Relations between Egypt and
Hamas, are improving, a new media report by Israel’s News One has claimed.
Egypt, it is pointed out, has recently facilitated the movement of Palestinians
by opening the Rafah Border Crossing for the first time in a very long
while.The transport of goods has also been allowed, including cement and steel,
which Israel bans in Gaza without UN supervision of the imported materials. In
return, says the report, Hamas will prevent the smuggling of money and weapons
to Daesh militants alleged to be operating in the Sinai Peninsula.Meanwhile,
relations between Egypt and the Palestinian Authority headed by Mahmoud Abbas
have been deteriorating on the back of Cairo’s support for PA president’s rival,
former Fatah official Mohammed Dahlan.Initial withdrawal of the draft UN
resolution condemning Israeli settlements made the situation worse, the report
adds. middleeastmonitor
Trump’s ‘unlimited’ support
for Israel ‘harmful,’ warns former Israel Defence Forces officer: middleeastmonitor
A former spokesman of
Israel Defence Forces has warned that Donald Trump’s “unlimited” support for
Israel will cause “unimaginable harm” to Israel, Arabi21.com reported on
Sunday. Brigadier General Avi Benayahu suggested that it could actually
“explode” the security situation in the occupied West Bank and Israel, and
cause a new intifada (uprising). “[Trump] is unintentionally holding the flame
which could ignite the third intifada and present an unprecedented challenge
for Israel,” Benayahu said in an article in the Hebrew daily Maariv.
Israel to propose annexing
large settlement of Jerusalem
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20170102-israel-to-propose-annexing-large-settlement-of-jerusalem/
Israel’s education minister
and leader of the far right, pro-settlement Jewish Home party Naftali Bennett
said on Sunday that he plans to introduce legislation this month that would
extend Israeli sovereignty to the Jerusalem-area settlement of Ma’ale Adumim.In
a tweet, Bennett said his Orthodox-nationalist party would present to the
Knesset what he described as a coalition-backed plan to lawmakers later this
month — presumably after the Jan.20 inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump.“Before
the end of January, we, together with all the coalition parties, will propose a
bill for the imposition of Israeli law on Ma’aleh Adumim,” Bennett said.
Habayit Hayehudi chairman called on the govt to pass a law annexing Ma’aleh Adumim, a large
settlement east of Jerusalem, to Israel by the end of the month.
150 settlers stormed
Al-Aqsa on Sunday
Official data: 18,000
Israelis stormed Al-Aqsa in 2016
Polygamy approved by
Israeli rabbis to counter Arab demographic threat
Israeli rabbis have
approved the practice of polygamy to counter what they believe is a demographic
threat posed by Arab populations living in Israel and the occupied Palestinian
territories.An expose by Channel 10, an Israeli broadcasting channel, revealed
the practice was approved by the rabbinate that has actively encouraged and facilitated
polygamy, claiming the practice will give Jews an edge in the demographic race
against Arabs in Israel. One rabbi who has been married for 26 years is filmed
by an undercover reporter persuading a single woman to become his second
wife.“If your parents ask you why you don’t marry like everyone else,” he told
her, “tell them that it is a mitzvah [religious commandment] and I want to do a
mitzvah.”The rabbi showed the reporter a letter signed by Jerusalem’s Chief
Rabbi Shlomo Amar permitting him to marry a second wife. middleeastmonitor
Israel urged to apologise
for disappeared babies: ljazeera
Nazareth:Some 200,000
documents concerning the mysterious disappearance of thousands of babies in
Israel’s early years were made public last week for the first time. Israeli govt
declassified the files, publishing them
in an online archive, after decades of accusations that officials have been
concealing evidence that many of the babies were stolen from their parents.Families,
most of them Jews from Arab countries recently arrived in Israel, fear the
infants were handed over by hospitals and clinics to wealthy Jewish families in
Israel and abroad.
Francois Hollande in Iraq
to review war on ISIL
French president Francois
Hollande has arrived in Baghdad to meet the French forces helping Iraq in the
fight against ISIL and to hold talks with top officials.Hollande, who was
travelling with French defence minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, had already visited
in 2014 and remains the most prominent head of state to come to Iraq since the
launch, two and half years ago, of a US-led coalition against the armed groups.”We’re
not done with the plight of terrorism. We have to keep on fighting it,”
Hollande said in a New Year address to the nation that was broadcast on French
television. ljazeera
Battle for Mosul: Residents
flee city as army advances
US-led coalition hit IS
mortar position in Mosul: Reuters
Hundreds flee fighting near
Syria capital despite truce
Hundreds of civilians fled
a mountainous region outside the Syrian capital on Sunday where govt forces
battled several armed groups, including one excluded from a recent nationwide
ceasefire. Syrian military said some 1,300 people fled the Barada Valley region
since Saturday. The region has been the target of days of air strikes and
shelling despite the truce, which was brokered by Russia and Turkey and appears
to be holding in other parts of the country, despite some reports of fighting.aljazeera
IS claims attack in Syria
killing 2 security officers: Reuters
Myanmar promises action
over Rohingya abuse video
Myanmar’s govt said it
would take action against police officers shown beating villagers in a video
that has circulated on the internet.Monday’s front-page story in state-owned
Global New Light of Myanmar newspaper about the November 5 incident was a rare
official acknowledgment of abuses taking place in the western state of Rakhine.
Authorities have been conducting “clearance” operations there since an attack
in October by unidentified armed men killed nine border guards.Human rights
groups accuse security forces of abuses against the Muslim Rohingya minority in
Rakhine, including rape, killings and the burning of more than 1,000 homes. ljazeera
Pak Senate body unanimously
passes Hindu Marriage Bill
Islamabad: Senate
Functional Committee on Human Rights on Monday unanimously passed the
much-awaited Hindu Marriage Bill 2016, in a landmark move aimed at easing
growing insecurity among the country’s Hindu community.The committee met here
Monday with Senator Nasreen Jalil in the chair. Senator Sitara Ayaz, Muhammad
Mohsin Khan Leghari, Mufti Abdul Sattar, Nisar, Aitzaz Ahsan, Farhatullah
Baber, Dr. Ashok Kumar, Dr. Ramesh Kumar Vankwani and Dr. Darshan were also
present at the meeting. The bill will enable the Hindu community to get their
marriages registered and separation cases could be resolved in the courts.geo
tv
Muslim should formulate own
UN, military, syllabus: Siraj
Karachi: Ameer Jamaat e
Islami Pakistan (JI) Siraj-ul-Haq Sunday stressed for unity among the Muslim
Ummah and said Muslims should make a joint military, formulate one syllabus and
their own united nations organization by dissociating from the UN, ARY News
reported.“The Muslim Ummah has been divided in the name of different thoughts
and ethnicities. 56 Islamic countries found on world map should shun
differences to get united,” he said while addressing a rally titled
‘Ummat-e-Rasool-ullah (SAWW)’ organized by JI in Karachi. He said the rally was
held in solidarity with the oppressed Muslims of Aleppo and Kashmir.The JI
Ameer said regretfully the Islamic world was not raising its voice against the
atrocities on Muslims in Burma and Aleppo because the United States was not
calling it injustice. ARY News
Siraj says Muslim bloc
should abandon UN
Keralite in Kyrgyzstan top
military post
Dubai: A Saudi-based
entrepreneur of Indian origin has assumed a top position in the defence
department of Kyrgyzstan.Sheikh Rafik Mohammed, Malayali, was appointed major
general by Kyrgyzstan defence minister Ali Mirza at an official ceremony, said
a report in the Khaleej Times on Saturday.This could be the first time a
Keralite has been included in top military leadership of a foreign country,
said Rafik's media adviser Omar Abu Baker.TOI
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