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06 Feb.2017: 08 Jamadiul Awwal 1438: Vol:8, No:109
Muslim organisations too
oppose triple talaq as is practised now: Law panel chairpman
New Delhi:A majority of
those who had responded to its questionnaire on a uniform civil code, including
many Muslims organisations, have opposed spontaneous triple talaq, Law
Commission chairperson Justice BS Chauhan has said.The panel is currently
examining the more than 40,000 responses it has received to the questionnaire
issued in Oct.2016. Justice Chauhan said the larger consensus was that
spontaneous triple talaq, as is currently practised, was not in keeping with
what was stated in the Shariat, which mandates a three-month iddat period meant
for reconciliation and arbitration.“While we are yet to tabulate the huge
number of responses, one thing we have observed is that most people, even among
the Muslims, have opposed the practice of spontaneous triple talaq. They have
held that iddat period should be observed,” said Chauhan.He said, “In Dec.,Justice
Mohammad Mustaq of Kerala High Court delivered a judgment examining the
validity of triple talaq and sent it to the Law Commission, referring the
matter to us. Those who have been alleging that this exercise carries forward
the govt’s agenda should understand that with the court order, we are bound to
examine the matter now.”At the same time, Chauhan clarified that the commission
is not only looking at triple talaq but at the issue of gender justice in
personal laws of all religions, in terms of marriage, divorce, child custody
and property rights. “Why are we only talking of triple talaq? Except for
certain matriarchal societies, such as those in parts of the Northeast, most
women still have no right to agricultural land. We will be looking at gender
justice in all aspects of personal law. Never before in India has any law
commission sought responses from people. This was a first-of-its-kind
experiment. In any developed country, law is made after consultation with
stakeholders. After all, enforcement of law depends upon acceptability of law,”
he said. indian express
Politicians raising triple
talaq issue for vote bank: Women activists
Moradabad/ahmedabad:
Terming the Central Govt’s stand to ban triple talaq as a ‘vote bank politics’,
Hina Zaheer on Monday said the leaders are politicising the issue to woo the
voters ahead of the assembly elections. “The matter of triple talaq is
sub-judice and thus no one can take law into his/her hand. Why leaders are
politicising the issue. We as Muslim women are persistently demanding to follow
the talaq procedure as per the Quran. The matter is being raised by the
politicians at a time when elections are around the corner and this clearly
shows that this is mere a vote bank politics. They are just trying to woo
voters in the name of triple talaq,” Zaheer told ANI.Meanwhile, women activist
Zakia Soman called for an action against triple talaq saying that it is not an
issue of politics and must be restricted.ANI
CPI attacks Ravi Shankar
Prasad over triple talaq, questions timing of his comment
New Delhi:CPI on Monday hit
out at Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad accusing him of raising the issue of
triple talaq “in view” of crucial UP polls and sought to know as to what action the
Election Commission will take in the matter. “It is a very serious matter
because he is the Law Minister of the country. He has been raising this issue
at this point of time…timing of this is important, this is being done in view
of the forthcoming UP elections,” CPI Rajya Sabha member D Raja said.PTI
Stop politicising triple
talaq, the matter is in court: Naidu
https://scroll.in/latest/828624/stop-politicising-triple-talaq-the-matter-is-in-court-venkaiah-naidu
Union Urban Development
Minister M Venkaiah Naidu on Monday asked parties to stop politicising triple
talaq, saying the matter was was sub-judice. Triple talaq is not an “electorate
issue” and it should not be linked “with elections and one particular
religion,” Naidu said, according to ANI.“There should not be any discrimination,
harassment and injustice to any section of people, and more particularly
women,” the minister said. “Be it Muslim, Hindu or Christian women, we don’t
want anyone to get exploited.” Naidu said the BJP-led govt at the Centre would present its view on triple
talaq “when matter the comes up before the Supreme Court”.
Stop politicising
sub-judice issue ‘triple talaq’: Naidu
Delhi HC sets up Judicial
Tribunal over banning Zakir Naik's NGO- IRF
New Delhi: Delhi High Court
on Monday set up a Judicial Tribunal to look into banning Zakir Naik's NGO IRF
under UAPA. A notice has also been issued to IRF to respond to a plea by Ministry
of Home Affairs (MHA) to hold in camera proceedings. NIA has also filed 3
affidavits in sealed cover before the Court giving reasons for the ban on IRF.Today
was the first hearing of the tribunal and the next hearing will be on
Feb.20th.Tribunal headed by Delhi HC judge Sangita Dhingra Sehgal is set to
give an order on the schedule of hearings and whether proceedings to be held in
closed courtroom on the next date.IRF, earlier moved a petition seeking
directions against the ban imposed on it by the central govt.ANI
IRF: Centre wants in-camera
proceedings in tribunal
Minority status in J&K:
Supreme Court imposes Rs 30,000 cost on Centre for not filing reply
New Delhi: The Supreme
Court has imposed a cost of Rs 30,000 on the Centre for not filing its reply to
a PIL alleging that minority benefits are being enjoyed by majority Muslims in J&K
.A bench comprising Chief Justice JS Khehar and Justice NV Ramana allowed the
counsel for the Centre to file the response after depositing the cost within
two weeks and noted that a fine of Rs 15,000 was also imposed last time for the
same reason.The bench said it was according last opportunity to the Centre to
file the reply.Earlier, the court had issued notice to Centre, state govt and National
Commission for Minorities on the plea filed by Jammu-based advocate Ankur
Sharma, alleging that benefits accruing to minorities were being taken away by
Muslims, who were in a majority in J&K. PTI
Rohingya crisis: Hoardings
around Jammu ask Muslim ethnic group to 'leave or face consequences'
Jammu: They gathered,
around a shack, to discuss an unusual situation that is threatening to rob them
of their livelihood and their settlements, once again. On Friday, dozens of
hoardings popped up in the entire Jammu city asking Rohingyas, a Muslim ethnic
group that has faced persecution at the hands of majority-Buddhists in Myanmar
for decades, to immediately leave the city or they will be thrown
out."Where will we go," Mohammad Johar, 35, who was among the first
batch of refugees to arrive in this city, said, as he caressed his
four-year-old daughter near his Juggie. “It is not easy to find a place to live
and make a living,” he adds.J&K govt recently said that more than 1,200 Rohingya
families, comprising of 6,000 people, have been living in different parts of
Jammu for the last six years. They are registered with the UN High Commissioner
for Refugees (UNHCR) and also with the Union Home Ministry. But now, they are
at the crossroads of a fierce political debate raging in this winter capital,
whether they should be allowed, at all, to live in the state.“Does the state
law permit them (Rohingyas) to settle here in any part of the state? Article
370 does not allow anyone to settle here in J&K ,” Harshdev Singh, JKNPP
Chairman, said. “If the state govt does
not throw them out, we will do that.”The hoardings put by the J&K National Panthers Party threatens that
Rohingya and Bangladeshis should leave Jammu immediately or face the
consequences. However, these persecuted people have found little support from
both mainstream as well as separatist politicians.Inside a Rohingya camp, in
Narwal area of Jammu, residents gather to discuss the explicit threat and
explore the possibility of meeting political leaders and appraise them about
their condition back home and their reason for migration. Firstpost
ASSEBLY
POLLS & POLITICS
With less than a week to go
for UP elections, communal and casteist propaganda has reached a crescendo: ET
Political parties can
tom-tom development till the cows come home, but in UP it is caste and religion
that inevitably rear their head in election season. With less than a week to go
for the state elections, communal and casteist propaganda has reached a
crescendo. BJP has Ram temple and a new version of love jihad in anti-Romeo
squads on its agenda, the BSP is aggressively wooing Muslims — in addition to
its traditional vote bank of Dalits — by giving 100 tickets to candidates from
that community, and the SP has the Congress in tow in the hope of snaring
Muslim and upper-caste votes. ET travelled to three pockets in UP — of Muslims,
Dalits and upper-caste Hindus — to gauge the fervour on the ground. And we find
that vote bank politics may have never been so predictable.ET
UP Polls: Shah invokes cow
slaughter narrative in Noida
Noida;BJP president Amit
Shah on Sunday invoked cow politics at a rally in Noida. He also made a
reference to slaughterhouses, in a joke, juxtaposing it with a specific caste. “An
aggrieved elderly citizen belonging to the Jat community once visited our
office to register his complaint. He told me that one morning, while he was
carrying his sugarcanes in a bullock cart to the nearby market for sale, he
stopped mid-way to buy guavas. When he came back with the guavas, his bull was
missing. I told him to register a complaint with the police because the UP
police was already tracking Azam Khan’s lost buffaloes. But then he revealed
that his bull was stolen by the slaughterhouse people,” Shah said.As the crowd
cheered to his dog-whistle narrative, Shah announced that the BJP, when it is
voted to power, will come down on slaughterhouses from Day 1. “When BJP comes
to power in UP, we will ban all unregulated slaughterhouses on Day 1,” Shah
said.HT
Amit Shah promises small
farmers’ loan waiver, closure of slaughterhouses
If not in India, will Ram
Temple be constructed in Pak: Giriraj Singh
New Delhi:With the
political scenario heating up in UP ahead of Assembly elections, Union minister
Giriraj Singh on Monday posed a rhetoric that if the Ram temple will not be
constructed in India then will it be constructed in Pakistan. “We do not know
the exact time when the Ram Temple will be built in India. But if not in
Ayodhya, if not in India, will it be built in Pakistan?” Singh told media.ANI
Country can’t prosper if
Muslims are targeted: Azam Khan
Rampur: Samajwadi Party
leader Azam Khan has said the country will not prosper if Muslims, who form a
sizeable chunk of India's population, are targeted unnecessarily.He said
Muslims are the second largest community in the country and after abusing them,
India can never be a prosperous country (Hum Hindustan ki dusri badi abaadi
hain, humay gali dekar Hindustan khushal nahi rah sakta)." timesofindia
Will join BSP if Mayawati
gives ticket to Muslims: Azam
Rahul Gandhi attacks Modi,
Akhilesh holds rallies, Giriraj raises Ram Temple issue: All that happened in
UP today
Muzaffarnagar’s riot-hit
look towards benevolent Akhilesh, but it’s not that simple
Assam MLA Islam suspended
for live streaming speech in House
Guwahati: Assam AIUDF
legislator Aminul Islam was suspended from the House by speaker Hitendra Nath
Goswami for three days on Monday, for live streaming his speech in the Assembly
on a social medium on Friday.Islam, who live streamed his speech on Facebook,
admitted breaking the rules 'to take his speech to a wider audience,' but
insisted that rules for telecast of proceedings be amended in the interest of
the people. His speech was about the contentious illegal migrants issue. timesofindia
OTHERS
Point by point, E. Ahamed’s
doctor daughter, son-In-law challenge RML hospital’s procedures: outlookindia
Even as the Opposition
parties led by Congress have demanded a probe in to the ‘deliberate attempt’ on
part of the authorities to hold up announcement of E Ahamed’s death, the
medically qualified members of the former minister’s family have issued a
blow-by blow account questioning RML hospital doctors’ claims on Tuesday
night.Ahamed’s daughter Dr Fousiya and her husband Dr Babu Shehzad had found
something amiss in every step that the hospital doctors were adopting on
Tuesday night. A new statement issued by the family challenges each step taken
by RML doctors on medical terms.“Finally at 2AM, cardiothoracic surgeon and
neurologist called us inside after a lot of protest. The neurologist told us
that brain stem function was not present which means he had no brain function.
As he was on AutoPulse until that time, he had no cardiac function. He was on a
ventilator receiving full oxygen and still had no blood oxygen saturation,
meaning he had no lung function. This means that he was already clinically
dead, and there was no further need for another medical procedure,” family said
in the statement.“We are traumatised by what he had been subjected to. There
has been an absolute disregard to human dignity by RML hospital,” the family
said.
Congress seeks
parliamentary probe into E Ahamed's death
New Delhi:Led by their
leader Rahul Gandhi, Congress MPs on Monday demanded a parliamentary probe into
the death of IUML leader and Kerala MP E. Ahamed.MPs demonstrated in the Parliament
complex, accusing the Modi govt of hushing up the veteran MP's death in a
hospital ahead of the annual Union Budget's presentation on Feb.1.Holding a
placard that read “We are Ahamed Sahib,” Gandhi along with Congress colleagues
staged the protest near the Mahatma Gandhi statue that faces Parliament. thehindu
As pressure mounts to quit,
Nagaland CM seeks solution from tribal bodies
Kohima:With pressure
mounting on him to resign following the recent developments centering around
the urban local bodies’ elections in the state, Nagaland CM TR Zeliang has called a consultative meeting
of all tribal bodies here on Wednesday to find out ways to resolve the current
impasse.Zeliang’s earlier efforts – like declaring the urban local bodies’
election as “null and void” and asking PM to immediately pass an Ordinance and
later amend Part IX-A of the Constitution to exempt Nagaland while holding
municipal elections – have failed to convince the agitating groups and
traditional tribal bodies.Tribal bodies feel holding election to urban local
bodies with 33% reservation for women would infringe upon Naga tradition and
custom. CM has invited respective Hohos of all tribes including the apex Naga
Hoho, Eastern Naga People’s Organisation (ENPO), Angami People’s Organisation(APO),
Ao Senden, Chakhesang Public Organisation (CPO) and Nagaland Gaonburra
Association to the consultative meet to be held here on Wednesday. indianexpress
Will anti-women quota stir
in Nagaland affect BJP’s plan for a uniform civil code? Ashwaq Masoodi
Nagaland blocks women’s
participation in local polls: Lack of outrage is outrageous
Big admission by Modi govt,
minister says unemployment rate rising in India
New Delhi:The opposition’s
allegations aside, the rate of unemployment is actually rising in the country,
especially among the backward classes, the govt admitted in the Rajya Sabha on Monday. In
reply to a question during Question Hour, Minister of State for Planning Rao
Inderjit Singh said that overall unemployment was rising, but the rate was
highest among the OBCs.While the overall unemployment rate is 5 % , it is 5.2% for OBCs, the minister said.The unemployment
rate was 4.9% in 2013, 4.7% in 2012 and 3.8 % in 2011.IANS
Unemployment rate is rising
in India, admits govt
Share of spend in govt expenditure, GDP on education falling for 3
years: economictimes
Spending on education as a
share of the central govt 's total budgeted expenditure has been falling for
the past three years. Compared to 2013-14, the last year of UPA, when education
got 4.57% of the total expenditure, there has been a steady decline — 3.65% in
2016-17, according to this Budget's revised estimate, with the estimated outlay
for the coming year showing a minor uptick at 3.71%. Looking at education spend
as a share of the GDP, which is what international trackers do, the trend is
clear — having dipped from 0.63% of the GDP in 2013-14 to 0.47% projected by
the govt for 2017-18.
Crackdown after
demonetisation: Taxmen wield new benami law to go after ‘black money’ deposits
Mumbai:Income Tax
department has taken recourse to the new law on benami property to seek the
attachment of properties of about 20 individuals and entities in Mumbai whose
bank accounts were allegedly used by owners of small and medium firms to
deposit unaccounted money following the demonetisation announcement on Nov.8.
The tax department issued show-cause notices on Jan.27 to these individuals and
entities for attachment of properties underBenami Transactions (Prohibition)
Amendment Act, which came into force on Nov.1, 2016, sources said. Indian
Express.
Demonetisation is for
losers: economist Steve H Hanke
New Delhi: Criticising
India's decision to scrap high-value currency notes, noted American economist
Steve H Hanke has said demonetisation is for 'losers' and even PM Narendra Modi
does not know where the country is heading now. "#Demonetisation is for
losers and has been bungled from the start. No one, not even Modi, knows where
India is heading," Hanke, an American applied economist at the Johns
Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, said in a tweet. PTI
RBI may carry out a small
rate cut, but is it advisable? TK Jayaraman
Gujarat NGO activists force
govt official to eat currency notes with pickle! india today
Police today registered a
case against 30 activists of a local NGO for forcing an official of Ahmedabad
Municipal Corporation to eat currency notes laced with pickle in front of TV
cameras because he was allegedly corrupt.As media was invited for the coverage,
the incident was telecast by some local channels. On the complaint by the
victim Dharmin Vyas, assistant manager with professional tax department of
AMC’s New West Zone, Vastrapur police registered FIR against 30-odd activists
of `Lok Rakshak Seva Samiti’.President of the NGO Pruthvi Bhatt was arrested on
the charges of rioting and assaulting a govt officer on duty, said inspector BJ
Sarvaiya.
Minority percentage in Central
Govt jobs doubled to 9.9%: Govt
New Delhi: The percentage
of minorities in Central Govt jobs
almost doubled from 5.3 % in 2014 to 9.9
% at present, Govt said today. "In Central Govt jobs the proportion of minorities was 5.3 % in 2014. Today the percentage of minorities in
Central Govt jobs is 9.9 % . This is not
because of us."We do not agree that they (minorities) did not have the
capability. They should have got this right earlier, there must have been
differential treatment. We created an environment to end the differential
treatment. The percentage has increased due to the minorities' progress and
self belief," Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said in the
Rajya Sabha. PTI
5 world class institutes to
be established for minorities: 40% seats
to be reserved for girls
TMC demands CBI probe into Najeeb’s
disappearance
New Delhi:Alleging
political vendetta behind the disappearance of JNU student Najeeb Ahmed, Rajya
Sabha member TMC member Vivek Gupta today asked the Centre to order a probe by
CBI or any other appropriate agency in the matter. Najeeb had gone missing on Oct.15
following an on-campus scuffle allegedly with ABVP members the night
before.Raising the issue during the Zero Hour in the House, Gupta asked the govt
whether any special measures have been
initiated to trace the missing student.Alleging that the JNU officials were
insensitive in the matter, he wondered whether Najeeb will end up just as a
statistics about missing persons.Gupta said the ABVP students allegedly
involved in the incident have not yet been questioned. He also claimed that VC
of the University had even refused to meet the mother of the missing student.
“This a clear case of political vendetta. We are witnessing that political
vendetta is spreading like a cancer in the country,” he said and asked the
Centre to order a CBI probe or any other appropriate enquiry to trace
Najeeb.PTI
AMUs VC selection process
in muddle: TOI report
New Delhi: A controversy
has erupted again over the appointment of a new VC for AMU. Within a day of 3
names being shortlisted, allegations are being made that AMU had violated the
Union HRD ministry's directive issued last year that UGC Regulations, 2010,
should not be violated while shortlisting names for the post of VC.AMU's court
had finalised the three names out of 5 sent by its executive council on
Saturday. 3 shortlisted for the post of VC are Tariq Mansoor, principal,
Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, AMU; Abu Saleh Sharif, executive director and
chief scholar, US-India Policy Institute, Washington, and Shahid Jameel, CEO,
Welcome Trust and DBT India Alliance.Mansoor was also in the earlier panel of
names shortlisted for VC's post. However, the entire panel had got scrapped.
Sharif had played a crucial role in the writing of the landmark Sachar
Committee report on the state of Muslims. He was also head of National Council
for Applied Economic Research.However, even before the shortlisted names were
sent to the President for the final selection, a section within AMU has started
raising questions. They pointed to HRD ministry's directive of May last year in
which it was clearly mentioned that UGC Regulations, 2010, had to be followed
while finalising the panel for a VC's post so that no complication and delay
may happen while submitting the panel to the visitor (President) for
appointment of a new VC.TOI
Frank Islam to dedicate
$2-million management school at alma mater AMU
Washington: Indian-American
investor and philanthropist Frank Islam will dedicate a $2 million management
school that he financed at his alma mater, the AMU, on Feb.12.Islam sees his
support for the Frank and Debbie School of Management at the AMU more as an
investment than charity. “I would not be the person I am if it were not for
Aligarh education. Aligarh students have always been our best hope. My
investment is my way of saying thank you and keeping the hope alive,” Islam,
who made a fortune in the US as a technology entrepreneur, says. Islam has also been a major donor to the
Democratic Party and numerous other philanthropic activities in the US and
India. thehindu
Bhopal encounter: Chairman
of commission probing jailbreak withdraws resignation
Bhopal: The single member
judicial commission probing the SIMI encounter and Bhopal jailbreak retired
High Court Justice S.K. Pandey has decided to remain in office after CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s interference. Earlier
on Saturday he resigned from his post and left out, vacating the circuit
house.While talking to The Free Press Journal over phone, Pandey said, “It is
nothing like that, from where the information is coming? Thanks”.On Saturday,
the chairman kept his papers, vacated the room no 10 of circuit house situated
in Professors Colony, left the govt vehicle and went away by hiring an
auto-rickshaw.He was annoyed due to some objectionable rules and regulation
meant for his services.Around hundreds of officials from district
administration and others tried to pacify him, but he was not ready to reply on
their requests to not leave the post. On Sunday, again, several officers
contacted the chairman, but their efforts proved fruitless. Finally, CM
discussed with chairman and convinced him to rectify the rules and others according
to him after which he decided to hold the post again. He might start his work
again in a day or two.
Bhopal: Chief of probe into
SIMI jailbreak resigns, MP govt rejects it
Man held in UAE over terror
fund: TOI
Kochi: A Keralite who had
allegedly sent funds to the IS-inspired south India module, which was busted in
Kanakamala in Kannur last year, was nabbed by UAE police following an alert by
the NIA.Moideen, a native of Kasaragod, was the 13th accused in the case.
"The involvement of Moideen came to the fore when we examined the
financial sources of the group. He was frequently sending money to the group.
His whereabouts were passed on to police agencies in UAE. We have been
intimated about him being detained by the UAE police," said an NIA
official. NIA has also arraigned Shajeer Mangalasseri from Kozhikode and Kamal
from Chennai as accused in the case.
Petition to stay Sasikala's
swearing-in as CM filed in SC
New Delhi:A petition has
been filed in the Supreme Court seeking a hold the swearing in of VK Sasikala
as Tamil Nadu CM. The oath taking ceremony is currently scheduled at 11 am on
Tuesday. The petition demands that Sasikala not be allowed to take charge as
the CM until the graft cases she is involved in are resolved. The petition has
been filed in the name of one Senthil Kumar, aged around 40 years old, on
behalf of an NGO that fights against corruption and against consumption of
liquor and drugs. The filing cites an ongoing court case against Sasikala to
say that she should not be allowed to take the office of the Tamil Nadu CM .IndiaToday
English Fortnightly Milli
Gazette Says Goodbye to Readers
New Delhi: At the end of
Dec.2016 came the news that the 17-year-old publication The Milli Gazette has
said goodbye to its readers. 16-31 Dec.issue was the last. This is indeed a
painful news.Founder Editor Zafarul-Islam Khan brought it out in Jan.2000 with
high hopes expecting that through this publication he would be able to make the
voice of 200 million Indian Muslim community heard. Otherwise, it was not being
given coverage in the national media. He thought through an English publication
he will be able to convey the Indian Muslim voice to millions outside India as
well. But for how long could this journey continue in the wilderness of media
world without the badly needed resources? After issuing several mayday calls
during these past 17 years and when no meaningful rescue could be found, at
last he announced that this journey could not be continued any further.Asia
Times thought it necessary to talk in detail to the editor of The Milli Gazette
and learn about the difficulties he had to face and what efforts he made to
overcome these difficulties.Urdu Media Monitor
English newspaper Milli
Gazette Says Goodbye to Readers
WORLD
Israel's settlement bill
'big step towards annexation'
Occupied West Bank: Israeli
Knesset has advanced controversial legislation that, if approved, would lead to
a host of illegal settlements built on privately owned Palestinian land being
legalised retroactively.The so-called "Regulation Bill", scheduled
for a vote on Monday, would apply to around 4,000 settlement homes in the West
Bank for which settlers could prove ignorance that they had built on privately
owned land and had received encouragement from the Israeli state to do so.The
bill has been criticised by human rights groups and legal experts who have
warned that it would violate property rights. The govt 's attorney general has
said that the bill was unconstitutional and would contradict Israel's legal
obligations under international law, while Israeli MK Tzipi Livni warned that
it would lead Israeli soldiers to the ICC. aljazeera
Israel freezes 4 demolition
orders against Arab homes
A magistrate court in
northern Israel yesterday froze four demolition orders targeting the homes of
Arab-Israelis following an appeal by the homeowners.The homeowners, represented
by lawyer Mahmoud Al-Najib Mahajna, expressed relief and appreciation for the
decision taken by Hadera Magistrate Court Judge Jacob Goldberg to freeze the
demolition orders in the towns of Ara and Musheirifa in the Wadi Ara region of
northern Israel.Yousif Jabarin, a member of the Joint List coalition
representing political parties led by Arab-Israelis, said he was closely
following the cases in Wadi Ara, and stressed the need to keep up popular
support for families whose homes are threatened by demolition. Middleeastmonitor
Israel hits Hamas after
'projectile' fire
Israel struck a Hamas
position in Gaza after a "projectile" fired from the Palestinian
enclave on Monday crashed in a border area, the Israeli army said.In response,
the army added, "an (Israeli) tank targeted a Hamas post in the northern
Gaza Strip. "A security source from Hamas, Gaza Strip's Islamist rulers,
said two posts were targeted, causing no injuries.World Bulletin
Islamic authority rejects
Egypt’s move to annul Muslim man’s verbal divorce right
Cairo:Egypt’s top Islamic
authority Monday rejected President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi’s suggestion that
legislation be adopted to invalidate the practice of Muslim men verbally
divorcing their wives. It marked a rare instance of a public institution
contradicting the president, who has presided over a wide-scale crackdown on
dissent in recent years while seeking to rally the country’s entrenched
interests behind him. Council of Senior Clerics in Al-Azhar, the highest
authority in Sunni Islam, unanimously ruled that verbal divorce, when meeting
all requirements, has been an undisputed practice since the days of the 7th
century Prophet Muhammad. The requirements, it explained, included that the man
has a sound mind, full consciousness and uses appropriate phrasing.Muslim women
in Egypt cannot verbally divorce their husbands but can apply for divorce in a
court of law. In a carefully-worded statement, the council made no mention of
el-Sissi, or his suggestion last month for legislation requiring such divorces
to be carried out in the presence of a state-authorised cleric. It was
addressed to “the people”.However, its rejection of the president’s proposal
was uncompromising, and it made a thinly-veiled reference to the constitution,
which refers to Al-Azhar as the main authority on religious and Islamic
affairs.AP
Verbal divorce undisputed
practice: Egypts top body
Turkey says over 800
detained in anti-ISIL operations
Turkish police have
detained hundreds of suspected ISIL members in nationwide raids, according to
state media, in the largest operations in the country to target the armed
group. About 820 suspects, most of them foreign nationals, were arrested in at
least 29 provinces, including capital Ankara and southeastern provinces,
state-run Anadolu news agency reported. Operations took place on Sunday and
Monday."This is the largest coordinated and simultaneous raids that Turkey
has taken out on what it says are 'suspected members of ISIL' across the
country," Al Jazeera's Stefanie Dekker, reporting from Gaziantep, said. aljazeera
Trump says judge who defied
him has put US 'in peril'
Donald Trump has escalated
his criticism of a federal judge who blocked a ban on travel from seven mainly
Muslim countries, and said courts were making US border security more
difficult, intensifying the first major legal battle of his presidency.“Just
cannot believe a judge would put our country in such peril,” Trump tweeted on
Sunday, two days after James Robart suspended his restrictions on refugees and
travel and a day after a panel of judges denied the White House’s emergency
appeal to reinstate the ban. theguardian
Donald Trump Attacks Judge
On Stopping Muslim Travel Ban; Trump To Place The Blame On The Judicial System
Apple,Google, Uber,
Facebook join fight against travel ban
Seattle: Dozens of tech
companies, including behemoths like Apple, Google, and Facebook, are siding
with Washington state and Minnesota as they fight President Donald Trump's ban
on refugees and travelers from seven predominantly Muslim countries from
entering the US.The companies filed briefs late Sunday with a federal appellate
court saying the Trump executive order hurts their businesses.AP
#VisitMyMosque: UK Muslims
open doors to fight bigotry
Birmingham: Hundreds of
mosques around the UK threw open their doors to Britons as part of an
initiative to counter misconceptions about the Muslim community.More than 150
mosques took part in "Visit My Mosque" project on Sunday afternoon,
drawing crowds of curious visitors.The event, organised by the Muslim Council
of Great Britain (MCB), promised to answer attendees' questions. Visitors of
all faiths and none were welcomed and no subject was considered off limits. At
Paigham-e-Islam mosque in Birmingham, Britain's 2nd-biggest city, conversations
focused on Islamic law, Muslims' views of Jesus and what mosques were doing to
counter the ISIL group. Aljazeera aljazeera
Report details rape of
Rohingya women by Myanmar troops
Yangon:Security forces
carried out a systematic campaign of rape and sexual violence against Rohingya
Muslims during a recent crackdown, an international human rights group said
Monday. Witnesses said soldiers and police officers targeted Rohingya women and
girls as young as 13 in a security operation launched in the northern part of
Rakhine state in October last year.“The sexual violence did not appear to be random
or opportunistic but part of a coordinated and systematic attack against
Rohingya, in part because of their ethnicity and religion,” US-based HRW said. Anadolu
Agency
Myanmar's persecution of
Rohingya Muslims is producing a ready supply of slaves: Penny Green, Alicia De
La Cour Venning & Thomas Macmanus
Hundreds remain stranded in
snowstorm-hit Afghanistan
Kabul:A total of 119 people
have lost their lives across the country due to heavy snow and avalanches in
the last three days, the health minister said Monday.Public Health Minister
Ferozuddin Feroz told a meeting in Kabul that up to 89 people had also been
injured, according to remarks reported by a local Pashto radio.According to
officials, hundreds of people remain stranded and many more are missing in
Afghanistan as rescue services face difficulties in their efforts to save lives
in mountainous areas following heavy snow over the weekend.
Over 900 children killed in
2016 Afghanistan violence
I feel calmness when
reading Qur’an, says Hollywood actress Lindsay: ARAB NEWS
Jeddah: Hollywood actress
Lindsay Lohan has revealed in detail her relationship with Islam on the Arabic
TV show “Siwar Shoaib” hosted by Shoaib Rashid.Rashid minced no words in asking
her about the now famous photo in which she is holding a copy of the Holy
Qur’an.Lohan said that she was going through a lot when that photo was taken,
and the Qur’an was “a solace and a safe thing for me to have.”“My intention
wasn’t to hold a religious book,” she said,“I was just holding a religious
book, but people in America didn’t like it, they judged me for it and were
saying nasty things.”She told Rashid that she has prayed the Islamic way and
has fasted in Ramadan.“I did Ramadan for 3 days with my friend from Kuwait, it
was hard but it was good. It felt good,” she said. She said she has read 15
pages from the Holy Qur’an (in English) and that she practices writing some of
the verses in Arabic as well.
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