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Want to embrace Hinduism if given a chance, says Muslim woman attacked with acid after husband deserts her

Want to embrace Hinduism if given a chance, says Muslim woman attacked with acid after husband deserts her

Her mother-in-law allegedly asked her to not “show her face” because Matlub had already given her triple talaq over phone, which Rehana says never occurred. “

Rehana Raza

If given a chance, Rehana Raza says she wants to give up Islam and embrace Hinduism.

The Uttar Pradesh resident became the latest poster woman of triple talaq after allegedly being divorced over the phone by her husband and then attacked with acid by her in-laws. Now, she told Mail Today, she wants to change her religious stripes from green to saffron.

“Hindu law at least reaffirms the right of consensus a woman should have in marriage and gives a woman a say. That’s something Islam lacks, paving the way for triple talaq,” Rehana said in a telephonic interview.

‘DON’T SHOW YOUR FACE TO US’

Thousands of Muslim women from across India have raised their voices against the Sharia law custom that allows men to split up with their wives by saying “talaq” thrice. The instant divorce practice has been barred by more than 20 Muslim countries including Pakistan, Bangladesh and Saudi Arabia. “A common law defends numerous Hindu women who need emotional and financial support after getting deserted. I have suffered because of triple talaq, despite my family’s revered status in society,” Rehana said.

A five-judge constitution bench will sit during the Supreme Court’s summer vacation in May to examine a batch of petitions challenging Islamic practices such as triple talaq and polygamy after women complained of being divorced on Facebook and WhatsApp. Rehana says she was attacked with acid by her in-laws on April 14 at their house in Neoria town of Pilibhit district. The torture did not surprise the victim, who alleges that her husband started beating her within days of their wedding after the couple moved to the United States in 1999.

“He brought me and my son back to India in 2011 when my mother passed away but he soon left us behind, claiming he had found a job in New Zealand. I had no choice but to turn to my in-laws in Pilibhit who also shunned me,” Rehana told Mail Today.

‘MODI’S ATTACK ON TRIPLE TALAQ IS GENUINE’

Her mother-in-law allegedly asked her to not “show her face” because Matlub had already given her triple talaq over phone, which Rehana says never occurred. “I had approached them after the Allahabad high court order that termed the practice of triple talaq as unconstitutional which violates the rights of Muslim women. But instead I have seen days when my son and I have lived without food and electricity,” said Rehana, who has now been assured support by women and child development minister Maneka Gandhi.

The government told the Supreme Court last year that triple talaq violates the fundamental rights guaranteed by the Constitution and said it does not form a part of the “essential religious practices” in Islam. “Given how Rehana has endured for years at her in-laws’ house, Maneka Gandhi has taken up the issue with the superintendent of police in Pilibhit to expedite the case,” a ministry official told Mail Today.

Rehana’s 14-year-old son was not around on April 14 when she claims her brother-in-law Maqbool Hussain, sisters-in-law Parveen and Shakeela started beating her and threw acid on her. Despite her narrow escape after spotting the bottle of acid, she suffered burns on her back and marks on her arms, neck and feet.

Terming the Narendra Modi government’s bid to attack triple talaq “genuine”, Rehana also said, “Given how our government has vouched for a common law, the hype around triple talaq is important to make people think about the atrocities inflicted on women.” The trauma has not ended for Rehana as she points out that her son has grown quiet over time. “I insisted for a roof at my in-laws’ house but I was thrown out every other day. When we refused to budge, my husband called my teenage son, and told him that we should vacate the house or he would get him jailed,” alleged Rehana. “Even now, I am being asked to leave the hospital by the police, who refuse get a warrant otherwise. The harassment has not ended for me.”

source : http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/triple-talaq-uttar-pradesh-muslim-women-hindu-acid-attack/1/932438.html

Woman in Indonesia given 25 lashes under Sharia for sex before marriage

The punishment was in accordance with the Sharia law, which forbids having sex outside of wedlock and punishes all offenders publicly.
The woman was robed in white, had her face covered and then made to kneel on a stage where she was punished in front of a crowd. (Photo: AP)

 The woman was robed in white, had her face covered and then made to kneel on a stage where she was punished in front of a crowd. (Photo: AP)

Jakarta: A couple was given between 23 to 25 lashes each in public, with a cane for having sex before marriage in Indonesia.  The woman was robed in white, had her face covered and then made to kneel on a stage where she was punished in front of a crowd.

The punishment was in accordance with the Sharia law, which forbids having sex outside of wedlock and punishes all offenders publicly.

According to a report in Daily Mail, the woman one among the four couples who were punished for the same crime. The sentence was carried out in Banda Aceh in Sumatra island, where the Sharia law is a part of the official legal system. The 25 lashes given to her, is the punishment for women who have sex before marriage.

The man was dressed in white too while he was being punished, but he was allowed to stand through it.

The Sharia law code states that the cane used for punishing the accused must be no thicker than the width of a small finger. As per the code, the punishment varies with the offence. Thieves have one hand removed, while adulterers are pelted with stones and blasphemers are whipped.

source:  http://www.deccanchronicle.com/world/asia/190417/woman-punished-under-sharia-law-for-having-sex-before-marriage-given-25-lashes.html

Religious places should have a limit on the loudspeaker’s volume: Gul on Azaan Row

Religious places should have a limit on the loudspeaker’s volume: Gul on Azaan Row

Gul Panag also said that famous and influential people should speak out on such matter.
Gul Panag

 Gul Panag

New Delhi: Reacting to the entire controversy regarding Sonu Nigam’s controversial tweets about ‘forced religiousness,’ actress Gul Panag has said that famous and influential people should speak out on such matter as it can make a difference.

When asked if she supports Nigam’s statement about loudspeakers, she told ANI, “I just want to say that every religious place, whether it is a church, a temple, a mosque or a gurudwara there should be a limit as to how high the volume of the loudspeaker should go, so that people residing near to such places should not get disturbed and this measure should be taken at all the religious places.”

For the unversed, Sonu, who was woken up to the sound of Azaan early in the morning, took social media by storm after terming the practice as ” forced religiousness,” on April 17.

His controversial tweets evoked a mixed response on the Internet and among every genre of people in the nation.

Following the 43-year-old-singer’s controversial tweets against ‘azaan’, the Kolkata-based cleric issued a fatwa against the ‘ Kal Ho Naa Ho’ singer on Tuesday, responding to which he got his head shaved on Wednesday.

source :http://www.deccanchronicle.com/entertainment/bollywood/190417/religious-places-should-have-a-limit-on-the-loudspeakers-volume-gul-on-azaan-row.html

The Uttarakhand woman further said it was better to convert and adopt Hinduism than to face injustice due to `triple talaq` system.

Triple Talaq: Muslim woman hails PM Narendra Modi, says will embrace Hinduism – Watch

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has dubbed triple talaq a “bad social practice”.

Triple Talaq: Muslim woman hails PM Narendra Modi, says will embrace Hinduism - Watch

Dehradun: Amid raging debate over the issue of triple talaq, a Muslim woman has hailed Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s efforts to bring change for the sufferers of the practice.

The Uttarakhand woman further said it was better to convert and adopt Hinduism than to face injustice due to `triple talaq` system.

Venting her anger and frustration, the woman hailing from Kichha further said when converted to Hindu, men would not be able to divorce them just by uttering the word `talaq` thrice.

Notably, her sister is a victim of triple talaq.

Covered by a hijab, the unnamed Muslim woman said, “What is the use of spending whole life with a man who can at any point of time desert his wife by saying Talaq, Talaq, Talaq? If this injustice happens in old age, where would the victim go?”

“Today, I am young and why would I spend my whole life fearing triple talaq? It is better to embrace Hinduism and marry a Hindu man who would at least not destroy my life by uttering just three words,” she added.

Praising Prime Minister Narendra Modi, she said, “What Modi is doing for the country is very good. What he is doing for women, especially for Muslim women, is very good.”

She also hailed Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.

Watch the video:

On Sunday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi dubbed triple talaq a “bad social practice”, saying such practices can be ended by social awakening but stressed that the BJP didn’t want a conflict in the society for this.

Meanwhile, the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) said that those using triple talaq recklessly and without justification should be made to face social boycott.

Earlier this week, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath called for an end to the practice of triple talaq and invoked the disrobing of Draupadi in the Mahabharata to emphasise his point.

“When I see people silent on the raging issue (of triple talaq), the episode from Mahabharata comes to my mind. Draupadi asked the palace – who is responsible for this situation? Who’s responsible for this crime? Vidura said those responsible are criminals, those who supported this incident are culprits, those who are silent are responsible,” Adityanath said.

Hindu Mahasabha general secretary Dr Pooja Shakun Pandey had last week urged all triple talaq victims to adopt Hinduism if they wanted to lead respectful lives.

source: http://zeenews.india.com/india/triple-talaq-muslim-woman-hails-pm-narendra-modi-says-will-embrace-hinduism-watch-1997422.html

Sonu Nigam says ‘I am not a Muslim, why am I being woken up by Azaan’; calls religion ‘gundagardi’ !

Sonu Nigam says ‘I am not a Muslim, why am I being woken up by Azaan’; calls religion ‘gundagardi’ !

 

Sonu Nigam, who was recently seen as a judge on Indian Idol 9, has raises an important issue on Monday by a Tweet that is going viral on social media.
The singer, who was woken up by the morning Azaan today, got on to Twitter and posted against it. The popular playback singer wrote, “God bless everyone. I’m not a Muslim and I have to be woken up by the Azaan in the morning. When will this forced religiousness end in India.”

God bless everyone. I’m not a Muslim and I have to be woken up by the Azaan in the morning. When will this forced religiousness end in India

He also added,  “And by the way Mohammed did not have electricity when he made Islam.. Why do I have to have this cacophony after Edison?

And by the way Mohammed did not have electricity when he made Islam.. Why do I have to have this cacophony after Edison?

He ended it with , “Gundagardi hai bus” of Muslims.

HADEES : EVIL THOUGHTS AND EVIL DEEDS

EVIL THOUGHTS AND EVIL DEEDS

A Muslim is Allah�s prodigal son as well as His spoiled child.  His past is forgotten unless it is good, his future is assured, and many things are permissible for him that are not permissible for a polytheist or even for a Jew or a Christian, the Peoples of the Book.  Jesus spoke of �lusting with the eyes� regarding it as bad as lust in its more visible form.  But Muhammad gave greater latitude to his followers: �Verily Allah forgave my people the evil promptings which arise within their hearts as long as they did not speak about them or did not act upon them� (230).  This idea is expressed with less partiality and in more universal terms in the Indian spiritual tradition.  God knows that man is weak and forgives his lapses and failure but supports his strength and multiplies his good.  The less theistic but not less exalted yogic systems would put this idea somewhat differently and in more psychological terms-we should not harp too obsessively on our lapses, but should dwell more lovingly on the Divine within us.

author: ram sawrup

Kerala, fertile ground for IS and love jihad

Over the last three years, there have been reports, primarily from Kerala as well as from some other states, notably Telangana and Andhra, about what was appropriately titled by newspapers as ‘Love Jihad’.  Pseudo-secularists dismissed these reports as a part of the Hindutva propaganda.

Now the truth has rushed like the monsoon rains in Kerala in the wake of many middle class mothers knocking at the Marxist Chief Minister’s door asking for help to track down several young women who have disappeared after marrying young Muslims and then being converted to Islam. Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has told the crying mothers he would order an enquiry.

Take, for instance, the story of Bindu, the mother of a girl in north Kerala. The daughter was lured by a young man, an MBA, who himself was a convert to Islam from Christianity. The daughter was in regular contact with the mother throughout her study time and then there was silence.

The worried mother approached the police after finding  no response from her daughter. The police officer advised her to approach the High Court with a habeas corpus plea. The court got the police to produce the girl in the High Court and the mother was shocked to find that her daughter was in full veil.

She had got married and converted to Islam. After a few months, Bindu was told that her daughter was pregnant but the communication was irregular. Suddenly, the daughter phoned her mother to tell her that she was in Sri Lanka for a few days and would return. The next thing was a call from Afghanistan and then, long silence. It was then that Bindu approached the Chief Minister.

The suspicion that this girl has gone over with her husband to Syria to join the Islamic State is strong. Now have come several other similar stories from across Kerala, mostly from the Malappuram Muslim majority district and nearby Kozhikode  port city, a Muslim stronghold. The police say 17 to 20 people from Kerala have gone over to Syria leaving no traces whatever.

A local TV channel showed considerable enterprise in tracking  at least five families, with a similar story like that of Bindu. It found the worried parents were clueless on their college-going daughters. It found a school teacher Rashid was the main recruiter for the Islamic State.

He was plotting all along for the last four years or so to brainwash his neighbours and others into joining Islamist militancy.

In all the Kerala cases, of flight to join the barbaric killings, sex slavery, wholesale massacre that is going on in Syria-Iraq and the IS-planned isolated attacks in Europe, US and elsewhere, the plot was found to be virtually same or similar — lure innocent  girls into marrying trained Islamist youngmen and then brainwash them to convert to Islam.

The concern in the state over the rapid spread of radical Islam has been so intense that last Monday, the Kerala Assembly spent an entire day on this problem and Malayali youngsters being lured into and recruited systematically for terror organisations.

The top leaders of the two fronts accused each other for this alarming growth of radicalisation. The Congress-led UDF, now in opposition, quoted instances after instances of the Marxist leader and now Chief Minister Mr Vijayan partnering with radical Islamist organisations like the PDP and SDIP in the previous elections.

The Chief Minister’s counter that the days of such electoral collaboration no longer existed, itself exposed the fact that the tie-up existed till the other day. The Muslim League has done nothing to dismantle such dangerous movements within the community it claims to speak for, notwithstanding the public denunciation of terror and the radicals  claiming to speak for Islam. In fact, there are reports of IS recruits in Kerala and ultra fundamentalists imposing loyalty oaths on young Muslims  — loyalty to IS chief al-Baghdadi, the self-styled Caliph of Islam.

The two political fronts of Kerala joining together in  the Kerala Assembly to unanimously condemn terror can only be considered as a paper commitment when the Marxist Government, just as its predecessor, the Congress-led front, takes no concrete steps to thwart the radicalisation of Muslims and open preaching of and recruiting for the IS.

Among the political and cultural forces in Kerala with its great names in every aspect of national culture, only the RSS and BJP have come forward to oppose this radical march and pay the price for it in terms of sacrifice of its cadres at the hands of radicals, both political and religious.

The social media, all operated from outside the country, spreads communal poison using morphed photos, old photos of events long past and posted to look like current events, to engender alienation within the community against the secular ideal.

All this continues to be fearlessly followed because the perpetrators realise they can count on the Muslim appeasement of the two political fronts to block any step to end these anti-national moves.

So, many mothers like Bindu would wait for more years to hear from their daughters lured  to marry for the killing fields of the Levant like so many baits. More likely, they will never hear from them at all.

Balbir Punj is a former BJP MP and a Delhi-based commentator on social and political issues

Email: punjbalbir@gmail.com

 source : http://www.newindianexpress.com/opinions/2016/jul/23/Kerala-fertile-ground-for-IS-and-love-jihad-943255.html

Religion-based quota in Telangana will create another Pak: Venkaiah

Telangana CM K Chandrasekhar Rao has said his government will increase quotas for backward sections among Muslims.
Union Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu. (Photo: File)

 Union Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu. (Photo: File)

Hyderabad: Union Minister Venkaiah Naidu today said implementation of reservations on the basis of religion may result in social unrest in the country and “lead to creation of another Pakistan”.

Speaking at a BJP meeting organised on the occasion of the Ambedkar Jayanthi, Naidu also hinted that Telangana’s recent proposal to hike reservations for certain sections may not be constitutionally valid.

He also said that architect of Constitution B R Ambedkar had opposed religion-based reservation. “We are not opposing (reservation on religion basis) because KCR (Telangana CM K Chandrashekhar Rao) wants to implement it,” he said, adding, “the BJP opposed such a move even when Rajasekhar Reddy (late CM of united Andhra Pradesh) and Chandrababu Naidu (present CM) also tried to do that.

“We will oppose any such move because it will lead to creation of another Pakistan. It is an all India policy of the BJP. It is not the policy of Telangana unit of the BJP,” he said.

Naidu said the BJP is against communal reservations.

“Communal reservation will divide people on the communal basis. It will give demand to another partition of the country. It will bring disunity among the people. Social disruption will also caused by that,” he said.

Telangana CM K Chandrasekhar Rao recently said his government would convene the Legislative Assembly on April 16 to pass a bill to increase quotas to the STs (Scheduled Tribes) and backward sections among Muslims.

Rao further said resolution once passed by the state Assembly will be sent to the Centre for its consent. He also warned that in the event of Centre’s dissent, the state government may approach the Supreme Court.

The Union minister also clarified that his party is not against Muslims.

“Reservations that are offered based on social status and backwardness (in any religion) is recognised by the Constitution. Any deviation from that will not stand before the Constitution,” he said.

“The BJP is in favour of reservation for those socially backward and are discriminated against. Reservations based on religion may lead to social unrest in the country. It would encourage religious conversions. It would create tension among various sections of the society,” he added.

Naidu further said Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP are committed to realise Ambedkar’s dream and complete the “unfinished” task of building a new India based on the foundation of equality of all and empowerment of all.

source :  http://www.deccanchronicle.com/nation/current-affairs/140417/telangana-quota-religion-based-quota-will-create-another-pak-says-venkaiah.html

Triple talaq row: Nikah halala victim speaks about her ordeal – Know what she said

 New Delhi: The evil practices like triple talaq, nikah halala and polygamy are ruining many lives of Muslim women in the Indian society.

One such example has come to the fore. While speaking to All India Muslim Women Personal Law Board (AIMWPLB) president Shaista Amber, a nikah halala ‘victim’, narrated her ordeal.

The woman said she was asked by her husband to get married to another person as per nikah halala customs, and thereafter she would divorce her new husband and he would happily accept her.

But to her dismay, her husband refused to accept her despite promising her in writing.

Video embedded at the end of the story.

‘Nikah halala’ is a practice intended to curb incidence of divorce under which a man cannot remarry his former wife without her having to go through the process of marrying someone else, consummating it, getting divorced, observing the separation period called ‘Iddat’ and then coming back to him again.

Several Muslim women have challenged the practice of ‘triple talaq in which the husband, quite often, pronounces talaq thrice in one go, sometimes over phone or text message.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath have advocated for the rights of Muslim women and called for the abolition of the triple talaq and nikah halala.

Triple talaq, ‘nikah halala’ and polygamy violate Muslim women’s right to equality and dignity and are not protected by the right to profess, practise and propagate religion under Article 25(1) of the Constitution, the Centre has told the Supreme Court.

While putting forward its arguments before the SC bench, the government reiterated its earlier stand saying these practices render Muslim women “unequal and vulnerable” as compared to men of their community as well as women belonging to other communities.

The Centre described triple talaq, ‘nikah halalaand polygamy as “patriarchal values and traditional notions about the role of women in society”.

“There are unreasonable classifications which arise from practices such as those under challenge in the present petition, which deny to Muslim women the full enjoyment of fundamental rights guaranteed under the Constitution,” it said.

Observing that the judicial conscience is “disturbed”, the Allahabad High Court has held that triple talaq is “cruel” and raised a question whether the Muslim Personal law could be amended to alleviate the sufferings of Muslim women.

Coming down heavily on the practice, the court had held that this form of “instant divorce” is “most demeaning” which “impedes and drags India from becoming a nation“.

“The question which disturbs the court is — should Muslim wives suffer this tyranny for all times? Should their personal law remain so cruel towards these unfortunate wives? Whether the personal law can be amended suitably to alleviate their sufferings? The judicial conscience is disturbed at this monstrosity”, a single judge bench of Justice Suneet Kumar had said.

Watch video

 source :http://zeenews.india.com/india/triple-talaq-row-nikah-halala-victim-speaks-about-her-ordeal-know-what-she-said-1996379.html

Three Indian Mujahideen activists get life imprisonment in Karnataka

Three Indian Mujahideen activists get life imprisonment in Karnataka

Mangaluru: Three Indian Mujahideen activists were sentenced to life imprisonment by a court here for making explosives and conspiring with the outfit’s founder Riyaz Bhatkal to carry out terror attacks here and other places in the country.

Sayeed Mohammed Noushad, Ahamed Bava Aboobakkar and Fakeer Ahamad were given life terms by Additional District and Sessions Judge S H Pushpanjali Devi.

The accused, residents of Mukkachery and Chembugudde of Ullal village of Mangaluru Taluk, were arrested in 2008 and explosive materials seized from their houses.

The prosecution had charged them with conspiracy to commit unlawful activity, which would have taken lives of many innocent people, but for timely police action.

In the verdict delivered here yesterday, the judge also imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 each on all the three for offences under Section 16 (1) (b) of Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, Section 5 (b) of the Explosive Substances Act, Section 120 (b) of the Indian Penal Code and Section 25 (1)(A)(A) of the Arms Act.

Fakeer Ahamad was sentenced to an additional life term under Section 6 of the Explosives Act.

Noushad was also sentenced to seven years of imprisonment and slapped with a fine of Rs 5,000 for offence under Section 420 (cheating) of the IPC, three years imprisonment and a fine of Rs 3,000 each for offences under Sections 468 (forgery for the purpose of cheating) and 471 (using as genuine a forged document) of the IPC.

Noushad was also an accused in the serial blasts in Surat and Ahmedabad.

The judge said the life sentences would run concurrently.

source: http://zeenews.india.com/karnataka/three-indian-mujahideen-activists-get-life-imprisonment-in-karnataka-1995885.html