April
11, 2007Indian Muslim Cleric Hate
Cleric held with cocaine not of SIMI : police
Guwahati, July. 19 (PTI): Police today said no evidence was on the Muslim cleric arrested in Dibrugarh town for possession of cocaine to prove that he was linked to the banned Students' Islamic Movement of India.
"On interrogation we have not found any evidence pointing to Imamuddin Ahmed's link with SIMI," Dibrugarh Additional Superintendent of Police A Sargoyary said.
Ahmed, 45, was arrested by Army personnel yesterday and 800 gm of cocaine found on him.
"So far he can be said to be a drug dealer," the ASP said adding that police would continue to interrogate him.
The Army had claimed that Ahmed, who was a 'maulvi' of Chaulkhowa masjid in the Upper Assam town and running a 'madrasa' (Islamic seminary) had links with SIMI and certain papers relating to it were recovered from him.
Assam: Muslim cleric arrested with brown sugar
Guwahati, July 19 (PTI): A Muslim cleric has been arrested for allegedly possessing 800 grams of brown sugar, worth about Rs 8 lakh, from an Upper Assam town, police said today.
Forty-five-year-old Imamuddin, a Maulana of a local mosque, was arrested yesterday from Dibrugarh town with the contraband, they said.
Interrogation is progressing and police is probing his possible links with any fundamentalist organisations active in the state, they said.
Clerics offer reward for writer's head
Bruce Loudon, New Delhi
March 19, 2007
A BOUNTY offered by an extremist Islamist group in India for the beheading of prominent Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen, who lives in exile in India, has the country's 150million Muslims in uproar.
The 45-year-old feminist and human rights activist has been trying to get permission to stay in India permanently, and was not available yesterday to comment on the fatwa.
Nasreen has been the target of Islamic fundamentalist anger since speaking in favour of equal rights for women and expressing opposition to the oppression of non-Islamic minorities in Islamic societies. She has also called for a revision of the Koran.
Two years ago, an Indian Muslim cleric offered a reward toanyone who "blackened" herface.
The call for her beheading comes from a small but influential Islamic group in Lucknow, and is a further indication of the difficulty the Government has in dealing with her request to be allowed to stay in the country.
The president of the All-India Ibtehad Council, Taqi Raza Khan, offered the bounty of about $15,000 for the head of Nasreen, whom he described as "that notorious woman".
He said the decision had the full backing of the All-India Muslim Personal Law Board, and claimed that 150 scholars, lawyers, retired public servants and professors had passed a resolution to oust Nasreen from India.
"This woman has a vicious tongue and has been attacking the Shariat," Taqi Raza Khan was quoted as saying. "We have been hearing that the Indian Government is thinking of granting her citizenship. The decision is repugnant to all God-fearing Muslims. If the Government does not drive her out within 10 days, all hell will break lose."
A noted Lucknow cleric, Maulana Khalis Rasheed Firangimahali, said he, too, would like to see the back of Nasreen.
"She has been consistently vicious in her attack on the Prophet and must be restrained," he said.
But he baulked at the idea of getting someone to kill her. "Beheading someone is not something that falls under the purview of personal law and therefore (scholars) must steer clear of such announcements," he said.
Bihar woman beaten, stripped by cleric
ibnlive.com
April
11, 2007
New Delhi: A woman panch in Bihar’s Motihari district was allegedly beaten up and stripped by a Muslim cleric in public view.
Chanda Khatoon was allegedly beaten up with a baton, stripped and then paraded at Siswa village in East Champaran district on Sunday for protesting against local madarssa teacher Alauddin for complaining against the "damage" he had done to her house.
News agency PTI quoted police officials as saying that Alauddin dug up a portion of the wall of her mud house while constructing a house adjacent to Chanda's
When Chanda, who makes a living working at the madarssa, protested, he beat her with a bamboo pole before stripping and parading her naked in the village.
Chanda filed lodged an FIR with Banjaria police station on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, Alauddin is absconding.