Muslims court arrest to demand right to pray at Nawab Masjid

By Tarique Anwar, TwoCircles.net

Vellore (Tamilnadu): A sea of Muslims disciplined and peacefully descended on the famous Vellore Fort to demand their right to pray. Located within Vellore Fort, Muslims are not allowed to pray in 250 years old Nawab Masjid. Muslims of Tamilnadu have been demanding for a long time that the masjid be opened up for prayers. On Friday, about ten thousand Muslims under the banner of Tamilnadu Muslim Munnetra Kazhagam (TMMK) marched towards the fort to be allowed to pray. They were prevented from entering the fort, as a result they offered prayers outside the fort on the road. More than two thousands of them detained and later released.

>> Read more

Anti-terrorism conferences to spread Islamic teachings: Arshad

By Mumtaz Alam Falahi, TwoCircles.net

New Delhi : The anti-terrorism conferences being organized in the country by Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind (JUH) or other Muslim organizations are not meant to clean the image of the Muslim community or madrasas, said Maulana Arshad Madani, ex-president, JUH on 10th May.

Rather, these conferences are just to spread the Islamic teachings of peace and brotherhood and also to expose hands that are hell-bent to tarnish the image of Islam and the Muslim community, said he who has been instrumental behind these conferences after the 25th February national anti-terrorism conference organized by Darul Uloom Deoband.

>> Read more

   

Court orders probe into Hussain's paintings

Submitted by aftababedin on Sun, 09/03/2006 - 03:58.

New Delhi, Sept 3 (ZEENEWS.COM) A city court today directed Delhi police to investigate a complaint filed against noted painter M F Hussain for allegedly hurting religious sentiments by painting "obscene pictures of Hindu Gods and Goddesses".

Acting on the status report of the case, metropolitan magistrate Vikas Dhull directed police to investigate the allegations levelled against the 91-year-old painter before taking any step to apprehend him.

"Investigate the matter as per law and based on evidence collected by investigating the matter, apprehend the accused (Hussain)," the magistrate said after perusing the status report filed by police stating that documents had been seized and authenticity of eight photographs was being verified.

A doctor of Apollo Hospital Ram Pratap Singh had filed a complaint accusing Hussain with hurting religious feelings by allegedly painting "nude or scantily clad pictures of Sita, Draupadi and Bharat Mata".

The doctor, in his complaint, said he was shocked to see an advertisement in a weekly magazine on February six this year depicting Bharat Mata in a "scantily-clad posture" and again an article in a national daily depicting Goddess Sita and Draupadi in "highly obscene" way.

The complaint has been filed under sections 153-A (promoting enmity between different communities based on religion, race, place of birth and language etc), 292 (sale of obscene books), 294 (obscene acts), 298 (uttering words to wound religious feelings) and 295-a (deliberate and malicious act to outrage religious feelings of any class) under Indian Penal Code.

‹ Congress to demand Madhya Pradesh government dismissalupCPI-M calls for CBI probe into professor's death ›

Reply

The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.
  • Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.
  • Allowed HTML tags: <a> <em> <strong> <cite> <code> <ul> <ol> <li> <dl> <dt> <dd> <p> <img>
  • Lines and paragraphs break automatically.

More information about formatting options