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Last updated on: Thursday July 14, 2011 04:24 PM
 

Press Release
Terror attack condemned
(July 14, 2011)

 

Scholarships for Minority Community Students (2010-2011)

Schemes of Govt. of India

1) Pre-Matric Scholarship Scheme 2010-2011.
Last date for submission of application is July 31, 2010

(For detail click here)

2) Post-Matric Scholarship Scheme 2010-2011.
Last date for submission of application is August 16, 2010
 
(For detail click here)

3) Merit-Cum-Means Scholarship Scheme 2010-2011.
Last date for submission of application August 16, 2010

(For detail click here)

 

Report of the

National Commission for Religious and Linguistic Minorities
(Justice Ranganath Misra)

Part 1 (Pdf)          Part 2 (Pdf)
 

 

Press Release: MSD asks Union Minister AR Antulay to resign (18/12/2008)

 

Media reports on Silent March

  Fatwas Against Terrorism (pdf)

‘Our Motherland’s enemies are our enemies!’
‘Killers of innocents are enemies of Islam!’

-- Muslims Against Terror

Silent demonstration by Indian Muslims on December 7, 2008 at 3.00 pm simultaneously in Mumbai and 10 other major cities to denounce
extremism and terrorism in the name of Islam

 

Strong Condemnation of Terror Attacks in Mumbai

November 28, 2008

 

Press Statement on the  
Bangalore, Ahmedabad blasts

Muslims for Secular Democracy (MSD)
joins the Jamiatul-ulema-e-Hind (JUHI, an organization with 10 million Indian Muslim clerics as its members), in strongly denouncing all those responsible for the serial bomb blasts in Bangalore (Karnataka state) on Friday and Ahmedabad
(Gujarat state) on Saturday.
 

 



Darool-Uloom Deoband issues
fatwa against terrorism

May 31, 2008

Deoband fatwa and oath

 

       Regional Workshops on   
Equal Opportunities Commission
, India:
Learning from the UK experience

(Mumbai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Lucknow) 
October 28 - November 11, 2007

Conducted by: Professor Kay Hampton, Last Chairperson,
Commission for Racial Equality (CRE), UK

Organised jointly by: Muslims for Secular Democracy and Local Hosts

Report on Workshops (pdf)

 Handbook for participants (pdf) 

CRE Publications

 

Education and Employment related
Scholarship/Loan and other schemes of the

Maharashtra/Central Govt
for Minorities.

 

Protest

Barbaric Rule
Saudi Arabia's inhuman punishment of a rape victim

22 November 2007
Venue: Saudi Arabia Consulate, Cuff Parade, Mumbai

 

 

August 10, 2007

Press Statement/Letter to Editor 

MSD strongly condemns
attack on Taslima Nasreen

 

 


Two-Day National Workshop

January 27 & 28, 2007, Mumbai 

Towards an All-India
Citizens Campaign:

"Implement Sachar Committee’s Recommendations”

Conclusions of the  Workshop

Media Coverage of workshop

 


From L to R: Javed Anand (MSD), Mr. Hamid Ansari (Chairman, National Commission for Minorities) and Prof. Imtiaz Ahmed at the workshop.
For more photos click here

 

"I should have no objection even if the Muslims of India are treated...  as shudras and melchchas and Manu’s laws are applied to them, depriving them of all the share in the government  and the rights of a citizen."

-- Maulana Sayyed Abul Ala Maududi
(Founder, Jamaat-e-Islami), 1953
 

 

Fatwa on Terrorism issued by Mufti
Fuzail-ur-Rahman Hilal Usmani

(Pronounced in person at a Public Meeting, “Citizens Against Terror”, organized by Citizens for Justice and Peace, Muslims for Secular Democracy and others in Mumbai on July 27, 2006).
 

Text of Fatwa: Hindi | Urdu | Marathi | Gujarati 

Message from Sajjadanashin Of
Hazrat Khwaja Saheb, Ajmer Shari

 
MUSLIMS ORGANISATIONS CONDEMN VARANASI BLAST

 Kashi shows us the way (March 12, 2006)

Fatwa demand gains support
(March 11, 2006)

Muslims offer prayers for Varanasi victims  (March 9, 2006)

Muslims call for communal peace
(March 9, 2006)

Muslim groups condemn Varanasi blasts (March 9, 2006)  

Muslim Personal Law Board for judicial probe into blasts   (March 8, 2006)  

More...

Social, Economic and Educational Status of
 The Muslim Community of India
 

Rajindar Sachar Committer Report

Download (pdf 6.5 mb)

 

MINORITY REPORT
Communalism Combat Feb. 2007
Excerpts from the
Sachar Report

 

Sachar Report
Executive Summary

English (pdf1.2mb)  
Urdu (pdf3.7mb)
Hindi (pdf1.3mb)

 

 'What can one possibly achieve
   by killing innocent people?'
- Javed Akhtar

 

 

DEOBAND FATWA 
June 28, 2005: Deoband fatwa inhuman and anti-women

FAMILY PLANNING:

Sep 21, 2004: Who will pay my bills? The Muslim Personal Law Board?

Sep 18, 2004: In support of family planning

Sep 16, 2004: Green Signal: Islam is Not Opposed to Family Planning

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TERRORISM:
Sept 4, 2004: Press Statement

MSD condemns barbaric massacre in Beslan

Can Islam change? By Ziauddin Sardar

PERSONAL LAW:
CAMPAIGN: MSD demands an end to triple talaq

Sep 12, 2004: Response to Mid-Day article
Sep 11, 2004: Pune meet on triple talaq

Aug 15, 2004: Full page MSD ad in Mumbai's Urdu daily Inquilab (pdf format)

July 2, 2004: On eve of All India Muslim Personal Law Board's Kanpur meet, MSD reiterates demand for gender justice )

Media coverage (pdf format)

July 20, 2004:

n  MSD memorandum to Mumbai’s police commissioner, AN Roy, asking for criminal prosecution of the Urdu Times

n Sajid Rashid's letter to PC (July 20, 2004)

n Maharashtra Urdu Writers Guild letter to PC
(July 20, 2004)

Police Chief promises immediate investigation   

 Media coverage

 

 

 



From L to R: MSD office bearers - Hasan Kamal, Javed Anand, Sajid Rashid, Javed Akhtar, SMA Kazmi - at the venue of the July 2, 2004 press conference in Mumbai to call for an end to the triple ‘talaq’ (instant divorce) practice.

Other news and views on triple talaq (talaq-e-salasa)


COMMUNAL VIOLENCE: MSD delegation to Maharashtra DyCM on communal violence
in Wai town; report of fact-finding team 
(November 25, 2003)

LAUNCH OF MSD:
n 'Press Statement' issued in Mumbai on October 2, 2003, announcing
the launch of the new body

n 'Declaration of Muslims for Secular Democracy' adopted at its First
National Meeting in Mumbai on October 1, 2003
 

Media coverage 

Occasional Papers (No. 1)
A survey of Family (Personal) Laws and Population Control policies in
Muslim-majority countries

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