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Maulana Maudoodi on Indian Muslims

 

Towards an All-India
Citizens Campaign:
"Implement Sachar Committee’s Recommendations”

Conclusions of the  Workshop

Media Coverage of workshop

Photos

 

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

Rajindar Sachar Committer Report

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

 

 

 


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

 

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

 

 MUSLIMS ORGANISATIONS CONDEMN VARANASI BLAST


n Kashi shows us the way
(March 12, 2006)

n Fatwa demand gains support (March 11, 2006)

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

n Muslims call for communal peace (March 9, 2006)

n Muslim groups condemn Varanasi blasts (March 9, 2006)  

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

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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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