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1. Assam
riots — planned ethnic cleansing of Indian Muslims
[ By The Milli Gazette ]
A group of NGOs
met
in Mumbai on July 26 to assess and discuss the recent communal violence
in Assam and Uttar Pradesh. The social and educational NGO leaders have
strongly condemned the Assam violence in which Muslims have been
subject to a planned ethnic cleansing.
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2. Bangladeshis
Encroaching Assam: Myth Or Reality?
[By
Youth Ki Awaaz]
One of the burning issues in Assam today is the
issue of “illegal Bangladeshi immigrants”. It
has been an issue ever since the 1980s. It is claimed that there are
lakhs of Bangladeshis in Assam. It is alleged that these migrants cross
over to India everyday and have a sinister plan of turning Assam into a
Muslim-majority state.
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3. More than
40,000 flee violence in Assam state
[By france24.com]
More
than 40,000 people have fled their villages in India's Assam state
after fresh clashes over territory erupted between Bodo tribes and
Muslim settlers on Friday. At least 22 people have been killed in the
latest fighting, police said Tuesday.
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4. Assam Muslims
and IMDT Act
[By The Milli Gazette]
All
Assam students’ Union and their supporters have been campaigning to
brand the Indian Muslims living permanently in Assam for centuries as
“foreigners” with the help of a section of the local print and
electronic media .....
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5. Bogey
of Illegal Bangladeshis Fuels
Assamese Militancy
[By
Academia.edu]
The
bogey of large
scale migration of Bangladeshi Muslims into Assam in post 1971 period
is a completely mischievous proposition. It is a separatist political
tool to divide Assam once more in the guise of lingualisticl, cultural
or so-called ‘indigenous’ identity issue
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6.
Thousands flee homes in India’s strife-torn Assam
[By Saudi Gazette]
Trucks
loaded with
women, children, mattresses and bags of rice rolled into a refugee camp
in India’s northeastern Assam state Thursday, as security forces tried
to stamp out the worst communal violence in a decade ....
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7.
East Bengal Rooted Mia Muslim Politics In Assam Post Independent Period
[By kalgachiaassam.blogspot.ca]
By all accounts,one
can see that Muslims have been living in Assam for a very long
time.Their contribution to the economy of Assam has been tremendous and
it will not be right to dub such people as"foreigners".
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8. Assam
government offers financial assistance to the private madarsas
In an attempt to improve the
standard of the private madarsas of the state the Assam government,
under the Chief Minister’s special scheme, has offered financial
assistance to 640 private madarsas. Each of the private madarsas gets
Rs. 3 lakh. The distribution ceremony was held at the Guwahati
Municipal Corporation auditorium on 20th March 2012.
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9. 79
Hindus embrace Islam at Khapro
[By
PAK TRIBUNE]
As many as 79 people belonging to Bhaeel fraternity have converted to
Islam from Hinduism after being inspired from the teaching of Islam
here at Muhammad Alam Rajar, an adjoining area of Khapro. The
converted people embraced Islam on the hands of Pri Ayub Jan Sarhindi
and they are included on 20 men, 25 women and 34 children.
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10. Approximate
Muslim population in India [2001]
[By
Syed Shahabuddin (THE MILLI GAZETTE)]
The
Registrar General and Census Commission- ner, India, has published the
Provisional Population Totals (Paper I of 2001) for Census of India,
2001. While this Paper gives many useful data on various aspects of
total population, it does not give the Provisional Religious Totals,
State-wise or for the country as a whole. The Religious Tables are
likely to be published by the year 2005, if not later.
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11.Demographics of India
[By
WIKIPEDIA]
This
article
is
about
the
demographic
features
of
the
population
of
India,
including
population
density,
ethnicity,
education
level,
health
of
the
populace,
economic
status,
religious
affiliations
and
other
aspects
of
the
population. Size: 1,129,866,154 (2007 est) .....
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12.G.
M. Banatwala: Indian Muslim leader
[By
TIMES ON LINE
(July 22, 2008)]
India’s
Muslims, probably numbering around 120 million, are arguably the
worst-led, most divided and certainly among the most desperate of the
country’s minority groups. he
constantly found himself trapped in ideological and tactical conflicts
that continue to leave the Islamic community disproportionately poor
and politically weak.
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13.
Hindus
urged to curb 'Muslim threat' by having big families
[By Maseeh Rahman in New Delhi The
Guardian,Thursday]
A radical Hindu political party, India's most populous
state, which is a key ally of the country's ruling party, is
encouraging Hindus to have more children because of fears of a Muslim
population explosion.
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14. India
CIA Factbook
[By
CIA THE WORLD FACTBOOK] Hindu 80.5%, Muslim 13.4%, Christian 2.3%, Sikh 1.9%, other 1.8%, unspecified 0.1% (2001 census)
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15.India
[LIBRARY
OF CONGRESS] Formal Name: Republic of India (The official, Sanskrit name for India is Bharat, the name of the legendary king in the Mahabharata). Short Form: India. Term for Citizen(s): Indian(s).
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16. India Muslim
[BY
The Hindu ( Friday, October 01, 1999)]
In
an interview with a well circulated newspaper of India "The Hindu"
(Friday, October 01, 1999) MR. Justice K. M. Yusuf, a retired Judge
from Calcutta High Court and chairman of West Bengal Minority
Commission, says that in his view the total percentage of Muslims in
India is at least 20 %.
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17. Indian Muslims Inc. Their
Market & Global Business Impact [By
Dinar Standard
,June
18, 2007]
It
may surprise many, but Muslims’ trade links to the Indian Subcontinent
go back to the time of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him, c. 571 –
632) when Arab traders used to visit the Malabar region, which was a
link between them and the trading ports of South East Asia.
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18. Interview
with Maulana Syed Jalaluddin Umari
Maulana
Umari: There is no doubt that my name appeared and was debated for
presidentship of Jamaat, but I resisted it because I felt that I was
not eligible for such a big responsibility.
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19.
Occupied mosque recovered after 60 yrs
[The Milli Gazette
print issue of 16-31 August 2010 ]
A
mosque demolished and occupied about sixty years ago was recovered on
30 July with the efforts of Majlis Ahrar volunteers with the blessings
of Majlis Ahrar President Maulana Habibur Rahman Sani Ludhianvi who is
also the Shahi Imam of Punjab. Before 1947 local Muslims had built a
large and beautiful mosque in Hans Kalan village.
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20. Iran envoy
in India summoned
[Press
TV,Sun Nov 21, 2010] India
has summoned an Iranian envoy in response to comments on
Indian-administered Kashmir made by Leader of the Islamic Revolution
Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei.
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