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  Assam Map showing, Bodo Land and riot affected areas

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.

 

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.
   
  More than 40,000 flee violence in Assam state

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.

  
 

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 .....

   
 

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

 

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 ....
   
 

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".
 

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.

   
 

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.

 

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.
   
 

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) .....

 

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. 
   
 

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.
 

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)

   
 

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).

 

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 %.
   
 

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.
 

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.