The Jammat-e-ulema-e-Hind did not ask for a high level inquiry from the Home
Ministry into
the assassination of Advocate Shahid Azmi whose services were exploited by them
there
is a silence on this assassination by the organization who ought to have
insisted on a special
investigation .Nothing has been done by any of the organizations with whom
Shahid Azmi
worked , he was led to his slaughter and then discarded in death .
Niloufer Bhagwat
----- Original Message -----
From: Niloufer Bhagwat
To: [email protected]
Sent: Friday, February 25, 2011 8:06 AM
Subject: Re: [humanrights-movement:3797] Jamaate-e-Islami-e Hind tests
watersto launch its own party - By Seema Chishti - The Indian Express, Mumbai
It is necessary to recall the role played by the Jamaate-e-Islami during the
freedom movement and its role in the
Kashmir Valley to formulate a correct political opinion . When the worst
pogroms were taking place against minorities
in the country with fascist policies in place under corporate control of
vital regions , none of the organizations professing political Islam in India
were able to play any role at all , neither did they desire to analyze the real
reasons behind the cruel attacks on minorities and economically weaker sections
.There is a concern that unless the young Muslim youth are incorporated into
religious politics they may play a vital role in the new democratic awakening
sweeping one country after another .
Religious divide and rule requires political parties of the religious
majority and religious minority and most of them have their roots in Colonial
India . It is not surprising that members of the Muslim brotherhood are based
in London and Osama bin Laden had purchased valuable properties in Britain .
The unfortunate use of political Islam as a safety valve for Imperialism and
Capitalism cannot be underestimated , we have seen their misuse in Saudi Arabia
and Pakistan among other countries and the most horrific example is British
India .
Till to-day even organizations like Jammat-e- ulema -e-Hind who exploited the
professional services of Advocate Shahid Azmi from a lower middle class family
have requested the Union Home Ministry for a high level investigation into his
assassination just as a similar investigation is required into the
assassination of the late Joint Commissioner of Police , Mr.Hemant Karkare ,
Mr.Kamat and other police officers and policemen at VT and Cama Hospital
premises and other sites .
Our first loyalty is to humanity , everything else comes thereafter .
Religion is not religion unless it is used in the service of humanity as a
whole not a sectarian denomination , a hungry man is hungry irrespective of
whether he/she is a Hindu or a Muslim . It is when minorities were collectively
singled out for collective murders that voices had to be raised and the fascist
political policies of corporate houses which includes foreign and Indian
Transnational Companies and Banks had to be analyzed .
If the East India Company and its activities in India , Asia and other
countries is forgotten , no one can move forward to a better political system .
Not a single religious philosophy no matter how spiritual is adequate to enable
us to understand economic phenomena in the 21st Century . Religion is concerned
with the divinity and philosophy and ethics which has its own private space ,
whereas economic and political events require a dissection of economic and
political decision making and whether they meet the needs of all sections of
society or whether the profits are restricted to a few .
The Radia tapes were not about religion they disclosed that most political
parties were directly controlled by corporate interests. There is no religious
answer to this phenomena of financial institutions , Banks and Corporations
bankrupting national exchequers of G7 countries among others and reducing
Afghanistan and Afpak to a Narco state with the drug trade being laundered into
bankrupt western financial institutions and banks even as millions are affected
by unemployment and loss of social security . We in India are of course used to
this situation . However soon hunger will stalk the land , may be we will ask
the hungry to pray to God so that they can speedily go to heaven or be reborn
in better conditions !!!!!
This is not what the Egyptian people did !!!!!!!! The Arab uprisings will
continue and Ulemas will not be able to stop them , unless a better economic
and political system takes the place of dictatorships and monarchies .
Similarly one country after another will see uprisings and no religious party
will be able to prevent it as the root cause of the present situation is not
religion but the existing economic , political and social systems reeking of
injustice .
Niloufer Bhagwat
----- Original Message -----
From: BRP Bhaskar
To: [email protected]
Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2011 4:40 PM
Subject: Re: [humanrights-movement:3797] Jamaate-e-Islami-e Hind tests
watersto launch its own party - By Seema Chishti - The Indian Express, Mumbai
I do not find anything in this report to justify the observation that the
reporter "is not necessarly enamoured of either any religion or Islam in
particular". Assuming it is so, how is it anybody else's business if she is not
enamoured of any religion? I do not also see any basis for accusation that this
is a hatchet job. It's sickening to find such material in this group.
BRP Bhaskar
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 10:53 PM, Ghulam Muhammed
<[email protected]> wrote:
Seema Chishti, an Indian Express correspondent with a Muslim name, is not
necessarily enamored of either any religion in general and Islam in particular.
Belonging to Muslim community, she is awarded the job by editors, to carry out
their official policy ( a hatchet job?) on how to report on Muslim affairs in
India. The usual reporting is always colored by Left Liberal disdain for
religion and Islam. In her following report, she is openly critical of the
audacity of a 'Muslim' group to come forward with its ideological baggage and
still trying to fit into the pseudo-secular Indian political arena, which is
increasingly turning to be dominated by an aggressive Hindutva Right that wants
a Hindu Rashtra, denying any space for others. By her reporting, she is
directly helping the Hindutva to claim the entire field for itself. The bogey
of Islam is a very convenient instrument for India's English media, to inject
hate and derision for any Muslim initiative to join the Indian mainstream, to
ensure Brahmin monopoly on the levers of power, that had kept the lopsided
development of India, always favoring the oligarchs and higher castes.
Ghulam Muhammed, Mumbai
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http://www.indianexpress.com/news/jamaat-tests-waters-to-launch-its-own-party/754013/0
Thu, 24 Feb 2011
Jamaat tests waters to launch its own party
[The Mumbai print edition has the full name of Jamaat as '
Jamaate-Islami-e Hind' in the headline spread out across the entire 7-column
page report.GM]
Seema Chishti
Tags : percentage of Muslims, Jamaat-e-Islami-e Hind, Islam in the
subcontinent in 1941
Posted: Thu Feb 24 2011, 00:17 hrs
New Delhi:
In three of the five states going to the polls in weeks — Assam, Kerala
and West Bengal — the percentage of Muslims, after Jammu and Kashmir, is the
highest in the country. To tap this political space, the Jamaat-e-Islami-e
Hind, the organisation established for the propagation and “reform” of Islam in
the subcontinent in 1941, is planning to launch its political party.
Tentatively called the “Welfare Party,” it is learnt that senior Jamaat
members have been touring not just the poll-bound states but UP, Bihar and
Maharashtra, too, to test the waters. While discussions about the need for a
party have been on for two years, the formal launch is expected soon — some say
even as early as next month.
A six-page note prepared by the Jamaat and accessed by The Indian Express
details the objectives and the remit of the proposed party.
Jamaat, which already has a well-developed network of front organizations
like a women’s wing and a students’ wing, is anxious not to be seen as a purely
Muslim party but one which keeps the welfare of marginalized groups besides
Muslims, such as the poor, backwards and SC/STs central to its proposed
political face.
The party’s concept paper makes scathing remarks about the state of the
polity, especially the unequal distribution of new wealth in the new
“happening” India. Underlining a social-democrat, religious and value-based
“formula,” it calls for a “paradigm shift.” The party envisages strong
participation by the middle-class and from individuals “having a record of
flawless public service”, committed to “ideals” and “values” and the ability to
break the connection “between political power and wealth creation.”
Said a senior Jamaat member: “This won’t be Jamaat’s party but our
members would be fully with it. People feel left out from the way political
parties work these days. We want to keep welfare as the central element of it.
We believe in public funding, in the way Kanshi Ram set out asking for one vote
and one rupee, we can do that.”
Members said that they will forge ties with “like-minded” parties and
although they aren’t prepared to take on established political forces this
time, they hope to make a statement by putting up a few candidates.
There was a divide in the Jamaat over this political course of action but
the party’s Majlis-e-Shoora made a decisive push for it. When contacted, Qasim
Rasool Ilyas, a prominent member of the Jamaat-e-Islami, declined to comment.
The Jamaat-e-Islami claims to have at least 29,000 workers, and more than
300,000 “well-wishers” across the country. But Jamaat watchers warn about the
group being at odds with its own ideology. They say that for a group whose
constitution states its objective as “iqaamat-e-din” or the single-minded
pursuit of religion, forming a political party may confuse those who flock to
the Jamaat as a centre for mainly Islamic revival or refreshing the Islamic way
of life.
The Jamaat, split with its most influential founder, Maulana Maududi, who
was a staunch advocate of the creation of Pakistan, and later, a
Jamaat-e-Islami-e-Hind and a separate one for Jammu and Kashmir was set up.
*However, its literature has had no real substitute for Maududi’s
philosophy and old stereotypes remain. The parallels drawn with the RSS have
often resulted in simultaneous bans, like in 1975, during the Emergency, when
both the RSS and the Jamaat were banned.
*Observers like Irfan Waheed say that political opponents, especially the
Hindutva parties, will invoke Jamaat-e-Islami’s past and present in Bangladesh
and Pakistan. “After the partition, when Maulana Maududi was asked about the
fate of the Muslims left in a Hindu majority India, he had said that he did not
bother if the Hindus treat the Muslims of India worse than malechhas. He was
only bothered about making Pakistan an Islamic state at any cost,” said Waheed.
* The last two paras were dropped from the print edition report.
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