Lucknow-Educated Chinese Cleric, Hai Weiliang, Lit The First Jihad Fire In Xinjiang; Provided Intellectual Ground For Global Jihadist Movement
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June 2022
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• Lucknow-Educated Chinese Cleric, Hai Weiliang, Lit
The First Jihad Fire In Xinjiang; Provided Intellectual Ground For Global
Jihadist Movement
• Imam Muhammad Bin Saud Islamic University To Launch
Bachelor's Degree Program In Cinema And Theatre
• Ahmad Usman, Nigerian Man Burned to Death After
Argument With Muslim Cleric For Alleged Blasphemy
• 'We Can Still Love Each Other,' First LGBTQIA Mosque
To Be Opened In Houston
• Efforts On To Demoralise Muslims In The Country,
Says Kerala Nadwatul Mujahideen
South Asia
• Taliban willing to send Afghan troops to India for
training: Mullah Yaqoob
• Fire in the Forests of Nooristan Spread to the
Forests of Kunar
• The Taliban Sends A Delegation to Doha
• Fire, explosion at Ctg depot: Death toll now 19
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Arab World
• Saudi Space Agency Training Program Ready For
Lift-Off
• Nobel laureates glimpse KSA efforts to save
‘cultural treasures’
• President Sisi Orders Drafting Personal Status Law
For Muslims
• Saudi Arabia welcomes first foreign Hajj pilgrims
since COVID-19 pandemic hit
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Africa
• There were turbulences before I became OAU VC –
Ogunbodede
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North America
• From Domestic Terrorism, Khalistani US Groups Have
Evolved To Political Manipulation
• UN: As the Weather Warms, ISIS and the Resistance
Front Increase Their Attacks on the Taliban
• McDonald’s restaurant accused of intentionally
serving bacon to Muslim family
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India
• Muslim Clerics, Civil Society In Kashmir Valley Condemn
Killings Of Minority Members
• Mosque Committee Chairman Booked For Allegedly
Threatening Lawyer In UP: Police
• Hindu Activists Defy Prohibitory Orders, Recite
Hanuman Chalisa Near Karnataka Mosque
• 29 arrests over Kanpur violence, 9 other cases
pending against key accused
• Bihar BJP chief brings up Rohingyas, Muslims in
State’s caste count
• Claim over mosque: Police thwart VHP’s
‘Srirangapatna Chalo’ programme
• Nitish Kumar silent on BJP’s Rohingya, Bangladeshi
Muslim clause for Bihar caste count
• Hindu group recognises ‘Shivling’ in Gyanvapi
mosque, begins performing rituals in Lucknow
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Southeast Asia
• Muslims Told To Accept Pandemic As Divine Plan
• FT minister says KL's flood mitigation plans
underway, invites critics to see progress
• GE15: Careful planning needed to take back govt,
says Bung Moktar
• Warisan polls: Shafie Apdal open to leadership
challenge
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Mideast
• Iran Supreme Leader Says 'Enemy' Triggering Unrest
To Weaken Islamic Republic
• Leader: ‘Naïve’ foes suffer from illusion that
Iranians have lost faith in Islamic Republic system
• Palestinian official: Imam Khomeini made Palestine
axis of Islamic unity
• Iran Marks Demise Anniversary of Imam Khomeini
• Islamic Development Bank focuses on food supply,
green investments: Turkish FinMin
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Europe
• Public Booed Boris Johnson Because They Are Fed Up
Of His Government – Starmer
• Russian accused of killing Alexander Litvinenko
reportedly dies from Covid-19
• London's Trafalgar Square evacuated due to
suspicious vehicle, police conduct 'controlled explosion'
• Rapper Hypo stabbed to death in London at Jubilee party
- as Met Police appeal for people who filmed it
• Silent protest held against ‘provocative’ film
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Pakistan
• Refusing assent, president returns election, NAB
bills
• PTI moves court to get money spent on govt ads
recovered
• Ali Zaidi wants Sindh LG polls after delimitation
• Authorities scramble to avert disaster as fires
ravage KP districts
• Indus annually delivers 10,000 tonnes of
macro-plastics to Arabian Sea: WB
• PTA at odds with ISPs over domain policy
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Lucknow-Educated Chinese Cleric, Hai Weiliang, Lit The
First Jihad Fire In Xinjiang; Provided Intellectual Ground For Global Jihadist
Movement
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Praveen Swami
5 June, 2022
Two thousand, five hundred kilometres from his home in
rural China, just edging into his teens, Hai Weiliang stood on the docks of
Kolkata. The light of his faith had led him there, abandoning his voyage home
from the Haj pilgrimage, but now he had no idea which way to turn. Finally, a
kindly cleric found him a cheap room at an inn near a mosque. Arming himself
with a Chinese-to-English conversation book for travellers, Hai began
conversing with local seminary students.
Late last month, new evidence emerged on the brutal
incarceration of thousands of Xinjiang residents at China’s internment centres,
set up to stamp out religion-fuelled secessionism. Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan
felt compelled to use repression against resurgent Islamist networks, whose
lethal reach extends from the Ferghana valley to Europe’s heartlands.
The extraordinary story of the Chinese Muslim teenager
who arrived in Kolkata shows how India, a century ago, provided the
intellectual ground from which this global jihadist movement grew.
Ethnic-Turkic Muslims, Hai wrote in a 1934 essay,
“could have an Islamic state not limited to Kashgar and its environs, but
extending from the eastern borders of Afghanistan all the way to the Great Wall
of China.” Islamic nations, he exhorted, ought to help them, and “cut off the
Chinese heathens living there, be they merchants or workers, and refuse Chinese
consulates unless they are staffed by Chinese Muslims.”
Little but fragments of Hai’s life have survived; in
English, there is but one significant biographical account, by scholar John
Chen. Hai was born in 1912, in Hunan’s Zhimushan village—close, interestingly,
in both space and time to a certain Mao Zedong. Early in life, his impoverished
mother sent him to study at a local madrasa. A talent for language gained him
admission to Peach Orchard seminary in Shanghai. In the mid-1920s, Hai was
selected for the Haj pilgrimage, and the unplanned stop in Kolkata.
Impressed by Hai’s prodigious intellect, Zakir Husain,
the founder of New Delhi’s Jamia Milia Islamia, allowed him to attend classes
at the now-famous institution. Later, he joined the Aligarh Muslim University,
writing a thesis on the Chinese nationalist leader Sun Yat-sen.
Then, just after his teens ended—and having mastered
Arabic, Persian, Urdu, as well as English—Hai moved to the Dar-ul-Uloom
Nadwat-ul-Ullema seminary in Lucknow.
Fin de siècle ideologues in China had begun the
process of importing ideas of Islamic purity through Haj journeys. Imam Ma
Wanfu, historian Jonathan Lipman has recorded, proselytised to replace local
Muslim cultures in north-western China with a new, normative Islam. For Hai’s
generation, though, the question was different: The relationship between faith,
power and Muslim political aspiration.
Likely, Hai first encountered the ideas of poet
Muhammad Iqbal in Lucknow. Early theologians at Nadwat-ul-Ulama, scholar Mashal
Saif has noted, were infatuated with Iqbal and his peans on Islam’s glories.
Hai translated Iqbal’s famous 1930 address in Allahabad—the Pakistan movement’s
moment of birth—and advocated for the wider relevance of his ideas.
To his audience, Hai explained his project thus: “To
lead all Muslim peoples in doing away with the bounds placed on Muslim
countries and advocating the re-establishment of the caliphate.”
Like in India, Muslims in China were a sizeable
minority, with enclaves of demographic dominance but scattered across the
country. Like in India, Hai seemed to suggest, they had reason to fear a
centralised State controlled by the religious majority.
Then, in 1934, Hai moved to Cairo, to study at the
great seminary of al-Azhar—drawing the attention of anti-colonial Right-wing
theologians like Rashid Rida. Along with his contemporaries, Hai had brought
China to the centre of the pan-Islamic movement.
Early in the last century, Hai Weilang wasn’t the only
Turkic student engaging with new ideas in India’s seminaries. The Kokand-born
preacher Muhammad Rustamov arrived at the famous Dar-ul-Uloom seminary at
Deoband around 1925, having earlier studied at religious institutions in
Bukhara and Ajmer. Likely, the work of historian Michael Fredholm suggests, he
was recruited by Deoband missionaries who had begun visiting central Asia from
1925.
The religious message Rustamov brought from Deoband
did not impress the KGB. He was arrested several times and eventually sent to a
prison camp in Siberia.
Emerging in 1943, to fight as a soldier in the Soviet
army, Rustamov went on to settle in Tajikistan. He worked as a State-employed
cleric, and then at the Tajik Academy of Sciences.
From the mid-1970s, though, Rustamov began setting up
clandestine preaching groups. His students would form the vanguard of the
jihadist movement in central Asia. Inspired by ideologues like the Egyptian
Sayyid Qutb and Pakistani Abul Ala’ Maududi, Vitaly Naumkin has written, they
sought Islamic revolutions. The Taliban’s rise in Afghanistan provided military
muscle for these ideas—sparking off savage insurgencies, journalist Ahmad
Rashid has written, across central Asia.
Xinjiang’s jihadists, too, cut their military teeth in
Afghanistan. From the mid-1980s, economic development in Xinjiang, brought in a
flood of migrants. The demographic pressure, scholar Graham Fuller has noted,
led many Uighurs to conclude that progress was “placing their very existence as
a people under threat.” From the mid-1990s, communal violence broke out,
leading China to crack down on revivalist clerics. That, in turn, fuelled
jihadist recruitment.
Ethnic Uighurs from Xinjiang, and their counterparts
from central Asia remain active in jihadist battlefields from Syria, as well as
Pakistan’s north-west. Hai’s vision of an Islamic State stretching across
central Asia, from Afghanistan to the Great Wall, is still alive—in the minds
of jihadists who never read his work.
Like all revolutionary ideologies, jihadism involves
intellectual traditions. Historian Ayesha Jalal’s work shows jihadism had deep
roots in pre-colonial India. Syed Ahmad of Rai Barelvi fought wars against the
Sikh empire, which still transfix the jihadist imagination. Jaish-e-Muhammad
chief Masood Azhar Alvi retreated to the site of his last battle, Balakote, to
seek inspiration for a disquisition on the Quran. Eighteenth-century jihadists,
Stephen Dale has recorded, staged suicide attacks on colonial powers in south
India.
Long ruled by ethnic-Han warlords, Xinjiang’s
leaders—many inspired by pan-Islamism—created the independent East Turkestan
Republic in 1933. The rebellion was crushed by Ma Zhongying, a cousin of the
Chinese Ma warlord family and commander of the nationalist Guomindang. There
are estimates that several thousand civilians were slaughtered by Guomindang
forces. Hai was heartbroken.
Poet Iqbal’s engagement with Hindu-Muslim tensions led
him to advocate dividing India into “one or more states, without which the
imposition of sharia’t is impossible.” “The only alternative,” he grimly wrote,
“is civil war.” Xinjiang had seen just such a war break out—but both sides were
Muslims. Elite Muslims in China, Yufeng Mao has argued, came to the opposite
conclusion of Iqbal: The best hope of security, they concluded, lay in
enmeshing themselves in a strong central State.
Hai had planned to remain in Cairo, and return only
after acquiring further theological qualifications. Early in 1940, though, he
was recruited by Guomindang-affiliated Muslims, eager to demonstrate their community’s
contribution to the war against Japan. In 1942, Hai was posted to China’s
mission in Tehran, and transferred to New Delhi five years later. Following the
revolution in China, he served Guomindang-ruled Taiwan for three decades.
“To the most sublime Emir,” reads the dedication of
Hai’s last work: A bow to the warlord Ma Bufeng, the butcher of Xinjiang.
Exiled by revolutionary China, Ma ended up making friends with Hai; the scholar
tutored the warlord’s children in Arabic. Till the end, Hai hoped the warlords
and the rebels who formed the East Turkestan Republic would unite to form an
Islamic State.
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Imam Muhammad Bin Saud Islamic University To Launch
Bachelor's Degree Program In Cinema And Theatre
Students of Imam Muhammad
Bin Saud Islamic University will get access next academic year to a new
bachelor's degree program in cinema and theater.
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June 04, 2022
RIYADH — Students of Imam Muhammad Bin Saud Islamic
University will get access next academic year to a new bachelor's degree
program in cinema and theatre.
The Dean of the College of Media and Communication
Prince Dr. Saad Bin Saud, said: “The college is putting the final touches to
the program, which has been set up to keep pace with the development of the
cultural, artistic and entertainment sectors in the Kingdom.”
“We will contribute through this program to creating
practical paths for culture and arts in the Kingdom to ensure the provision of
an educational environment that incubates creative national talents," he
added.
The dean pointed out that the program has been
developed by international experts in accordance with the latest international
practices, to qualify its graduates to work in many professional jobs in the
fields of script writing, films and theater directing, dramatic production,
animation production, and theatrical and cinematic performance skills,
audio-visual effects, art management, and others.
He said that the College of Media and Communication
would continue next year to offer a set of postgraduate diplomas in media
classified professions by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social
Development.
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Ahmad Usman, Nigerian Man Burned to Death After
Argument With Muslim Cleric For Alleged Blasphemy
(Image for representation) Blasphemy in Nigeria
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By Reuters
June 4, 2022
ABUJA (Reuters) - A Nigerian man was burned to death
by a mob in the capital Abuja on Saturday following an argument with a Muslim
cleric, police said.
Josephine Adeh, police spokesperson for Abuja, said
Ahmad Usman had an argument with an unidentified cleric, which turned violent.
Police who arrived at the scene took him to hospital where he was declared dead
on arrival.
"The heated argument degenerated into an outbreak
of violence that led to the murder and setting ablaze of Ahmad Usman by the enraged
mob mobilized by the clergy numbering about two hundred," the police
spokesman for Abuja said.
Last month, a female college student was beaten to
death and set on fire by fellow students who said she had posted
"blasphemous" statements in a student WhatsApp group. Two students
have appeared in court over the matter.
Nigeria is a secular nation but some states in the
mostly Muslim north observe Islamic sharia and have courts that punish those
accused of deviating from its practices.
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'We Can Still Love Each Other,' First LGBTQIA Mosque To
Be Opened In Houston
Houston to open LGBTQUIA
inclusive mosque
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By Tiffany Justice
June 3, 2022
HOUSTON - Erum Rani, a Muslim LGBTQIA activist in
short order, tells FOX26 that they will be opening the first affirming mosque
in Houston, a dream she’s been working on for a few years.
"Pride month is a great month for us in the LGBTQ
community to show our pride, our color and who we truly are," Erum Rani,
Founder.
"I don’t want any community, South Asian or
Muslim whatever it is, I want them to embrace their children and I want them to
embrace who they are," Rani said. "I have personally been judged very
harshly, I go to the mosque I've been to."
For some queer Muslims, she says it's not always easy
to balance their sexual identity with respect to religion, or even accept
themselves as they are.
"We feel like sometimes we go to our own mosque,
and we are not really welcomed," said Rani. "I want to be able to
have them come in and feel welcomed and make sure they are welcomed and
safe."
There are only a few mosques like this in the U.S.,
the largest and most well known being in Chicago. Erum hopes to create a
similar safe and inclusive space.
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Efforts On To Demoralise Muslims In The Country, Says
Kerala Nadwatul Mujahideen
Kerala Nahdatul Mujahideen
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JUNE 04, 2022
A State leadership summit of the Kerala Nadwatul
Mujahideen (KNM) has cautioned against efforts to demoralise the Muslim
community in the country.
A release said on Saturday that some extremist
organisations and fascist forces were constantly trying to weaken the
self-confidence of Muslims. The organisation sought steps to resist this
through intellectual means. Those who wished for the solidarity and welfare of
the minorities should utter words that inspired confidence in them, the KNM
leaders added.
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South Asia
Taliban willing to send Afghan troops to India for
training: Mullah Yaqoob
By News Desk
June 05, 2022
KABUL: Afghanistan’s all-powerful Defence Minister
Mullah Yaqub, son of Taliban founder Mullah Omar, has expressed his willingness
to send Afghan army personnel to India for military training, saying they
“don’t have any issue with it”.
Source: Yeni Safak
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Fire in the Forests of Nooristan Spread to the Forests
of Kunar
By Saqalain Eqbal
04 Jun 2022
On Saturday, June 6, Mawlawi Najibullah Hanif, the
Taliban’s Director of Information and Culture for Kunar province, told the
media that fires in the Dikal area of Chape Dara district had started two days
ago and that efforts were being made to put them out.
The fire has been burning for more than ten days in
the Nurgram district of Nooristan
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The Taliban Sends A Delegation to Doha
By Saqalain Eqbal
04 Jun 2022
The delegation traveled to Doha, Qatar’s capital, for
a number of important events, according to a tweet from Bakhtar News Agency on
Saturday, 6th June.
The news agency did not provide any additional
information about the trip, but it appears
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Fire, explosion at Ctg depot: Death toll now 19
Star Digital Report
Jun 5, 2022
The death toll in the fire and subsequent explosions
at BM Container Depot in Sitakunda upazila of Chattogram has gone up to 19
while hundreds of people, including police and fire service personnel sustained
burn injuries in the incident.
Chattogram Divisional Commissioner Ashraf Uddin
confirmed the development to The Daily Star from the spot.
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Arab World
Saudi space agency training program ready for liftoff
SPA
June 04, 2022
RIYADH: The Saudi Space Commission will launch a major
training initiative aimed at new graduates seeking careers in the space sector.
As part of the Madar program, theoretical and
practical courses will be offered to 1,000 male and female trainees from various
scientific specialties.
SSC Chairman Abdullah Al-Swaha recently held talks
with heads of US space companies on the exchange of expertise and technologies,
as well as enhancing joint capabilities in the sector.
Source: Arab News
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Nobel laureates glimpse KSA efforts to save ‘cultural
treasures’
DEEMA AL-KHUDAIR
June 04, 2022
ALULA: Protecting humanity’s common heritage is more
critical than ever, as conflicts threaten historical sites and an obsession
with economic growth endangers ecosystems, a conference of global intellectual
leaders in AlUla has been told.
Issues of identity and the disruption facing
communities through rapid change were highlighted in a panel discussion titled
“Safeguarding Our Civilization: How to Prevent the Erosion of Our Common
Heritage” at the Hegra Conference of Nobel Laureates and Friends 2022 on
Saturday.
Source: Arab News
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President Sisi orders drafting personal status law for
Muslims
Egypt Independent
June 4, 2022
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi met with
Minister of Justice Omar Marawan on Saturday, and discussed following up on the
ministry’s efforts regarding the drafting of a personal status law according to
presidential spokesperson Bassam Rady.
Sisi ordered the formation of a committee of legal and
judicial expertise specialized in family cases and courts, in order to prepare
a draft personal status law for Muslims.
Source: Egyptin Dependent
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Saudi Arabia welcomes first foreign Hajj pilgrims
since COVID-19 pandemic hit
ARAB NEWS
June 04, 2022
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia welcomed foreign Hajj pilgrims to
Islam’s second holiest city on Saturday, the first since the COVID-19 pandemic
hit the country.
The pilgrims, who arrived at Prince Mohammed bin
Abdulaziz International Airport in Madinah from Indonesia, were presented
flowers, dates and Zamzam water bottles upon arrival.
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Africa
There were turbulences before I became OAU VC – Ogunbodede
By Musliudeen Adebayo
June 4, 2022
The outgoing Vice Chancellor of Obafemi Awolowo
University (OAU) Ile-Ife, Professor Eyitope Ogungbenro Ogunbodede, has revealed
that there were a lot of turbulences before he assumed office of the Vice Chancellor.
Ogunbodede made this revelation while speaking during
the commissioning of agricultural value addition and entrepreneurship centre
and send forth programme organised in his honour at Institute Agricultural
Research and Training (IAR&T) Ibadan.
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North America
From domestic terrorism, Khalistani US groups have
evolved to political manipulation
Jun 05 2022
New York, Jun 5 (IANS): In the mid-1980s Khalistanis
brazenly set up a terrorist training camp in the US and cooked up an elaborate
plot to assassinate Rajiv Gandhi and Bhajan Lal, who was then the Haryana chief
minister, when they visited the country.
But in 1985 just before Gandhi's visit, the Federal
Bureau of Investigation (FBI) busted the plotters, who had sought the help of a
decorated former US Navy urban guerilla warfare expert.
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UN: As the Weather Warms, ISIS and the Resistance
Front Increase Their Attacks on the Taliban
By Saqalain Eqbal
04 Jun 2022
According to the report, ISIS and “guerrilla attacks
by former Afghan government security personnel,” have been the major threats to
the Taliban. Citing the Taliban’s tight
ties to the fanatical al-Qaeda organisation, the report furhter states that
al-Qaeda could not carry out international attacks and operations by 2023,
“with or without the Taliban support.”
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McDonald’s restaurant accused of intentionally serving
bacon to Muslim family
By Associated Press
June 2, 2022
BOSTON — Workers at a McDonald’s restaurant in
Massachusetts intentionally put bacon on a fish sandwich that a Muslim woman
had ordered for one of her children, a civil rights organization said
Wednesday.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations filed a
discrimination complaint on the woman’s behalf with the Massachusetts
Commission Against Discrimination.
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India
Muslim clerics, civil society in Kashmir Valley
condemn killings of minority members
Peerzada Ashiq
JUNE 05, 2022
Top religious leaders in the Kashmir Valley, including
the grand mufti, on Saturday condemned the targeted attacks on members of the
minority communities in the Valley.
Shia cleric Aga Syed Hassan Mosavi, president of the
J&K Anjuman-e-Sharie Shian, denounced the killing of minorities, especially
teachers.
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Mosque Committee Chairman Booked For Allegedly
Threatening Lawyer In UP: Police
04 JUN 2022
The Agra police have booked the chairman of Shahi Jama
Masjid's management committee here over a purported audio clip in which he
allegedly threatens a lawyer who claimed that expensive idols taken from a
temple were buried under the mosque premises.
Mathura-based lawyer Mahendra Pratap Singh had
recently sent notices to the Archaeological Survey of India and the Centre
claiming that the idols of Keshav Dev temple in his district were buried under
the staircase of Sahiba Begum Masjid in Agra's Shahi Jama Masjid complex by
Mughal emperor Aurangzeb when he allegedly destroyed the temple in 1670 and
sought their recovery.
Source: Outlook India
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Hindu Activists Defy Prohibitory Orders, Recite
Hanuman Chalisa Near Karnataka Mosque
04 JUN 2022
In defiance of prohibitory orders and amid heightened
security arrangements, a large number of right-wing Hindu activists took out a
motorcycle rally in Srirangapatna town in Karnataka's Mandya district and
recited Hanuman Chalisa and Ram Bhajan at a temple near the town's Jamia
Mosque.
The right-wing organisations have demanded that the
mosque should be returned to Hindus, alleging it was a Hanuman temple razed by
the 18th century ruler Tipu Sultan. The activists were responding to Vishva
Hindu Parishad's (VHP) 'Srirangapatna Chalo' campaign.
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29 arrests over Kanpur violence, 9 other cases pending
against key accused
Santosh Sharma
June 5, 2022
Kanpur Police have arrested a total of 29 people
involved in the violence that erupted in the city’s Parade Chowk area on
Friday, June 3. The local Muslim leader, Hayat Zafar Hashmi, was identified by
the police as the main conspirator behind the violence.
Police said Hayat Zafar Hashmi, who is the national
president of the Maulana Muhammad Jauhar Ali Fans Association, called for the
market shutdown to protest the remarks made about Prophet Mohammed by BJP
spokesperson Nupur Sharma during a TV news debate.
Source: India Today
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Bihar BJP chief brings up Rohingyas, Muslims in
State’s caste count
Amarnath Tewary
JUNE 04, 2022
Days after the Bihar Cabinet approved a caste count in
Bihar, Sanjay Jaiswal, State chief of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), a part
of the ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA), flagged two issues over it.
He said the caste count should ensure Rohingyas and “people from Bangladesh”
should not undertake the exercise as a “cover for fake citizenship”, and 27%
reservation for Other Backward Class (OBC) should not be compromised as a large
section of the Muslim population in the Seemanchal (border) areas of Bihar come
from the forward castes but avail OBC reservation.
When asked about the issues Mr. Jaiswal had raised,
Chief Minister Nitish Kumar responded curtly with, “ Pata nahin (I’m not
aware)”, and walked away.
Source: The Hindu
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Claim over mosque: Police thwart VHP’s ‘Srirangapatna
Chalo’ programme
The Hindu Bureau
JUNE 04, 2022
The ‘Srirangapatna Chalo’ programme of the Vishwa
Hindu Parishad (VHP) and other Hindutva groups to lay siege to the 18 th
century mosque in the island town and perform puja was thwarted by the Mandya
district authorities on May 4.
While a prohibitory order under Section 144 was in
force since June 3 evening, the police had posted personnel in Srirangapatna,
and the road leading to the mosque was out of bounds for the general public,
forcing the activists to stage an agitation on the outskirts of the town. Roads
within the town were barricaded and a large posse of police personnel were
omnipresent.
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Nitish Kumar silent on BJP’s Rohingya, Bangladeshi
Muslim clause for Bihar caste count
Rohit Kumar Singh
June 4, 2022
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar appears to be on the
back foot after the BJP raised objections to head counting of Rohingya and
Bangladeshi Muslims, who are staying illegally in the state, in the proposed
caste-based census.
The Bihar CM on Saturday maintained a stark silence
when journalists questioned him regarding BJP state president Sanjay Jaiswal's
objection to head counting of Rohingya and Bangladeshi Muslims staying
illegally in Bihar when caste-based survey will start in the state.
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Hindu group recognises ‘Shivling’ in Gyanvapi mosque,
begins performing rituals in Lucknow
The Hindu Bureau
JUNE 04, 2022
With the Gyanvapi Mosque-Kashi Vishwanath Temple dispute
pending in Varanasi court, the plaintiffs in the suit, under the banner of the
Hindu Samrajya Parishad, on Friday officially recognised the alleged discovery
of a ‘Shivling’ inside the mosque premises and started worshipping it,
organising a religious event in Lucknow to mark the occasion.
Advocate Ranjana Agnihotri, one of the lawyers for the
plaintiffs in the case, said that the event began by preparing Raj Bhog and
performing other rituals that are supposed to be done when the Lord Adi
Vishweshwar has appeared before the people.
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Southeast Asia
Muslims told to accept pandemic as divine plan
June 5, 2022
Rokiah Mahmud COVID-19 has impacted people not only
economically and socially but also psychologically.
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FT minister says KL's flood mitigation plans underway,
invites critics to see progress
By Soo Wern Jun
05 Jun 2022
KUALA LUMPUR, June 5 — Federal Territories Minister
Datuk Seri Shahidan Kassim has given assurance that the government’s efforts to
tackle flash floods in the national capital are not just empty promises.
For the short term, he said the government will be pumping
water, monitoring affected areas, and placing sandbag as barriers at places
where rivers overflow.
Source: Malay Mail
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GE15: Careful planning needed to take back govt, says
Bung Moktar
05 Jun 2022
KOTA KINABALU, June 5 — Barisan Nasional (BN),
especially the coalition in Sabah, must seriously consider if it is ready for
the coming 15th general election (GE15).
Sabah BN chairman Datuk Seri Panglima Bung Moktar
Radin stressed that several factors and aspects must be looked into and
consider as the coalition prepares for the election.
Source: Malay Mail
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Warisan polls: Shafie Apdal open to leadership
challenge
04 Jun 2022
KOTA KINABALU, June 4 — Parti Warisan (Warisan)
president Datuk Seri Mohd Shafie Apdal has expressed his openness to any
challenge for his position during the party elections at the 2022 Warisan
Annual General Meeting scheduled for August.
The Semporna MP said the party practises democratic
principles, meaning that all leaders at every level, including himself, can be
challenged in party elections.
Source: Malay Mail
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Mideast
Iran Supreme Leader Says 'Enemy' Triggering Unrest To
Weaken Islamic Republic
June 04, 2022
Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has
accused the "enemy”-- a reference mainly to the United States -- of
seeking to use protests to destabilize the Islamic Republic.
"Today the enemy counts on popular demonstrations
to strike the Islamic system," Khamenei said in a speech on the
anniversary of the death of the late founder of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah
Ruhollah Khomeini on June 4.
Source: En.Irna
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Leader: ‘Naïve’ foes suffer from illusion that
Iranians have lost faith in Islamic Republic system
June 5, 2022
Ayatollah Khamenei made the remarks in a ceremony
marking the 33rd anniversary of the demise of Imam Khomeini, founder of the
Islamic Republic system.
The Leader said the people’s “belief and interest in
the Islamic Revolution and the religion has grown even more than the first
day,” citing the huge funeral procession for legendary anti-terror commander
Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani in January 2020 as a concrete example.
Source: Tehran Times
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Palestinian official: Imam Khomeini made Palestine
axis of Islamic unity
Jun 4, 2022
Al-Majid explained that those efforts included the
handover of the Israeli embassy in Tehran to Palestinians and the designation
of the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan as International Quds Day,
after the victory of the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran.
“Putting such emphasis on the Palestinian issue, since
the beginning of the Islamic Revolution victory, has been the main reason
behind the empowering of Palestine, and that happened while some Arab countries
were normalizing relations with occupiers,” he told IRNA on Saturday.
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Iran Marks Demise Anniversary of Imam Khomeini
June, 04, 2022
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iran held commemorative events on
Saturday to pay tribute to the late founder of the Islamic Republic, Imam
Khomeini, on the 33rd anniversary of the popular leader’s demise.
The main commemorative ceremony was held at the
mausoleum of Imam Khomeini in southern Tehran. It was addressed by Leader of
the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei.
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Islamic Development Bank focuses on food supply, green
investments: Turkish FinMin
04 JUNE 2022
The Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) Group works to
eliminate problems in the food supply and boost green investments, Turkey's
treasury and finance minister has said.
Nureddin Nebati noted at the group's annual meeting in
Egypt that almost half of the bank's members are from low-income countries and
that the bank is taking steps to meet their needs.
Source: Yeni Safak
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Europe
Public booed Boris Johnson because they are fed up of
his Government – Starmer
By Patrick Daly
05-06-2022
Boris Johnson was jeered by the public during Platinum
Jubilee celebrations because they are “fed up” with the Conservative Government,
according to his political rival.
The Prime Minister was booed by some in the crowd as
he arrived with his wife, Carrie Johnson, to attend the National Service of
Thanksgiving for the Queen at St Paul’s Cathedral on Friday.
Source: Standard
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Russian accused of killing Alexander Litvinenko
reportedly dies from Covid-19
By Pa Reporters
05-06-2022
One of the men accused of killing former Russian spy
Alexander Litvinenko in London has died of Covid-19 in Moscow, it has been
widely reported.
Dmitri Kovtun was one of two men who a UK inquiry
ruled had poisoned Mr Litvinenko’s tea with a rare radioactive substance in
2006.
Source: Standard
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London's Trafalgar Square evacuated due to suspicious
vehicle, police conduct 'controlled explosion'
By Timothy H.J. Nerozzi
05-06-2022
Local authorities received reports of a vehicle parked
near Trafalgar Square. The area is scheduled to host a slew of visitors
Saturday for the celebration of Queen Elizabeth's Platinum Jubilee.
"Officers are currently at Trafalgar Square,
where they have evacuated the scene," police wrote on social media.
"Please do not travel to the area."
Source: Standard
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Rapper Hypo stabbed to death in London at Jubilee
party - as Met Police appeal for people who filmed it
Anna Fox
04 June 2022
Rapper Hypo has been stabbed to death at a Jubilee
party in Woodford Green, the Metropolitan Police have confirmed.
Paramedics attended a party at an address in Chigwell
Road just after midnight, after a fight reportedly broke out.
Source: Standard
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Silent protest held against ‘provocative’ film
By Shuiab Khan
4th June,2022
British made, The Lady of Heaven is directed by Eli
King and written by cleric Yasser Al-Habib. Filming began in 2019 and the
production was delayed due to the Covid pandemic.
It has now been released nationwide including towns
with high Muslim populations such as Blackburn, Bradford and Manchester through
mainstream cinema chains such as Vue, Cineworld and Showcase.
Source: Asian Image
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Pakistan
Refusing assent, president returns election, NAB bills
Amir Wasim
June 5, 2022
ISLAMABAD: Continuing to create hurdles for the
coalition government of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, President Dr Arif Alvi
on Saturday refused to assent to the bills recently passed by the two houses of
parliament, seeking amendments to the accountability and election laws, and
returned the two pieces of legislation to the government for “consideration and
detailed deliberations” by parliament and its committees.
The president, who belongs to the former ruling party
Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI), has returned the two crucial bills using his
powers under Article 75(1) of the Constitution, according to an official
handout issued by the President’s Office.
Source: Dawn
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PTI moves court to get money spent on govt ads
recovered
Ikram Junaidi
June 5, 2022
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) on
Saturday approached the Islamabad High Court (IHC) with the request to recover
public money the current government spent on expensive and “agenda-specific”
advertisements and deposit it in the treasury.
The PTI has requested the court to declare the
advertisements given by the government illegal and unconstitutional as it
negated the decision of the Supreme Court.
Source: Dawn
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Ali Zaidi wants Sindh LG polls after delimitation
Staff Reporter
June 5, 2022
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) leader from
Karachi Ali Haider Zaidi petitioned the Supreme Court on Saturday to set aside
the Election Commission of Pakistan’s (ECP) decision to hold the first phase of
local government elections on June 26 in 14 districts of Sindh.
The petition pleaded that the elections could not be
scheduled by the ECP and balloting could not occur until constituencies’
delimitation.
Source: Dawn
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Authorities scramble to avert disaster as fires ravage
KP districts
Umar Bacha
June 5, 2022
SHANGLA: Four members of a family were reported killed
and another injured as wildfire ravaged five districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on
Saturday.
The provincial forest department, Rescue 1122, civil
defense and local volunteers had launched rescue efforts and mobilised
firefighting teams trying to protect forestland in affected areas.
Source: Dawn
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Indus annually delivers 10,000 tonnes of
macro-plastics to Arabian Sea: WB
Amin Ahmed
June 5, 2022
ISLAMABAD: The River Indus delivers around 10,000
tonnes of macro-plastics to the Arabian Sea each year, according to a World
Bank survey made available on Saturday.
The survey, titled ‘Plastic Waste: A Journey Down the
Indus River Basin in Pakistan’, is a first-of-its-kind field study undertaken
along the Indus river basin to quantify the amount of waste, particularly
plastics, leaking into the river system.
Source: Dawn
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PTA at odds with ISPs over domain policy
Kalbe Ali
June 5, 2022
ISLAMABAD: Serious differences have cropped up between
the telecom sector regulator and internet service providers (ISPs) as the
former wants to implement the central DNS (Domain Name System) while the latter
are concerned that the move will make the internet speed slow and its rate
costly.
The DNS is a coded system consisting of 12 digits used
to identify internet protocol addresses, which translates them into letters to
identify a website.
Source: Dawn
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