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Class 12 topper Aroosa Parvaiz targeted by trolls, issued death threats for not wearing hijab: Kashmir

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Aroosa Parvaiz.(photo:Twitter)

When Aroosa Parvaiz topped this year’s 10+2 board exams, never in her wildest dream did she imagine that her hard-earned success would be followed by toxic trolls. The J&K board of school education declared the results for 10+2 exams on February 8.

Aroosa topped the science stream with 499 marks out of 500. Congratulatory messages started pouring in on social media but her family’s happiness did not last long. “Bitter trolls started appearing on the social media. I could not understand why the same society trolled me on the one hand and felt proud of me on the other”, Aroosa said.

The moral policemen of Kashmir had seen her picture sans a hijab on the social media. That set the fireball rolling. While the majority of these toxic trolls cursed the girl and her family for the absence of hijab, some even went to the extent of seeking her murder.

“Begairat… Pardah nai Kia … Eski gardan Katt do (She is shameless. She has not covered herself, she should be beheaded)”, said one of the bitter, brutal and toxic trolls.

“My religion, my hijab and my Allah are my personal issues. What I should wear or not should not bother people if they believe in the greatness of my religion. These comments do not matter to me, but my parents are undergoing a trauma”, Aroosa told some reporters.

Even though some locals condemned the threats and trolling, they did not unequivocally support Aroosa’s right to not wear the hijab.

“She is our daughter and she has done us proud….If she had to be educated on hijab, that can be done as a father or brother’s advice. Never by trying to stoke violence against her”, said Ghulam Rasool, a teacher.

Some Islamic scholars while condemning the “online, groundless fatwas”, stopped short of commenting on the root issue – is hijab/niqab/burqa for girls and women mandatory as per Islam, or is there truly a choice to reject any such religious clothing, as some left-liberal supporters of “right to wear hijab in school” movement are telling us.

Mufti Azmatullah of Darul Uloom Rahimia in Bandipora district told a local newspaper, “Islam does not permit trolling or issuing fatwas on social media. Islam does not allow anyone to give violent lessons”.

Some people did demanded punishment of those trolling the poor girl for her success. “We have a very competent cyber police station in the city. I am sure the trollers must have been traced and booked by now”, hoped a neighbour of Aroosa.

Past acid attack on minor girl student who didn’t wear hijab/veil

In 2001, a terror outfit Lashkar-e-Jabbar after carrying out an acid attack on a 14-year-old student issued a diktat that all women in Kashmir must wear a veil. The attack was carried out by four youths who were believed to be indoctrinated by the outfit for carrying out such heinous acts in the name of religion.

Lashkar-e-Jabbar carried out a series of acid attacks in the Valley in the end of 2001 to ensure that edicts issued by the outfit are followed by women in letter and spirit. In some cases activists of now banned women terror group Dukhtaran-e-Millat (Daughters of the faith) founded by Asiya Andrabi, a self-described “Islamic feminist”, were also accused of throwing acid on females who refused to follow the diktats issued by the Lashkar-e-Jabbar.

The tactics used by the militants to stifle the fairer sex have also been used by the disgruntled roadside Romeos to settle scores with the women, who dared to say no to them. And unfortunately, acid attacks have become a part of the Kashmir society, thanks to Pakistan and its stooges in the Valley.

Recently, a 24-year old female was attacked with acid in Srinagar’s old city by a jilted suitor who had been stalking her. Sajid Altaf Rather has been arrested along with his two accomplices. The victim has been admitted to Shri Maharaja Hari Singh ( SMHS) hospital but is likely to be moved to Chennai for specialized treatment as she has lost her eyesight.

Now, Islamist outfits like PFI (centered in Kerala but with tentacles all over Bharat) and Jamaat-e-Islami Hind (founded in pre-partition Hyderabad state by notorious Islamist ideologue Maududi) are emulating their fundamentalist Pakistani counterparts and are driving the movement for hijab/face veil in Karnataka govt. schools.

Women in many Muslim countries like Iran have struggled long and hard for the right to reject clothing like hijab/niqab/burqa which clerics say are meant to ‘protect’ women from the male gaze. Although fundamentalists quote hadith (Islamic scripture) to say that such head/body covering garments are necessary from menstruating age, some recommend hijab for even younger girls (as young as 4-year-olds) arguing that it allows them to ‘get used to it’.

(With IANS inputs)

हिजाब आन्दोलन का असली रूप अर्थात हिन्दुओं के प्रति घृणा अब सामने आने लगा है?

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जैसे जैसे इस कथित हिजाब आन्दोलन का विस्तार होता जा रहा है, इसका असली रूप सामने आता जा रहा है। हर आन्दोलन की तरह यह भी अंतत: हिन्दुओं के खिलाफ ही जा रहा है। रोहित वेमुला की आत्महत्या को भुनाने से लेकर अब हिजाब आन्दोलन तक, उद्देश्य एक ही है, किसी भी प्रकार से सरकार की अंतर्राष्ट्रीय छवि पर प्रभाव डालना। इस सरकार के बहाने हिन्दुओं को निशाना बनाया जा रहा है, क्योंकि इस सरकार के बनने में हिन्दुओं का ही सबसे बड़ा योगदान है, इसलिए बार बार हिन्दुओं पर हमला किया जा रहा है। मध्य प्रदेश के उज्जैन में आपत्तिजनक पोस्टर और हिन्दुओं को नीचा दिखाते हुए पोस्टर लगे पाए गए हैं!

यद्यपि अभी इस मामले की जाँच की जा रही है, पुलिस अभी इसकी जांच कर रही है कि आखिर यह पोस्टर किसने लगाए हैं, फिर भी यह पोस्टर भड़काऊ हैं और हिन्दू धर्म के प्रति घृणा से भरे हुए है!

हिजाब को ऐसा कहकर प्रस्तुत किया जा रहा है जैसे वह औरतों की इज्जत के लिए जरूरी है, और जिन कबीलाई लोगों का पूरा का पूरा विमर्श ही शरीर को लेकर है, और जिस सोच वाले आदमी शरीर ढकने को ही हया मानते हैं और रामायण का मनचाहा उल्लेख कर रहे हैं। उनके अनुसार लक्ष्मण द्वारा सीता जी का चेहरा न देखा जाना, इस बात को इंगित करता है कि सीता जी ने पर्दा किया हुआ था।

जबकि लक्ष्मण जी कहते हैं कि “मैं सीता जी के बाजूबंद और कुण्डलों को नहीं पहचानता हूँ परन्तु मैं उनके बिछुओं को अवश्य पहचानता हूँ क्योंकि चरणवंदना के समय मैं इन्हें नित्य देखा करता था।”

इन शब्दों पर ध्यान दिया जाए कि जिस प्रसंग की यह लोग बार बार दुहाई दे रहे हैं और यह कह रहे हैं कि सीतामाता पर्दा करती थीं, तो लक्ष्मण यह कह रहे हैं कि वह चरणवंदन करते थे, अर्थात पूजा करते थे अर्थात पूज्य मानते थे, इसलिए उन्होंने चरणों में ही स्वर्ग खोजा क्योंकि माँ के चरणों में ही स्वर्ग कहा गया है।

माता सीता सहित तीनों बहनों के विवाह के अवसर पर भी किसी भी प्रकार के पर्दे का उल्लेख नहीं है। यहाँ तक कि महर्षि वाल्मीकि की रामायण में अयोध्या नगरी के वर्णन में ही स्त्रियों के लिए नाट्यशालाओं एवं क्रीडागृहों का उल्लेख है। फिर यह पर्दे जैसी बात कहाँ से आई? यदि लक्ष्मण ने मात्र बिछुए देखे थे, तो लक्ष्मण ने मर्यादा का पालन किया था, सीता माता ने पर्दा नहीं किया था।

खैर, अब आते हैं, इस्लाम क्या कहता है। इस्लाम में पर्दे को लेकर क्या कहा गया है? क्या यह आदर के वशीभूत होकर कहा गया है या आदमियों पर चूंकि उन्हें विश्वास नहीं है, इसलिए उन्होंने लड़की को परदे में कैद कर दिया है।

पर्दा प्रथा के उद्गम के विषय में britannica क्या कहती है, यह देखिये

इसके अनुसार पर्दा प्रथा मुस्लिमों के साथ भारत में आई और बाद में इसे कई हिन्दुओं द्वारा अपना लिया गया और इसमें खुद के शरीर को छिपाना शामिल है, और जिसमें घर के भीतर के बड़े बड़े पर्दों, स्क्रीन और ऊंची ऊंची दीवारों के माध्यम से खुद को बाहरी जनता की निगाहों से बचाना है।

इस्लाम के अनुसार औरत को हर उस मर्द से पर्दा करना है, जिसके साथ उसका निकाह जायज है। अर्थात

औरत का अपने मह्रम मर्दों के सामने पर्दा उतारना जायज़ है।

औरत का मह्रम वह व्यक्ति है जिसके लिए उस औरत से किसी रिश्तेदारी, या स्तनपान या ससुराली संबंध के कारण हमेशा के लिए निकाह करना जायज़ नहीं है। रिश्तेदारी के कारण (जैसे पिता तथा उससे ऊपर के लोग, पुत्र तथा उस से नीचे की पीढ़ी, चाचा, मामा, भाई, भतीजा और भांजा) रज़ाअत (स्तनपान) के कारण (जैसे रज़ाई भाई और दूध पिलाने वाली औरता का पति) या फिर ससुराली रिश्ते की बिना पर (जैसे माँ का पति, पति का पिता तथा उस से ऊपर की पीढ़ी, और पति का पुत्र तथा उससे नीचे के लोग)।

इसके अतिरिक्त है

‘‘और अपना श्रृंगार किसी पर ज़ाहिर न करें सिवाय अपने पतियों के या अपने बापों के या अपने पतियों के बापों के या अपने बेटों के या अपने पतियों के बेटों के या अपने भाइयों के या अपने भतीजों के या अपने भांजों के । ।’’ (सूरतुन्नूर : 31)।

वहीं हाल ही में सपा के नेता अबू आजमी ने तो यहाँ तक कह दिया था कि बेटी के साथ भी अकेले नहीं रहना चाहिए! अबू आज़मी जहाँ पहले बलात्कार के लिए भी लड़की को ही दोषी ठहरा चुके थे, तो वहीं उन्होंने अभी कहा था कि. अकेले में आदमी को अपनी बेटी के साथ भी नहीं रहना चाहिए

उन्होंने कहा था कि “अगर बेटी या बहन घर पर अकेली है, तो शैतान आपकी आत्माओं पर कब्जा कर सकता है। आजमी ने कहा कि, ‘आजकल चचेरे भाई या पिता द्वारा रेप की घटना (Rape Cases) आम हो गई है। ऐसे कई बलात्कार के मामले देखने को मिल रहे हैं।’ उन्होंने कहा कि ऐसे उपाय हमारे पुरखों ने भी बताए हैं!

यही उपाय हमें इतिहास में मुस्लिम परम्परा में मिलते हैं, द प्राइवेट लाइफ ऑफ द मुगल्स ऑफ इंडिया में मुगलों के हरम के विषय में लिखा गया है, आर नाथ ने लिखा है कि कुरआन में औरतों को बाहरी संसार से अलग हटकर पर्दे में रखने की वकालत की गयी है और यह कुलीन मुस्लिम औरतों के लिए नियम है कि वह घर पर एकांत में रहें, बिना परदे के अकेले सफ़र न करें, न ही उन आदमियों के साथ बात करें जो उनके पति नहीं हैं और जिनके साथ उनका निकाह जायज है।

द प्राइवेट लाइफ ऑफ द मुगल्स ऑफ इंडिया

इसमें लिखा है कि मुगल हरम में कई क्षेत्रों की औरतें शामिल थीं और वह कई सांस्कृतिक पृष्ठभूमियों की थीं, अलग अलग भाषा बोलती थीं, उन्हें एक ऐसी दुनिया में रखा जाता था, जो चारदीवारियों से घिरी थी और बाहरी दुनिया से जिसका सम्पर्क नहीं था।

“केवल और केवल बादशाह ही एकमात्र आदमी होता था, जो इन औरतों के हरम में जा सकता था”

और यह कहावत वहीं से शुरू हुई कि औरत आएगी तो पालकी में, पर जाएगी जनाज़े पर!

जब बादशाह अपने हरम के साथ कहीं जाते भी थे, तो भी औरतें पालकी में होती थीं और जहाँ उनका टेंट लगता था, वहां पर भी बड़े बड़े परदे होते थे।।

शरीफ औरतों का काम कनीजें करती थीं और कनीजों को भी आदमियों से बात करने की अनुमति नहीं थी, कनीजें उन हिजड़ों के साथ काम करती थीं, जिन्हें हरम के काम के लिए नियुक्त किया जाता था।

हिजड़ों को हरम के बाहर नियुक्त किया जाता था और उन्हें भी हरम के भीतर आने की इजाजत नहीं थी। उन्हें भी बेगमों से बात करने की अनुमति नहीं थी।

अर्थात कथित हया के नाम पर शरीफ औरतों को बाहरी दुनिया से काटकर रखा जाता था।

जो लोग कथित हिजाब आन्दोलन को लेकर आज हिन्दुओं पर हमला कर रहे हैं, वह इस तथ्य को देखें कि हरम की सुरक्षा के लिए केवल राजपूतों पर ही अकबर ने विश्वास किया था। क्योंकि हिन्दू जानते थे कि स्त्री का आदर कैसे किया जाता था।

तो शरीफ औरतों की सुरक्षा का भार राजपूतों पर था,

और हिजड़ों पर। इसमें लिखा है कि दो या तीन हिजड़े जो अपने मालिक के ही वफादार होते थे, उन्हें हर बीवी के लिए नियुक्त किया जाता था, जो यह सुनिश्चित करें कि उस औरत को उसके शौहर के अलावा कोई न देखे! यदि कोई हिजड़ा ऐसा करने में विफल रहता था तो दंड के रूप में उसकी जान भी ली जा सकती थी।

यहाँ तक कि बादशाह की कभी हमबिस्तर हुई कनीज भी किसी गैर आदमी से बात नहीं कर सकती थी, एक बार जहाँगीर ने नूरजहाँ की एक कनीज केवल इसलिए तीन दिनों तक बांधकर एक गड्ढे में धूप में रखा था क्योंकि उसने एक हिजड़े को चुम्बन कर लिया था। यह आदेश दिया गया था कि उस औरत को एक गड्ढे में बांहों तक गाढ़ कर रखा जाए, और तीन दिनों तक उसे भूखा प्यासा रखा जाए, अगर वह तीन दिनों तक जिंदा रह जाती है तो उसे माफी मिलेगी” मगर वह डेढ़ ही दिनों में मर गयी थी। और मरने से पहले वह “ओह मेरा सिर, ओह मेरा सिर” चीखती रही थी।

वह जहाँगीर की रखैल भी रह चुकी थी, मगर चूंकि अब उसकी उम्र तीस से अधिक हो गयी थी तो वह दूसरे कामों में लग गयी थी। और उसका अपराध यही था कि उसने एक हिजड़े का चुम्बन ले लिया था। यह घटना नूरजहाँ एम्प्रेस ऑफ मुग़ल इंडिया में एलिसन बैंक्स फ़िडली ने लिखी है

परदे को इस्लाम में कितना महिमामंडित किया है और शराफत का पर्याय मान लिया गया है, वह इस शेर से पता चलता है:

“बेपर्दा नज़र आयीं जो कल चन्द बीबियां

  अकबर ज़मीं में ग़ैरत-ए-क़ौमी से गड़ गया

  पूछा जो आप का पर्दा वह क्या हुआ

  कहने लगीं के अक़्ल के मर्दों पे पड़ गया”

भारत में पसमांदा अर्थात देशज मुस्लिमों का एक बड़ा स्वर है डॉ फैयाज़ का, जो कट्टरपंथी इस्लाम का विरोध कर रहे हैं और इस्लाम में व्याप्त असमानताओं पर प्रश्न उठा रहे हैं। उन्होंने इस बात को विस्तार से समझाया है कि इस्लाम में दरअसल पर्दा केवल और केवल उच्च जाति की मुस्लिम औरतों को ही पहनने का अधिकार था क्योंकि उनके अनुसार वह हयादार होती हैं और उन्हीं की इज्जत होती है!

वह विस्तार से समझाते हुए लिखते हैं:

बीबी= उच्च वर्ग की मुस्लिम औरतों को ही बीबी कहा जाता है।

क़ौम = उच्च वर्ग के मुस्लिम समाज के लिए बोला जाने वाला शब्द, उस लफ्ज़ का इस्तेमाल कभी भी इस्लाम और आम मुस्लिमों के लिए नहीं होता था।

पश-ए-मन्ज़र(पृष्ठभूमि):-

जब सामाजिक सुधारों के फलस्वरूप अशराफ(मुस्लिम उच्च वर्ग) की बीबियाँ घरो से बाहर निकल के शिक्षा हासिल करने लगीं तब इस बात से अकबर इलाहाबादी को बहुत कष्ट हुआ और वो अपनी क़ौम को शर्म दिलाते हुए इसका विरोध अपने व्यंगात्मक अंदाज़ में कुछ यूँ किया।

अब आप के दिल में ये ख्याल आ रहा होगा कि अकबर इलाहाबादी को सारे मुस्लिमों की औरतों को बे-पर्दा होने का मलाल था। तो जनाब आप ये जान लें कि उस वक़्त पसमांदा (पिछड़े, दलित और आदिवासी) मुस्लिमों की औरतें तो पहले से ही बेपर्दा थीं और अपने रोज़ी रोटी के लिए अशराफ के घरों, गली मोहल्लों और बाज़ारों में आया जाया करती थीं। हज़रत को तो सिर्फ बीबियों के बेपर्दा होने की फ़िक़्र थी।

हालांकि यह अब राजनीतिक रूप ले चुका है और कर्नाटक से उठी हुई यह आग एक बार फिर से हिन्दुओं को ही जलाने के लिए उतारू है, जिसमें कांग्रेसी इकोसिस्टम है, पीएफआई  है और वामपंथी फेमिनिस्ट हैं, जो मुस्लिम औरतो को हरम के उस अँधेरे में धकेलने के लिए एड़ी चोटी का जोर लगा रही हैं, जिनसे अभी भी वह बाहर नहीं निकल पाई हैं! ऐसे में कथित आजादी की बात करने वाली फेमिनिस्ट इसी पिछड़ेपन के साथ जाकर खड़ी हो गयी हैं, यह अवश्य ध्यान रखियेगा!

West Bengal: CBI arrests 9, including 2 women, in Jhargram for BJP worker Tarak Sau’s murder

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Source: economictimes.

Nine supporters and activists of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) have been arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation from West Bengal’s Jhargram district on Friday, February 4, for the murder of BJP worker Tarak Sau. They were detained for questioning and then taken to court.

Among the detainees is former deputy chief of Netura village Swapan Pariya, a Trinamool booth president Shailen Giri, and residents of Aguibani village Vijay Patar and Utpal Naik. Other names linked with this crime are the wife of deceased Trinamool activist Durga Saran, his brother Peon Saran, Vikram Saran and Peon’s wife Soujmani Saran.

The murder took place on March 21 last year, during a clash between TMC and the BJP and Trinamool activists in Netura village.  During the initial investigation, the police detained some BJP workers. Injured BJP activist Tarak Sau was moved to Odisha (it is not clear if TMC administration denied him treatment in WB or Tarak’s family felt safer treating him out of state) but he passed away on March 25.

Later the investigation was taken over by the CBI which led to the arrest of these nine people. The two women detainees are from Aguibani village. In August 2021, after first giving a clean chit to the TMC regime, sheer weight of evidence forced a five-judge bench of the Calcutta High Court to finally order a CBI to probe into all the serious WB post-poll cases like murder and rape based on hundreds of complaints that the ruling party had rubbished as ‘biased and concocted’. The CBI had formed multiple teams for the investigations; each comprising superintendents from Delhi, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka and other states and deputy inspector generals and headed by a joint director. The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) has been providing security for these officials.

“The CBI is investigating and the correct information will come up in the court,” said former BJP district president Sukhmoy Satpati.

The CBI has also announced a cash award of ₹50,000 each for any leads on two women wanted for the murder of Shova Majumdar, the 85-year-old mother of BJP worker Gopal Majumdar and late resident of Nimta in North 24 Parganas district. The octogenarian and her son were assaulted after midnight at their home in February last year by TMC workers, in the run up to the WB assembly elections. The senior citizen’s swollen up face had gone viral at the time, shocking citizens across the nation at the brutality of the TMC regime.

BJP worker and her mother
Shova Majumdar and her son Gopal were assaulted by TMC workers in Feb 2021, leading the lady’s death a month later

Shova ji succumbed to her injuries a month later, on March 29.

In other news, WB Law minister Moloy Ghatak has also been summoned by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for interrogation in the coal smuggling case.

However, state Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has suggested during an administrative meeting that the central agencies have turned ‘proactive’ considering the upcoming polls at 108 civic bodies in February. She was also upset at the CBI for summoning the notorious murder-accused TMC strongman Anubrata Mondal, Birbhum district president and a leader close to the TMC matriarch, in a post-poll violence case.

Mondal has suddenly taken ill and moved the Calcutta high court citing medical issues and was granted relief from arrest on Thursday. Justice Rajasekhar Mantha surprisingly held that the CBI could take no strict action against the TMC leader without the court’s consent, while also directing him to appear before the investigative agency for interrogation.

Will border checkpoints between Bharat and Bangladesh now connect inner cities by rail?

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Connectivity at three of the integrated check posts (ICPs) along the Indian border could be enhanced through rail network. The Land Ports Authority of India (LPAI), the nodal body under the aegis of the Ministry of Home Affairs, responsible for maintaining and managing border infrastructure is looking at developing rail connectivity with three of its ICPs — Raxaul, Petrapole and Jogbani. At present, no ICP is connected by railways.

In addition to this, the LPAI is also looking at the prospect of linking a few selected ICPs with nearby waterways including that of Chattogram and Mongla seaports in Bangladesh.

ICPs, handling all regulatory issues including immigration and customs, serve as a one-stop checkpoint facilitating movements of people as well as goods. Management of these ICPs is therefore critical as Bharat looks to boost connectivity in the region.

Bharat along with its neighbours inlcuding Bangladesh and Nepal have pressed the pedal on enhancing connectivity to speed up economic recovery in the post Covid 19 pandemic phase. South Asia, esepcailly the BBIN is one of the least integrated blocs in the world.

“Multimodal transport system through road, rail and even waterways network at ICPs is important to ensure last mile connectivity of cargo to boost trade,” Bipul Chatterjee, executive director, CUTS International told India Narrative.

While nine ICPs are currently operational, many more are in the pipeline. Most of the ICPs are on the Bharat Bangladesh border.

The ICPs at Petrapole-Benapole near Kolkata and the Agartala-Akhaura (Bangladesh) are the two main points of trading points between Bharat and Bangladesh, through which cross-border movement of both people and goods takes place. Trade worth more than Rs 4-6 crore takes place every day at each of the ICPs. About 100 trucks carrying goods ply from each of these two ICPs daily.

According to an Observer Research Foundation report, the Bharat-Bangladesh land border caters to 75 per cent of the imports from and 50 per cent of the exports to Bangladesh. Of this, 30 per cent of the land based trade between the two countries take place though the Petrapole ICP.

A World Bank report published last year said that seamless transport connectivity between Bharat and Bangladesh has the potential to increase national income by as much as 17 per cent in Bangladesh and 8 per cent in Bharat.

“Multi-modal connectivity in the Eastern and North eastern part of India is important, not only because of the need for better port connectivity for India’s landlocked neighbours, Bhutan and Nepal, but also because it will further enhance the transport connectivity of the Northeast India with the rest of the country,” Aditya Mishra, Chairman, LPAI, said at a virtual event organized by CUTS International.

Analysts added that the Covid pandemic has further brought out the need for regional cooperation and boosting connectivity.

“The Covid pandemic has highlighted the need to expand regional cooperation, especially countries that share borders. It has given us a chance to revisit our regional strategy.. how effectively we fight back in the post pandemic phase will largely depend on our cooperation and even flexibility,” Nazneen Ahmed, Country Economist at United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Bangladesh told India Narrative.

(The story has been published via a syndicated feed with a modified headline and minor edits to conform to Hindu-Post style-guide.)

Bharat raises concern over hostile activities on soil of ‘ally’ UK – Khalistani separatism, Mallya extradition etc.

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Bharat and the UK on Thursday discussed various issues related to homeland security and other issues in the 4th India-UK Home Affairs Dialogue in a virtual mode.

At the dialogue, the Indian delegation, led by Union Home Secretary Ajay Kumar Bhalla, and the UK delegation, led by Permanent Secretary, Home Office, Mathew Rycroft, covered a wide range of issues including homeland security, cyber security, extradition cases, migration and mobility, etc.

During the meeting, Bharat raised concern over the anti-Bharat activities in the UK and sought action against them by the UK authorities.

According to the source, Bharat raised the issue of Sikh separatist leaders who are residing in the UK and fanning anti-Bharat activities from there.

They said that the Indian government has provided evidence against those elements and sought action against them.

It is understood that during the meeting, the extradition of fugitive businessman Vijay Mallya also figured and the UK side has updated the Bharatiya officials on this issue.

According to the Ministry of External Affairs, the proceedings for extradition of Mallya to Bharat from the UK is almost final as Mallya has exhausted all legal options in the UK and soon he will be sent back to Bharat by the UK authorities.

Bharat impressed upon the UK authorities the need to expedite the pending extradition cases.

The meeting concluded with both sides agreeing to deepen security-related bilateral engagement.

The India and the UK have been cooperating with each other in many security and other bilateral issues which range from military, maritime security in the Pacific Ocean and many more fields.

Both counties have developed mechanisms to raise cooperation in dealing with cyber crime and extradition of criminals.

(The story has been published via a syndicated feed with a modified headline and minor edits to conform to Hindu-Post style-guide.)

How India and Bharat represent two competing visions for the nation

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William Shakespeare’s line—What’s in a name? A rose will smell as sweet by any other name—begs the question. What if flowers did not smell as sweet in the perfumed garden if their names were changed?

Take the case of the word religion. Why insist on calling Hinduism as Dharma, why not just call it ‘religion’? After all, its doctrines and practices will remain the same in either case. But will they? The meanings of words may overlap without coinciding, and long shadows, rather than light, may creep in through the cracks.

Let us examine some of the consequences which flowed from describing Hinduism as a religion. The word ‘religion’ presupposes a religion that possesses a definable set of beliefs and practices, as is the case with the religions of the West. When it was found that Hinduism did not fit this criterion, it came to be defined as indefinable, leading Wilfred Cantwell Smith to make the startling statement that there are Hindus but there is no Hinduism—in this Western sense. But it did not end there.

In this quest to cast Hinduism in the mould of religion, in order for it to be reduced to a definite set of beliefs and practices, it had to be separated out from Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism, and the tribal religions. In so doing, it separated those traditions, which earlier may not have felt such a sense of separation. In a pluralist society, they were distinct rather than separate. This pluralism was now displaced by an appeal to secularism, as a way of coexistence, which is the method used by the West to handle differences among religions that are separate.

Because these ‘religions’ of the Indic tradition did not earlier possess a sense of separation, concepts of majority and minority did not enter the picture. But now, as Hinduism constituted the major chunk in this division into separate categories, it came to be considered the majority, thus reducing the others to minorities.

If the religious reality of India came to be perceived in terms of ‘religion’, its social reality came to be conceived in terms of ‘caste’. Just like religion, caste is also not an Indian word. So what happened when the social reality of India was cast as caste? This word covers two dimensions of Hindu social reality—Varna and Jati. Varna refers to the four classes of Brahmanas, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas, and Shudras (with the former untouchables belonging to the last category.) Jatis consisted of endogamous, commensal, and craft-exclusive groups, which number literally thousands. They could also appear and disappear.

In the case of the Varnas, while the hierarchy was considered fixed, people moved from one occupational class to another when changes occurred. This phenomenon has not been adequately recognised.

In the case of Jatis, however, the people remained within the Jatis that they belonged to by birth. Mobility in this case took the form of Jatis changing their occupations. One important difference between the two also pertained to hierarchy. Hierarchy among the Varnas was a stable one; not so among the Jatis. Significantly, the Hindu tradition perceived itself as a tradition characterised by the institution of Varna and not Jati. It is Jati that corresponds most to the Western concept of caste, not Varna.

The British administration injected the concept of race into its understanding of both Varna and Jati. So ‘caste’ became associated with race in a way Varna and Jati had never been. The Indian who saw the implications of this most clearly was Dr B.R. Ambedkar who challenged the association of Varna and Jati with race vigorously and cogently.

Why he did so will go a lot towards explaining why this post it is being written. If caste is based on race, then the differences among them become biological and physical. Such attributes are not susceptible to being changed. So the differences become fixed like those between Blacks and Whites. If, however, the differences are not racial but cultural in nature, then they are susceptible to being changed.

Ambedkar looked forward to the day, as he told Parliament, when the untouchables will disappear when we will no longer hear of untouchables because they will become an indistinguishable part of the Hindu community, the way the Dasyus and the Dasas of the Rig Veda disappeared within the Arya community with the passage of time in ancient India.

One could not entertain such a vision if one believed in ‘caste’. But one could entertain this vision if one was dealing with Varnas and Jatis. It all hinges on the word one used to describe that reality.

British India Map

This is why it is important to distinguish between the two ideas of India which are in contestation at this moment in India. One of them is sometimes referred to as the ‘idea of India’, and the other as the ‘idea of Bharat’. The idea of India consists of the web of concepts associated with religion, caste, and so on. The idea of Bharat comprises the concepts of Dharma, Varna, Jati, and so on.

So yes, there is a lot in a name. India and Bharat are not just two names for India, they represent two competing visions of the nation which goes by these two names. It is not, it seems, so much a case of ‘India that is Bharat’ anymore. It is rather becoming a case of India or Bharat. – MSN / Firstpost, 23 January 2022

Prof Arvind Sharma (formerly of the IAS, is the Birks Professor of Comparative Religion at McGill University in Montreal Canada, where he has taught for over thirty years. He has also taught in Australia and the United States and at Nalanda University in India.)

(This article was published on bharatabharati.in on January 29, 2022 and has been reproduced here in full.)

Pakistan Army using TLP to keep in check the civilian government led by Imran Khan

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The agreement with the proscribed extremist group Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) demonstrates that the Pakistan Army is using the group to keep in check the civilian government led by Prime Minister Imran Khan of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI).

Now that it has the upper hand in Afghanistan since the Taliban’s takeover of Kabul in August 2021, it appears that the Pakistani Army is once again activating its proxies — the religious extremist groups — to advance its domestic political ambitions, as per an article by Sameer Patil, former Fellow, International Security Studies Programme, Gateway House.

The TLP’s 2021 protests in Punjab took place when the controversy over the appointment of the new Inter-Services Intelligence Chief had brought out in the open, the differences between Imran Khan and Chief Of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa.

Hence, the military may have used the TLP protests and the subsequent agreement to signal the civilian rulers that there would be political consequences of their actions, if not immediately, then in the future, the article said.

“With the agreement with the TLP, Imran Khan may have staved off the pressure for now, but the challenges for him are far from over. Growing pressure from the opposition and alliance parties, speculation about former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s return, a collapsing economy — these will further weaken PTI’s position in the run-up to the 2023 general elections. The military’s displeasure will only increase PTI’s vulnerabilities allowing the military to give further prominence to its proxies,” it added.

This is worrisome, with serious implications for Bharat and counterterrorism efforts as a whole, for the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan has emboldened the Pakistani Army to activate its proxies like the TLP, to advance its domestic political ambitions and openly support extremist organisations.

This brazen support to the TLP does not come as a surprise as the Army has used extremist groups like the TLP to send a ‘message’ to the civilian rulers, who work at cross-purposes with the military, the article said.

The TLP, as a Barelvi group, has a unidirectional focus on the issues of ‘Khatm-e-Nabuwwat’ (finality of the prophethood) and ‘Tauheen-e-Risalat’ (blaspheming the Prophet). This focus has made it an influential religious-political group.

The Pakistan military perceives the TLP as a ‘containable outfit’ that can do its dirty work rather than making them hostile against the state.

Aligning with the Army also helps the TLP to widen its base. The group understands the ruling PTI’s growing vulnerabilities at all levels — political, economic and foreign policy and capitalises on them accordingly.

Since the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban, radical groups in Pakistan have become emboldened and question the democratic system in the country. Calling for the implementation of Sharia law, the TLP’s activities are in line with this trend, it added.

The military’s patronage and an emotive religious issue of blasphemy have made the TLP an influential actor in Pakistan’s politics. The civilian government’s abject surrender to the TLP has set a dangerous precedent as future civilian governments, too, will be vulnerable to the coercive actions of extremist groups.

(The story has been published via a syndicated feed with minor edits to conform to Hindu-Post style-guide.)

Tripura girls brought to Chennai on the promise of jobs and forced into prostitution by Muslim couple

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Tripura sex racket
Salima and Allauddin ; Image Source: News18 Tamil

A Tripura based Muslim couple has been arrested for running a sex racket using minor girls in Chennai. The girls were brought to Chennai on the promise of jobs and forced into prostitution. The couple physically abused them when they refused to submit. They also filmed them and forced into prostitution by threatening to leak the videos.

Salima Kathun and Anveer Hussain, a Tripura based couple, were arrested by police from a lodge in Chennai. The couple had brought girls aged from 13 to 17 from Tripura by promising employment in beauty parlors. They paid their parents 13,000 each and brought the girls to Chennai on January 14. They had brought a 17 year old girl, took her to Kolkata, Bengaluru and Chennai and pushed her into prostitution with the help of Alauddin and Moinudin.

They had rented a house in Kelambakkam in Chennai to run the sex racket. The neighbors who became suspicious about the activities going on in the house informed the local police in Kelambakkam. But policemen who visited the house accepted bribes and did not book them. The gang had planned to take the girls to Bengaluru and vacated the house.

They were made to stay at a lodge near the railway station and to be sold to a broker. The girls somehow managed to call the Childline number. Following this police and Child Welfare Committee officials went to the lodge and rescued 4 girls. Two men who were partners with the Tripura Muslim couple have absconded.

The girls were forced to remain without clothes and assaulted using belts and logs. They were gang raped and made to act like Lesbians all of which were filmed. The girls were forced into submitting to their demands by threatening to leak the videos. The girls were given a target of earning Rs.50,000 a day and forced to lie with many men.

Salima and Alauddin who took the videos have been booked under POCSO and arrested. Police are on the lookout for the other two men. The corrupt policemen who let them off initially have been moved to the waiting list. The girls have been placed in a children’s home. Such incidents of minors being pushed into prostitution by Muslims is on the rise. Recently a PFI leader was arrested in Mangaluru for running a sex racket by trapping college girls.

कनाडा में हो रहे हैं हिन्दू मंदिरों पर हमले

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कनाडा में ट्रकों का आन्दोलन चल रहा है और उस कथित आन्दोलन में जहां एक ओर कनाडा की सरकार कड़े कदम उठाने की बात कह रही है। परन्तु इसी बीच एक हैरान करने वाला समाचार आ रहा है कि, जहाँ कनाडा में आन्दोलन चल रहा है तो वहीं हिन्दुओं के मंदिरों में हमले और लूट हो रही है। एक ओर फ्रीडम के नारे लग रहे हैं तो दूसरी ओर हिन्दुओं के मंदिरों पर भी हमले हो रहे हैं:

हिन्दुस्तान टाइम्स के अनुसार ग्रेटर टोरंटो क्षेत्र में हिन्दू पुजारी और भक्त भय की स्थिति में हैं। उनके मंदिरों से लगातार दानपत्र और यहाँ तक कि मूर्तियों से आभूषण भी चोरी हो रहे हैं।  हालांकि ब्राम्पटन में हनुमान मंदिर पर हमला इस ट्रक आन्दोलन के आरंभ होने से पहले 15 जनवरी को हुआ था। और उसके बाद से पांच और हमले हो चुके हैं।

सोशल मीडिया पर यह समाचार आने के बाद लोग यह प्रश्न कर रहे हैं कि क्या यह खालिस्तानी तत्वों का काम है क्योंकि ब्राम्पटन क्षेत्र पंजाबी बाहुल्य क्षेत्र है। यह संयोग नहीं हो सकता है

एक और यूजर ने इस बात की आशंका व्यक्त की कि यह खालिस्तानी तत्वों का काम हो सकता है क्योंकि जहाँ यह घटना हुई है, वहां पर मुस्लिम और सिख बहुमत में हैं और स्थानीय लोग शहर छोड़कर चले गए हैं।

कुल छ मंदिरों को निशाना बनाया गया है,

यह भी बात ध्यान देने योग्य है कि जब यह आन्दोलन आरम्भ हुआ था, तो उसके शुरू होते ही कनाडा के प्रधानमंत्री जस्टिन ट्रूडो ने स्वास्तिक का उल्लेख करते हुए अनहोली चिन्ह बताया था। और कहीं न कहीं हिन्दुओं के प्रति एक घृणा का विस्तार किया था।

हिन्दुस्तान टाइम्स की रिपोर्ट के अनुसार 15 जनवरी से हिन्दुओं के मंदिरों पर आक्रमण आरम्भ होगे थे, और सबसे पहले ब्राम्पटन में श्री हनुमान मंदिर में हमला हुआ, उसके बाद 25 जनवरी को ब्राम्पटन में ही माँ चिंतपूर्णी मंदिर पर हमला हुआ, और फिर वहीं पर गौरी शंकर मंदिर और जगन्नाथ मंदिर में हमला हुआ। इसी के साथ दो और मंदिरों में हमले हुए।

मिसिसॉगा में 30 जनवरी को हुए हमलों के विषय में हिन्दू हेरिटेज सेंटर ने एक रिलीज जारी की और कहा कि “भक्त और पुजारी इस घटना से सदमे में हैं।” और साथ ही कहा है कि “पुलिस ने हिन्दू हेरिटेज सेंटर को यह पुष्टि की कि यह उन्हीं लोगों का समूह है, जो मंदिरों को सुबह तोड़ रहे थे!”

मंदिरों से दान पेटी से चढ़ावा तो चुराया ही है और साथ ही प्रतिमाओं द्वारा पहने हुए आभूषण भी चुरा ले गए हैं।

हालांकि पुलिस ने कहा है कि वह और गश्त बढ़ा देगी, परन्तु समुदाय सदमे में है और मंदिरों पर होने वाले हमलों से आहत है।

एक यूजर ने कहा कि खालिस्तानी तत्वों से सम्बन्धित एनडीपी के नेता ने स्वास्तिक के विषय में गलत सूचना फैलाई थी और उसे नाजी प्रतीक के साथ जोड़ा था, तो हिन्दुओं के मंदिरों पर हमला होना ही था। मंदिरों पर होने वाले हमलों  के लिए कनाडा का नेतृत्व जिम्मेदार है!

जबकि अभी हाल ही में नाजी के चिन्ह पर एक डॉक्यूमेंट्री आई थी, जिसमें यह एक बार फिर से स्पष्ट किया गया था कि स्वास्तिक का नाजी से कोई लेना देना नहीं है:

फिर भी बार बार हिन्दुओं को निशाना बनाया जाता है, और पश्चिम में हिन्दुफोबिया असली है और बार बार इस घृणा के उदाहरण सामने आते रहते हैं।

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Notorious criminal politician Mukktar Ansari to contest UP elections on SP-ally SBSP ticket

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Jailed mafia don and MLA Mukhtar Ansari is all set to contest the Assembly polls from the Mau Sadar seat district on the symbol of Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party (SBSP) from jail.

Mukhtar’s lawyer Daroga Singh confirmed that he had submitted a plea before the court of special judge (MP/MLA) to allow Mukhtar’s lawyer, notary lawyer, proposers and photographer to meet him in the Banda jail to complete the formality of seeking his signature and other formalities to file nomination from Mau Sadar seat. The court has accepted the plea.

Singh said that the SBSP has decided to field Mukhtar on its ticket from Mau Sadar seat.

Party symbol, ‘Chhadi’ (walking stick) and all other necessary documents had been attached with the plea submitted before the court.

Mukhtar emerged victorious from the Mau Sadar Assembly seat as a Bahujan Samaj Party member in 1996. Since then, he has won the seat in all consecutive elections and this will be the sixth time he is contesting the seat.

His party, Qaumi Ekta Dal, was merged into BSP before he contested the 2017 Assembly election on its ticket.

Mukhtar had defeated SBSP’s Mahendra Rajbhar to retain this seat.

The jailed don, had come in the line of fire when the Yogi Adityanath government cracked down on him and his aides.

As per the police records of Varanasi zone, the loss to the economic empire of Mukhtar gang in this region of east UP had reached close to Rs 400 crore, when the last major action of seizure of property of his son had taken place in Ghazipur on December 22, 2021.

Apart from bulldozing buildings, seizure of movable and immovable properties, the police have targeted the illegal earnings of this gang through extortion and fish trades, grabbing contracts in PWD and other government departments.

Mukhtar Ansari’s elder brother Afzal Ansari is a BSP MP while his other brother Sigbatullah Ansari is contesting from Ghazipur on a Samajwadi Party ticket.

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