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Rights Body's Notice To Bihar, Tamil Nadu Over Abuse Of Orphans

Rights Body’s Notice To Bihar, Tamil Nadu Over Abuse Of Orphans

12 children were rescued from the madrassa in Tamil Nadu. (Representataional) New Delhi: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued notices to the governments of Bihar and Tamil Nadu over the alleged abuse of 12 orphaned children in a madrassa in the southern state. The commission has taken suo motu cognisance of a media report that said two persons have been arrested in Chennai for…

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Rights Body's Notice To Bihar, Tamil Nadu Over Abuse Of Orphans

Rights Body’s Notice To Bihar, Tamil Nadu Over Abuse Of Orphans

12 children were rescued from the madrassa in Tamil Nadu. (Representataional) New Delhi: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued notices to the governments of Bihar and Tamil Nadu over the alleged abuse of 12 orphaned children in a madrassa in the southern state. The commission has taken suo motu cognisance of a media report that said two persons have been arrested in Chennai for…

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Bihar Town Rocked by Huge Blast Inside Desolate Madrassa; Imam of Adjacent Mosque Killed

Bihar Town Rocked by Huge Blast Inside Desolate Madrassa; Imam of Adjacent Mosque Killed

A powerful blast tore down the building of a madrassa here on Tuesday, killing the Imam of the adjacent mosque who was apparently the sole occupant of the premises locked from outside, a senior police officer said. Residents of the Nautola locality in Town police station area were rattled by the loud explosion that took place around 8 am, said Banka Superintendent of Police Arvind Kumar Gupta. He…

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Bihar: 4 arrested in Banka madrassa blast case | Patna News

Bihar: 4 arrested in Banka madrassa blast case | Patna News

BANKA: The special investigation team (SIT) on Thursday arrested four persons in connection with the Madrassa blast at Noori Islampur mosque in Navtolia locality in the district on June 8. Police sources said the arrests were made after making meticulous investigations and cross-examinations of several suspects and recording the statements of local persons and some eyewitnesses over the last 10…

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Bihar Elections, MP Bypolls 2020 LIVE Updates: Yogi, Nadda, Rajnath to Hit Campaign Trail With Nitish; MP Minister Stirs Row With Madrassa Remark Bihar Assembly Elections, MP Bypolls 2020 LIVE Updates: Nitish Kumar, Yogi Adityanath, Rajnath Singh, JP Nadda and Chirag Paswan will address rallies in Bihar today, while Shivraj Singh Chouhan will campaign in Madhya Pradesh.

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Bihar Elections, MP Bypolls 2020 LIVE Updates: Yogi, Nadda, Rajnath to Hit Campaign Trail With Nitish; MP Minister Stirs Row With Madrassa Remark

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Bihar Elections, MP Bypolls 2020 LIVE Updates: Yogi, Nadda, Rajnath to Hit Campaign Trail With Nitish; MP Minister Stirs Row With Madrassa Remark Bihar Assembly Elections, MP Bypolls 2020 LIVE Updates: Nitish Kumar, Yogi Adityanath, Rajnath Singh, JP Nadda and Chirag Paswan will address rallies in Bihar today, while Shivraj Singh Chouhan will campaign in Madhya Pradesh. Source link

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India’s Islamophobia Creeps Into Nepal

Nationalist media and pandemic fears have caused hatred to go viral.

India’s Hindu nationalist fundamentalists and its Islamophobic media are taking advantage of the coronavirus to push hatred to Nepal.

— BY ARUN BUDHATHOKI | JUNE 16, 2020 | Foreign Policy

A Muslim family offers a special prayer in their home during the Eid-al-Fitr festival in Kathmandu, Nepal, on May 25. Prakash Mehthema/AFP/Getty Images

KATHMANDU, Nepal — In Nepal, Muslims, who make up about 4 percent of the population, have lived peacefully alongside the majority Hindu population for centuries, arriving as immigrants from elsewhere but establishing strong communities. Nepalis pride themselves on a history of religious tolerance, even in a region where faith has often had bloody consequences.

But India’s right-wingers are trying hard to change that.

India’s Hindu nationalist fundamentalists and its Islamophobic media are taking advantage of the coronavirus to push hatred to Nepal through popular Indian news channels and social media.

The rise of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and his link to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh organization and its Hindu nationalist ideology, has strengthened the New Delhi establishment to the remaking of Nepal as a Hindu country again. In 2006, Nepal became a secular country after it ousted the old constitutional monarchy, when a more secular Indian government helped push former Maoist rebels to a peace deal and into mainstream politics. But it has been easy for Indian Islamophobia to spread to Nepal, thanks to the number of Hindi speakers there and the wide range of Indian TV available.India’s Hindu nationalist fundamentalists and its Islamophobic media are taking advantage of the coronavirus to push hatred to Nepal.

All this, mixed with yellow journalism in Nepal, has caused nasty rumors to spread fast. On April 16, a few rupee bills were found scattered in Janakpur, southern Nepal. One man picked up a note and offhandedly told a shopkeeper that the bills might be tainted with the coronavirus. A claim that two Muslim women had scattered the bills after spitting on them spread within no time, based on a CCTV video that showed the bills dropping out of their pockets. Islamophobic posts making claims such as that the women spat on the bills deliberately to spread the coronavirus went viral.

India’s Hindu nationalist fundamentalists and its Islamophobic media are taking advantage of the coronavirus to push hatred to Nepal

Meanwhile, the police tested the two women for COVID-19, and the initial quick test produced a positive result from one of the women. That sparked further hateful posts—but it later turned out that the test had been wrong and further testing gave negative results. In reality, the two women had just returned from the bankand had dropped the notes accidentally. The police pleaded for the public not to spread further rumors—but this particular incident didn’t spring out of nowhere. The groundwork had already been well laid.

A week earlier, on April 10, India’s right-wing media, particularly Hindi news channels, circulated sensationalized news that Pakistan might have sent coronavirus-infected Muslim men to India via Nepal. They coined a new term: “corona-jihad.” The claims were based on an unverified and largely unsourced report sent by the state of Bihar to the Indian Home Ministry, which included false claims that Jalim Miya, a Muslim politician in Nepal, was behind the supposed plot and that the group of men were taking paracetamol to suppress their fevers and pass undetected. Miya explained exasperatedly that there was no such plot and was backed by Nepal���s central government. It echoed earlier allegations and faked videos that Muslims traveling between the two countries were superspreaders. The Nepal-India border was sealed on March 30, and a large number of Nepalis and Indian migrants were quarantined at the border on April 2.Nepal is likely to keep seeing the Hindu nationalist agenda pushed hard by its giant neighbor.

On the one hand, such cooked-up stories have damaged the image of Indian media in Nepal. The hashtag #RIPIndianMedia trended in Nepal. Yet even Nepali journalists, online news portals, and the public engaged in Islamophobic posts and tweets—resulting in #IslamophobiaInNepal going viral.

Nepal is likely to keep seeing the Hindu nationalist agenda pushed hard by its giant neighbor

Hajji Abdullah Miya, a former member of the Hajj Committee of Nepal, told Foreign Policy: “Especially after the rise of Modi, the attitude towards Muslims in India has changed. In any case, the general tendency to portray Muslims negatively is old in India. India used to spread rumors against the Muslims of Nepal to create animosity with the Indian Muslims. Whether in the name of mosques and madrassas in the Terai border region or on other issues, India has always attacked Nepali Muslims.”

Nepal’s Muslims are worried about the rise in Islamophobia—but they hope their friends and neighbors will stop things getting worse. They point to the failure of the 1992 riots around the destruction of the Babri Masjid, a mosque built on a site also revered by Hindus in Ayodhya, India, to spread over the border. But there has been a steady rise in attacks against Nepali Muslims on social media. The majority of Nepalis, however, continue to reject the attempts to whip up hatred, and there have been no reported physical assaults on Muslims.

India’s right-wing is well entrenched, as is its Islamophobia. Nepal is likely to keep seeing the Hindu nationalist agenda pushed hard by its giant neighbor. But even amid the pandemic, Nepalis can still choose to reject hatred as they have done in the past.

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8 madrassa students from bihar test positive for Covid-19 in Kanpur #coronavirus #positive #madrassastudents #tablighjamaat #bihar #kanpur #medicircle https://bit.ly/2VYhQX4 https://www.instagram.com/p/B_Wj68_prA-/?igshid=f9qgtrcre68p

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Nitish Kumar: Bihar government has allotted over Rs 2 Lakh for repair and rebuilding roti hit mosques

Nitish Kumar: Bihar government has allotted over Rs 2 Lakh for repair and rebuilding roti hit mosques

Patna, Apr 6 The Bihar government has allotted over Rs 2 Lakh for repair and rebuilding of riot-hit Gudri mosque and Jiaul-Ulum Madrassa arranged in Samastipur city of the state.

The home department, headed by the Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, dispensed Rs 2, 13,700 for the repair work. Both the foundations were harmed in the current common brutality.

Reportedly, the legislature has also released…

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VHP demands NIA probe in madrassa blast in NDA-ruled Bihar | Patna News

VHP demands NIA probe in madrassa blast in NDA-ruled Bihar | Patna News

NEW DELHI: The Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) Sunday demanded an investigation by the terror probe agency NIA in the recent blast in a madrassa in Bihar‘s Banka district which tore down the building and left one dead. The saffron outfit also raised questions on the investigations done so far by the state police and targeted the Nitish Kumar-led NDA government in Bihar, asking as to why no arrest has…

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Rep. Ro Khanna on Qassem Soleimani Assassination: Trump’s Actions Are Unconstitutional

In Uttar Pradesh, police bias and the scale of violence against the minorities are plumbing new depths

— Harsh Mander, December 30, 2019

Uttar Pradesh is in the throes of what is fast becoming a gravely culpable crime against humanity. It may not be an exaggeration to say that the Chief Minister has declared war on the minority communities of his State, inciting and encouraging his police forces to unleash upon them an unlawful and brutal reign of terror.

It is not as though police bias and violence against the minorities is unusual in communal violence. On the contrary, as I have often maintained, communal violence cannot sustain for more than a few hours unless it is actively encouraged by the state and the police. But it accomplishes this, most of all, by culpable inaction; by deliberately standing by as mobs attack minorities. Often the police inflict grievous hurt on a disproportionately large number of minorities, in firing while dispersing mobs.

But what we are witnessing in Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s Uttar Pradesh is the police force itself becoming the riotous lynch mob. I have handled, as district officer, the 1984 anti-Sikh pogrom and the violence resulting from the movement to demolish the Babri Masjid. Since I left the civil service, I worked closely with the survivors of the Gujarat and Muzaffarnagar (U.P.) carnages, and the earlier communal massacres of Nellie (Assam) and Bhagalpur (Bihar). What is unfolding in U.P. is on a scale and with a methodological deliberateness which I have not witnessed so far outside Kashmir and the North-East — touching a highly dangerous new low.

Devastation in Minutes

I walk through many Muslim homes in U.P., my eyes clouding, my heart sinking in shame, witness to their ruin after a rampage of hate by men in uniform. Cars and scooters are overturned and burned, television screens and washing machines smashed, cash and jewellery looted, crockery, even toys shattered, a lifetime of a family’s belongings devastated in minutes, the family inconsolable. I have borne painful witness to these scenes too many times, in 1984, 2002, 2013. The difference in U.P. is that the marauding mob which mercilessly wrecked home after home of its Muslim residents was police personnel in uniform.

The accounts of the families were chillingly similar. Homes of relatively wealthy families were typically selected for the police carnage; probably led there by police informers. Hordes of policepersons would descend on the house, sometimes 40 or even 60 in number. Some included civilians, others did not. They banged and broke down doors. They beat with their batons old people, women, even children, if they tried to block their way, pleading for mercy. They shouted the most vulgar slurs. A frequent taunt was: Here, take the Azadi you ask for.

It is with the same communal war cries that armed policepersons attacked students in Aligarh Muslim University, vandalised mosques, raided a madrassa in Muzaffarnagar, and set fire to shops and businesses owned by Muslim persons.

Thread From the CAA

Many households reported that policepersons said their houses were now “ours”, because the law will ensure that they leave for Pakistan. It was evident that the policepersons commonly believed that the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019, or CAA, 2019, would complete what the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh regards to be the “unfinished tasks” of Partition — namely forcing Indian Muslims to exit to Pakistan. A senior police official in Meerut is caught on camera asking Muslims to go to Pakistan, and questioning their loyalty to India.

Women and children showed us their baton wounds. Even the very old were not spared. Teenaged boys were among those rounded up by the police and held illegally for days. Government hospitals were unwilling to treat them if they reported that the injuries were inflicted on them by policepersons.

As in most corners of the country, people spilled onto the streets to protest the CAA. It is only in U.P. and coastal Karnataka that these protests have turned violent. At the time of writing, nearly 20 people have died in these protests in U.P. There are reports that in some places, protesters turned violent, although they claim that the rage of the rioters was spurred by police attitude and action.

But the violence by the police against the rioters is entirely disproportionate, without following the prescribed protocol of warning, and gradual escalation of violence. Instead, videos show police shooting above the waist, often in hot pursuit through narrow lanes where there are no protests or crowds.

Most of those who bear the brunt of the attacks are very poor working-class men, whose families insist had nothing to do even with peaceful protests.

Deep Scars

The police registers literally thousands of “unnamed” police complaints in several cities with high Muslim populations. They use this to detain Muslim people at will, and as a weapon to silence anyone who may complain or testify against the police. People are scared to speak to anyone holding a camera, and if they do, they cover their faces. There is an intense sense of terror among the entire Muslim population in urban U.P., the men dreading being charged with grave crimes; the women of attacks to their homes. Large parts of Muslim settlements have emptied out.

Through all of this, there is call for revenge, from the highest political levels, followed by even more brutal police raids and assaults. Muslim people have received notices to pay high damages for alleged destruction of public property (which includes even police batons broken while beating people) — without any judicial finding, as required by law, to prove their responsibility for destroying the properties.

Disturbing Complicity

And as news begins filtering in of the outrage of police rampaging in U.P., the unrepentant Chief Minister issues a triumphalist message of self-congratulation from his official Twitter account: “Every rioter is shocked. Every demonstrator is stunned. Everyone has been silenced after seeing Yogi Adityanath government’s strict actions.”

What U.P. is witnessing is the utter debasement of high public office. Senior civil servants, of the police and magistracy, have most shamefully abdicated their constitutional duties in service to a war of hate launched by the Chief Minister. The war of hate against the minorities in U.P. has shades of what the Kashmiri people have endured for three decades, with security forces raiding and rampaging their homes and beating and rounding up innocents. The Chief Minister hand-picked to lead India’s most populous State, is emerging as as a mascot of hate. He is guilty of nothing short of crimes against humanity — acts deliberately committed as part of a widespread systematic attack directed by a government against an identifiable part of a civilian population.

As the rest of the country is heady with protests against laws and policies which divide people based on their religious identity, the Muslim people of Uttar Pradesh are today wounded — this time almost beyond healing.

Harsh Mander is a human rights worker, writer and teacher

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“How Long Will the World Remain Silent While the ‘World’s Most Wanted Criminal, Fascist, Extremist Modi’s Regime’ Indulges in State Terrorism?”

— Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan

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The Bihar government has allotted over Rs 2 lakh for the repair and restoration of Gudri mosque and Jiaul-Ulum madrassa situated in Samastipur, both of which were damaged in the recent communal violence in the state.    The home department, headed by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, has allotted Rs 2,13,700 for the repair work.     Reportedly, the government has also released Rs 25 lakh as compensation ‘for those whose shops were burnt in arson during a Ram Navami procession’ in Aurangabad.  A similar provision of Rs  8.5 lakh has been made for compensating six affected people in Nawada district as well.     Recently, communal clashes, which broke out between two groups in Bhagalpur and Aurangabad on the occasion of Ram Navami, spilt over to other parts of the state after miscreants vandalised a Hanuman idol in Nawada.    The Rediff.com : 6th. Apr,18

BIHAR CM NITISH KUMAR ALLOTTED Rs.2 LAKH FOR REPAIRING MOSQUE DAMAGED IN COMMUNAL VIOLENCE : The Bihar government has allotted over Rs 2 lakh for the repair and restoration of Gudri mosque and Jiaul-Ulum madrassa situated in Samastipur, both of which were damaged in the recent communal violence in the state.   

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Opposition to ban on liquor is an anti-poor stance: Nitish

Opposition to ban on liquor is an anti-poor stance: Nitish

Opposition to ban on liquor is an anti-poor stance: Nitish  Business Standard

“Don’t Expect Me To…”: Nitish Kumar’s Sharp Message To BJP After Bihar Violence  NDTV

Bihar Govt to Repair Riot-hit Mosque, Madrassa; Coalition Partner BJP Questions Move  News18

From ‘pure milk’ to ‘bechara’, how people dodge liquor ban in Bihar  Hindustan Times

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Shatrughan Sinha sees 'bright future' for Tejashwi Yadav

Shatrughan Sinha sees ‘bright future’ for Tejashwi Yadav

Shatrughan Sinha sees ‘bright future’ for Tejashwi Yadav  Business Standard

Bihar CM Nitish Kumar announces scholarships for madrassa students  The New Indian Express

Bihar NDA woes: Nitish Kumar’s JD(U) lashes out at BJP minister  National Herald

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