What a Relief !!!

Pair of rare snow-white cubs

White lion babies Niza, left, and Nero are held by keeper Hanze Hamza 13 days after their birth.

LEADER PASSED AWAY

Karunakaran died on 23 December 2010 at Ananthapuri Hospital in Thiruvananthapuram. He was suffering from respiratory problems, fever and other age related diseases. His condition worsened following a stroke and the death occured when he had a cardiac arrest. His death was confirmed by doctors at 5:30 PM. It was coincidental that his death and Narasimha Rao's death was on same date. Karunakaran had played key role in backing the Rao Government and later Rao had dismissed Karunakaran from the chair of Chief Minister of Kerala.

CONGRATS

Why should boys have all the fun?

 

Hey! What are you trying to prove???

Eco-friendly Trolley

WOMEN AS EXPLAINED BY MATHEMATICIANS

Beautiful Steam Train Photos

Sai Divine Inspirations

Happy 85th Birthday!

Modi's Laudable Achievement!

No media Coverage…. nothing for such achievement from one of the Indian state. It’s a proud moment for any country that one of its state got the United Nations prize for improving transparency , Accountability & responsiveness.

Even last year also Government of Gujarat got first prize for drinking water supply programme and user level water quality.

Media is very much interested in telecasting news of Gangsters & Corrupt politicians!!

Not a single news channel telecasted this & not a single newspaper interested in publishing this news.

Why Girls Crop Their Photos ?

Just for Engineers

Smile Please

THE HOTEL IS FULL

Jewish lady named Mrs. Rosenberg many years ago was stranded late one night at a fashionable resort - one that did not admit Jews. The desk clerk looked down at his book and said, "Sorry, no room. The hotel is full."
The Jewish lady said, "But your sign says that you have vacancies."
The desk clerk stammered and then said curtly, "You know that we do not admit Jews.
Now if you will try the other side of town..."
Mrs. Rosenberg stiffened noticeable and said, "I'll have you know I converted to your religion."
The desk clerk said, "Oh, yeah, let me give you a little test. How was Jesus born?"
Mrs. Rosenberg replied, "He was born to a virgin named Mary in a little town called Bethlehem."
"Very good," replied the hotel clerk. "Tell me more."
Mrs. Rosenberg replied, "He was born in a manger."
"That's right," said the hotel clerk. "And why was he born in a manger?"
Mrs. Rosenberg said loudly, "Because a jerk like you in the hotel wouldn't give a Jewish lady a room for the night!"

Beware of paper cups!

Wake Up Kerala !!!

FISHING IN KERALA ROADS!!!

Tax structure in India - Funny but true!!!

1) Qus. : What are you doing?  
Ans. : Business.  
Tax : PAY PROFESSIONAL TAX!  
2) Qus. : What are you doing in Business?  
Ans. : Selling the Goods.  
Tax : PAY SALES TAX!!  
3) Qus. : From where are you getting Goods?  
Ans. : From other State/Abroad  
Tax : PAY CENTRAL SALES TAX, CUSTOM DUTY & OCTROI!  
4) Qus. : What are you getting in Selling Goods?  
Ans. : Profit.  
Tax : PAY INCOME TAX!  
5) Qus. : How do you distribute profit ?  
Ans : By way of dividend  
Tax : Pay dividend distribution Tax  
6) Qus. : Where you Manufacturing the Goods?  
Ans. : Factory.  
Tax : PAY EXCISE DUTY!  
7) Qus. : Do you have Office / Warehouse/ Factory?  
Ans. : Yes  
Tax : PAY MUNICIPAL & FIRE TAX!  
8) Qus. : Do you have Staff?  
Ans. : Yes  
Tax : PAY STAFF PROFESSIONAL TAX!  
9) Qus. : Doing business in Millions?  
Ans. : Yes  
Tax : PAY TURNOVER TAX!  
Ans : No  
Tax : Then pay Minimum Alternate Tax  
10) Qus. : Are you taking out over 25,000 Cash from Bank?  
Ans. : Yes, for Salary.  
Tax : PAY CASH HANDLING TAX!  
11) Qus.: Where are you taking your client for Lunch & Dinner?  
Ans. : Hotel  
Tax : PAY FOOD & ENTERTAINMENT TAX!  
12) Qus.: Are you going Out of Station for Business?  
Ans. : Yes  
Tax : PAY FRINGE BENEFIT TAX!  
13) Qus.: Have you taken or given any Service/s?  
Ans. : Yes  
Tax : PAY SERVICE TAX!  
14) Qus.: How come you got such a Big Amount?  
Ans. : Gift on birthday.  
Tax : PAY GIFT TAX!  
15) Qus.: Do you have any Wealth?  
Ans. : Yes  
Tax : PAY WEALTH TAX!  
16) Qus.: To reduce Tension, for entertainment, where are you going?  
Ans. : Cinema or Resort.  
Tax : PAY ENTERTAINMENT TAX!  
17) Qus.: Have you purchased House?  
Ans. : Yes  
Tax : PAY STAMP DUTY & REGISTRATION FEE !  
18) Qus.: How you Travel?  
Ans. : Bus  
Tax : PAY SURCHARGE!  
19) Qus.: Any Additional Tax?  
Ans. : Yes  
Tax : PAY EDUCATIONAL, ADDITIONAL EDUCATIONAL & SURCHARGE ON ALL THE CENTRAL
GOVT.'s TAX !!!
20) Qus.: Delayed any time Paying Any Tax?  
Ans. : Yes  
Tax : PAY INTEREST & PENALTY!  
21)  Can i die now??  
Ans :: wait we are about to launch the funeral tax!!! 

HAPPY DIWALI

Aishwarya Rai – During Miss World 1994 Competition

Why do I take Aspirin?

Karwa Chauth ‘Girls’ Just Wanna have Fun!

Very exciting was the day for the members of Aspiration Ladies Club as they were to come dressed in saree or lahenga with compulsory seven shringaar, at Chandigarh Club, to celebrate Karwa Chauth.

This programme is to encourage those women who are jolly, fun loving, love to mix up and want to take part in various creative activities.

 

The Sardarji logic

A stark naked, drunken woman,

jumps into a vacant Taxi at a New York Taxi stand.
The Sardarji driver is dumbfounded

and just keeps on staring at the woman.

He makes no attempt to start the taxi.
“What's wrong with you Luv,

haven't you ever seen a naked white woman before?” The lady asks.
“I'll not be staring at you lady,

I am telling you, that would not be proper, where I am coming from" The sardarji replies.

"Well if you are not bloody staring at me Luvie, what are you doing then?"

"Well, I am telling you, I am thinking to myself,

where is this lady keeping the money to be paying me with."

SHUT UP ….. AR U N DHA TI

Yahaan bhi hoga wahan bhi hoga
Ab to saare jahaan mein hoga
Kya… tera hi jalwa

You have seen her at many international forums, performing verbal item numbers for honorariums, regurgitating Chomskian rhetoric at fashionable venues, going around in the forests of Dantewada as part of the “Is Jangal Se Mujhe Bachao—the sponsored edition” and in general being bindaas in front of any open mic that she can get hold of (as long as there is a pressman with a notebook present).

Now India’s greatest reality intellectual queen, the darling of the classes, sedition-actress supreme Arundhati is coming to your Brahminical Hindu 46 inch flat screen.

Arundhati ka Insaaf.

Music: Kar faislaa kar faislaa….kar jhooth aur sach ka faislaa….

Cutscene 1: Arundhati shouting, brandishing muscular arm:

Duniyaan thukegi India pe, aur har desh ki ma uska naam India rakhne se ghabrayegi.…..

Crowd consisting of bearded jholawalas (both men and women) shout: Chi Chi India, Chi Chi India….India badi minorities ke dushmaan Hai Hai Hai...

Cutscene 2: Arundhati on screen makes her eyes round as saucers:

Bhai life main taang kheechne waale bahoot hote hai (pointing to the Indian flag) lekin haath pakadne waale bahot kam (pointing to  a red Communist flag), dhoka dene waale bahot hote hai (pointing to an Indian flag once again) par mauka dene waale[sly wink]  bahot kam (pointing to the Pakistani flag).

Lekin abh kisi capitalist-imperalistic ki dadagiri naheen chalegi, kyon ki bhatke huye Maoist aur Islamic terrorists ko rasta main dikhayoongi, Kashmir ko azaadi dilwaane ki solution main dhoondongi, kyon ki yahaan pe insaaf hoga..

Crowd shouts: Arundhati ka insaaf hoga…

Arundhati smiles smugly.

Cutscene 3:  Arundhati shouting yet again: Maroongi pakadke chata, aadmi naheen tu, hain tu Birla-Tata. India se shaadi aur Israel ke saath suhaagraat !

Helped in her mission of justice, will be her chaar mushtande bouncers— Navlakha (Mujhe navlakha maanga de re o saiyyan deewane), Geelani (Geela Geela Paani), Yasin Malik (video of Yasin Malik dancing to Jashn-e-Azadi) and Kobad Ghandy (Sab Ghandy Hai Par Handy Hoon Main).

Cutscene 4:  Arundhati gently to Maoist terrorist: Kitna pyara hai tu, gaale naheen miloge mujhe [holding pose for a few seconds for camera]

So hold on tight to your seats. All Bramhin Hindus, all Indians and you effin bourgeois be scared very scared. Arundhati and her freakshow are in town. And this time they are handing out liberally their brand of insaaf.

Dont arrest her please. Cause that’s what she wants. Then the Nobel Prize for Peace is assured.

So just tune in. And try not to laugh. Too much.

Making up the loved one

The motivation factor!!!

River Dance !!

Find Your Location on Earth

Check The Link Below. I was Shocked to Find my location on Earth. It’s really unbelievable.
I was surprised to know such system exists that can point you with such accuracy.
It is a GPS and would find exact location of any internet user in a second.
They have used a sophisticated algorithm to do so.
Try it and find your own location on the earth.
http://www.darnay.com/iec/features/locator/index.html

ചിലി ദുരന്തം കേരളത്തിലായിരുന്നുവെങ്കില്‍ ?

ചിലി ദുരന്തം കേരളത്തിലായിരുന്നുവെങ്കില്‍ ?

ചില പത്രവാര്‍ത്തകളിലുടെ

• ദുരന്തത്തിനു ഉത്തരവാദിയായ മുഖ്യമന്ത്രി രാജി വെക്കുക: ഉമ്മന്ചാണ്ടി
• രക്ഷാപ്രവര്തനതിനു തടസ്സം കേന്ദ്ര നിലപാട്: മുഖ്യമന്ത്രി
• ദുരന്തത്തില്‍ പോലീസ് അനാസ്ഥ: കോടിയേരി രാജി വെക്കണം: ചെന്നിത്തല
• ദുരന്തം വിഎസിനെതിരെ ആയുധമാക്കാന്‍ പിണറായി പക്ഷം
• ദുരന്തത്തിനു ഉത്തരവാദി സിപിയെമ്മും കൊണ്ഗ്രസ്സും : ബിജെപി
• ദുരന്തം: നാളെ കേരളത്തില്‍ ഹര്‍ത്താല്‍
• ദുരന്തത്തില്‍ പ്രതിഷേധിച്ചു യു ഡി എഫ് നിയമസഭ ബഹിഷ്കരിച്ചു
• ദുരന്തം: സിപി ഐ പ്രസ്താവന മുന്നണി മര്യാദക്ക് വിരുദ്ധം
• ദുരിത്വശാസം: തീവ്രവാദ സംഘടനകളുടെ സഹായം സ്വീകരിക്കില്ല: ആര്യാടന്‍
• ദുരന്തം: തദ്ദേശ തെരഞ്ഞെടുപ്പില്‍ ആയുധമാക്കാന്‍ പ്രതിപക്ഷം
• ദുരിതാശ്വാസ പ്രവര്‍ത്തനത്തിലെ അഴിമതി അന്വേഷിക്കണം: ഉമ്മന്ചാണ്ടി
• അഴിമതി ആരോപണം രാഷ്ട്രീയപ്രേരിതം: വൈക്കം വിശ്വന്‍
• ദുരന്തത്തിന് പിന്നില്‍ അല്‍ഖാഇദ: ആര്‍.എസ്.എസ്‌
• ദുരന്തത്തിനു കാരണം മലയാളികളുടെ പ്രബുദ്ധത ഇല്ലായ്മ: അഴീക്കോട്
• ഇതിനിടെ, ഖനിക്കുള്ളില്‍ കുടുങ്ങിയവര്‍ 100ാം ദിവസം സ്വയം തുരന്ന് പുറത്തെത്തി

KERALA’s Radical Turn - Talibanisation of Kerala

Here Come the Pious

A new Islamist body, the Popular Front of India, is causing alarm with its religious overdrive in the south. VK SHASHIKUMAR tells us why we should be worried

All ears A mammoth PFI gathering listens to Ebrahim Rasool, then adviser to the South African President, in their first political conference at Kozhikode

ENGINEERING STUDENT Rayana Khasi returned home to north Kerala from Chennai four months ago, charmed and unaware that she was carrying deadly arsenal in her baggage. She had just finished with a course in aeronautical engineering, and was considering a career in the civil services. From Chennai she brought a few of her favourite things. Dreams. Knickknacks. Jeans. In Kasargod, northern Kerala, where she lived, Rayana got the shock of her life. They hated her jeans. They called her at odd times, men she didn’t know, and told her what they would do with her if she didn’t dump the jeans and put on purdah. Each time Rayana stepped out, they stared and said horrible things.

Then, four months later, she wrote to the Women’s Commission asking that she be allowed to wear what she likes. The state posted constables to protect Rayana so she could sport denim. Now, they stalked her. One day Rayana was returning after meeting her lawyer in Ernakulam, a town near the middle of Kerala. The constable got off midway. A group tried to block the car Rayana was in. She drove off. They chased the car and attacked her with stones. She had to drive to a town nearby, where the locals lent a touch of security. All this, because they didn’t like what she wore. Because they thought she was impious.

Hindus and Christians are beginning to feel uncomfortable with this brand of assertive, militant religion-centred politics of the Popular Front of India

THEY SAID they were from the Popular Front of India. Initially it was teasing and harassment. But harassment is worse than a threat to life. The comments and staring each time I ventured out, as if I was a criminal, was intolerable. They wrote to me saying they want me to wear purdah. They said what I did was blasphemy. But I don’t think it is a problem of Islam. This is an issue of the right over one’s body. It is sad that everybody is making it out as a religious problem, even those who support me,” says Rayana. Soon after the stone attack, she met Chief Minister VS Achuthanandan and the DGP. “They promised me they would do their best.”

The Popular Front of India (PFI), with its headquarters in Kozhikode, Kerala, is throwing up a curious test for India’s secularism. In classified central government reports, the PFI is accused of introducing an extremist pan-Islamist movement to India. In submissions to the High Court, the Kerala police claim it is linked to the Al Qaeda. Achuthanandan suggested the PFI has a 20-year plan to Islamicise Kerala. And then, Keralites were jolted out of their secular somnambulism on the first Sunday of July when a bunch of PFI cadres chopped the right palm of a college teacher, TJ Joseph, for setting a question paper that allegedly insulted Prophet Mohammad.

Faux power SDPI’s Abubacker inspects the guard of honour at a ‘freedom parade’

Hindus and Christians are beginning to feel uncomfortable with this brand of assertive, militant religion-centred politics. “They are the Indian Taliban, but they cannot overcome the syncretic culture of Kerala,” says Raveendran, a building contractor in Thrissur. According to him, the PFI is a temporary fad funded by petrodollars from Saudi Arabia. Mathew Nethumpara, a lawyer in Ernakulam, says he is not surprised because “intolerance has been brewing for several years”. Rayana’s struggle is a graphic illustration of the holes in Kerala’s secular net. This young student from Cherkalam in Kasargod has already received two death threats from the PFI for refusing to wear the veil. “I will not succumb to their pressure,” she says.

The PFI is a four-year-old organisation that has thrived on the controversy it generates. It was formed in December 2006, when three organisations, the National Development Front (NDF) of Kerala, the Manitha Neethi Pasarai (MNP) of Tamil Nadu, and the Karnataka Forum for Dignity (KFD) merged to form the new entity. The NDFwas involved in the Marad Beach carnage, Kerala, in May 2003. Its cadres killed eight Hindu fishermen after a scuffle over drinking water at a public tap spiraled into a communal conflict. In 2009, a special court sentenced 65 NDF cadres to life imprisonment for this. The MNP is believed to be the new avatar of Al Umma, accused of attacking an office of the rightwing Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) in Chennai in November 1993. Eleven RSS cadres were killed here. The PFI considers the members of Hamas, Taliban, and Al Qaeda as freedom fighters. In one of its publications, it says: “We declare solidarity to the freedom fighters in Palestine, Afghanistan and Iraq.”

The PFI is expanding because there is a feeling among Muslims, Dalits and Adivasis that they have been cheated, says chief Nasrudheen Elamaram

Confidential missives of the Union Ministry of Home Affairs and the Kerala Police accessed by TEHELKA suggest the PFI is the fastest-growing cadre-based Muslim organisation in India. It held its first political conference in 2009 in Kozhikode, where it came out with its influential Kozhikode Declaration. In it, the PFI said: “The War on Terror is a US agenda. It is a political tactic shaped by hegemonic forces bent upon world domination. The Muslims are the victims of the war on terror. The Indian government supports the WOT and makes available the county’s machinery for implementing the plan hatched by the US-Israel axis. It’s in the wake of this alliance that we witness the increase in bomb blasts in the country.

“The Muslims, on the other hand, have been pushed down by inferiority complex created by peculiar historic developments. They are under the wrong impression that any political move of their own is wrong. While the national secular parties are anxious to use the Muslim votes, they have been reluctant to take them in as equal partners. They have failed to secure the rights of the Muslims as citizens and refused to give even legal protection to them during communal riots which are a byword for collective anti-Muslim attacks. When the administration joined hands with anti-Muslim forces it created fear in Muslim minds. There is strong suspicion that plans are being hatched and implemented deliberately to break the Muslims economically and socially.

“The denial of basic needs and willful negligence of their just demands have imposed social slavery. No political party can shrug off responsibility for creating this situation. So it is imperative that Muslim organisations come to the forefront for the advancement of the community and to create awareness about their rights.”

It is impossible to judge whether the PFI has really sown the seeds of Talibanisation in India. For instance, Kerala’s Director General of Police Jacob Punnose says, “I realise the danger but I don’t want to exaggerate it.” Unnikrishnan, a well-known Malayalam filmmaker and culture critic says educated Muslim youth in Kerala cannot be seen in a monolithic context. “But we cannot deny that the consolidation of pan-Islamism can be seen in Kerala.” He considers the PFI’s militant retaliation for perceived injustices “a dangerously romantic imagery”. He says Muslim radicalisation in Kerala would have a big impact.

Forward march The parade, which was held in 2008 and 09, was banned this year

THE PFI’s Kerala head Nasrudheen Elamaram says his organisation is expanding because there is a feeling among Muslims, Dalits and Adivasis that they have been cheated. The PFI sees the State as the enemy. That there are visible signs of Islamisation is accepted by all. Unnikrishnan describes this as “hybrid Islamisation”. Suddenly, over the past decade, Kerala’s 26 percent Muslims appear to be twice their number. That’s because the dress code of Kerala Muslims has been made Arabic. All across Kerala most Muslim women wear head scarves or purdah or hijab. “It is fashionable to wear hijab,” says Salima, a student of BSc, Applied Statistics, in Kozhikode’s Ferook College. When first-generation educated Muslims went to the Gulf countries, they returned far more conservative than they might have been when they left India. This has been subsequently imbibed by friends, relatives and neighbours. While Elamaram admits “Gulf influence” is a factor, he adds, “Purdah is matter of faith. There is no compulsion.”

Sunil Kumar KK, is an administrator in Calicut University. He has been an anti-communalism activist working primarily among students. “In the past few years I have seen more women, and more educated women, for instance my neighbour who has a Phd, take to the hijab. There is radicalisation but that would be in small pockets. Also, one must not underestimate the role of the mafia in fuelling terror activities or easing recruitment. Go to a remote town and promise jobs or college admissions or just money. Tell people that ‘another community’ has lots of college seats and Muslims don’t. This seems to be what works for groups like the PFI,” he says.

PART OF the PFI’s growth is because it has a separate media company, the Inter Media Private Limited, held by the Thejas Publishing Charitable Trust. Thejas is the name of the PFI’s Malayalam daily that started publishing in January 2006. Since then the PFI has launched four news publications in Malayalam, Tamil and Kannada. It also has four book publishing ventures in the same languages. It has a website and a dedicated web team. It has set up an ‘Empower India Press’ to publish titles in English, Hindi and Urdu. Another organisation, called ‘Media Research and Development’ produces audiovisual products and documentaries. “We see the media as a vehicle for political empowerment,” says NP Chekkutty, Executive Editor of Thejas. “The PFI’s membership is only for Muslims because a cadre-based organisation is important for social mobilisation. So, it is not the Talibanisation or radicalisation in the sense of what is happening in Pakistan and Afghanistan,” he adds. Soon Thejas will start an edition in Saudi Arabia. So far, Thejas has employed more than 400 media professionals and is working on a Saudi Arabia edition.

All this has caught the Centre’s attention. A letter classified as secret issued by the union home ministry on 25 November 2009 states: “Thejas is part of a pan-Islamic publication network catering to the communal agenda of certain organisations. The publication invariably takes anti-establishment views on issues like plight of Muslims, Kashmir, and India’s relations with the US and Israel. Occasionally, it describes the government’s counter-militancy effort as state-sponsored terrorism, thereby endorsing the stance of militant elements. More importantly, contemporary developments and issues are invariably projected with a communal slant.” The Kerala Government took this seriously and withdrew all advertisements from Thejas on 14 May this year. “In the past financial year we got more than Rs 80 lakh as revenue from government advertisements. The decision to withdraw them from Thejas is a political decision aimed at destroying the newspaper,” says Chekkutty. But, in strange twist, the Centre’s Directorate of Advertising and Visual Publicity revived government advertisements in Thejas. The first one was an appeal by the central government to maintain calm and peace in the aftermath of the Allahabad High Court’s Babri Masjid verdict!

Black rage Activists of the NWF protest in Mysore against the Gaza blockade

In the period after the Babri Masjid verdict, the PFI is gearing up to bring all Muslim groups in India under its banner. At its Kozhikode conference, Zafaryab Jilani, the convener of the Babri Masjid Action Committee, articulated a long-cherished dream. “The Front should make sure that under its banner all the suppressed sections close ranks.” The Kozhikode Declaration also called for the unification and consolidation of Muslims, Dalits and Backwards as a ‘genuine Third Force’ in Indian politics.

The PFI has garnered rapid support within the Muslim community because it has been able to demonstrate its organisational capability. Its ‘Freedom Parade’ is the shining showpiece of its cadrestrength. On 15 August in the past two years, PFI cadres dressed in uniforms similar to paramilitary organisations staged a perfectly synchronised march in cities across Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. Muslims in Kozhikode thronged the roads and packed into the city stadium to watch the march. In 2008, the PFI chose to stage the Freedom March in Mangalore, a town known for its Hindutva extremist groups like the Sri Ram Sene. PFI seniors take pains to explain the rationale of the Freedom Parade. “The Muslim community needs to show its strength for political mobilisation. A disciplined cadre-based organisation is necessary for the progress of the community,” says Elamaram.

Some Muslims admire the PFI for its educational, social and public health initiatives. But the biggest inducement for the youth to join the outfit is jobs

This year the Kerala Government banned the parade. Kerala police officers point to a few curious features of the PFI’s show of strength. It was always held in the afternoon or evening after the official Independence Day functions were over. No PFI senior has ever turned up for official I-Day functions. The PFI has consistently refused to furnish the list of names and contact details of its marching cadres to the police so their strength is not precisely known. Police officers claim the cadres have been trained by former police and army personnel. The police claim that within the PFI, there is an Ideology Wing, Intelligence Wing and an Action Group.

SOME SOUTH Indian Muslims admire the PFI for its educational, social and public health initiatives. It offers career counselling, distributes educational aids and study material, and runs motivational programmes like the ‘School Chalo’ campaign every summer. Its medical camps are also popular. But the biggest inducement for Muslim youth to join the PFI is jobs. “We have been fairly successful in building an organisation. There was a change because employment was given to Muslim girls, boys and Dalits,” says Elamaram. The police claim PFI goes beyond providing jobs. “All Muslim youth joining the PFI are given mobile phones, motorcycles and money. The organisation also assists in job recruitments in the Gulf,” says Vinson M Paul, ADGP, Crime.

The PFI says it tapped into the anger of the Indian Muslim community after the release of the Sachar Committee Report. The official admission by the government that the Muslim community is the most backward in India set the ground for the PFI’s spectacular growth. Its assertive, militant brand of politics aimed at acquiring political power at the national level appealed to Muslims who felt powerless. The PFI’s political rationale, that the Indian Muslim community’s absence in the corridors of power is the root cause for genocidal attacks on Muslims, has resonated deeply within the community. This powerlessness leads to systematic killings of Muslims in fake encounters and communal pogroms, the PFI holds.

The Babri Masjid demolition, the riots in its wake and the Gujarat genocide are often cited in PFI literature. The organisation believes the American war on terror and India’s new-found friendship with Israel has furthered weakened Muslim “servility”. They claim that India’s security and strategic establishment have been irreparably influenced by American and Israeli intelligence and security agencies. PFI claims that Indian Muslims are victimised by Hindus for eating beef. The media constantly questions their patriotism and unquestioningly accept the role of Muslims in terrorist activities.

United front PFI leaders in a show of strength during the Kozhikode meeting

Much of this is true and a decision by Indian Muslims to consolidate themselves as a self-confident political force, partaking of democracy as equal players not second-class citizens dependent on “appeasements”, could have been a welcome move. Like the social churn Lalu Prasad and Mayawati brought in their wake, it could bring positive yield: more jobs, more education, more leverage. What makes the growth of the PFI and its associate organisations worrying though is its undertow of violence and Islamic fundamentalism.

Says Hameed Chennamangalur, former Calicut University professor and social commentator, “It’s not just the PFI. There are many other groups that share their Islamist ideology. They are like the Al Qaeda and similar groupings in Egypt, Pakistan or Bangladesh. They oppose America not because it is imperialist but because it is Christian imperialism and they see Islam as the only truth. The PFI, unlike older avatars, is extremely well funded and has been steadily building institutions — newspapers, publishing, schools.

The people who need to worry in Kerala are the liberal Muslims. Those who supported the professor who had his hand chopped off, the pro-Rushdie types...

“Mainstream Muslims in Kerala may not come out and applaud them when they do things like cutting the professor’s hand but they support them inwardly. They have supported them quietly earlier when, as the NDF, they conducted similar moral policing. The question paper incident was a small issue that they blew up because groups like them do not tolerate criticism or perceived criticism of Islam. Just like the Ram Sene or the Shiv Sena they are geared to blowing up tiny incidents.

A MUSLIM school in Kannur that took boys and girls out on a normal school excursion gets attacked. Their bus gets blocked because the NDF does not want boys or girls to mix. Or in Malapurram they tell Muslim owners of restaurants that they cannot open during Ramadan. Or decades ago in the same region the NDF burnt movie theatres they suspected were showing pornographic films. The people who need to worry in Kerala are liberal Muslims. The people who supported the professor who had his hand chopped off, pro-Rushdie people, pro-Taslima Nasreen people ... they are the ones who need to watch out. People like the Chekkanur Moulvi who was a progressive cleric who was kidnapped and killed in 1993 ... those are the kind of people who need to worry.”

There is evidently big following for the PFI even in states other than Kerala. In the past two years the PFI and its political wing, Social Democratic Party of India, have set up committees in 15 states and already have a significant following in Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. The PFI’s formulations of “total empowerment” for Muslims, Dalits, Adivasis and Backward Castes have connected with other Muslim political groups and parties. The Asom United Democratic Front (AUDF), led by perfume magnate Maulana Badruddin Ajmal, has declared solidarity with the PFI. The AUDF, with 11 MLAs in the 126-member Assam legislature, is a significant player in Assam politics. Political midgets like the Milli Ettehad Parishad in West Bengal and the Tamil Nadu Muslim Munnetra Kazhgam (TMMK) have joined the PFI-led national alliance of Muslim groups and parties. Much of this comes from the Kozhikode conference. There, Ebrahim Rasool, then advisor to the South African President, energised the PFI leadership with a simple proposition: “Muslims in South Africa account for 3 percent of its population, but have 15 percent representation in Parliament. If we can do it, why can’t the 13 percent Muslims in India do the same thing?”

Dress code Rayana Khasi has been hounded for wearing jeans in Kasargod

Stuff like this is raising an alarm in New Delhi and Thiruvananthapuram. Achuthanandan said the PFI was trying to make Kerala a “Muslim country.” “How can we convert all the people of Kerala to Islam in 20 years?” rebuts Elamaram. “If this is true, then Achuthanandan and his children too will have to change their religion.”

Taking a cue from the freedom guaranteed in the Indian Constitution to propagate religion, the PFI has set up religious propagation and education centres in Theni and Ervadi in Tamil Nadu. While Kerala police officials allege that these Arivagam centres for men and women are basically conversion centres, the PFI claims these are institutions for teaching the basic tenets of Islam over four months to those who voluntarily accept it as their religion. The course covers “reading Quran, performing salah, learning basic duas and hadiths and also conveys the message of Islam to the people. Accommodation, food and other basic requirements are given free for those who undergo these courses.” The ‘Q’ (intelligence) Branch of the Tamil Nadu Police has despatched several missives to the government alleging that the PFI is conducting a conversion campaign through its Arivagam centres.

The PFI also mobilised the Imams in Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka to form the Imams Council “for unity among the ulema”. The eventual aim is to string together a National Imams Council “to undertake (Muslim) social causes more effectively. But this is being viewed suspiciously by central intelligence agencies and the Kerala police because one of the first acts of the Imam Council was to republish a controversial 55-page book, ‘Asavarnarkku Nallathu Islam’ (Islam is Good for Non-Savarnas).

This book was first published by the Thiyya Youth League of Kochi in 1936. It contained essays by well known Ezhava and Thiyya intellectuals like Sahodaran K. Ayyappan, K. Sukumaran, K.C. Vallon and AK Bhaskar. They advocated mass conversion to Islam because of stubborn denial of temple entry rights to backward castes by the rulers of Travancore. The Kerala Police claims that in the present circumstances this book is “highly inflammatory”. The police interrogated the President of the Imam Council, Abdul Rehman Bakhiq, on the grounds that the Council was promoting communal discord. “What I am seeing is not radicalisation in the traditional sense. We understand what we are doing here is very effective. We are giving voice to a segment of people who have been ignored. We are becoming assertive through reasoned argument,” says Chekkutty. “And keeping it within the limits of the Indian Constitution.”

One argument the PFI is making is the implementation of Sharia or Islamic Banking in India. In early September, a team of Islamic scholars assembled by the PFI met RBI officials to present their case on Islamic Banking. According to the PFI, banking in accordance with Sharia laws “is the answer to abolish economic inequality and discrimination”. But RBI officials have already informed the government that under the current banking laws and regulations, Islamic banking cannot be legally implemented. The World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY) and the Muslim World League (MWL) or Rabitha, both funded by Saudi Arabia’s royal family are actively engaged in the propagation of Islam and Sharia banking in India.

Muslim politicians from Kerala, like Minister of State for Railways E. Ahmed and PV Wahab have been pushing the agenda of Islamic banking. WAMY’s representative Abdul Rahman and the MWL or Rabitha’s advisor Khalaf Bin Sulaiman Namary have also been in touch with Kerala Government and Muslim politicians for this. “The PFI is one of the beneficiaries of WAMY and Rabitha largesse,” says a police officer involved in investigating the PFI’s alleged terror linkages. For the sake of context, it is instructive to recall that American and European governments have severely curtailed the activities of WAMY and MWL on grounds of “terror financing”.

THE FUNDING requirements are channeled through these representatives, often through the hawala route. Union Home Secretary GK Pillai, during a recent visit to Kollam in Kerala, told journalists that “the funding (for Muslim organisations) seems to be more from outside than from locals.” These funds are then apportioned by WAMY and MWL’s local representatives to mosques and local Muslim community organisations for religious propagation, relief activities and education. More often than not these funds are used for religious indoctrination and radicalisation.

Taking a cue from the freedom guaranteed to propagate religion, the PFI has set up religious education centres in Theni and Ervadi in Tamil Nadu

Remittances to Kerala via legal channels show a 135 percent growth in the past five years. In 2003, remittance from the Gulf was $38 billion. In 2008 it was $90 billion. It is well known that funds transferred through hawala are 300 times the officially documented remittance. The Kerala Government has also come up with a curious nugget on land purchases. In several districts nearly 70 percent land ownership is held by Muslims, of which a considerable chunk is held by Muslim religious institutions and organisations through proxies. “We do not have a mechanism to monitor these activities. India will be taken by surprise,” says Dr Siby Mathew, ADGP Intelligence, Kerala Police. There are 25 lakh Malayali expatriates in the Gulf. More than half are Muslims. A significant amount of funding to fundamentalist and religious organisation is through their donation. A classified home ministry report alleges that rich Muslim businessmen in India and abroad fund PFI activities.

Also, the Internal Security Investigation Team (ISIT) of the Kerala Police is probing PFI activities. They claim to have seized Talibanic material, videos and “highly communal” and subversive literature, in raids conducted across Kerala. In an affidavit submitted to the Kerala High Court by R. Rajashekharan Nair, Deputy Secretary (Home), the government claimed the ISIT found CDs linked to the Al Qaeda. The court was also informed of the PFI’s alleged connections with the Lashkar-e-Tayyeba (LeT). The suspected PFI terror links were backed by revelations made the Maharashtra Anti Terrorism Squad when it arrested LeT operatives Mirza Himayat Baig and Shaikh Lal Baba Mohammad Hussain Farid, alias Bilal, for carrying out the German Bakery blast in Pune. According to the Maharashtra ATS, Baig was an active PFI cadre and was involved in arranging recruits for the LeT. None of this has been proved, of course, and PFI leaders rubbish the investigations as a fallout of India’s proximity to the US.

The Indian government believes that Kerala is turning into a cauldron of competing religious and communal interests. “Kerala should be concerned about religious fundamentalism,” warned Home Secretary Pillai in the first week of September. Surely, Kerala’s citizenry are aware of their responsibility. Only they can goad their political representatives to find a power-sharing solution for its large-sized religious minorities. It might become a role model for rest of India.

(With inputs from Shahina KK in Thiruvananthapuram)

Morning Motivation

Morning  Motivation When  I woke  up this  morning lying  in bed, I  was asking  myself; What are  some of the  secrets of success  in life? I found the  answer right  there, in  my very room. AND  NOT TO  FORGET, THE  CARPET  SAID... KNEEL  DOWN AND  PRAY. Carry  a Heart  that Never  Hates. Carry  a Smile  that Never  Fades. Carry  a Touch  that Never  Hurts.. HAVE  A PURPOSEFUL DAY IN GOD'S GRACE !

To God.com

Every single evening
As I'm lying here in bed,
This tiny little Prayer
Keeps running through my head:

God bless all my family
Wherever they may be,
Keep them warm
And safe from harm
For they're so close to me.

And God, there is one more thing
I wish that you could do;
Hope you don't mind me asking,
Please bless my computer too.

Now I know that it's unusual
To Bless a motherboard,
But listen just a second
While I explain it to you, Lord.

You see, that little metal box
Holds more than odds and ends;
Inside those small compartments
Rest so many of my friends.

I know so much about them
By the kindness that they give,
And this little scrap of metal
Takes me in to where they live.

By faith is how I know them
Much the same as you.
We share in what life brings us
And from that our friendships grew.

Please take an extra minute
From your duties up above,
To bless those in my address book
That's filled with so much love.

Wherever else this prayer may reach
To each and every friend,
Bless each e-mail inbox
And each person who hits 'send'.

When you update your Heavenly list
On your own Great CD-ROM,
Bless everyone who says this prayer
Sent up to GOD.Com

An Interesting Sypnosis !

Islamic columnist on Jews
By:  Dr Farrukh Saleem.
The writer is an  Islamabad-based freelance  columnist
Why  are Jews so powerful?
There  are only 14 million Jews in the world; seven million in  the Americas , five million in Asia, two million in Europe  and 100,000 in Africa . For every single Jew in the world  there are 100 Muslims.
Yet, Jews are more than a  hundred times more powerful than all the Muslims put  together.
Ever wondered why?
Jesus of  Nazareth was Jewish.
Albert Einstein, the most influential  scientist of all time and TIME magazine's 'Person of the  Century', was a Jew.
Sigmund Freud -- id, ego, superego --  the father of  psychoanalysis was a Jew.
So were Karl  Marx, Paul Samuelson and Milton  Friedman.
Here are a few other Jews whose  intellectual output has enriched the whole  humanity:
Benjamin  Rubin gave humanity the vaccinating needle.
Jonas Salk  developed the first polio vaccine.
Albert Sabin  developed the improved live polio vaccine.
Gertrude  Elion gave us a leukemia fighting drug.
Baruch Blumberg  developed the vaccination for Hepatitis B.
Paul Ehrlich  discovered a treatment for syphilis (a sexually  transmitted disease).
Elie Metchnikoff won a Nobel &! nbsp;Prize in infectious diseases.
Bernard Katz won a Nobel  Prize in neuromuscular transmission.
Andrew Schally won  a Nobel in endocrinology (disorders of the endocrine  system; diabetes, hyperthyroidism) .
Aaron Beck founded  Cognitive Therapy (psychotherapy to treat mental  disorders, depression and  phobias).
Gregory  Pincus developed the first oral contraceptive  pill.
George Wald won a Nobel for furthering our  understanding of the human eye.
Stanley Cohen won a  Nobel in embryology (study of embryos and their  development) .                 
Willem  Kolff came up with the kidney dialysis  machine.
Over the past 105 years, 14 million  Jews have won 15-dozen Nobel Prizes while only three Nobel  Prizes have been won by 1.4 billion Muslims (other than  Peace Prizes).
Why are Jews so powerful?
Stanley  Mezor invented the first micro-processing chip.
Leo  Szilard developed the first nuclear chain reactor;
Peter  Schultz, optical fibre cable;
Charles Adler, traffic  lights;
Benno Strauss, Stainless steel; 
Isador  Kisee, sound movies;
Emile Berliner, telephone microphone; 
Charles Ginsburg, videotape recorder.  
Famous  financiers in the business world who  belong to  Jewish faith include
Ralph Lauren (Polo),
Levis Strauss  (Levi's Jeans),
Howard Schultz (Starbuck's) ,
Sergey Brin  (Google),
Michael Dell (Dell Computers),
Larry Ellison  (Oracle),
Donna Karan (DKNY),
Irv Robbins (Baskins &  Robbins) and 
Bill Rosenberg (Dunkin  Donuts).
Richard Levin, President of Yal! e  University, is a Jew. So are Henry Kissinger (American  secretary of  state), Alan Greenspan (Fed chairman  under Reagan, Bush, Clinton and Bush), Joseph Lieberman (US Senator),  Madeleine Albright (American secretary of state), Casper  Weinberger (American secretary of defense), Maxim Litvinov  ( USSR foreign Minister), David Marshal ( Singapore 's  first chief minister), Issac Isaacs (governor-general of  Australia ), Benjamin Disraeli (British statesman and  author), Yevgeny Primakov (Russian PM), Barry Goldwater (US Senator),  Jorge Sampaio (president of Portugal ), John Deutsch (CIA  director), Herb Gray (Canadian deputy PM), Pierre Mendes  (French PM), Michael Howard (British home secretary),  Bruno Kreisky (chancellor of Austria ) and Robert Rubin  (American secretary of treasury).
In the  media, famous Jews include Wolf Blitzer (CNN), Barbara  Walters (ABC News), Eugene Meyer  (Washington Post),  Henry Grunwald (editor-in-chief Time), Katherine Graham  (publisher of The Washington Post), Joseph Lelyyeld  (Executive editor, The New York Times), and Max Frankel  (New York Times).
Can you name the most  beneficent philanthropist in the history of the world?
The  name is George Soros, a Jew, who has so far donated a  colossal $4 billion most of which has gone as aid to  scientists and universities around the world.
Second to  George Soros is Walter Annenberg, another Jew, who has  built a hundred libraries by donating an estimated $2  billion.
At  the Olympics, Mark Spitz set a record of sorts by winning  seven gold medals.
Lenny Krayzelburg is a three-time  Olympic gold medalist.
Spitz, Krayzelburg and Boris Becker (Tennis)  are all Jewish.
Did you know that Harrison  Ford, George Burns, Tony Curtis, Charles Bronson, Sandra  Bullock, Bil! ly  Crystal, Woody Allen, Paul Newman,  Peter Sellers, Dustin Hoffman, Michael Douglas, Ben  Kingsley, Kirk Douglas, Goldie Hawn, Cary Grant, William  Shatner, Jerry Lewis and Peter Falk are all  Jewish?
As a matter of fact, Hollywood itself  was founded by a Jew. Among directors and producers,  Steven Spielberg, Mel Brooks, Oliver Stone, Aaron Spelling  ( Beverly Hills 90210), Neil Simon (The Odd Couple),  Andrew Vaina (Rambo 1/2/3), Michael Man (Starsky and  Hutch), Milos Forman (One flew over the Cuckoo's Nest),  Douglas Fairbanks (The thief of Baghdad ) and Ivan Reitman  (Ghostbusters) are all Jewish.
To be certain,  Washington DC is the capital that matters and in Washington DC,  the lobby that matters is The American Israel Public  Affairs Committee, or AIPAC.
Washington knows that if  Israeli  PM  Ehud Olmert were to discover " that the earth is flat ",  AIPAC  will make the US 109th Congress pass a resolution  congratulating Olmert on his " discovery ".
William James Sidis, with an IQ of  250-300, is the brightest human who ever existed. Guess  what faith did he belong to?

So, why are Jews so  powerful?
Answer:  Education.

Why are Muslims so  powerless?
There are an  estimated 1,476,233,470 Muslims on the face of the planet:  one billion in Asia, 400 million in Africa, 44 million in  Europe and six million in the Americas .
Every fifth human  being  is a Muslim;
for every single Hindu there are  two Muslims,
for every Buddhist there are two Muslims and 
for every Jew there are one hundred Muslims.
Ever wondered  why Muslims are so powerless?
Here is why:  There are 57 member-countries of the Organisation of  Islamic Conference (OIC), and all of them put together  have around 500 universities; one university for every  three million Muslims.
The United States has 5,758  universities and India has 8,407.
In 2004, Shanghai Jiao  Tong University compiled an 'Academic Ranking of World  Universities' , and intriguingly, not one university from  Muslim-majority states was in the top-500.
As  per data collected by the UNDP, literacy in the Christian  world stands at nearly 90 per cent and 15  Christian-majority states have a literacy rate of 100 per  cent.
A Muslim-majority state, as a sharp contrast, has an  average literacy rate of around 40 per cent and there is  no Muslim-majority state with a literacy rate of 100 per  cent.
Some 98 per cent of the 'literates' in the Christian  world had completed primary school, while less than 50 per  cent of the 'literates' in the Muslim world did the same. 
Around 40 per cent of the 'literates' in the Christian  world attended university while no more than two per cent  of the 'literates' in the Muslim world did the  same.
Muslim-majority countries have 230  scientists per one million Muslims.
The US has 4,000  scientists per million and Japan has 5,000 per million.
In  the entire Arab world, the total number of full-time  researchers is 35,000 and there are only 50 technicians  per one million Arabs.  (in the Christian world there are up  to 1,000 technicians per one million).
Furthermore, the  Muslim world spends 0.2 per  cent of its GDP on  research and development, while the Christian world spends  around five per cent of its GDP.
Conclusion: The Muslim  world lacks the capacity to produce ! knowledge. 
Daily newspapers per 1,000 people and number of  book titles per million are two indicators of whether  knowledge is being diffused in a society.
In Pakistan ,  there are 23 daily newspapers per 1,000 Pakistanis while  the same ratio in Singapore is 360. In the UK , the number  of book titles per million stands at 2,000 while the same  in Egypt is 20. 
       Conclusion: The Muslim world  is failing to diffuse  knowledge.
Exports  of high technology products as a percentage of total  exports are an important indicator of knowledge  application.
Pakistan 's export of high technology  products as a percentage of total exports stands at one  per cent.
The same for Saudi Arabia is 0.3 per cent; 
Kuwait , Morocco , and Algeria are all at 0.3 per cent, 
while Singapore is at 58 per cent.
    Conclusion:  The Muslim world is failing to  apply knowledge.
Why are Muslims  powerless?
.....Because we aren't producing knowledge, 
.....Because we aren't diffusing knowledge.,
.....Because we  aren't applying knowledge.
And, the future  belongs to knowledge-based  societies.
Interestingly, the combined annual  GDP of 57 OIC-countries is under $2 trillion.
America ,  just by herself, produces goods and services worth $12  trillion;
China $8 trillion,
Japan $3.8 trillion and 
Germany $2.4 trillion (purchasing power parity basis). 
Oil  rich Saudi Arabia , UAE, Kuwait and Qatar collective! ly  produce goods and services (mostly oil) worth $500  billion;
Spain alone produces goods and services worth  over $1 trillion,
Catholic Poland $489 billion and 
Buddhist Thailand $545 billion.

..... ( Muslim GDP as a percentage of world  GDP is fast  declining ).

So,  why are Muslims so powerless?
Answer:  Lack of education.

All we do is  shout to Allah the whole day !!!  and blame everyone else for  our multiple  failures!!!!!

Islamic columnist on Jews
By:  Dr Farrukh Saleem.

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An open letter to Sonia Gandhi asking her make the Government consult people before tabling the Biotechnology Regulatory Authority of India (BRAI) bill.

Respected Madam,

The unpredictability and irreversibility of Genetic Engineering (GE) and the uncontrollability of GE crops in the environment coupled with studies pointing at the potential risk to human health and environment has resulted in a controversy across the world around the need for introducing such potentially risky organisms.

The nationwide debate on Bt Brinjal highlighted the concerns of all sections of the society including scientist on GM food in general and Bt Brinjal in particular. This also saw 10 state governments writing to the central government about the concerns they have with Bt Brinjal. All this at that time had lead to a moratorium on Bt Brinjal declared by the Union Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh.

Instead of heeding the citizens concerns and establishing a strong regulatory mechanism with the mandate of protecting the health of the citizens, livelihood of our farmers and safety of our environment the Government is going ahead with the establishment Biotechnology Regulatory Authority of India (BRAI) which will act as a single window clearance mechanism for GM crops, in effect paving the way for the re-approval of Bt Brinjal.

Here are some of the problems with this bill:

• The approval of GM crops would be based on a presumption that GM crops are a potential solution to all agricultural problems and that the country’s food security crisis can be resolved by introducing GM crops. On the contrary, many scientists agree to fact that real solutions for today’s agricultural problems are in ecological farming methods.
• The approvals also presume that the safety of a GM crop can be best assessed by the company which stands to benefit from the approval.
• The bill proposes a centralised, technocratic decision making authority with no scope for democratic intervention. The apex authority is the BRAI with a chairperson and two members, all scientists with either a biotech or a health background.
• BRAI gives no role to state governments in the approval of GM crops even though agriculture is a state subject under the Indian constitution.
• BRAI sits inside the Ministry of Science and technology creating serious conflict of interest.Dept of Biotechnology – under the Ministry of Science &Technology, has the mandate of promotion of GE crops. DBT funds several GE crop development projects using public funds and is the nodal agency for redirecting funds from foreign governments to GE crop development projects.
• Sections of the bill super cede the Right to Information Act and place the decision to disclose information for public interest with the authority instead of the Central Information Commission or the Delhi high court. The BRAI would kill any informed public debate on GE crops in future, one of the aspects that helped in stopping Bt Brinjal.
• BRAI kills consumer choice and promotes GE polluters as it has no provision for labeling of GE crops, or liability of the crop developer due to economic losses by contamination.

There is a need re-draft the bill, first with an effort to disclose the draft bill and hold public consultations and take in suggestions and issues that are concerning the all citizens of our country.

With the Government failing us by giving an approval for the BRAI bill, our hope lies with the National Advisory Council under your chairpersonship. The fact that the council pro-actively and effectively intervened in the drafting of two important legislations, the Food Security bill and the Communal Violence bill and is doing so with many others, gives us confidence that you will heed the concerns of us citizens and would stop the bill from being tabled in the Parliament in its present form.

The agri-biotech policy of this country is in need for a critical review and we hope the NAC can provide millions of farmers who practice ecological farming a chance to rejuvenate the country’s food production and re-establish its food security.

Sincerely,

SJR Kumar

I AM PROUD TO BE AN INDIAN

13 and Friday the 13th

 

The number 13 has always been and is still considered to be sinister by many. For some, going to office or carrying out any auspicious task is out of the question on the 13th day of a month. Many others consider only Friday the 13th to be inauspicious. Friday the 13th's bad reputation goes back to the days when under pressure from King Philip IV of France, Pope Clement V had ordered his men to capture and burn all the Templar knights, a brigade of powerful crusaders who the king felt were a threat to him.