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  • ‘Saffron entrap’: Pamphlets in Indore declare Hindu outfits attempting to rework Muslim women into Kafirs

    By Express News Service

    BHOPAL: A pamphlet titled Khula Khat (open letter) for Muslim women and women cautioning them regarding the ‘saffron love entice’ conspiracy inside the BJP-ruled Madhya Pradesh’s Indore has saved the cops on their toes. 

    The pamphlet mentions the RSS and totally different right-wing outfits similar to the Bajrang Dal plotting a conspiracy to rework Muslim women. It further mentions that they’ve tried to rework spherical 10 lakh Muslim women into Kafirs (non-believers of God and tenets of Islam).

    It moreover mentions about conversion of 800 Muslim women, having been already completed in Amravati, a metropolis in Maharashtra.

    It further alerts Muslim women regarding the social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram getting used to lure Muslim women into friendship traps in faculties and colleges.

    A replica of the concerned pamphlet was reportedly shared by a Hindu woman with the Indore police on Tuesday evening time.

    “An FIR has subsequently been lodged u/s 153-A IPC (promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race, place of birth, residence, language, etc) at the Rawji Bazar police station against unidentified persons and investigations are underway,” Indore’s police commissioner Makarand Deouskar suggested to this newspaper on Wednesday.

    According to key Indore police sources, city police had already been engaged on explicit inputs of such pamphlets being distributed by some youngsters in Muslim-dominated areas of city.

    The pamphlets had been circulated primarily at delicate localities along with Khajrana, Chandan Nagar, Rawji Bazar and Bombay Bazar areas.

    Inputs of such pamphlets being distributed in Muslim-dominated areas have been emanating for the previous couple of weeks.

    Investigators strongly contemplate that it’s a concerted effort by some organized group to find out the counter-narrative in the direction of the right-wing Hindu group’s rising narrative of ‘Love Jihad,’ as a result of the saffron outfits’ narrative has considerably gained momentum following the sphere office success of the controversial movie, ‘The Kerala Story’.

    The Adah Sharma-starrer movie, which focuses on the alleged compelled spiritual conversion of women in Kerala sooner than inducting them into the phobia outfit ISIS, has been declared tax-free by the BJP authorities in MP.

    Recently, a Hindu woman lodged a grievance at Indore’s Kharjana police station, in the direction of her live-in companion Faizan, alleging that she was assaulted brutally by him, after watching ‘The Kerala Story’ movie.

    She moreover accused her live-in companion of sexually and bodily assaulting her and forcing her to rework to Islam.

    A case was lodged by Indore police and the accused was subsequently arrested.

    Importantly, being the nucleus of the communally delicate Malwa space of MP, Indore and adjoining areas, have moreover been weak to actions of banned outfits, along with Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) and the Popular Front of India (PFI). 

    BHOPAL: A pamphlet titled Khula Khat (open letter) for Muslim women and women cautioning them regarding the ‘saffron love entice’ conspiracy inside the BJP-ruled Madhya Pradesh’s Indore has saved the cops on their toes. 

    The pamphlet mentions the RSS and totally different right-wing outfits similar to the Bajrang Dal plotting a conspiracy to rework Muslim women. It further mentions that they’ve tried to rework spherical 10 lakh Muslim women into Kafirs (non-believers of God and tenets of Islam).

    It moreover mentions about conversion of 800 Muslim women, having been already completed in Amravati, a metropolis in Maharashtra.googletag.cmd.push(carry out() googletag.present(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    It further alerts Muslim women regarding the social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram getting used to lure Muslim women into friendship traps in faculties and colleges.

    A replica of the concerned pamphlet was reportedly shared by a Hindu woman with the Indore police on Tuesday evening time.

    “An FIR has subsequently been lodged u/s 153-A IPC (promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race, place of birth, residence, language, etc) at the Rawji Bazar police station against unidentified persons and investigations are underway,” Indore’s police commissioner Makarand Deouskar suggested to this newspaper on Wednesday.

    According to key Indore police sources, city police had already been engaged on explicit inputs of such pamphlets being distributed by some youngsters in Muslim-dominated areas of city.

    The pamphlets had been circulated primarily at delicate localities along with Khajrana, Chandan Nagar, Rawji Bazar and Bombay Bazar areas.

    Inputs of such pamphlets being distributed in Muslim-dominated areas have been emanating for the previous couple of weeks.

    Investigators strongly contemplate that it’s a concerted effort by some organized group to find out the counter-narrative in the direction of the right-wing Hindu group’s rising narrative of ‘Love Jihad,’ as a result of the saffron outfits’ narrative has considerably gained momentum following the sphere office success of the controversial movie, ‘The Kerala Story’.

    The Adah Sharma-starrer movie, which focuses on the alleged compelled spiritual conversion of women in Kerala sooner than inducting them into the phobia outfit ISIS, has been declared tax-free by the BJP authorities in MP.

    Recently, a Hindu woman lodged a grievance at Indore’s Kharjana police station, in the direction of her live-in companion Faizan, alleging that she was assaulted brutally by him, after watching ‘The Kerala Story’ movie.

    She moreover accused her live-in companion of sexually and bodily assaulting her and forcing her to rework to Islam.

    A case was lodged by Indore police and the accused was subsequently arrested.

    Importantly, being the nucleus of the communally delicate Malwa space of MP, Indore and adjoining areas, have moreover been weak to actions of banned outfits, along with Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) and the Popular Front of India (PFI). 

  • Iran’s anti-hijab motion to Afghanistan’s Taliban rule: Feminists talk about struggles of ladies

    An all-woman panel spoke on ‘Hijab. Hate. And State: The fight for human rights. And feminist churn within the Muslim world’ on the India Today Conclave 2023.

    (From L-R) Sanam Naraghi Anderlini, Fawzia Koofi, Sheeba Aslam Fehmi, Ruha Shadab. (Image: India Today/Hardik Chhabra)

    By India Today News Desk: Hijab has been a symbolic and bodily oppressive garb; ladies have pushed towards it up to now 40 years; however it’s additionally the tip of the iceberg as a result of what issues is altering the legal guidelines, stated Sanam Naraghi Anderlini, an Iranian peace activist whereas speaking in regards to the anti-hijab protests which have made world headlines.

    Speaking on the India Today Conclave 2023, Sanam Naraghi Anderlini stated, “Anti-hijab protests [in Iran] were a watershed movement. It was the culmination of three generations coming on the street, giving a unified message – women’s freedom. What was more unique to see was men standing shoulder-to-shoulder with women and protesting for their rights.”

    Sanam Naraghi Anderlini, who can be the founding father of the International Civil Society Action Network, spoke at a panel dialogue that included Ruha Shadab, founder, LedBy Foundation; Sheeba Aslam Fehmi, Islamic feminist, scholar, and columnist; and Fawzia Koofi, Afghan political chief and activist.

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    “What I wear and what I do, these are all my choices. It is my body. We want to deal with bigger issues like peace and development,” Sanam stated, including, “Across the world, when women lead a movement, it’s always non-violent. They may join a non-violent movement, but when they lead a movement, it’s always peaceful and non-violent.”

    The Conclave 2023 session additionally featured a dialogue on the scenario in Afghanistan the place a number of experiences of ladies dealing with oppression have emerged for the reason that Taliban got here to energy within the nation.

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    Speaking on the India Today Conclave 2023, Fawzia Koofi, Afghan political chief and activist, stated, “The struggle for women in Afghanistan goes beyond appearance. Taliban retain their power through suppressive behaviour. They suppress women because they think we are an easy object. This is a misinterpretation of the Islamic religion. Banning girls’ education is not a part of religion. I think it’s about control and about survival.”

    “Women of Afghanistan want to go to offices, schools and universities. This point is missing in the international arena,” Fawzia Koofi identified.

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    When requested about how Islamic feminism is totally different from Muslim feminism, Sheeba Aslam Fehmi, Islamic feminist, scholar, and columnist, stated, “Islamic feminism is a very rigorous-based knowledge project that informs the world that it is about reclaiming what has already been given or ordained to women. We say that we don’t want anything from the clergy. We just want whatever has already been given 1,400 years back. There are a lot of radical aspects also which the western world is not espousing currently.”

    “Feminism is understood as something very western, something very alien and something that is not suited to cultural societies, but Islamic feminism is talking about the original divine text and asking the clergy that I am ready to learn Islam from you, but I am also ready to teach Islam as well,” Sheeba stated.

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    Mar 17, 2023

  • Hijab debate turns up warmth at Odisha Literary Festival

    Express News Service

    BHUBANESWAR: The viewers may really feel the warmth because the hijab debate took centre stage on day one of many tenth version of Odisha Literary Festival right here on Saturday. At the session ‘The Hijab Question: Who Decides Who wears What’, tutorial and researcher Madhu Kishwar stirred up the gang by saying Muslim girls must put on ‘hijab, niqab and burqa’ for the protection of Hindu males. “Muslims keep their women in burqas to keep them away from the eyes of Kafirs (non-believers). In Islam, there is only one punishment for a Hindu boy if he marries a Muslim girl – to be throttled to death. So, Hindu boys will not meet such a fate if Muslim women are in hijab or niqab.”

    Opening the talk initiated by pageant coordinator Kaveree Bamzai, editor and creator Ghazala Wahab stated India being a secular nation, no organisation or establishment ought to inform anyone to not flaunt their non secular identification in public. It is all people’s proper. The Constitution ensures it. “No institution forbids you from coming to work or study wearing a Kalaba (sacred thread around wrists). If that is acceptable, then why is another form of religious flaunting suddenly unacceptable. Why should anybody object to someone wearing a head scarf?” she requested.

    Ghazala stated Muslim girls are among the many least highly effective members of the group. They aren’t allowed to enterprise outdoors by their mother and father, particularly fathers, with no hijab. Patriarchy and the Ulemas have been manipulating the group in imposing such guidelines on girls. “The state can show a little magnanimity, can do a little bit of hand-holding so that this religious conservatism does not stop Muslim women from having access to education and workforce,” she stated.

    Countering Ghazala, Madhu stated India’s secular courts mustn’t ‘waste time’ on non secular points like carrying hijab. “Why is India’s secular government so eager to free Muslim women from Islam’s ways of life. The police and Army are afraid of Muslim women as they are very skilled in pelting stones. Why do such empowered women, who are fighters, need sympathy and help of the government. They are capable of fighting for their rights.” 

    She additional stated Muslim leaders brazenly declare that for them, Sharia is above all legal guidelines. If that’s the case, why do they method secular courts in search of permission to put on hijab which, for them, is a vital follow in Islam.

    “Besides, this essential practice is applicable on a section of Muslim women. There are many celebrities and activists who don’t wear hijab but back such practices in the name of freedom of choice. Do these women not know that the concept of freedom of choice is not there in Islam?” questioned Madhu.

    BHUBANESWAR: The viewers may really feel the warmth because the hijab debate took centre stage on day one of many tenth version of Odisha Literary Festival right here on Saturday. At the session ‘The Hijab Question: Who Decides Who wears What’, tutorial and researcher Madhu Kishwar stirred up the gang by saying Muslim girls must put on ‘hijab, niqab and burqa’ for the protection of Hindu males. “Muslims keep their women in burqas to keep them away from the eyes of Kafirs (non-believers). In Islam, there is only one punishment for a Hindu boy if he marries a Muslim girl – to be throttled to death. So, Hindu boys will not meet such a fate if Muslim women are in hijab or niqab.”

    Opening the talk initiated by pageant coordinator Kaveree Bamzai, editor and creator Ghazala Wahab stated India being a secular nation, no organisation or establishment ought to inform anyone to not flaunt their non secular identification in public. It is all people’s proper. The Constitution ensures it. “No institution forbids you from coming to work or study wearing a Kalaba (sacred thread around wrists). If that is acceptable, then why is another form of religious flaunting suddenly unacceptable. Why should anybody object to someone wearing a head scarf?” she requested.

    Ghazala stated Muslim girls are among the many least highly effective members of the group. They aren’t allowed to enterprise outdoors by their mother and father, particularly fathers, with no hijab. Patriarchy and the Ulemas have been manipulating the group in imposing such guidelines on girls. “The state can show a little magnanimity, can do a little bit of hand-holding so that this religious conservatism does not stop Muslim women from having access to education and workforce,” she stated.

    Countering Ghazala, Madhu stated India’s secular courts mustn’t ‘waste time’ on non secular points like carrying hijab. “Why is India’s secular government so eager to free Muslim women from Islam’s ways of life. The police and Army are afraid of Muslim women as they are very skilled in pelting stones. Why do such empowered women, who are fighters, need sympathy and help of the government. They are capable of fighting for their rights.” 

    She additional stated Muslim leaders brazenly declare that for them, Sharia is above all legal guidelines. If that’s the case, why do they method secular courts in search of permission to put on hijab which, for them, is a vital follow in Islam.

    “Besides, this essential practice is applicable on a section of Muslim women. There are many celebrities and activists who don’t wear hijab but back such practices in the name of freedom of choice. Do these women not know that the concept of freedom of choice is not there in Islam?” questioned Madhu.