"The fatwa of Darul Uloom (opposing the recitation of Vande Mataram) is correct," stated one of the 25 resolutions passed by the Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind on Tuesday, at its 30th general session in Deoband, in the presence of Union Home Minister P Chidambaram.
Darul Uloom's fatwa department had issued the edict in 2006, describing the recitation of Vande Mataram as anti-Islamic.
"The judgment of the Supreme Court also clearly states that nobody can be compelled to sing Vande Mataram," said the resolution, which was adopted by over 10,000 clerics from across the country.
It also expressed deep concern over the communal hatred and violence exploiting the issue.
"We love and respect the mother, but do not worship her. The house demands that the issue of Vande Mataram should not be deliberately raised to cause communal discord and threat to law and order," said the resolution, which sparked a sharp reaction from certain groups, which burnt the effigy of Darul Deoband at some places.
The resolution also condemned the exploitation of the Vande Mataram issue to target Muslims.
"Patriotism does not require the singing of Vande Mataram. We love our country and have proved this several times, but Vande Mataram violates our faith in monotheism, which is the foundation of Islam," the resolution said.
The Jamiat also attacked the United Progressive Alliance government and asked it to stop making 'lucrative promises' to minorities and immediately implement the recommendations of the Sachar Committee report.
The body also adopted a series of resolutions asking the UPA government to stop interfering in minorities' affairs, including tampering with the madrasa education system.
"We demand that the UPA government implement the Sachar Committee and the Ranganath Commission recommendations, so that maximum number of people are benefited," a resolution said.
The Jamiat also opposed the central government's plan to set up a Central Madrasa Board, saying it was yet "another attempt by the government to interfere in the madrasa education system".
"The government must avoid setting up the Madrasa Board," it warned.
It also urged the government to formulate a law against communal riots and to secure Waqf properties. The resolutions opposed amendments in Article 377 and 33 per cent reservation for women, calling it 'unnecessary and unacceptable'.
The Jamiat further condemned suicide bombings, saying it takes the lives of innocent people. The concluding day of the three-day session was also attended by Communist Party of India - Marxist leader Sitaram Yechury and yoga guru Ramdev, who demonstrated his skills to thousands of Muslim clerics.
The Darul Uloom had issued a fatwa in favour of yoga after some clerics last year banned Muslims from practising it.
Source: PTI
All's well that Ends well.....
btw, I did some research about Lord Krishna and Radha. At some places, it being said that they married and elsewhere, its just that they loved each other but didnt get married after he became king..etc
hello there...SKG looks like you got loads of energy (hatred against muslims)
hmm...come to think of it, if i follow your logic, who is killing muslims in pakistan? It has to be India then. Well that's atleast what pakistanis say...
and hey, SKG you haven't provided any sources to your version of history, whereas your counterpart has produced some really good ones.
As far as comments you are making, these are found in all newspapers and they need to be thoroughly analyzed and investigated before I make some comments.
You are under false impression that Muslims are suffering in India. Yes, there are some riots and Muslims have become victims in them. It is a fact that Hindus also suffered and died in these riots. Regarding your question related to Punjab, read carefully about what happened to Sikhs and Hindus in Lahore . The same thing happened to Muslims in Amritsar... Ethnic cleansing occured in Pakistan and so it did happen in Punjab to the Muslims.
The question is the destiny of Hindus and Muslims are tied together and the fate of Bangladesh, India and Pakistan are similarly tied...
How do you want to improve the situation and provide equal justice to all groups ?.
Mutual cooperation is required among all the three countries and a frame work needs to be created for the security concerns for all the minorities in each individual country.
You can provide news that say that Muslims are suffering more . However, I can also say Hindus are similarly suffering..
For me to ignore the suffering of Hindus in Bangladesh and Kashmir is a hypocrisy on the part of Indian government.
If what you are saying is true about Kashmir Pandits, 'Amazon Jaglawak 09', it is well and good for them. I think the Pandits are mainly not going back to Kashmir Valley because of security reasons. In 1989, it is a open fact that the local Muslim community carried pamplets that warned them to vacate the valley otherwise their lifes will be in danger. Mrs.Benazir Bhutto was instrumental in generating the hatred among the Kashmir Muslims towards Kashmiri Pandtis. I really don't know how much of the money that was granted by the government is really reaching them. There is a huge bueracracy between government granting funds and people receiving them.
I am for equal justice to both communities. I don't think Muslims are treated that badly in India. May be you are seeing the news presented by just Muslim community. Infact, Kashmiri Muslims are getting lot of freebies . They are going to get a new railwayline which will make their lifes easy in 5-10 years.
Indian muslims enjoy lot of benefits of a minority community in India. In Andhra Pradesh, their are lot of Minority institutions owned by Muslim politicians, and in Hyderabad, people like Owaisi, Bhabhukhan are crore-patis. Recently A.P government gave them 4% of reservations in educational and jobs. The Minority institutions are meant to help the minorities, especially Muslims to get education and have a bright future. However, there is lot of corruption in the Minority institutions.
Who is responsible for the suffering of Kashmir Muslims ?. I would say Pakistan is primarly responsible for the suffering of Kashmir Muslims. Pakistan is not happy with what they got during Independence. They have a eye to grab whole Kashmir. They already got POK and still not happy with it. Why are they training terrorists in POK ?. Kashmiri Muslims are getting killed in the fights between Indian army and Terrorists.
To resolve Kashmir issue, Pakistan needs to come give some concessions and India already gave them the concession of accepting POK as part of Pakistan.
SKG
A lot of criminal activities takes place around the world , a lot of injustice happens around the world , but such evil is general in nature it happens everywhere not only in Bangladesh and Pakistan, look at the Annals of Indian History , muslims are found almost every where in india with a fair average density but do you know that between the area between Delhi and Lahore they are almost non existent , where did they go what happned , most of the major cities and towns in punjab were founded by muslims but no one is to be found there Why???
There are grand Mosques in Punjab which are used as Stables for the bufallows, but not a single muslim soul for hundreds of square kilometre evin today you will find lots of muslim women in firozpur district wherethey were forcibly raped , converted to sikhism and kept as " loundies " alias " rekhails " , they are still living and are old now their numbers is not in the hundreds but in Thousands...
Do some research Bro,
Do some research on Banda who Demolished Sirhind such that the dead body from the graves were dug out and thrown away , forget about what they did to the living, this is Indian History my friend full of stuff which you fail to believe in this great culture of ours.
Akbar the Mughal Emperor has been widely accepted by all scholars to be a just and secular Emperor and very favourable to the Hindus, after Ashoka he again gave a glimmer of hope in unifing the entire subcontinent, he evin went against the hardliners in his administration and tried to give an alternative religion the Din e Illahi.
But what did this great Emperor get in return , The Hindu Jats attacked and looted His Tomb in Sikandra , dug out his Bones from the grave and evin burnt his rotten bones, This is what Akbar got from the Hindus , My dear friend the tomb in Sikandra is Hollow , it does not contain the remains of Akbar , this is what the Muslims got and what they are getting and will get in the future from their fanatical counterparts..
Hurriat Leaders like Miwaiz Umer Farook, Yasin Mir, Shabir Shah, Abdul Ghani Bhat , Ansari and Also Geelani . Have repeatedly said on the TV that Kashmiri Pandits are their brothers and they are welcome back in Kashmir . All the yatris and tourists are their brothers and no one will touch them, in fact evin during the agitation the yatra was going on and nothing happened to the yatries , in fact the Hurriat leaders went to the base camp to help the yatries of any difficulties. Its a fact that the Jammu hindus attacked the Bus of the Yatries near Udhampoor and burnt it down and beat the Yatris for travelling to kashmir and doing darshan.
How Ironical SkG
SKG
Firstly Amarnath Land Row is a seperate issue , it has nothing to do with Kashmiri pandits .
Secondly its not 100 Canals but the land in question was 40 Acres.
Its not the Question of give and take, its about if the land is being let to be utilized for yatra purpose or not.
in fact the total land being utilized from both sonamarg Baltal area and Pahalgam chandan wari area is more than 400 acres, the yatris come utilise it and go , no one asks them a single penny to it. The land belongs to the Govt of J&K , its public land belonging to the forest department, it is public property, why should it be sold to anyone in the first place , when lacks of yatries are using it annually..
creation of amnities and facilities is the duty of the government they will do it from public funds , agitation should be done to get more facilties not ask for the land then fence it, telling muslims to stay outside it, and treat them like third class citizens in their own land, you know one thing that the agitation happned only because the Shrine Board erected fencing and said muslims to stay out from those areas, the muslims earned their living by carrying the yatris on their backs and horses and selling small items to the yatries, when this was the situation reached they questioned why they were being denied to go forward, the reason shown by the shrine board was they owned the land and they could restrict whom to let go and whom to restrict , this affected the livelyhood of thousands of familys so they took the matter in public forum and the rest is history..
SKG look at the facts carefully before pronouncing your judgements..
SKG
Flats are made , housing colony developed , a ready job, loan with heavy subsidies , school for children, what more do they want??
Kashmiri Pandits are hipocrates, if they make more hue and cry over this issue, they must reasise that they cant be treated all the time , they must come back to the valley and leade normal lives, no one will tell them anything,, Each Year hundreds of thousand of Bihari labourers come to the valley , they work here and go back , no muslim has touched them nor discriminated nor threatned or killed them on account of them being hindus , why would anyone kill a Kashmiri Pandit, each year almost 5 lack tourists visit Kashmir almost all of them are hindus , who has threatned them??
Almost 10 lack amarnat yatries visited the state who has threatned or killed them , no one , infact without the active help of muslims its not possible to visit the gufa at all.
The Pandits are creating this situation just to get more and more benifits from the centre , thats all, just imagin the package announced is already bein criticised by various KP Groups of being nothing and inadequate,,,,.
Look Back in History look at their role between the period 1826 and 1947 First Phase
They treated the kashmiri muslim not more than cattle , do you know they were the people responsible for formulating absurd laws in the sikh rule in kashmir werby if you killed a cow there was death penalty but if you killed a Kashmiri Muslim you could get away by paying a fine of Five Rupees.
Do you know how these people orchistrated the artificial famin in Kashmir in 1831 in which 3/4 of the population of the valley died, the population of kashmir was approx 800000 at that time so nearly 600000 died as a result , what do you say this is, Mass Murdur not by the sword but by the pen my friend. If i start this will potray me as an anti Kashmiri Pandit, which by the way i am not , and also one of my best friend is a Kashmiri Pandit, he knows all this but we all have seen terrible times.
i hope you must have understood the story by now
SKG
In a country where farmers are commiting sucide for a mere sum of Rs 3000/- , Just imagin how these people are being treated.
Kashmiri pandits being the creamy layer of the societs has got reservation in most of the state and central govt sponcered educational institutes and also job reservation in central government department of the country , they have a seperate quota in IAS, in maharastra they have a seperate quota in engineering colleges, lots of pandits have registered themselves in migrant camps just to recieve free rations and monetery support from the government, a small minority do stay in migrant camps but by showing this the larger group of pandits are playing the game and getting benifits from the centre..
Recently there was a scam a husband and wife team were drawing as much as 30000 per month in benifit by quoting false names, this case was made public by the state vigilance commision , just imagin how would such people want to go back in kashmir and live normal lives, they get all this extra benifit only by harping that they have been victimised back in the valley.
Everyone who had a job back in kashmir has been given a job back in jammu or other places, while the muslims who had also run away from the valley in the same period has recieved nothing and i am pretty sure they will get nothing any time soon,,
Why??
In fact the Kashmiri muslims have suffered more. And are the kashmiri muslims who fled the turmoil in the valley whose numbers are more than the Kashmiri Pandits not Refugies in their own land and state,??, Why are you not looking at their plight , there is no package for them why telly me why is the Govt showing such step motherly attitude ?? Just tell me what more is to be done for the Kashmiri Pandits , least they kill us by making us so guilty for the entire episode.