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Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the US Army officer behind last week’s Fort Hood massacre in Texas, was in communications with individuals in Pakistan and had also wired money, according to US Congressman Michael McCaul.

The Union Home Minister has spoken at Deoband about the majority community’s duty to protect the minority community. No one can take exception to this call. But why did he fail to point out that this rule has not been followed where Muslims are in majority, as in the Kashmir Valley from where all Hindu Pandits have been driven out?

The minority Hindus have been given a raw deal in the government college in Bhatkal. While all others have been made to wear the uniforms compulsorily the Minority Muslim students were allowed to wear their religious dresses in the college campus as well as in the class rooms.

In a sense, any discussion on the repudiation of Indian nationhood by Islamic fanatics who view India’s National Song not as a celebration of the concept of motherland as defined by our civilisational ethos but as Hindu idolatory is meaningless.

"Singing of Vande Mataram is a prayer and against Islamic law as Muslims cannot offer prayers to anyone except Allah. Muslims should not sing Vande Mataram," said Mufti Ehsan Kazmi, deputy-in-charge of Darul Uloom's fatwa department.

VHP today lashed out at Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind for adopting a resolution asking Muslims not to recite 'Vande Mataram'

"If anti-national fatwas are issued in the presence of the Union Home Minister then there is no future for this country. It looks like the Centre has a policy of Muslim appeasement for votes," - Shiv Sena Executive President Uddhav Thackeray.

Beijing (China): A court in western China's Xinjiang region sentenced six people to death on Monday in the first trials over July 5 riots that left nearly 200 people dead, state-run television reported.

Petition filed by mother of Ishrat Jahan, who was killed in an alleged encounter, challenging the high court's order staying a judicial probe report which had described the incident as a "cold blooded" murder.

India today condemned and rejected the observations of the Organisation of Islamic Conference on Jammu and Kashmir.

Two Marathi schools at Khardanda and Lakshminagar have been closed down; but number of Urdu schools in the suburbs has increased.

The government's move to set up a national board to provide modern education in madrasas failed to get full backing of Muslim MPs today as a majority of them felt that the composition of the proposed body did not fully represent the community.

Government has allotted an amount of Rs. Four Crores( Rs.40 Million) for the pension plan for Madrassa Teachers this year.

Starting in the late 1980s-after the dual shocks of the Iranian revolution and the Soviet war in Afghanistan-Saudi Arabia's quasi-official charities became the primary source of funds for the fast-growing jihad movement.

Recently we have been treated to a grand vaudeville show by the mainstream media about the alleged fake encounter in which a 19 year old Muslim girl was killed five years ago.