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Let’s Dump Secularism! Its Icons have already done so!

On 17th June 2007 Pratibha Devsing Patil made a remark on the Purdah system, while addressing a congregation of Rajputs in Udaipur : “Women have always been respected in the Indian culture. The purdah system was introduced to protect them from the Muslim invaders." However, times have changed, she said. “India is now independent and hence, the systems should also change. Now that women are progressing in every field, we should morally support and encourage them by leaving such practices behind”, she advised. On 30th March 2009 Justice Markandeya Katju speaking for a bench headed by Justice Raveendran observed while rejecting the plea of a Muslim student that he should be permitted to sport a beard in his convent school, “Secularism cannot be overstretched and that ‘Talibanisation’ of the country cannot be permitted. We don't want to have Talibans in the country. Tomorrow a girl student may come and say that she wants to wear a burqa, can we allow it". The former is

A call to thinkers across the world: Reject Capitalism with its calamities and crises

In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful PRESS RELEASE A call to thinkers across the world: Reject Capitalism with its calamities and crises. Here is a Real Alternative... There is an overwhelming opinion amongst politicians, economists and thinkers across the world that the cause behind the ongoing disaster of the economic recession is the ideology of Capitalism itself. Capitalism protects the interests of the capitalists - filling their pockets at the expense of the rest of the people. It has deprived millions of a basic standard of living in order to secure the comforts and luxuries of the capitalists and has divided the world into two: the 5 per cent of people who own more than 80 per cent of the world's wealth and resources and the remaining 95 per cent of the world's population who barely own 20 per cent of the resources. Political leaders and economists seem unconvinced that they are able to provide a solution to this serious recession. Indeed, they appear to b

Open Letter to the Muslim Rulers Attending G20 Summit

An Open Letter To the King of Saudi Arabia, The Prime Minister of Turkey and the President of Indonesia on their attendance at the G20 Leaders Summit in London on 2 April 2009 Since 1999, the G20 has been at the forefront of designing the financial architecture that has now crumbled before our very eyes. It has been complicit in the financial and economic policies that has fostered the worst international economic crisis since the great depression. It not only averted its gaze while financiers ran amok but positively encouraged the free and unfettered markets that has led to the horrendous situation before us. Yet today it claims to be the organisation that will rescue the world from financial ruin, a claim that would be laughable if it wasn’t for the grave situation that we witness today. It is deeply ironic that the latest G20 summit is being held in the part of London which comprises the spiritual home of the world’s largest banks and the derivatives capital of the world, both instr