Holi, or Holli, is a spring religious festival celebrated by Hindus. It is primarily observed in India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and countries with large Indic diaspora populations, such as Suriname, Malaysia, Guyana, South Africa, Trinidad, United Kingdom, United States, Mauritius, and Fiji. In West Bengal and Orissa of India it is known as Dolyatra (Doul… [Read more…]
March 4, 2011
By Richard L. Benkin Jihad has come to India. The Obama administration and the State Department will tell you that it is nothing more than isolated acts by individuals. The government in New Delhi will say you are stirring up anti-Muslim sentiment. The mainstream media will ask how you can say that when we are… [Read more…]
November 16, 2010
by Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury Bayeezid Khan Panni aka Selim Panni, founder and kingpin of notorious Islamist militancy group Hizbut Towhid [HuT] believes in theory of hate speech and poisoning the minds of innocent people with his self-made imaginary statements and stories, which are aimed at creating tremendous hatred in the minds of Muslims against… [Read more…]
August 18, 2010
KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA, July 28, 2010: A Malaysian court on Tuesday fined 12 Muslims and sentenced one of them to a week in prison for illegally protesting the construction of a Hindu temple by parading a severed cow’s head. The 12 men were among scores of Muslims who marched with a bloodied cow’s head from… [Read more…]
August 17, 2010
Purwakarta, West Java. Clerics of the Indonesian Ulema Forum staged a mass demonstration outside the local administration’s office on Friday, demanding that they remove the district’s statue of Javanese puppetry figure Bima. In a speech, KH Abdullah Joban, chairman of the forum’s Purwakarta chapter, urged the administration to demolish the statue, claiming “it is against… [Read more…]
August 10, 2010
Malaysia is predominantly a Muslim Country and yet it is very heartening to note that the Govt allowed to build a such a Beautiful Hindu Temple. This is Malaysia’s (and World’s) first glass temple which is called as Arulmigu Sri Raja Kaliamman Temple. This is loacted in, Jalan Tebrau, Johor Baru. This Temple is going to be… [Read more…]
August 8, 2010
The Sri Maha Mariamman temple in Sungai Salak in Lukut, Negri Sembilan, has become the first solar-powered religious edifice in Malaysia. The 100-year-old temple, located four kilometers from the main road, could not carry out its prayer sessions effectively due to electricity supply problems. The temple committee sought the help of Yayasan MyNadi, a non-governmental… [Read more…]
August 6, 2010
Sudath Gunasekara (PhD, SLAS) President Mahanuwara Senior Citizens Movement 5.8.2010. I reproduce below a news item that appeared in the BBC on 2nd August 2010 Govt. ‘trying to change’ demography– Tamil National Alliance “The major Tamil political party in Sri Lanka has accused the government of trying to change the demography in the north taken… [Read more…]
August 6, 2010
Some years back, a friend who had gone to Indonesia, the most populous Muslim country in the world, on his return met me at Adipur in Kutch (Gujarat) and showed me a high-denomination (20,000 rupiah) currency note of that country with Lord Ganesh imprinted on it. I was as surprised, as I was impressed. When… [Read more…]
August 5, 2010
A housewife questioning the validity of her conversion to Islam when she was seven years old failed in her bid to have her case heard by a civil court. Justice Yaacob Md Sam dismissed Siti Hasnah Vangarama Abdullah’s originating summons with costs yesterday after ruling that the High Court did not have the jurisdiction to… [Read more…]
March 20, 2011
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