Muneer Rahman
Thoughts, views, observations and reflections on socio-cultural issues
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Some questions to those who are still alive with a beating heart and working mind...
2- if a failed attempt of car bomb blast is reported from New York City or Heathrow Air Port, it is the leading news of one or two weaks for the mainstream media. If hundreds of people are killed in Gaza Strip or Bagdad it is just a colomn news of inner pages or not a news. My question is, ''is there any difference between the blood of human beings in New York City and those of Gaza Stript.
3- For Muslims Prophet Muhammed, peace and blessings of God may be upon him, is the most revered and beloved in the world. So they love and respect everything related to him. If anyone makes him funny by sketching caricatures it will certainly injure their sentiments. Then what is compulsory over governments, media and intellectuals, is to control and prevent such attempts to make a large group injured. But now the so-called intellectuals as well as the governments are favoring it on the name of 'freedom of expression'.
Ok..
Is a citizen of a country free to choose what he have to wear and to make a selection in his dress code? Isn't it a fundamental right of a citizen to live with his beliefs and religious practices? Then why these intellectuals, writers and politicians support the ban of wearing headscarf or Hijab on Muslim women, who believe that it is a part of their religious righteousness and think it gives them safety and protection?
Then please tell me what is the criteria of freedom and what is its limits? Why the harmful caricature is freedom and the harmless Hijab is not so?
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
What Liberhan can do?
Yes, Liberhan can do what other minority oriented commission reports like Sachar and others have done, that is nothing. But it can fill our atmosphere with strong sound pollutions.
It has provided a large scope of dialogues and table talks for the fourth estate of democracy, the media, but nothing for other three estates, namely, legislative, executive and judiciary, save a dramatic ‘put on table’ programme.
The motto of ‘let Babari remain as a strain on our secular mind’ would not be changed by any kind of commissions or reports.
C.H. Bapputty Musliar
Shaikhuna C.H Bapputty Musliar Parappur is a renowned Muslim scholar and prominent spiritual leader of Kerala. Many of Educational institutions in Malabar region are run by him. In addition his presence is a better relief and refuge for a large bulk of people, who are suffering from any kind of mental or physical illness.
The residence of C.H. Bapputty Musliar is a shelter for people from all parts and all groups. He has gained this position of high dignity by his purified personality, abandoning the worldly comforts and spending all his earnings in the field of Islamic education.
He is the founding father and running leader of Sabeelul Hidaya Islamic College, the prominent Islamic educational institution in Kerala, which is an under graduate college of Darul Huda Islamic University. Many of other institutions like Sirajul Huda Orphanage College, Cholakkundu and Darunnajath Islamic College, Vallappuzha are also run by him. He is not working as a nominal president or leader of these institution, but he bears all their costs and daily expenses.
Annahda Arabic Bimonthly
Ananhda Arabic bimonthly is an only leading Arabic magazine from Kerala. It is published by Al-Hidaya Students’ Association (AHSAn), the students’ union of Sabeelul Hidaya Islamic College, in collaboration with Islamic Network of Sabeel Alumni Friends (INSAF), old students’ federation of SHIC.
Annahda has started its publication in 2006 as a venture of revelution. It was a milestone in the history of Arabic in Kerala. Now the magazine has entered to the fourth year of success with great acceptance among Keralites.
Dr. Bahauddin Nadwi, the Vice Chancellor of Darul Huda Islamic University, works as the Chief Adviser of magazine and Dr. N.A.M Abdul Qader, the head of Arabic Department in Calicut University, as the Chief Editor.
Sabeelul Hidaya Islamic College
In the new world order, where Islam and Muslims are widely misunderstood, Sabeelul Hidaya Islamic College plays a vital role in the creation of a new learned generation to propagate the true ideals of Islam. The institution stands on the banks of river Kadalundi at Parappur near to Kottakkal in Malappuram district, Kerala, India. Now the institution is in a miraculous advance in the spreading of education both religious and material, on the combination of which the progress of community is relied.
Sabeelul Hidaya completes a successful 13 years of education, which marks a milestone in the field of combined education. The college which started in 1997 and affiliated to Darul Huda Islamic University is still in the way of progress.
Sabeelul Hidaya Islamic College is run under the maintenance of the renowned Islamic scholar and spiritual leader C.H Bapputty Musliar. No one has the credit of this incredible growth of the institution, but only for his sincere and spiritual leadership.
Al-Hidaya Students’ Association (AHSAn), which have made a plenty of unforgettable contributions for Keralite society, is the students’ union of college. Annahda Arabic Bimonthly, the only leading Arabic magazine from Kerala is published by the union, in collaboration with the federation of old students, INSAF.
Islamic Network of Sabeel Alumni Friends (INSAF), which has been launched recently, is at the threshold of many explosive projects that would be great assets for Keralite society and Muslim community as well.
Saturday, December 5, 2009
Freedom of expression
"Where the mind is without fear,
and the head is held high....
into that heaven of freedom
let my country awake''

Verily, this moment makes me filled with proud of living in a country that allows its people all kinds of fundamental rights. I think my country is a role model for the rest of world, in how to make a totally pluralistic society integrated to the nation and to each other. It’s India, where Hindus- the major community, Muslims- the large minority and other religious and ethnic groups live in harmony, and the government do its best to maintain this unity. Though a small number of people with extremist views, from all groups, are trying to pollute this fresh air and their tries have resulted in making some injuries to the harmonious situation, like in the matter of Babari Masjid demolition, the enlightened public is aware of the truth ‘divided we must fall’ and the fathers of nation have taught them that all those who live in India are the parts of this nation, no matter to which faith they belong and the diverse societies are the wheels of our progress, so it’s inevitable to realize the sentiments of all communities.
What a beautiful sight of masjids and temples, with minarets, domes and pillars held high, standing together. The hymens from temple never annoy the Muslims and the Adhans of prayer from the mosque never disturb the Hindus.

You may think why I have recalled all of these things unwontedly. I was seriously alarmed about this glorious heritage of my country when my ears were struck by a report from Switzerland. The Swiss government has decided to forbid the creation of minarets, which are the sole symbol of Muslim mosques and to ban them from announcing their prayer times. This is a clear instance of how the power and strength can be used to oppress the minor groups and to deny their rights. The matter of banning Hijab in other European countries, is similar to this.
Where are the spokesmen of free speech? Isn’t it a freedom of expression to live with ones beliefs and religious practices? Isn’t it the denial of fundamental rights to deny ones religious rights? Is it justice to interfere in ones dress code?
I am pleased to quote our father of nation, M.K Gandhi, saying, “I hold that we may not dignify every trifle into a matter of religious importance. There fore a Hindu may not insist on playing music whilst passing a mosque. He may not even quote precedents in his own or any other place for the sake of playing music. It is not a matter of vital importance for him to play music whilst passing a mosque. One can easily appreciate the Mussalman’s sentiment of having solemn silence near a mosque the whole of twenty four hours. What is nonessential to a Hindu may be an essential to a Mussalman”.
This is how to teach the different communities to be mutually respectful for their beliefs and religious symbols, not by running referendums to suppress the interests of majority over the minority.