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Minority Muslims of more than 150 millions have been suppressed, sidelined and silenced in India Yashwant Sinha, senior leader of Baharatiya Janata Party, BJP, the political face of Hindu extremist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, RSS, has demanded that India imposes sanctions on Sri Lanka for its treatment of Tamil civilians trapped in the island’s war zone. No doubt and No question …

Muslims all over the world are duty bound; in fact, it is even their religious obligation, to support the Palestinians in their just struggle for freedom.   To begin with, they have been fighting for their legitimate rights, against a ruthless and heartless enemy to live in peace in their own homes and lands as peaceful citizens. Their struggle is …

Reporting from Cairo — Egyptians are cautiously rejoicing over the recent appointment of a veiled Egyptian American Muslim woman as an advisor to President Obama.  Dalia Mogahed, senior analyst and executive director of the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies, was appointed this month to Obama’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. ·         Judge to review …

[hana-flv-player video=”https://sailanmuslim.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/video.flv” width=”400″ height=”320″ ” player=”3″ autoplay=”false” loop=”false” autorewind=”true” splashimage=”https://sailanmuslim.com/news/wp-content/themes/newspress/images/logo.gif” /] Racist Tamils in various parts of the world who support LTTE terrorists to achieve their separatist goals have been continuing their false propaganda to mislead the world community and align the world against democratically elected Sri Lankan government. Poor Sri Lankan government while fighting world s one of the …

This article is an extended version of a short address that I made at the recent launch of the Sailan Muslim website (www.sailanmuslim.com ), in which my focus was on the politics of identity. As this article has the same focus I will not be going into the rationale and objectives of the new Muslim website except to the extent …

Ehud Olmert’s nightmare is at hand. Not only does the former Israeli prime minister now really have to fight those corruption charges. He also faces the realization of his fears that the Palestinians might give up on a two-state solution in favor of a struggle for equal rights that would mean, as he put it, the “end of the Jewish …