Time to correct Muslim image: Vice-President of India, Hamid Ansari, Islamic World News, NewAgeIslam.com

Islamic World News

Time to correct Muslim image: Vice-President of India, Hamid Ansari

In what could trigger a debate in the Muslim community, Vice-President Hamid Ansari on Saturday spoke about the need for separating “harmful social custom” from the religious law and codifying the rules relating to marriage, divorce and succession. He also asked Muslims to shun the “syndrome of victim-hood” and seize the benefits offered by a growing economy.

Delivering the Khuda Bakhsh Memorial Lecture in Patna, Ansari said Muslims should engage in “sustained, candid, and uninterrupted” interaction with fellow citizens without a “syndrome of superiority or inferiority” and strive for self-empowerment, making the best use of government assistance. He also sought a revolutionary approach to give equal status to women.

The crux of Ansari’s argument was that the “failure of communication” with the wider community has tended to freeze the boundaries of diversities that characterise the Indian society. “People have tended to live together separately. As a result, stereotypes have been developed and nurtured.”

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/time-to-correct-muslim-image-vp/553481/

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The Maharishi Effect: New Defence Technology to prevent terrorism,

War on Terror

The Maharishi Effect: New Defence Technology to prevent terrorism

A Realistic Collective Strategy for both Pakistan and India to Prevent Terrorism

By Maj Gen Kulwant Singh, Dr John Hagelin and Dr David Leffler

A new technology of defence now exists that can accomplish this goal. It is based upon the latest discoveries in the fields of physics, neuroscience, and physiology. Ultimately, it is based on the discovery of the unified field of all the laws of nature -- the most fundamental and powerful level of nature’s dynamics. Extensive research has confirmed its effectiveness. This new technology is easily applied, highly cost-effective, and can prevent disruption and attack from within the country or outside the country.

This approach is known today as the Invincible Defence Technology (IDT). It has its roots in ancient technologies of consciousness, revived in modern times by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi as a non-religious approach to peace. These technologies of consciousness directly access and harness the unified field on the deepest level of human experience -- pure consciousness itself. Extensive scientific research indicates that this approach reduces collective societal stress, eliminates extremism and thereby snuffs out war and terrorism. Over the past three decades it has been quietly and successfully used by members of many faiths to defuse and eliminate conflict.

The approach involves the creation of large groups of peace-creating experts practicing Invincible Defence Technology together. A Prevention Wing of the Military consisting of approximately 2% to 3% of the military of each country could easily achieve this goal. These special units in both countries would be trained in the technologies of consciousness revived by Maharishi -- the Transcendental Meditation (TM) and TM-Sidhi programs -- and would practice these techniques in large groups, twice a day.

http://newageislam.com/the-maharishi-effect--new-defence-technology-to-prevent-terrorism/war-on-terror/d/1052

Pakistan, India and the flawed legacy of Musharraf, Current affairs, NewAgeIslam.com

Current affairs

Pakistan, India and the flawed legacy of Musharraf

By Siddharth Varadarajan

Endorsed by both Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Mr. Musharraf when he was president, the fate of this approach is surely under question today. Not only is Islamabad’s commitment to the formula uncertain in the post-Musharraf era, but recent events in J&K — and in particular the valley — have thrown into serious doubt the Indian government’s ability to use this approach towards the resolution of the state’s troubles.

In a sense, the architect of the new approach and the political terrain on which the approach was to be implemented have both disappeared at more or less the same time. The revival of a mass movement in Kashmir in favour of azadi and even accession to Pakistan will certainly reduce whatever appetite still remains within the Pakistani military establishment for the Musharraf formula. And given the heady sprit in the valley, how likely is it that people there will want to settle for soft borders within the territorial status quo when their leaders are once again dangling before them the prospect of self-determination?

http://newageislam.com/pakistan,-india-and-the-flawed-legacy-of-musharraf/current-affairs/d/610