India is democratic and secular: Don’t look for Islamic, Islamic Sharia Laws, NewAgeIslam.com

Islamic Sharia Laws

India is democratic and secular: Don’t look for Islamic politics but do use your vote, Darul Uloom, Deoband’s fatwa

Asalamwalakum , sir I have many question regarding politics for that I want fatwa as per holy Quran, Hadish and sariet . My question is given below 1. What is the meaning of voting? 2. Can we vote for a criminal, drinker ( Sarabi ) and rapist ? 3. If a party have their constitution on the basis of Gandhi, Lohia or other people, we can vote for them? 4. If a party have their constitution on the basis of Holy Quran, we can vote for that party? 5. We have many parties for vote in election out of one is on the basis of Holy Quran and other on the basis of other historical people (Hindus), which is right for vote. 6. If a person knows the activity of Bhartiya Janta Party and he is giving their vote for B.J.P. he is Muslim, Munafik or non Muslim? 7. we have two people for voting one is from the party which is on the basis of Holy Quran but this people is non Muslims but he is saying that i will work as per holy Quran and other people is Muslim which is from other parties and the history of these parties is anti Muslims which person is right for vote? Please give Fatwa as soon as possible.

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Indian Muslim bodies decry blasts in Gujarat, Islam,Terrorism and Jihad, NewAgeIslam.com

Islam,Terrorism and Jihad

Indian Muslim bodies decry blasts in Gujarat

Demanding a high-level impartial and time-bound investigation, secretary general of Jamaat-e-Islami Nusrat Ali cautioned the government and the intelligence agencies against harassing innocent people. “Intelligence agencies should not float certain names without proper investigation. The government must look into the real motives of perpetrators of such crimes,” he said.

He appealed to the people to remain calm and united against forces trying to disrupt communal harmony.

All India Milli Council general secretary M. Manzoor Alam said the quick succession in which the blasts occurred in the two States was stunning. “For quite some time, we have had this haunting feeling that we are not able to stop such violence because we have somehow been avoiding thinking out of the box,” he said.

The timing of the blasts, in the run-up to the general election, posed the question “who stands to gain from such attacks.”

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In a national crisis, parties might try to think beyond elections,

Islam and Politics

In a national crisis, parties might try to think beyond elections

Politics and Play: THE FRUIT OF TAKING SIDES

By Ramachandra Guha

The boycott of Vajpayee’s Srinagar speech was a shocking display of political partisanship. For the speaker was speaking as the prime minister of India, not as the representative of a particular political formation. In asking their legislators to behave as they did, the Congress bosses displayed a pettiness unworthy of the history of that once great party. The act also manifested a cavalier disregard of the national interest. From the early Nineties, the Kashmir Valley had been in the grip of a popular insurgency. After a decade of very intense protests, the tempers had cooled somewhat. The tourists had begun returning to Kashmir. An election had been held, with a voter turn-out of 44 per cent, commendably high in the circumstances. The prime minister’s visit was a further signal of, as it were, ‘normalcy’. Constitutional propriety demanded that when the head of the Union government came visiting, the elected functionaries of the state government turned out to hear him. Now, more than ever, the politicians of India needed unitedly, and across party lines, to reach out to the people of Kashmir. Sadly, perhaps even tragically, they could not.

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How Obama Became Acting President, Current affairs, NewAgeIslam.com

Current affairs

How Obama Became Acting President

Sunday 27 July 2008

By: Frank Rich, The New York Times

He never would have been treated as a president-in-waiting by heads of state or network talking heads if all he offered were charisma, slick rhetoric and stunning visuals. What drew them instead was the raw power Mr. Obama has amassed: the power to start shaping events and the power to move markets, including TV ratings. (Even "Access Hollywood" mustered a 20 percent audience jump by hosting the Obama family.) Power begets more power, absolutely.

The growing Obama clout derives not from national polls, where his lead is modest. Nor is it a gift from the press, which still gives free passes to its old bus mate John McCain. It was laughable to watch journalists stamp their feet last week to try to push Mr. Obama into saying he was "wrong" about the surge. More than five years and 4,100 American fatalities later, they're still not demanding that Mr. McCain admit he was wrong when he assured us that our adventure in Iraq would be fast, produce little American "bloodletting" and "be paid for by the Iraqis."

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