KOKRAJHAR (ASSAM).....

KOKRAJHAR (Assam): why they are  killing Muslim ?...........

Article by:Walter Fernandes

Posted by Imtiaz Khondokar

  

Uncontrolled immigration in Assam has not only angered locals, but also provided them an excuse to mistreat all immigrants: illegal, Muslims, Bangladeshis or otherwise.

The Bodo-inhabited Kokrajhar district in western Assam was tense from early July, when two Bengali-speaking Muslim men were found murdered. Two more were killed on 19 July. The next day, four former cadres of the Bodo Liberation Tigers were found dead in a Muslim-majority village in the district. No one knows who killed them, but anti-Muslim attacks spread quickly, killing over 60 people. Taking advantage of the situation, some fundamentalist forces turned it into propaganda against Bangladeshi immigrants. In the ensuing chaos, several villages inhabited by both the Bodo and Muslims were burnt down, and some 400,000 people are displaced to refugee camps in Kokrajhar, Chirang and Dhubri districts. And the killing, although now sporadic, continues, with three more casualties reported today.

(Remains of a house that was burnt during the communal clashes,in the violence-hit Kokrajhar district on Monday. Photo: PTI)

Such ethnic conflicts are not new in the Bodo territory of Assam. In the 1990s, while signing an accord with the Bodo militant outfit to create the Bodo Autonomous Council, the Government of Assam excluded from the council over 1000 villages where the Bodo were not a majority. Efforts to ‘create’ Bodo majorities in those areas resulted in attacks on Bengali-speaking Muslims in 1993, on Bengali-speaking Hindus in 1995, and on ethnic Santhals in 1996. As a result, around 350,000 people were internally displaced and hundreds of people killed. 

Based on instances such as these, many conclude that Assam – indeed the whole of the Indian Northeast – is a land of 'terrorists' and perpetual conflicts. In 1958, on the pretext of that notion, the Government of India imposed the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA) on the Northeast. The Act, which is still in effect, gives extraordinary powers to the armed forces; for example, a junior commissioned officer may arrest a person on mere suspicion of planning a terrorist act. If the arrested person dies in army custody, he or she will be declared a ‘terrorist’ killed while on the run. Meanwhile, security personnel are protected from prosecution. In effect, the Act turns complex conflicts purely into an issue of law and order. In reality, however, issues of immigration, land and identity are behind the ethnic violence in the region.

Immigration from Bangladesh to Assam is not a recent phenomenon, and Bangladeshi Muslims are not the only immigrant population in Assam. The first wave of immigration began in mid-19th century after the British East India Company and the zamindars of Bengal signed the Permanent Settlement Act of 1793, which granted the feudal lords absolute proprietorship over their lands at a fixed tax rate. Soon afterwards, hundreds of peasants rendered landless and impoverished in Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Orissa, and other areas which were then part of the Bengal Presidency were brought to Assam to work as indentured labourers in tea gardens. The second wave of immigration began in 1891 when the British regime encouraged peasants in the erstwhile East Bengal to cultivate what they called the ‘wasteland’ in western Assam so that the Company could collect more revenue by getting the peasants to grow more food. 

The ‘wasteland’, however, was community-owned land that sustained the Bodo and Rabha tribes of that region. This immediately created friction between local tribes and the immigrant peasants. Moreover, the East Bengal peasantry was, by and large, Muslim. As a result, 90 percent of the immigrants to Assam were Muslims, adding a communal element to the dispute over tribal land. By the 1920s the immigrants had spread beyond western Assam to Nagaon and elsewhere in central Assam. Fearing that the state was becoming a Muslim-majority province, some leaders of the Indian freedom struggle soon began encouraging peasants from Bihar to migrate to Assam. Nepali migrants followed quietly. Before long, the immigrant population was divided along Hindu-Muslim lines.

                          (Firstpost):Security personnel keep vigil in curfew-bound Kokrajhar area.

According to the Census of India 2001, 2 million people have migrated to Assam since 1951. When the immigrants’ natural population growth rate is also taken into account, the number of migrants rises to 4 million. Around 40 percent of them are Bengali-speaking Muslims, presumably of Bangladeshi origin, and the rest are Hindi- or Nepali- speaking Hindus, presumably from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh (UP), and Nepal, respectively. Today, Muslims constitute nearly a third of Assam’s population, where in 1951 they constituted 24.7 percent. The proportion is higher in districts bordering Bangladesh, such as the Bodo-inhabited territory where the recent violence occurred. The presence of such a large number of immigrants naturally puts pressure on land and employment opportunities. The immigrants take unskilled jobs that locals do not want, or for which locals demand shorter hours and higher wages than the immigrants do. In the long run, this immigration does present a threat to local people’s identity. The threat, however, comes equally from all the immigrants to the region, and not exclusively from Bengali-speaking Muslims. 

~ Walter Fernandes is a researcher, and was founder-director of the North Eastern Social Research Centre, Guwahati, from 2000 to early 2012.

Noah Ark Found At Judi Mountain

Noah Ark Found  At Judi Mountain

(Original Source: http://www.55a.net/firas/english/?page=show_det&id=335&select_page=2)
By: Hesham Tolba
tolba_hesham@yahoo.com
Translated By: Magdy Abd Al-Shafy
Edited by Defending-Islam staff

The Holy Books (i.e. The Bible) give accounts of the perished nations to its adherents and stress the reasons behind their punishment; the mentioning of such stories is just a warning against receding back on the straight path and rejecting God’s precepts.
The problem with the Holy Books is that it was written long time after its revelation, sometimes the scribes inserted their opinions, and sometimes they copied from the ancient nations' heritages. There is a lot of evidence to the human tampering in the Holy Books.
We don’t mean to hurt anyone nor do we mean to make a comparison between the Holy Books, all we mean here is to prove that human tampering found its way in the Torah and thus it is not reliable in many parts as we are not sure what is divine and what is human.

Also, we want to prove to non-Moslems that the Holy Quran is God’s word, and thus we will depend on the most recent discoveries.
There has been disagreement between the Torah and the Quran with respect to the place where the ship (The ark of Nuh (Alayhi Salam)) finally rested. Unlike the Holy Book , The Holy Quran mentions eights facts that were revealed more than 1400 years ago and these facts are completely in agreement with newly discovered facts.
Foremost among these is that the Holy Quran promised that the ship will be left for those who have eyes with which they could see and hearts with which they could understand. God says in the Holy Quran: And indeed, We have left this as a sign, then is there any that will remember (or receive admonition)? ( AL-Qamar:15)
It is really a challenge that time and technology proved true, and this challenge is correct. The Holy Quran, unlike the previous holy books states clearly “the remaining on Noah’s Ark”, God says :"And indeed, We have left this as a sign, then is there any that will remember (or receive admonition)?"
This promise has come true as the remains of Noah’s Ark and its stamp(mark) were found on the Kurdish mountains, south of Turkey, at a distance of 8 Km from the Iraqi borders at the hands of a scientific team headed by Ron Wyatt and David Fasold in 1978.
There are eight important discoveries regarding Noah’s Ark, which are completely in agreement with the Holy Qu’ran:
(1)The location of the ship
The Holy Quran, when reciting stories and unlike the Holy Book (i.e. The Bible), doesn’t give much interest on the locations or numbers as it focuses only on the spiritual dimensions , the moral lessons and setting the exemplary (behavior); but in the recount of Noah’s (Alayhis Salam) Ark, we will find the name of the place in which the ship landed or settled mentioned in the Holy Quran.
Before we read the report about Noah’s Ark that came after a long study and used the most advanced technological tools at the hands of the most celebrated scientists , we would like to refer to the opinions of the present Torah.

 
The present Torah says the location of the Ark is Ararat Mountain
The Aramaic Torah (Targums) says the location is JUDI MT
The ancient Babylonians' literature , The Genesis Rabba and Josephus followed the Aramaic opinion.
Here the Holy Quran in one of its miraculous verse corrects claims of the Hebrew Torah and settles down the problem; among the most important features of the Holy Quran is that it corrects many of the mistakes that the scripts of the Holy Book committed, be it intentionally or unintentionally.
The Holy Quran watches over the Holy Books in many of the scientific and historical facts, so the Holy Quran sides with the Aramaic text against the Hebrew text; then the scientific archeological discoveries come to prove the statement of the Holy Quran.
In 1848, a big earthquake hit a flat area in Judi area in the south of Turkey and as a result it made it rise and a stamp of a huge ship appeared . This place was owned by a farmer known by the name “Rasheed” ,who told a dishonest journalist about his discovery. Wishing to corroborate the Torah adherents , the journalist wrote his report stating that the farmer found half of the ship submerged in the ice of the mount of Ararat just as the present Torah states. This made Anglican American explorers go to the place to study it but found nothing. Matters remained as so until some pictures were taken from the location in 1959. In these pictures the stamp of the ship was clear and these pictures found its way into the American press. So a large team of scientists under the leadership of Renah Nourbrgmn, an American writer and John Van Deman, a well-known Tv Anglican proponent , went to the place; they, unfortunately, searched for wood remains, they committed a big mistake because they did not know that that such wood must have silicified in the course of time, so they left the place and wrote a report saying that it is nothing but a geological formation.
The historical fact is compatible with Quran for two reasons:
First: There can’t be any remains or fossils for Noah's Ark, as the present Hebrew Torah claims, at Ararat mountain because of the volcano that erupted in that mountain in 1840, and this was affirmed by a Russian scientific study that was reported by Antrafax News Agency in which the Cosmopoisk Scientific Research Center says “What could be ship wood was nothing but silicified remaining of plants that the volcanic emissions made. This debunks the misinformation that the previous scientific team faked to agree with the distorted Torah passage. They even brought forth some pieces of wood to support their false allegation which-as we have shown- proved to be a hoax .These pieces of information were taken from a documentary film under the name “The Discovery o Noah’s ark”
Second: A scientific American team actually found the stamp of the ship on “Judi ” mountain

2- The size of the ship
The Holy Quran uses the Arabic word "Foulk” when referring to Noah’s Ark.
This word has been mentioned eight times in the Holy Quran.
The word “Foulk” means:
      a)The round place that rises or emerges from the earth.
      b)large orbit
      c)A huge ship---- so the Quranic word” Foulk” is the most suitable when talking about this ship; its length reaches as far as 550 feet and this is the biggest ship man ever built.
3-The shape of the ship:
Here, the Torah gives a wrong description of the ship as it states that the ship's length is six times bigger than its width. According to this calculation this ship must have been like a rectangle, and according to hydrodynamics a ship with such specifications can’t stand high waves as its front part must have been flat. 

The Holy Quran gives the ship the name “Foulk” which means a huge ship. The word is repeated eight times in Quran and in one time the Quran uses the word “ship” only to emphasize the fact that it was a real ship with the same known facts about ships. We can also conclude from the Holy verses that this ship must have doors.
According to the New Testament, the ship looked like the Ark of the Covenant and this means that the ship's front end was not streamlined nor pointed, it was rather a rectangular shape and this couldn’t have helped the ship if it had been with such specifications.
(4) The Holy Quran states that the ship was built by God’s guidance
God says in the Holy Quran “And construct the ship under Our Eyes and with Our Inspiration” (Hud:37). The Holy Verse implies that Noah (Alayhi Salam) followed God’s orders and guidance in constructing the ship and that he was not the real designer. Strikingly enough is that we read in the ancient heritage of the Native Americans that the ship was built under God’s inspiration. Also , the Apocrypha says that the angels built the ship for Noah and this could be the exegesis of the verse "And construct the ship under Our Eyes and with Our Inspiration”
The documentary film about the ship found in the south of Turkey affirms that mathematical constants such as (PI), (PhI)and other laws were used in building the ship. These are the same constants that arrange the seeds of the flowers , the horns of animals and keep the sea waves in balance. How could Noah (Alayhi Salam) have reached such laws?!!!! These could be the meaning of the previous Quranic Verse “And construct the ship under Our Eyes and with Our Inspiration”(Hud:37)
Unlike the Holy Book (i.e The Bible), the Holy Quran is silent over some other unnecessary facts such as the measurements of the length and width and the number of the floors in the ship. The miraculous building of the ship that was revealed to Noah (Alayhi Salam) was discovered by modern discoveries; the documentary film states that there was a large cavity at the bottom of the ship that helped in ventilating the ship and to suppress the impact of the mountain-like waves that were hitting the ship – this kept the ship balanced in such high waves; otherwise it could have drowned (capsized). Building the ship in such a miraculous way helped it though there were no metals , sails or pilot to keep it safe and sound in such high mountains.

(5) The resting anchorage of the ship
When I saw the picture of the place that carries the stamp of the ship, I found it to be a little slope. “The Holy Quran is so accurate in choosing its words.” I thought. The Holy Quran says that the ship rested flat or evenly , no implication in the Holy verse of any kind of inclination.
On hearing the witness of the Kurdish farmer in whose farm the ship was found, this misunderstanding was settled because he said that the land where the ship appeared was flat or even but owing to the earthquake that hit the place , the mass of the ship rose making the ship rest on a little slope.
(6) The ship's anchors
David Fasold says in the documentary film that a lot of man-made anchors were found in some nearby villages that are located at a height of 6000 feet above the sea level and at a distance of miles from the actual location of the ship. David Fasold's comment can be correlated with the Holy verse that says “And construct the ship under Our Eyes and with Our Inspiration”. These anchors took the shape of a rectangle and at the top there is a hole in which ropes were inserted, and these were similar to the anchors used in ancient times, some of which are kept in the Lebanon coast. A lot of these anchors can be seen on the Mediterranean coast. It is observed that the Ark anchors are much bigger and much heavier.
7- The ship’s planks 

God says in the Holy Quran “And We carried him on a (ship) made of planks and nails”
On studying the material out of which the ship was built, it has been found that the ship's main material is planks, and there is agreement between the Holy Quran and the Holy Book that the ship was made out of wood. The word "wood” could mean huge branches of trees but the Holy Quran, unlike the other Holy Books, stresses that the ship was made out of planks. These planks did not survive the effect of time owing to the silica particles that took the place of wood tissue. Yet the wood still keeps its shape, and this is a geological fact that is known as selicification. Those silicified planks about which the Holy Quran speaks were found in the location of the ship. It is worthy mentioning here that no silicified planks could be found here or there on the face of the earth because it must have made by the human being ,that is, any silicified planks must have been made by man long before it changed into silicified planks.

8-The ship rivets
Among the most important findings that were found in the surrounding of the ship by Ron Wyatt in the end of the 1970’s are the huge rivets; these had undergone some changes because of silica that reacted with the material of these rivets. Ron Wyatt used a new technology to find these nails: he used metal detectors which look much like mine detectors, and they found metal sediment inside the walls of the ship. They visited the place again in 1984 and took a sample of these sediments and conducted some experiments on it in a highly advanced laboratory and the result affirms the fact that these are man-made metals. These findings are in agreement with what the Holy Quran mentioned regarding the building of this ship more that 1400 years ago, as the Holy Quran says: “And We carried him on a (ship) made of planks and nails" (Hud:41)
Though this story occurs in the Holy Book (The Bible) and many other ancient heritages , they have not mentioned this important part which the Holy Quran has mentioned.
David Fasold used a device called "Molecular frequency generator" to detect the places of the rivets. The result was amazing as it proved that the ship was highly structured, as it showed many planks joined together like squares joined together with rivets.
To answer those who claim that man couls not have known metal at such an ancient time , we say this is impossible and needs evidence; there is a lot of evidence to the fact that man has known netals and used them.  The American Science magazine states that man discovered metals and could use them efficiently (Sept.2005 Number, P.49)

These eight findings are not the only ones, albeit they are the most important. They also have found excrement of the animals that turned into fossils (coprolites) and in addition to this they have found pallets.(for further information review :wwwNoaharksearch.com and wwwAnchor.com)
  
I wonder how a ship like this without sails or an engine or even a pilot could cleave asunder its way among waves so fast and high like a huge mountain?!!!!
How could its riders survive the extreme cold , as it must have been so dark and cold because the sun's rays must have been blocked for a long time because of the heavy clouds.

Collected by: Imtiaz Khondokar

Why Sunita William embraced "Islam"...?

DID SUNITA CONVERTED TO ISLAM ?

Sunita Williams (born September 19, 1965) is a United States Naval officer and a NASA astronaut. She was assigned to the International Space Station as a member of Expedition 14 and then joined Expedition 15. She holds the record of the longest spaceflight (195 days) for female space travelers.^[

Her father, Dr. Deepak Pandya, is a Hindu and her mother, Bonnie Pandya, is a Catholic. Williams has an affinity for both faiths and is known to be a Ganesh devotee.

Sunita Williams (born Sunita Pandya Krishna; September 19, 1965) is an Americanastronaut and United States Navy officer who holds the record for longest spaceflight by a woman.  She was assigned to the International Space Station as a member ofExpedition 14 and then joined Expedition 15. She holds the record of the longest space flight (195 days) among female space travelers. Williams also held two other records for women space travellers—most number of spacewalks (four as of 15 July 2012), and total time spent on spacewalks (29 hours and 17 minutes)—until these records were surpassed by Peggy Whitson during Expedition 16

It has been claimed on various websites, blogs, forums, and in chain e-mails/mass SMS texts, that Sunita Williams had convertedfrom Hinduism to Islam on her return from the moon.

Here are a few examples of the claims being made:

Sunita Williams (First Indian woman who went on a space journey few months back) accepted “ISLAM” Masha Allah, bcoz when they were on the moon, they saw towards EARTH, the entire EARTH looked dark, but 2 places on the EARTH GLITERED & looked like SPARKS (Roshni). They were shocked to see that and saw them with the help of telescope and came to know that those two places were “MAKKAH” and “MADINAH” Masha Allah!. Then they decided that after reaching to earth they’ll accept “ISLAM”. So be proud u’r a muslim. Allah Hafiz…!^[

Sunita Williams, the 1st indian lady who went to the moon on 02/07/2007 said that from the moon, the whole earth looked very black and dark, except the two places which were bright and shining when she saw through the telescope. These places were MAKKAH & MADINA (Saudi Arabia). Also, at the moon all the frequencies failed but still she could listen to the AZAAN..s'allah^[5]

Encouragin news for Muslims....Sunita Williams the woman who went in space has converted to Islam because when they were in space the entire Earth appeared dark but only two places on Earth appeared like sparks. With telescopic view they identified the two places as MAKKAH and MADINAH and resolved to accept Islam upon reaching the Earth. Alhamdulillah the almighty brought them back safely, so subhanallah, be proud to be a Muslim.^[6]

DOBHASI WRITER

Dobhasi Writer : Imtiaz Khondokar

Shah Garibullah    Sons of Sayed saha Ajmatullah (He is well known as FULWARI SAHA Orfi  SAHA DUNDI  KURASHI (RA)  for the local people. )

                                 Majar Sarif Gate of Saha Garibullah(RA)

Hajrat Sayed Saha Ajmatullaha(RA)
 was a descendent, on his father’s side, of Hazrat Syedna Ghaus- e- Azam Shaikh ‘Abdul Qadir Jilani in the 9th generation, and of the Holy Prophet of Islam through Syedna Hasan ibn ‘Ali in the 20th generation.

Saha Garibullah :(c 1670-1770) writer of dobhasi (literature in mixed languages)puthi, was born at Hafizpur, Munshir hat  in Howrah,   West Bengal  , He wrote Five books which  have so far been discovered:

Yusuf Zolaikha, Sonabhan,  JANGANAMA    (Accounts of war), Satyapirer Katha(The stories of Satyapir) and AMIR HAMZA     (Part I).

Poets who composed between 1600 and 1757 include nawajis khan , Qamar Ali, Mangal (Chand), Abdul Nabi, Muhammad Fasih, Fakir Garibullah, Muhammad Yakub, Sheikh Mansur, Muhammad Uzir Ali, Sheikh Sadi and Heyat Mamud. Syed Sultan's Nabibamsa , Muhammad Khan's Maktul Husein and sheikh chand 's Rasulbijay are known as Islamic Puranas.

Puthi, Pandulipi, Dobhasi Literature this all are related to Deoanji RA‘s book. Puthi Literature a special genre of literature written in a mixed vocabulary drawn from Bangla, Arabic, Urdu, Persian and Hindi. It was current during the 18th and the 19th centuries and its composers as well as readers were Muslims. The word puthi (or punthi) is derived from pustika or book. However, only a particular type of writing dating from the 18th-19th centuries is known as PUTHI.

Nowadays all manuscripts are called Pandulipi in Bangla.

Kalipada Ghoshal was Honored with Shah Garibullah Memorial Life Time Achievement Award on 18 February 1990.The award ceremony was held in Brahman para Chintamoni Institution for Girls in Munsirhat Howrah.The Award was given to him in the presence of the famous sculptor Chintamani Kar.