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NEW DELHI TIMES R.N.I. No 53449/91 DL-SW-1/4124/20-22 (Monday/Tuesday same week) (Published Every Monday) New Delhi Page 24 Rs. 7.00 23 - 29 November 2020 Vol - 30 No. 43 Email : [email protected] Founder : Dr. Govind Narain Srivastava ISSN -2349-1221 Islamic Fundamentalism The wise listens more and and the threat speaks less! We have been privileged with a valuable to global peace blessing, the endowment of talking. The blessing makes us capable of communicating Political Islam intends to convert all the our sentiments, feelings, and thoughts into non-Muslims into Muslims in search of a something we usually refer to as words. But Muslim Ummah where Sharia laws will unfortunately, any gift, if overused, might apply universally everywhere in the prompt unforeseen outcomes. world. In France, a school teacher, Samuel Paty, showed some cartoons in Listening and talking in a balanced manner is the class and the next day his head was... vital in one’s life. Individuals who... By Dr. Ankit Srivastava Page 3 By Dr. Pramila Srivastava Page 24 By NDT Special Bureau Page 2 Abrogation of Article 370 Religious fundamentalism: A Canada’s UN Ambassador curse for humanity takes on China Kashmir, a paradise, is a breathtakingly splendid creation Arab world is changing and changing very fast. And good The name Bob Rae has become synonymous with being on Earth. Whomsoever visited Kashmir, fell in love with the news is that it is changing for the better. Saudi Arabia too the voice of the underdog and the voiceless ever since he scenic beauty at once. Everything was fine with Kashmir... is on the path of change. Saudi de facto ruler... came into the public eye as an MP, then MPP... By Sujay Dhawan Page 20 By Himanshu Sharma Page 5 By Tarek Fatah Page 2 1 twitter@NewDelhiTimes facebook.com/newdelhitimes www.NewDelhiTimes.com 2 23 - 29 November 2020 Opinion NEW DELHI TIMES PFI-Turkey Bonhomie and the rise of extremism in India “The flaw in being civilized is that it permit’s the uncivilized among us to perpetrate horrific crimes against us in the name of freedom and equality.” - M.J. Croan government and launch an unprecedented ◆ By NDT Special Bureau purge of critics from government jobs- a @NewDelhiTimes direct methodology of fascist regimes. Turkish government reciprocated by [email protected] promoting the PFI on state-run Anadolu news agency as a civic and social group o a novice eye, the Foundation for Human whose members were abused by the Indian T Rights and Freedoms and Humanitarian police. The PFI appears to be a perfect match Relief (İnsan Hak ve Hürriyetleri ve İnsani for the IHH as both organizations have been Yardım Vakfı, or IHH) would appear to be implicated in activities against the interest of a human rights organisation involved in their respective nations. constructive work benefitting the society. A closer look however, would reveal In the popular mythology Ramayana, Ravan that it is an Al-Qaeda-linked Turkish was defeated only with the help of insider charity organisation which was accused named Vibhishan. The greatest damage to of smuggling arms to Al-Qaeda-affiliated Executive Council of the Popular Front of outreach to Muslim communities in the powerful nations has always been done by jihadists in Syria in January 2014 in a India (PFI) were privately hosted in Istanbul Southeast Asia region to further its plan insiders who work against the interest of the counterterrorism investigation conducted by by the IHH. The PFI is an Indian extremist to revive the Khilafat (Caliphate) system country by collaborating with external forces. a prosecutor in Turkey’s eastern province of Islamist organization involved in range of which was abolished in 1924. In this age Van. The leaked emails of Berat Albayrak, violent and criminal activities ranging from of globalisation with defined geographical Looking at the violent past records of the the son-in-law of Turkey’s President organising Arms training camp in Narath, boundaries based on the concept of PFI and recent development like meeting Erdoğan and current Finance and Treasury kidnapping and murder of boys for ransom, nationalism, any attempt to restore the with the IHH, an upcoming calamity on Minister, also implicated that the IHH in murder of CPI(M) and RSS workers, Khilafat system is bound to create unrest India cannot be denied unless the problem is arming Libyan factions. The IHH has been murder of ABVP activist N Sachin Gopal leading to large scale violence. nipped at the bud. identified as an organization that closely and Vishal, SMS campaign against people works with Turkish intelligence service of the North-East, attack on T. J. Joseph in The PFI with its subversive agendas is most Too much emphasis on variables like ‘No first MIT and is led by President Recep Tayyip which his hands were chopped off, Shimoga suitable to secretly carry out the divisive strike policy’, ‘Non-Aligned Movement’, Erdoğan, who effectively considers himself Violence, funding of Anti-CAA Protests to plans of Turkey in the Indian subcontinent. etc. had cost us dearly in the past including the leader of all Muslims worldwide. forced conversations. The bonhomie between Turkey and the loss of territory and international prestige. Why is this organisation relevant for India? PFI can be assessed by the fact that the Time has come to change the narrative. As The question can be answered by looking at Meeting of a Turkish intelligence-linked PFI issued a statement endorsing Turkish famous writer Abhijit Naskar once said, a Nordic Monitor investigation. According jihadist charity group with an Indian President Erdogan after a 2016 coup attempt “The dangerous enemies of your species are to the Nordic Monitor investigation, two key extremist organisation cannot be brushed that was in fact a false flag orchestrated by fundamentalism, intolerance, separatism, leaders of the PFI, E. M. Abdul Rahiman under carpet given the scenario that Turkish Erdogan’s intelligence and military chiefs extremism, hostility and prejudicial fear, be and Prof. P. Koya, members of the National President Erdogan is trying hard to make to consolidate Islamists’ power in the it religious, atheistic or political.” Canada’s UN Ambassador takes on China Now Rae has raised the issue by calling on UN superiors and China was the only country the United Nations Human Rights Council that had such a privilege. As a result of this ◆ By Tarek Fatah to investigate whether China’s persecution list falling into the hands of the Chinese, the Author & Columnist, Canada of Uighurs in Xinjiang province should be families of these Uighur activists have faced @TarekFatah considered an act of genocide. persecution back home. [email protected] Perhaps that is the diplomatic course to take, In 2019, Reilly also wrote to Canada’s he name Bob Rae has become but Rae should know that the very people Ambassador at its Permanent Mission in T synonymous with being the voice of at the UN who he has asked to investigate Geneva raising these concerns. In her letter, the underdog and the voiceless ever since the widely acknowledged genocide are Reilly asked the Canadian government to call he came into the public eye as an MP, then themselves alleged to be complicit in for an immediate end to OHCHR’s practice MPP, Premier of Ontario, interim leader of working with the Chinese authorities. of providing names to China, and demand the Liberal Party, the voice of the Rohingya an external, independent investigation into Muslims of Myanmar and now Canada’s On Nov. 1, listeners of the United Kingdom’s this practice. Ambassador to the United Nations. international radio network LBC got a chance to hear from Human Rights Lawyer On its part, the UN rights office denied Last week, Ambassador Rae took on the Emma Reilly who works for the UN. She claims that by sharing the names it had bullies in Beijing who have according to its made the shocking revelation that the UN endangered NGOs. victims been carrying out a genocide of its office that Bob Rae has asked to investigate mostly Muslim Uighur minority population the genocide is itself actively sharing in its Xinxiang province. the names of Uyghur dissidents with the Uighurs are not the only target of China at Chinese Government, labelling the actions the UN Human Rights office in Geneva. In According to the Council on Foreign of her superiors as ‘criminal.’ Nov. 2017, Mehran Marri, the representative Relations, many aspects of Muslim life of Balochistan exiles who are opposed among the Uighurs have been erased. For Reilly also said that as a result of her to China’s expansion of the Belt & Road example, fasting during Ramadan is now whistleblowing, she had been sidelined Initiative known as the China-Pakistan considered “extremist” behaviour. while her immediate boss who supplied the Economic Corridor, was arrested as he names had been promoted. arrived to raise that issue at the UNHRC. Communist officials have destroyed mosques, while Uighur women have reported Outlining how the system worked, Reilly Marri had been a regular at the UN in forced sterilizations and intrauterine device said it had become a regular practice for Geneva for 15 years, but was detained and insertions, with threats of detention of the Chinese government to demand that the placed under a lifetime ban from entering China is today’s leading imperialist power, anyone who has too many children. Uighur Office of Human Rights in Geneva send a Switzerland. riding roughshod over its own people and parents are banned from giving their babies list of human rights activists of the Uighur the rest of the world.