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 11 - 17 May 2020 Vol - 30 No. 15 Email : [email protected] Founder : Dr. Govind Narain Srivastava ISSN -2349-1221 India introduces Mosque new FDI loudspeaker saga guidelines continues Last week when I wrote about a single mosque The Department for Promotion of Industry and in Toronto using four loudspeakers to declare Internal Trade of the Ministry of Commerce “Allah is the Greatest” and that there is “No and Industry, Government of India, has God, but Allah,” I thought it was the case of introduced new guidelines for the Foreign one mosque, a few zealots and their formerly Direct Investment (FDI) policy. A press note communist councillor investing in her on the subject... Muslim vote bank... By Dr. Ankit Srivastava Page 3 By Tarek Fatah Page 2 US-Iran spat over extending arms embargo By NDT US Bureau Page 2 Doctrine of Reincarnation cannot be Balancing between reputation Differing effectiveness by Governments in a justification for different practical and conscience confronting COVID-19 attitudes towards living things Savitri Devi, born Maximiani Portas in 1905 of Greek- While reputation is the aggregate of all of our actions “We’re all in this together” has been voiced about English parents, wrote a very thought provoking and reflected by the people around us, conscience is our inner COVID-19 in various nations, but the leaders whose profound book called “Impeachment of Man”... voice that makes us divide the good... respective nationals are emerging from the... By Smt. Maneka Sanjay Gandhi Page 22 By Dr. Pramila Srivastava Page 21 By David Kilgour Page 20 For critical insights One Year* Five Year* Subscribe Rs. 350 Rs. 1500 For more information Contact : +91-9999 337 800 To Subscribe E-Paper Whatsapp +91 9999 478 735 * Details on Page 21 1 twitter@NewDelhiTimes facebook.com/newdelhitimes www.NewDelhiTimes.com 2 11 - 17 May 2020 Opinion NEW DELHI TIMES US-Iran spat over extending arms embargo lift embargo around that time but the On April 15, the United States complained States “should not plot against the Iranian ◆ By NDT US Bureau United States wants to extend it. Rouhani that 11 Iranian boats harassed American nation every day”. Rohani reminded that @NewDelhiTimes threatened that “Iran will give a crushing navy ships in the international waters of the the soldiers of Iranian armed forces and the response” if the United States goes ahead “Arabian Gulf”. President Trump ordered police have and will always be the guardians [email protected] with plans to extend that embargo on Iranian the US Navy to “shoot down and destroy of the Persian Gulf. trade of conventional arms. Iran and the any and all Iranian gunboats if they harass he US-Iran nuclear deal, also known as Horrors of a direct military confrontation United States have been at loggerheads our ships at sea”. Rouhani countered that T JCPOA, was signed in 2015 between between the two has loomed large on the Iran on the one side and the US joined by a international horizon twice in the recent past. host of world powers, mainly from Europe, In June 2019, Iran shot down a US drone in on the other side. Iran accepted limits to the Gulf and Trump cancelled retaliatory its nuclear programme. The West lifted airstrikes at the last minute. Trump avoided sanctions in return. military action again in January, 2020 when Iran fired a barrage of missiles at the US America withdrew unilaterally from Iran troops stationed in Iraq in retaliation to the nuclear deal in May, 2018. Iran has gradually US drone strike near Baghdad airport that rolled back its commitments under the deal killed Qasem Soleimani, the General who but maintains that it wants the agreement to headed the Revolutionary Guards’ foreign remain in place. It expected the European operations arm, the Quds Force. signatories to salvage the deal by shielding Iranian economy from the US sanctions. On Iran had committed a huge mistake in the their failure to save the deal, Iran severely past to attack the American Embassy in criticised the European signatories for failing Tehran and hold the staff hostages for years. to do so. It should watch out and refrain from similar confrontation with the US again as Washington Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in a wins ultimately in such conflicts. recent speech on May 6, repeated Iran’s longstanding criticism of Washington’s Nobody can mess with Trump and get away decision to exit the nuclear deal, calling it a with it. Iran must not mess with the US “stupid mistake”. “If America wants to return to invite destruction. Iran tells, but the US to the deal, it should lift all the sanctions on may not give warning before taking military Tehran and compensate for the re-imposition Photo Credit : Getty Images action. With a penchant for changing the of sanctions,” said Rouhani. He added, for decades. Both Tehran and Washington “the Americans should know that this gulf geography of the world, Trump calls Persian “Iran’s nuclear steps are reversible if other have threatened each other over a spate of is called the Persian Gulf, not the New Gulf the Arabian Gulf in a ploy to get under parties to the deal fulfil their obligations and incidents in 2019 involving their forces in York Gulf or the Washington Gulf”. “They Rouhani’s skin. preserve Tehran’s interests under the pact.” the sensitive waters of the Gulf. must understand the situation by that name and by the coastal nation that has protected Iran and the US need to seriously consider The United Nations had also imposed Their latest high-seas confrontation commenced this waterway for thousands of years,” making peace. But that may not be easy in weapons embargo on Iran which is due when Iran objected to the US navy Rouhani said in a televised address during the current context. Both sides are moving to expire in October. The UN is set to movements in the Gulf and stepped up patrols. a Cabinet meeting adding that the United fast towards rigid posturing. Mosque loudspeaker saga continues which we see in Paris, Amsterdam and cities scare the bravest amongst us. If Crombie “Allah O Akbar (four times) I testify that ◆ By Tarek Fatah Author & Columnist, Canada in Britain and Germany. thought the affected people would simply there is no God, but Allah (twice). roll over and hand the keys of city decision- The most blatant illustration of the power @TarekFatah making to the Mullahs of Mississauga, I testify that Mohammed is God’s Prophet, some voices in the Muslim community [email protected] she was in for a surprise. The city known Come to prayer, Come to salvation, Allah have over our municipal politicians was for its suburban subservience, triggered is the greatest (twice), There is no God, but ast week when I wrote about a single demonstrated in Mississauga where Mayor a citizen’s revolt led by one person-Ram Allah.” L mosque in Toronto using four loudspeakers Bonnie Crombie rejected the advice of her Subrahmanian who announced a plan to to declare “Allah is the Greatest” and that top administrators, and in a drive-by vote launch a constitutional challenge against the Cities across Europe and in India (home to change of Mississauga’s noise laws. the world’s second-largest population) have taken measures to ban the loudspeaker. Subrahmanian, who is part of the Peel In Germany, a non-Muslim couple succeeded Region group Keep Religion Out Of Peel in banning a mosque from broadcasting its Region Schools (KROOPS), also managed Friday midday call to prayer by loudspeaker. to received around $120,000 for this cause through a Facebook page. As of Wednesday, Elsewhere, the Green Party mayor of Subrahmanian appears to have recruited Amsterdam, Femke Halsema refused a over 6,000 people, each committing to mosque’s request for loudspeaker call to donate around $45 for the court battle ahead. prayer, saying that “given advances in technology, from alarms to apps, it was not He was joined by Muslim Canadian necessary to use loudspeakers to remind the Congress spokesperson Munir Pervaiz, faithful when to pray.” who cited many Islamic scholars who have denounced the use of loudspeakers in In India courts have ruled against the use of mosques as against the spirit of Islam. loudspeakers on mosque minarets, but the Photo Credit : Getty Images faithful continue to defy the laws. there is “No God, but Allah,” I thought it managed to pass a unanimous resolution Subrahmanian told me lawyers are was the case of one mosque, a few zealots amending the city noise bylaw that will preparing to seek a constitutional challenge The fact is that for over 1,300 years, through and their formerly communist councillor legalize the blaring of loudspeakers at all in the Ontario Courts of Justice. “This is not the conflicts of Islam’s birth in the 7th investing in her Muslim vote bank. Mississauga mosques. about religion or being against Islam. This century to the ‘golden era’ of Andalusia and is about the separation of religion and state Baghdad (11th to 14th centuries), Islam’s call I was wrong. Within days, dozens of mosques When Mississauga councillors Sue and preventing any group trying to thrust of prayer was never accentuated to increase across the country deployed loudspeakers, McFadden and Ron Star on Wednesday their religion on others via loudspeakers that the decibel noise. ostensibly to soothe the loneliness of sought to overturn the first vote and have a blare religious messages into the privacy of Muslims because of the lockdown, but discussion, they were somehow persuaded by homes,” he said.