Muslims and Dalits come together to fight 'divisive politics'

Edit The Times of India 09 May 2016
To bring Muslims and Dalits on one platform against what is being defined as a pressure group to fight against 'divisive politics', Jamiat Ulama -i- Hind and National Confederation of Dalit Adivasi Organisations has launched an exercise aimed at bringing together organisations, activists and people from marginalised communities....

The Indonesian Muslim - cyberwarriors' who are battling Islamic State online

Edit Topix 09 May 2016
A group of Indonesian "cyberwarriors" sit glued to screens, as they send out messages promoting a moderate form of Islam in the world's most populous Muslim-majority country. Armed with laptops and smartphones, some 500 members of the Nahdlatul Ulama - one of the world's biggest Muslim organisations - are seeking to counter the Islamic State group's extremist messages ... ....

Indonesia calls on Islamic leaders to promote tolerant Islam

Edit The Miami Herald 09 May 2016
The meeting organized by Nahdlatul Ulama, Indonesia's largest Muslim organization, is expected to produce a message about the importance of promoting a peaceful Islam to combat radicalism worldwide ... ....

Indonesia's Muslim cyber warriors take on IS

Edit Topix 08 May 2016
Armed with laptops and smartphones, some 500 members of the Nahdlatul Ulama - one of the world's biggest Muslim organizations - are seeking to counter the Islamic State group's extremist messages. "We'll never let Islam be hijacked by fools who embrace hate in their heart," tweeted Syafi' Ali, a prominent member of the NU's online army, a typical message to his tens of thousands of followers ... ....

Minister Khofifah

Edit Indonesia News 08 May 2016
Bandung (ANTARA News) - General chairperson of an Islamic women organization PP Muslimat Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), concurrently Social Affairs Minister Khofifah Indar Parawansa has expressed hop ... ....

Indonesian summit to promote 'renovated' Islam in challenge to global jihadism

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 08 May 2016
This week the largest Islamic civil group in the world - Indonesia's Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) - will host a two-day international summit of Muslim leaders in Jakarta ... The Council of Indonesian Ulama (MUI), Indonesia's peak body of Islamic scholarship, denounced the recitation as "an embarrassment for Indonesia", saying the Koran was revealed in Arabic and had to be read according to that language's tradition....

In a first, Jaish-e-Mohammad suspects to be counselled; Muslim groups welcome Delhi police's initiative

Edit DNA India 08 May 2016
-->. A religious head of a local NGO, a noted psychiatrist, the lawyer on record and immediate family members will jointly conduct and participate in the counselling sessions ... They are basically concerned and pre-occupied with making ends meet and putting food on the table,” Maulana Abdur Raziq, general secretary (Delhi state), Jamiat-Ulama-i-Hind, said welcoming the move ... It resulted in the arrest of three ... Ritika Jain. ....

Tributes paid to Samastha president

Edit The Hindu 05 May 2016
The mortal remains of Samastha Kerala Jamiyyathul Ulama president C ... Samastha Kerala Jamiyyathul Ulama leader and Indian Union Muslim League State president Sayed ......

Jamiat questions probe into train blast, arms haul

Edit Indian Express 04 May 2016
The Jamiat Ulama-E-Maharashtra has questioned the investigation carried out in the Mumbai train blast and the Aurangabad Arms haul case by the Maharashtra ATS ... faulty investigation brought about a common link to all three cases and framed the same set of accused in these cases,” said Gulzar Azmi, head of the Jamiat Ulama-i-Hinds legal aid committee....

Innocent youths were falsely implicated by ATS in 2006 terror cases, allege Jamiat

Edit DNA India 04 May 2016
--> ... The officials of Jamiat Ulama E Maharashtra, an NGO, on Tuesday alleged that some officers of the state Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) had falsely implicated the Muslim youths arrested in Malegaon blast case of 2006, Mumbai serial train bombings and Aurangabad Arms Haul case which occurred in 2006 ... The innocents were tortured in the custody and were forced to give statements that they were involved in the bombings and Arms Haul Case ... ....

Jamiat demands action against ATS officials

Edit Deccan Herald 03 May 2016
The Jamiat Ulama-e-Maharashtra (Arshad Madani), that had over the last few years provided legal aid to innocent Muslim youth in terror cases, on Monday demanded action against the officials of the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) who had investigated the Aurangabad arms haul case, the 7/11 serial train blasts case and the Malegaon-1 blasts – all registered in 2006....

'Book Maharashtra ATS men for implicating innocents in terror cases'

Edit The Times of India 03 May 2016
Mumbai, May 3 (IANS) The Jamiat Ulama-e-Maharashtra (Arshad Madni group) on Tuesday demanded action against officials of the state Anti Terrorism Squad (ATS) for "falsely implicating" innocent Muslim youths in various terror cases. JUeM legal cell secretary Gulzar Azmi said the ATS had probed the Aurangabad arms haul, the 7/11 Mumbai serial train blasts, and the Malegaon 2006 blasts in 2006 ... --IANS. qn/pm/vt ....

'All-faith meet in Varanasi to strengthen Hindu-Muslim unity'

Edit The Times of India 29 Apr 2016
The Maulana Arshad Madani led faction of Jamiat Ulama -e- Hind, is all set to go to Prime minister Narendra Modi's constituency Varanasi with the message of Hindu-Muslim unity and the need to recognise and reject fundamentalist and divisive forces trying to divide the two communities on religious lines ... In March, Jamiat Ulama -e-Hind had organised a ......
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