media's anti-muslim propaganda

Yellow journalism is not a new term for media. It is there since long time. In a recent case, Star News exposed mufti's of madrasa's taking money for fatwa's and madrasas like DeoBand were showned under a programme called "Benaqaab". Which was done by Aniruddh Bahl. But this is nothing else than anti-muslim propaganda, the channel only did it to increase its TRP.

In the programme they showed that mufti's are giving fatwa's for money. To explain and shoot the case so it look real they used Maulana Imraan as a middle-man.

They shot many Madrasa's and came with their tampered vedio recordings.
When Muslim's saw that, they became very angry and in result, all these mufti's were banned for imamat and also suspended from their posts.

But reality is something else, all these tapes were tampered at the channels office. In the case of Mufti Habur-rahman of the Daoband now, by the grace of Allah, reality has come. The committee which was investigating the matter in Darul-uloom Deoband has come with its report. By which, all these exposing and sting operation was anti-muslim propaganda, The Mufti Habib-u-Rahman who was alleged that he gave fatwa for money. now, it is clear that he hasn't taken any money from any body, what ever fatwa he gave was also according to Islamic Law. In the Vedio it is shown that he is putting money into his bag, it was propogated that he has taken money from the Star reporter but in real the money which he put into his bag was his own, which was given to him from Deoband Library for his books. Also nowhere in the video it is showned that mufti Habib-u-Rahman is taking money into his hand from the reporter. Also in the background Voice of Azaan is coming but when the reporter met him the time was about 10:30 A.M. which is not the namaz or azaan time any where in the world. also when Mufti sahab denied to take money his voice is erased in the tape.

Now, Mufti Habb-u-Rahman has again posted on his post of Mufti, Also Maulana Imraan in his confession tape which was shown on many TV channels said, "Mufti Habib-u-Rahman is nowhere into the matter, he is a world level Mufti, a respected old person and he has not taken any amount for fatwa".

Also there is a case going on, in Srinagar (Kashmir)court, aginst Nizam-e-Qaza and Nizam-e-Ifta to band this islamic system, to loose and to make a negative effect on the case it was a complete propaganda. Now madrasa's are planning to file a case against the channel into the court.Which has tampered the image of madrasas into the eyes of common man.

But the fact, that media is anti muslim again came into the light. This report which I read in a Urdu (Inquilab) newspaper is nowhere in any other language or english media. Now what to say, isn't it yellow journalism? Today in such critical conditions, where world is sitting with neuclear weapons, is it the right path on which media is going. As a media student, we have been taught that we should be unbiased and it is the duty of Journalists, reporters, editors and publishers to give nothing else than fact and truth. Now let's pray for the time when this propaganda game will be abandoned from our so called media system.

Think over it????????????!!!!!!!!

!!!!!!Ramzan Mubarak!!!!!!!!

Dear friends ramzan mubarak to all of you.
May God bless all of you.

2nd conf. mahdism iran

This is the paper which Dr. Zhaeer A. Khan submitted in the seminar.

The Doctrine of Mahdism - A Rational Scientific Point of View

Zaheer Ahmad Khan and Khan M. Asim

ALLAH created all mankind from a single pair of male and female, divided it into nations and tribes for the purpose of knowing each other. HE gave them wisdom and knowledge to distinguish between right and wrong by sending bearers of glad tidings, warners and guides as and when need was there. Starting from Adam (AS) to Hazrat Mohammed (PBUH) a large number of prophets came to this world bringing the same message of Islam. The Message of all the messengers except Hazrat Mohammed (PBUH) was subject to time and space. Who (PBUH) finally came with the clear command, “ We sent thee not but as a Mercy for all creatures”.

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Make a Classroom Newspaper

You can create your own newspaper. Students can be reporters, researching and writing newspaper articles. Topics for articles can include interesting things that have happened in the classroom or school, events that occurred in your town, family milestones (did someone have a birthday recently, or win an award?), a sports tournament, extreme weather, or an interesting local person! Before you begin, read and analyze some newpaper articles to see how professional reporters write.

You can put the articles of all the students in the classroom together to make your own classroom newspaper! You can even add advertisements for made-up products.

A newspaper is a daily or weekly publication that contains news articles, editorials, and other items. Newspapers are printed on large sheets of inexpensive paper that are folded. Ads (and to a much lesser extent, subscriptions) pay the costs of operating a newspaper. Synonyms for newspaper are paper and rag (this is a disparaging term).

The owner of a newspaper is called the publisher. The editor is in charge of the content. Reporters research and write the articles. Most reporters specialize in an area (like government, crime, or science) - this specialty is called the reporter's beat.

link: http://www.allaboutspace.com/newspaper/

media war

CONCLUSION

Since Independence the press in India has vastly grown in size and circulation. But now it suffers from many ills, it has yet to identify its true post independence role. It is said, “ In Gandhian era newspaper were working for a mission and now for commission”. Now press has become a tool in the hands of big business houses, and they are using it like a revenue generating machine. They are even not looking at the decline of credibility of the news. Most of the papers today (mainly English) are just providing entertainment (food, fashion and film) news. Though regional language newspapers are giving the better news (local news) than English, and it was the main reason, why regional language newspapers took over English in recent years. Due to increasing number of edition there is a tough competition among newspapers for circulation. The big industrialists are financing huge amounts, and in result they expects more than 10 times profit.

In an interview Kumar Ketkar, Editor Loksatta said, “Journalism today is less concerned about making readers aware of critical global issues, and market forces had instrumentalised a de-education process”. Today there is a war for advertisements instead for news.

There is a couplet of Urfi Shirazi, a renowned Philosopher and Persian poet:

KHOOK BASHI, KHAK BASHI YA SAGE MURDAAR BASH,
HAR CHE BASHI, BASH URFI ANDKI ZARDAAR BASH.

(Either be a pig, lie down in the garbage or be a dead dog. Do anything, be anything but Urfi anyhow earn Money.)

The same is the thinking of Indian media owners earn money anyhow. The amount they are investing on advertising and marketing campaigns are very high, instead of investing on campaigns if they use it for charity, they can play a major role in countries development and war against poverty. Which in result will give them more readers than campaigns. The reason behind the success of Dainik Bhaskar is their local level social campaigns i.e. Pani Roko Abhiyan. They were raising common man’s voice for scarcity of water, thus People supported them. While English newspapers doesn’t played that much active role in social campaigns, to which they were expected.

In recent years 2 national level newspapers launched their Mumbai edition - the commercial capital of India. Hindustan Times, And Dainik Bhaskar launched its English daily DNA. As they came to Mumbai Times Group launched its tabloid (Mumbai Mirror) to restrict its customers. There was tough competition for capturing the market. Every day there was a marketing guy standing at the door, and the common man was fade up of all these surveys as it was disturbing his Personal life.

The only good thing with increasing number of newspaper is that they are providing employment to millions of people.

The role of press in India needs not to be that of adversary of blind support to the government. The press should be watchdog and act as a catalytic agent to hasten the process of social and economic change and thus secure people participation and involvement in the countries development.

The press today is too much obsessed with politics. The country today, needs creative reporting particularly on non-political themes such as unemployment, malnutrition, population growth etc. The emphasis shouldn’t be on what ‘wants’ but should be on what it ‘needs’. The reporting should provide adequate local coverage and human-interest story.
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Movie review: Lagey raho Munna Bhai......

*Sanjay Dutt, Arshad Warsi, Vidya Balan, Boman Irani etc.....
Rating: ****1/2
Sahi hai Mamu.... fantastic. great entertaining and full of laughter. Munna bhai meets Gandhi ji. and applyed gandhigiri in today's scenario. Humour with a message of truth and non-violence. Great acting by munna and circuit. vidya balan looks pretty, nice acting. almost same cast of Munna bhai MBBS. do u know dia Mirza is there in the movie with guest appearance of Abhishek bachchan. This time instead of Doctor munnbhai falls in love with a Radio Announcer, and became Professor Murli Prasad Sharma just to impress her. lets hope for another Munna bhai laughter by vinod chopra.... for american munna bhai. nicely done lagey raho munna bhai......

Halate Qalb-o-Dil!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dil mein koi baki armaan nahi hai

rasta kamyabi ka, aasan nahi hai!!!!!!

manzilein to manzilein, karvan bhi door hai

sehra se rasta hai, gulistan nahi hai!!!!!

halaate qalb-o-dil, bekar kyun sunaun

jab tu hi hamara dilbar, negehban nahi hai!!!!!

numaish yeh darde dil ki, tu kaise dekhti hai

kya raham-o-karam ka zalim, dil mein makan nahi hai!!!!

awaaz-e-khalq gar jo, naqqarai khuda hai

kya teri sada mein asim, dil-e-bekaran nahi hai!!!!

Khan M. Asim 31/08/2006