TFIPOST हिन्दी
TFIPOST Global
Tfipost.com
Tfipost.com
No Result
View All Result
  • Premium
  • Politics
    • All
    • Analysis
    • Opinions
    • Trending
    why are national parks closed during monsoon?

    Why India’s National Parks Close During the Monsoon; And Which Ones Stay Open

    Saquib Nachan, Alleged ISIS India Chief, Dies After Brain Haemorrhage in Delhi Hospital

    Saquib Nachan, ISIS India Chief, Dies After Brain Haemorrhage in Delhi Hospital

    VP Dhankhar Questions Emergency-Era additions to Constitution

    VP Dhankhar Questions Emergency-Era Additions “socialist” and “secular” to Preamble, Calls Them a Wound

    Prada acknowledges India's traditional intellectual property

    Prada Responds to Controversy Over Kolhapuri Chappals, Acknowledges Indian Footwear Inspiration

    • Analysis
    • Opinions
    • Trending
  • Economy
    • All
    • Business
    • Economy1
    • Finance
    CDPLC gives MDL a strategic foothold in the Indian Ocean Region

    India’s Strategic Victory : Mazagon Docks acquires majority stake in Sri Lankan Dockyard

    China's Fertiliser Export Halt to India Raises Strategic Red Flags

    China’s Fertiliser Export Halt to India Raises Strategic Red Flags, Prompts Swift Response

    India’s Economic Engine Accelerates

    India’s Economic Engine Accelerates: S&P Projects 6.5% GDP Growth for FY26

    US-Iran Tensions Shake Global Markets

    US-Iran Tensions Shake Global Markets; Oil Prices Surge and Safe-Haven Assets Rise

    • Business
    • Finance
  • Defense
    • All
    • Defence
    • Strategy
    • Weaponry
    F-35 jet stranded in Kerala

    Grounded British F-35B to Be Shifted to Kerala Hangar for Repairs, UK Confirms

    Indian Navy Was Ready to Strike: A Catastrophic Blow Pakistan Barely Escaped

    Op Sindoor: Indian Navy Was Ready to Strike – A Catastrophic Blow Pakistan Barely Escaped

    UK’s F-35 Jet Grounded in Kerala for 10 Days Over Engineering Glitch

    UK’s F-35 Jet Grounded in Kerala for 10 Days Over Engineering Glitch, No Takeoff in Sight

    CQB carbine

    DRDO and Indian Army Unveil Indigenous CQB Carbine for Urban Warfare

    • Defence
    • Strategy
    • Weaponry
  • Geopolitics
    • All
    • Africa
    • Americas
    • Asia Pacific
    • Europe
    • South Asia
    • West Asia
    How Modi Government Protected India’s Chabahar Investment During Iran-Israel Conflict

    India Did What Others Couldn’t: How Modi Govt Kept Chabahar Port Safe Amid Iran-Israel War

    CDPLC gives MDL a strategic foothold in the Indian Ocean Region

    India’s Strategic Victory : Mazagon Docks acquires majority stake in Sri Lankan Dockyard

    durga temple demolished in bangladesh

    Durga Idol Crushed in Dhaka Demolition; India Condemns Bangladesh’s Assault on Hindu Sentiment

    PM Narendra Modia

    PM Modi Heads to Brazil for BRICS Summit as Putin, Xi Skip Key Global Meet

    • Africa
    • Americas
    • Asia Pacific
    • Europe
    • South Asia
    • West Asia
  • Knowledge
    • All
    • Culture
    • Education
    • History
    • Indology
    jagannath yatra 2025 begins

    Jagannath Rath Yatra Begins, Millions Join Sacred Procession in Puri

    indian culture as world civilisation

    The Indian Roots of World Civilizations

    death anniversary of shyama prasad mukherjee

    From Sacrifice to Sovereignty: How Modi’s India Is Realizing Shyama Prasad Mukherjee’s Vision

    Rohith Vemula Bill Sparks Outrage Over Flawed Premise and Vote-Bank Politics

    Karnataka’s Rohith Vemula Bill Sparks Outrage Over Flawed Premise and Vote-Bank Politics

    • Culture
    • History
    • Indology
  • Law
  • Lounge
    • All
    • Books
    • Cinema
    • Entertainment
    • Food
    • Games
    • Health
    • Lifestyle
    • Satire
    • Sports
    • technology
    • Travel
    South Indian cuisine is a celebration of flavour,

    South India’s Guilt-Free Delights: 5 Low-Calorie Snacks That Taste Like Pure Joy

    check how old your aircraft is

    Curious About Your Aircraft’s Age? Here’s How to Find Out in Under a Minute

    brain health boosting exercises

    10 Fun Brain Exercises to Keep Your Mind Sharp and Delay Cognitive Decline

    A Deep Look into Mucormycosis and Throat Cancer

    A Deep Look into Mucormycosis and Throat Cancer

    • Books
    • Cinema
    • Food
    • Health
    • Sports
    • technology
    • Travel
    • Satire
Tfipost.com
  • Premium
  • Politics
    • All
    • Analysis
    • Opinions
    • Trending
    why are national parks closed during monsoon?

    Why India’s National Parks Close During the Monsoon; And Which Ones Stay Open

    Saquib Nachan, Alleged ISIS India Chief, Dies After Brain Haemorrhage in Delhi Hospital

    Saquib Nachan, ISIS India Chief, Dies After Brain Haemorrhage in Delhi Hospital

    VP Dhankhar Questions Emergency-Era additions to Constitution

    VP Dhankhar Questions Emergency-Era Additions “socialist” and “secular” to Preamble, Calls Them a Wound

    Prada acknowledges India's traditional intellectual property

    Prada Responds to Controversy Over Kolhapuri Chappals, Acknowledges Indian Footwear Inspiration

    • Analysis
    • Opinions
    • Trending
  • Economy
    • All
    • Business
    • Economy1
    • Finance
    CDPLC gives MDL a strategic foothold in the Indian Ocean Region

    India’s Strategic Victory : Mazagon Docks acquires majority stake in Sri Lankan Dockyard

    China's Fertiliser Export Halt to India Raises Strategic Red Flags

    China’s Fertiliser Export Halt to India Raises Strategic Red Flags, Prompts Swift Response

    India’s Economic Engine Accelerates

    India’s Economic Engine Accelerates: S&P Projects 6.5% GDP Growth for FY26

    US-Iran Tensions Shake Global Markets

    US-Iran Tensions Shake Global Markets; Oil Prices Surge and Safe-Haven Assets Rise

    • Business
    • Finance
  • Defense
    • All
    • Defence
    • Strategy
    • Weaponry
    F-35 jet stranded in Kerala

    Grounded British F-35B to Be Shifted to Kerala Hangar for Repairs, UK Confirms

    Indian Navy Was Ready to Strike: A Catastrophic Blow Pakistan Barely Escaped

    Op Sindoor: Indian Navy Was Ready to Strike – A Catastrophic Blow Pakistan Barely Escaped

    UK’s F-35 Jet Grounded in Kerala for 10 Days Over Engineering Glitch

    UK’s F-35 Jet Grounded in Kerala for 10 Days Over Engineering Glitch, No Takeoff in Sight

    CQB carbine

    DRDO and Indian Army Unveil Indigenous CQB Carbine for Urban Warfare

    • Defence
    • Strategy
    • Weaponry
  • Geopolitics
    • All
    • Africa
    • Americas
    • Asia Pacific
    • Europe
    • South Asia
    • West Asia
    How Modi Government Protected India’s Chabahar Investment During Iran-Israel Conflict

    India Did What Others Couldn’t: How Modi Govt Kept Chabahar Port Safe Amid Iran-Israel War

    CDPLC gives MDL a strategic foothold in the Indian Ocean Region

    India’s Strategic Victory : Mazagon Docks acquires majority stake in Sri Lankan Dockyard

    durga temple demolished in bangladesh

    Durga Idol Crushed in Dhaka Demolition; India Condemns Bangladesh’s Assault on Hindu Sentiment

    PM Narendra Modia

    PM Modi Heads to Brazil for BRICS Summit as Putin, Xi Skip Key Global Meet

    • Africa
    • Americas
    • Asia Pacific
    • Europe
    • South Asia
    • West Asia
  • Knowledge
    • All
    • Culture
    • Education
    • History
    • Indology
    jagannath yatra 2025 begins

    Jagannath Rath Yatra Begins, Millions Join Sacred Procession in Puri

    indian culture as world civilisation

    The Indian Roots of World Civilizations

    death anniversary of shyama prasad mukherjee

    From Sacrifice to Sovereignty: How Modi’s India Is Realizing Shyama Prasad Mukherjee’s Vision

    Rohith Vemula Bill Sparks Outrage Over Flawed Premise and Vote-Bank Politics

    Karnataka’s Rohith Vemula Bill Sparks Outrage Over Flawed Premise and Vote-Bank Politics

    • Culture
    • History
    • Indology
  • Law
  • Lounge
    • All
    • Books
    • Cinema
    • Entertainment
    • Food
    • Games
    • Health
    • Lifestyle
    • Satire
    • Sports
    • technology
    • Travel
    South Indian cuisine is a celebration of flavour,

    South India’s Guilt-Free Delights: 5 Low-Calorie Snacks That Taste Like Pure Joy

    check how old your aircraft is

    Curious About Your Aircraft’s Age? Here’s How to Find Out in Under a Minute

    brain health boosting exercises

    10 Fun Brain Exercises to Keep Your Mind Sharp and Delay Cognitive Decline

    A Deep Look into Mucormycosis and Throat Cancer

    A Deep Look into Mucormycosis and Throat Cancer

    • Books
    • Cinema
    • Food
    • Health
    • Sports
    • technology
    • Travel
    • Satire
No Result
View All Result
Tfipost.com
Tfipost.com
No Result
View All Result
  • Premium
  • Politics
  • Economy
  • Defense
  • Geopolitics
  • Knowledge
  • Law
  • Lounge
MASHABLE IS A GLOBAL, MULTI-PLATFORM MEDIA AND ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY FOR MORE QUERIES AND NEWS CONTACT US ON THIS EMAIL: INFO@MASHABLEPARTNERS.COM

From Vande Mataram to Jan Gan Man the Growing Intolerance of Muslim Clerics

Ashish Kedia by Ashish Kedia
9 January 2016
in Opinions, TFIUvaach
From Vande Mataram to Jan Gan Man the Growing Intolerance of Muslim Clerics
Share on FacebookShare on X

It was more than a decade back when widespread resentment of Vande Mataram by Islamic clerics and their followers started making news.

Furthermore in 2006, UPA’s Human resources development minister, Arjun Singh, ordered that students of all schools in the country would have to sing Vande Mataram on September 7 to mark its centenary celebrations. Huge uproar and immediate protests followed this announcement and the debate on ‘Vande Mataram’ being ‘Haram’ for Muslims became main-stream.

RelatedPosts

Pakistan-US Cooperation Against Iran Tests Notions of Islamic Solidarity

The Divided Muslim World: Why Refugees Are Being Turned Away by Fellow Islamic Countries

Islam to See Highest Population Growth Among Religions, Finds Pew Research

Load More

Maulana Mahmood Madani, general secretary of Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind and the then Rajya Sabha MP from Uttar Pradesh, led from front to make more and more Muslims join his campaign of boycotting Vande Mataram.

That was in 2006 and we are now in 2016, a decade later should have been a decade smarter yet somehow evolution seems to have gone backwards for some of our fellow citizens. The fire of resentment has moved from India’s National Song to the National Anthem of India, ‘Jan Gan Man’.

A man in West Bengal namely Kazi Masum Akhtar, the headmaster of Talpukur Aara High Madrasa situated in Metiabruz area of South West Kolkata was beaten with iron rods by Hardliner Muslims of the area for encouraging students to sing ‘Jan Gan Man’.

He was brutally injured in the assault with many fractures on his head.

Following this he was also banned from entering the school and reportedly a Fatwa has also been issued against him by a local cleric for doing anti-Islamic activities.

Before jumping to any conclusion it would be important to know the whole story of the Kazi to get a better understanding of all that’s wrong in this development.

Kazi Masum Akhtar was a teacher in a public school for many years when a thought of giving back to his community stuck his mind. He was well aware of the plights of Muslims who remained backward in absence of good education. With that thought in mind he decided to join a Madrasa. His experience got him the post of headmaster of Talpukur Aara High Madrasa and he started reforming the establishments.

According to his own confession he was shocked to see the state of madrasa where any outsider would wander anytime in the premises and students would watch ‘objectionable clips’ on their mobile devices. He firmly stood against all this and started bringing significant changes to make his students more in synchronization with modern education. During all this he initiated a measure to make national anthem a regular part of their prayers together with other Islamic recitations. He was advised against it and so forth he decided to include it only on days of National importance like Republic and Independence Day.

Even this idea didn’t go well with other hardliners of his area and what followed was the brutal thrashing.

This incident leaves us with not one but many questions. Kazi Masum Akhtar represents not only himself but whole lot of individuals who are working on ground levels to bridge up the gap between madrsa teachings and modern education. The fact that he was thrashed for preaching patriotism presents a disturbing reality of a large fraction of population. A reality that we come face to face with on regular basis yet choose to stay quiet for the sake of not being branded as communal.

It is beyond logical comprehension and reasoning to fathom how a song composed in year 1911 and publicly sung for the first time in twenty seventh session of INC in the same year suddenly become averse to a particular religion.

Islam is about 1400 years old, ‘Jan Gan Man’ is 105 years old and both have been in-parallel existence since then, unchanged and unchallenged. So the looming question is what new facts have come to light which are suddenly making clerics denounce National Anthem. So much resentment that a person is beaten for encouraging some other to sing it in the land of its origin!

It is high time for liberal fractions of the Muslim society to take charge. It is time that they decide not to become puppets at the hands of divisive forces within their own factions. If tens of thousands can gather in multiple cities over a cartoon published hundreds of miles away, hundreds and hundreds can turn violent over an individual’s senseless statement, why not now?

Someone has to stand against the ugly recrudescence of a persistent malady that continues to afflict a small section of the Muslim community, namely one that pits nation against religion.

No one wants to question the patriotism of an Indian Muslim but it gets very conflicting when thousands join the funeral procession of a terrorist hanged in Pune on the same day when whole nation is mourning the death of its late President APJ Abdul Kalam. It is for the Muslim society to denounce and question the people waving ISIS flags on the top of mosques in the valley. Ignorance and appeasement would take this society nowhere.

It is for them to decide the fakeness of sudden uproars and to make sure that their hidden agenda is foiled and failed.

Who are these clerics making these discoveries and what is their basis?

Singing a song might or might not prove patriotism but how does boycotting the national anthem of one’s own country make an individual more religious is something that a believer should certainly ponder.

Tags: intoleranceIslamJan Gan Mannational Anthem
Share2TweetSend
Previous Post

Paramilitary Forces: The Unsung Heroes of India

Next Post

President Donald Trump can be World’s trump card against pseudo-liberals

Related Posts

way ahead of G7 summit
Opinions

When The Summit Became A Stage: The G7, Trump’s Exit, And Fractured World

17 June 2025

In the crisp alpine air of Kananaskis, nestled amidst the brooding Rockies of Alberta, world leaders gathered to forge...

The Tale of how Operation Sindoor Silenced Satyapal Malik and His Echo Chamber
Opinions

Operation Sindoor Success: Satyapal Malik and ilks disappears into abyss of silence

8 May 2025

On May 6, former Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satyapal Malik appeared in a much-publicised interview with controversial journalist Karan...

Operation Sindoor
Defense

Why Operation Sindoor? Because No One Touches the Sindoor of an Indian Woman Without Consequence

7 May 2025

In a rapid and decisive response to the Pahalgam Islamist attack that claimed the lives of 26 innocent tourists...

Load More

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

I agree to the Terms of use and Privacy Policy.
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Currently Playing

The gulf crossroads: usa stakes, China's money and Iran's nuclear threat.

The gulf crossroads: usa stakes, China's money and Iran's nuclear threat.

00:30:34

HOW NDA IS MAKING IN- ROADS INTO TAMIL NADU?

00:05:57

the ganga treaty is about to expire. What happens next?

00:06:54

India's Rise: Defense and Diplomacy in 2047 Vision

00:22:51

1975 emergency: India's 21 month dictatorship.

00:10:29
Facebook Twitter Instagram Youtube
tfipostTfipost.com
Right Wing | News Analysis | Indian Opinion
  • About us
  • Careers
  • Brand Partnerships
  • Terms of use
  • Privacy Policy
  • Sitemap

©2025 TFI Media Private Limited

No Result
View All Result
  • Premium
  • Politics
    • Analysis
    • Opinions
    • Trending
  • Economy
    • Business
    • Finance
  • Defense
    • Defence
    • Strategy
    • Weaponry
  • Geopolitics
    • Africa
    • Americas
    • Asia Pacific
    • Europe
    • South Asia
    • West Asia
  • Knowledge
    • Culture
    • History
    • Indology
  • Law
  • Lounge
    • Books
    • Cinema
    • Food
    • Health
    • Sports
    • technology
    • Travel
    • Satire
TFIPOST हिन्दी
TFIPOST Global

©2025 TFI Media Private Limited