Muslim Population (%)

The Census office had compiled this data by March last year, but the UPA government held back the release, perhaps fearing political repercussions of the findings on the eve of Lok Sabha elections.

A report prepared on the issue in 1988 by the then governor of Assam, Lt Gen (Retd) S K Sinha, had warned that illegal immigration was slowly changing the demographic profile in several districts. The Supreme Court has on more than one occasion expressed concern over the change in demography and chided the government for not stopping infiltration from Bangladesh.

Muslim Population (%)

(Percentage of total sate population)

State	2001	2011	Growth	State	2001	2011	Growth
Lakshadeep	95.5	96.2	0.7	Tripura	8.0	8.6	0.6
Jammu & Kashmir	67.0	68.2	1.3	Daman & Diu	7.8	7.8	0.0
Assam	30.9	34.2	3.3	Goa	6.8	8.4	1.5
West Bengal	25.2	27.0	1.8	Madhya Pradesh	6.4	6.6	0.2
Kerela	24.7	26.6	1.9	Pondicherry	6.1	6.1	0.0
Uttar Pradesh	18.5	19.3	0.8	Haryana	5.8	7.0	1.2
Bihar	16.5	16.9	0.3	Tamil Nadu	5.6	5.9	0.3
Jharkhand	13.8	14.5	0.7	Meghalaya	4.3	4.4	0.1
Karnataka	12.2	12.9	0.7	Chandigarh	3.9	4.8	0.9
Uttaranchal	11.9	13.9	2.0	Dadra & Nagar Haveli	3.0	3.8	0.8
Delhi	11.7	12.9	1.1	Orissa	2.1	2.2	0.1
Maharashtra	10.6	11.5	0.9	Himachal Pradesh	2.0	2.2	0.2
Andhra Pradesh	9.2	9.6	0.4	Chhattisgarh	2.0	2.0	0.0
Gujarat	9.1	9.7	0.6	Arunachal Pradesh	1.9	2.0	0.1
Manipur	8.8	8.4	-0.4	Nagaland	1.8	2.5	0.7
Rajasthan	8.5	9.1	0.6	Punjab	1.6	1.9	0.3
Andaman & Nicobar Islands	8.2	8.4	0.2	Sikkim	1.4	1.6	0.2
				Mizoram	1.1	1.4	0.3

Ref: TOI dated 22.01.2015

Maximum Rise in Assam

·         Nationally, percentage of Muslims in total population went up from 13.4% in 2001 to 14.2% in 2001

·         Assam recorded highest increase in share of Muslims, from 3.9% of the state’s population to 34.2%

·         Other states that showed high increase in share of population are Uttarakhand (2 percentage points), Kerala (1.9), west Bengal (1.8), Goa (1.6) and J&K (1.3)

·         Lowest rise in Meghalaya, Odisha & Arunachal (0.1 percentage pts)

J&K (68.3%), Assam (34.2), Bengal (27%) have largest share of Muslims

World’s top 80 billionaires

A study by Oxfam revealed that the world’s top 80 billionaires in 2014 has a collective wealth of $1.9 trillion. 85 richest people on the planet have the same wealth as the poorest 50% (3.5 billion people).  That figure is now 80 – a dramatic fall from 388 people in 2010. The wealth of the richest 80 actually doubled in cast terms between 2009 and 2014.

The study shows that the very richest of the top 1% of the billionaires on the Forbes list have seen their wealth accumulate even faster over the past five years. In 2010, the richest 80 people in the world had a net wealth of $1.3 trillion. By 2014, the 80 people who top Forbes rich list, whose data Oxfam used, had a collective wealth of $1.9 trillion; an increase of $600 billion in just four years. And, it it’s not as if the very poor have the remaining 52% of global wealth. Almost all of it (46%) is owned by the “less wealthy” – the remaining richest 19% of the world’s population. The other bottom 80% shares just 5.5%, and had an average wealth of $3,851 per adult – that’s 1/700^th of the average wealth of the 1%  .

Ref: TOI dated 20.01.2015

Face of Islam

Face of Islam

Boko Haram, Islamist group in Nigeria, killed 2000 innocent people in the name of Islam. Earlier they abducted 200 school girls who are still in their captivity.

Boko Haram means Western education is forbidden in the Hausa language. Official Arabic name Jamaatu Ahlis Sunna Liddaawati Wal-Jihad, means “People Committed to the Propagation of the Prophet’s Teachings and Jihad”.

Are ISIS, Boko Haram, Al-Qaida, Taliban, IM etc. etc. are the face of Islam ? They will say “It is not Islam. Islam is a religion of peace”. But the word Islam does not mean ‘peace’. It does not come from ‘salaam’. It means ‘submission’ in Arabic as in Michal Houellebeen’s book title and islamist killers submit to preachers who effectively own Islam. (Ref: Renuka Narayanan, HT dt. 11.01.2015)

I have been a student of Science & Technology for last five decades and a rationalist as well as an atheist and was involved with Dr. Kavoor of Sri Lanka who was spearheading rationalist movement in 1970s. I was also a Marxist for three decades which I discarded after seeing the reality while working in communist countries , specially in USSR.

To be an atheist one need not & should not discard his/her “Dharma”. Most of “secularist” & “intellectuals” in the name of appeasing some cause mix up “Religion” and “Dharma”. Hinduism is not a religion but “Dharma” – righteous path to life, one’s life style & duty etc. I follow “Hinduism” i.e Dharma and though eaten beet for 30 years it did not  affect my “Hinduism”.

There is absolutely no apology for these Godmen – which ever religion they belong. They are in all religion. While studying / working in Europe in 60’s / 70’s have seen enough superstition , especially among Catholics. Also seen wide spread hypocrisy among Muslims while working / visiting different Islamic countries. Alcohol drinking rampant , women discarding Borqua as soon as Plane take off towards west etc. etc. In your article you have repeatedly mentioned about “rationalist”. All names given belong to Hindu or Christian background, not a single example having Islamic background. Do you mean there are not rationalist in Islam. It speaks volume.

P. K. Film – same old cliché – Muslim boy Hindu girl. Why not once the other way ? Hindu god’s picture on  Cheeks – would he dare to use Prophet’s picture in place ? Throughout the picture Hindu bashing ; cleverly inserting few seconds scene of a Muslim girl and Church & Father . 

Where are the rationalist ? Where were they when M.F. Husain paints nude Saraswati in the name of art. Would anybody dare to paint Prophet or Mother Mary in such form ? Why the rationalist not shouting against Taliban / ISIS / Boko Haram and and brutality against humanity ?

One can bring many things. How far will the hypocrisy go .

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