Topic: Jamaat-e-Islami

Friday, 5 November, leaders of All India Muslim Majlis-e-Mushawarat who carried a visit to Tripura following the week-long assaults on Muslims in the northeast state, wrote a letter to Biplab Kumar Deb, Tripura chief minister, seeking the state government's immediate intervention in the protection of Muslims in the state who form about nine percent of its 3.7 million population.

A delegation of Muslim organisations, led by leaders of Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind (JUH) and Jamaat-e-Islami (JIH), met Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Monday in connection with the incidents of forced evictions and police killings of two Bengali Muslims in Darrang.

Several Muslim organisations in Kerala including Indian Union Muslim League have asked the state government to go in for an appeal against the High Court order that cancelled the 80-20 ratio for the allocation of funds for the welfare of minorities in the state.

Prominent Muslim organisations have demanded from the government to rebuild the Gareeb Nawaz Al Maroof Mosque in the central Uttar Pradesh town of Barabanki, which was demolished by the local administration on Monday, defying the High Court order.

Professor K .A. Siddique Hassan, prominent Islamic scholar from Kerala and former national vice president of Jamaat-e-islami Hind, died on Tuesday. He was 75.

A group of nine academics, lawyers, writers and retired bureaucrats have sent a letter to CPIM secretary Sitaram Yechury, expressing concern at recent Islamophobic statements of A. Vijayaraghavan, left party's Kerala state unit secretary.