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Kerala: Islamic scholar says shopping malls are haram because women might visit beauty parlours and look at other men

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Hussain Salafi, an Islamic scholar from Kerala has stated that Muslims should stay away from malls because Allah does not like malls. As per a report by Janam TV, Hussain Salafi said that men and women roam together in malls and Allah dislikes malls.

The Islamic scholar added that Muslims should boycott malls. He asserted that Allah’s favourite places are mosques.

Salafi further added that women who visit malls also visit beauty parlours. Malls see visitors and shoppers from different cultures who wear all different kinds of dresses. “These are the children of devil”, Salafi added, Muslims who visit malls are tarnishing the image of the whole community.

Explaining all the ‘evil effects’ of a mall, Salafi further added that in malls, men and women roam together. The gaze of women falls on other men inside malls. Women looking at men brings disrepute to the Muslim community, he added, saying that Muslims should stay away from malls.

Women who use perfumes are adulterers

Recently, another Islamic scholar named Sirajul Islam had claimed that women who clean themselves are adulterers. This statement was taken further by Hussain Salafi who stated that women who use ‘Attar’ or perfumes are adulterers, they do it because they are interested in committing adultery.

Subramanian Swamy to “fact-check” violence against Hindus in Bengal six months after it began, recalls Mamata Banerjee as pro-Hindu leader

BJP leader Subramanian Swamy sparked speculations across social media and political circles after he showered praise on TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee and met her in West Bengal. Taking to Twitter, Subramanian Swamy said that Mamata Banerjee, like other tall leaders in his opinion, said what she meant and meant what she said. According to him, that was a rare quality in any leader. He compared Mamata Banerjee to JP, Morarji Desai, Rajiv Gandhi, Chandrashekhar, and P V Narasimha Rao.

On his part, Swamy retweeted tweets that praised him for “raising the issue” of “atrocity against Hindus” in West Bengal, insinuating that the government did not do anything but Swamy was in Bengal to raise issues of the atrocity with Mamata Banerjee. It is pertinent to note that a reign of terror had been unleashed after the recent assembly elections where TMC goons and Muslim mobs went on a rampage murdering BJP workers and raping women.

Tweet RTed Subramanian Swamy

While Swamy showered praises on Mamata Banerjee and bathed in the glory of his fans praising him, some of his tweets indicated a very different story.

Swamy took to Twitter and declared that he will meet the police officials in Bengal and “fact check” the post-poll violence 6 months after it began in May. This was tweeted on 25th November while he had retweeted tweets praising himself for bringing up ‘atrocity against Hindus’ in Bengal with Mamta Banerjee a day prior to that.

“Around mid Dec.I will go with a VHS team to Bengal to assess the situation that developed recently in some parts of the State. I will talk to officials for doing a fact check. I recall CM Mamata three years ago responding favourably when I told her about freeing Tarkeshwar Temple”, Swamy tweeted after questions were raised on his intentions.

There are two operative parts of these tweets that Swamy has craftily written. Swamy first said that he will be talking to officials “for doing a fact check”. Doing a fact-check would essentially mean that Swamy doubts the post-poll violence was real, or had the same intensity and reported, and therefore, would “fact check” the reports on violence to shield Mamata. The second part of the tweet was far more interesting. After insinuating that he would attempt to give a free pass to Mamata in the post-poll violence case, Swamy proceeded to paint Mamata as a “good Hindu leader” by saying that she had favoured the freeing of Tarkeshwar temple from government control”.

After Swamy met and praised Mamata, several individuals asked the BJP leader, who likes to call himself a ‘Virat Hindu’ why he was meeting Mamata Banerjee after Hindus had been murdered brutally in her regime. Responding to these questions, Swamy lashed out at people claiming that they should be asking this question to the central government and not him.

When told that law and order is a state subject, Swamy lashed out again, citing the examples of forces in Kashmir.

Tweet by Swamy

In an attempt to shield himself from criticism, Swamy misled his readers in comparing the situations of Bengal and Kashmir. Kashmir is a Union Territory and comes under AFSPA. Being a “disturbed area”, the Armed forces and even the paramilitary forces are required to be there to maintain peace and sovereignty of the nation. While raising questions against the central government and the party leadership for their silence on Bengal violence is legitimate, Swamy here seems to be trying to shift the entire blame from Mamata Banerjee.

It is also pertinent to note that in May itself, the Ministry of Home Affairs had sought a report from the Mamata Banerjee government detailing the post-poll violence and what steps were being taken to bring it under control. The state government had simply refused to submit the report to MHA despite reminder letters. In August, the central government had told the Calcutta HC that central agencies like NIA were ready to probe the post-poll violence and assist the state police. It was, however, the court that had refused to do so saying that the timing might not be appropriate to transfer the cases with the state police to central agencies. The court had, before this, asked the NHRC to constitute a committee and investigate the cases of violence and the resultant report had exposed brutal violence against BJP workers in the state. Mamata Banerjee on her part had called even the NHRC report “partisan” and an assault on an elected state government.

Swamy seems to have skipped over the entire sequence of events to essentially give Mamata Banerjee a clean chit.

This is not the first time that Swamy has showered praise on Mamata and given her reign of terror a free pass. In 2020, Swamy had responded to a tweet criticising her politics, saying: “According to me Mamata Banerjee is a pucca Hindu and Durga Bhakt. On a case by case basis she will act. Her politics is different. That we will fight in the maidan.”

According to Indian Express, Swamy gave a cryptic response when asked about him joining TMC. “I was already with her (Mamata). There is no need for me to join the party,” he told reporters.

India’s fertility rate is now below replacement levels: Kerala, TN marginally reverse fall

India’s fertility rate has for the first time fallen below replacement levels, as per data released by the National Family Health Survey-5 on Wednesday, 24 November. The data pertains to 2019-21.

As per a report in the Times of India, the Total Fertility Rate, which is the average number of children born to a woman during her lifetime, is now 2, which is below replacement levels. For India, the replacement level, where the population theoretically remains the same in the next generation, is 2.1.

The key findings of the survey were released by Dr VK Paul from NITI Aayog and Rajesh Bhushan, secretary, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.

Further, the TFR is 2.1 in rural areas and 1.6 in urban areas. It is notable here that the replacement fertility rate varies country wise, depending upon factors like mortality rate and child mortality rate. In poor and developing nations, where child mortality rates are high, the TFR for replacement levels is slightly higher.

Only 3 states, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Jharkhand now have a TFR that is above replacement levels, at 3, 2.4 and 2.3 respectively. From the previous assessment, states like Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, UP and Bihar have shown a significant decline in the TFR levels, causing the dip.

Kerala and TN are the only states where TFR went up

As per the NFHS-5 survey, Kerala and Tamilnadu are the only states where fertility rates went up since the last assessment. In NFHS-4, Kerala and Punjab had the lowest fertility rates at 1.6, while TN had 1.7

In the NFHS-5, Kerala is still the state with one of the lowest fertility rates, though it has slightly increased from its own levels. It now has a TFR of 1.8, the same as Tamil Nadu.

The Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir has a very low TFR at 1.4. Among the states, Sikkim has the lowest TFR at 1.1. Sikkim’s TFR is now the same as South Korea, the country that has the lowest fertility rate in the world.

In general, Asia’s TFR is just 2.15, barely above the replacement levels. Among Asian nations, Nepal has TFR at 1.9 while Bangladesh’ is the same as India at 2.

In the world, Africa and Oceania have the highest TFR, at 4.4 and 2.9 respectively. In Africa, Niger has the highest TFR of 6.9 while Somalia has a TFR of 6.1. Apart from Africa and Oceania, all other geographic regions in the world have achieved TFR of replacement level or less.

As per United Nations, India’s population had peaked in the 1980s and the population growth has been declining ever since.

North Korean man to be shot dead for ‘smuggling’ South Korean show ‘Squid Game’

North Korean man has been sentenced to death for smuggling in South Korean Netflix series ‘Squid Game’ on USB through China and sold their copies after seven high school students were caught watching the show. As per a report by RFA, the man would be executed by a firing squad.

A student who bought the USB from the smuggler is given life sentence while six others who saw it with him have been sentenced to five years of hard labour. Teachers and school administrators are also fired and are banished to work in remote areas in mines, the report said citing sources.

Squid Games is a popular South Korean drama on Netflix which shows a dystopian world where cash-strapped contestants are pitted against each other in a children’s game for huge cash prize. Losing players are sentenced to death in the show. The show quite resonates with the actual life of North Korean people who live in the recluse country and are subjected to hard labour and have an otherwise terrible life and standard of living. The communist country strictly controls lives of its citizens and all television and radios are tuned into state propaganda. If anyone is caught watching or listening to foreign broadcasts, they face harsh punishment.

Turns out, one of the students in high school secretly bought the USB with ‘Squid Game’ on it and saw it with some of his friends. The word spread and others also got interested. They shared the USB but were caught by censors. North Korea has a specialised task force, Surveillance Bureau Group, which catches illegal video watchers.

Recently, North Korea had passed a law on “Elimination of Reactionary Thought and Culture” which carries maximum penalty of death sentence for watching, keeping or distributing media and videos from capitalist countries especially United States of America and South Korea. As of now, the borders in North Korea as closed due to Coronavirus pandemic and now there is anxiety amongst residents as the ‘smugglers’ and students will be grilled mercilessly to find out how the television drama made its way into North Korea.

The school administration is dismissed and they are also expelled from the party. They will now be likely made to work in mines in remote rural areas. This has triggered fear in other teachers who fear same fate should one of their students is caught watching ‘illegal videos’.

‘Mera Yeshu Yeshu’ on steroids: Christian preacher claims Jesus saved her from a Reptilian who posed as her husband to have sex with her

There are countless stories or perhaps folk tales people recount to tell how Jesus intervened and saved their lives, but none comes close to the “otherworldly” anecdote shared by End Times preacher Sharon Gilbert, a clergywoman in the United States, in a talk show.

Recently, Sharon Gilbert, who is a preacher, an author, and a talk show host, claimed that an alien, which was actually a reptile in disguise, imitated her husband and tried to have sex with her.

The astounding bit of claim came during the Jim Bakker’s online show on Tuesday, where Sharon Gilbert narrated a surreal event from her life, which according to her, had occurred just after she had gotten married to her husband, Derek, who was also present on the show.

“After Derek and I got married…one night, this other Derek appears in our bed. The real Derek is lying down next to me. The other Derek sits right up out of it. It unsettled me. I knew that was not Derek. So I asked this critter: ‘Who are you?’ because he evidently wanted to establish sexual relations. He said ‘come on, I’m your husband.’ I said ‘who are you?’ and he had the nerve to claim to be Ahasuerus – Xerses [the fourth King of Kings of the Achaemenid Empire who ruled from 486 to 465 BC],” Gilbert said.

Gilbert’s encounter with a shape-shifting reptilian alien provides profound insights about the extraterrestrial life: that they are much like humans in their carnal desires and that they appear like reptiles and have the supernatural ability to transfigure themselves.

If no one else, this should help folks in Hollywood, who come up with strange depictions to portray aliens. They can now rely on Gilbert’s description and depict extraterrestrial creatures as reptiles found on Earth and who have a flair for identifying themselves as kings and rulers of the past.

Gilbert further added that the creature visited her several times before she was finally able to exorcise it. She claimed that it was only after she was able to “verbalise the name of Jesus did the creature go away.” The preacher said she constantly heard the voice of the creature in her head, which rendered her motionless, and was able to fight back only when she was able to pray.

Since her mind was besieged with appearances of the creature, perhaps Gilbert is our conduit to the world that lays beyond this planet. Instead of pouring in billions of dollars into space programs in the search of existence of aliens in Space, NASA and other space research organisations should persuade Gilbert into having more such encounters with these extraterrestrial creatures to glean information about them.

Billionaire Elon Musk had once spoken about his dream of building cities in Mars. His dream can be materialised if he can get Gilbert to talk to the reptilian creature and seek information on how it seamlessly traverses galaxies to hound the Christian preacher. Possibly, with the help of the information retrieved from the reptilian alien, Musk can expedite his efforts to settle humans in Space.

Gilbert also said the creature visited a dozen times over the course of next 5 years and it was trying “to use her free will to do something to pull her away from the God.” However, she managed to put an end to his visitations when she internally said “I’ve had enough” and: “I reached up, I grabbed his face and I said, ‘You are a liar. And Jesus is real.’ And I pulled that face-off. And beneath it was a reptile.”

So, Jesus Christ is a universal God, who is feared by even extra-terrestrial creatures. This is ironic considering that a great many Christian pastors themselves do not fear him, and under the pretext of handling the custodianship of Christianity, engage in all kinds of perverse behaviour. News reports of bishops and pastors raping nuns and devout Christians have become par for the course. Christian priests, in several parts of the world, are accused of sexual exploiting nuns in the name of propagating the religion established by Jesus Christ. Yet, it is the extra-terrestrial creature, who is spooked by his name and not those who commit unspeakable atrocities under the garb of spreading his religion.

Besides, Gilbert added: “Little creatures with him this time, these little half-ling creatures and they looked like gargoyles, they were reptilian as well. So beneath that face of Derek was a reptilian serpentine creature, probably similar to what visited the Anasazi…”

As per conspiracy theorists, Anasazi were a tribe of Native American people who were abducted by extra-terrestrials after they were disappeared without a trace from New Mexico in the 14th century. Their disappearance was also a subject for an X-Files episode.

It is worth noting that much of Bakker’s episode was based on the promotion of a DVD called ‘The Great Delusion’, which explores conspiracy theories surrounding UFOs, aliens and their link to supernatural entities such as demons and fallen angels.

ED summons Maharashtra Chief Secretary over probe against Anil Deshmukh, CS refuses to join citing cabinet meeting

Maharashtra Chief Secretary Sitaram Kunte has declined to adhere to the summon of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) who asked him to appear before the agency on November 25 in connection with the money laundering probe against jailed former Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh.

Kunte said that he will not be able to turn up before the ED to record his statements as he is busy with Cabinet meetings on November 25.

The ED summoned Kunte to record his statement regarding the transfer and postings of police officers in Maharashtra when Deshmukh was heading the home portfolio. Anil Deshmukh, a prominent leader of the Nationalist Congress, was forced to resign as Home Minister in the first week of April after the Bombay High Court ordered a CBI probe against him for allegedly running an extortion racket.

The former Mumbai Police commissioner Param Bir Singh had written a letter to Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray alleging Deshmukh had asked controversial cop Sachin Vaze to collect Rs. 100 crore every month from bars, restaurants and other establishments.

There were other serious allegations of corruption in transfer and posting.

This month, CBI arrested a private person named Santosh Shankar Jagtap from Thane. Jagtap allegedly acted as the go-between in the transfers and postings of police officers when Anil Deshmukh was the home minister. His name surfaced during the call intercepts of certain phone numbers done by former Maharashtra DGP Rashmi Shukla.

Notably, Kunte a 1985 batch officer is set to retire on November 30 and the Maharashtra government requested the Centre for his three months extension.

‘Hema Malini is old’: Congress Minister says roads should be like Katrina Kaif’s cheeks

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On November 24, Congress MLA Rajendra Singh Gudha made a controversial statement. In his sexist jibe, he said the roads in his constituency should be like the cheeks of Katrina Kaif. Gudha, who was elected as Minister of State for Rural Development in Rajasthan, was at his assembly constituency Udaipurwati. When the people complained to him about the bad roads, he told NK Joshi, Chief Engineer of Public Works Department, from the stage, that the roads in his village should be made like the cheeks of Katrina Kaif.

As per the reports, the minister first said the roads should be made like Hema Malini cheeks. After a few moments, he said, “no… Hema Malini has become old.” Then he asked the people present at the meeting, “Which actress is famous in films nowadays?” When people took the name of Katrina Kaif, he said, “Then the roads of my village should be made like the cheeks of Katrina Kaif.”

Before Katrina Kaif, it was Hema Malini

Back in 2005, RJD leader Lalu Prasad Yadav also gave a similar sexist statement. At the time, he had said that Bihar roads would become as smooth as the cheeks of Hema Malini. In 2019, Congress leader PC Sharma compared the roads of Madhya Pradesh with the cheeks of BJP leader Kailash Vijayvargiya and said the Congress government would make them like the cheeks of Hema Malini.

Viral video: Karnataka Congress finally remembers Sardar Patel, out of fear for the BJP. Here is what happened

Leaders of the Karnataka Congress have finally remembered Sardar Vallabhai Patel on his birth anniversary, though it seems it is not out of respect but out of fear of the BJP.

This was revealed following a weeks-old video that has gone viral on social media. It is related to the Congress’ programme organized in Bengaluru on October 31 to mark the death anniversary of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.

In the video, former chief minister Siddaramaiah is heard inquiring Karnataka Congress chief DK Shivakumar about the absence of the portrait of India’s first home minister Sardar Vallabhai whose birthday falls on the same day.

“Today it is his (Sardar Patel) birth anniversary. There is no portrait of him?”, chief minister Siddaramaiah is heard asking Shivakumar in Kannada.

“Sir, yes. It is his birthday today also. But we never keep the photo,” Shivakumar informs him about the party tradition of keeping Sardar Patel away from the memory.

“But what happens with BJP, they will take advantage,” Siddaramaiah said and turns to a staff member asking him whether he had a photo of Vallabhai Patel? Then they decide to keep a portrait of Sardar Patel with Indira Gandhi.

Unnoticed by them, their conversation was amplified by the ‘hot mic’.

The video might have gone unnoticed but it became viral after former minister and BJP leader MP Renukacharya tweeted a video of the purported conversation on November 24. His post in Kannada loosely translates: “Congress pays tribute to Patel in fear of BJP.”

“If anyone had a doubt how much the Nehru Dynasty hated Sardar Patel, this video clears it. Siddaramaiah and DK Shivakumar agree to place a photo of Sardar Patel along with that of Indira Gandhi fearing BJP. It is a shame that Slaves are so much scared of an Italian,” BJP leader CT Ravi said.

Mic gaffes are not new in Congress. In October, a video of Karnataka Congress media coordinator MA Salim and former MP VS Ugrappa went viral. Ahead of a press conference, they were heard badmouthing about Shivakumar and his alleged corruption when he was a minister in HD Kumaraswamy-led JD(S)-Congress coalition government.

Rebel Congress MLA and Priyanka Gandhi’s critic Aditi Singh joins BJP

On November 24, rebel Congress MLA from Rae Bareli, Aditi Singh, joined Bharatiya Janata Party. Singh has been a staunch critic of Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi. The 34-year-old rebel Congress leader was elected as a member of the UP Legislative Assembly in 2017. She is the daughter of the late Akhilesh Singh, who was elected as MLA five times.

Though she was a Congress leader, on several occasions, she voiced criticism for Congress as well as extended support to the ruling dispensation. She has also been a very vocal critic of Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi. Last week, she criticized Priyanka Gandhi over her reaction to PM Modi’s announcement of the decision to repeal the Agriculture Laws. News Agency ANI quoted her saying, “Priyanka Gandhi had a problem when Bills were brought. She has a problem when the Laws (Farm Laws) have been repealed. What does she want? She should say it clearly. She is only politicising the matter. She has now run out of issues to politicise.”

Notably, Singh has been said to have voted for BJP in UP Legislative Assembly elections multiple times. Later year in May, she was suspended by Congress from the women’s wing after she criticized her own party for arranging 1,000 buses for migrants during the Covid-19 lockdown. She also voiced support for the abrogation of Article 370 while Congress was against it. in 2020, she defied her Party’s call for boycotting UP assembly after which Congress sought her disqualification. However, the request was rejected by the Speaker.

In 2018, there were rumours that Aditi would soon marry Congress leader Rahul Gandhi ahead of 2019 general elections. However, Singh rubbished the rumours and said, “Such rumours upset me. I would like to clarify that Rahul Ji is my rakhi brother and I am really saddened by such rumours on social media.”

Guess who is pushing Rajasthan into power crisis? Not Modi but Baghel

An impending coal crisis is lurking on Congress ruled Rajasthan that may hit power production in the coming days. But it will be interesting to see whether and how the Congress will blame the Narendra Modi led government for this crisis scripted by the Congress led Chhattisgarh government.

The chief minister of Rajasthan Ashok Gehlot and his Chhattisgarh counterpart Bhupesh Baghel have locked horns after the Chhattisgarh government withheld permission of the mining of the Parsa coal mines. As per a report in TV9, Chhattisgarh government has not given permission to Rajasthan government to mine coal in Para mine.

The said coal mine spread over 841.53 hectares is situated at Surguja in Chhattisgarh. In 2015 the central government had allocated three coal blocks to Rajasthan Vidyut Utpadan Nigam Nigam Limited (RUVNL) situated in Chhattisgarh including Parsa and Kete Extension.

But the mining could be started in only one block and the matter of the remaining two blocks including Parsa remained pending due to the absence of environmental clearance.

On 21 October, the Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate Change gave clearance for mining. On 2 November, the union coal ministry also gave clearance for the mining. Rajasthan was to get 2.7 rake coal on daily basis and 1000 rakes annually to fuel its thermal plants. The mine has a reserve of 150 million tonne coal and can produce for 30 years.

Even if the Rajasthan government was able to secure clearances for mining from the Centre in 15 days, the Chhattisgarh government is sitting over the request of Rajasthan to give go-ahead for the mining.

The proposed block is situated on forest land and there some local tribal leaders who are protesting any mining activity. Now seemingly under the vote bank compulsion, the Baghel government has just become tightlipped despite a desperate appeal form Rajasthan chief minister.

After facing power outage in September and October due to depleted coal stocks, Rajasthan the chief minister Gehlot wrote a letter to Baghle and requested him to clear the roadblocks for the development of both blocks. Gehlot also requested personal intervention of Baghel to help Rajasthan.

Gehlot urged that Parsa coal block (5 million tonne per annum production capacity) and Kente Extension (9 million tonne per annum production capacity) will solve the problem of Rajasthan.

Rajasthan has thermal units in district Suratgarh with 2160 MW capacity, Kota (1240MW), Chhabra (1320MW), Kalisindh (1200MW), Giral 250MW (Barmer), 270.50MW plant in Jaisalmer.