TCN Impact: Media corners Modi on Muslims ad
By Mumtaz Alam Falahi, TwoCircles.net,
Patna: Within hours of TwoCircles.net exposing the lie of the Gujarat government of Narendra Modi in the one-page ‘Muslims shining’ ad appeared in Patna dailies on June 10, the issue has become a big news, bigger than the BJP National Executive meet that is going on here in Bihar’s capital. All major newspapers and TV channels are highlighting the story.
The ad claiming shining life of Muslims in Gujarat had a picture of Muslim girls learning computer. Interestingly the picture was not from Gujarat. The lie was exposed by TCN as the picture was shot by this TCN correspondent during his November 2008 visit to Azamgarh. The picture was first time used by this website on November 24, 2008 in the Azamgarh story titled “Muslim girls in Azamgarh getting higher education, giving tough fight to boys”. The picture was of girl students of Shibli National College. They were working on computer in the computer department of the college. So, to claim progress of Muslims in Gujarat the Modi government had to take a photo from Azamgarh. Yes, the Azamgarh town of Uttar Pradesh that has been in the news for terrorism. The same government of Modi has made accused scores of youths from the town in various terror cases.

The Times of India today in its story titled “Modi ad passes off UP Muslims as Gujaratis” says “There is a controversy brewing over one of the pictures used in these full-page advertisements issued in Bihar dailies to project a Muslim-friendly image of chief minister Narendra Modi in Bihar before his visit to Patna for attending BJP national executive meeting. Without naming, the paper says TCN has claimed for the copyright of the picture.
“A news website has claimed the copyright of the picture of young girls working on computers saying that it was of Muslim students in Azamgarh in UP and not Gujarat. The website claims that it was clicked by their photographer in UP for use with a story titled, "Muslim girls in Azamgarh getting higher education, giving tough fight to boys." The website has put up a large picture, which it claims to be the original one and is identical to the one used in the ad. What's more, the website has embedded a link of the earlier story published on November 24, 2008, to substantiate its claim.
"As the ad is about Muslims' progress in Gujarat one can expect the pictures are also from the state... Neither the girls are Gujarati, nor was the picture shot in Gujarat. In fact, it is a picture of Azamgarh's Shibli College girls attending a computer class in the college campus...," says the website,’ the paper says.
CNN-IBN talks to TwoCircles.net Executive Editor Kashif-ul-Huda on the Modi ad issue

Indian Express has also done a follow-up of TCN story on the ad.
In today’s issue, Indian Express in its story titled “In Modi government ad, Azamgarh girls become Gujarat’s new Muslim face; US portal plans to sue Gujarat govt” says: “The advertisements showcased a photograph of Muslim girls in burqas working on computers, to buttress the point that Gujarat Muslims are faring much better than those elsewhere. But in reality, the girls belonged to a college in Azamgarh in UP; they had nothing to do with Gujarat.”
“The photograph was apparently taken from a US-based news portal run by Indian Muslims. The portal, www.twocircles.net, informed The Indian Express on Friday that it is now considering pressing charges of copyright violation against the Gujarat government. In addition, the Shibli College in Azamgarh, has also lambasted the Gujarat government for misusing a photograph of its students.”
“US-based Kashif ul Huda, Executive Editor of the portal said, “There are two issues here, one of fooling the people by using a picture taken outside Gujarat, and secondly, of copyright violation. It is ironical that they could not get even the required photo from Gujarat for the advertisement. He added that the photograph was used earlier by the University of Cambridge for its course material with due permission.”

The paper has also quoted Salman Sultan, Head of the college’s Computer Department condemning the act of Modi government: “This is a heinous act. They are rubbing salt on the humiliated and psychologically wounded Muslim community,” he said.
The CNN-IBN TV channel on its portal ibnlive.in.com says: It is now learnt that the girls featuring in it study in a school in Uttar Pradesh's Azamgarh district and not Gujarat. The picture was taken without permission from a US-based website, twocircles.net, run by Indian Muslims.
"We are utterly shocked that this photograph is so daringly and shamelessly being claimed to be of Gujarat and is being used for image-building purposes," say the owners of the website where the pictures were first published. The channel also said Twocircles.net is now planning to sue the Gujarat government for copyright violation.
“The Shibli National Girls School in Azamgarh, where those girls study, has lambasted the government for misusing the picture of its students. “The publication of these pictures without permission goes to show that Muslims are not taken seriously," Dr Iftekhar Ahmad, the Principal, tells CNN-IBN. Dr Ahmad says he will explore legal options after consulting the school management.”

Roznama Rashtriya Sahara in its front page news lambasted the Modi government on the ad issue.
The Patna edition of the daily in the byline story of Punani Anand says people of a particular ideology were describing Azamgarh as hub of terror, the same people now are claiming the town’s progress as their own. The paper says the photo was from Azamgarh Shibli College and taken by TwoCircles.net.
However, Gujarat government officials have reportedly said the ad may be to highlight the progress of Gujarat Muslims, but it did not say the photograph in it was of Gujarat Muslim girls. The government had not asked its advertising agency to put that photograph, the agency did that on its own, they said.
Meanwhile, a new ad from Gujarat government today showing Modi and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar shaking hands has spoiled the BJP party here. Nitish has reportedly cancelled the dinner program he was to host tomorrow for Modi and other BJP leaders besides all BJP national executive members.
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Lying ad
Daagh Madrasi is right. The liars should not be allowed to get away with yet another lie. It is *not* a trivial issue: just expose them and see what happens.
Islam will dominate the world
Once a child is born to Muslim parents, he is taught one thing - ISLAM WILL DOMINATE THE WORLD. Today you see this slogan being paraded in various non Muslim countries around the world. What the Muslims differ over is over the manner in which Islam is to be spread over the world. Some Muslims think the Qur'anic Path of Jihad is the correct method, the rest think Al Taqqiya is the best method. But both groups agree on the same thing - Islam should dominate the world. The second thing that Muslims are taught from childhood is that the Qu'ran and Shariah are what is good for humanity and the rest of the religions of the world and democratic systems are inferior. Most people of the world lack critical thinking and do not take the effort to examine these statements. When the Shariah means that women and minorities (dhimmis) get second class status, that polygamy is allowed, stoning to death and chopping of limbs is the Shariah compliant method of doling out punishment, women are to wear the hijab and walking on the street only after prior permission and in the presence of a male relative - this is okay to them since Islamic pride scores over giving up of one's personal dressing and moving freedom. Women being raped are the most unfortunate. I think animals (pets) in the West are treated better than women under Muslim rule.
Brothers tell this to the average Syrian, 70% of whom want to migrate given a chance to do so to the West. Even Saudi women are sick and tired of the chains tied to their feet. They have begun attacking the Muttawil (Religious police). Remember Saudi, Syria, Sudan and Somalia are either dictatorships or Police states. What is Pakistan (formerly India)? It is a military state.
TCN has done a great
TCN has done a great job
Shame on modi & its ally.
Reply to Anonymous BABU
Here's the "PROGRESS" of Gujarat exposed by the famous Gujarati dancer Mallika Sarabhai in her reprimanding letter to Amitabh Bachchan when he gave in to Narendra Modi's Gujarat propaganda.
So, as a Gujarati, permit me to introduce my State to you.Everyone knows of our vibrancy, of the billions and trillions pouring into our State through the two yearly jamborees called Vibrant Gujarat. But did you know that by the government’s own admission no more than 23% of these have actually moved beyond the MOU stage? That while huge subsidies are being granted to our richest business houses, over 75000 small and medium businesses have shut down rendering one million more people jobless?
You know of Gujarat’s fast paced growth and the FDI pouring in, you have no doubt seen pictures of the Czars of the business world lining up to pour money to develop us. To develop whom? Did you know that our poor are getting poorer? That while the all India reduction in poverty between ’93 and 2005 is 8.5%, in Gujarat it is a mere 2.8%? That we have entire farmer families committing suicide, not just the male head of the household?
You have heard of how some mealy mouthed NGO types have been blocking the progress of the Narmada project, how the government has prevailed, and water is pouring down every thirsty mouth and every bit of thirsty land. But did you know that in the 49 years since it was started, and in spite of the Rs.29,000 crores spent on it, only 29% of the work is complete?
That the construction is so poor (lots of sand added to the you- know- which cement perhaps) that over the last 9 years there have been 308 breaches, ruining lakhs of farmers whose fields were flooded, ruining the poorest salt farmers whose salt was washed away? That whereas in 1999, 4743 of Gujarat’s villages were without drinking water, within two years that figure had gone up to 11,390 villages ? (I can not even begin to project those figures for today – but do know that the figure has gone up dramatically rather than down.)
With our CM, hailed as the CEO of Gujarat, we have once again achieved number one status – in indebtedness. In 2001 the State debt was Rs.14000 crores. This was before the State became a multinational company. Today it stands at Rs.1,05,000 crores. And to service this debt we pay a whopping Rs7000 crores a year, 25% of our annual budget.
Meanwhile our spending on education is down, no new public hospitals for the poor are being built, fishermen are going a begging as the seas turn turgid with effluents, more mothers die at birth per thousand than in the rest of India, and our general performance on the Human Development Index is nearly the first – from the bottom. One rape a day, 17 cases of violence against women, and , over the last ten years, 8802 suicides and 18152 “accidental “ deaths of women are officially reported. You can imagine the real figures.
You have said that you are our Ambassador because we have Somnath and Gandhi. Somnath was built for people. Gandhiji was a man of the people. Do the people of this State matter to you? If they do, perhaps your decision will be different. I hope you will read this letter and decide.
Mallika Sarabhai
muslims
It is high time Muslims stop whining and getting to nabsics - education, cleanliness, community, health, womens status, monogamy, etc
Flushing down drain
Raju Kurien @ 16 June 2010 - 3:00am.
All the suggestions to Indian Muslims are FLUSHING down DRAIN.
Didn't you read Saachar Commission Report - Raju Kurien ???
Don't you know how Saachar Commission Report is languishing in Parliament Building, under PILE of DUST - with our politicians (both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha) SCRATCHING THEIR HEADS, how to dispose it ???
And then, what is the status of Ranganath Mishra Commission Report ???
And thenm, what is the status of Liberhan Commission Report ???
Do you know hom many THOUSANDS of CRORES were spent in preparing these reports ???
And you give suggestion(s) to Muslims to concentrate on EDUCATION, CLEANLINESS, HEALTH, etc. etc. etc. Shame on you - Raju Kurien !
Don't you know the status of our MAHAAN BHARAT - courtesy of our VALIANT POLITICIAN(s) who never divert from TRUTH. All our HONOURABLE Politician(s) are DIRECT ANCESTRAL DESCENDANTS of Satyawaadi Harishchandra !!!
I invariably read your comment(s), and you happen to comment for comment(s) sake - empty, hollow; without meaning. Instead of rambling OR blabbering, it is better you just SHUT-UP.
An Indian
Modi's Muslims ad
There is only one word for what Modi's lying henchmen have done: THEFT. Thieves deserve punishment.
Modi has to do the polotics
Modi has to do the polotics of Gandhi Ji and not of The English which was a poly-tricks, not the politics.
I fully agree with suggestion
I fully agree with suggestion put forward by Daagh Madrasi @ 13 June 2010 - 12:20pm.
LIARS are RULING India, under borrowed votes of it's supporters - FULLY ABUSING the TIME-LIMITED POWER.
It's an AIR-TIGHT case, as Daagh Madrasi writes - and it may lead to further erosion of support from AT-LEAST some quarters. Slowly but silently, chipping of support MAY help STRENGTHEN others.
An Indian
Modi's lie.
Modi, murderer of destitute indians (Read Muslims, Christians) is a number one liar and everyone knows this. After the infamous genocide of 2002 how many times he has visited Muslim, Chritians and even Dalits? He is a worshipper of Hitler and follows the policy of Gobel, the best spin master so far. This man is not only suffering from hate but wants others too to suffer. The latest exercise by him is to clean his image. I can only say, "Dhool chehare pe lagi thi, ainaa saaf karte rahe.' He forgets that mirror will reflect your real face. Now he is targetting Congress for Bhopal tragedy indirectly accepting the Gujarat genocide.
Pray for you brothers behind TCN
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You have done a great job. May almighty help you to keep it better ever.
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Everything is symbolic for Muslims
They don't even have a photograph to cheat Muslims. Pathetic.
Well done TCN
Congratulations TCN team, you have done a great job. Keep it up.
Jhoote ko manzil tak pohunchao.
This is a windfall. Take the FRAUD Modi and his cheap antics (crap of lies) to its logical conclusion. This is an air-tight case. Hire a good lawyer., and file a copyright case against the Govt. of Gujarat (the publisher of the Ad). They will blame it on the agency. So be it. Next time., Agencies should think twice before "lifting" photographs / material., without permission. Do NOT give up on this case. File a case in the Patna High Court., NOW.
Jhootey ko manzil tak pohunchao. Take the lie to its logical conclusion. BJP / Narendra Modi / Govt. of Gujarat / Media Agency., whatever., they must publicly apologise for the "error" in another ad !
Move Patna High Court NOW.
Ask what you can do for your country
Muslim brothers, Ask what you can do for your country instead of asking what your country can do for you.
If you read Government of India statistics - Muslims in Gujarat have higher education levels and income levels than say, Muslim Bengal. THIS IS A TRUTH AND THIS IS A FACT. You cannot deny this fact.
But since you have no respect for India and always bad mouth the Government and the infidels, we should not do anything for you. All extra facilities like hujj subsidy, multiple marriages, triple talaq, madrassa funding should be withdrawn.
Whenever Pakistan beats India in cricket or terrorism, some Muslims come on the streets to distribute sweets. Even today some Muslims say that Afzal Guru and Ajmal Qasab were not given a fair trial and should be released immediately since they were 'framed' and all the photos were fake.
How low will you go? To what lengths will you go to backstab the nation?
That's JFK borrowed script
"Anonymous" Baabu @ 13 June 2010 - 11:16am.
Sudha Ji has posted a fitting reply from Gujarat - about VIBRANT GUJARAT. I'm sure you read it - as it directly addresses "Anonymous" Baabu.
BTW (by the way) "Anonymous" Baabu your script in first line of your comment is COPIED from JFK's famous speech - the U.S. President who was assassinated while he was passing Dallas Downtown on Friday, November 22, 1963.
And that's the reason I wrote earlier, if a crime committed in 1963 could be reconstructed, to find the type of bullets that killed JFK, type of gun, distance from gun to JFK's body, etc. etc. etc.
Science, especially INDIAN FORENSIC SCIENCE has developed by LEAPS & BOUNDS in 45 years - and our FORENSIC SCIENCE / INTELLIGENT INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES / POST-MORTEM REPORTS are unable to identify the BULLETS, GUN, PISTOL, DISTANCE, etc. that killed ATS Chief Hemant Karkare, Vijay Salaskar, and Ashok Kamte !!!
Do you think Indians are naive to BLINDLY believe your SHAMELESS comment(s)??? Shame on you for defending Bhajpa / Hindutva crimes - not one time, but time and again; that too shamelessly and without TRUTH, without JUSTIFICATION !!!
NO WONDER - Bhajpa lost election(s) in 2004 and again in 2009. Now they are embarking on ANOTHER BLUNDER after their Chintan Baithak. I hope they do not publicize it.
An Indian
sir, for sure u r not an
sir, for sure u r not an indian... and worst that u dont know indians and indian muslims. official statistics prove that all spies in uniform are non-muslims. and pls read history to know abt contribution of muslims in freedom fight.
Anonymous Baabu, what have
Anonymous Baabu,
what have you done for your country?
Muslims have given you your ATOM BAM,whose fear you show to other countries to bully them.
'Even today some Muslims say that Afzal Guru and Ajmal Qasab were not given a fair trial and should be released immediately since they were 'framed' and all the photos were fake.'
-Have you and other chadhiwalas accepted the guilt of your parampujya BHAGWAN MODI,buddha bhediya bal thackrey,ADVANI etc. ?
'But since you have no respect for India and always bad mouth the Government and the infidels, we should not do anything for you. All extra facilities like hujj subsidy, multiple marriages, triple talaq, madrassa funding should be withdrawn.'
-with statements like these,time and again you expose your own hypocrisy(you always scream how tolerant hindu culture is),beacuse u show how intolerant Brahmins can be (oops,brahmins have always been intolerant,first to Dalits,now to 'others')
So sir,first you stop considering Muslims and Christians as 'others','outsiders' or whatever,stop killing them in riots during elections,then come and expect some good things from them,then think of blaming them for 'backstabbing'.
That is a lie and
That is a lie and propaganada like everything else that the Hindu-Nazi party BJP or its followers say , to claim that Gujarat Muslims have higher education levels.
The BJP has been claiming that the economic growth rate of the Muslims in Gujarat is better than the rest of the Muslims that if it all tru is due to the fact that the BJP absolutely decimated the Muslims in the state sponsored genocide in 2002 and if you measure progress right after the desctruction of Muslims in which over 10000 Muslims were killed and a million displaced internally the so called "Economic Growth " would always be higher , for example a business loosing his business and pulling a rickshaw would be counted as "economic growth " in the eyes of the Hindu-Nazi party BJP.
Now BJP says the pic is
Now BJP says the pic is symbolic only. What is the proof that whole myth of gujrat progress is not merely SYMBOLIC. Claiming the achievements of many great gujratis as modi's work is wort form of cheating Indians are persuaded to believe. But this episode mightily exposed a big lie.
I agree with ur view.
I agree with ur view.
What one must understand?
What one must understand? The conditions of Gujrat Muslims are in such a worst condition, that even the Government of the State could not find few Muslims in good condition to take photograph.
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