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Major terror attacks world over

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Here's a map indicating countries around the world affected by terrorism. Figures denote the number of lives lost to the menace. Major terror attacks around the world Venkatesha Babu Source: Indiatoday Mumbai, April 30, 2007 Here's a list of some of the major terror attacks that have taken place the world over. The Marriott after the blast September 20, 2008: A massive suicide truck bomb attack on The Marriott hotel in Islamabad kills over 60. September 6, 2008 : Over 50 people are killed in two blasts that rip through Peshawar. July 7, 2008 : At least 58 are killed when an automobile laden with explosives blows up in front of the Indian embassy in Kabul. June 17, 2008 : Over 63 are killed when a minibus laden with explosives is detonated in a marketplace in Baghdad. Benazir, minutes before the attack February 1, 2008 : Over 98 people are killed when mentally unstable women were strapped with explosives and blown up in a Baghdad market. January 16, 2008 : Civilian bus bombed in

Islamic scholars call for redefining ‘jehad’

Delink Muslims and terrorism: Sri Sri KV Ramana Monday, November 10, 2008 04:06 IST Source: DNA HYDERABAD: There is a need to redefine the word ‘jehad’ because it is being wrongly identified with terrorism, the Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind, the biggest congregation of Islamic scholars in the country, resolved on Sunday even as spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar stressed on the need for delinking Muslims and terrorism. Listing out a way to combat terror, the Art of Living preacher called for isolating terrorists. “Even if a person in our own family is indulging in terrorism, he should be isolated and expelled,” he said addressing a convention organised by Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind, which passed a resolution condemning terror. “Jehad is permitted only to restore peace and is a fundamental right of a human being. Terrorism is a crime and in the eyes of the Quran and Islamic values, the biggest crime,” the resolution

For clarity's sake

10 Nov 2008, 0050 hrs IST, ARIF MOHAMMED KHAN Source: TOI The announcement by Jamiat Ulama-e- Hind to issue a new declaration against terrorism signed by around 6,000 muftis at its conference at Hyderabad is a welcome decision. Still more important and ambitious is its proposed plan to redefine ‘jihad’ so as to enjoin the terrorists from hijacking Islam by misquoting the Quran. Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind is a religio-political organisation of Indian Muslim clerics formed in 1919 in the wake of the pan-Islamic Khilafat movement. Initially Jamiat consisted of Muslim scholars drawn from all over the country but later it came to be dominated mainly by Deoband clerics. The Jamiat had rallied around Mahatma Gandhi and the Congress during the freedom movement and opposed the creation of Pakistan. But there was a sizeable group of the Deoband ulema like Mau-lana Ashraf Ali Thanvi who did not endorse the politics of the Jamiat. The differences led to split and a parallel organisation