Press Releases

Washington D.C., February 24, 2003: In commemoration of the one year anniversary of the Gujarat massacres, the Indian Muslim Council-USA (http://www.imc-usa.org) held a briefing today for Muslim organizations and Congressional staff members on the deteriorating conditions of Indian Muslims. The event was held from 12:30pm to 1:30pm in the press conference room of the Council on American Islamic Relations. Zahir …

January 30, 2003. Indian Muslim Council-USA, a Washington based advocacy group working toward safeguarding Indian society’s pluralist and tolerant ethos, called on all Indians to recall the message of Mohandas Gandhi, the founder of modern India on the 55th anniversary of his murder. On January 30, 1948 Gandhi, the man who led India to independence, was assassinated by a member …

January 26, 2003 This January 26, 2003, India will celebrate its 54th year as a Republic. On this day, India, under the leadership of Gandhi, Nehru, Ambedkar and Azad, unveiled its Constitution, providing to all a shared destiny and values that represent the hopes and aspirations of all its people. Unfortunately, this sense of shared destiny has in recent years, …

January 15, 2003 Washington D.C., 01/15/2003: Indian Muslim Council-USA, a Washington based advocacy group working toward safeguarding Indian society’s pluralist and tolerant ethos, condemns in the strongest terms possible the attack on a US missionary in South India. According to news reports, ten members of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), an extremist Hindu nationalist organization attacked Mr. Joseph Cooper near …

December 16, 2002 India’s secular democracy suffered a severe setback yesterday when the fascist Bharatiya Janata Party was elected in a landslide victory in Gujarat, winning 125 out of a possible 181 seats. Chief Minister Narendra Modi, who is currently charged being in Belgium as a international war criminal for “Crimes against Humanity”, received an overwhelming mandate to return to …

December 02, 2002 Three major Indian Muslim organizations in the US, the Association of Indian Muslims (AIM,) the Indian Muslim Council-USA (IMC-USA)and the Indian Muslim Relief Committee (IMRC) are calling upon the Muslims in the U.S to observe December 6th as Babri Mosque day. This call has been endorsed by the national Muslim organizations in the U.S including the American …

November 22, 2002 Indian Muslim Council-USA (IMC-USA), a Washington Based human rights advocacy group for activism against rising fascism is calling on the US Justice Department and State Department to investigate a US Based, India Development and Relief Fund (IDRF) a Tax-Exempt relief organization for allegedly being a conduit to funnel Tax-exempt donations to fascist groups in India. This comes …

October 28, 2002 Indian Muslim Council-USA, a Washington based advocacy group working toward safeguarding Indian society’s pluralist and tolerant ethos expressed its profound grief today on the death of Senator Paul Wellstone. Mr. Paul Wellstone, a Senator from the state of Minnesota, died in a plane crash on October 25, 2002. “We are all shocked and saddened by the tragic …

September 21, 2002 Hindu extremist groups in the U.S failed in their attempts to intimidate PBS. PBS refused to scrap or make changes in its documentary, “Soul of a Nation” that aired on September 19th. The documentary dealt with the Gujarat pogrom in which more than 2000 Muslim civilians were butchered or burnt alive and more than 600 girls and …

September 16, 2002 Indian Muslim Council- USA condemns the campaign of intimidation against the US media by extremist Hindu organizations based in the US. PBS will be showing a documentary, “Soul of a Nation”, on the recent ethnic cleansing in Gujarat, India in which over 2000 Muslims were killed, more than 600 women were raped and burnt alive and over …