Shaikh Azizur Rahman, SPECIAL TO THE STAR
Toronto Star
On a busy street in Calcutta’s business district, he runs a food stall called “Rajib’s Paratha” and is known as Rajib Mallick.
Using the popular Hindu name, no one suspects he is Rajab Ali Mollah, a Muslim who has adopted a fictitious identity to blend in with the neighbourhood’s mostly Hindu office workers.
Sohrab Hossain, a Muslim student who came to the city to complete his Masters degree in English and lives in a Hindu-dominated housing complex, is known as Sourav Das among the students he tutors. To keep up his Hindu appearance he has a small idol of Saraswati, the Hindu goddess of learning, on his desk.
Every morning as she prepares to go to work as a fishmonger, Hasina Khatoon takes off her silver armband embossed with “Allah” in Arabic, puts vermillion powder on her forehead and red-white conch bangles on her wrist – symbols of a married Hindu woman – to maintain a Hindu appearance in a fish market where almost all of her customers are Hindus.
Rajab Mollah, Sohrab Hossain and Hasina Khatoon say they have adopted new identities in a Hindu-majority society where as Muslims they would face discrimination.
Analysts say many Muslims from all socio-economic backgrounds are quietly hiding their religious affiliation.
“Muslims in almost all spheres of life face a communal discrimination by powerful Hindus and they are denied many of their basic rights and freedom in an unjustified way,” said Anjan Basu, a social analyst and executive editor of Pratidin, a Bengali daily in Calcutta. [more]
The Islamic Workplace 
StudentInIslam
August 15, 2007
Salam Shaikh,
This really disgraceful that our brothers and sisters are doing this.
As Muslims we should be proud to be Muslims and we should only fear the One who created us, Allah!
May Allah guide these brothers and sisters and make them be strong on their Imaan and stop adapting a false identity that will have ever lasting effect on the future generation of Muslims and their children.
One thing that we all need reminding is that our Rizq is in hands of Allah All Mighty. Dressing up as Hindus and other will not produce any lasting benefits and nor would it make anything better other than giving-into the hands of oppressors.
May Allah unite the Ummah and raise the dignity of the followers of Mohammed (pbuh). We Muslims need to be strong and think of the hardships that our forth-fathers and the Shabas gone through to establish Islam into the four corner.
May Allah Guide us all and protect us from the accursed devil.
Wa-Salam,
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simplyhalalmortgages
January 24, 2009
What we have been experiencing of late is a revival of islam in the wake of the genocide in Gaza, may Allah strengthen this enough to want for our brother what we want for ourselfs
Ameen.