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The Popular Front of India is a Kerala Muslim outfit 〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/this-is-india-not-afghanistan/2011/02/04/ABOyT5E_story.html )〕 formed as a successor to National Development Front (NDF)in 2006 and then acquired multi-state dimension by merging with National Development Front, Manitha Neethi Pasarai, Karnataka Forum for Dignity etc. The PFI has about 80,000 members and sympathizers all over the country.〔(Concern in govt over PFI’s growing outfits, spread ), shishir gupta, Tue 5 Apr 2011, indianexpress.com〕 The organisation has various wings to cater to different section of the society like the National Women's Front for the womenfolk, and the Campus Front of India for students.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Cops manhandled women during PFI raids: NWF )〕 PFI works in cooperation with the National Confederation of Human Rights Organisations and other Human rights activists in bid to curb human rights violation in the nation. The organisation has undertaken the task of campaigning for the Muslim Reservation in line with the Mishra Commission (National Commission for Religious and Linguistic Minorities) report to address the inequality faced by Muslims. In 2012, the organisation conducted protests against the use of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act () to detain innocent citizens. The Front formed broad-based alliance of different minority and civil rights leaders and groups against growing authoritarian and communal tendencies where steps taken included a national movement against UAPA, the Sikh-Muslim mission for communal harmony, the joint platform that has commemorated anti-Sikh riot of 1984 and Babri Masjid demolition of 1992.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Popular Front of India’s new national exec council in place; resolves to change Muslim politics for better )〕 Since it's inception, the organization has accused of various antisocial and anti national activities.〔(Inside a Mangalore jail, two deaths and a communal crack )〕 The allegations include connections with various Islamic terrorist groups., possessing arms, kidnapping, murder, intimidation,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Karnataka Forum for Dignity men abducted, killed Hunsur boys for ransom )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mysore double murder case: Six arrested )〕 hate campaign,〔 (【引用サイトリンク】url=http://zeenews.india.com/news/nation/north-east-peoples-exodus-continues_794432.html ) 〕〔 (【引用サイトリンク】url=http://news.oneindia.in/2012/08/18/northeast-people-assaulted-threatened-in-bangalore-kar-1055896.html ) 〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://news.biharprabha.com/2012/08/kerala-based-pfi-group-triggered-hate-sms-leading-to-north-east-exodus/ )〕 rioting,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Violence rips Shivamogga, Section 144 imposed )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Shivamogga: Frictions vitiate PFI programme, one killed, five injured )〕 Love Jihad and various acts of religious extremism, the most infamous among them being the Assault on professor T. J. Joseph who had set the controversial question paper insulting the Prophet Muhammed.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=English News | Top Stories )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Police unearth CDs of Taliban like terror module in Kerala )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=PFI – an Extremist Caucus Prophet Muhammad's Recipe for World Peace – Latest News about Muslims,Islam )〕 However, the charges were refused by the PFI which alleged the accusations as baseless and fabricated to malign the organization. In 2012, the Government of Kerala informed the High Court their stand that the activities of Popular Front are inimical to the safety of the country and is "nothing but a resurrection of the banned outfit Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) in another form", in its argument to ban the organization's Indian Independence day's commemoration program, the "Freedom Parade". The High Court dismissed the Government's stand, however, upheld the ban imposed by the state Government.〔〔 In July 2010, Kerala Police had unearthed country-made bombs, weapons and CDs and documents containing Taliban and Al-Queda propaganda from PFI activists. The raids conducted were termed undemocratic and unconstitutional by the leaders of PFI. As of 6 September 2010, as informed to the state high court by the Kerala government, no evidence has been found by the Police in its probe into the allegation of links to Hizbul Mujahideen, Lashkar-e Taiba (Let) or al-Qaeda. However, in April 2013 with a series of raids by Kerala Police on PFI centres across North Kerala found lethal weapons, foreign currency, human shooting targets, Bombs, bomb making materials, gunpowder, swords etc. on which police claims to be unmasking of "terror face" of PFI. In 2015, the Madras High Court issued a notice to the Commissioner of Police based on the PIL charging police for having given misleading information to HC on the 'unity march, a variant of the 'Freedom Parade'.The HC directed to register a case against the CoP and the SP, and Rs 3.3million as compensation for 'loss of image, reputation and defamation.' The HC The organisation provided counter arguments to the allegations positioned against it in its 2012 nationwide campaign "Why Popular Front". The organisation is also known for its anti-Imperialist & anti-Zionist stance, as seen in the pro-Palestine protests in various parts of country in November 2012, and later in the July of 2014 with the nationwide solidarity campaigns christened "I am Gaza".〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Civil rights groups stand in solidarity with Palestinians; protests all over India against Israeli attack on Gaza )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Udupi: PFI stages protest against Israel attack on Gaza )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Protests outside Israeli Embassy in Delhi over airstrikes in Gaza Strip )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Tehelka - India's Independent Weekly News Magazine )〕 The organisation is also know to support pro-democratic movements. In 2015, the Popular Front protested against the death sentence given to the head of a democratically elected leader, Mr. Mohamed Morsi and his followers. The protest was in front of the Egyptian embassy in New Delhi 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Muslim Mirror » Death sentence to Morsi; Protest march in front of Egyptian embassy in New Delhi )〕 == History == The PFI started in Kerala as successor to National Development Front in 2006. Later it merged with Karnataka Forum for Dignity of Karnataka and Manitha Neethi Pasarai in Tamil Nadu and later in 2009, with Goa's Citizen's Forum, Rajasthan's Community Social and Educational Society, West Bengal's Nagarik Adhikar Suraksha Samiti, Manipur's Lilong Social Forum and Andhra Pradesh’s Association of Social Justice. It is involved in issues such as Muslim reservations, personal law courts for Muslims, the cause of Dalits, Muslims and tribals, and scholarships to deprived Muslim students.〔 A common platform was formed in cooperation with the South India Council as an outcome of a regional discussion attended by Muslim social activists and intellectuals from the South Indian States at Bangalore on 25 and 26 January 2004. It has taken up the issue of reservation in government and private sector jobs and Parliament and Assemblies and in cooperation with the Confederation of Muslim Institutions in India, it organized a two-day workshop on Muslim Reservations on 26 and 27 November 2005 at Hyderabad, inaugurated by Rajya Sabha member Rahman Khan.〔 〕 The slogan of PFI is ''Naya Karavan: Naya Hindustan'', which means "The new traveling way and the new India". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Popular Front of India」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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