Tag: Islamophobia
Mamata Bandopadhyay’s populist identity politics turned Muslims ‘optionless’
Reading Time: 4 minutes Muslims of West Bengal are rendered option-less in the political field due to the rise of the BJP and the sham concern shown by Mamata Bandopadhyay.
VHP-America’s Narsinghanand Controversy is the tip of the Islamophobic iceberg
Reading Time: 5 minutes Affiliate of India’s Hindu nationalist movement has a history of platforming hate. Narsinghanand’s host of hateful remarks include a call to “finish off Islam”.
Varanasi’s Gyanvapi Mosque placed on Ayodhya template
Reading Time: 5 minutes Varanasi’s Gyanvapi Mosque is now under gloomy clouds as a synchronised campaign has placed it on the Ayodhya template used to demolish the Babri Masjid.
A year apart, Tablighi Jamaat and Mahakumbh: Two religions two approaches
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Tablighi Jamaat was blamed last year for spreading COVID-19 and the entire Muslim community was vilified. But the Mahakumbh won’t have to face such wrath.
The “Rohingya infiltrators” bogey: The BJP’s old strategy in the 2021 assembly polls
Reading Time: 4 minutes Using the “Rohingya infiltrators” bogey to intensify xenophobia, the BJP is dehumanising the victims of one of the world’s goriest genocide.
Nandigram polls: Where Suvendu Adhikari becomes Bengal’s Kapil Mishra
Reading Time: 3 minutes Suvendu Adhikari’s vitriolic communal campaign in Nandigram made him the BJP’s new rabble-rouser of West Bengal like Kapil Mishra.
Arnab Goswami’s Republic Bangla and the ECI collude to promote BJP in Bengal
Reading Time: 4 minutes How Arnab Goswami’s Republic Bangla and the ECI have launched a joint campaign to promote the BJP’s cause in West Bengal Assembly polls…
Exclusion of Muslim women writers in West Bengal’s textbooks
Reading Time: 3 minutes West Bengal’s schools and Madrasahs have microscopic presence of Muslim women writers in their syllabus, which exhibits an exclusionary policy
Bengali Bhadralok’s “secular” Islamophobia manifested in anti-Abbas Siddique slurs
Reading Time: 5 minutes As Abbas Sidddique joined the Left and the Congress for the forthcoming 2021 West Bengal Assembly elections, Islamophobia erupted everywhere.
Modi’s support to Macron isn’t merely over Islamophobia but Rafale Jet scam and more
Reading Time: 6 minutes Modi’s support to Emmanuel Macron’s Islamophobic version of militant secularism has deep roots in the Rafale Jet Scam coverup and French money
Six years, six months of Modi’s rule: Deception, disruption and destruction
Reading Time: 11 minutes What’s the difference between rhetoric and reality? The six-year-long rule of Modi proves how rhetoric-oriented politics destroyed India.
Charlie Hebdo, hate speech and the freedom of speech from an artist’s lens
Reading Time: 3 minutes Charlie Hebdo and other critics of Islam would use their art to demonise Muslims but never speak against French imperialism. Why?
Why resisting Islamophobia has become important at this hour?
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Islamophobic rage over the beheading of a school teacher in France has exposed the hypocrisy of the “militant atheists” who bash Islam.
Accusation, demise and Islamophobia: Social media on the last Wednesday of April
Reading Time: 5 minutes How Irrfan Khan’s death was used to deny the US’s accusation of religious intolerance in India. Can mourning Khan’s death imply there is no Islamophobia?
Naqvi’s “heaven for Muslims” is actually worse than hell
Reading Time: 4 minutes Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi called India a “heaven for Muslims” opposing the OIC’s allegation of sponsoring Islamophobia, which became a joke of the town recently.
Arnab Goswami’s howling over freedom of speech got irony a heart attack
Reading Time: 5 minutes Arnab Goswami is howling over an attack on his freedom of speech and got a respite from the Supreme Court too. But can irony stand this man’s theatrics?
Islamophobic propaganda over COVID-19 outbreak got a new dimension
Reading Time: 3 minutes Though the BJP is withdrawing the Tablighi Jamaat narrative from its armoury, the assault on the Muslims and their voices continue through brutal repression
The Tablighi Jamaat fiasco helping Indian state to officially peddle Islamophobia
Reading Time: 5 minutes The cacophony over the Tablighi Jamaat congregation in New Delhi has provided an ample opportunity for the Modi regime to smoke-screen its failures.
The Delhi Police’s nexus with Hindutva is the new normal
Reading Time: 6 minutes Why the Islamophobic Delhi Police’s nexus with Hindutva fascism is no more surprising to even the staunch Nehruvian liberal who denied it until yesterday?
Kashmiri couple’s arrest by Delhi Police’s Special Cell raises old doubts
Reading Time: 3 minutes The arrest of a Kashmiri couple from Delhi by the notorious Special Cell on terrorism charges fits the template that the Delhi Police uses to frame Muslims.