Tag: Muslims
On Eid, Indian Muslims must be thankful enough
Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s Eid; and beneath the typical happy photos, the pain, agony and tears of Indian Muslims, especially of West Bengal will remain hidden.
What should Indian Muslims do? A critical analysis of Liberal chicanery on minority oppression
Reading Time: 5 minutes Indian Muslims, continuously dehumanised for their identity, are advised by the liberals to be passive and apologists. What’s the way out?
Anti-Muslim violence on the rise in India: what’s its driving force?
Reading Time: 7 minutes The recent spate in anti-Muslim violence in India, especially after Ram Navami, shows that the BJP is desperate to win 2022 and 2023 polls.
The arrest of Waseem Rizvi: the tragedy for Muslims facing genocide threats in India
Reading Time: 8 minutes How does the arrest of Waseem Rizvi aka Jitendra Narayan Tyagi for genocidal threats to Muslims reveal the tragic reality of injustice?
Can Hindutva fascist attack on Friday namaz at open spaces in Gurugram help the BJP?
Reading Time: 7 minutes Can the Hindutva fascist attacks to stop Muslims from offering their Friday namaz at open spaces in Gurugram help the BJP to retain Haryana?
Behind Yogi’s “abba jaan” jibe there is a desperation to cover up hunger deaths
Reading Time: 5 minutes Yogi’s “abba jaan” jibe has stirred a controversy over the communal overtone used by him. However, it’s more important to show his failure in curbing hunger.
BJP celebrates Muslim Women Rights Day after violating their rights
Reading Time: 5 minutes When the BJP celebrates Muslim Women Rights Day after violating their rights and dehumanising them, irony dies a thousand times.
Time to raise compensation demand for victims of wrongful confinement
Reading Time: 6 minutes The recent acquittal of terror accused Bashir Ahmad Baba after 11 years of wrongful confinement again brought up the demand for compensation for such victims.
Commemorating Mohsin Shaikh’s mob lynching and denial of justice
Reading Time: 3 minutes Seven years have passed since Mohsin Shaikh, Modi-ruled India’s first recorded hate-crime victim, was lynched. Until now, justice remains elusive for Shaikh.
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.
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.
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.
One year of Delhi anti-Muslim pogrom: Looking back at the ordeal
Reading Time: 6 minutes After one year of the Delhi anti-Muslim pogrom, the Muslims remain at the receiving end of injustice and vilification drive of the BJP.
Indian Muslims: The quest of a better representation in politics and blunders
Reading Time: 3 minutes Despite housing the world’s second-largest Muslim population, India has a very skewed ratio of the community’s share in politics and power.
One year of anti-CAA 2019 protests: Time for critical retrospection
Reading Time: 9 minutes It’s one year of the anti-CAA 2019 protests. It’s now time to retrospect the movement to build a stronger citizenship movement against NRC.
Killing the host, the BJP-AIMIM style
Reading Time: 9 minutes Has the AIMIM got the space that the BJP-led Hindutva politics has created through bullying and marginalising the Muslim community.
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
Can “love jihad” bogey help Yogi Adityanath to retain support base?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Can Yogi Adityanath retain the BJP’s eroding Dalit support base by using the “love jihad” bogey and by persecuting Muslim men using new laws?
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.
Babri Masjid demolition verdict showed Muslims their place in Modi-fied India
Reading Time: 5 minutes After the Supreme Court’s Ayodhya verdict, a CBI court’s Babri Masjid demolition verdict reaffirmed the position of Muslims in Modi-fied India