Tag: Muslims
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
NIA arrests Muslims again to help Modi sail through anti-incumbency waves
Reading Time: 3 minutes Under the guise of busting an al-Qaeda network, the NIA is targeting hapless Muslims. These arrests will help Modi sail through rough sea.
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.
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
Why the NPR is inevitable despite a pause due to COVID-19 outbreak?
Reading Time: 7 minutes Though the MHA has postponed the NPR exercise due to COVID-19 outbreak, there is no reason to think it won’t happen, rather it’s needed more than ever now.
Nizamuddin Markaz: How Modi’s stooges communalised COVID-19 outbreak to shift focus
Reading Time: 5 minutes The Nizamuddin Markaz congregation controversy has given an opportunity to the Modi regime to distract the people from its failures in fighting COVID-19.
The Shaheen Bagh protesters must evade the trap laid by Amit Shah
Reading Time: 5 minutes The Shaheen Bagh protesters must tread their course very carefully as Amit Shah, by dangling the bait of “appointment”, is luring them to trap laid by him.
Delhi Police attacked the Jamia protesters, injured the democratic conscience
Reading Time: 3 minutes Delhi Police attacked the Jamia protesters with batons and chemical weapons, hit women’s private parts yet the “conscience” of many sleeps even now
Sharjeel Imam, Assam and the ferocious Hindutva fascist state
Reading Time: 6 minutes The Hindutva fascist state’s attack on Sharjeel Imam is despicable and sheer witch-hunting to bully Muslim voices. Imam’s views on Assam also lacks insight.
Beyond “identity” it’s crucial to see the NRC issue from the class perspective
Reading Time: 8 minutes As the anti-NRC struggles intensify, it’s time to see the issue from a class angle and politically equip the poor, who will be most-affected, to combat it.