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Topic: Anti-Muslim

Why Pinarayi Vijayan is going soft on an Ezhava leader’s anti-Muslim hate speech

Pinarayi Vijayan once called Vellappally Natesan, the general secretary of SNDP Yogam, Kerala’s Pravin Togadia. Now he is giving his hate speech a free pass.

‘Why not BJP?’: Meet Mumtaz Thaha, the party’s first Muslim woman councillor in Kerala

Mumtaz Thaha’s victory is significant for BJP, which has launched a minority outreach programme in the state to counter its image as an ‘anti-Muslim’ party.

Laying groundwork for local body & assembly polls, Kerala BJP begins door-to-door Muslim outreach

Kerala BJP chief Chandrasekhar says teams will visit Muslim households to explain the party’s developmental vision for the state which includes everyone irrespective of religion.

Interfaith couple reach Bhopal court to marry, groom thrashed by VHP, Sanskriti Bachao Manch members

The members of the Hindutva outfits accused the man of pressuring and blackmailing the Hindu woman into marrying him.

Salwan Momika, Quran burner who shook up international relations & sparked protests across Middle East

A day before he was to be sentenced for anti-Islamic activities, Momika was killed in his apartment in Sweden by assailants who entered his room while he was live-streaming on TikTok.

Why Ambedkar remains a conundrum for RSS

While Ambedkar diverged with the RSS on Hinduism, some ideological convergences existed. Yet, his legacy resists appropriation by any ideological camp.

‘Hinduphobia’, ‘oppressed Hindus’—enough with the bogus rhetoric even Modi doesn’t buy

The notion of Hindu victimhood is largely a 1980s creation, exploited for electoral purposes by LK Advani and passed down, in some garbled form, to the rabble.

Waqf bill, law against ‘love, land jihad’ — why BJP’s returning to polarising politics after LS setback

In run up to assembly polls, experts say BJP is going back to the drawing board & making changes to its strategy. Opposition calls party's actions 'anti-Muslim'. 

Waqf Amendment Bill to be referred to joint parliamentary committee after Oppn calls it ‘anti-Muslim’

'Were non-Hindus part of Ram temple committee?' asks Congress's Vengugopal. Minority affairs minister Rijiju says Sachar committee too recommended that waqf board should be broad-based.

What’s the fate of Hamare Baarah, Kerala Story? Poll speeches, WhatsApp forwards, divided India

Imputing logic or subtlety to a movie like Hamare Baarah is a little like knitting fog. Every Muslim stereotype you can dream of is offered up within the first 20 minutes of the film.

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What would it take for a European reset to succeed?

Insulted and bullied by Donald Trump, European leaders are asking where they go from here. The right choice isn’t to kneel or fight back, but to disengage.

India & EU announce “mother of all trade deals”. This is why it matters

Two sides also announce signing of a Security & Defence Partnership, launch negotiations for an intelligence sharing agreement & explore India’s addition to Horizon Europe programme.

From action near Myanmar to hand-to-hand combat in Kishtwar, meet this year’s gallantry award winners

Overall, President Droupadi Murmu has approved Gallantry awards to 70 armed forces personnel, including six posthumous, on the eve of 77th Republic Day.

Non-alignment is coming back in a new avatar: Trump-peedit alliance

No nation other than China can negotiate one-on-one with Trump on an equal footing. That’s why the middle powers who so far formed the core of multilateral bodies now feel orphaned.