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Friday, March 29, 2024
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Topic: Blasphemy

Pakistan is hell on Earth for women, minorities. Mobs are demanding beheadings for blasphemy

The stark reality is that while India is ambitiously planning missions to carry humanity into space, in Pakistan, mobs are ruthlessly attempting to behead women over accusations of blasphemy.

Pakistani mob attacks woman for blasphemy. But it couldn’t tell calligraphy from Quran text

The cop who calmed the crowd down and “put her life in danger” to rescue the woman has now become a hero in Pakistan.

Dhaka’s elite Muslims party & pose as Barbie, Krishna. Double life in conservative Bangladesh

Dhaka streets have easy markers of religious identity that seem to snub out any attempt at cosmopolitanism. But the 'swinging set' is unaffected whether Sheikh Hasina returns to power.

Iran executes two men for blasphemy

Yousef Mehrdad and Sadrollah Fazeli Zare were executed for crimes including blasphemy, insulting the religion of Islam, the prophet and other sanctities, Mizan reported.

Violent mob lynches man accused of blasphemy at Imran Khan rally in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

During a PTI rally Saturday, a violent mob was seen mercilessly beating Maulana Nigar Alam after he said he 'respects Imran Khan like a Prophet as he is an honest man'.

Pakistan has a new export—Tehreek-e-Labbaik ‘ghazis’, ‘saints’ with the dagger of blasphemy

Rizwan Ashraf isn't the only anti-blasphemy crusader influenced by TLP. Netherlands to Peshawar—they're sprawling inside and outside the Pakistan border.

Not madrasas, not Pakistan terror camps, India’s blasphemy killers are products of toxic hate

Anti-blasphemy campaign in India isn’t being led by clerics. And accused in Udaipur and Amravati killings didn't have any religious education or ties to right-wing organisations.

Shekhar Gupta’s article on Zubair paints blasphemy as an ‘Abrahamic’ problem, but misses this

Even if Shekhar Gupta has a specific definition of 'blasphemy', what's the justification for treating it as a special kind of offence and claiming moral superiority for Hindus?

Pakistan’s ‘devout’ Muslims had a new purpose on Eid: forget ‘qasais’, become ‘chowkidars’

For Pakistan's State-declared non-Muslims, Eid is not theirs to celebrate. Blasphemy has become the go-to weapon of the ‘devout’.

Reflection of Indian Muslims’ state of mind, says Urdu press on SC censure for Nupur Sharma

ThePrint’s round-up of how the Urdu media covered various news events through the week, and the editorial positions some of them took.

On Camera

Profit margins in lottery industry are tiny. Here’s how Future Gaming paid for its electoral bonds

Neither state govts nor companies earn large profits from lotteries. However, a look at the system shows there’s ample evidence of murky dealings and financial irregularities. 

Amid plans to lift AFSPA, Army starts joint training with Jammu & Kashmir Police

In an interview with Gulistan News this week, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said the government would leave law and order to J&K Police and slowly withdraw troops.

For BJP, Kejriwal is an idea whose time has come to be destroyed

The ‘idea’ Kejriwal's politics grew around was a no-holds-barred fight against corruption. That is the reason Modi govt has now tarred him and his entire party with the same paint.