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Friday, March 29, 2024
TopicIndian Muslims

Topic: Indian Muslims

SRK, Munawar, Shami – 2021 showed the fragility of Indian Muslims’ celebrity status

2021 is a reminder that the rising Hindutva hate won't give a free pass to a successful Muslim icon. And silence isn't a safe choice either.

Indian Muslims didn’t block roads for namaaz, image shared by Tarek Fatah is from Bangladesh

Photo shared by Tarek Fatah was taken in Bangladesh during the Biswa Ijtema congregation in January 2020. 

No possibility of CAA repeal, says minister Naqvi as farm laws U-turn revives demand

Union Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi says 'people have started playing minority politics around CAA', adding that 'it has got nothing to do with Indian citizens'.

Swachh Bharat, Beti Bachao — Modi implementing Prophet Muhammad’s message: BJP minority chief

BJP minority morcha president Jamal Siddiqui says Modi govt schemes are in line with Islamic teachings on cleanliness, education and other social issues.

Tiffin meetings, ‘Taleem aur Tijarat’ seminars — how BJP is wooing Muslims before UP polls

BJP is focusing on Muslim-dominated areas where it lost by a slim margin in 2017, plans to highlight steps taken by Modi govt to provide better education, avenues for commerce.

Some clerics think they are above Quran. It’s making Indian Muslims sectarian and backward

In ‘Indian Muslims’, K. Rahman Khan writes that more Muslim religious leaders, especially younger ones, need to promote the message of genuine spirituality.

Pakistan’s cricket win victory of Islam? Two-nation theory still alive, Muslims in denial

Deviant behaviour would continue to make innocent Shami a soft target unless Muslims understood their Indian destiny.

SRK wished his grown-up kids would believe in fairy tales again. Aryan needs one now

Shah Rukh Khan's tweets or interviews with Simi Grewal, Karan Johar, David Letterman or Ted Talks have assumed an afterlife of their own. They keep his kingdom of fans going.

5 lakh ‘forced’ into Islam, funds from Gulf, UK: What UP ATS found in ‘conversion racket’ probe

UP ATS have arrested 16 people in the case, including cleric Maulana Kaleem, and Islamic Dawah Centre chief Umar Gautam. The accused say they never forced anyone to convert.

Anti-BJPism didn’t work for Muslims. Now it’s making the Opposition lazy

The question isn't anymore about which non-BJP party can get Muslim votes. The more relevant question is which secular party can get enough Hindu votes.

On Camera

Oka to Nagarathna—Bombay High Court judges taking up the cudgel when faith in courts eroding

When lynching, hate speech and bulldozer politics do not speedily invite the wrath of courts, then something is wrong with the third pillar of governance.

Congress attacks chief economic advisor over statement on unemployment, asks BJP govt to ‘vacate seat’

While releasing 'India Employment Report 2024', V Anantha Nageswaran said govt can't solve 'all social, economic challenges'. Congress leader Kharge says CEA protecting 'dear leader'.

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.