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Tuesday, December 9, 2025
TopicIslamic fundamentalism

Topic: Islamic fundamentalism

Sheikh Hasina was no progressive. She knelt down to Islamic fundamentalists, created a demon

Just like Frankenstein, Sheikh Hasina has been devoured by her own demon. She has fled Bangladesh and saved herself. Now this demon will seek to crush all progressive thinkers in the country.

UK’s Left has taken the genie of jihad out of the bottle. Palestine is the focal point

Pro-Palestine protests this month have confirmed the comfort that sections of UK's political Left draw from the revolutionary potential it detects in Islamic fundamentalism.

Pakistani fundamentalists are rejecting Darwin’s theory. Nawaz Sharif must choose secularism

Islamist pop preachers like Tahir-ul-Qadri and Zakir Naik popularised this anti-science posture—largely relying on pseudoscientific arguments—and helped embed it in mass culture.

Banned outfit SIMI still actively recruiting & raising funds, Modi govt tells SC

SIMI activists in regular touch with 'masters based in other countries', said MHA. An outfit that aims to 'establish Islamic rule in India' can't be allowed to subsist, it added.

It wasn’t easy to support Salman Rushdie in Bangladesh. Then I realised fatwas are contagious

Islamic fundamentalists can’t be compared with a few Hindu extremists. By doing so, it is practically denying the gruesomeness of Islamic terrorism.

On Camera

From Binodini to Mitin—Bengali cinema scripting its comeback this Christmas

As Park Street now anticipates the Christmas lights, Bangla cinema eyes a harmony. Colliding heritage, devotion and some detective grit, the year-ender comes with a rediscovery.

Niti Aayog CEO has a message for power stakeholders. Buckle up for surge to feed EVs, data centres

Clean energy is “no longer the sideshow, it is the show”, BVR Subrahmanyam told the Odisha summit, warning India to lead the global shift or risk others’ tech dominance.

India looks to Oman for spare parts to keep its fleet of Jaguars flying

India is now the only country still operating the Jaguar, long retired by its original users, France in 2005 and the UK in 2007, and secondary operators like Oman, Nigeria and Ecuador.

Asim Munir & Pakistan’s Failed Marshal Doctrine

None of Pakistan’s PMs has lasted 5 years. That the current PM has given Asim Munir 5 years shows that of all military dictatorships history has seen, Pakistan’s is most creative.