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Friday, March 29, 2024
TopicMuslim leaders

Topic: Muslim leaders

Indian Muslims don’t need a ‘Muslim’ leader, but someone who can rise above religious labels

The assumption that communities should be exclusively represented by leaders of their religious background contradicts the Constitution.

Muslims need a Ram Mohan Roy or Ambedkar of their own. Ditch Hindu left and liberal leaders

The patron-client relationship between Hindu liberals and Muslim communalists is the greatest impediment to the secularisation, mainstreaming, and progress of Muslims.

Indian Muslims need real leaders, not divisive ones. Pasmandas offer future-positive vision

Ashraaf leaders seem indifferent to the concerns of Pasmanda Muslims. Instead, they exploit this marginalised group for electoral gains, trapping them in a narrative of perpetual victimhood.

Terrorism not linked to any religion, says NSA Doval, lauds India’s ‘capacity to absorb dissent’

Speaking at the India Islamic Cultural Centre in Delhi, Doval addresses prominent Muslim leaders and scholars on interfaith dialogue, religious tolerance and radicalisation.

Congress plans campaign for Dr Kafeel Khan’s release with signature drives & hunger strikes

As part of the campaign, Congress started collecting signatures Friday. The party said this is also an effort to show Muslims in UP that Congress stands with them.

A day after Ayodhya verdict, NSA Ajit Doval meets Hindu & Muslim religious leaders

The religious leaders and intellectuals appealed for peace, apprehensive some elements may try to 'exploit the situation'.

Modi govt asks Muslim Ulema to send message of peace through mosques before Ayodhya verdict

At a meeting with Muslim community leaders, Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi urges peace regardless of the final Ayodhya verdict.

Not Salman Khurshid, not Owaisi, Indian Muslims need a Shashi Tharoor

The space for Muslim leadership is vacant and wide-open. It’s only a matter of time that we will see a new crop of Muslim leaders come up.

On Camera

Calling ISIS unislamic isn’t enough. Muslim intellectuals must address jihadism’s root cause

The argument that ISIS's actions have nothing to do with Islam overlooks the existence of violent Islamic doctrines upon which extremist groups rely.

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.