Tag: Islamophobia
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UN chief warns of ‘tsunami’ of hate worldwide as pandemic infects over 3.8 million
The statement comes as the total number of coronavirus deaths across the world reached at least 268,999, according to Johns Hopkins University with 3,846,949 confirmed cases.
May 8, 2020 -
‘Much of what you see is propaganda’: MEA amid backlash over ‘Islamophobic’ posts
External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Anurag Srivastava while strongly rebutting the charges said that the Gulf countries are deeply committed to friendly relations with India and they do not support any interference in its internal affairs.
May 1, 2020 -
USCIRF condemns stigmatisation of Muslims amid COVID-19 pandemic in India
The gathering by the Tablighi Jamaat, an Islamic missionary movement that is nearly 100 years old was held at its global spiritual centre or markaz in Delhi’s Nizamuddin area last month.
April 14, 2020 -
Media war & geopolitics
On the sidelines of the 74th session of the UN General Assembly meeting, Turkish President Recep Erdogan, Malaysian Prime Minister Mohamad Mahathir and the ever-enthusiastic Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan decided to start a joint-television channel, ostensibly to fight international 'Islamophobia'. The apparent purpose was to educate, clarify and end prejudices against Islam. The Saudis could never tolerate yet another Al Jazeera in its midst, that too purportedly positioning itself as the real voice of Islam, thereby threatening its hegemony over the narrative.
February 8, 2020 -
Stop Islamophobia: 10,000 people protest in France against rising anti-Muslim stance
The protest was carried out following last month's attack on a mosque in the southern French city of Bayonne by an 84-year-old man, a former far-right activist, who shot and wounded two men.
November 11, 2019 -
Karnataka HC asks state govt to reconsider cancelling Tipu Sultan’s birth anniversary celebrations
Soon after coming to power in Karnataka, the BJP government had in July scrapped the celebration of Tipu Sultan’s birth anniversary.
November 7, 2019 -
Malaise stalks Lanka
Islamophobia is deployed in the politics of Sri Lanka to put the Muslims in place. Addressing a public meeting in Mullaitivu on 9 June, the last bastion of the LTTE where it was vanquished by the Sri Lankan Army with the support of India, Sirisena urged the people not to leave any room for a ‘Muslim Prabhakaran‘ to be born.
June 26, 2019 -
Delhi author Simar Malhotra launches second book at 21
Set in New York, Paris, and Delhi, Tides Don’t Cross explores the lives of three young individuals who fight man-made limitations.
September 22, 2018 -
Racism, Islamophobia, xenophobia poisoning societies: UN chief
Racism, xenophobia and Islamophobia must be opposed by everyone in the world, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has said amid an outrage over President Donald Trump’s defence of white supremacists following the Charlottesville violence. A woman was killed and 19 other people injured in Charlottesville on Saturday when a suspected white supremacist drove his car …
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August 17, 2017 -
All accused acquitted in Hyderabad suicide blast case
A court on Thursday acquitted all the 10 accused in a case relating to a suicide bomb blast at a police building here in 2005. The Metropolitan Sessions Court acquitted them due to lack of evidence. A Home Guard was killed and another injured when a suicide bomber from Bangladesh blew himself up at the Task Force …
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August 10, 2017 -
Islamophobia being spread in India, says Owaisi
AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Saturday said Islamophobia was being spread in the country, resulting in incident of lynching of Muslims. Condemning the lynching of a 17-year-old youth on a train in Haryana, Owaisi said a hate atmosphere was being created. "I called this atmosphere Islamophobia. Those creating Islamophobia are responsible for lynching of Muslims …
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June 25, 2017 -
Islamophobia being spread in India: Asaduddin Owaisi
AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Saturday said Islamophobia was being spread in the country, resulting in the incident of the lynching of Muslims. Condemning the lynching of a 17-year-old youth on a train in Haryana, Owaisi said a hate atmosphere was being created. "I called this atmosphere Islamophobia. Those creating Islamophobia are responsible for lynching …
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June 24, 2017 -
Islamophobic incidents rise by 1,000% since Trump took office
Islamophobic incidents involving US Customs and Border Protection officials have risen by about 1,000 per cent since President Donald Trump took office in January, a Muslim activist group said. According to the Council on American-Islamic Relations on Tuesday, preliminary data collected from its branches across the US found that instances in which officials were accused …
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April 26, 2017 -
Europe enshrines Islamophobia into legislation
Islam and Muslims are no longer welcome in Europe. If that message wasn’t already clear to most people it has been set in to law on Thirsday by EU judges. The decision by the European Court of Justice to allow employers to ban staff from wearing the headscarf seems certain to only further marginalise and …
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March 16, 2017 -
Russian baby in Trump’s bathtub
It is a strange anomaly. Whenever India or Pakistan, or both, go into the cobra pose, hissing invectives and threatening to decimate each other, including with nuclear weapons, the world cries foul. When Nawaz Sharif visits Delhi or when Narendra Modi drops in uninvited at a Lahore wedding, Indian and Pakistani peaceniks applaud together with …
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March 8, 2017 -
‘UN chief denounces xenophobia, Islamophobia’
UN chief Antonio Guterres strongly denounces xenophobia and Islamophobia, his spokesperson said in the wake of the alleged racially motivated shooting of an Indian engineer in the US. "The Secretary-General, if you have listened to what he said in the last a few months, has spoken out forcefully against xenophobia, Islamophobia and anti-Semitism. We are …
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February 25, 2017