Tag: Muslims
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Tablighi Jamaat event: Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind moves top court over ‘communal hatred’ spread by media
There are several fake reports and videos circulating on social media, showing Muslims in bad light, the plea contended.
April 7, 2020 -
‘Have we all gone mad?’: Tarek Fatah reacts on video showing man spitting in food packet
Fateh had retweeted a video in which a vendor at a food shop was seen spitting in packets of food.
April 4, 2020 -
Entitlement Complex
Poet Mohammed Iqbal, whom we applaud frequently, wrote a second tarana after Saare Jahan. In it, he asserted that not only the whole of India but also China and Arabia belong to Allah. Muslims should live in this world like fish live in the ocean, without boundaries, unlike caged animals in the zoo
March 20, 2020 -
MY-backed RJD goes all out to woo upper castes ahead of assembly polls
As part of this plan, the RJD has announced the candidature of Amarendra Dhari Singh from one of the two Rajya Sabha seats which came in its share this time.
March 12, 2020 -
Identity & Nationalism
Of the other two supranational forces, Judaism has lasted long, although at a shrinking pace. Islam, on the other hand, has shown all signs of vigour, although along the way, it has aroused a great deal of resentment. By now, it has clashed with non-Muslims on all the continents of the globe except South America. Muslims have made Europe almost an embattled continent.
March 7, 2020 -
Confront extremist Hindus, stop massacre of Muslims: Ayatollah Khamenei on Delhi riots
Khamenei's statement comes after Iran's foreign minister Javad Zarif also condemned the riots on the Twitter following which India summoned Iran's ambassador to India on Tuesday.
March 6, 2020 -
Maharashtra govt planning 5% quota for Muslims in education: NCP minister
However, Urban Development Minister and senior Sena leader Eknath Shinde said no decision had been taken on this issue yet.
February 29, 2020 -
US rights body says Delhi clashes ‘targeting Muslims’, India slams remarks as ‘misleading’
Meanwhile, the Hindu American Foundation (HAF) and the Indian-American Muslim Council (IAMC) also issued statements condemning the violence.
February 27, 2020 -
‘UIDAI not empowered to verify citizenship’, Owaisi questions Aadhaar notices to 127 people
The AIMIM president also requested the Telangana Police and the UIDAI to reveal how many of those 127 listed people are Muslim and Dalit.
February 19, 2020 -
Land given to Ram temple in Ayodhya has graves: Muslim lawyer
The letter, which was sent on February 15, said a graveyard exists around the demolished Babri Masjid and that Muslims, who lost their lives in the 1885 riots in Ayodhya, were buried there.
February 18, 2020 -
BJP’s stakes in Delhi
While the student protesters are motivated by their youthful vigour and Left-liberal idealism, the Muslims, who have long seen themselves as targets of Right-wing animosity, seem to have decided that it is now or never if they have to oppose the BJP’s drive for their marginalization. They clearly have no faith in the Prime Minister’s sabka saath, sabka vikas, sabka vishwas pitch of development for all based on winning everyone’s trust.
February 6, 2020 -
CAA ‘no threat to Muslims’, NPR ‘essential’: Rajinikanth in first remarks on govt moves
In his first reaction after the amendment to the Citizenship Act and nationwide protests against it, the south Indian actor wondered how Muslims who chose to stay back in India following Partition can be sent out of the country.
February 5, 2020 -
Supreme Court to discuss gender inequality at religious places, including Sabarimala
The top court had, on January 13, asked four senior lawyers to convene a meeting to decide on the issues to be deliberated by it in the matter.
February 3, 2020 -
Union Minister Ramdas Athawale slams Raj Thackeray for questioning loudspeakers at mosques
'Nobody should take a position that's detrimental to national unity,' a statement quoted Athawale as saying.
January 30, 2020 -
80 Muslim leaders resign from BJP over CAA in Madhya Pradesh
In their letter, the leaders stated, 'Citizens have the right to equality under Article 14 of the Indian Constitution. But the BJP-led Central Government is implementing the CAA on religious grounds.'
January 24, 2020 -
‘Won’t hesitate to sacrifice in same way as in war for independence’
Moulana Mehmood Madani, general secretary of Jamiat Ulema-e- Hind, spoke strongly against the CAA-NRC-NPR, deeming it as a modern-day policy of ‘divide and rule.’
January 13, 2020 -
The Assam narrative~II
If the objective of the NRC is to reduce the number of Muslims in india, it can be done more effectively by having an exchange of population between India on the one hand and Pakistan and Bangladesh on the other. That will be more effective and cost almost nothing. Muslims will go to Pakistan and Bangladesh and in return all non-Muslims will come to India. This should have happened in 1947, to avoid the massive loss of life and dishonour of women.
January 13, 2020