The police have begun the process of a security audit of mosques, madrassas, and those involved in managing these religious institutions after busting the ‘white-collar’ terror module involving doctors.
The National Commission for Minorities (NCM) celebrated the Minorities Day on December 18.
One year after the violence that erupted during the Jama Masjid survey in Sambhal on November 24, 2024, the city is calm and peaceful.
According to party sources, each committee will include one Muslim and one Dalit member, symbolizing BSP’s effort to bring both communities onto a common platform.
There was a time when the strains of a Baul gaan (songs) and a Murshidi gaan floated together over Bengal’s paddy fields, when Hindus and Muslims, bound by the same rhythms of harvest and hardship, sang the same ditties.
Muslim leaders feel that this rhetoric is peddling anti-Muslim sentiments in a climate when Muslims are already feeling alienated and marginalized.
A number of traders in Siliguri are involved in the business of Rakhi making for decades, as they bring it from Delhi, Lucknow, and Kolkata and then sell it to the local markets.
Earlier this week, the septuagenarian man developed health complications and was under treatment by a doctor but couldn’t survive.
Muslim scholars insist that nothing in Islam is incompatible with technological advances or industrial development. In the days of the caliphs, Islam led the world in scientific and intellectual discoveries. What Muslims object to are the evils associated with modernization. The breakdown of the family structure, the lowering of moral standards, and the appeal of easygoing secular lifestyles. At the same time, Muslims are demanding the positive best of the West, such as schools, hospitals, income avenues and technology.
As if this were not enough the growth of Hindu right-wing extremism, if it can be called that, spewing venom against the Muslims in particular and Christians to a lesser extent further aggravates the situation.
