धार्मिक कट्टरपन
December 27, 2016
आमिर खान को स्नैपडील के ब्रांड एंबेसडर की हैसियत से हटाए जाने के लिए बीजेपी के आईटी सेल ने सोशल मीडिया कैंपेन चलाया था। ये आरोप खुद बीजेपी आईटी सेल की एक पूर्व कार्यकर्ता साध्वी खोसला ने लगाया है। आरोप है कि पिछले साल असहिष्णुता वाले बयान के बाद बीजेपी के आइटी सेल ने आमिर खान के खिलाफ कैंपने चलाया था, जिसके बाद उनसे उन्हें स्नैपडील के ब्रांड एंबेसडर से हटा दिया गया था। आपको बता दे कि...
December 27, 2016
We need to ask those who swear in the name of the Ummah: is the blood of Rohingyas insipid in comparison to other Muslims?
Photo credit: Wessex Scene
For nearly one and a half million Rohingyas, it must be a rude shock to realise that they are no longer Burmese citizens. Rohingyas are Burmese Muslims who settled in that part of the world in the wake of British East India Company...
December 26, 2016
मेवात। हरियाणा की बीजेपी शासित खट्टर सरकार ने हांड कंपा देने वाली सर्दी में सैकड़ों मुस्लिम परिवारों के घर तोड़कर उन्हे बेघर कर दिया है। मामला हरियाणा के मेवात जिले का है। जहां प्रशासन ने सीआरपीएफ कैंप के लिए टूंडलाका गांव में 80 घरों को तोड़ दिया।
घरों को तोड़े जाने की वजह से सभी मुस्लिम परिवार खुले आसमान के नीचे रहने को मजबूर हैं। हांड...
December 26, 2016
Courtesy: Indian Express
Why do not we initiate a Uniform Religion Code (URC), that will ensure human justice, which is pre-requisite of gender justice?
Before the Bharatiya Janata Party came to power, there was no indication in the election campaign of the Prime Ministerial candidate—Narendra Modi– that the Muslim question that remained its...
December 26, 2016
Fiery Speeches promoting Hindutva were made as Retd Indian Army Generals share Dais with RSS chief, Sadhus; Hinting at the Muslim reign in the country, Bhagwat said that in the last 1000 years, "the people of this country did not get a chance to rule, when that should have been the case in a democracy".
The issue of the communalisation of the Indian Army has always come into...
December 24, 2016
One of only two functional Hindu places of worship in Lahore, it is a rare example of religious syncretism in the country
Image credit: Haroon Khalid
The turquoise dome of a mausoleum rises from the middle of a congested market in Lahore, its octagonal white building lost among the cycle and cloth shops. This is the shrine of the 16th century Sufi saint Sheikh Abdul Razzaq. Not far...
December 22, 2016
Demonetisation is an ill-thought out strike against the real economy by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Demonetisation is not merely an ill-thought out strike against the real economy by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his troupe of sycophants and followers.
The traditional obscurantism of Hindutva, in the glorification of mythology as science, has had serious consequences for education in...
December 22, 2016
[Iraqi Kudistan. Image via edmaps.com]
[In early 2016 Masoud Barzani, President of the Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraq, proclaimed that a referendum on Kurdish independence would be conducted before this year’s US presidential elections. More recently its prime minister, Nechirvan Barzani, has pledged the referendum will be held after the campaign to oust the Islamic State...
December 22, 2016
12 dead and 48 injured on the eve of Christmas, and a Tunisian is a suspect
Analysts are still amazed that a truck, used to carry goods, can be transformed into a weapon by Islamic terrorists. As the Berlin truck attack shows, perhaps anything can be turned into an agent of destruction. But this is not the first incident involving such an unconventional weapon. The Nice attack in France...
December 21, 2016
Following the Delhi High Court’s decisions, the Delhi Police has been searching the campus of the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) campus, 65 days after the disappearance of post graduate student, Najeeb Ahmad. The police, eager to police JNU has been combing all hostels, schools, the central library, the forests and...