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The Legacy of a Liberal Muslim: A Story of Betrayal and Resilience
2 months, 2 weeks ago

The Legacy of a Liberal Muslim: A Story of Betrayal and Resilience

News 18  

The article recounts the story of Mushirul Hasan, an academician who faced a controversial sacking in 1990s. Hasan's story highlights the hypocrisy of Hindu secularists who supported the fundamentalist Muslim clergy, leading to his persecution and eventual silencing. The author explores the complex dynamics between religious and secular forces in India, and the challenges faced by Muslim liberals in a …

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BJP will bring Rama Rajya to TS, says Himanta Biswa Sarma
1 year, 7 months ago

BJP will bring Rama Rajya to TS, says Himanta Biswa Sarma

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma stated that Telangana state will get rid of “Razakar Rajya” and replaced with “Rama Rajya” following the BJP’s victory in the state’s upcoming Assembly elections led by party state president Bandi Sanjay Kumar. “I will pray to Goddess Kamakhya Devi in Assam to bless the people of Telangana state and bring the BJP …

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Those who cry in support of the proponent of Two-Nation theory, Iqbal, were silent about freedom fighter Veer Savarkar: The dangerous hypocrisy
2 years ago

Those who cry in support of the proponent of Two-Nation theory, Iqbal, were silent about freedom fighter Veer Savarkar: The dangerous hypocrisy

Op India  

The problem with romanticising history is that it reduces science to fantasy, and facts to propaganda. While the story is long and will need full attention, for now, let us go with the undeniable fact that religion as a basis for nation-making first raised its ugly head in the last phases of 1857 when the Muslim mutineers raised Islamic flags …

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Stand up & speak out
2 years, 8 months ago

Stand up & speak out

The Hindu  

There is no appeasement of Muslims any more as ‘pseudo-secularists’ had been accused of doing since Independence. Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, who laid the ideological foundation for the two-nation theory years before Mohammed Ali Jinnah expounded the idea, did not mince words when he defined, in 1923, his idea of nation and who belonged to it: “To every Hindu… this Bharat …

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Assam CM Sarma accuses Arvind Kejriwal of mocking Kashmiri Pandits, says he rubbed 'salt in wound of Hindus'
2 years, 9 months ago

Assam CM Sarma accuses Arvind Kejriwal of mocking Kashmiri Pandits, says he rubbed 'salt in wound of Hindus'

India TV News  

Highlights Assam CM Himanta Sarma lashes out at Kejriwal for his recent comments on The Kashmir Files movie Sarma said that CM Kejriwal should stop "constant mocking of Kashmiri Pandits" Himanta Biswa Sarma also accused Kejriwal of using Delhi assembly to rub salt in wound of Hindus Just a day after Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal accused Bharatiya Janata Party …

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Hijab Row | 'Don't Give This A Communal Angle: Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi
2 years, 11 months ago

Hijab Row | 'Don't Give This A Communal Angle: Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi

ABP News  

New Delhi: Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi while speaking to ABP News said that the communal angle to the ongoing hijab row has intensified because of some elements. Naqvi shared his opinion and said that a communal angle should not be added to the issue of hijab and said that there are a few extremists and so-called secularists who are …

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Book Review: Muzaffar Alam's 'The Mughals and the Sufis' explores the Sufi influence in Mughal rule
2 years, 11 months ago

Book Review: Muzaffar Alam's 'The Mughals and the Sufis' explores the Sufi influence in Mughal rule

The Hindu  

W ITH nearly 50 years of research and teaching experience in the best of universities in India and the United States, Muzaffar Alam has offered a work that has the quality of a swan song, the culmination of a life-long intellectual activity to produce a book on a theme that was long waiting to be written and one that only …

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S.M. Mushrif: ‘Secularists should challenge UAPA in Supreme Court’
3 years, 9 months ago

S.M. Mushrif: ‘Secularists should challenge UAPA in Supreme Court’

The Hindu  

IN December 2001, the Surat Police arrested 127 people who were participating in a seminar organised by the All India Minority Education Board under various provisions of the Unlawful Activities Act. In the Akshardham temple terror attack case and the Dhaula Kuan case, too, the accused were declared innocent after many years of incarceration. For instance, in the 2002 Akshardham …

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Bengaluru riots: Liberals and secularists spread canards to whitewash crimes committed by Muslims
4 years, 4 months ago

Bengaluru riots: Liberals and secularists spread canards to whitewash crimes committed by Muslims

Op India  

Bengaluru was yesterday convulsed with violent communal riots as members of Muslim community, offended over an allegedly derogatory social media post on Prophet Muhammad, went on a rampage in some parts of the city. At around 2 AM on the intervening night of 11th and 12th August, Congress National Secretary and social media in-charge Zakiya Khan shared a video wherein …

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Mughals were neither great rulers nor were they secularists
4 years, 8 months ago

Mughals were neither great rulers nor were they secularists

Op India  

Ye imaarat o Maqabir ye fasilein ye hisaar, Mutlaq-ul-hukm shahanshahon ki azmat ke sutoon; Seena-e-dahar ke nasoor hain kohna nasoor, Jazb hain unmein tere mere ajdaad ka khoon. These gaping wounds are the ancient wounds on the breast of the world, Mingled with the ugly pus and the oozing bloods of our common ancestors.” In today’s world where the intellectual …

History India Empire Islam Indian British Hindu
Muqtada al-Sadr’s double game
4 years, 11 months ago

Muqtada al-Sadr’s double game

Al Jazeera  

Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has always been a controversial political operator in Iraq – the most popular among Shia leaders, the most temperamental, and the most unpredictable. Yet after the 2010 elections which brought a second term for the increasingly sectarian Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, al-Sadr switched to a moderate political line and reached out to the Sunni community. Every …

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'Thank you, Uddhavji': Exuberance of Mumbai's CAA protest showed why city's Muslims are welcoming of the 'new' Sena
5 years ago

'Thank you, Uddhavji': Exuberance of Mumbai's CAA protest showed why city's Muslims are welcoming of the 'new' Sena

Firstpost  

If the BJP creates communal trouble in Mumbai, Muslims know they won’t be at the undependable mercies of the Congress-NCP. Researching a series of lynchings which took place in Mumbai’s 92-93 riots, where Muslims were caught alone on the roads would be set upon, I used to wonder: what courage made these Muslims venture out dressed in their traditional attire, …

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VHP brands Tabrez Ansari lynching as 'conspiracy'
5 years, 3 months ago

VHP brands Tabrez Ansari lynching as 'conspiracy'

India TV News  

A day after police in Jharkhand dropped murder charges against the accused in the mob lynching of Tabrez Ansari, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad called it a "conspiracy of secularists". "Tabrez's post-mortem report released after intensive investigation has not only clarified the reasons for his death but also exposed a major conspiracy of the secular gang," said VHP Joint General Secretary …

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Jai Shri Ram is not associated with Bengali culture: Nobel laureate Amartya Sen
5 years, 6 months ago

Jai Shri Ram is not associated with Bengali culture: Nobel laureate Amartya Sen

India Today  

Nobel laureate economist Amartya Sen on Friday said that 'Jai Shri Ram' was never a part of West Bengal’s culture and it is used as "a pretext to beat up people". "Jai Sri Ram slogan is not associated with the Bengali culture," he said, adding that even Ram Navami is "gaining popularity" nowadays and he had "never heard of it …

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Nation outraged
5 years, 6 months ago

Nation outraged

Deccan Chronicle  

Days after the mutilated body of three-year-old Twinkle Sharma was discovered from a dumping ground in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, the country has been rocked by widespread indignation with celebrities and netizens claiming that the minor was raped, had her eyes gouged out, and was doused with acid— none of it is factual as the post-mortem report concluded that the victim …

Kathua Twinkle
Nation outraged
5 years, 7 months ago

Nation outraged

Deccan Chronicle  

Days after the mutilated body of three-year-old Twinkle Sharma was discovered from a dumping ground in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, the country has been rocked by widespread indignation with celebrities and netizens claiming that the minor was raped, had her eyes gouged out, and was doused with acid— none of it is factual as the post-mortem report concluded that the victim …

Kathua Twinkle
Nation outraged
5 years, 7 months ago

Nation outraged

Deccan Chronicle  

Days after the mutilated body of three-year-old Twinkle Sharma was discovered at a dumping ground in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, the country has been rocked by widespread indignation with celebrities and netizens claiming that the minor was raped, had her eyes gouged out, and was doused with acid— none of it is factual as the post-mortem report concluded that the victim …

Kathua
Forced to choose between communalists and criminals as their netas, Bihar voters get played by cunning secularists
5 years, 8 months ago

Forced to choose between communalists and criminals as their netas, Bihar voters get played by cunning secularists

Firstpost  

The choice of Bihar Mahagathbandhan candidates for Darbhanga, Madhubani and Siwan Lok Sabha seats raises questions about the ‘secularism’ practised by non-BJP parties and the responses to it by Muslim voters The RJD-led mahagathbandhan in Bihar stitched an alliance with the Congress, CPI-ML, Jitan Manjhi-led Hindustani Awam Morcha or HAM, and Mukesh Sahni-led Vikassheel Insan Party or VIP and Upendra …

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A Pentecostal Prime Minister in the hands of angry secularists: Scott Morrison undergoes "The Monthly" Inquisition
5 years, 10 months ago

A Pentecostal Prime Minister in the hands of angry secularists: Scott Morrison undergoes "The Monthly" Inquisition

ABC  

Australian "secular" society was never designed to exclude religion from public discussion and political decision-making. In the February issue of The Monthly, popular writer and historian James Boyce trains his critical gaze on the Prime Minister, is an essay entitled "The Devil and Scott Morrison." What betrays a further misguided perspective on Pentecostalism's relationship to "mainstream" Christianity is Boyce's claim …

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Treating Muslims like excitable children who cannot deal with criticism of their religion is also bigotry
5 years, 10 months ago

Treating Muslims like excitable children who cannot deal with criticism of their religion is also bigotry

Op India  

Sometimes, the right to criticize religious bigotry is both necessary and compelling. Secular preachers practising the unwritten blasphemy law normally, use this phrase: “It’s not moderate Muslims’ fault.” and prevent any criticism of ‘Islamic Jihad.’ In the celebration of being a celebrity, even sharp people sometimes unwittingly or otherwise echo the Left-liberal-cabal and fall into their trap. The whole discussion …

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