Unlike Pakistan’s minorities, every strand of the Muslim community is doing its business in India: Nirmala Sitharaman
1 year, 8 months ago

Unlike Pakistan’s minorities, every strand of the Muslim community is doing its business in India: Nirmala Sitharaman

The Hindu  

India is home to the second largest Muslim population in the world and those blaming the country on minority issues have no clue about the ground realities, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has said. Addressing a Washington DC audience during a fireside chat at the Peterson Institute for International Economics on Monday, April 10, 2023, Ms. Sitharaman said the Muslim population is only growing in numbers in India. pic.twitter.com/UFzek2yd5i — NSitharamanOffice April 11, 2023 The Union Finance Minister said violence prevails against Muhajirs, Shias and other minority groups in Pakistan, whereas, in India, every strand of the Muslim community is doing its business. I'll host them, let them come and travel alone to India and prove their point,” Ms. Sitharaman said.

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Dispelling population myths triggered by a working paper
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Dispelling population myths triggered by a working paper

The Hindu  

Many media reports and politicians have tended to misinterpret and sensationalise findings from a working paper put out by the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister, titled “Share of Religious Minorities: A Cross-Country Analysis ”. The working paper states: “the actual reasons for the change in the religious demography of a country is a multivariate phenomenon in a complex …

Four anti-Muslim claims dominating India’s election: What’s the truth?
6 months, 4 weeks ago

Four anti-Muslim claims dominating India’s election: What’s the truth?

Al Jazeera  

India’s Hindu nationalists have peddled conspiracy theories about Muslims. ‘Those with more children’ What Modi said: During an election rally on April 21 in the western state of Rajasthan, Modi claimed that if the Congress party came to power, it would distribute the country’s wealth among Muslims. ‘Congress will snatch mangalsutras, give them to its vote bank’ What Modi said: …

The changing face of religious demography
7 months ago

The changing face of religious demography

New Indian Express  

An important study undertaken by the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister —an analysis of the evolving status of religious minorities around the world—provides significant and renewed evidence of the demographic decline of the majority and the growing population of minorities in most nations including India. The working paper, which examined demographic change between 1950 and 2015 across 167 …

Has India’s Muslim population really exploded?
7 months ago

Has India’s Muslim population really exploded?

Al Jazeera  

A new government report claims that the country’s Muslim population share has increased 43 percent since 1950, fuelling an unfounded conspiracy theory. The data shows, according to the paper, that in India, “minorities are not just protected but thriving” – even though multiple international reports and rankings warn of the country’s decline in religious freedom. “It is an exercise in …

India’s parliament has fewer Muslims as strength of Modi’s party grows
7 months, 1 week ago

India’s parliament has fewer Muslims as strength of Modi’s party grows

Associated Press  

MALAPPURAM, India — Preventing Muslim migrants from gaining citizenship. India has gone from being a country where Muslims were largely marginalized to one where they are “actively excluded,” said Ali Khan Mahmudabad, a political scientist and historian at New Delhi’s Ashoka University. so they remain enemies,” said Mehmood Bhai Khatri, a 64-year-old Muslim voter from Modi’s home state of Gujarat, …

The tactically silent Indian Muslim voter
8 months ago

The tactically silent Indian Muslim voter

Hindustan Times  

Uttar Pradesh has just finished its first phase of Lok Sabha elections and several recent reports have shown that Muslims have observed a “tactical silence” in this election. First, we must reject historical essentialisation — a view of the community that assumes a special historical continuity between the Muslim monarchs of India and Muslims in India today. This view of …

HT Picks; New Reads
1 year ago

HT Picks; New Reads

Hindustan Times  

A community under siege This week’s pick of good reads includes an attempt to understand what’s gone wrong with India’s polity, a book that ask similar and related questions about Bangladesh, and a narrative of a personal and professional journey 344pp, ₹599; HarperCollins Anyone who follows the news knows that the Muslims of India are under siege. This stems from …

'Islam Holds Unique Position': What NSA Doval Said on Indian Muslims, Terrorism
1 year, 5 months ago

'Islam Holds Unique Position': What NSA Doval Said on Indian Muslims, Terrorism

The Quint  

“Terrorism is not linked to any religion, it is the individuals that get misguided and it is probably the duty of spiritual and religious leaders to see that they can belong to any religion, faith, belief system or political ideology, but anyone who takes the path of violence will have to be countered as effectively." "Amongst its numerous religious groups, …

Are Muslims a more unequal society in India?
1 year, 5 months ago

Are Muslims a more unequal society in India?

Hindustan Times  

Speaking to BJP workers in Bhopal on June 27, Prime Minister Narendra Modi reiterated his Pasmanda Muslim outreach. PREMIUM People shop at a market ahead of Eid To be sure, this is not the first time someone is raising the question of socially driven economic inequality within the Muslims. The question of social stratification among Muslims, like caste among Hindus, …

India journeying towards majoritarianism since beginning: Asad
1 year, 6 months ago

India journeying towards majoritarianism since beginning: Asad

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi, speaking at Addison in Illinois of USA, said that India’s journey as a country has been towards a majoritarian one since Day one. UP’s first CM Govind Vallabh Pant had said we should either remain together or leave.” He said that the BJP currently has 306 MPs without a single Muslim MP or minister in …

Recasting the discourse on Muslim education
1 year, 6 months ago

Recasting the discourse on Muslim education

The Hindu  

India is home to about 213 million Muslims, the third largest Muslim population in the world. Muslims constitute around 72% of the religious minorities in India, but account for only 22.75% of minority educational institutions. In absolute terms, the number of educational institutions established, run, managed and maintained by the Muslim community would be substantially large. Therefore, the community must …

Rahul's latest attack on Modi govt: 'What is happening to Muslims in India today, happened to Dalits in 1980s'
1 year, 6 months ago

Rahul's latest attack on Modi govt: 'What is happening to Muslims in India today, happened to Dalits in 1980s'

India TV News  

Mohabbat Ki Dukaan' event: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has once again targeted the Modi government for allegedly promoting atrocities against the minority community in India and added that the current situation is similar to the 1980s when the Dalits were targetted in Uttar Pradesh. "What is happening to Muslims in India today, happened to Dalits in the 1980s", Gandhi said, …

Book Review: Pratinav Anil’s ‘Another India The Making of the World’s Largest Muslim Minority, 1947–77’ is about the Muslims who stayed back
1 year, 7 months ago

Book Review: Pratinav Anil’s ‘Another India The Making of the World’s Largest Muslim Minority, 1947–77’ is about the Muslims who stayed back

The Hindu  

Published : May 22, 2023 18:03 IST - 10 MINS READ In 1951, Muslims constituted 9.8 per cent of India’s population of 361 million. Another India: The Making of the World’s Largest Muslim Minority, 1947–77 By Pratinav Anil Hurst Publishers UK Pages: 432 Price: £25 His latest book, Another India: The Making of the World’s Largest Muslim Minority, 1947–77, is …

‘Muslims in India…’: Sitharaman on negative Western ‘perception’
1 year, 8 months ago

‘Muslims in India…’: Sitharaman on negative Western ‘perception’

Hindustan Times  

Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman claimed that Muslims in India are doing much better than the Muslims living in Pakistan as she was responding to the negative Western "perception" of India at an event in Washington on Monday. ': Nirmala Sitharaman's fiery retort to 'Muslims being targeted' in India claim Sitharaman arrived in Washington on Sunday to attend the spring …

Photos: Indian Muslims celebrate the beginning of Ramadan
1 year, 8 months ago

Photos: Indian Muslims celebrate the beginning of Ramadan

Al Jazeera  

New Delhi, India – India is home to the world’s third-largest Muslim population, with approximately 200 million Muslims living in the country as a minority in a predominantly Hindu country. According to new religious projections data from the Pew Research Centre, India will have the distinction of having the largest populations of two of the largest religions in the world …

DC Edit | RSS outreach to women, Muslims is meaningful
2 years, 2 months ago

DC Edit | RSS outreach to women, Muslims is meaningful

Deccan Chronicle  

The significance for India of the annual speech of the sarsanghchalak of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh on the occasion of Vijaya Dashami, the culmination of the auspicious festival of Dussehra, lies somewhere in-between the papal proclamation and address on Christmas Eve and the US President’s state of the nation report address to Americans. Of course, RSS sarsanghchalak Mohan Bhagwat is …

Preachy Bilawal should know Pakistan is a graveyard of minorities: As for India, just look at Parsis and Bohras
2 years, 2 months ago

Preachy Bilawal should know Pakistan is a graveyard of minorities: As for India, just look at Parsis and Bohras

Firstpost  

If India’s true minority policy has to be understood and appreciated, one should look at how some of the smallest communities like Parsis, Jews and Buddhists or even Bohras, Ismailis and Ahmadiyyas have been treated Pakistan Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, speaking at an event in New York on the sidelines of the just concluded UN General Assembly, claimed that …

‘If we convert to Islam, will you give us houses?’: Pakistani Hindu refugees ask Centre
2 years, 4 months ago

‘If we convert to Islam, will you give us houses?’: Pakistani Hindu refugees ask Centre

Firstpost  

A Pakistani Hindu who migrated to India in 2014 from Karachi and now lives in Jodhpur awaiting Indian citizenship told how 35,000 refugees such as him have been living in deplorable conditions New Delhi: “If the Hindu refugees from Pakistan, who have been languishing across several cities in India, convert to Islam, will Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri provide them …

The marginalisation of the Indian Muslim
2 years, 4 months ago

The marginalisation of the Indian Muslim

The Hindu  

Shortly after India gained independence, we gave ourselves a Constitution that guaranteed equal citizenship to everyone. From the 1960s, a category of ‘Muslim issues’ was established in the political discourse — official patronage of Urdu, minority status of Aligarh Muslim University, Uniform Civil Code, Babri Masjid — and secular parties fashioned themselves as the guardians of these special protections. The …

India & Hindu Nationalism: What Is the Economic Cost of Marginalising Muslims?
2 years, 6 months ago

India & Hindu Nationalism: What Is the Economic Cost of Marginalising Muslims?

The Quint  

In her path-breaking research, Cook linked the surge in segregation laws, lynchings, and other racial violence in the US from 1870 to 1940 to a significant decline in patenting and innovation among African Americans. “Violence diminishes innovation and economic activity, with persistent effects,” says Cook. “The year 1899 is still the peak year for patenting-per-capita for African-Americans – and that’s …

Nupur Sharma Row: Why is There a Concerted Effort to (Mis)Label India as Islamophobic?
2 years, 6 months ago

Nupur Sharma Row: Why is There a Concerted Effort to (Mis)Label India as Islamophobic?

News 18  

In the last one week, India has been thrown into a furore over the remarks of ex-BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma and Naveen Jindal on Prophet Mohammad, spoken in defense of Hindu Gods in a TV news debate. Islamist outfits like Al Qaeda, which were behind the Charlie Hebdo shooting, have further threatened India, and brazenly sought to create an atmosphere …

The killing of two Sikhs shows Pakistan's continued persecution of minorities
2 years, 7 months ago

The killing of two Sikhs shows Pakistan's continued persecution of minorities

Firstpost  

Data from the 2017 Census shows that while Muslims make up 96.2 per cent of Pakistan’s population, Hindus are only 1.6 per cent, Christians 1.59 per cent, Scheduled Castes 0.25 per cent, Ahmadis 0.22 per cent, and other minorities 0.07 per cent. External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Arindam Bagchi, as per a PTI report, said India had registered its “strong protest” …

India: Is politics fueling attacks on Muslims?
2 years, 7 months ago

India: Is politics fueling attacks on Muslims?

Al Jazeera  

On Tuesday, April 26 at 19:30GMT: A wave of violent attacks on India’s Muslim population has the community on edge. But critics say it is the latest attempt to harass India’s Muslim minority, which makes up roughly 14 percent of the country’s 1.4 billion population. Human Rights observers say recent incendiary rhetoric by politicians from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu …

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | BJP a political beneficiary of Hindu-Muslim clashes
2 years, 8 months ago

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | BJP a political beneficiary of Hindu-Muslim clashes

Deccan Chronicle  

There was a clash between groups of Hindus and Muslims near a mosque in Jahangirpuri in northwest Delhi on the evening of Sunday, April 17, as a Hanuman Jayanti procession called Shobha Yatra was passing by the mosque. A determined BJP government at the Centre — the municipal corporations come under the jurisdiction of the Union home ministry in the …

Hindus must uphold unequal secularism via continued concessions while Muslims get the licence to use violence as leverage
2 years, 8 months ago

Hindus must uphold unequal secularism via continued concessions while Muslims get the licence to use violence as leverage

Firstpost  

Regardless of their actions, Muslims have a monopoly on victimhood while Hindus are the perpetual perpetrators because their very existence is provocative The anti-encroachment drive by the BJP-led civic body in Delhi on “illegal structures” on Wednesday has triggered apoplectic rage in liberal circles. Since Mehta enjoys papal authority over India’s ‘public intellectuals’, let’s examine his assertion of Hindus’ “raw …

Majoritarian violence is slowly tearing India apart
2 years, 11 months ago

Majoritarian violence is slowly tearing India apart

Al Jazeera  

In India, the new year started with a perverse attack on the country’s Muslims. Just a few weeks earlier, several far-right Hindu leaders openly called for genocide against Muslims at a three-day religious summit held in northern India’s Haridwar city. Also in December, India’s far-right Prime Minister Narendra Modi made connections between Muslim figures from India’s distant history and current-day …

Decoding why minorities in Bangladesh and Pakistan continue to face persecution
3 years, 2 months ago

Decoding why minorities in Bangladesh and Pakistan continue to face persecution

Firstpost  

The root causes behind all the attacks were to thwart dissent, freedom and secularism. In short, minorities at any corner of the world are increasingly at risk of losing their lives, property and religious identity On Thursday, Hindu temples in Bangladesh were vandalised by some unidentified miscreants during Durga Puja celebrations, prompting the government to deploy paramilitary force and Prime …

‘Shown their place’: Muslim livelihoods under attack in India
3 years, 2 months ago

‘Shown their place’: Muslim livelihoods under attack in India

Al Jazeera  

Experts say rising attacks on Muslim vendors and businesses by Hindu supremacist groups point to a worrying trend. If these frequent incidents of attacks on Muslim livelihoods are seen “in consonance with some policy measures which the BJP government has taken in different states in the last few years, then it is a worrying trend indeed,” Abdul Waheed, professor of …

The propaganda in India that Muslims will outnumber Hindus by 2035 is governed by prejudice, not facts
3 years, 4 months ago

The propaganda in India that Muslims will outnumber Hindus by 2035 is governed by prejudice, not facts

The Hindu  

In response to a question about his government’s relief measures for the victims of the communal carnage in Gujarat in 2002, which claimed nearly a thousand lives, Chief Minister Narendra Modi remarked callously: “What should I do? In the game of numbers, Sakshi Maharaj felt, Muslims, who constituted 14.2 per cent of the population in the country, were poised to …

SY Quraishi debunks the myth of India’s rising Muslim population
3 years, 10 months ago

SY Quraishi debunks the myth of India’s rising Muslim population

Live Mint  

Growing up, SY Quraishi, like many people around him, thought Islam was against family planning. Yes, the average Muslim family in India had more children than Hindus, but it wasn’t because of an “organized conspiracy” to change the demography of India. Some also cite the high fertility rates among Muslim women – 2.61 births per woman compared to the Hindus’ …

Pakistan: Hindu homes set on fire to force them to convert to Islam
4 years, 1 month ago

Pakistan: Hindu homes set on fire to force them to convert to Islam

Op India  

Pakistani human rights activist Rahat Austin had recently shared that the homes of Hindus belonging to the highly marginalised and socio-economically backward Bheel and Meghwal community was set on fire in Pakistan. He said that one Dost Muhammad and some others simultaneously set fire to the houses of these poverty-stricken Hindus in Pakistan’s Sumar Puli, Khai, Sanghar and Sindh district. …

Hindus in Pakistan are accepting Islam so that they can survive in the country
4 years, 4 months ago

Hindus in Pakistan are accepting Islam so that they can survive in the country

Op India  

Pakistani Hindus are known to be one the most badly persecuted minority community in the world. There have been regular reports about how young Hindu girls are kidnapped and married off to their abductors in Pakistan. Now a report in the New York Times has shown how the poor Hindus of Pakistan are left with no choice but to accept …

Hundreds of Pakistani Hindus, victims of bonded labour and poor, convert to Islam for jobs: Report
4 years, 4 months ago

Hundreds of Pakistani Hindus, victims of bonded labour and poor, convert to Islam for jobs: Report

India TV News  

Religious persecution and forced conversion continues unabated in Pakistan as dozens of Hindu families were converted to Islam in June in the Badin district of Sindh Province in southern Pakistan, which borders with Gujarat's Kutch at its south. According to a New York Times report, the mass ceremony was the latest in line of growing number of attempts by various …

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