Articles for Muslim Population

Bangladesh top official calls for removing ‘secular’ from Constitution, citing 90% Muslim population
1 month, 1 week ago

Bangladesh top official calls for removing ‘secular’ from Constitution, citing 90% Muslim population

Hindustan Times  

The Attorney General of Bangladesh, Md Asaduzzaman, has advocated for substantial Constitutional changes, including the removal of the term "secular," given that “90% of the country's population was Muslim,” India Today reported. Asaduzzaman concluded by calling for the 15th Amendment to be revoked, asserting that it disrupts Bangladesh's independence legacy and contradicts the "spirit of the Liberation War" and the …

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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 …

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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 …

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Newslaundry tried to mislead people on Muslim population growth
7 months, 1 week ago

Newslaundry tried to mislead people on Muslim population growth

Op India  

On 15th May, propaganda portal Newslaundry released a new episode of ‘Tippani’ hosted by Atul Chaurasia where they presented assertions regarding the Economic Advisory Council data on Muslim population growth. Chaurasia claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and several news portals used the data to say that the Muslim population share has increased by 43% from 1950 to 2015 while …

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BJP attacks Congress citing PM advisory council study that shows dip in share of Hindus in population
7 months, 2 weeks ago

BJP attacks Congress citing PM advisory council study that shows dip in share of Hindus in population

Hindustan Times  

The BJP on Thursday claimed that India would be “no country for Hindus” under the Congress, after a study conducted by the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister showed a dip of nearly 8% in the share of Hindus in the overall population from 1950 to 2015, and an increase of 43% in the proportion of Muslims during the …

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BJP Attributes Decline in Hindu Population to Congress Governance
7 months, 2 weeks ago

BJP Attributes Decline in Hindu Population to Congress Governance

Deccan Chronicle  

New Delhi: The BJP has attributed the 7.82% decrease in the Hindu population from 1950 to 2015 to Congress's governance. Amit Malviya, head of BJP's IT cell shared an article by Business Standard highlighting the decline in Hindu population and the growth in Muslim population on X. Malviya emphasized, "Share of Hindus shrunk 7.8% between 1950 and 2015. pic.twitter.com/xNUramJyNE — …

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In Kerala, parties weigh in on a caste census
11 months, 4 weeks ago

In Kerala, parties weigh in on a caste census

The Hindu  

Mainstream political parties in Kerala are grappling with the contentious issue of carrying out a caste survey in the State. In contrast, the Communist Party of India -led Left Democratic Front government is reluctant, instead planning to build consensus on holding a Socio-Economic Caste Census in Kerala. The party’s hesitancy could stem from the Nair Service Society’s assertion that a …

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Pavan Varma | Muslim lives matter, too, in Paris as well as Delhi
1 year, 5 months ago

Pavan Varma | Muslim lives matter, too, in Paris as well as Delhi

Deccan Chronicle  

With so much political drama happening within the country, we sometimes forget to keep our eye on what is happening outside. Today they constitute almost five per cent of the French population. According to the French Institute of Public Research, 40 per cent feel they are discriminated against, and a much larger number have suffered — as a result of …

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Taliban ban sale of contraceptives, call it conspiracy by West to control Muslim population
1 year, 10 months ago

Taliban ban sale of contraceptives, call it conspiracy by West to control Muslim population

India Today  

The sale of contraceptives has been stopped by the Taliban in Afghanistan’s two main cities, claiming that the use of contraceptives is a "western conspiracy to control the Muslim population", the Guardian reported. “You are not allowed to go outside and promote the western concept of controlling the population and this is unnecessary work,” a midwife claimed she was told …

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Whitewashing genocides: Why KS Lal’s claims of 80 million Hindus killed by Islamic barbarism hold water
2 years, 1 month ago

Whitewashing genocides: Why KS Lal’s claims of 80 million Hindus killed by Islamic barbarism hold water

Firstpost  

Whitewashing genocide and atrocities against Hindus have always been a key symptom of history-phobia. Even Yusuf seemed unaware, until I replied him stating that the number of around 80 million comes from the estimates put forth by KS Lal in his book, “ Growth of Muslim Population in Medieval India," that was published in 1973. But the neo-critics of KS …

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Assam: Muslim Population in Border Districts Rising, Need to Stregthen Intelligence, Says CM Himanta
2 years, 4 months ago

Assam: Muslim Population in Border Districts Rising, Need to Stregthen Intelligence, Says CM Himanta

News 18  

Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma advocated to strengthen the intelligence in the state police in wake of an increase in Muslim population in districts bordering Bangladesh. According to reports on demographic changes in border districts, Sarma said at 31.45 per cent, the decadal growth in population from 2011 to 2021, within 10 km of the Bangladesh border was higher …

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Opinion | Is there a foreign hand behind sharp rise of Muslims in UP, Assam border districts?
2 years, 4 months ago

Opinion | Is there a foreign hand behind sharp rise of Muslims in UP, Assam border districts?

India TV News  

Today I want to point out to a disturbing trend in seven districts of Uttar Pradesh bordering Nepal and four districts of Assam bordering Bangladesh. According to UP police, in seven border districts, Pilibhit, Lakhimpur Kheri, Shravasti, Siddharth Nagar, Maharajganj, Balrampur and Bahraich, Muslim population rose by 32 per cent during the last ten years. In Assam, the four districts …

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Right Word | Change in ‘religious demography’ of India is not hyperbole, it is a real threat
2 years, 5 months ago

Right Word | Change in ‘religious demography’ of India is not hyperbole, it is a real threat

Firstpost  

Dr JK Bajaj of the Centre for Policy Studies did some path-breaking work by breaking down the Census 2011 data and the results clearly indicate the need to ponder upon the issue of ‘religious demography’ of India Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath recently expressed concern over an adverse fall out of an imbalance in the religious demography of Bharat. …

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Congress encouraged illegal Muslim migration in Uttarakhand: Swami Darshan Bharati
2 years, 6 months ago

Congress encouraged illegal Muslim migration in Uttarakhand: Swami Darshan Bharati

Op India  

On May 22, 2022, Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami said that the state has been carrying out an extensive identification drive to expel illegal Rohingyas migrants from the state. Bengali colonies have mushroomed in various parts of Uttarakhand, Congress helped them with documentation, says Swami Darshan Bharati “There were roughly 6000 Muslim votes in the first assembly in Vikasnagar, …

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Religious polarisation and electoral choices
2 years, 9 months ago

Religious polarisation and electoral choices

The Hindu  

Different shades of religious polarisation were reflected in the CSDS-Lokniti post-poll survey in Uttar Pradesh. If the vote share of the 80% Hindu community voters is taken into account, the BJP secured a little over half the Hindu vote and the Samajwadi Party polled one-fourth of the Hindu vote. Thus while half the Hindu vote was garnered by the BJP, …

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Uttarakhand: Influx of migrant Muslim population raises concerns, demographic shift evident in several districts
3 years, 2 months ago

Uttarakhand: Influx of migrant Muslim population raises concerns, demographic shift evident in several districts

Op India  

The demographic imbalance in Uttarakhand has become a cause of concern for the government and the administration of the state. Security agencies are concerned over the fact that there has been an unprecedented increase in the Muslim population in specific areas of the state bordering Nepal, which is seen as problematic. Seeing a specific conspiracy behind the sudden surge in …

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Secular State Can't Have Policy To Discontinue Urdu Teacher Only Because Muslim Population Is Less: Allahabad High Court
3 years, 4 months ago

Secular State Can't Have Policy To Discontinue Urdu Teacher Only Because Muslim Population Is Less: Allahabad High Court

Live Law  

"In a secular State it would prima facie not be open to frame such policy and to discontinue an Urdu teacher only because the Muslim population is less," observed the Allahabad High Court while dealing with a plea of an Urdu Teacher whose engagement was discontinued by the Uttar Pradesh Government citing its policy.One Sanover/Petitoner submitted before the Court that …

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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 …

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Assam to create 'Population Army' to curb birth rate in Muslim-dominated areas: CM Himanta Biswa Sarma
3 years, 5 months ago

Assam to create 'Population Army' to curb birth rate in Muslim-dominated areas: CM Himanta Biswa Sarma

India Today  

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has said the state government would create a "Population Army" by engaging 1,000 youths to distribute contraceptives and create awareness about population control in Muslim-dominated areas. "We will engage around 1,000 youths from Char-Chapori areas to create awareness about population control and they will also distribute contraceptives among the people in the Muslim-dominated areas …

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Minority community leaders agreed on need to curb population growth in Assam: CM Himanta Biswa Sarma
3 years, 5 months ago

Minority community leaders agreed on need to curb population growth in Assam: CM Himanta Biswa Sarma

India Today  

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday held a meeting with over 150 intellectuals and personalities from various diverse fields of the religious minority community and said they have all agreed on the need to curb the population growth in some parts of the state as it is a threat to development. Addressing a press conference after the meeting, …

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Why Himanta Biswa Sarma wants Assam's Muslims to adopt birth control
3 years, 6 months ago

Why Himanta Biswa Sarma wants Assam's Muslims to adopt birth control

India Today  

It all began with an eviction drive in Assam’s Darrang district. These statements by the chief minister were bound to create political reverberations in Assam, which has the highest share of Muslim population among all Indian states. The Assam chief minister may have his political motivations behind voicing concern about family planning among immigrant Muslims, but hard data reveals an …

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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’ …

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Research projection of growth of Muslim population in European countries
4 years, 1 month ago

Research projection of growth of Muslim population in European countries

Op India  

At a time when the world is debating on the extent of growth of Muslim population across the world and the security implications that are likely to emerge due to the resulting demographic shift in the future, a group of researchers have put forward a study that not only predicts the Islamic conquest of the Europe in the coming years …

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