Tag: islamophobia

#Pakistan News Anti-Muslim hate speech incidents in India averaged more than one a day in the first half of 2023 and were seen most in states with upcoming elections, according to a report by Hindutva Watch, a Washington-based group monitoring attacks on minorities. There were 255 documented incidents of ...

Anti-Muslim hate speech incidents in India averaged more than one a day in the first half of 2023 and were seen most in states with upcoming elections, according to a report by Hindutva Watch, a Washington-based group monitoring attacks on minorities. There were 255 documented incidents of hate speech ...

New Delhi, India – A legislator from India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has made Islamophobic remarks and used communal slurs against a Muslim MP inside the parliament. During a debate on Thursday on the success of India’s historic moon mission, BJP MP Ramesh Bidhuri called Kunwar Danish Ali ...

Congress-led alliance accuses some anchors of partisanship towards PM Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist government.Indian opposition parties have pledged to boycott several television news anchors they accuse of spreading hate and of partisanship towards Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist government. “We do not want to legitimise this hate-filled narrative ...

United States Democratic Congressman Ro Khanna has come under sharp criticism for meeting far-right Hindutva ideologue Abhijeet Iyer-Mitra on his recent trip to India, with many pointing out that his embrace of Hindu nationalists is against the progressive values that he has claimed to espouse. Khanna, who is the ...

Nuh, India – In February this year, two Muslim men were abducted and allegedly burned alive in their car by a group of cow vigilantes in India’s northern state of Haryana. As the charred skeletons of the two men – Nasir Hussain, 28, and Junaid Khan, 35 – were ...

An Indian court has asked whether days of demolitions of homes and businesses of mainly Muslim residents in the northern state of Haryana were “an exercise of ethnic cleansing”. Ordering a halt to four days of bulldozing of properties in the state’s Nuh district, the Punjab and Haryana High ...

New Delhi, India – Three days after Asgar Abbas Ali was shot dead inside a train along with three others by a railway guard, his brother, Mohammad Sanaullah, is still unable to process the loss. Since Monday’s killings, neighbours have been gathering at their house in Bisfi village of ...

EXPLAINERThe Quran is Islam’s holy book, the primary source of guidance and law for Muslims across the world.Demonstrations have been held in several Muslim countries in recent weeks in response to the repeated desecration and burning of the Quran in Sweden and Denmark. Muslim nations have been swift to ...

#Pakistan News An anti-Muslim group desecrated the Quran in Denmark's capital Copenhagen on Friday, as Muslims expressed outrage about a similar incident in Sweden and called on authorities to prevent such hateful acts from repeating. The ultranationalist group called "Danske Patrioter" burned the holy book in front of Iraq's ...