Nayla Khwaja “The pathology of Islamophobia is growing throughout the West but it is taking its most lethal form in India,” said Noam Chomsky, the world-renowned scholar, author and activist. He also said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s regime has sharply escalated crimes in the Kashmir region, “The crimes in …
Read More »Feature: Is unemployment spurring the already prevalent mental health crisis in Kashmir?
Farzana Nisar The wooden shelf of 29-year-old, Aadil Ahmad’s room shines with all the trophies he won in school and college. Aadil has a bachelor’s degree in Education and a postgraduate degree in Mathematics, but nowadays, this resident of south Kashmir stays in his darkroom all day and snaps at …
Read More »Article: Jahangirpuri Violence: Anti-Muslim bias of Delhi Police to the fore again
(Clarion India) On Sunday, the police arrested 14 people; ironically, all of them are Muslim. This is quite unfair given that the violence was two-sided and the aggression was from the Hindu mob
Read More »Article: Chauhan’s bulldozer can’t stand judicial scrutiny
(Clarion India) Legal experts and Opposition politicians said the manner in which the targeted demolition of Muslim houses and shops was carried out defeated the idea of natural justice.
Read More »Article: Are we to just sit back and not react no matter what the provocations are
(Clarion India) Right now, hopeless seems the situation. After all, if the politics and the politicians start trampling upon the lives and livelihoods of the minority community there’s no hope!
Read More »Article: Hindutva – A threat to peace and stability in South Asia
Saima Afzal Islamabad, April 15 (KMS): India declares itself a democratic and secular state that claims to promote religious harmony within the state. However, the reality is the opposite, Indian constitution has failed to transform the Indian society into a secular state because of the biased and bigotry attitude of …
Read More »Feature: Selective fire of Karauli
Aasif Mujtaba It was the first shop that I saw while entering the Boora-Batasha market at Karauli in Rajasthan. The overcrowded narrow lanes & the scorching sun were making it difficult to even stand outside the gutted shop. There I met Usman (name changed), a man in his late thirties …
Read More »Feature: The burden of communal hate on a Muslim journalist
(The Quint) Akhlad Khan was just 28. As a journalist, he used to actively document hate crimes.
Read More »Article: Challenges for freedom of movement in Kashmir
Dr Ghulam Nabi Fai Washington, April 13 (KMS): Who does not know the historic date of December 10, 1948? It was on this day that the United Nations adopted one of its first major achievements, that is known as the ‘Universal Declaration of Human Rights’ (UDHR). The Assembly proclaimed the …
Read More »Feature: How mosques, dargahs, Muslim houses were vandalised in Gujarat
(The Wire) Local Muslims in Himmatnagar believe that the Ram Navami processions, in which several people carried swords, had the intention to disrupt peace.
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