The Varanasi District Court has rejected a Muslim organisation’s plea challenging a request by some Hindu worshippers to hold daily prayers at Gyanvapi Mosque. A group of Hindu women asked the court earlier this year to seek permission to pray at a shrine inside the Gyanvapi Mosque. The Mosque believed …
Read More »India: Hindu right-wing claims on Mosques raise fears
Right-wing elements file back-to-back petitions in courts, claiming that UNESCO protected monuments and Mughal-era Mosques are temples. A campaign by the Hindu right-wing groups to claim Mughal era monuments and historic mosques has raised a wave of concern among minorities, historians, and archaeologists across India. Hindu extremist groups in India …
Read More »India: Hindu extremists want to remove Christians from society
Christians are being suppressed, discriminated against and persecuted at rising levels like never before in India, and the attackers run free, every time. At least 300 attacks have been reported on Indian Christians in 2021. Police and the government are helping attacks that target minorities thanks to the country’s new …
Read More »Hindu extremists call for genocide of Muslims
Hindu religious leaders in India called for genocide against Muslims . Participants in last week’s event in Haridwar, in northern Uttarakhand state called for the mass killings and use of weapons against Muslims. A speaker at the gathering told the crowd that people should not worry about going to jail …
Read More »Transition from Hindu to Muslim wasn’t tough, says new convert
Growing up in a Muslim neighbourhood, it wasn’t difficult for Indian expat Vijayalakshmi to embrace Islam when she got married to a Muslim man in 2015. After they moved to the UAE in 2015, Vijayalakshmi, who is now known by her Muslim name Fathima Noushad, took her Shahada once again. …
Read More »India bans Muslim gatherings but allows Hindu pilgrimage in occupied Kashmir
In what shows Indian government’s bias against Muslim in occupied Kashmir, all religious gatherings are banned for the majority group but it has exclusively allowed Hindu pilgrimage to take place in the territory despite increasing coronavirus cases and strict lockdown restrictions. An order issued by the government in the occupied …
Read More »S. Asian American Groups Condemn Violence Against Indian Muslims In Delhi
– As members of South Asian organizations in the U.S. that believe in the values of dignity, justice and inclusion for all, we are horrified by the recent violence targeting Indian Muslims in Delhi. We are struck by the heart-wrenching footage of Muslims fleeing their homes, stores and homes burnt …
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