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How India’s Policies Alienate the Muslim World

India’s standing in the Muslim world is crumbling. Once a beacon of secular pluralism, it’s now a lightning rod for criticism from Ankara to Kuala Lumpur. The shift didn’t happen overnight. It’s a cascade of choices—some deliberate, others reckless—that have painted India as hostile to Islam in the eyes of many Muslim-majority nations. From the Kashmir shutdown to cozying up to Israel. India's actions have provoked criticism, weakened alliances, and given its opponents a […]

https://munaeem.de/2025/05/21/how-indias-policies-alienate-the-muslim-world/

Opposition's Silence on Hate Crimes Against Muslims Will Prove Counterproductive

It won't be an exaggeration to call the silence of secular parties on these anti-Muslim hate crimes a betrayal, writes Alishan Jafri.

#HateCrime #CowLynchings #lynching #OppositionParties #AntiMuslimViolence #hindutva #CowVigilantism #congress #IndianMuslims #INDIAAlliance #india

https://www.thequint.com/opinion/opposition-silence-on-hate-crimes-against-muslims-prove-counterproductive

In Telangana’s Medak, BJP’s growing clout emboldens ‘Gau Rakshaks’

While the Muslim residents maintain that the latest communal conflagration was unexpected, the tall Chatrapathi Shivaji statue in Medak town stands as evidence of growing clout of Hindutva forces.

#telangana #medak #HinduMobs #CowVigilantes #BJP #BajrangDal #VHP #RSS #GaurakshakSamithi #BJYM #TelanganaPolice #eid #hindutva #IndianMuslims #india

https://www.thenewsminute.com/telangana/in-telanganas-medak-bjps-growing-clout-emboldens-gau-rakshaks

Muslim Man Lynched By Hindu Men in Aligarh; Police Say They Suspected Theft

A video of the accused persons surrounding the man, Farid, at a small crossing in Aligarh and thrashing him with lathis and assaulting him with kicks and punches was widely shared on social media.

#UttarPradesh #aligarh #lynching #HinduMobs #IndianMuslims #hindutva #communalism #BJPStates #india

https://thewire.in/communalism/muslim-man-lynched-hindu-group-aligarh

Jains in Old Delhi dressed up as Muslims to buy 124 goats. ‘Saved them from Bakrid sacrifice’

Delhi’s Jain community raised Rs 15 lakh and then went to Old Delhi markets posing as Muslims. They bargained hard, bought 124 goats, and have kept them at the now-famous temple in Chandni Chowk.

#delhi #OldDelhi #bakrid #eid #jains #vegetarianism #islamophobia #IndianMuslims #india

https://theprint.in/feature/around-town/jains-in-old-delhi-dressed-up-as-muslims-to-buy-124-goats-saved-them-from-bakrid-sacrifice/2135609/

Chhattisgarh: Man dies in hospital 10 days after he was allegedly attacked for transporting cattle

Two other victims in the case had been found dead on June 7 in Raipur district.

#chhattisgarh #raipur #CowLynching #CowVigilantism #SaddamQureshi #hindutva #IndianMuslims #beef #communalism #BJPStates #india

https://scroll.in/latest/1069465/chhattisgarh-man-dies-in-hospital-10-days-after-he-was-allegedly-lynched-for-transporting-cattle

Eighteenth Lok Sabha has lowest share of Muslim MPs in six decades

Only ten States/UTs have at least one Muslim MP, that too with steep declines of share in many.

#LokSabha #MuslimMPs #MuslimRepresentation #parliament #IndianMuslims #LokSabhaElection2024 #india

https://www.thehindu.com/data/data-eighteenth-lok-sabha-has-lowest-share-of-muslim-mps-in-six-decades/article68285104.ece

The Communal Politics of Evictions in Assam: Looking back at Dhalpur

As more people shift from Dhalpur to Shyampur, the newly settled families are being allotted even less than one bigha land, while the rehabilitation sites lack basic infrastructure such as access roads, electricity and toilets.

#assam #darrang #dhalpur #evictions #displacement #BengaliMuslims #MiyaMuslims #IndianMuslims #hindutva #communalism #BJPStates #india

https://thewire.in/rights/the-communal-politics-of-evictions-in-assam-looking-back-at-dhalpur

How Modi's gruesome politics have always been hiding in plain sight

Christophe Jaffrelot's 'Gujarat Under Modi' meticulously details how for 14 years as its chief minister, Modi used Gujarat as his test laboratory for the nightmare brand of Hindu nationalism now dominating India. Peter Oborne writes.

#BookReview #ChristopheJaffrelot #gujarat #NarendraModi #BJP #hindutva #GujaratRiots #IndianMuslims #minorities #books #bookstodon #india

https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/india-elections-modi-gruesome-politics-hiding-plain-sight

Muslim woman allotted flat under CM scheme in Vadodara, residents protest

The 44-year-old mother says the protests first began in 2020 when the residents wrote to the Chief Minister’s Office (CMO), seeking her house allotment to be invalidated.

#gujarat #vadodara #ReligiousDiscrimination #VMC #IndianMuslims #hindutva #communalism #india

https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/ahmedabad/muslim-woman-allotted-flat-under-cm-scheme-in-vadodara-residents-protest-9391595/

Myths demolished

There is a powerful view that Muslims constitute a politically united and religiously homogeneous community. This imagination is factually wrong, at least in the electoral sense. Hilal Ahmed writes.

#LokSabhaElection2024 #MuslimVoters #BJP #INDIAAlliance #NDA #AITC #islamophobia #IndianMuslims #india

https://www.telegraphindia.com/opinion/myths-demolished-understanding-the-electoral-politics-of-muslims/cid/2026589

How the MP High Court's Take on the Special Marriage Act Erodes Essential Rights

Why the high court extensively discussed rules regarding the validity of a couple's prospective marriage under the Muslim personal law, when it was not applicable, is inscrutable.

#MadhyaPradesh #MadhyaPradeshHC #SpecialMarriageAct #MuslimPersonalLaw #InterfaithMarrriage #IndianMuslims #india

https://thewire.in/law/madhya-pradesh-high-court-special-marriage-act

Four years after facing an attack, Caravan staffers made the accused in FIR at Bhajanpura police station

On 11 August 2020, a mob assaulted three journalists working with The Caravan—Shahid Tantray, Prabhjit Singh and a woman journalist—in northeast Delhi’s Subhash Mohalla neighbourhood. The journalists were subjected to communal slurs and threatened with murder; the woman reporter was sexually harassed.

#delhi #bhajanpura #TheCaravan #DelhiPolice #BJP #SexualAssault #HinduMobs #hindutva #DelhiRiots #IndianMuslims #PressFreedom #media #india

https://caravanmagazine.in/media/four-years-after-facing-attack-caravan-staffers-made-accused-bhajanpura-police-station

Mob Lynching: Two Men Transporting Buffaloes Killed, One Severely Injured in Chattisgarh

Fourteen-fifteen people had attacked them, two of them were beaten to death and their bodies were thrown from the bridge onto the river bed, as per the third person who is critically injured.

#chhattisgarh #raipur #CowLynchings #CowVigilantism #IndianMuslims #HinduMobs #hindutva #india