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Sunday Reading –Shah Rukh Khan, Islamophobia and a message for Bollywood

at www.sify.com Shah Rukh Khan‘s two-hour detention at a US airport may not be as random as US authorities claim, says Satyen K Bordoloi as he profiles Islamophobia and its roots in cinema. (With invaluable inputs from Monica Wahi and Shama Zaidi)… Continue Reading →

Female circumcision anger aired in India #FGM

By Rupam Jain Nair | AFP – Tue, Apr 24, 2012  AFP A Muslim woman from the Bohra community … Ashgar Ali Engineer, a Bohra Muslim … Eleven years ago, Farida Bano was circumcised by an aunt on a bunk bed in her family home at the end of her 10th… Continue Reading →

Pakistani human rights activist asks govt to reveal identities of Indian Prisoners of War

Yudhvir Rana, TNN | Apr 23, 2012, 07.03PM IST AMRITSAR: Pakistan’s former Federal Minister for Human Rights, Ansar Burney has asked Pakistan to reveal the identities of Indian Prisoners of War (PoW) who had died in its custody. The Human Rights Activist has argued… Continue Reading →

Death threats over free speech

BY TAREK FATAH FIRST POSTED: TUESDAY, APRIL 17,Toronto Sun Earlier this week, the Kuwaiti parliament voted to institute the death penalty against any Muslim who is judged by Islamic clerics to have insulted God. As medieval as this may sound to the… Continue Reading →

SIT clean chit is wrong. DGP told me Modi said let Muslims die. – Sreekumar

By R. B. Sreekumar, Former DGP, Gujarat  Newzfirst,  April 17, 2012 On April 11, a metropolitan magistrate in Ahmedabad disclosed that a Special Investigative Team (SIT) set up by the Supreme Court has found no evidence that on the night… Continue Reading →

Status of the Implementation of Sachar Committee Recommendations for Social, Economic and Educational Development of Muslim Community

Backgrounder: The Government took decisions on the recommendations of the Sachar Committee (Prime Minister’s High Level Committee on Social, Economic and Educational status of the Muslim Community of India) pertaining to various Ministries/Departments. The status of implementation of the decisions… Continue Reading →

Indian court finds Gujarat rioters guilty of killings

BBC  News- 9th April A court in India has found 23 people guilty of killing Muslims in religious riots in Gujarat state 10 years ago. Twenty-three other defendants were acquitted and one other died during the trial. Most of the… Continue Reading →

Victory to the Cause of Muslim Womens Rights under PWDVA and MWA

By-  Majlis It has been an uphill task for us to  convince the magistrates that a divorced Muslim woman is not excluded from the ambit of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 (PWDVA). Each time we file… Continue Reading →

MUSLIM DIVORCE IN INDIA: Board to Divorce “Triple Talaq”

In what may come as a big relief to the Muslim women, their husbands would not be able to get rid of their wives in future by simply reciting talaaq, talaaq, talaaq. The All-India Muslim Personal Law Board is set… Continue Reading →

Kashmir Christians voice Islamic court fear

Cathnews, January 23, 2012 Christian leaders in Kashmir say they are worried following recent directives from an Islamic court ordering the expulsion of four missioners and demanding Christian schools provide Islamic studies for all students. Catholic Bishop Peter Celestine Elampassery… Continue Reading →

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