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Maulana Arshad Madani, principal of Islamic seminary Darul Uloom Deoband, has praised Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a hardline Hindu organisation. He believes the RSS is changing its old ”ideology” and coming to the right path. He welcomed Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat’s remarks, in which he has said that Hindus and Muslims share ancestry in India. ”I like his comment very much. I think the RSS is changing its old ideology and following the right path,” he said while speaking to Dainik Bhaskar. Madani seems to be ignorant to ongoing atrocities being committed against Muslims across India as a result of anti-Islam propaganda furthered by RSS leaders. He also appears to have overlooked the written agendas of the RSS, in which Muslims, Christians and communists have been declared as en...

On Monday, the Uttar Pradesh police said that a minor, a 15-year-old, girl from a village in Ballia district in Uttar Pradesh got pregnant after she was allegedly abducted and raped. The police has said that the accused had kidnapped the minor girl in July with the help of his father, uncle, brother and took her to Delhi, adding that she was raped many times. Some days ago, the family members of the accused, dropped her home and threatened to kill her in case she tells anyone about being raped, according to the complaint filed by her mother. Her mother has filed a complaint with the police after the girl got pregnant. A case was registered against the accused, his father, uncle, and brother on Monday, under the relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code and the Protection Of Child...

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has not only shown support to the Kerala bishop's remarks on alleged 'Narco Jihad' against non-muslims, they have even asked the Union government to frame a law on the matter. The Kerala unit of the BJP wrote to Union home minister Amit Shah, asking the government "to prevent jihadi activities" and to provide protection to Palai bishop Joseph Kallarangatt and the Christian community," the Indian Express reported. “The intervention by Bishop, His excellency Joseph Kallarangatt of Pala, Kerala during sacred worship is not just a wakeup call for his dioceses, it is the voice of the community who are victims of love jihad and the fallout of narco-terrorism. The cases of love jihad and drug abuse victims are ramping up,” BJP spokesperson Tom Vadakkan said....

On Monday, a petition was filed before a court in Bihar's Muzaffarpur against the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath over his controversial "Abba Jaan" that he made in a speech yesterday.buy Nootropil generic buybloinfo.com over the counter Tamanna Hashmi, a local social activist, filed the petition before the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Muzaffarpur. Tamanna is a social activist. She alleges that Yogi's remarks have insulted the Muslim community. On Sunday, in an event at Uttar Pradesh’s Khushinagar, while addressing a crowd, Yogi Adityanath targeted the Muslim community by saying that those who used to say “Abba Jaan” were digesting the ration before 2017. “Under PM Modi’s leadership, there is no place for appeasement politics… Before 2017 was everyone able to ...

On Sunday, in an event at Uttar Pradesh's Khushinagar, while addressing a crowd, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath targeted the Muslim community by saying that those who used to say "Abba Jaan" were digesting the ration before 2017. "Under PM Modi's leadership, there is no place for appeasement politics... Before 2017 was everyone able to get ration? Only those who used to say 'Abba Jaan' were digesting the ration," Adityanath said. By mentioning the term "Abba Jaan," Yogi not only aimed at the Muslim community, some believe, but also aimed it at his rival Akhilesh Yadav, the former C.M. Mulayam Singh Yadav's son. Reportedly, the last month, Yogi in the U.P. assembly hit out at what he termed as the promotion of vaccine hesitancy by the opposition, by saying that some only took the j...

On Saturday, the prominent Muslim journalist and a vocal critic of the BJP led central government, Rana Ayyub responding to the FIR filed against her by the Hindu IT Cell for collecting donations "fraudulently" for her Covid-19 relief work, took to social media to announce that no amount of hate or propaganda could stop her from pursuing her profession with honesty. "The Hindu IT Cell has lodged a malicious and baseless FIR against me in Uttar Pradesh, alleging that I have fraudulently taken donations on Ketto for Covid relief work," said Rana. She added that she has been defamed, trolled and abused online on the basis of the particular allegation. She said that none of the money received in the donation was misused. "For the record, I wish to inform everyone that the entire donat...

On Friday, in what was a fascinating exchange occured between the Bench and counsel during the hearing of Khalid Saifi, one of the accused in connection to the February 2020 Delhi communal violence, Bar and Bench reported. In a Delhi court, during the hearing, Saifi addressed the Court of Additional Sessions Judge Amitabh Rawat directly and said, "if using Assalam-o-Alaikum is against the law, then he should stop using it." This statement from Khalid comes after the prosecution's argument in Sharjeel Imam's case. On September 1, the prosecution submitted that the fact that Imam while protesting against the Citizenship Amendment Act began one of his speeches with 'Assalam-o-alaikum' depicted that the speech was addressed to a particular community and not the the public at large. ...

On Wednesday, Joseph Kallarangatt, a bishop of the Palai diocese of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church claimed that the "narcotic jihad is the activity of spoiling the life of non-Muslims, particularly youths, by making them addicted to drugs." His claims were met with criticism from the C.M. and the Congress. “Various types of drugs are being used in ice-cream parlours, hotels and juice corners run by hardcore jihadis. They are using various types of drugs as a weapon to spoil non-Muslims," he said. While he was speaking at Marth Mariam Pilgrim Church in Kottayam district, he also made a reference to “love jihad” – a conspiracy theory that had so far widely been espoused by Hindutva activists, according to which Hindu women are forcibly converted by Muslims through marriage. Althou...

Ashwani Sharma, a truck driver from Sial Sallan village of Udhampur, Jammu Kashmir was allegedly almost killed two times by his father and aunt for marrying outside their caste, as per a report by The Wire. Ashwani Sharma belongs to an ‘upper caste’ Brahmin community married to Lakshmi Devi in 2009 who is from the Dalit community. Due to the wrath of Sharma’s father and paternal aunt, the couple has been living in a single, shabby rented room with their 2 children in Sial Sallan village in Udhampur the only accommodation they can afford since January. Despite the fact that the couple has been living together for more than a decade now, Ashwani’s family continues to reject Lakshmi and threaten Ashwani, making him bear consequences for remaining with her. According to the couple,...