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‘Free the Temple’, ‘Protect the Faith’, ‘Take Up Weapons’: How September’s festivals became stages for anti-Muslim hate

From contested places of worship to demographic fearmongering, a series of speeches used Hindu religious identity to construct Muslims as an existential threat and recast exclusion as religious defence

Targeting Christian community not a new phenomenon in Karnataka: PUCL report  

Report traces history and evolution of Hate Crimes against Christians in the state where right-wing vigilantes are given a virtual carte blance to unleash violence and terror upon minorities

Gujarat: Why was a Christian ashram accused of conversion even after enquiry found nothing amiss?

An FIR was lodged in this regard under the Gujarat Freedom of Religion Act at Makarpura police station based on a complaint by District Social Defence Officer Mayank Trivedi

Hate Watch: Did VHP head call Indian Muslims “4th stage cancer”?

Ravindra Narayan Singh said Partition was a ‘cancer’ now in its ‘fourth stage’ adding there was ‘no such thing as Ganga-Jamuni tahzeeb’

Carry swords to protect cows: Sadhvi Saraswati

The VHP leader's bizarre advice to Hindus in Karnataka follows Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai's announcement that the BJP will bring laws “that are good for the people and in the larger interest of society”

Karnataka’s Right-Wing groups most active against Christians ahead of State Assembly meet 

Right wing mob sets Christian books ablaze in Kolar, in Belagavi man enters church armed with a machete; Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai hints that draft “anti-conversion bill” may be approved by cabinet

Gurugram: Why are Namaz disruptions on the rise?

It's Friday, and reports are already trickling in of Namaz disruptions; all eyes are on the Gurugram administration to take necessary action

History must be accepted as a whole; temple restoration plea in Qutub Minar complex rejected

The civil court in Delhi rejected the petition while holding that Qutub Minar was a protected monument and its character cannot be changed

Guj HC raps AMC for prohibiting sale of non-veg food on streets

About 20 Ahmedabad street vendors approached the high court as their vending stalls, apparatus, raw material was all vandalised by the municipal authority

Rohingyas sue Facebook for $150 billion over failing to police communal hate speech

A class-action complaint was filed in California and in a coordinated action, British lawyers also submitted a letter of notice to Facebook's London office

Zakia Jafri SLP: Petitioners conclude arguments

On the final day of the hearing, the petitioners brought before the court all the material that required investigation and which was ignored by the SIT in filing its closure report

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