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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

Slain teacher martyr for Freedom of Expression: French Imam

Hassen Chalghoumi, Imam of a Parisian mosque was paying homage to a teacher who was beheaded for showing a picture of Prophet Mohammed last week

Against the country’s secular structure: Court denies bail to man accused of damaging Masjid

Considering the gravity of allegations, large-scale involvement of the applicant in the North East Delhi riots, court do not find it to be a fit case for grant of bail

No ‘Muslim regiment’ in the first place: Former civil servants seek investigation into fake news

Group of former civil servants of the All India and Central Services, pen an open letter, backing army vertans' call for investigations into hate campaign against Muslim soldiers

The False Binary of the Secular versus Islamic Needs to Be Broken

If the French continue with their existing state policies and Muslims continue to let antiquated viewpoints go unchallenged, there will emerge no winners from such a clash of positions.

Your grave will be dug here: Hindutva mob threatens Kashmiri lawyer Deepika Singh Rajawant

Death threats, mobbing, online trolling are now leading to real violence against women, activists, lawyers, journalists in J&K, and elsewhere

Paris beheading: The genesis of such hate crimes

Like fascists and nazis, Islamists believe their superiority grants them the right and the duty to physically eliminate the untermensch (the sub-humans)

Ghaziabad: BJP MLA forcibly closes meat shops

Nandkishore Gurjar also accused of physically assaulting businessmen

Krishna Janmabhoomi case: Mathura district court admits plea against Shahi Idgah

Recently a civil court had dismissed the plea seeking removal of the 16th century mosque adjascent to the Krishna temple

Serious inaccuracy in police account of those killed in Delhi violence: Brinda Karat

The CPI (M) Polit Bureau Member alerts Police Commissioner SN Srivastava about inaccuracies

The ‘Muslim Regiment’ post is false and dangerous. Do not believe it

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