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Eid Milad 2026: Processions, clashes and the politics of communal provocation across India

From Mumbai’s Parel-Chinchpokli belt to Bengaluru and Rajasthan, August 26 saw a series of confrontations, disputes and allegations of provocation around Eid-e-Milad processions

“Pour petrol on his house, not water”: Pakistani mullah incites death on Ahmadi Muslims

In another major escalation of anti-Ahmadiyya sentiment in Pakistan, a radical religious cleric "Syed Mohammad Sibtian Shah Naqvi of Sarghoda", with a significant social media following, has called for a total boycott of Ahmadi Muslims.

Graves desecrated in Mumbai’s Mahim church, FIR filed

Over a dozen graves desecrated in Mahim’s St. Michael’s church even as BMC withdraws notices to vacate the 115 year-old Bandra cemetry

CJP moves NCM, writes to DGP Maharashtra against notorious hate offender Kalicharan

In his inflammatory speech, Kalicharan had asserted that "Love-Jihad" may be cured by ingesting water that has had a wild boar tooth left in it overnight.

Muslim man thrashed for ‘walking with Hindu girl’: Karnataka

The Hindustan Times reports that, according to the police, the youth Afeed (20), from Kallugundi near Sullia, came with the minor girl to Kukke Subramanya temple on Thursday.

Complaint filed with Times Now against ‘Ram Mandir’ show

During the debate, the speakers abused each other and even got into a scuffle, yet the debate continued

Stop demolition of over 4,000 Muslim-owned homes in Uttarakhand: Indian Americans Muslim diaspora to SC 

IAMC has also condemned the planned mass demolition of thousands of Muslim-owned homes and questioned the judgement of the Uttarakhand government allowing these demolitions 

‘Love Jihad’ the priority, not ‘small issues like roads, drains: BJP Karnataka Naleen Kumar Kateel

Tweeting a video of Kateel's hate-ridden speech, the Karnataka Congress posted from its handle on Monday (translated from Kanadda) “...Development of the state, employment and education are minor issues! It's shameful that BJP has asked its party workers not to talk about development, of which it has done little."

SC refuses to stay MP High Court order restraining coercive action under anti-conversion law

The High Court has barred the state government from using coercion against anyone who fails to intimate the DM before conversion

450 Adivasi church-goers faced boycott, violence in December says Chhattisgarh Bachao Andolan report

The report also points towards police apathy who did not take any action despite earlier reports of intimidation and open calls for violence by BJP-RSS backed Janjaati Suraksha Manch

K’taka: Muslim graveyard vandalized, over 100 tombstones razed

The culprits have not yet been identified, the police has begun inquiry in the matter

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