Hate Speech

‘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

International Day for Countering Hate Speech

Hate speech is on the rise in India, with the potential to incite violence, undermine social cohesion and tolerance, and cause psychological, emotional, and physical harm to those affected

Yati Narsinghanand under House Arrest after declaring intention to visit Delhi’s Jama Masjid

Serial Hate Offender Narsinghanand was supposed to visit Jama Masjid on Friday to show support for Nupur Sharma

Delhi HC dismisses Brinda Karat’s plea seeking FIR against BJP Leaders for alleged Hate Speech

Court rejected the plea filed against Anurag Thakur and Parvesh Verma for their 2020 hate speech

CJP moves NCM against Deepak Sharma for derogatory remarks against Allah online!

Sharma’s new Twitter account suspended for selectively reporting Muslims to the police for posting jokes on "Shivling" found in Gyanvapi mosque

Most troubling abuse of YouTube in India involves targeting of Muslims by backers of the BJP: NYU Stern Report

India with 450 million users is the platform’s biggest market, and content creators have been fuelling Islamophobia, finds the report

Ilyas Sharafuddin has a history of making anti-Hindu comments, yet he is invited repeatedly to TV news debates!

Channels allegedly invite him to Hindu-Muslim debates to get more TRPs, only to kick him out of the show as they pretend to be shocked by his anti-Hindu slurs

Complaint filed against Ilyas Sharafuddin for using inflammatory words against Hindu Gods

Muslim citizen from Thane seeks to file an FIR against Sharafuddin for trying to disturb communal harmony

Pooja Shakun Pandey, HMS has a long history of hate speech

From calling for arming of the majority population and mass killings to their stigmatisation, this serial offender has even re-created the assassination of Gandhi, online

Selectively targeted says journalist Saba Naqvi, named in Hate Speech FIR

"I am committed to the secular and liberal ethos of India and stand against any fundamentalism, hate speech and injustice," Saba Naqvi said

UP: Media adds communal tone to Kanpur Qazi’s words

In second statement, the Qazi clarifies that he was only speaking for those wrongly arrested by the police

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