Hate Speech

Nazia Elahi Khan faces multiple FIRs over alleged hate speech

A viral podcast featuring alleged derogatory remarks about Prophet Muhammad has placed Nazia Elahi Khan at the centre of nationwide controversy, triggering multiple FIRs, police complaints and protests across several states. The episode has also renewed scrutiny of her record of alleged communal hate speech through speeches, campaigns and online interventions

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

Who’s Who in BJP’s List of Hate Offenders, 38 in all, 27 elected officials

India’s most dominant party, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), in a long overdue exercise, has used ‘IT experts’ to track hate offenders in its midst

Hate Offender Swami Jitendranand calls for lynching of pregnant women, CJP moves NCM

Swami claims every ‘cow killer’ or anti-national should fall out of a ripped womb of Muslim women

UP: Hindu Mahasabha’s Pooja Pandey given police notice for hate speech

UP’s Aligarh second place to report unrest due to hate-filled speech after Kanpur

Assam Hindutva leader Satya Ranjan Borah demands cow protection, mosque surveys and religious education in schools

The serial Hate Offender made all these demands at a recent public press conference

BJP dumps spokesperson Nupur Sharma, Naveen K. Jindal in damage control move

Action comes after outrage from Gulf nations, days after Sharma Jindal made derogatory remarks about the Prophet

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