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The West as Enigma: Why Muslims Must Understand the Occident on Its Own Terms
The ideas of Shariati, Mawdudi, Qutb, and Nadwi provide important critiques of Western materialism, imperialism, and secularism, but remain largely reactive in their approach.
Adv Mehmood Pracha’s Office raid: Court summons IO for video footage
Mehmood Pracha moved the Patiala House Court for preservation of the video footage taken during the raid and for continuous monitoring
UP: 3 arrested for alleged attempt to forceful conversion to Christianity
The Police have claimed that the three men were conducting a prayer at the house of one Tribhuvan Yadav for this purpose
Inter faith unions: Lawlessness widespread in Uttar Pradesh
A lawyer who helped an inter faith couple to get married, has now alleged harassment by the UP Police. The conduct of the Police starkly juxtaposes with what constitutional courts have opined.
Delhi HC asked medical panel to re-examine two victims of the NE Delhi riots
Mohammad Imran, and Shokat Ali, both seriously injured, did not get proper MLC, nor adequate compensation
Booklet on Modi’s “special relationship” with Sikhs misleading
It allegedly tries to hide some facts about 1984 Genocide
Allahabad HC protects man booked under UP ‘love jihad’ law
The court has upheld the Right to Privacy and choice of two adults, noting that the allegations prime facie is based on mere suspicions
Will a vile electronic media pay for vilification of the Tablighi Jamaat?
In this second part of a to-part series SabrangIndia traces how media coverage reinvigorated Islamophobia
Clean chit to Tablighi Jamaat, too little, too late?
Part-one of this two-part series traces how courts have ruled against hate. But with the incessant vilification, perhaps the damage has already been done.
Latehar lynching case: Jharkhand HC dismissed plea for convict’s suspension of sentence
Awadhesh Sao had been convicted in the lynching of a cattle trader and an 11-year-old boy
Supreme Court upholds Allahabad HC’s order quashing Dr. Kafeel Khan’s detention
The doctor's release order under NSA was challenged by the Uttar Pradesh government on October 26, 2020
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Supreme Court seeks senior Delhi Police officer’s presence over alleged assault on women journalists; NWMI seeks binding safeguards
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