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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.

Muslims will follow all lockdown protocol during Ramzan: Mufti of Varanasi

Maulana Abdul Batin Nomani, Shahr-Mufti Benaras, urges member of India’s vibrant Muslim community to maintain peace and respect the law of the land

It took influential Arab anger to make India notice hate speech

Threat of a diplomatic crisis draws a few words of wisdom, that were missing when anti-Muslim hate spread faster than the Coronavirus, in India.

Muslim minds at the front of disease control in India

An AMU alumnus has developed India’s first Covid-19 testing kit, while Cipla and Wockhardt, both founded by Muslims are developing drugs to combat multiple diseases ailing the country’s citizens

BJP members target Tablighi Jamaat for spread of coronavirus

Indulging in hate mongering, while MLA asked members of his constituency to stay away from the Tablighi Jamaat sect and community, the other said that Jamaatis were the number one problem of the country

Tablighi Jamaat member issues legal notices to media houses for defamation

The notice has been issued to IANS and 3 others for publishing article which suggest that the Jamaat has terror links

After warning, Meerut hospital apologizes for discriminating patients on the basis of religion

The hospital had put out an ad saying it would only admit Muslim patients if they brought a certificate saying they were tested negative for Covid-19

FIR against 4 for attending Tablighi Jamaat

The FIR was filed after the Tablighi Jamaat incident came to light in early April

Science, not Islam, is teaching Muslims how to deal with the coronavirus

Image Courtesy:aljazeera.comReligion, Marx argued was the ‘heart of a...

AAMSU raises concerns about communal FT member with Home Secretary

After calling Muslims “jehadi” and “jahil” in official communication, the FT member gives religion-wise break up of people not declared foreigners

Covid-19: What is India going to do about the Racism and Communalism epidemic that plagues it?

People from the minority communities are being targeted and treated as second class citizens amidst the pandemic

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