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A week of anti-minority hate that grips UP-Uttarakhand
Eight incidents across Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand between June 28 and July 5, 2026, ranging from hate speech and conspiracy rhetoric to forced religious sloganeering and vigilante violence targeted religious minorities. The recurring use of ‘jihad’ narratives, demographic anxieties, anti-conversion rhetoric, and vigilante enforcement illustrate a continuing pattern of communal polarisation and vigilantism.
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Who to blame for the ‘sar tan se juda’ fatwa?
Theological legitimacy for beheading the blasphemers comes from the Hanbali follower and pioneer of Salafism—Ibn Taymiyyah
Notice to Centre on plea to declare ‘Talaq-e-Kinaya’ and ‘Talaq-e-Bain’ unconstitutional: SC
The supreme court was hearing a plea filed by Karnataka-based Syeda Ambreen asserting that the practices are arbitrary, irrational and contrary to the fundamental rights to equality, non-discrimination, life and freedom to practice religion. In 2017, the SC had held talaaq-e-biddat to be ultra vires of fundamental freedoms
Prohibitory orders in some parts of Kolkata after communal violence on Sunday
The BJP, which is silent on violence in Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh during Navratri, claimed that several businesses and properties of Hindus in the area were damaged.
Three homes raised after conflict over Garba Pandal, five more Muslim families served eviction notices: MP
The Mandsaur district administration had allegedly already demolished three Muslim-owned homes, citing lack of 'building permission' as a reason for the demolitions.
Hardline Hindutva leaders give call to bear weapons, chop off hands, heads of minorities
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Open call for violence made at same VHP rally where Parvesh Verma called for economic boycott of a particular community
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Jharkhand: Muslim man allegedly killed for being in a relationship with a non-Muslim woman
11 people arrested so far, investigation underway
Hate speeches amplified by television, incited targeted violence against Muslims: CCR Report, Feb ‘20 Delhi riots
Looking at the build-up to the violence, as also the impact and fallout, 2 ½ years after the riots in North East Delhi in February 2020, a Citizens Inquiry Committee of retired judges and civil servants releases its report
Video of Gujarat cops flogging men arrested for ‘rioting’ surfaces, inquiry ordered
After first arresting only Muslims on Tuesday, October 4, members of the Gujarat police are reportedly caught on video taking law into their own hands and flogging Muslim youth
When Navratri’s joyous Garba dance becomes a garb for exclusion: Gujarat, MP
The extra constitutional moral policing by outfits like the Bajrang Dal(BD) and Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) all affiliates of the omnipresent Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) introduce violence and exclusion in the 9-day festival of dance
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