The outgoing Vice President also added that a sense of insecurity is creeping in among the Muslims in the country against the current backdrop of “intolerance” and “vigilante violence”.
Participating in a Lok Sabha debate on lynchings, BJP MP Hukumdev Narayan Yadav claimed that majority of Muslims in India are descendants of Hindus.
A group of 114 veterans of the Indian Armed Forces have written an open letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, condemning the targeting of Muslims and Dalits in the country and a “clampdown” on freedom of speech
“There is a group of terrorists and they raise slogans in the name of Islam. But they are not Muslims as they are killing (innocent people). They kill women and children. This is not true Islam,” al-Jaafari said
About 48 per cent of respondents admitted that they have experienced at least one incident of discrimination in the past 12 months, which was up from 40 per cent in 2007
Wednesday’s prayers came a day after Israel seemingly capitulated to the demands of protesters.
Muslims are the "educationally most disadvantaged community" among the minorities, a panel formed by a government-funded agency has said.
According to a draft of President Donald Trump's speech to Muslims, he will call for Muslim unity in the fight against terrorism.
Islamophobic incidents involving US Customs and Border Protection officials have risen by about 1,000 per cent since President Donald Trump took office in January, a Muslim activist group said.
Ravi Shankar Prasad acknowledged that Muslims do not exercise their franchise in favour of the BJP, but this didn’t mean that the ‘government victimised them’.
Vice-President Hamid Ansari's wife Salma Ansari has said that uttering 'talaq' thrice does not amount to divorce and asked Muslim women to read the Quran thoroughly instead of relying on clerics.
Posters in Hindi put up at over two dozen locations in Jianagla, 70 km from Bareily, have called for the Muslim residents to “leave immediately”.
Close on the heels of the killing of an Indian in a shooting incident at a Kansas bar, another hate crime incident has been reported from the US, this time targeted at the Muslim community.
After Rajnath Singh, two more Union Ministers have said that BJP should have given tickets to Muslims for the ongoing Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls.
BSP supremo Mayawati today warned the community that any split in their votes would benefit the BJP in upcoming Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh.
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