Tag: Indian Muslims
Indian Americans condemn FM Sitharaman’s denial of Muslim persecution, seeks retraction
Washington, DC: The Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC) strongly condemns and vehemently refutes India’s Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s claim that Muslims are not being subjected to...
India Must Punish Incitement To Genocide: Gregory Stanton
Washington, DC: The Indian Government has a duty under the Genocide Convention to immediately punish those who have called for a genocide of India’s...
Global Coalition To Hold Conference to Prevent Genocide in India
Kolkata: In December 2020 first major genocide call against Indian Muslims was given by right-wing Hindutva leaders and religious figures in Haridwar. While attacks...
India is at high risk – number two in the world – for a genocide
Washington, DC: Experts from Amnesty International USA and Genocide Watch, leading global human rights watchdogs, have said Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Islamophobic policies...
Cryptocurrencies are not Islamic, a new directive tells Indian Muslims
After its confrontation with the government over instant triple talaq, polygamy, nikah-e-halala and informal sharia courts, the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) is...
Bengaluru to Bengal: digital media-triggered communal flare ups follow a sinister pattern
With the advent of religious right wing BJP at the central power in 2014 as well as many states, communal violence in India now follows a familiar pattern. On-street provocations and rampages by Hindutva forces as happened in East Delhi early this year notwithstanding, smart-phones and online social media platforms like Facebook and Whatsapp have become the major instruments for sustained hate campaigns against Islam and its followers as well as for street mobilizations of lynch-mobs and rioters, often remotely controlled as it was evident in countless incidents from UP to Jharkhand. Muslim violence in response to digital incitement, though still sporadic, also uses the cyber communication for counter-mobilization as incidents of recent mob frenzy in Bengaluru as well as earlier mayhem in Bengal’s Baduria-Basirhat have underlined. The first of the two-parts article exposes the murderous political game that has turned a section of our tech-savvy but culturally ignorant youth into the digital force multiplier as well as foot soldiers for these merchants of death. The virtual collaboration of the Facebook authority with the Hindutva regime has made the design more sinister.