islamic extremism

 Last year violence broke out near a Mosque in Bommanhalli, Bengaluru and what was being termed as minor tiff was in fact a case of some youth trying to impose the Wahabi preachings. When the seniors in the administration of the Mosque opposed these youth, there were clashes in which 4 persons were injured seriously. [...]

Islamabad: Hindus in Pakistan are the worst victims of rape, says a report by an independent American group. In the past 18 months, seven incidents of Hindu girls being raped were reported, says the study by the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF). Not only this, two Hindus were killed and four injured in 16 [...]

ISLAMABAD: Text books in Pakistani schools foster prejudice and intolerance of Hindus and other religious minorities, while most teachers view non-Muslims as ”enemies of Islam,” according to a study by a US government commission released on Wednesday. The findings indicate how deeply ingrained hard-line Islam is in Pakistan and help explain why militancy is often [...]

Hindu school teacher gives her son an Arabic name to avoid persecution KARACHI: Thirty-two year old school teacher, a Hindu widow Shanti Kumari named her second son Zafar when class fellows and friends of her elder son Prakash Kumar kept asking every time about Hindu gods and goddesses, they saw in Indian films. “I never [...]

In a matter of a few 100 years, between the accounts of traveller Alberuni and Mirza Haider, Kashmir became a changed land Reacting to a recent dress code diktat issued by the Jamaat-e-Islami in Kashmir, BJP leader and the Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley called for the Jamaat to be [...]