As Nahdlatul Ulama, the largest Muslim organisation in Indonesia and the world has called for a ban on the term ‘kafir' which literally means “disbeliever” or “infidel” and is considered by some to be carrying derogatory or discriminatory connotations to describe non-Muslims which also leads to violence against them by some far-right Islamists. The word [...]
Community concern is growing after an eight year old Punjab boy was imprisoned for a week over allegations of blasphemy. Outdated Colonial Era laws written by the British rulers were recrafted by Pakistan to exclude protections to Ahmadis and ‘Islamicise them’. Pakistan has a long standing history of persecuting minorities, including Hindu, Christians, Balochis, Sikhs [...]