A Hindu family say they are afraid to leave their home after being subjected to what they believe to be hate crime motivated by their race and religion. Radhika Kulkarni and husband Ramana Nagumalli, from India, captured doorbell camera footage of youths kicking their front door, and calling them “kafir”, an offensive term used to [...]
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 Outdated Colonial Era laws written by the British rulers were recrafted by Pakistan to exclude protections to Ahmadis and ‘Islamicise them’.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 [...]