Sufi establishments across India, the All India Ulama and Mashaikh Board (AIUMB), are set to organise the first ‘World Sufi Forum’ in New Delhi. The four-day event at Vigyan Bhawan on March 17, will be attended by more than 200 international dignitaries from 20 countries. The inaugural ceremony, organisers claim, will be attended and addressed [...]
March 2, 2016
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Archives, India
Kuala Lumpur: Nearly 7,000 in Malaysia have been wrongly documented as Muslims on their national identity cards, according to a group of NGOs in the Muslim-majority nation. The problem was widespread throughout Peninsular Malaysia and involved mostly practising Hindus from the lower income group who are documented as Muslims, Malaysia Hindu Sangam president Mohan Shan [...]
February 26, 2016
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Archives, Malaysia
Western colonialism did not die after the end of World War II when the West gave up its colonies. It merely changed to a more subtle form, which may prove more harmful to non-Western cultures in the long run.The expansion of Western culture has continued at an accelerated rate along with the denigration and decline [...]
February 19, 2016
Vamadev Shastri
Analysis/Insights, Archives, History, India
Hindu mother Deepa Subramaniam may have lost custody of her son to her Muslim convert ex-husband following the Federal Court decision on Wednesday, but for her, the battle is far from over. And she makes two other matters very clear: her children are Hindus and that Izwan Abdullah has no business advising her to embrace [...]
February 15, 2016
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Archives, Malaysia
Recent events have exposed a peculiar bunch of Europeans- they appear on face to be sincere students of Indic issues, but deep within are Hindu-haters. This group is dominated by people of Germanic origin, but also includes a range of other Europeans, their well-mixed American cousins, and Japanese and Lankan imitators. The list is a [...]
February 12, 2016
Guest Author
Analysis/Insights, Archives
I want to know as a responsible citizen, from Aamir Khan and Shahrukh Khan as well, why did they make such irresponsible statements and spoil the image of the 13 crores of Muslims in India? – Dr Sofiya Rangwala Amidst a fake atmosphere of intolerance being created in India, in the last one month, I owe [...]
November 29, 2015
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Archives, India
Both Sita Ram Goel and Vamadeva Shastri (David Frawley) have written a book called How I Became a Hindu. I could never write such a book because I have deliberately made a choice not to identify myself as Hindu. In this article I will explain “why I am not a Hindu”. Leaving Christianity Before starting [...]
December 13, 2014
Dr Koenraad Elst
Analysis/Insights, Archives
At an event they referred to as ‘homecoming’, activists of Bajrang Dal and Dharma Jagran Manch held a conversion ceremony of about 200 Muslims into Hinduism. As per reports, RSS regional head Rajeshwar Singh said that these people were formerly ‘Hindus’ who had converted to Islam and hence they were ‘brought back’ to Hinduism [...]
December 11, 2014
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Archives, HHR Videos
The Hindu girl was raped by three Pakistani men and threatened with death if she did not tell the court she had converted to Islam, but she stuck to her gun. “I am not Muslim. I am a Hindu. I want to go back with my parents,” teenager Marvi Kohli, who was kidnapped from Samaro [...]
December 5, 2014
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Archives, Pakistan
Some of the European women already in the ranks of the Islamic State are trying to lure their ‘sisters’ to the marriage beds of the caliphate’s holy warriors. BEIRUT, Lebanon — The self-proclaimed Islamic State, formerly known by the acronym ISIS, is actively recruiting Western women and girls. And in the process this “caliphate” that [...]