Veil is anti-Quran
As Muslims are facing increased threat in several countries, like the unending public lynching and the recent open call for genocide by the Hindutwa militia in India, some sections of…
Hijab
Hijab Ban: The face of discrimination
Over a Lakh Muslim Girls in Karnataka Pay for Anti-Muslim Agenda In the current session of parliament, CPI(M) leader John Brittas claimed that "more than a lakh Muslim girls backed…
Hijab controversy: No wonder women are always on the receiving end
Of late, opinions regarding the practice of Islamic women wearing hijab have run riot. However, the peak of controversies has been the non-western countries of India and Iran. It has…
Supreme Court Must Stay Karnataka HC Verdict Which Will Result In Exclusion Of Hijab wearing Muslim Girls From Accessing Education
The Karnataka High Court in its order has held that wearing of hijab is not essential to the practice of Islam; that College Development Committees (CDCs) have a right to…
Our India: Either We keep it or it will be Stolen from Us
Our Generation’s Challenge. Our generational challenge is out in the open. The events set in motion from the videos humiliating Muslims[1] in Hindi Belt last summer to Haridwar Dharma Sansads[2]…
Hijab ban: Multiple Dimensions
The raging controversy around Hijab is taking disturbing proportions. In Udupi Karnataka Muslim girls alleged that they were denied entry in to the classroom if they wear Hijab. Then we…
Right to Education, Diversities and Public Institutions
Just a few days back, an incident took place around the wearing of hijab by Muskan Khan. It has created huge controversies, leading to a deeply polarized situation in the…
Islamophobia is taking its most lethal form in India: Noam Chomsky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRrPBvWQmq4 Celebrated thinker Noam Chomsky said the “pathology of Islamophobia”, now growing throughout the West, was “taking its most lethal form in India where the Modi government is systematically dismantling…
A Feminist Perspective on Karnataka’s Hijab Row
In an order that legitimizes the decision of state education institutions to prohibit Muslim girl students from wearing the hijab (headscarf), the Karnataka government said on February 5, 2021, that…
Karnataka hijab row: Will the Supreme Court act
The incidents happening in the southern part of Karnataka are deeply distressing and need to be resolved at the earliest. Unfortunately, rather than resolving the issue the current regime wanted…
A salute to Muslim sisters from Karnataka
Mukul Kesavan recently wrote that ‘a Muslim citizen’s default state is a state of culpability’. He cannot be more right than that. What has transpired in recent past, and continues…
Veil is anti-Quran
As Muslims are facing increased threat in several countries, like the unending public lynching and the recent open call for genocide by the Hindutwa militia in India, some sections of…
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