If there is one reality that drives home the point that freedom-loving, liberal secular, ordinary Muslims are the first victims of the orthodox, ossified, political Islamism – it is honour killing. Unfortunately, in India, it devours the non-Muslims too in its brutality – the ones who dared to challenge the ‘honour’ of the Muslim ummah […]

I can start with my experience. As the movie hit the screens, it became clear over the weeks that it was a huge hit, joining the 100 crore club. The conversations have started in marketplaces, staff rooms, corridors, water points, buses, train compartments, metro stations, meat shops, food courts, and even the original under-the-banyan-tree choupal […]

I have grown up reading Holocaust literature, eventually teaching ‘The Diary of Anne Frank’ to my batches year after year. It instilled a lot of perspective in me from a very early age, keeping a stoic attitude towards life’s hammer blows being a good way to survive, and believe me, living in a Muslim culture, […]

Those liberals of Muslim or non-Muslim heritage who are supporting the enforcement of hijab in Muslim culture as freedom of choice, and a tool of empowerment need to understand the moment when, girls, just about to step into puberty or years away from it are told to cover up. For the girls, it is a […]

In Kashmir, the hijab or the veil was enforced in the 1990s as part of the Islamo-fascist insurgency sprouting in every nook and corner of the Valley punctuated with bomb blasts, grenade attacks, shootouts between security forces and strike calls by secessionist leaders, with civilian killings and targeted assassinations. In the lull between violent incidents, […]

The Inquilabi Leftist cabal doesn’t let up. Social media campaigns, Islamist-leaning news portals and media houses publish reams and reams on how the Indian Muslims are oppressed, how the current government is hell-bent on the genocide of Muslims, how Islam is in danger of being wiped out, and so on and so forth. Incidents such […]

Indian Muslims are often accused of following the wrong kind of Muslims for the wrong reasons. For example, Maududi, Sir Syed Ahmed Khan acclaimed as a modern reformist while having regressive opinions by modern-day standards, Dawood the most wanted, the Memon brothers because their charity zombified the population against their crimes, Afzal Guru and the […]

As an Indian Muslim of Kashmiri heritage, I get asked this a lot – what do Indian Muslims think of India, why do they not assimilate, why do they feel alienated; why do they have ghettos and siege mentality? Over the years I have tried to answer these questions as best as I could – […]

J&K Waqf Board plans to appoint degree holders as Imams