カテゴリー: Islam
Bill will allow refugees from nearby states to become Indian but not if they are MuslimsIndian lawmakers have approved legislation granting citizenship to migrants from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan – but not if they are Muslim. Critics of the g…
Region crippled by general strike over legislation making it easier for some other refugees to stay in countryProtesters in north-east India have set fire to tyres and cut down trees to block roads in a shutdown across the region hours after lawmakers …
Feroz Khan flees after Hindu nationalist group says: ‘A Muslim cannot teach us our religion’A Muslim scholar of Sanskrit has gone into hiding after protests from some rightwing Hindu students claiming that, as a Muslim, he cannot teach Sanskrit, the an…
Marise Payne repeats calls for China to end arbitrary detention after internal documents reveal Xi Jinping’s call to ‘show no mercy’ in XinjiangAustralia’s foreign affairs minister has labelled new details of China’s mass internment of Uighurs “disturb…
Voters choose a new president this weekend on the Indian Ocean island. If they opt for the Rajapaksa family it augurs badlyThere are worse things than disappointment, as Sri Lankans may find out when they go to the polls on Saturday. The 2015 president…
Voters choose a new president this weekend on the Indian Ocean island. If they opt for the Rajapaksa family it augurs badlyThere are worse things than disappointment, as Sri Lankans may find out when they go to the polls on Saturday. The 2015 president…
Supreme court says five acres where mosque was torn down in 1992 should become site of Hindu temple, with Muslims given other landThe Indian supreme court has ruled that India’s most hotly contested piece of religious land rightfully belongs to Hindus,…
Supreme court says five acres where mosque was torn down in 1992 should become site of Hindu temple, with Muslims given other landThe Indian supreme court has ruled that India’s most hotly contested piece of religious land rightfully belongs to Hindus,…
Supreme court decides fates of holy site where mosque was torn down by Hindu hardliners in 1992India’s supreme court has ruled on the disputed religious site of Ayodhya – deciding the case in favour of Hindus, with alternate land to be provided for Mus…
Narendra Modi’s nationalist takeover runs roughshod over Kashmir’s special status and its people’s rightsI haven’t been able to hear the voices of my parents for more than a week now. We usually talk or exchange messages a few times during the day, mos…
A reluctance to offend China and an information blackout has meant the persecution of the ethnic minority has gone under the radar. But pressure for change is building On Wednesday, Sadam Abdusalam went to Australia’s federal Parliament House for the …