カテゴリー: Islam
Different faiths were once able to celebrate together in Karnataka. Now Hindu vigilante groups are targeting those who don’t share their beliefsFor 800 years, Bappanadu Sri Durgaparameshwari temple had stood as a symbol of India’s cohesive religious pa…
Sadai Banowan violated ‘laws and regulations of the Islamic emirate’, says local Taliban officialA female-run radio station in Afghanistan’s north-east has been shut down for playing music during the holy month of Ramadan, a Taliban official said.Sadai…
Matiullah Wesa, head of Pen Path, beaten and arrested outside a mosque after prayersThe founder of a project that campaigned for girls’ education in Afghanistan has been detained by Taliban authorities in Kabul, his brother and the UN have said.The Tal…
Nisar Ahmed was almost killed in the Delhi riots. But when he became a witness in court cases against the alleged perpetrators, he realised that was only the start of his troublesArchive: The Guardian Continue reading…
Nisar Ahmed was almost killed in the Delhi riots. But when he became a witness in court cases against the alleged perpetrators, he realised that was only the start of his troublesThis is how Nisar Ahmed remembers it. On 24 February 2020, at about three…
‘India: the Modi Question’, examining 2002 sectarian riots, comes at sensitive time for prime minister• BBC offices in India raidedA BBC documentary on the Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi’s, actions during deadly sectarian riots in 2002 continues…
Demonstrators gathered in Westminster after reports Erkin Tuniyaz was to meet UK officialsIain Duncan Smith has accused the Chinese governor of Xinjiang of murder as he joined Uyghur activists protesting against his reported visit to Britain.Demonstrat…
Killing is latest in string of mob attacks against people accused of blasphemy in Muslim-majority south Asian countryA mob in eastern Pakistan stormed a police station on Saturday and snatched a Muslim man accused of blasphemy from police custody and l…
Exclusive: Erkin Tuniyaz ‘played central role’ in persecution of Uyghurs, says inter-parliamentary alliance on ChinaThe Foreign Office has shocked cross-party opponents of the Chinese treatment of Uyghur groups by revealing that it has asked the Xinjia…
The Indian prime minister’s attempts to suppress a critical BBC documentary show how sensitive he is to his international reputationThe clue to the Indian government’s thin-skinned response to the BBC’s two-part documentary, India: The Modi Question, i…
We are raiding the Audio Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authorsThis week, from 2019: Smartphones and the internet gave the Uighurs a sense of their own identity – but now the Chinese…
Report finds stock indexes provided by MSCI include companies using forced labour or constructing surveillance state in XinjiangMany of the world’s largest asset managers and state pension funds are passively investing in companies that have allegedly …
Public executions and amputations some of the punishments for crimes including adultery and theftAfghanistan’s supreme leader has ordered judges to fully implement aspects of Islamic law that include public executions, stonings, floggings and the amput…
Makers of Bollywood film say it is based on real information and events but have not provided any evidencePolice in Kerala are investigating a controversial Bollywood film that portrays the southern Indian state as a hub of Islamic terrorism and forced…
Shamsi Jama Masjid, an 800-year-old mosque in Uttar Pradesh, is the latest flashpoint in a dispute that could eventually turn violentIn a small, darkened office in Budaun, where dusty legal books line the walls, two lawyers have fallen into a squabble….