By Fatimah SAs worsening reports of violence against Muslims in India continue to circulate, the origin of such deep hate in the country arises. How did Islamophobia gain a hold on India, a country with over 200 million Muslims? Muslims have been in India since the 13th century, with Muslim merchants, soldiers, and armies bringing the religion…
By Ajit SinghIndia and Pakistan emerged as two separate sovereign nations in 1947. Different factions of the freedom struggle movement contributed in their own unique way. Ultimately they freed themselves and the people from the clutches of British colonizers that arrived in India during the early 17th century, masquerading as traders with an intent to puncture the…
By Zainab HussainIn case you haven’t been catching up with recent news, there’s been an outrage following the India hijab ban order – and we’ve got the full story here. Long story short, on 5th February 2022, an order was issued by the Karnataka government, in India, banning Muslim students from wearing a hijab as part of…
By Saniya AliThousands of people are protesting in India against the new agricultural laws proposed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in November 2020. The three laws that were meant to modernize the agricultural industry are in turn dismantling the systems that were already in place, leaving the farmers with uncertainty and anger. In the past few years,…
By MaliyaAmmi catches me weeping again tonight. She sits by me and asks me why I am crying. I tell her our people are dying. “A Kashmiri baby was forced to sit on the blood-soaked body of his grandfather. Indian armed forces dragged Bashir Ahmed from his car and shot him dead in front of his…
By Humeira KazmiThe moment I came across this image – a Black man’s face in a children’s book for learning the basic Urdu alphabet to enunciate the letter ﺡ (H sound in English) – I knew I had to say something. It says H for Habshi. Technically, if the book were for learning ABC’s, this would be…
By Lana M. WaheedWith the government of India passed the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB), the ruling party’s highly sectarian agenda became clearer and clearer. This discriminatory piece of legislation allows refugees from neighboring nations a pathway to citizenship. All refugees, that is, except Muslim ones. Given the rising incidents of violence and discrimination against Muslims in India, the…
By Ayesha KhanOn the 11th of December, the Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP)-led Indian government struck a deep blow at the ideals of secularism and egalitarianism that the country was founded on. The Indian Parliament voted in favour of the Citizenship Amendment Bill 2019 (CAB), a legislation that seeks to strip millions of Muslim migrants in India of…
By SaniyaLast week, in India, two children aged 11 and 12 were amongst seven other Muslims charged with cow slaughter. They happen to be the newest victims of a peculiar law of “secular India” that bans the slaughter of cows to protect the sentiments of the nation’s Hindu majority, which revere cows as a holy figure….
By NIQABAEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQpm4ntX8Fo#action=share Asifa Bono was a child who was kidnaped, drugged, raped and murdered by men looking to drive out her nomadic tribe from the land. Individuals who victim blame need to shut up and reflect on the power dynamic at play. The perps were sane and knew the consequences of their actions. The last place…
