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Why Hindus lack a sense of collective harm: Mass unity is a distraction, ancestral continuity is the destination
Why is it difficult for Hindus as individuals to face the reality that hostile and hateful beliefs and forces exist that threaten Hindus indeed as a collective? Do we lack a sense of collective harm, or collective anything for that matter?
Hinduphobia’s validity has nothing to do with the merits or demerits of the term ‘Islamophobia’
If a Hindu does not learn to make the case in a classroom in school or college about how Hinduphobia has as deep and long a history as anti-semitism, for that is a fact, our generation would have failed as educators and parents
UK: How official recognition of 'Hinduphobia' will only cede intellectual legitimacy to Islamophobia
It will occur at a moment when the very idea of Islamophobia is increasingly being challenged with derision by the public
Taslima Nasrin writes | Quran burning in Sweden: Time is ripe for Muslims to stop rioting over religion
Religious sentiments cannot be so fragile; they must be recast in steel. Just as there won’t be riots anywhere if a Bible was to be burned, the same must be ensured in the case of Quran
Who is Amira Elghawaby, Canada's first anti-Islamophobia advisor?
Amira Elghawaby, an active human rights campaigner, is a columnist for the Toronto Star newspaper. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau praised her appointment as 'an important step in the fight against Islamophobia and hatred in all its forms'
The case of the US professor who lost her job for showing her class Prophet Muhammad painting
A professor at Hamline University in Minnesota lost her job after the Prophet Muhammad painting she showed in class outraged Muslim students. Now she is suing the institution for labelling her Islamophobic and damaging her reputation
Protests intensify in South Korea over construction of court-approved mosque
Locals in Daegu have been protesting over the construction of mosque as they believe it would threaten their privacy because of traffic and noise generated
Why Al-Jazeera is silent on Qatar’s dubious human rights records, but gets vocal on India and its democracy
As a media outlet that has hired journalists mostly from the West, Al-Jazeera is the heady cocktail of the white supremacist syndrome and the Middle Eastern complex vis-à-vis India
A war of lies against Bharat, Hindus and Modi government: Analysing the response since 2014
On 2 October, the New York Times published an advertisement featuring an open letter alleging severe human rights atrocities by the Indian government. As of now, the only responses to it have not been from the Indian government, but from diasporic Hindu organisations on Twitter
How to survive a war of lies: Understanding anti-Hindu communication, media and propaganda
When a whole environment of lies exists across media, academic, NGO and governmental platforms, the task of anyone trying to speak the truth and stand for the truth becomes even harder
Amid UK riots, lessons for Hindus on propaganda and genocide from ‘The US and the Holocaust’
Organised lies cannot be fought by disorganised truths that are not backed by investment and guided by expertise. That is the bottom line Hindus have to deal with now or never
Leicester violence: Britain’s journey towards ghettoes and partition
One day the British political class, often supporting the separatist demands for Khalistan and the Lakshar-e-Taiba’s agenda for Kashmir, might have to contemplate the nature of democratic freedoms when a city like Birmingham, Britain’s third largest, becomes Muslim majority
High time PM breaks 'silence' on 'proliferation' of Islamophobic incidents: Shashi Tharoor
Shashi Tharoor said the irony is that in recent years the Indian government has taken "impressive steps" to strengthen relations with Islamic countries, but that risks being "seriously undermined"
Right Word | The Forgotten Genocide in Jammu & Kashmir: When more than 18,000 Hindus and Sikhs perished in a single day
During 1947-48, the Pakistani army and the Muslim tribesmen had invaded Jammu and Kashmir. Thousands of Hindus and Sikhs were indiscriminately killed, raped, maimed and brutalised
How Whoopi Goldberg and Munawar Faruqui remind that fight against Hinduphobia, anti-semitism and racism aren’t over
Emergence of new ‘religiophobia’, especially against Hindus, Buddhists and Sikhs, is a matter of serious concern and needs to be recognised, just like Christianophobia, Islamophobia and anti-semitism
Why India needs more than a ‘ministry’ to fight propaganda
We Indians need to have the collective determination and clarity to recognise the power, nature and history of propaganda as a global force ranged against India as one of the last lands still standing against it
Why India urgently needs a Ministry of Counter-Propaganda
If the West has long expertise in propaganda, we do have a longer memory that has not yet been fully extinguished. We need investment in the sparking of that memory to life, to global life. Without such an investment, we won’t have a ‘Jagat Guru’ role to play in the world
Why liberals should not pick and choose outrages based on their whims and fancies
Liberals enthusiastically pick the Munawar Faruqui saga, but remain silent on the lynching of two sadhus by a mob in Maharashtra. This blinkeredness is not serving any true liberal clause in any real sense
US lawmakers introduce bill to combat global Islamophobia; clubs India with China, Myanmar
The Ministry of External Affairs in the past has asserted that India is proud of its secular credentials, its status as the largest democracy and pluralistic society with a longstanding commitment to tolerance and inclusion
For Muslim Americans, two decades after 9/11, fight for dignity and identity rages on
Mistrust and suspicion of Muslims didn't start with 9/11, but the attacks dramatically intensified those animosities