Religion Archive

The Ajmer Sharif Dargah in Ajmer, Rajasthan is one of the most popular tourist spots for both Muslims and non-Muslims. It would be expected for the place to be bustling with visitors around the time of festivals, but to everyone’s shock there was a steep decline in the footfall of visitors during the Bakrid weekend and various businesses in the dargah’s vicinity have been hit by nearly 70%.

The call for beheading over blasphemy is nothing new, and the recent murders of Kanhaiya Lal in Udaipur and Umesh Kohle in Amravati have drawn even more attention to such calls. In December 2021.

No one is concerned about this. It doesn’t fit the establishment media narrative, in which Muslims are universally the victims, no matter the circumstances. If a story cannot be made to fit that paradigm, it is ignored.

On Friday (June 24), a Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fighter from Afghanistan brutally attacked Indian MMA star Srikant Sekhar outside the ring at the Matrix Fight Night 9 event in New Delhi along with a mob of his supporters. The accused has been identified as Abdul Badakshi Abdul Azim Badakshi. As per reports, Srikant sustained grave injuries during the attack including a broken jaw.

The so-called secular media has long worked to water down heinous crimes, especially when the accused belongs to the minority community. By calling a Muslim occultist, who reportedly poisoned nine members of the Sangli family a ‘Tantrik’, many renowned media outlets like Aaj Tak, News 18, Hindustan Times, and The Indian Express on Tuesday proceeded to give this incident a Hindu spin as well.

The Kerala Police on Thursday registered a case against two persons named Ajumon and Majeed for luring two Keralite Hindi-speaking women into trafficking in Kuwait. Ajumon, an agent in Kerala, and Majeed, a Keralite agent in Kuwait had deceptively transported two women to Kuwait where they were locked up, abused, tortured, and physically assaulted.

The Indian American Muslim Council, a radical Islamist group that has alleged links with banned terror organizations such as the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) and has a long history of lobbying against India, has distributed cash prizes to ‘journalists’ from The Wire, News Minute, Newslaundry and other publications for furthering its cause.

‘Team Saath’, a malicious troll account on Twitter that routinely indulges in targeted harassment of people who do not conform to its views, has made a hit list of celebrities for taking a nationalist stand.

On June 14, Shiromani Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee (SGPC) installed a portrait of Dilawar Singh, the assassin of former Chief Minister of Punjab Beant Singh, at the Central Sikh Museum that is located inside Harmandir Sahib Complex.