Author: Priya Saha

Tulsi Gabbard in a recent tweet spoke out against Islamist violence, which received flak and hate from American progressives online. Tulsi Gabbard, a former US Congresswoman, criticized the Islamist ideology for having inspired the terrorist attacks and declaration of war against America after the 9/11 attack. She also said that it is the Islamist ideology which fueled terrorist attacks around the world and is the foundation for the so-called ‘Islamic’ countries like Pakistan, Turkey, Iran, Saudi Arabia and their discriminatory policies against the Christians, Hindus, Buddhists and the Atheists. … is the foundation for so-called “Islamic” countries like Pakistan, Turkey,…

This #DGH conference seems to be a well-orchestrated, impressively coordinated attempt to spread fear-mongering about Hinduism more than anything else Hinduphobia propagating Hindu hate In the west, supporters of brutally ferocious Islamic terrorism, heinous radical extremism, supremacist political fanaticism, and expansionism are propagating Hindu hate. Preparation of a deathbed is underway to justify Hate Crimes Against Hindus right here in America. U.S. universities are NOT acting alone. Their radical partners, collaborators, supporters, donors, propagators, proselytizers (from abroad, especially India) are Assisting in Demonizing, Demoralizing, Defaming, Displacing, Dehumanizing, Dismantling Hindus, Hindu civilization, and Hindu culture. The Indian government is aloof, and…

A shadowy Uyghur Islamic group that China has used as justification for increasingly harsh rule over the Muslim ethnic minority in its far-western Xinjiang region is not present in Afghanistan and won’t be allowed to return, a Taliban spokesman told Chinese state media. China often brands Uyghur activists in exile as members of the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) and cites the threat of terrorism to discredit the minority group’s campaign to raise awareness of widespread rights abuses in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR). The fall of the Afghan government last month to the Taliban militants following the pullout…

09/10/2021 Indonesia (International Christian Concern) – The list of victims who have been ensnared by Indonesia’s abusive blasphemy law continues to grow. Saifuddin Ibrahim (Abraham Ben Moses), Meliana, or Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, better known as “Ahok,” former Jakarta Governor, only account for some of the victims who were prosecuted for “insulting Islam.” For someone to be named a suspect for blasphemy, usually it involves unrest in the community. Indeed, the definition of the blasphemy chapter itself is not clear, so in the end, the law becomes like a rubber-stamp chapter that can be imposed on anyone, even if that person has…

Islamabad – Child Rights’ advocates on Thursday demanded to increase the minimum age of marriage for girls in Pakistan from 16 to 18 years and make the National Identity Card a mandatory document as an evidence of age at the time of marriage during a one-day consultation held at the NCRC secretariat on the “Child Marriage and Child Domestic Labour in Pakistan.” A statement issued said that participants included officials from the National Commission on the Rights of Child, civil society organisations and legal experts. Ms. Afshan Tehseen, Chairperson of the NCRC shared that the current laws on child marriages…

The U.S.-China relationship had been beset by tensions In the early months of the George W. Bush administration. The collision of a Chinese fighter jet and a U.S. Navy surveillance plane in April 2001 had caused a fraught, 10-day hostage-style standoff that soured bilateral relations. But 9/ll provided the two governments an opportunity to recalibrate their ties hinged to a new anti-terrorism focus. Within hours of the attacks, then-Chinese President Jiang Zemin sent a telegram to Bush conveying the Chinese government’s “deep sympathy and condolences.” After Bush’s first face-to-face meeting with Jiang a month later, Bush praised the two countries’…

Theatre troupe Prachyanat stages a street play titled Morol Policing at a cultural protest programme organised by Bangladesh Udichi Shilpigoshthi in front of the Bangladesh National Museum at Shahbagh, Dhaka on Wednesday. — Sourav Laskar Different cultural organisations and activists on Wednesday protested at sectarian violence against religious minorities and demanded immediate release of Jhumon Das, who was arrested under a controversial Digital Security Act case filed against him for reportedly criticising the provocative and sectarian speech of Islamist leader Mamunul Haque. They also demanded that the government must repeal the Digital Security Act, 2018. They raised the demands at…

Hinduism has long been under the assault by western academia since the dawn of the colonial era of European supremacism Firstpost is convinced that Dismantling Global Hindutva (DGH), a three-day online conference (from Sept 10-12) planned by anonymous organisers in the US, is a partisan and politically-motivated event designed to malign an ancient religion and its adherents. Through columns and reported pieces, this Firstpost series exposes why such programmes are misleading, agenda-driven, and nothing but thinly-veiled Hinduphobia. ***   Hinduism has long been under the assault by western academia since the dawn of the colonial era of European supremacism, in which western academia…

https://sputniknews.com/20210907/anniversary-of-1965-war-pakistan-pm-slams-india-for-refusing-a-peaceful-co-existence-1083807487.htmlAnniversary of 1965 War: Pakistan PM Slams India for Refusing a Peaceful Co-ExistenceAnniversary of 1965 War: Pakistan PM Slams India for Refusing a Peaceful Co-ExistenceIslamabad says it will not resume its peace process with New Delhi until Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government walks back its decision to abrogate the… 07.09.2021, Sputnik International2021-09-07T00:00+00002021-09-07T00:00+00002021-09-07T09:59+0000indiaworldnewspakistanindiaafghanistanimran khankashmir/html/head/meta[@name=”og:title”]/@content/html/head/meta[@name=”og:description”]/@contenthttps://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e5/07/06/1083320150_0:174:3025:1875_1920x0_80_0_0_0f30b8f6654ed33ee883f792f9f2f268.jpgPakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday accused India of being “against the idea of peaceful co-existence” since the founding of the Islamic democracy in 1947, and blamed his southern neighbor of “imposing” one war after another on Islamabad.The statement was made to commemorate the 1965 India-Pakistan War,…

A delegation from the Amrai Pari Paribarik Nirjaton Protirodh Jot (WE CAN) exchanged views with Faridul Haque Khan, Minister of State for Religious Affairs, and recommended putting a stop to hateful and violent statements against women at religious gatherings. The meeting took place at 11 am on 5 September. At the meeting, WE CAN was represented by their chairperson Sultana Kamal, Co-chairperson MB Akhtar, Executive Coordinator Jinat Ara Haque, National Committee Member Rabia Begum, Program Coordinator Mubinur Rahman, and Advocacy and Training Coordinator Suraiya Parvin. At the meeting, the state minister was handed videos of several Waz with misogynistic, unconstitutional,…

Anti-Conversion Laws In India: A new anti-conversion law passed in India’s most populous state, Uttar Pradesh, is being used to prevent inter-faith couples from getting married. Media reports suggest right wing groups are preventing interfaith marriages by claiming it involves “forced conversion”, or what they call “love jihad”. “Love jihad” is a term used by these groups to suggest Muslim men seek to deceive Hindu women through marriage and convert them to Islam. Under the new anti-conversion law, passed on November 28, interfaith couples must now give two months’ notice to a district official before getting married. Currently, under the…

China is a country of immense diversity in terrain, climate, and especially people. There are 56 officially recognized ethnic groups. The largest is the Han Chinese, numbering 900 million, who reside in every region of the country. Ten of them have a population of between two and 16 million, while the remaining 45 ethnic minorities a population of between 2,900 and 1.9 million. Ethnic minorities are concentrated in 12 western provinces, especially the five autonomous provinces. A number of ethnic groups are spread variously throughout the provinces. For example, the Hui (sinicised Muslims) live in 19 provinces. The smallest group…