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Protestors converge in front of the Indian Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, on June 17, in a demonstration against the insulting of the Prophet Muhammad by two BJP spokespeople. (Credit: Eko Siswono Toyudho/Anadolu Agency) Sajeda Haider India’s Hindu nationalist government battled an unprecedented backlash from Muslim nations this month, following highly offensive remarks made about the […]

25th Oct 2019

Modi continues brutal clampdown on millions of Muslims in Jammu and Kashmir as world remains indifferent

A man walks in front of an Indian soldier patrolling the street during a curfew in Srinagar, Kashmir, India on August 6 (Photo: Faisal Khan/Anadolu Agency) Sajeda Haider It is more than 70 days since the Indian Government clamped a complete lockdown on the country’s only Muslim-majority state of Jammu and Kashmir, stripping it of […]

30th Aug 2019

Gang-rape Muslim women, says regional BJP leader

Harun Nasrullah A regional President of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Women Wing [Mahila Morch] has been expelled from her role on June 27 after she called on Hindu men to gang-rape Muslim women. In a screenshot of the now deleted Facebook post that has been shared by a Twitter user, Sunita Singh Gaur, […]

29th Mar 2019

Indian Kashmiri Muslims harassed back to Kashmir

Some Kashmiri students at Haryana University (top) had to lock themselves in their hostel rooms and could not step out even to get food (Photo: MDU Rohtak/Creative Commons) Sajeda Haider The collateral damage of the latest military stand-off between long-term enemies India and Pakistan has been Kashmiri Muslim students living across India. Students have been […]

25th Jan 2019

Modi’s BJP’s worst electoral defeat in Legislative Assembly

The BJP and PM Narendra Modi lost election invincibility (Photo: Norbert Schiller/World Economic Forum/Creative Commons) Sajeda Haider Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi’s right-wing nationalist party, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), had its worst electoral defeat last month since it came to power with a thumping majority in the 2014 General Elections. Five of the country’s […]

29th Jun 2018

Yet another Muslim killed by Hindu mobs for ‘cow crime’

Sajeda Haider Yet another Muslim has been beaten to death in India by Hindu mob for no apparent reason except that he was a Muslim. Qasim Qureshi, 45, was beaten to death in a sugar cane field in Hapur district of the northern state of Uttar Pradesh. His companion, 65-year-old Samiuddin, was also beaten mercilessly […]

26th Oct 2017

BJP threat to Taj Mahal

Taj Mahal. Photo Creative Commons By Sajeda Haider The Taj Mahal is synonymous with India. It is one of the Seven Wonders of the World and on the must-see list of any tourist visiting the country. The magnificent white marble mausoleum was built in the 17th century by the Muslim Mughal king Shah Jahan for […]

26th May 2017

Indian Muslims should oppose communal politics

Sir, [India’s] Muslims had it coming [BJP wins in Uttar Pradesh on an anti-Muslim ticket]. When so called secular parties were projecting themselves as messiahs of Muslims, there was bound to be a reaction in the majority [Hindu] community. Why did Muslims think it was a free lunch? Even when it initially appeared in their […]

28th Apr 2017

Muslim man attacked by Hindu mob dies of injuries

Sajeda Haider Cow protection has taken the life of yet another Muslim man in 55 year old Pehlu Khan died from his injuries two days after being attacked by hundreds of Hindu vigilantes as he was transporting legally bought cows home. Khan, his two sons and four other Muslim men from a village in […]

31st Mar 2017

India on the path of Hindu Rashtra

There is no challenge to Narendra Modi and his far-right BJP a fact made more disturbing by the increase in attacks on Muslims and Dalits since he came to power (Photo: Creative Commons) M Ghazali Khan Notwithstanding the fact that the writing on the wall was clear, the landslide victory of extremist Hindu Bharatiya Janata […]

31st Mar 2017

Modi’s vision for India is unsustainable

(Photo: Creative Commons) Soon after taking over as India’s Prime Minister in May 2014, Narendra Modi promised India a new era with, “good days” ahead and “Everybody on board; development for all”. It is possible that Modi has learnt a lesson from the long-standing notoriety he has been steeped in due to the part he […]

31st Mar 2017

BJP wins in Uttar Pradesh on an anti-Muslim ticket

(Source Election Commission of India/: Image Stratfor 2017) Sajeda Haider Ever since the 2014 general election in India when the Hindu Nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won a massive mandate, there is not a single Muslim Member of Parliament (MP) on the Treasury benches. After the just concluded Assembly elections for the north Indian state of […]

28th Oct 2016

No justice for Muslim father murdered by Hindu mob

Dadri lynching victim Akhlaq’s son Danish, 22, being shifted to Army Research & Referral Hospital in Dhaula Kuan, Delhi, October 10, 2015. Danish was at tacked and Akhlaq was killed by the mob after rumours that the family had consumed beef in their house at Bishara village in Dadri. (Photo: Sunil Ghosh/Hindustan Times via Getty […]

Over 120 people attended a landmark conference on the media reporting of Islam and Muslims. It was held jointly by The Muslim News and Society of Editors in London on September 15.

The Muslim News Awards for Excellence 2015 was held on March in London to acknowledge British Muslim and non-Muslim contributions to the society.

The Muslim News Awards for Excellence 2015 was held on March in London to acknowledge British Muslim and non-Muslim contributions to the society.

The Muslim News Awards for Excellence event is to acknowledge British Muslim and non-Muslim contributions to society. Over 850 people from diverse background, Muslim and non-Muslim, attended the gala dinner.