Religion Archive

Islamists have long employed violence as a strategic tool of contention to exact obedience, assert their hegemony, and silence their critics. More so with street violence, which they have monopolized by institutionalizing thuggery over decades, or perhaps centuries, to prevent a critical assessment of their religious dogmas and immutable convictions.

On Saturday (June 11), the UK Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities removed an Islamic cleric named Qari Asim from the position of Deputy Chair of the government’s Anti-Muslim Hatred Working Group.

Aysha Renna, who became the face of anti-CAA protests as a student leader from Jamia Millia Islamia, has been arrested by Kerala Police for disturbing the civic order during an agitation on Sunday.

Mohammed Zubair, the co-founder of propaganda AltNews, who had dog-whistled against former BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma over alleged blasphemy against Prophet Muhammad, precipitating an international diplomatic crisis for India and triggering a spate of violent protests in India, had himself mocked Hindu Gods and beliefs, past tweets from the ‘fact-checker’ revealed.

In 1992, Bharat was shocked by the revelation of one of the biggest and most heinous crimes it had seen among its people. A case of forced sexual exploitation going en masse, a scandal that involved hundreds of girls raped and harassed daily, came to light when a daring journalist got the nerves to go up against the highly powerful and influential people involved in the crime.

The vicious rhetoric in the Muslim world on the pretext of ‘blasphemy’ charge levelled against Nupur Sharma and Naveen Jindal has now morphed into open hate speech and genocidal calls against Hindus.

Senior All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) leader and Aurangabad member of Parliament, Imtiaz Jaleel, waded into another controversy after demanding that former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) spokesperson Nupur Sharma be hanged for allegedly insulting Mohammed, considered by Muslims as their last prophet.

While the world talks about tolerance, freedom of expression, and liberal views, fundamental Muslims have taken to the opposite direction, with an increase in violence against alleged blasphemy that allegedly includes insults of Islam and Prophet Mohammed.

Qatar, an Islamic peninsular monarchy has rested its strategic sovereignty on Islamism as its state policy. In the Arab world though, it has been lately accused of sponsoring and shielding terror organizations and their financiers on its soil.

On Thursday (June 9), a mob of frenzied protestors blocked the National Highway connecting Howrah and Kolkata, thereby resulting in traffic woes and public inconvenience. The demonstration comes days after the BJP suspended its spokesperson Nupur Sharma over alleged ‘blasphemous’ remarks against Prophet Muhammad.