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Srinagar’s Urdu media: Published in India, Obsessed with Pakistan
By Aakar PatelKashmir in the winter is packed with tourists. More than 1.5 million visited last year, a record. But have things really changed there? Here’s a look at the status through Kashmir’s Urdu...
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Ridley urges Indian Muslims to join media
Hyderabad, India: Award winning British journalist Yvonne Ridley has urged Muslims to join the media since it is the most powerful and effective way to spread the message about the purity of Islam and...
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Women are a soft target
By Tariq A. Al-MaeenaIt has always been the woman’s fault. At least that’s what history tells us. From the times of the Pharaohs when Semiramis was maligned for her fondness for using make-up to adorn...
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Sharia Law - the only deterrent to stop dastardly crimes and rapes in India
By Shaik Abdul SattarAs India emerges from yet another futile year covered in shame, it continues to aspire to build a secure and crime free foundations for the people one day. Incidents such as the...
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Burger chain settles halal dispute
McDonald's has settled a case in which it was claimed a Detroit restaurant falsely advertised food as being prepared according to Islamic dietary lawMcDonald's and one of its franchise owners agreed to...
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Group "commands the good and forbids the evil" in confronting those who dress inappropriately or drink alcohol.By Jonny PaulLondon: Borough officials, community leaders and police condemned a group of...
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‘Muslim women should be able to wear hijab at work’
By Patrick CookeMore Muslim women would join the workforce if the Government issued a directive clarifying that the hijab headscarf could be worn at work, Imam Mohammed Elsadi said.The public is...
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Hijab power and song proves fruitful in the UK
By Mette ReitzelLondon: A recent parliamentary report in the UK reveals that some Muslim women are removing their headscarves and anglicizing their names to improve their chances in the job market. Two...
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Memoir of a Muslim boy growing up in the West
What goes into making the perfect gentleman? The author of a delightful memoir on being a Muslim boy growing up in the West tells us.By Sharmilla Ganesan Meeting Imran Ahmad after reading his book The...
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Sri Lanka’s Muslim IDPs 25 years on
Still searching for home nearly 25 years laterColombo: Almost three years after the Sri Lankan government looked into resettling up to 100,000 Muslims displaced from the country’s north during the...
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Over Rs.8 crs spent on ICMR centre and not single research carried out on...
By Pervez BariBhopal: Addressing a press conference the representatives of five organizations working among the survivors of the Union Carbide gas disaster in Bhopal, world's worst industrial...
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Panel chief slams State on temporary minority education certificates
Chennai: National Commission for Minority Educational Institutions (NCMEI) Chairman M.S.A.Siddiqui on Tuesday came down heavily on the State Government for issuing temporary minority status...
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Book Review: Shades of Muslim Marginalization
Book: Muslims in Indian Cities: Trajectories of MarginalisationEdited by Laurent Gayer and Chritophe Jaffrelot Publisher: Harper Collins, Delhi 2012 Pages: 403 Price: Rs 499Reviewed by Ram Puniyani The...
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Are Blasts must to be called a terrorist?
By Abu AsimAfter a long hush, intelligence agencies have swung into action and arresting people who had detonated bombs at different places of the country and by these arrests the government wants to...
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Communal Owaisi does not belong in aspirational India
“…Khuda-na-khasta, hazaar martaba khuda-na-khasta, pehle tho nahin jaanewale, aur gaye tho khaali haath nahin jaayenge; Taj ko bhi le jayenge, Lal-Quiley ko ko bhi le jayenge, Qutub Minar ko bhi le...
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Cultural terrorism in Indian cinema
By Dr. Abdul RuffArtistic freedom is vital for creative thinkers. Muslims are the most insulted, most injured and most terrorized people on this earth and cinema and media have only aggravated the...
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'I don't believe Muslims are a problem and Islam a threat': William Dalrymple
'When Sikhs were killed in the Afghan-Sikh war in 1837, the Afridis used to bury their heads like flowerpots in the ground,' writer and popular historian William Dalrymple tells Rediff.com's Syed...
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Azadi versus Fundamentalism
The Jamaat-e-Islami has demanded that co-education be abolished in India to prevent rapesBy Fahad Hashmi‘For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.’ – Virginia WoolfThere seems to be a structural...
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ANALYSIS: Society, Media, Sex and Rape
By Dr. Amjad M. Husaini‘Sex’ is a multifaceted phenomenon and I have been contemplating on its origin and objectives since the day the news of a heinous rape of a young woman in a Delhi bus, named in...
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The Nail Polish That’s Suitable for Muslim Women
By Kat StoeffelPolish cosmetics company Inglot claims to have manufactured the world’s first-known nail polish that's suitable for daily prayer, the "halal certified" 02M Breathable. Some Muslim women...
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