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Designate India as ‘Country of Particular Concern’, impose ‘targeted’ sanctions, religious freedom panel tells...

By Muslim Mirror Staff New Delhi: United States Commission on International Religious Freedom has called on the US government to designate India as a ‘country...

I’m Being Forced to Settle: Moradabad Man Thrashed by Gau Rakshaks

By AISHWARYA S IYER & MOHAMMAD SARTAJ ALAM “It is buffalo’s meat, it is buffalo’s meat! I kept screaming this but no one listened to...

Indian Muslim jailed for trying to visit Dalit rape victim family

By Raqib Hameed Naik On October 5 last year, Masud Ahmed was travelling through Mathura, a town in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, when a...

Pastor Contracts COVID-19 after Assault in Eastern India

Pastor Ramnivas Kumar suffered a hairline fracture of his shoulder and internal injuries in the April 22 assault in Pritamadi village, Ranjitpur Shivanagar in...

Modi’s Religious Nationalism Hurts India’s Hindus, Too

By Sunita Viswanath The motto of the modern Indian state, printed on every note and coin, is Satyameva Jayate, a Sanskrit phrase meaning “Truth Alone Triumphs.”...

Muslim Man’s Arrest for Pro-Palestine Social Media Post Shows UP Police’s Islamophobia

By Asad Rizvi Lucknow: All 32-year-old Yasser Arafat had wanted to do on the night of May 19 when he posted a pro-Palestine image and comment...

I have not spent a day or night in my cell without extreme anxiety:...

By UMAR KHALID Two days after my Covid-19 quarantine came to an end inside the Tihar Jail, I read the terrible news about the death...

After Kashmir, Delhi Sets Sights On Another Muslim-Majority Region

By MUHAMMED SABITH Kozhikode (Kerala): Less than two years since the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi revoked the special constitutional status of Jammu &...

Supersizing victimhood: Hindu Right’s appropriation of Islamophobia, the Jewish Holocaust & Indigenous struggles

By Aviral Anand The seemingly illogical idea of Hindu victimhood - the victimhood of a majority - is alive and vibrant among a section of...

The truth is on our side: Raihana Kappan’s struggle to free her journalist husband,...

By NABEELA PANIYATH AND SHAHID TANTRAY On 5 October 2020, the Uttar Pradesh police arrested the freelance journalist Siddique Kappan while he was on his way to...

After Kashmir, 97 % Muslim majority Lakshadweep island becomes new Hindutva lab

Kavaratti/ New Delhi: After the Muslim-majority state Jammu and Kashmir, now it seems that another Muslim majority-territory Lakshadweep island is on the radar of...

Ahmedabad: Dalit man attacked for ‘sporting moustache’

A 22-year-old Dalit youth was allegedly assaulted by a group of men at Karakthal village in Viramgam Taluka of Ahmedabad rural on Sunday night...

‘Tortured by police in jail, forced to drink inmate’s urine’, Karnataka Dalit youth alleges

By Darshan Devaiah BP The Karnataka Police on Sunday suspended a police sub-inspector (PSI) in Chikmagalur district who had allegedly forced a Dalit youth to...

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