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Discussion should be on gender justice: Basheer

He refuses to respond to Muneer’s statement on POCSO and gender neutrality

The Hindu

Uproar in Kashmir as India allows voting rights to non-locals

Any Indian citizen living temporarily in the disputed Muslim-majority federal territory can be enlisted as a voter.

Al Jazeera

Muslim woman raped by Hindu mob shocked by release of 11 jailed men

Gujarat frees men serving life sentences for rape, and for murder of three-year-old daughter and other relatives

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Why no CM is in BJP’s new Parliamentary Board

NEW DELHI: BJP president JP Nadda reconstituted the party’s highest decision-making body Parliamentary Board and the Central Election Committee (CEC) on Wednesday. While the exclusion of Union transport minister Nitin Gadkari and Madhya Pradesh chief minister (CM) Shivraj Singh Chouhan and non-inclusion of Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath caught most…

The Times of India

Indian gang-rape victim 'numb' after attackers freed

NEW DELHI: A Muslim woman who was gang-raped as 14 people were murdered during one of post-independence India’s worst religious riots has said she is “numb” after her attackers were released early from prison.

Bangkok Post

Indian woman condemns release of her convicted rapists

A Muslim woman who was gang raped while pregnant during India’s devastating 2002 religious riots has appealed to the government to rescind its decision to free 11 men who had been jailed for life for committing the crime, after they were released on suspended sentences

The Independent UK

Suspect in New Mexico Muslim killings detained pending trial

An Afghan refugee charged in the shooting deaths of two Muslim men and suspected in the killing of two others will remain behind bars pending trial

The Independent UK

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Salman Rushdie: where to start with this pioneering and controversial author

On the eve of India’s 75th anniversary of independence (August 15), the 75-year-old Salman Rushdie was stabbed multiple times on stage in New York. Thankfully, the author survived the attack. But you might be wondering how a writer came to be the target of such violence.

The Conversation

What is a fatwa? A religious studies professor explains

When news broke on August 12, 2022, that the writer Salman Rushdie had been attacked, many people immediately recalled the fatwa, or edict, calling on all Muslims to take his life, issued in 1989 by the Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iran’s Supreme Leader at the time. Khomeini accused Rushdie’s 1988…

The Conversation

In New Mexico, Muslims reject sectarian label for killings

National Muslim groups have linked the killings of four Muslim men in New Mexico over the past year to sectarianism, but Muslims who knew the victims and suspected gunman point to revenge and personal feuds as possible motives.

Reuters

Bella Hadid says she regrets not being allowed to grow up in ‘Muslim culture’ after parents divorced

The model says she would have ‘loved to grow up in a Muslim culture’

The Independent UK

India denies it will provide homes to Rohingya in capital

Hours after a federal minister says refugees will be given apartments in New Delhi, home ministry denies media reports.

Al Jazeera

Thailand's restive south hit by wave of arson and bombings

A wave of arson and bombing attacks overnight hit Thailand’s southernmost provinces, which for almost two decades have been the scene of an active Muslim separatist insurgency

The Independent UK

Rohingya refugees in India's capital to be given flats, security

NEW DELHI: Rohingya refugees from Myanmar in India's capital will be allotted apartments and provided with police protection, a government minister said on Wednesday, signalling a change in the stance towards members of the Muslim minority.

Bangkok Post

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More Muslim children joining in Australian rules football through SANFL Bachar Houli Cup

What started as the brainchild of two teachers — who were keen to see more Muslim children be introduced to Australian rules football — has expanded into a nine-a-side competition across four schools this week.

Reuters

India backtracks on support for Rohingya refugees, will deport them

India's home ministry said on Wednesday that Rohingya refugees in the capital New Delhi would be held at a detention centre and then deported, contradicting a minister's earlier statement promising flats and security to members of the Muslim minority.

The Times of India

Jodhpur: Hindus, Muslims join hands to celebrate I-Day with 256-ft tricolour

JODHPUR: In a joint initiative by a temple trust and some Muslim organisations, Hindus and Muslims together held a Tiranga rally on the Independence Day in Jodhpur holding a 256-foot-long tricolour over their heads.

Bangkok Post

11 convicted of 2002 gang-rape in India go free

AHMEDABAD: Eleven Hindu men jailed for life for the gang-rape of a pregnant Muslim woman during Hindu-Muslim riots in 2002 have been freed on remission, officials said on Tuesday, drawing condemnation from the victim's husband, lawyers and politicians.

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Salman Rushdie attack: the legacy of the decades-old fatwa on the author, explained

In 1989, Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Khomeini, who led the Islamic revolution in Iran ten years earlier, issued a fatwa – a religious edict – calling for the death of author Salman Rushdie. More than three decades later, at a literary event in New York state, a man who was…

Reuters

Eleven convicted of gang-rape in 2002 Hindu-Muslim riots go free

Eleven Hindu men jailed for life for the gang-rape of a pregnant Muslim woman during Hindu-Muslim riots in 2002 have been freed on remission, officials said on Tuesday, drawing condemnation from the victim's husband, lawyers and politicians.

The Hindu

Owaisi criticises PM Modi for release of Bilkis Bano rape convicts

The All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) president said that the convicts, who were her neighbours, had raped Bilkis Bano who was pregnant at the time

Evening Standard

The 7 defining moments of Salman Rushdie’s life

As the author lies in hospital with life-changing injuries, Amy Francombe looks back at his controversial career and how he came to have a fatwa on his head

The Hindu

Prima facie talaq-e-hasan is ‘not so improper’ says Supreme Court

In an oral observation, Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul says Muslim women can opt for khula.

Dublin Live

Gay man feels no longer welcome in Dublin mosque after 'lifestyle' condemned

Dr Al-Qadri defended reported comments about gay sex and the spread of monkeypox within the LGBTQAI+ community

Reuters

Explainer: Rushdie attack shows the enduring impact of fatwas

The 1989 fatwa imposed by Iran's late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini on Salman Rushdie for his novel “the Satanic Verses” has haunted many liberal novelists and thinkers whose writings were also seen as insulting to Islam and the Prophet Mohammad.

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