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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.

ABC News

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.

Reuters

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.

The Times of India

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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.

Bangkok Post

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…

The Conversation

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.

Reuters

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

The Hindu

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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

Evening Standard

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.

The Hindu

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

Dublin Live

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.

Reuters

‘Attack on a dream’: Muslims in fear as Indian democracy turns 75

India’s democracy is under pressure like never before as dreams of ethnic Hindu nation leave its minorities sleepless.

Al Jazeera

Salman Rushdie’s attack was an assault on free speech – but not a clash of civilisations

On August 12, the author Salman Rushdie was stabbed multiple times on stage at a literary festival in New York state. Thankfully, he has survived, albeit sustaining what appear to be life-changing injuries.

The Conversation

Salman Rushdie: Who is he, what is he known for and what happened to him?

His book was banned in 45 Islamic countries, with hundreds of British Muslims endorsing the death sentence

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The Guardian - UK

On the anniversary of partition, let’s consign the pitiless logic of Hindu v Muslim to the past

Since 1947, India and Pakistan have shared profound affinities across ferociously policed borders, say Indian novelist Pankaj Mishra and Pakistani writer Ali Sethi

Manchester Evening News

"I want £1,000 a month... or pictures will be posted": Twisted conman, 30, targeted women of Muslim heritage threatening to post sexual images of them online in horrific campaign

Zeashan Mahmood was jailed for seven years and three months after posting explicit images of the women he had promised to marry

Chicago Tribune

One year after the US withdrew from Afghanistan, refugees find support from all corners of Chicago

CHICAGO — A year ago, former Afghan soldiers Rahimullah Zaland and Khan Madin Ashana fled their home country as the United States withdrew the last of its troops in dramatic airlifts in the final weeks of August. They spent months traveling separately through different countries, looking for a safe haven…

The Guardian - UK

Where Salman Rushdie defied those who would silence him, today too many fear causing offence

The terrible injuries suffered by the great British writer will not extinguish his belief in the critical importance of saying the unsayable

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Muslims relieved and bewildered after Albuquerque murders case arrest

Community members who kept to their own homes out of fear of a serial killer face possibility that killings may have been committed by one of their own

The Times of India

We will live here, die here & be raised here: Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi

HYDERABAD: AIMIM president and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi has said that the foundation of India's freedom struggle has the blood of a large number of Muslim men and women and not that of Nathuram Godse and his followers.

The Hindu

PM Modi silent on China’s intrusions, says Owaisi

AIMIM chief reiterates the contribution of Muslims to India’s freedom struggle

The Hindu

Caste committee gives clean chit to former NCB officer Sameer Wankhede

He was not a Muslim by birth and he belongs to the Mahar caste, says panel

Manchester Evening News

Sir Salman Rushdie: Who is he, what is he known for and what happened to him?

His book was banned in 45 Islamic countries, with hundreds of British Muslims endorsing the death sentence

The Guardian - UK

Salman Rushdie attack prompts muted reaction in India and Pakistan

Majority of public figures have chosen not to comment on attempt on Indian-born writer’s life

WEKU

75 years after India's violent Partition, survivors can cross the border — virtually

A virtual reality project helps survivors of India's Partition glimpse long-lost birthplaces they fled as children. Fraught relations between India and Pakistan mean they can't visit in person.

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