Religion

By D.C. Pathak Amidst the ongoing repercussions of the punitive air strike made by the Indian Air Force to take out the training camp of Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) at Balakot in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan, the address of India’s External Affairs Minister – Sushma Swaraj – at the Foreign Ministers …

Radical thought can be positive and progressive, it doesn’t have to mean joining a death cult The legal and moral conundrums posed by the return (or not) of British jihadis following the collapse of the Islamic State “caliphate”has triggered renewed anxiety about the place of Muslim youth in western society. The home secretary, Sajid …

What progress, if any, have we made in the last decade when it comes to our understanding of Muslim women? I found myself asking this question when the BBC’s Bodyguard won best new drama last month at the National Television awards, having amassed 11 million viewers including 48% of the …

In the 2014 general election, for the first time since independence, no Muslim candidate was elected from any seat in Uttar Pradesh, despite several of them contesting from various political parties. In the five years since, there have been fierce debates on the future of Muslim representation from India’s most …

A majority of Muslims in pre-independent India were opposed to the two-nation theory and creation of Pakistan, argues a new book titled, Muslims Against Partition, written by scholar Shamsul Islam. A Wecome Book: Muslims Against Partition, Shamsul Islam (Pharos Media & Publishing Pvt Ltd) Islam argues that the Muslim League under …

By Muslim Mirror Staff Islam is the second largest religion in India, with 14.2% of the country’s population or roughly 172 million people identifying as adherents of Islam. Over the centuries, Muslims have played a notable role in economics, politics and culture of India, however  70 years after independence the …

Mumbai: The All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul Muslimeen (AIMIM) on Friday approached the Bombay High Court for Muslim reservation in Maharashtra, a day after the state legislature passed the Maratha Reservation Bill in Socially and Economically Backward category (SEBC). AIMIM’s Imtiyaz Jalil told ANI: “We won’t challenge it but will go to …

San Francisco : A day after Facebook was criticised by a former employee for its “black people problem”, the social networking giant announced an investment of $1 million in CodePath.org to boost computer science education among underrepresented minorities and women. CodePath.org is a US-based nonprofit that provides computer science education …

Muslim student in BBC’s 100 Women leads the team building Kyrgyzstan’s first satellite Alina is one of over two dozen Muslims from equal number of Muslim and non-Muslim states who figured in BBC “100 Women” Mumbai: Alina Anisimova – the 19-year-old Muslim student, is included on the list of 100 …