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Pulwama terror attack: The ominous portents that mainstreaming of ‘gau mutra’ jibes hold
Several journalists, writers, politicians and media organisations have aped Pulwama terrorists in deriding Hindus with ‘gau mutra’ jibes
Foreign funding, radical Islamic organisations and hijab protests: A plan to mobilise Muslim youth against India
The hijab protests are now being seen as a strategic move by the PFI and Jamaat-e-Hind to recruit young Muslims into the radicalisation movement.
Kishan and Lavanya get forgotten while burqa-clad Sharia loyalists get echoed in Supreme Court: A tale of two Indias
Pallav -
Kishan and Lavanya will be simply two more names to be documented and filed away in some police station's records.
Ajit Anjum apologises for “chor chamar” slur: Read how British institutionalised caste discrimination through “Criminal Tribes Act”
The Britishers had passed contentious “Criminal Tribes Act” in 1870s, criminalising certain communities as habitual offenders.
Rubika Liyaquat, Taslima Nasreen and more: Muslim women who have been vigorously opposing the regressive practice of burqa
Suyash -
While the left-liberals are passionately defending hijab, some prominent Muslim women have been vigorously opposing the regressive practice
From SIMI to Popular Front of India: Islamic radicalisation in college campuses has been going on for decades
Popular Front of India, which is now leading the fresh wave of radicalisation in the country, is considered a resurrection of the banned outfit Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI).
Karnataka burqa row: The politics of religious identity
A Satya -
A piece of cloth that is used to assert one's religious identity has taken an ugly, political turn in the current burqa row in Karnataka.
Priyanka Gandhi supports burqa and bikini, she should tell that to her brother and party leaders as charity begins at home
Congress leaders, including Rahul Gandhi, have had a history of commenting on women's choice of clothes as well as leaving sexist comments displaying their toxic masculinity.
The Karnataka Burqa row is not about education, it’s Islamism stamping its foot and liberals dutifully massaging it
The Karnataka hijab row underscores the growing menace of Islamism that afflicts the Indian society and its threat to country's secular ethos
Dangers of ‘instant feminism’ and the burqa row: How it creates unsafe space for non-Hijabi women
Sneha -
It is time to move beyond simplistic virtue signalling on the issue of Hijab and analyse the issue without bias. We owe it to the pioneers of feminism.
