FIR registered under BNS and SC ST Act on complaint of Akash Kumar after Muslim men entered the Dalit family’s home, assaulted women and used casteist abuses. Police have deployed additional force in the village.
Rushdie’s comments echoed long-standing activist narratives on India, shaped largely by selectively informed journalists, even as he remained silent on the radicalism that targeted him, raising questions about selective outrage and the inconsistencies in his public positions.
Nisha Pal was surrounded by Muslim youth who hurled abuses, tried snatching her mic and filmed her while accusing her of spreading hate. She said similar intimidation has happened repeatedly, raising concerns about rising threats to on-ground reporters.
Islamist propagandists are peddling a dangerous lie by falsely equating an unrelated Assam UAPA bail case with the Delhi riots conspiracy to manufacture Muslim victimhood and shield proven instigators of violence.
In Vadodara, Gujarat, a case has been registered with the Kapurai police against a Muslim youth who raped a Hindu minor girl on the pretext of marriage and then tried to force her to convert to Islam.
However, Indian Islamists living up to their reputation of taking things out of context and outraging over it, began circulating the said video with claims that the Hindu influencer insulted the Islamic prophet. The Islamists began hurling abuses and Sar tan se juda threats against Sharmishta on her social media accounts.
The right-wing Freedom Party of Austria has termed the situation as “displacement, not immigration.” Hannes Amesbauer of the Freedom Party said, “Austrians will soon be strangers in their own country.”