Weekly Hindu Persecution Digest: 27 October 2014 — 2 November 2014
1. Caste discrimination in Government-controlled temples in Kerala Report: The Hindu Aikya Vedia has petitioned the state government of Kerala to take stringent action against the Kochi Devaswom Board for denying More...
A Manifesto Against Freethoughts’ Manifesto
On 7 October, the well-known blog ‘freethoughtblogs.com’ published what they called a “Manifesto for Secularism.” Let us examine in some depth, the key points of this so-called manifesto: Our era is marked More...
ISIS IS DEADLY: WAKE UP INDIA!
Though the announcement by the jihadi outfit ISIS of the formation of a Caliphate under Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, has caused enormous consternation among the strategic analyst across the world, the full implications More...
Selective Conscience, India?
(This was sent by an IndiaFacts reader and supporter, @gobblefunk_ ) For the last few weeks we have been increasingly exposed to images of young girls in combat gear, barely in their teens, clutching on to outdated More...
The correct word is Islamophilia, not Islamophobia
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation has launched the term “Islamophobia”, which was immediately adopted by the US, the EU, academic bodies like the American Academy of Religion, and then the media and the More...
Dear Mr Khaliq, stop trying to scare us to win votes
Dear Mr Khaliq, As a senior journalist, I usually keep away from responding directly to the essays or articles written by politicians because they are often just that — political and biased. However, as a More...
From Europe to Iraq to India: Time to end Muslim appeasement
This article was contributed by IndiaFacts supporter, reader, and well-wisher, Shwetank Bhushan. Recently, while reading several reports on the fraud involved in the Nalanda University reestablishment, I came across More...
Teesta Setalvad’s cultural terrorism
It seems after totally discrediting the noble cause of human rights by her lies, forgeries and mercenary pursuits, one of the most distrusted “human rights activist” in the country, Teesta Setalvad, has decided More...
ISIS Caliphate: Lessons from the earliest Mohammedan invasions of Central Asia
Preface By 1000 CE, the Turks were already on their way to becoming the primary spearhead of Islam against the Hindus of India, the heathen civilizations of Central Asia, and the Christians in the West. The Mongol More...
William Dalrymple’s skewed perspective on the Caliphate
On 13 July 2014, The Guardian published an opinion article by the well-known historian of Moghul India, William Dalrymple: “The ISIS demand for a caliphate is about power, not religion.” We have heard this tune More...