Terror in the name of God?
There is no doubt that we have a problem in today’s world. It’s a big problem. The strange thing is that apparently we don’t want to solve it, because we close our eyes to the problem and to its root cause. More...
Responding to Mehdi Hasan – How Hindus Should Engage Their Opponents
Mehdi Hasan is an Islamic bigot. He has dehumanized non-Muslims by equating them with animals. He has infamously threatened newspapers with sanctions for portraying Islam in ways he thinks are negative. He is a More...
Heading for Politically Correct Suicide
Dec 2015 – In Bhopal a Muslim leader speaks to the crowds (1). Mullah: Jo Allah ke baare mein gustaskhi kare, jisse jahan maukka mile usse wahan utha de, bas. (Whosoever insults Allah, at the first given opportunity More...
Why India Should Honor Taslima Nasrin
In her article “The Role of the Writer,” Maryse Condé, the famous writer from the French speaking island of Guadeloupe in the Caribbean, shares an interesting memory from her childhood. When she was about seven More...
Anti-Hinduism as an Industry
Anti-Hinduism is an industry. It has a purpose and an end goal.It has financial means, institutional set-up and a tradition of sponsored intellectuals occupying important positions, protecting vested interests of More...
I am a Kaffir and I need a Hug
In the afternoon of 6 August, a blindfolded Muslim man named Mazim Mullah stood in a Mumbai street with his hands stretched open and a message that urged passersby to hug him: “I’m a Muslim and I trust More...
Islamophobia: An Invention that Enfeebles Free Speech
In my earlier essay on the topic, I discussed the damaging influence that political Islam has over public discourse by preventing people from examining the root causes of Islamism. In this piece, I examine political More...
Islamophobia: Political Islam’s Latest Incarnation Debilitates Public Discourse
Political Islam began almost from the moment Islam was born. In fact, if we notice the core doctrines of Islam, it is doubtless that politics—rather, political imperialism—and Islam are inseparable. From brutal More...
Analysing the Quran through a Dharmic Perspective: Introduction
This essay is the first part of a series that analyses the Quran using a Dharmic perspective. It is a translation of the Bengali booklet titled “Allah Ke” (Who is Allah?) published in the early 1930s, authored More...
Conversions 101: Zakir Naik as a case study
Dr Zakir Naik, Indian public speaker on comparative religion and full time Da’ee, in his lecture ‘Da’wah or Destruction’, to motivate the Muslims to do da’wah says: If people tell you to mind your More...