For years US terror warnings have focused on groups like Al Qaeda or Daesh, but the latest warnings from US law enforcement agencies point to homegrown terrorists as the most immediate danger. The United States has been in a permanent state of war since the attacks of September 11, 2001, finding itself voluntarily involved in...
More than 1 million Muslim Uighurs in the Xinjiang region of China, their native land, are believed to have been interned in so-called reeducation camps by the Chinese authorities. The number may be as high as 2 or 3 million—out of a population of 11 million. Trapped along with them are Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, and Uzbeks,...
The fact not a single leader of a Muslim majority country has spoken out either forcibly or frequently against China’s cultural genocide in Xinjiang, one that constitutes the largest industrial scale persecution of a religious minority since the Holocaust, leaves ordinary Muslims asking what it is they can do to save 12 million of their...
Turkey has three possible courses of action in response to the civil war in Syria: diplomatic engagement, isolation or military intervention. The idea at the outset was to bring Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to the negotiating table with the opposition, and to persuade them to find common ground, focusing on rights and freedoms and swift...
(Delhi: July, 6) Markazul Ma’arif Education & Research Centre (MMERC) is gearing up for its silver jubilee celebration with great zeal and enthusiasm to mark 25 years of its successful and historic journey. MMERC has been the first institution of its kind in contemporary era, set up back in 1994 with the endearing vision to...
New Delhi: Alarmed by growing incidents of mob-lynching, the prominent socio-religious organization the Jamiat-i-Ulema Hind (JUH), President , Maulana Syed Arshad Madani today demanded that the government should enact a special law to deal with this menace. He also said it is the duty of the Prime Minister to make sure that minorities feel safe...
Hifzur Rahman Qasmi* The 17th Lok Sabha elections came to an end in the month of Ramadan after a hue and cry of two months’ campaigning. The results were also declared in the same month, though it was much beyond the expectations of the political analysts. The new government was formed and the newly elected...
Bollywood actor Zaira Waseem of ‘Dangal’ fame after garnering massive acclaim for her work has decided to bid adieu to her career as an actor as it ‘interfered’ with her faith and religion. The 18-year-old ‘Secret Superstar’ actor turned to social media with a detail post that left all taken aback as she announced her...
Sikandar Azam Once again, 102,462 people have to prove their citizenship credential in Assam as per the newly released National Register of Citizenship (NRC) draft. For poor common people, it is very difficult to waste entire day for the same work. The prime question is why enough scrutiny was not done by officials at the...
New Delhi:Delhi Minorities Commission has set up a fact-finding committee to probe the claim of the BJP MP from West Delhi, Shri Parvesh Verma, about “mushrooming of mosques on government land” in NCT of Delhi, especially in his constituency. Another BJP MP from Delhi Shri Manoj Tiwari has made similar allegation about other areas of...