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The Hindutva War on Christians in India

World
While attacks against Muslims have become the norm since 2014, with Hindu nationalist leaders and hate preachers openly urging genocide, as mobs belonging to fringe Hindu organizations, such as Bajrang Dal, hunt and lynch Muslims in the streets – the country’s 25 million Christians had, until now, been spared the worse of what has become a government backed effort to transform India into a Hindu-only nation.

Macron, the Gulf, and Islam

Opinion
Second, at a time when the issue of Islam and Muslims is at the center of the presidential campaign, Macron wants to seek support for the French position against “radicalism,” and especially so after the adoption of the “Law against Separatism,” renamed the “Law Reinforcing the Principles of the Republic,” which came into force in August 2021 and which has caused much misunderstanding in the Muslim world (and elsewhere) as it appears to be (and is in fact) a law against Islam and Muslims.

India’s Role in the Maldives Raises Questions

World
Read: Indian Government's Abuse of Muslims Under Global ScrutinyThese anxieties were given a jolt in June, when a series of leaked documents, showing communication between the Maldives Foreign Ministry and the Indian High Commission, revealed the Indian government denied a request by the previous Maldivian administration, under President Abdulla Yameen, to withdraw its Indian Military helicopters from the country in the months leading up to the 2018 Presidential Election.

Hindutva Radicalization of the Indian Cricket Team

Opinion
” What we are witnessing is the radicalization of Indian society, from top to bottom, at the hands of pernicious Hindutva forces, including the country’s ruling party – Bharatiya Janata Party – which has somehow convinced much of the population that roughly 800 million Hindus are subservient to or under threat from 200 million Muslims, a fear manufactured in hate speech, disinformation and conspiracy theories.