An inclusive approach can end deadlock

Muslim numbers were low: The organisers had hoped for 20,000 attendees, including 4,000 non-Muslims. However they did not achieve anything like this. The biggest day was Friday, when it was planned that 5,000 Muslims would pray behind the Imam of ...

Various Muslim organisations and Islamic scholars from the city on Wednesday said the police were unnecessarily 'targeting' madrassas in the city by seeking details of innocent students and faculty in the aftermath of the Dilsukhnagar blasts. They ...

THE ninth state of the AIDWA was held in Captain Laxmi Sehgal Nagar at Ichalkaranji in Kolhapur The began with AIDWA vice-president Subhashini Ali hoisting the flag. After paying floral tributes to martyrs, 222 delegates from 15 districts assembled ...

While New Delhi is mired in the fallout of the coal scam and repeated incursions by China deep into the Indian territory, the threat posed by Islamic fundamentalists looms large on the rest of the country. Ironically, the threat is most pronounced ...

BANGLADESH'S war crimes court has indicted a Bangladesh-born British Muslim leader and a US citizen for their alleged role in the murder of top intellectuals during the country's 1971 liberation war. Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin has held positions in a ...

The Talibanised worldview of fundamentalists threatens the 1971 Liberation War's ideals of secularism, humanism and democracy Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina did well to declare during a recent interview with the BBC that she had no ...

KUALA LUMPUR: The escalating clashes between religious groups in Cairo are prompting Christian spiritual tour organisers in Malaysia to reconsider organising trips to Egypt. A tour coordinator with a Malay-sian church ministry said a spiritual tour ...

A belligerent rally in Kolkata by 16 Islamic organisations in support of Delwar Hossain Sayeedi, one of the prime accused in the 1971 genocide in Bangladesh, is indicative of West Bengal’s liberal space shrinking, says Dr Anirban Ganguly. Something unprecedented happened on March 30 in Kolkata. Sixteen Islamic organisations came together at the Maidan, the second largest public ground in the city, in protest against the ongoing war crimes trial in Bangladesh, against the Shahbag sit-in ...

The East London Mosque is opening its doors to non-Muslims in an attempt to promote a better understanding of Islam and what goes on inside the building. Members of the local community are invited to take a look inside the mosque, observe prayers ...