The mullahs and their followers have a nasty penchant for concocting bizarre conspiracy theories at the drop of a skull-cap but Vastanvi's naïve and untenable claims about Muslims in Gujarat stoked the agitation that now threatens to displace him
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A campaign of calumny — with much exaggeration, sensation and alarm — starts, accusing Deoband's new vice-chancellor as being ‘guilty’ of the sin of ‘distributing idols’
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The new Deoband chief faces continued opposition, with the self-styled 'Shahi' Imam stepping in with a bizarre claim that ' Vastanvi was nudged by the Congress to issue his alleged pro-Modi statements'
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Darul Uloom's new chief's statements on his home state cause dissensions in, as the Deobandis call it, the ‘fortress of the faith’ and generate heated debate among ‘ordinary’ Muslims
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It's not just the state. The responsibility of Muslim organizations and leaders who claim to represent the Muslims, and to be spokesmen of Islam, cannot be ignored
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It's not just non-Muslims and sensible, liberal, progressive-minded Muslims who have problems with the 'Islamic Media' mogul Zakir Naik. His share of critics is now rapidly expanding to include a growing number of influential ‘Islamic’ clerics
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'Hindus and Muslims are totally separate nations. There is no doubt at all about this... India has a secular system, which we can under no condition accept'
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An analysis of Syed Ali Shah Geelani's Kashmir: Nava-e Hurriyat (“Kashmir: Voice of Freedom”) that provides insights into the man who has always supported the state’s accession to Pakistan and now finds himself at the centrestage of Kashmiri
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The continuing violence in Kashmir is likely to persist under conflicting claims and demands of nationalism and of religion
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Deoband, India’s largest seminary, hastened to announce that the recent controversial fatwa does not forbid Muslim women working outside their homes. A close look.
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