New York: The state of religious freedom in India “significantly worsened” last year, a United States panel has said, calling for targeted sanctions against the country over alleged abuses. In its annual report, the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) urged the State Department for
New Mexico: National Muslim groups have linked the killings of four Muslim men in New Mexico over the past year to sectarianism, but Muslims who knew the victims and suspected gunman point to revenge and personal feuds as possible motives. Police last week arrested Afghan refugee
Albuquerque: A Muslim immigrant from Afghanistan has been arrested as the prime suspect in the serial killings of four Muslim men that rattled the Muslims of New Mexico's largest city, police said. After days of bolstering security around Albuquerque-area mosques, seeking to allay fears of a
Washington, DC: Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC), an advocacy organization dedicated to safeguarding India’s pluralist and tolerant ethos, today said civil and political liberties, human rights, and religious freedom in Jammu and Kashmir had sharply declined since India stripped the region of its statehood and
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has been accused of encouraging the persecution of Muslims and other minorities by hardline Hindu nationalists since coming to power in 2014. Muslims comprise nearly 15 per cent of India’s 1.4 billion people, while Hindus still
Haridwar: Indian police arrested eight Muslim vendors for offering ‘namaz’ at a weekly market in Uttarakhand’s Haridwar, Indian police said. In Uttar Pradesh, India, police showered flower petals on Hindu Karwariyas walking on a busy road from a helicopter. Same police force put Muslims in jail if