Indian American Muslim Council

Modi’s Two Faces: Courting the Muslim World Abroad While Suppressing Muslims at Home

Tension prevailed at the Hazrat Khwaja Maulana Kamaluddin Chishti Dargah in Dhar, Madhya Pradesh, after a crowd raised slogans of “Bhojshala jhaki hai, Kashi, Mathura baki hai,” and a Muslim crowd responded with chants of ‘Allah Hu Akbar.’ siasat.com/communal-sloga…

A man equipped with a good quality microphone, camera and light walks up to a shop and confronts the building’s owner. “It’s been 12 years since you rented this shop to him,” he says. “They are running away with our sisters. You are strengthening them.” The owner of the building is a Hindu; the shopkeeper is Muslim. thewire.in/communalism/ba…

Tensions rise in the key state, won by the right-wing BJP this month for the first time, as political shift disrupts Eid al-Adha traditions. aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/25…

A Delhi Court on Friday released a person who was “mistakenly arrested” by the Delhi Police in the Uttam Nagar violence case and held in illegal custody without evidence showing his involvement. maktoobmedia.com/post?id=115554…

The piece tracks three recent Supreme Court rulings on UAPA bail that reveal a shift from treating detention as the norm to cautiously foregrounding liberty, using data on low conviction rates and interim bail orders to frame what this could mean for long-jailed undertrials like Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam; Sanjay Hegde asks: Will the court now turn this emerging pause into a clear promise of timely freedom? thequint.com/opinion/suprem…

As sections of the media have reported, a new “jihad” has been unearthed. Earlier this week, the Uttar Pradesh Police invoked the Gangsters Act and the Anti-Social Activities Prevention Act against 10 gym owners in Mirzapur, accusing them of waging “gym jihad”. scroll.in/article/109304…

A structure described by officials as an “illegal shrine” was demolished in Uttar Pradesh’s Sambhal district on Saturday during a large-scale “anti-encroachment drive” on government land. theobserverpost.com/shrine-demolis…

More than 31,000 properties registered as Waqf in Uttar Pradesh have been removed from the Centre’s Umeed portal after authorities detected major discrepancies and technical inconsistencies in the submitted records during a large-scale verification exercise. indiatoday.in/india/story/wa…

Two Muslim men were allegedly lynched by a mob in Assam’s Sonitpur district near the Arunachal Pradesh border in the early hours of Friday, while another person was injured in the attack. maktoobmedia.com/post?id=115549…

Will there be any campaign within Hindu society to awaken consciousness against dowry and domestic violence? thewire.in/society/hindut…

You can’t hide hate from the world.

Hindutva groups in Uttar Pradesh’s Saharanpur district have claimed that a Shiva Temple initially existed where the Islamic seminary Darul Uloom Deoband currently stands. siasat.com/up-hindu-raksh…

On a humid Sunday afternoon in July last year, a small gathering of Christians inside a modest home in India's Uttar Pradesh state was interrupted by a mob. "At least 50 to 60 people associated with a Hindu right-wing organization came when people were receiving a religious message," said Jaynendra (name changed), the pastor leading the prayer. dw.com/en/christians-…

In Delhi’s Pitampura, a mob led by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA Karnail Singh demolished a structure he described as an “illegal madrasa” allegedly built on land belonging to the Delhi Development Authority (DDA). maktoobmedia.com/post?id=115544…

The Union government told the Supreme Court on Friday (May 22), that Sunali Khatun’s husband, Danish Shaikh, pushed into Bangladesh from the capital in June 2025, will be brought back to India. He said the process may take eight to 10 days. thewire.in/law/will-bring…

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The death of a 64-year-old Muslim man in Ahmedabad on May 20, after he was taken into police custody in connection with a cow slaughter case, has sparked allegations of custodial torture and renewed concerns over the policing of Gujarat’s stringent cow protection laws. thewire.in/communalism/gu…

The Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor’s administration demolished dozens of homes belonging to Gujjar and Bakarwal families during a demolition drive in Jammu’s Sidhra area, leaving several tribal families homeless and triggering allegations that vulnerable Muslim communities were being selectively targeted. maktoobmedia.com/post?id=115526…

Hindutva is very different from Hinduism. One is a 20th century majoritarian movement, the other an ancient faith. aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/22…