At the end of February 2023, India’s Minority Affairs Minister Smriti Irani significantly slashed the budget to support the social and political inclusion of underrepresented groups in India. This has left many Muslim women vulnerable to losing out on scholarships and assistance in allowing them to make progress in education and career goals. Last year’s […]
January 2023 marks a year since the ban on Muslim women from attending Universities in the Indian region of Udupi. The plight of education for Muslim women in the modern world, post-Khilafah one that has repeated itself throughout history. Here are some of the key points: In January 2023, the Taliban regime in Afghanistan banned […]
On 28 Sep 2022, the Indian BJP Government banned Popular Front of India and 8 other related registered organizations for 5 years. The government claimed it has banned the PFI and its associate groups for allegedly undertaking “unlawful activities” which are “prejudicial to the integrity, sovereignty and security of the country”. It has cited the […]
A Hijab ban in the Indian city of New Delhi was issued by the Karnataka government on the 22nd of February 2022. It was and later upheld by the High Court in India and analysts have come to understand its wider social consequences in student communities. A study published by the People’s Union for Civil […]
Speech by Dr. Nazreen Nawaz, Director of the Women’s Section in the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir from the Conference Organised by Hizb ut Tahrir Britain, July 2022: “From Al-Hind to Al-Quds” (1) INTRODUCTION: • Dear brothers and sisters, what is the value of the honour of the Muslim woman in Islam? – […]
On 15 March 2022, the Federal High Court of the Indian state of Karnataka ruled, that prescription of school uniform by college authorities (that did not allow adherence to Hijab/Khimar), did not violate personal freedom or religion, rejecting all the petitions filed by the 9 Muslim girl students studying in the Government Pre-University colleges to […]
The Supreme Court of Karnataka, India, ruled that, “We are of the considered opinion that wearing of hijab by Muslim women does not form a part of essential religious practice,” reinforcing an earlier state ruling banning the Khimar head covering in classrooms. The ruling stated that allowing Muslim women to wear the Hijab in the […]
On February the 21st, the Hindustan Times published an article covering the lack of Muslim representation in the current elections in Uttar Pradesh, India. The quote states that “No party has fielded Muslim women at any of the 12 assembly seats of Prayagraj this time.”
Amid protests in Karnataka state of India, by Muslim girls to be allowed to attend classes wearing a hijab, a group of students marched to their college wearing saffron scarves. Videos from Kundapur in the Udupi district of Karnataka and elsewhere show boys and girls wearing the saffron scarves and spreading violence against the Muslim […]
The arrival of the Hindu Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of India led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to power in India in 2014 had a significant impact on the rapid transformation of India into one of the most dangerous places in the world for Muslims, who constitute 12% of the population. Due to the empowerment […]
Karnataka: Muskan, the brave Muslim girl who stood firm before a mob of Hindu far-right goons, is a student at the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial College in India’s Karnataka. (The News) Comment: We are observing yet another criminal silence by Imran Bajwa regime when the Indian regime is pushing hard against Muslims living in India. A […]
The video of a defiant daughter of the Islamic Ummah from Karnataka, in the Hindu State, went viral around the Muslim World in a matter of hours. She confronted a large number of Hindu extremist thugs, alone but for her Lord, Allah (swt), Who suffices for the believers. Her courage, perseverance and steadfastness upon Islam, […]
The BBC reported on the 19th of December that an Indian lawmaker, K.R. Ramesh, in the Southern State of Karnataka, advised women that in cases where physical violations may be inevitable, try to be positive in the process. The comment has come at a time where abuse of women in the world’s largest Democracy has […]
