Muslim minorities
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Endemic anti-Ahmadiyya discrimination
Pakistan's "Commission for Minorities" without the Ahmadis
Pakistan’s conduct towards the Ahmadis and its obsession with religious identity is symptomatic of the radicalisation of society that permeates all areas of life and is reflected in the laws of the land, says Mohammad Luqman
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COVID-19 and Bangladesh's Rohingya refugees
Cox’s Bazar coronavirus case – the first of many?
With the first COVID-19 case having been detected in the Kutupalong Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh, aid agencies are warning that without additional resources, there will be a public health catastrophe. By Rodion Ebbighausen
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Interviewing Dolkun Isa, Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian and Asiye Abdulaheb
Does no-one have the guts to tackle China on the Uighurs?
On 24 November 2019, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) – along with 17 media partners from 14 countries around the world – published the "China Cables". In interview with World Uighur Congress president, Dolkun Isa, leading ICIJ journalist Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian and whistleblower Asiye Abdulaheb, Sven Lilienstroem, founder of Faces of Democracy, asks what, if anything, has changed for the Uighurs since?
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Interview with Indian author Rahman Abbas
The Nazis and India's Hindutva, united in hate
Award-winning Indian author Rahman Abbas spent time in Europe last year researching "the Holocaust and the future of minorities in India and Pakistan". To mark VE Day on 8 May, he discusses India's alarming shift towards Hindutva nationalism with Dominik Muller
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Coronavirus in India
Muslims as scapegoats
On the streets and online, radical Hindu nationalists, including MPs from the ruling BJP party, are agitating against the Muslim minority, inciting hatred and spreading rumours of a "corona jihad": they allege that Muslims are spreading the virus in order to harm India. By Dominik Müller
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COVID-19 across the Islamic world
Coronavirus: Practicing Islam amid pandemic
The coronavirus pandemic has disrupted social and economic life across the globe. But in the Middle East, authorities have coupled religious edicts with public health advice to curb the outbreak and guide the faithful.
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Protesting India's Citizenship Amendment Act
Muslim women of India rising
Now in the 78th day of their sit-in, Muslim women from the Delhi neighbourhood of Shaheen Bagh have taken the lead in protesting against India's controversial new citizenship legislation. Reciting the constitution, they refuse to be treated as second-class citizens. By Arfa Khanum Sherwani
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Uighur repression in China
Beards and hijabs behind bars
A newly leaked document confirms how China is imprisoning Muslim minority Uighurs based solely on their religion. Naomi Conrad met with a whistle-blower and visited relatives of those held captive
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Interview with Indian Muslim writer Sadia Dehlvi
"The soul of India is inclusive, pluralistic, and democratic"
Modi’s Citizenship Amendment Act grants the Indian citizenship to members of persecuted minorities from neighbouring countries, yet excludes Muslims. This has sparked waves of protest all across India. For prominent Delhi-based Muslim writer Sadia Dehlvi the new law is a long overdue wake-up call. Interview by Marian Brehmer
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Interview with sinologist Kristin Shi-Kupfer
"The aim is to rob the Uighurs of their identity"
Hundreds of thousands of Muslim Uighurs are being held in "re-education" camps in Western China. The more pressure the ethnic group faces from Beijing, the more important their Islamic beliefs become, says sinologist Kristin Shi-Kupfer in conversation with Luise Sammann
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India and big business
Complicit in Modiʹs Hindu nationalist agenda
Having re-invented himself politically following the Gujarat porgroms of 2002, Narendra Modi has – to the delight of big business – consistently pursued a tough line in market-driven economic policy. Buoyed by this support, the Indian Prime Minister is now intent on realising a darker agenda of discrimination and repression. By Dominik Muller
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Protesting Modi's Citizenship Amendment Act
The rape of India's soul
India's rapid descent into xenophobia, violence and irrationality has an important economic dimension, but it takes politicians to channel these emotions into nationalism and to embolden the nationalists to commit violence. Now that the ruling BJP has done so, is it able – or willing – to exorcise the many demons it has unleashed? By Jayati Ghosh