If he wins, he will become the first Muslim member of the BJP since 2014 in India’s lower house of the parliament. Salam, who is from the Muslim-majority southern city of Malappuram, said Muslim politicians from other parties could gain power by joining the BJP’s alliance in parliament...
It was an especially ugly night for Biden in Michigan’s Arab and Muslim population centres. “Uncommitted” blew out the incumbent president by a 17-point margin in Dearborn, Mich., the only Arab-majority city in the United States. A further six in 10 voters went for “uncommitted” ...
Modi’s BJP Loses Majority in Indian Lok Sabha After 2024 General Election June 14, 2024International By Yousuf Ali India concluded its multi-part general election process that started on June 1 after its start April 19. It yielded surprising results with the ruling party losing i ...
That's the cause of concern for people in any country. Unfortunately, democracy too has failed to solve the issue. If majority in any sense--race, language, religion, class, community or section, is made to feel insecure because of 'growing minorities' or propaganda about the 'other', the...
In 1889, the Congress adopted the principle that it would not take up any proposal which was considered harmful to the Muslims by a majority of the Muslim delegates to the Congress. Many Hindus began to talk of Hindu nationalism and many Muslims of Muslim nationalism. The politically immature ...
I can say with a level of confidence that Islam is not a religion of war, only because the majority of Muslims don't subscribe to that perspective, not because there's something inherent in the text that tells me it's a religion of peace. — Maajid Nawaz 63 ...
majority community would always dominate governments. The 1983 pogrom and the rise of an armed LTTE with its uncompromising stand to divide the country with the creation of Tamil Eelam were actually JR’s legacies. However, in the violence that ensued LTTE’s armed struggle Muslims in the North...
“I’m not racist, but…” Part of this has to do with our own biases about ourselves as people. The vast majority of people will do everything they can to protect their interests and maintain whatever advantages they earned or were given to them in life. When confronted with our ...
Similarly, in tribal regions, you may not find a single tribal in the editorial section. Groups that form barely 5-10% of population, form the overwhelming majority, and hence, the ability to present, misrepresent and project things in a totally different way. ...
India is not of an inter-communal but manifestly of an international character.” The league resolved, therefore, that any future constitutional plan proposed by the British for India would not be “acceptable to the Muslims” unless it was so designed that the Muslim-majority “areas” of ...