BOOK- The Population Myth: Islam, Family Planning and Politics in India ( S Y Quraishi)
Uses data to assert that Muslims can never outnumber Hindus in keeping with the trend of last 70 years. Studies should Muslims open to the concept of family planning and fare better than many Hindu sections on the topic of birth spacing.
With the rapid surge in Islamophobia in India of late, the anti-Muslim propaganda fuelled by misinformation and fake news targeting the minorities, instils fear and hatred towards the Muslims in the country. Recently, there have been some planned campaigns on social media to portray the community in a bad light by circulating some videos and photos of Muslims spitting on food in order to make it halal.
The ongoing anti-Muslim campaigns portray Islam as a regressive and archaic religion which fuel the prejudiced notion that Muslims are ignorant, uninformed, old-fashioned and an uncultured bunch of people who oppose progressiveness. The idea that Islam and modernisation don’t go hand in hand is what is generally deemed about the religion.
Persecution of Hindus: Reality or myth?
BOOK- Indian Muslim(s) After Liberalization (Maidul Islam)
What is Love Jihad?
Islam is generally portrayed as a religion that promotes violence and terrorism. Right-wing narratives usually use terms such as violent, terrorist, extremist and so on to describe Muslims. The constant stereotyping and bashing of Islam and Muslims by the media too play a significant role in reinforcing this misconception.
Religious conversions have been a hot topic in the country for quite a long time now. The issue has surfaced time and again, in the political realm, media and courts.
Protests against offering namaz in the open have been going on in Haryana and Uttar Pradesh for quite some time. The matter escalated in after a video of a man protesting against Muslims offering the Friday congregational prayers on public land in Gurgaon, Haryana, a city near New Delhi, went viral on September 29, 2021.