The Indian government’s new school textbooks have significant deletions in them related to Muslims in Indian history. Some historians accuse the ruling BJP government of rewriting the country’s history to suit its Hindu nationalist ideology.
‘India is a tinderbox’: Religious tensions come to a boiling point after brutal murder of Hindu tailor
Qasim Rashid, National Spokesman for the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community wrote in a piece in “The Daily Beast” this week saying that “Prophet Muhammad is history’s first major figure to condemn collateral damage in word and deed.”
India is on high alert this week as the country marks the one year anniversary of strikes that paralyzed Mumbai last year. In the second part of her series, Miranda Kennedy reports on the growing alienation of Mumbai’s Muslims.
One year ago, 10 militants arrived from Pakistan in Mumbai, India. The Muslim community was terrified of a backlash, fortunately it never came. Miranda Kennedy has the first in her series of reports about the lives of India’s Muslims.