NEW DELHI: Muslims will not be singing Vande Mataram as some verses violate the Islam’s faith in Allah is the fatwa released from the Jamiat -e-Ulema-e-Hind by their...

C’Mon...Its just a song. I think one does not need to worship nation. If you say “Bharat Mata”, a country does not become your mother. Its a way of...

Why would a 30-plus year-old man be interested in an 8-year-old girl? What could he possibly find in common with a child of that age, a pre-pubescent who has yet to...

It is designed to be explanatory, for Muslims, and non-Muslims alike, on the status of the veil, and its more oppressive forms, such as the one-eyed niqab. If you are a...

With some overly friendly comments to Gov. Sarah Palin at the United Nations, Asif Ali Zardari has succeeded in uniting one of Pakistan’s hard-line mosques and...

The Hindi-Urdu film industry, right through its transition from Bombay to Mumbai, has had an interesting relationship with what one may call the Muslim dilemma in...

Thousands of Muslims gathered in New Delhi on Saturday to denounce terrorism, with leading Islamic seminary Darul Uloom issuing a fatwa declaring it as the “most...

Every time you turn around, a Muslim cleric is issuing a religious edict (fatwa) about something. Whether it’s giving fellow Muslims permission to murder...

The act of vandalism carried out on the BJP headquarters has been described as ‘premeditated act of violence’ carried out at the behest of DMK ministers....

A leading Muslim cleric issued a fatwa that the face of controversial Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen be blackened for her alleged comments against Islam and...

The Muslim women victims of molestation, rape and domestic violence have no right to seek justice in the face of fatwa welding Mullahs and Imams, who are very eager to...

Back in time girls were bound in chains, had no permission to step out of their homes, had a selected group with which they could communicate and share their lives....

Taslima Nasreem from the beginning has been snowed under with difficulties and successes, and along with that she has been a continuing object of ridicule of die-hard...

Its not possible and even not valid in our judicial system that anyone on his personal preferences forces that personal laws should be allowed to carry on...

Islamic seminary, the Darul-Ifta Firangai Mahal issued a ‘fatwa’ against terrorists targeting places of worship and killing innocent people. Today young...

Egyptian conservatives condemn the artificial virginity hymen kit as technology that will promote promiscuity in a culture that forbids premarital sex. Their protests...