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Indian Muslims need freedom from ulema. A cleric can’t call Shami criminal for skipping roza

A cleric chastising Mohammad Shami for not fasting during Ramzan is less about religion and more about power theology and the confrontational ideology...

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Halal certification is turning into a scam. It’s creating a Muslim-only economy

Why should everything be reduced to the binary of Halal and Haram? It’s pop Islam—faux piety, driven by pseudo-Islamic power theology that seeks...

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Concealment can’t bring closure. Muslims must admit destruction of Hindu temples was wrong

If Muslims considered the destruction of temples bad, there should have been an elaborate and pervasive condemnation of it in their literary and...

05.12.2024 7

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Aligarh Muslim University was centre of Muslim politics. Then it became Muslim Politics itself

AMU’s Islam is more about politics than piety. Its 'minority' status has roots in a 'Muslim Vatican'.

08.11.2024 3

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Waqf Amendment Bill isn’t radical enough. Reinvent or wind up

The near total absence of any visible charity by Waqf should bring us to its real character and organisational structure.

18.10.2024 2

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Waqf is anti-Quran. Muslim elite used it to build political power

Waqf is rarely seen running charities because it has been more about building and maintaining the Muslim elite’s power than about charity.

14.08.2024 4

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