Indian American Muslim Council

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The Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC) condemns the brazen act of racial and religious hatred at a Diwali celebration in Seattle on Saturday. Far-right activists Jake Lang and Thomas Allen stormed the Seattle Center Armory and disrupted a dance performance with signs that used a racial slur to demand the deportation of Indians and accused Hindus of “replacing” Christians.

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In Kerala, two Muslim brothers in Wayanad performed the last rites of Kalyani Amma, the Hindu woman they cared for as their mother for nearly five decades, while a mosque in Malappuram opened its doors for the funeral preparations of Premalatha, a Hindu woman who died of cancer.

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The former Director General of Police speaks about the need for fundamental reforms to build public trust in the police, including longer training periods, closer supervision, and stronger accountability mechanisms.

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RSS: The Real Threat to India

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After a fierce online campaign led by Kashmiri Pandit groups, the renovation work on the Sufi shrine has been halted, The Wire can confirm.

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APCR’s Hate Crime Tracker documented 322 hate crimes against Muslims and Christians across 24 states and union territories between January and September 2026, killing 54 people, 21 of them in police or army hands, with the state involved in one in three incidents and no official charged for any death.

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A group of around 40 men allegedly ambushed a house church in Rayan village in West Bengal’s Purba Bardhaman district on November 1, and physically assaulted the pastor and several Christian worshippers during a Sunday prayer service. The attackers accused the congregation of converting Hindus by luring them with incentives, and also accused them of running a ‘honey trap’.

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Police in India’s Maharashtra state have ordered several mosques in Mumbai to remove their loudspeakers within three days, triggering allegations of religious discrimination as Muslim leaders questioned why noise pollution laws were being enforced selectively against Islamic places of worship.

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A mosque in the Alamganj-Rangamati area of Assam's Dhubri district was demolished during an ongoing eviction drive, leaving local worshippers offering prayers amid the rubble of what was once their place of worship, in scenes similar to those witnessed in Gaza.

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The police claimed to have recovered two hand grenades, 100 rounds of ammunition and two posters of LeT from their vehicle. The court held that the prosecution had failed to establish beyond reasonable doubt that the seized arms and ammunition were recovered from the accused's possession.

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The recent demolition drives across India raise disturbing questions about the meaning of citizenship, the protection of minority rights, the right to housing and the growing use of administrative power to dispossess vulnerable communities.

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Living Muslim voters in Delhi’s Mustafabad, many of them elderly, found themselves marked “dead”, absent or shifted through Form 7 objections filed by BJP booth-level agents during the SIR, and officials have so far sought an FIR against only one agent.

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The Karnataka Rajya Muslim Okkoota (KRMO) has sought an explanation from the Election Commission of India (ECI) over voter deletions during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), alleging that constituencies represented by Muslim MLAs recorded higher deletion rates and that Muslims accounted for a disproportionate share of voters classified as absent or already enrolled elsewhere.

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Several historic shrines, including the Haji Mangrol Dargah, Pir Silar Shah Dargah, Garib Shah Dargah and Jafar Muzaffar Dargah, have been bulldozed in the district in what the administration has described as an 'anti-encroachment drive'.

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Nine in every ten West Bengal voters whom the Election Commission of India (ECI) is seeking to remove from the electoral rolls, even after judicial officers have found them eligible, have Muslim names. This is not only in the state’s Muslim-majority border belt, but also in Hindu-majority districts which are far from the border.

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In February 2024, Narendra Modi inaugurated the BAPS Hindu temple in Abu Dhabi and praised the Emirati leadership's generosity. The UAE had provided land and extensive official support. Modi celebrated the temple as an expression of harmony and humanity's shared heritage.

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The clash between students and authorities at the Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute (SRFTI) in Kolkata has now escalated into a legal battle. The institute has expelled six students for periods between two and three semesters. A first information report has been filed against one of them, Shubham Waydande, alleging an attack on the vice-chancellor. The police have also issued him a notice, ordering him to cooperate in the investigation.

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The piece questions the World Bank’s sharp fall in India’s poverty numbers, arguing it rests on a changed consumption survey, counting free food as income and a dubious PPP rupee that hides real deprivation. Subhash Chandra Garg asks: Can Such Data Really Prove That Poverty In India Has Nearly Vanished?

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Targeted in Trump’s America, Hindus are learning what it means to be a minority. That experience should move the Hindu middle class in the US and India to oppose the BJP’s politics of polarisation, and to demand an inclusive, radical economic agenda.

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Between August and October, at least eight Muslims were killed by state actors in six states, three in police ‘encounters’and five in custody or prison, bringing the year’s toll to at least 27, South Asia Justice Campaign’s India Persecution Tracker documented.

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