Indian American Muslim Council

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The relentless assault on Muslims' faith, identity and heritage in India.

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A 20-year-old man from Meerut has alleged that he was shot by police in an encounter in 2019 while returning home after distributing his sister’s wedding invitations. Seven years later, he remains paralysed from the waist down and says he is still waiting to know why he was shot.

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According to reports, the incident began after a disagreement over getting off at a particular bus stop. Khan alleged that a woman and two male passengers verbally abused her during the altercation and repeatedly told her to “go to Pakistan.”

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A Muslim woman judge has come under communal abuse, online threats and a targeted campaign by Hindutva groups after sentencing 14 alleged cow vigilantes to life imprisonment for the 2022 mob lynching of a Muslim truck driver in Madhya Pradesh's Narmadapuram district.

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Controversial priest with a history of several Islamophobic comments, Yati Narsinghanand Saraswati, has publicly expressed support for Hindutva figure Anil Yadav’s recent call for genocide of Muslims in India.

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The movies will not show this. In yet another shining example of Kerala's social harmony where humanity supersedes religion, a Muslim woman performed the last rites of a former RSS worker from Kasaragod who died of cancer in Kozhikode on Friday.

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Uttar Pradesh Police on Wednesday, June 24, arrested three Muslim women after raiding a house in Kaushambi district on suspicion that they were cooking beef.

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Priyank Kharge’s remarks have raised important – and ignored – questions about transparency, accountability and trust in a democracy.

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A special court in Bengaluru has rejected the interim bail plea of Zakariya, who has spent nearly 17 years in jail as an undertrial in the 2008 Bengaluru blast case, seeking temporary release to care for his ailing mother.

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The death of a 26-year-old undertrial prisoner in Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar district jail has raised serious questions, with the family alleging custodial torture while jail authorities have denied the claims.

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Fresh questions have emerged over the auction of a valuable parcel of land belonging to Jamia Nizamia, one of the oldest Islamic seminaries of higher learning in Hyderabad. Waqf Board sources stated that the property had already been recorded and approved as a Waqf asset on the Central Government’s UMEED portal before being sold through a public auction.

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Fresh allegations of religious profiling have emerged from northern India after members of a Hindu extremist group were accused of identifying Muslim-owned businesses and questioning shopkeepers about their religious identity.

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The West Bengal BJP government has slashed the allocation for the Minority Affairs and Madrasah Education (MAME) Department by 62% in the 2026–27 Budget, reducing it from Rs 5,713.61 crore in the interim Budget to Rs 2,175.43 crore.

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Please read IAMC’s Weekly Roundup here.

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Terming the continuous cycle of demolitions of Muslim religious places across the country as ‘undeclared emergency’, several prominent Muslim bodies have said they will file petitions in courts seeking restorations of mosques, madrasas and dargahs across Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Uttarakhand, and Uttar Pradesh which were demolished.

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Members of Hindu and Muslim communities gathered for a ‘Sarv Dharm Shanti Sabha’ (Peaceful Assembly of All Religions) on Wednesday to protest demolitions following administrative actions against several mosques in Barmer district, Rajasthan.

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Several prominent Muslim bodies have united to denounce the spate of demolitions of mosques, madrasas and dargahs across Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Uttarakhand, and Uttar Pradesh. They have also decided to seek legal relief over these actions.

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A fact-finding report released by the Association for Protection of Civil Rights (APCR), West Bengal, has alleged that the murder of 71-year-old Muslim man was part of a pattern of post-election violence, describing it as "a serious incident of collective violence" that has left residents of Kelepara village living in fear, with witnesses "hesitant to speak openly for fear of retaliation."

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Harsh Mander traces how labels like love, land, spit, gym or jeans ‘jihad’ are used to criminalise everyday work, justify boycotts and legal action, and normalise hate against Muslims in India since 2014. Harsh Mander asks: Will Indians recognise these patterns before more livelihoods and lives are destroyed?

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The piece links attacks on universities, paper leaks and academic censorship with the long incarceration of scholar-activist Umar Khalid, arguing that ignoring jailed student leaders accepts state-set limits on dissent. Nabiya Khan asks: Can any fight for education be honest if it sidelines those punished for campus politics?

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