The District BJP leadership here is in a fix in the wake of the party’s city vice-president Pradeep Aggarwal threatening to convert to Islam over being allegedly ignored by the party.
Bangladesh government has started the renovation work of Museum and Bangladesh Bhavan of Visva-Bharati University in Santiniketan, Birbhum.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has announced that Aiman Zaarab, a senior commander of the Islamic Jihad Rafah Brigade, was killed in an airstrike on the southernmost Gazan city of Rafah.
The preliminary probe by police has revealed that the bomb threat emails sent to over 15 schools in Bengaluru have some jihadi content, said sources on Friday.
Islam also urged all the political parties, including the opposition BNP, to take part in the elections.
The SC on Monday observed that Karnataka High Court, which has upheld a ban on Hijab in educational institutes, was left without any option but to interpret the Quran on the issue of essential religious practice.
Truschke finds that high level contact between learned Muslims and Hindus was marked by collaborative encounters across linguistic and religious lines.
Despite the many superficial differences, all our deeper and more permanent values are similar. The respect for knowledge, justice, compassion towards the less privileged, healthy family life, and the need to improve the here and now are commonalities that can be explored
While our jurists deliberate on the essential religious practices doctrine, perhaps a case may be made to buttress the need to recognize the interdependence of religion and secularism in our democracy too. If it is legit for some girls in Udupi college to insist on putting on a hijab, Aroosa Parvaiz who topped this year's 10+2 board exams from J&K choosing not to wear one is legit too. Hijab is a dress in which national and liberal identities overlap, exposing the paradox that while it may be an affront to liberal values, its suppression is equally illiberal. The shallowness of the debate risks running into a rather illiberal liberalism
It is true that in societies trapped in poverty, illiteracy and ignorance, women continue to receive abominable and oppressive treatment. But then, this is true of all societies. Muslims cannot be singled out for such a flawed social order. This distortion, however, should not deflect our focus from some path-breaking and stellar contributions of Muslim women not just to Islamic civilization but the secular society as well
