Thursday, March 28, 2024

Topic: Muslim

Roots of Islamophobic sexualization of Muslim women and men

It would be naïve to view the Sulli Deals or similar objectification of the “Other” women merely from a gender lens. A historical analysis that puts into perspective the sexualisation of racism will help us to interconnect multiple different incidents like claims of love jihad, population jihad, hyper-masculine jingoism, metaphorising of women as the nation, sexualisation of both Muslim women and men that currently seem to be distinct and unrelated.

Malik: Struggling between genre and social commentary

The Beemapally police firing which resulted in multiple deaths including that of a 14-year-old Muslim boy is the inspiration behind the movie. Ever since the movie's release, there have been criticisms against the distortion of the actual events to favour a state narrative about the police killings. Hence, the tail-end is the final draw from the director to hold together a technically good movie with a weak script, with an even weaker political understanding.

After outrage, Assam govt removes photo of Muslim family with foreigner tag from website

Following the criticisms from family, photographer and Muslim community leaders, the photograph of a riot victim Muslim family clicked in 2012, which was used as a representative image on a page on Foreigners’ Tribunals (FTs) on an Assam government website, has been removed.

Assam: Riot victim Muslim family’s photo appears on govt website with ‘foreigner’ tag

On Saturday, the All Assam Minority Students’ Union (AAMSU) submitted a memorandum to the Chief Secretary of Assam asking for the removal of a photograph of a Muslim family featured on the website of the Assam government’s Home Political Department, on a page about ‘Foreigners' Tribunals'.

Indian Rumis and the shadows of anti-Muslim violence

Recently, while the discussion around demuslimization of Maulana Rumi was gaining momentum, I was going through a collection of poetry of Dr. Bashir Badr, it suddenly stuck with me how we often reduce him to romantic poetry, taking cue from Maulana Rumi’s romanticization. Dr. Badr was born in Babri Masjid’s Faizabad, now Ayodhya, is a poet bearing the trauma of Anti-Muslim Meerut violence.

“They snatched my 11 years when I was in the prime of life,” Kashmiri man walks free after decade in jail

Bashir Ahmad Baba, then 31, left his home for Gujarat taking his father’s leave for 10 days only to return on June 23 this year after languishing for 11 years in Vadodara Central Jail in Gujarat following his wrongful conviction under the draconian UAPA.