No Evidence of Pakistani Muslims Demolishing Temple in Andhra Pradesh

Updated map showing incidents of of violence on May 7th and 8th in the Kashmir region and in Pakistan and India, according to officials (AFP / John SAEKI, Nicholas SHEARMAN) He said the Pahalgam attack sparked in India a "significant surge in rallies where far-right leaders weaponised the tragedy to incite hate and violence against Muslim Indians and Kashmiris."

"Suddenly appealing for non-violence was equated with being anti-national. I told them I don't have to be violent to support my country. I quit the group." ... Kaleem Ahmed Qureshi was asked by a co-passenger whether a musical instrument he was carrying in a case was a gun · The changing atmosphere is felt in other ways too. For a long time, Ms Ahmad's spacious home has been a hangout for her son's classmates, regardless of gender or religion. But now the bogey of "love jihad" means she asks Hindu girls to leave by a certain hour and not linger in his room.

In Karnataka, another Muslim man was lynched for chanting pro-Pakistan slogans, according to local news reports. The most sweeping action has come in Gujarat. On Monday, the state’s police chief said his officers had arrested 6,500 “suspected Bangladeshi citizens.” Videos of the detention drive showed the men being moved through the streets inside cordons of ropes.

The largest Muslim population resides in Pakistan, with 240.8 million Muslims making up 96% of the population.84 Indonesia houses the second largest population of 236 million Muslims, making up 84% of its population. Although India has 200 million Muslims, the fact that they only make up 14% of the population means that India has the largest Muslim population facing systematic religious violence in the world.

India’s Hindu majoritarian right has long pushed a conspiracy theory, “population jihad”, that suggests that Indian Muslims reproduce faster, with the intent of eventually outnumbering Hindus.

As Mohammad Sinan Siyech has argued, multiple factors help to explain why so few Indian nationals have, to date, been recruited by transnational jihadist groups.14 These include India’s non-participation in the Afghan Jihad against the Soviet Union, India’s Muslim leadership and a strong sense of Indian national identity, effective government actions, various practical barriers that have hindered radicalized individuals from actually joining jihadist groups, and (perhaps most important) the influence of strong Indian Muslim families. Moreover, unlike Pakistan-based groups such as Lashkar-e-Taiba or India-based terrorist groups like the Indian Mujahideen, 15 transnational movements like AQ and ISIS have historically focused their operations and radicalization efforts on other regions and countries, not on India.

This, in fact, is the opinion of the majority of the Ulema, qualified Islamic scholars."14 Mazhari saw the Ghazwa-e-Hind Hadith as an instrument of propaganda in "the proxy war engaged in by Kashmir by powerful forces in Pakistan in the guise of a so-called Jihad," which he and other Ulema consider "nothing but deceit." He also noted that there was no historic record of the Hadith being cited by the many Muslim conquerors of the subcontinent and the Ulema that accompanied them.15

Indophobia, together with Anti-Hinduism ... driving factors behind the re-writing of school textbooks in Pakistan (in both "secular" schools and Islamic madrassahs) in order to promote a biased and revisionist historiography of the Indian subcontinent that promulgated Indophobic and anti-Hindu prejudices. These narratives are combined with Islamist propaganda in the extensive revising of Pakistan's history. By propagating concepts such as jihad, the inferiority of non-Muslims, India's perceived ...

He suggests that it was marked by significant violence and upheaval, which he attributes in part to factors such as internal divisions, the influence of religions like Buddhism and Jainism. Jadunath Sarkar argues that some Muslim invaders waged a systematic jihad against Hindus, using various ...