Author: mohamed-ainullah

The State Department in its annual 2018 International Religious Freedom Report released last month alleged that some senior officials of ruling BJP made inflammatory speeches against the minority communities. “Mob attacks by violent extremist Hindu groups against minority communities, especially Muslims, continued throughout the year amid rumours that victims had traded or killed cows for beef,” it said. According to some NGOs, authorities often protected perpetrators from prosecution.Advertisements Mandated by the US Congress, the State Department in its voluminous report gives its assessment of the status of religious freedom in almost all the countries and territories of the world....

There are tens of thousands of Islamic State (IS) fighters and their family members including tens of thousands of orphaned children who are living in limbo in Syria and Iraq suffering from malnutrition and disease. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ms Michelle Bachelet has called on various nations to take responsibility for their citizens and their families and repatriate them to their home countries. Some countries are dragging there feet to address this humanitarian disaster and are reluctant to take back IS fighters in case they can not be successfully prosecuted.Advertisements Ms Bachelet said that children in...

A ban on female army officers in Turkey wearing the Muslim headscarf has been lifted by the government in February 2017. Over the past decade the ban has been removed for schools, universities, the civil service and in August for the police. In 2010, Turkey’s universities abandoned an official ban on Muslim headscarves.Advertisements Three years later, women were allowed to wear headscarves in state institutions – with the exception of the judiciary, military and police. That year, four MPs wore headscarves in parliament A ban on policewomen wearing the Islamic headscarf was lifted in 2016 Wearing headscarves in public...