The Kashmir Files: Myth or Reality (Part III) on May 26, 2022It is a fact that ‘The Kashmir Files’ presents a wholly false picture of the situation in Kashmir. The agenda of ‘The Kashmir Files’ is to mislead the public about the realities of the ground situation and also about the Kashmir dispute itself. That is why the Singapore government banned the film and issued a […]
The Kashmir Files: Myth or Reality (Part II) on May 10, 2022Tobeya Ibitayo, writer and columnist of St. Louis Magazine’s Culture newsletter, USA asked internationally known Indian scholar, Arundhati Roy on April 22, 2022, about “The Kashmir files.” Arundhati Roy responded in these words, “The film is not about Kashmiri pundits in the end; it’s about Kashmiri pundits standing in for Hindus in India, and all […]
The Kashmir Files: Myth or Reality (Part 1) on April 27, 2022“E arly reviews in the Indian media had found the film deeply Islamophobic, dishonest, and a provocation.” Sanjay Kak, Kashmiri Pandit filmmaker and writer This movie feeds into cycles of hate and revenge. It collapses Kashmir’s history and politics into an Islamophobic morality tale that is palatable and profitable to Hindutva India. Dr Nitasha Kaul, […]
Challenges for Press Freedom in Kashmir on April 14, 2022“Kashmiri journalists are already working in a dangerous environment and under a climate of fear, given the various threats they face from multiple actors. This climate of fear has been exacerbated also by state surveillance, police questioning journalists about their reporting, and criminal and anti-terror cases that have been filed against journalists,” Committee to Protect […]
World Powers and the Pernicious Acts of India in Kashmir on March 18, 2022The Vienna Declaration and Program of Action adopted by the World Conference on Human Rights confirmed the human rights of women as an “inalienable, integral and indivisible part of human rights.” The Beijing Declaration and Platform of Action are both outcomes of more than two decades of collective efforts of the international community. Their whole […]
The Concept of Human Rights in Islam (Part III) on March 9, 2022It is a historic fact that during the battle of Badr, no prisoner of war was tortured, because of the specific orders given by Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), nor were there any custodial killings or kidnappings. Not surprisingly, when Umar came with the suggestion that all prisoners of war should be killed because […]
The Concept of Human Rights in Islam (Part II) on February 17, 2022A summary of how the Qur’an deals with the concept of human rights as covered in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) follows: Article 1, 2, UDHR: All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a […]
The Concept of Human Rights in Islam — Part II on February 9, 2022A summary of how the Qur’an deals with the concept of human rights as covered in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) follows Article 1, 2, UDHR: All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a […]
The Concept of Human Rights in Islam (Part 1) on January 21, 2022For us to do justice to the topic of Islamophobia, we must understand what fear implies. Fear is defined as “a distressing emotion aroused by impending danger, evil, pain, etc., whether the threat is real or imagined; the feeling or condition of being afraid.” In line with this definition, it would not be wrong to […]
United Nations has Failed to Live Up to its Mission on December 29, 2021Former UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon has said, “On Human Rights Day, I call on States to fulfil the promises they made at the Vienna Conference.” We all know that the United Nations World Conference on Human Rights, held in Vienna in June 1993, was a landmark event. It was stated that the Vienna Declaration was […]