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Pakistan: Top cleric claims VPN use is un-Islamic, PM Shehbaz Sharif uses VPNs to post on X because his country has banned the platform

OpIndia Staff - 19 November, 2024

Pakistan’s clerics declared VPNs un-Islamic, citing Sharia concerns. The government seeks to ban non-registered VPNs, threatening free expression and impacting Imran Khan supporters' protests.

World

Online radicalisation in India rising with escalating conflict in West Asia: Security agencies warn MHA

OpIndia Staff - 8 October, 2024

The Indian intel agencies have warned MHA of an unprecedented online radicalisation among Shia Muslims in India as war in West Asia escalates.

News Reports

Malaysia: 500+ children rescued from Islamic cult operating as a business group, children of ’employees’ were sexually abused and kept without education

OpIndia Staff - 24 September, 2024

The Al Arqam sect was started by an Islamic leader named Ashaari Mohamad. The government of Malaysia had banned the group back in 1994 calling them a heretical and deviant cult.

News Reports

Islamic clerics Maulana Kalim Siddiqui and Mohammed Umar Gautam among 12 sent to life imprisonment in 2021 illegal religious conversion case

OpIndia Staff - 11 September, 2024

Officials stated that the accused were operating a racket called the Islamic Da'wah Centre, which was involved in converting poor individuals and students with hearing impairments to Islam.

News Reports

Geert Wilders forms coalition, may soon form govt in Netherlands but might not be the Prime Minister: Here’s why

OpIndia Staff - 16 May, 2024

Geert Wilders is a Dutch politician who is known for his anti-Islam stand. He said that he had lost hope of becoming the Prime Minister as he did not have enough support from the coalition parties.

World

‘France is already Allah’s’, ‘Submit to Allah’, ‘Happy Ramadan, non-Muslims’: 58 graves, war memorial, and church vandalised with Islamic graffiti

OpIndia Staff - 13 March, 2024

A total of 58 burial sites in Clermont-d’Excideuil cemetery in France were scribbled over with offensive Islamic writings.

News Reports

‘Misused his post to solicit funds from abroad’: Sufi Islamic Board writes a letter to FM Nirmala Sitharaman, ED against Tamil Nadu Wakf Board...

OpIndia Staff - 17 February, 2024

In its letter, the Islamic Sufi Board said the chairman of Tamil Nadu Wakf Board committed cheating and misused his post to solicit funds from abroad.

Opinions

Muslim devotees must not be allowed to enter Ram Mandir, Ayodhya: All religions are not equal and neither are all ‘devotees’

Nupur J Sharma - 31 January, 2024

Only days after the Ram Lalla Pran Pratishtha, 350 Muslims embarked on a 6-day padayatra to reach the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya.

Opinions

Nazis, Islamists, and Khalistanis: How Canada has been a safe haven for terrorists and extremists since the end of World War II

Jinit Jain - 26 September, 2023

Canada has been courting a wide range of extremists and terrorists, sheltering them and empowering their subversive activities since the end of World War II.

News Reports

France bans Islamic attire Abaya in schools: French education minister Gabriel Attal implements stricter dress code from the upcoming school session

OpIndia Staff - 28 August, 2023

"You enter a classroom, you must not be able to identify the religion of the students by looking at them", the French Education Minister said while advocating for a strict dress code in schools.

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