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religious persecution

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Pakistan: 14-year-old Hindu teenager kidnapped, forcibly converted to Islam and married off to her abductor Shaukat

OpIndia Staff - 18 October, 2022

Sindh province in Pakistan has been the hotbed of religious persecution, especially for those belonging to minority Hindu, Christian and Sikh communities.

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‘Persecuted Hindu Tamils from Sri Lanka can obtain Indian citizenship under the CAA’: Madras HC

OpIndia Staff - 17 October, 2022

The court observed that although Sri Lanka is not covered under CAA, the Hindu Tamils in the Island country could obtain Indian citizenship under the Act as they were the "primary victim of racial strife"

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Pakistan: Hindu man forcibly converted to Islam by a cleric, persecution of minorities continues unabated

OpIndia Staff - 11 October, 2022

The Islamic country of Pakistan has been a hotbed of religious persecution, especially for those belonging to minority Hindu, Christian and Sikh communities.

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Watch: How ‘popular YouTuber’ and Islamic scholar Mohammed Hijab incited Muslims to attack Hindus in Leicester

OpIndia Staff - 22 September, 2022

Mohammed Hijab said, "If they (Hindus) believe in reincarnation, what a humiliation of them to be reincarnated into some pathetic, weak, cowardly people like that."

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Leicester: How targeted attacks on Hindus and misinformation campaigns, from ‘Muslim girl abduction attempt’ to ‘mosque attacked’, unfolded

OpIndia Staff - 19 September, 2022

Leicester Islamists also resorted to making outlandish claims to deviate public discourse from targeted attacks on Hindus

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Pakistan: Locals in Hyderabad falsely accuse Hindu man of blasphemy, try to lynch him with slogans of ‘Sar Tan Se Juda’

OpIndia Staff - 22 August, 2022

Kumar was arrested on Sunday (August 21) by the Hyderabad Cantonment police, based on the dubious complaint of the Muslim shopkeeper Bilal Abbasi.

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PML-Q leader asks for expulsion of Ahmadis from Khushab in Pakistan: Here is how the area has been notorious for Ahmadi persecution

Jhankar Mohta - 2 August, 2022

On July 30, PML-Q leader Malik Ilyas Awan wrote to the deputy commissioner of Khushab, a district in the Punjab province of Pakistan, urging him to evict the people of the minority Islamic sect of Ahmadis from the district

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Bangladesh: Hindu victims in Narail recount how Islamist attack turned their lives upside down

OpIndia Staff - 17 July, 2022

"The only reason they beat me up was that I was Hindu," recounted fertilizer trader Gopal Saha.

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Pakistani journalist cites Jogendra Nath Mandal to boast about Jinnah’s secularism: Here is why their first law minister had returned to India

OpIndia Staff - 26 May, 2022

Contrary to the claims of Hamid Mir, Jogendra Nath Mandal, a Hindu, had resigned from the Pak govt because of the brutal persecution of Hindus that went on in the newly formed Islamic country.

Crime

Tamil Nadu: Police arrest Iman for leaking nude images of Hindu woman for not converting to Islam, had forced her to wear Hijab, abused...

OpIndia Staff - 13 May, 2022

21-year-old man named Iman Hameef was arrested for forcibly trying to convert a Dalit Hindu woman to Islam and posting her intimate pictures on social media.

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