Post Tagged with: "fatwa"

Hey Hey, My My, Rock & Roll is Here to Die

A fatwa, hysterical insults and teenage girls persecuted into hiding. Add masala, says Riyaz Wani, and serve...  

Roll up! It’s a Media Circus

The breathless coverage of an unpopular Mufti’s fatwa helps distract from the real issues  

Darul Uloom endorses fatwa on Pragaash

Clerics at the Darul Uloom Deoband supported the fatwa on Kashmiri girl rock band Pragaash, stating that...  

The Valley Rocks Out

It is sad but there is now a pre-existing universal stereotype of the Muslim community which needs...  

Hollow Laughter

Author Mohammed Hanif and playwright Richard Fredman tell Nisha Susan why satire is the best reality check...  

The Fracas Over Faith

Fayaz Ahmad, who had a brief fling with Christianity, is hunting down “forced converts” in the Valley...  

‘Governments Always Take Decisions Before Extremists Demand Anything’

WAS IT really mob fury that stalled the official launch of Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasrin’s book in...  

Rushdie: In a Land of Shame

Are we now a country that cannot bear the disembodied video presence of a writer whose book...  

His furious stories

Twenty years on, was The Satanic Verses worth the fatwa, wonders Gaurav Jain  

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