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Credit: Pexels/Keira Burton, CC BY The word "narcissism" is often associated with selfies, posting content that boasts one's achievements, or other forms of showing off. In Indonesia,…

Signage is seen at CNN center, Thursday, April 21, 2022, in Atlanta. Photo: Mike Stewart (AP)CNN has announced a new hire: John Miller, the former head of the New York Police Department’s intelligence unit.Miller’s best-known work in media was as a television reporter in the 1990s, when he interviewed the likes of John Gotti and Osama bin Laden. More recently, though, he is remembered as the senior police official who bizarrely claimed there’s “no evidence” that NYPD ever spied on Muslim New Yorkers.But the NYPD did spy…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain New research has discovered that Muslims' so-called "sociocultural attitudes" cannot explain their poor labor market outcomes in the British labor market. …

A new report has found that Facebook failed to detect blatant hate speech and calls to violence against Myanmar's Rohingya Muslim minority years after such behaviour was found to have played a determining role in the genocide against them.The report shared exclusively with The Associated Press showed the rights group Global Witness submitted eight paid ads for approval to Facebook, each including different versions of hate speech against Rohingya. All eight ads were approved by Facebook to be published.The group pulled…

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Upmanyu Trivedi / Bloomberg: NYU report details how influencers backing India's BJP have used YouTube to spread conspiracy theories and hateful content targeting Muslims and women in India — Influencers backing India's ruling Hindu nationalist party have used YouTube videos to spread conspiracy theories … Upmanyu Trivedi / Bloomberg: NYU report details how influencers backing India's BJP have used YouTube to spread conspiracy theories and hateful content targeting Muslims and women in…

Author and journalist Tarun Tejpal, who wrote The Alchemy of Desire (2006), The Story of My Assassins (2010) and The Valley of Masks (2011) is back with a new novel called The Line of Mercy (2022). He is in fine form, addressing existential questions with the mix of seriousness and humour that only a skilled craftsman is capable of. This 750-page tome comes a year after the trial court in Mapusa, Goa, acquitted Tejpal of all charges filed by the police – including sexual harassment and rape. The seven months he spent in…

Breadcrumb Trail Links PMN Politics PMN News PMN Crime Author of the article: Article content Members of hardline Hindu groups filed petitions in a court in northern India to stop Muslims from entering a historic mosque, until the court decides on an earlier plea seeking approval to look for any Hindu relics which may be on the site, lawyers said on Wednesday. Judges of a local court in Mathura, a Hindu religious town in Uttar Pradesh (UP) state, allowed the new petitions but have yet start…

Credit: Indiana University Press Public concerns about the influence of religion on politics have garnered much attention in recent years. These concerns have been particularly evident in regard to the intertwining of religion and politics for devout Muslims. But whether that's a fair assessment when compared to other religions—or even when measured against fellow Muslims—remains one of the many questions tackled by a new…

Editor's Note: The excerpt below has been taken from the chapter The New Credo of Hindutva, of the book, Savarkar: The true story of the father of Hindutva written by senior Times journalist and historian, Vaibhav Purandare. Savarkar had entered the Cellular Jail a passionate promoter of Hindu–Muslim amity, having, among other things, lavished fulsome praise on the Muslim heroes of 1857 such as Awadh ruler Wajid Ali and Rohilkhand rebel chieftain Khan Bahadur Khan. But he came out of prison driven by a desire to…