A new travel advisory has just been issued by the Indian government on May 28th 219 for her nationals wishing or planning to go to Sri Lanka. After the deadly easter bombing that claimed several lives and led to tensions between Sri Lankan Christians and Muslims, the government had issued a travel advisory in April. […]
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Sri Lanka: Violence all around as Christian mob clashes with Muslims, Cardinal says ban liquor
An unprecedented violence Sri Lanka again when a Christian mob, comprising mostly of Catholics, chased Muslims and attacked their homes and shops. Due to fresh escalation between Christians and Muslims, social media clampdown was initiated by the government with Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, Ranil Wickremesinghe, issuing a statement saying that those affected will get […]
Mandatory Islamic prayers, principal asks non-Muslim students to embrace Islam
Bangladesh was left in shock when on 20th March 2019 when the Principal of Rabia Shamsuddin technical School & BM College of Chittagong made Islamic prayers mandatory. But worse was to follow, when throwing all rules and regulations to the winds, the Principal in charge Mr. Mohammed Aminul Islam Sohag invited all the non-Muslim students of […]
Books chronicling minority rights violation runs into Islamist wall in Bangladesh
Sitangshu Guha is a journalist and writer based in the USA, but his roots are in Bangladesh and he has spent a lot of time in the country documenting violent incidents against minorities. Two books of his published in 2019 made an appearance in the February bookfair in Dhaka. The names of the books are […]
Pakistani Hindus: We were forced to convert to Islam
Pakistani Hindus are taking a sigh of relief after migrating to India. Several of these Hindus are based in Rajasthan and are narrating their woes of forceful conversion to Islam that they faced in Pakistan. Several members of the refugee Hindu community who have been living in Rajasthan for more than half-a-decade spoke to the […]
Forcibly converted Hindu girls ‘legally’ handed over to Muslim ‘husbands’ (Video)
Hindu girls Reena and Raveena who were abducted from Hafiz Salman near Deharki to convert to Islam on the eve of Holi have had their conversion approved by the Islamabad High Court today. Anjuma James Paul, who was with the family, said that the family was demanding justice before the hearing at the court but […]
13-year old Christian girl abducted for forced conversion to Islam
Even keeping Muslim names and hiding their religious identity to survive in Pakistan is not helping Christian girls. In the latest case of abduction, a Christian girl named Sadaf aged 13 was kidnapped by a local Muslim named Mubashir Hussain Baloch and married off to him on February 6th, 2019. She was threatened to embrace […]
Hinduphobia on Holi: Violent attack, forced conversion of mentally-challenged girl mar festivities in Pakistan
Holi turned tragic for Pakistani Hindus as two minor girls were forced to convert to Islam in Pakistan on the eve of the holy Hindu festival and were married off. While Pakistani Hindus were on street fighting on this case, Currentriggers.com came to know that another Hindu woman named Taran Bai was attacked with sharp […]
Holi in Pakistan: Minor Hindu girls ‘forced to’ convert to Islam, Hindus block roads in protest
Two minor Hindu girls, Reena aged 14, and Raveena aged 16, have been forced to convert to Islam after the abduction, say their parents and Hindu community. The girls were allegedly kidnapped from Hafiz Salman near Deharki to convert to Islam on the eve of Holi. Father of Hindu girls Reena and Raveena is ready […]
School girl kidnapped for conversion to Islam, policeman threatens investigators
A Hindu school girl Pinki Rani Sharma, aged 15, has been kidnapped for forceful conversion to Islam on 07th March 2019 by local Muslims at Birgonj Upazila of Dinajpur District, Bangladesh. Bangladesh Minority Watch (BDMW) in its report said that Md. Zahangir Islam (20), Md.Tofazzal Hossain (40), Rumi Begum (35), Md. Hossain Meah (35), Md. […]