Islamophobia in India

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IQNA – A seemingly isolated social media post has snowballed into a major law-and-order challenge in Himachal Pradesh, India.
News ID: 3497931   Publish Date : 2026/06/22

IQNA – The 1,000-year-old Ganj-e-Shahidan Mosque in Varanasi has become the latest target of what critics describe as a systematic campaign by India’s BJP-led government to erase Muslim history.
News ID: 3497919   Publish Date : 2026/06/21

IQNA – It takes less than a minute and costs next to nothing. A photo lifted from social media, a free AI face-swapping app, and a willingness to harm.
News ID: 3497857   Publish Date : 2026/06/15

IQNA – Authorities sealed all 15 mosques in the state capital of Arunachal Pradesh, India, drawing criticism from Muslim groups.  
News ID: 3497817   Publish Date : 2026/06/13

IQNA – Under the scorching sun near a checkpoint in Hakimpur village along the India-Bangladesh border in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district, Raisul Islam waits — one of many Muslim Bangladeshi nationals facing expulsion as local authorities intensify a campaign that activists say is deepening religious tensions in the region.
News ID: 3497794   Publish Date : 2026/06/10

IQNA – Calling the action legally untenable, a lawmaker condemned the demolition of a mosque in Kaserua village of Sambhal district in India’s Uttar Pradesh, arguing that it breaches constitutional and statutory protections guaranteed to religious structures.
News ID: 3497764   Publish Date : 2026/06/08

IQNA – When police in India’s Gujarat arrested 70-year-old Zaheer Shaikh for alleged cow slaughter, his family says they expected a legal process—not a corpse.
News ID: 3497574   Publish Date : 2026/05/23

IQNA – Mohammad Rafiq cannot remember a time before the Kamal Maula mosque.
News ID: 3497504   Publish Date : 2026/05/18

IQNA – Authorities in the northern Indian city of Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, have demolished hundreds of residential and commercial buildings in a Muslim-majority neighborhood, and six historic mosques now face the same fate, sparking fears of forced displacement and cultural erasure.
News ID: 3497490   Publish Date : 2026/05/17

IQNA – Days after starting a teaching trial in Varnasi, India’s Uttar Pradesh, Samreen Bano says she was dismissed for wearing her hijab.
News ID: 3497402   Publish Date : 2026/05/10

IQNA – A decision by the Indian government to declare a leading Islamic seminary in Kashmir illegal under anti-terror statutes has ignited protests from clerics and politicians, who accuse New Delhi of escalating its crackdown on the region’s religious and cultural institutions.
News ID: 3497270   Publish Date : 2026/04/29

IQNA – In a move that is likely to reignite debate over religious land rights in India’s most populous state, authorities in Uttar Pradesh have annulled the registration of over 12,000 waqf properties—ranging from mosques to burial grounds—following an audit linked to a digitization project.
News ID: 3497233   Publish Date : 2026/04/26

IQNA – In a state already tense ahead of its assembly polls, the Election Commission of India has published voter rolls missing millions of names — and Muslim-majority districts appear hardest hit.
News ID: 3497113   Publish Date : 2026/04/16

IQNA – The hardline Hindu nationalist Chief Minister of India’s Uttar Pradesh, Yogi Adityanath, sparked widespread outrage after declaring in an Assam rally that the Indian government’s goal is to expel Muslims from Assam entirely, marking a dramatic escalation in anti-minority rhetoric.
News ID: 3496996   Publish Date : 2026/04/06

IQNA – Officials in Lucknow, India, demolished a mosque reportedly built on what is called “government land”.
News ID: 3496952   Publish Date : 2026/04/02

IQNA – In a latest Islamophobic incident in India, a mosque in the southern state of Telangana was vandalized and copies of Quran were desecrated.
News ID: 3496448   Publish Date : 2026/02/17

IQNA – A political firestorm has erupted in India after an AI-generated video—depicting Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma firing a gun at an image of Muslims—was shared by his own party's social media in the state, leading to widespread condemnation and calls for action.
News ID: 3496373   Publish Date : 2026/02/10

IQNA – Authorities in Uttar Pradesh’s Sambhal district have suspended a Muslim teacher and a school headmistress after Hindu nationalist groups protested the display of a Quranic verse inside a government primary school.
News ID: 3496337   Publish Date : 2026/02/08

IQNA – A leading Muslim advocacy body accused India’s ruling BJP of institutionalizing anti-Muslim rhetoric.
News ID: 3496254   Publish Date : 2026/01/31

IQNA – Police used force to disperse protesters in Delhi during a municipal demolition drive in the congested Walled City.
News ID: 3495996   Publish Date : 2026/01/07