TORONTO, Canada (MNTV) – A community photograph documenting a housing and services discussion for Muslim women has been deliberately distorted and weaponized to spread Islamophobic conspiracy theories about Muslims infiltrating Canadian municipal government. The image—showing four women, three wearing hijabs, standing in front of Toronto City ...
SYDNEY, Australia (MNTV) – A generation of Muslim Australians born and raised in the country is experiencing a heightened sense of insecurity, with new findings indicating that fear has become embedded in daily life. In a personal account for Women’s Agenda website, refugee resettlement advocate Yamamah Agha said her Australian-born daughter h...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Members of India’s Dalit community, historically placed at the bottom of the Hindu caste hierarchy, have accused temple organizers in western India of enforcing caste-based segregation during a religious ceremony, underscoring the persistence of “untouchability” practices despite legal bans. The incident was reported ...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A state-run institution tasked with promoting Urdu in India’s most populous state has remained largely non-functional for nearly five years, fueling concerns over declining support for a language closely associated with the country’s Muslim minority. The crisis centers on the Uttar Pradesh Urdu Academy in Uttar Prades...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — An Indian court has sharply questioned the country’s human rights body for failing to act on mob violence against Muslims, while aggressively pursuing investigations into Islamic seminaries, raising concerns over selective intervention and institutional bias. The observations were made by the Allahabad High Court duri...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Kashmiri journalist Quratulain Rehbar has been subjected to online abuse and alleged doxxing by Hindutva-linked accounts after her report on voter list changes in eastern India was published in Nikkei Asia. Rehbar, an independent journalist who has contributed to outlets including Al Jazeera, came under attack followi...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A man accused in the mob killing of a Muslim woman in eastern India has been granted bail, prompting outrage from the victim’s family and renewed concerns over accountability in cases of communal violence. The case involves the death of Roshan Khatoon in Bihar state, where she was allegedly assaulted […]
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A prominent Muslim-owned news channel in southern India has moved a court after its social media page was blocked for users inside the country, raising fresh concerns over digital censorship and press freedom. MediaOne TV, a Kerala-based broadcaster, has petitioned the Kerala High Court challenging the restriction of ...
AUCKLAND, New Zealand (MNTV) — New Zealand’s Indian community has condemned comments made by Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown in which he referred to a Radio New Zealand staff member of Indian descent as a “Muslim terrorist”. Brown later described the remark as a “fumbled attempt at humor.” RNZ said the exchange happened as the May...
SYDNEY, Australia (MNTV) — Concerns about Islamophobia and the safety of South Asian Muslim communities have taken centre stage following the release of a New South Wales parliamentary committee report on right-wing extremism, which also acknowledged caste discrimination and far-right Hindu extremism within diaspora networks, says an article p...
