With extremists gaining power, human rights abuses surging, and regional stability at risk, Bangladesh is veering toward a Pakistan-style crisis that the international community can no longer afford to ignore. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/09/03/world/bangladesh-is-a-waiting-time-bomb/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #bangladesh #india #pakistan #muhammadyunus #sheikhhasina #religion #islam
More than 600 pilgrims in Iraq were briefly hospitalized with respiratory problems after inhaling chlorine as the result of a leak at a water treatment station, authorities said Sunday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/10/world/600-pilgrims-hospitalize-by-chlorine-leak/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #iraq #islam#shiites #najaf #karbala
Sudan's Islamist movement, toppled in an uprising in 2019, is plotting a political comeback by supporting the army in the country's civil war. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/25/world/politics/sudan-islamists-postwar-comeback/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #sudan #islam #ahmedharoun
#India pavilion at #Osaka #WorldExpo was a #Hindu-nationalist showcase, adorned with religious symbols, showcasing temples and and scriptures through. Didn't see a single mention of #Islam anywhere nor much of anything from #SouthIndia
Stark contrast to the far superior #Indonesia pavilion next door, which highlighted the country's cultural & natural diversity, not highlighting one religion or ethnic group over others.
"These media anchors should really have to wrestle with their consciences about the fact that they are participating in this. No one is forcing them to have the only question they ask which deals with Israel and Palestine and Gaza, be a question about globalize the intifada … as if all of this death, all of this killing, all of this starvation, it just doesn’t register, it doesn’t matter because the lives of Palestinians are not considered to matter."
As a Muslim, Nesrine Malik writes,
"Mamdani has shown how prejudice is rarely about individuals, but the fear that marginalised minority views could ever become powerful majority ones. In this mayoral race, from Palestine to local policing, anti-Muslim hate is not just a repellent phenomenon confined to Mamdani, it is a barricade against the desires of the voting public. Once people start making that connection, it really is over."