Author: B Shantanu

Radical Islam finds willing recruits in fresh converts

A few weeks ago, Jaya Menon of the Indian Express wrote a report on how fresh converts are being targeted by radical Islamists to swell their ranks. Excerpts from this very worrying piece published 26th...

Vande Mataram – Expose the Mullah’s specious argument

Last weekend, I watched a few minutes of a televised discussion on the debate around making �Vande Mataram� compulsory in schools. It was on ITV moderated by Barkha Dutt and the panellists included Swapan...

“Moderate” Muslims Behaving Badly

This is a “must-read” from Don Feder writing in the FrontPage Magazine. Some excerpts: I was in London last week, where I gained a renewed appreciation for the religion of peace and insights into...

‘Recitation of Vande Mataram against Islam’…

From The Indian Express, as reported by PTI: “There are some lines in Vande Mataram which go against our religion,” Jilani said. However, Muslims had no problem in reciting the National Anthem, Jana gana...

Alarming slogans and “warnings”

Some pretty explicit photographs showing protesters carrying placards with dire warnings during a rally outside the Danish embassy in London on February 3, 2006 (protesting against the publications of cartoons in a Danish newspaper). From...