"Leftists never condemn Islamist terror"

By Dilip -
NB: This is an accusation that is repeated on a daily basis by sympathisers of the Sangh Parivar/and or the Modi government. The latest such may be read here. For those still interested in truth over propaganda, I append a short list of material on jehadi terror and Muslim communalism that has appeared on my blog. I am an avowed socialist, but a critical one. The list leaves aside other sources, (apart from the first two links below). The third link ("An Open letter to the world'.." is a letter I wrote 43 years ago, against the Naxalite policy on Bangladesh: DS

Centre for Secular Space
Centre for Secular Space Facebook page
An Open Letter to the world on the Bangladesh crisis of 1971
Centre's reported order on Taslima shocking, says Javed Anand

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Alizeh Kohari - For the Love of God: The Violent History of Pakistan’s Blasphemy Laws
Pakistan: Khaled Ahmed - Religion and regression // 4 Leftist social media activists vanish in a week
Faiza Mirza: Memoirs of a Hindu girl
Bangladeshi bloggers: What we want the world to know 
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Tazeen Javed - Pakistan: Aao Blasphemy Blasphemy Khelain
Mohammed Hanif: How to commit blasphemy in Pakistan

Haroon Khalid - As the world wakes up to educated Islamic militants
Haroon Khalid - What a shrine with dogs reveals about the state of puritan Islam in Pakistan
Book review: A White Trail - A Journey Into the heart of Pakistan’s religious minorities
Mansoor Anwar on Comrade Abdul Sattar Ranjoor
The Other Kashmiri Dissenters ​
Chia Barsen - The Orlando Terrorist Attack and the Response from the Secular Left
What is to be Undone

Bangladeshi bloggers: What we want the world to know
Rahul Pandita - Burhan Wani-wali azadi? Leftists have succumbed to narrow view of Kashmir // Kunwar Khuldune Shahid - Disown jihadist ‘freedom fighters’ in Kashmir
As Bangladesh court reaffirms Islam as state religion, secularism hangs on to a contradiction
Ten key questions (and answers) about the attacks on atheist bloggers in Bangladesh
Kamel Daoud - The Sexual Misery of the Arab World // Boualem Sansal - “They make a crime of everything”
Marieme Helie Lucas on the coordinated sexual attacks against women in Europe
Larry Womack - The Left Must Stand With Apostates, Too
Shirin Dalvi case: The tyranny of hurt sentiment ...
Appeal for the Release of Raif Badawi, a ...
 Saudi blogger's wife: I feel destroyed ...
To really combat terror, end support for Saudi Arabia // Why ...
 Nesrine Malik - Saudi Arabia's human ...

What If The Saudi Diplomat's Exit Had Happened Under A Congress Government?
Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi - Iran and Saudi Pour Fuel on the Sectarian Fire
Pinheiro: We share responsibility for Syria's murderous stalemate we must come together to break it
How did we become a society that calls Mumtaz Qadri a hero and Malala Yousafzai a villain?
Khaled Ahmed - Pakistan: Rule of violence
Thomas Friedman - Saudi Arabia's export of Wahhabi puritanical Islam has been one of the worst things to happen to Muslim and Arab pluralism
Sweden vs Saudi Arabia

 Sweden's foreign minister unrepentant over Saudi flogging row
Shoaib Daniyal - Saudi award for Zakir Naik
Saudi blogger's wife: I feel destroyed ...
Global outrage at Saudi Arabia as ...
To really combat terror, end support for Saudi Arabia...
Nesrine Malik - Saudi Arabia's human rights record ...
Meredith Tax - The Revolution in Rojava - A liberated area in the Middle East led by socialist-feminists is fulfilling the dreams of Arab Spring

AZEEM IBRAHIM - Why The West Is Losing The Battle Against Radical Islam
ZAHID HUSSAIN - Destruction of the past: Islamic State starts bulldozing the ancient Assyrian site of Nimrud
Deadly Fatwa: Iran's 1988 Prison Massacre
Saudi Arabia Fixated on Iran When Sunni Extremists Are Real Threat
The Revolution in Rojava - A liberated area ...
Islam and the military in modern Turkish politics
Turkey - Leafs from Taksim Square ...
EMMA SINCLAIR-WEBB - In Turkey - rule of law is losing...
Timon Dias - Turkey :Erdogan's theological justification for his dictatorial stance ...
Turkish PM Erdogan condemns Pope ...
Turkish police storm protest camp using ...

Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi - Iran and Saudi Pour Fuel on the Sectarian Fire
People’s Alliance for Democracy and Secularism condemns the harrassment of Shirin Dalvi
The hounding of Shirin Dalvi: 'These people are doing all this to damage my career'
PRESS CLUB CONDEMNS WITCH-HUNT OF URDU DAILY EDITOR Sandip Roy: Harassment of Urdu editor proves our own hypocrisy
Defend this reporter! Case over Paris cartoon forces Mumbai editor to go behind a veil
Mohd Asim - Congratulations. We've Forced an Editor Into a Burqa
Harsh Kapoor - Long Live Charlie Hebdo! : A letter to the left-leaning in wake of Charlie Hebdo shootings of January 2015
Maryam Namazie: Defend Bangladesh's Bloggers

Tableeghi Jamaat members can knock at any door anywhere in the West. But Christian missionaries cannot proselytize the Muslim world
‘Freedom to criticize religion is a touchstone of free expression’ - Gilbert Achcar
Subhash Gatade: Muslim Right: Why does it want to protect Razakars and Mass Murderers?
Kolkata madrasa head attacked for ‘trying to be a Rushdie’
Another Blogger Hacked to Death in Dhakha, Big Knives Used, Says Police // Bangladesh blogger becomes second to be murdered in a month
IHEU Freedom of Thought Report 2013: Death penalty for atheism in 13 countries
Salman Rushdie - ON CENSORSHIP.
Syed Badrul Ahsan calls for Taslima's return - Our writers, our moral parameters

Taksim, Convergence, and Secular Space // Turkey, the end of Islamism with a human face
Khaled Ahmed - A culture of haters
Khaled Ahmed - Rollback nations (NEWSWEEK PAKISTAN)
Interview with Karima Bennoune, author of 'Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here'
Maxime Rodinson on Islamic "Fundamentalism" An Unpublished Interview with Gilbert Achcar // Maxime Rodinson: in praise of a 'marginal man' by FRED HALLIDAY
Janet Afary & Kevin B. Anderson: Revisiting Foucault and the Iranian Revolution
DAVID HAYES - Iran’s hidden prisoners

'I am not a spy. I am a philosopher.' 125 days in an Iranian prison by Ramin Jahanbegloo
The structure of power in Iran
Woman filmmaker in Iran sentenced to 18 months in prison
ADAM GOPNIK: Satire Lives

The pre-history of anti-blasphemy activism in Pakistan
Open Letter To Muslim World by French Muslim Philosopher Abdennour Bidar
Woman filmmaker in Iran sentenced to 18 months in prison
The religious persecution of Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd (1945-2010)/ Interview: My life fighting intolerance/ Mahmoud Mohammed Taha & the Second Message of Islam
Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd's Legacy (Library of writings)
Mahmoud Mohammed Taha was a Sudanese religious thinker and leader executed for apostasy at the age of 76 by the regime of Gaafar Nimeiry. (See his Court statement)
THE MODERATE MARTYR - A radically peaceful vision of Islam

Karima Bennoune - Can People of Muslim Heritage defeat the Radical Fundamentalists?
Javed Anand - A human question
Javed Anand - Ms Wadud, we are  ashamed
Javed Anand - A new resolve for the New Year 
Ali A. Rizvi - An Open Letter to Moderate Muslims
Praveen Swami - 84 on hitlist, 8 killed: Dhaka’s politics drives cycle of death
Bangladesh: Post Poll Politics and Attacks on Minorities - A Compilation of reports, commentary
Bangladesh’s Radical Islamists Get U.S. Backing

Syed Badrul Ahsan - When a party loses its marbles
Bangladesh post-poll violence hits minorities
The Blood Telegram
Bangladesh 1971: the forgotten template of 20th century war - by Gita Sahgal
The UN & War Crimes Trials for Pakistani Soldiers in Bangladesh 1971–1974
Ulema demand expulsion of Taslima Nasrin - Let's defend her right to live & speak in peace
Kolkata Muslims protest against anti-Islamic activities in Bangladesh

Garga Chatterjee: A dangerous connivance
Kolkata Rally on Bangladesh
And meanwhile, in Kolkata …
1971 war crimes: In Kolkata, Islamists rally for genocide
Pakistan's First Law Minister, Jogendra Nath Mandal's Resignation Letter, October 1950
Deb Mukharji: 1971, Bangladesh and the Blood Telegram
Bangladesh 1971: the forgotten template of 20th century war - by Gita Sahgal
The UN & War Crimes Trials for Pakistani Soldiers in Bangladesh 1971–1974
Bangladesh: Post Poll Politics and Attacks on Minorities - A Compilation of reports, editorials, commentary and statements

The Philosophy of Number
Bangladesh post-poll violence hits minorities/S.B. Ahsan: When a party loses its marbles 

These articles analyse communal politics in terms over and beyond religious divisions:
The Broken Middle (on the 30th anniversary of 1984)
The law of killing - a brief history of Indian fascism
What is to be Undone


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