Khushi Pahuja

2 months ago | countercurrents.org | Indian Muslims |Saurav Sarkar |Robert Jensen |Khushi Pahuja

“No God, gods, goddesses, prophets or saints may be invoked to justify the killing and/or terrorising of fellow human beings”. Indian Muslims for Secular Democracy (IMSD) strongly condemns the assassination of the South African Imam Muhsin Hendricks, a man widely regarded as the world’s first openly gay Muslim imam. The imam, a religious reformer and an activist, was ambushed by two masked men in a pick-up truck while visiting the southern city of Gqeberha on Saturday.

2 months ago | countercurrents.org | Saurav Sarkar |Robert Jensen |Khushi Pahuja |P S Sahni

In another demonstration that the fight for LGBTQ rights in India goes far beyond marriage, a dispute in a Reliance Fresh supermarket in the posh South Kolkata neighbourhood of Jodhpur Park suddenly assumed a sinister character on 11 February. What started as an argument over a place in line became a mob assault outside the store. Members of Sappho for Equality who were initially involved or arrived to assist were verbally, physically, and sexually assaulted.