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The Indian Muslim: Living Between Faith and Fear

SAT Research October 9, 2025

In September 2025, a simple expression of faith became a crime. When a devotional social media trend, the ‘I Love Muhammad’ campaign, went viral, it was deliberately framed as a provocation by authorities. The state’s response was swift and brutal: mass arrests and punitive demolitions that turned a peaceful act of devotion into a national flashpoint, revealing a clear intent to police and punish Muslim identity itself.

The Indian Muslim:The Unmaking of Secular India

SAT Research September 4, 2025

The last few weeks exposed the depth of state-enabled tyranny against India’s Muslims. From the lynching of Suleman Pathan and the desecration of historic Muslim sites to bulldozer demolitions, deportations, and criminalization of dissent, violence has become systemic. With political rhetoric normalizing hate and laws codifying discrimination, India risks eroding its secular fabric and legitimizing religious persecution as governance.

The Indian Muslim The Architecture of Marginalization

SAT Web Administrator August 11, 2025

India’s state machinery shifts to a systemic legal-administrative war targeting Muslim identity and citizenship rights.

The Indian Muslim: Under Suspicion, Under Siege

SAT Web Administrator July 1, 2025

From mass expulsions of Muslims to mob violence on Eid and the Waqf Act’s legal battle, June 2025 revealed a systematic push to marginalize Indian Muslims.

The Indian Muslim: Shadows of Pahalgam and Waqf Bill

SAT Web Administrator May 30, 2025

The period following the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack in India (May 2025) exposed a multifaceted crisis for the Muslim community, marked by a brief but intense military confrontation with Pakistan, the controversial enactment of the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025, and a disturbing surge in anti-Muslim violence and hate speech.