Taliban:Three Decades of Faith, Fear, and Erasure

Taliban: Three Decades of Faith, Fear, and Erasure

For nearly three decades, the Taliban have pursued a singular vision of faith enforced through violence and law. From massacres and forced identification under the first Emirate, to insurgent-era sectarian terror, and now a legal architecture of exclusion, their rule has steadily erased Afghanistan’s religious pluralism, pushing minorities toward extinction.

The Indian Muslim: Living Between Faith and Fear

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.