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Slide taraweeh prayers INDIA HUMAN RIGHTS MONITOR Hindu extremist mob attacks Muslim foreign nationals praying at university hostel A mob of over 200 Hindu extremists violently attacked Muslim foreign students while they were offering taraweeh prayers at their university hostel in far-right Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-ruled Gujarat’s Ahmedabad. The mob attacked the students with knives, cricket bats, stones and other weapons while chanting the Hindu supremacist warcry “Jai Sri Ram” and other Islamophobic slogans. Read More keyboard_arrow_left keyboard_arrow_right Slide Hijab Ban INDIA HUMAN RIGHTS MONITOR Muslim students forced to remove hijab to sit for exams in Gujarat At a school in far-right BJP-ruled Gujarat’s Bharuch, Muslim girls were forced to remove their hijabs during an exam.

Last month, a government-run school in Rajasthan’s Pipar turned away Muslim students wearing the hijab, threatening to drop the students’ grades if they continued to wear the hijab on school premises.
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Slide Modi PRESS RELEASE IAMC denounces Modi Government's implementation of anti-Muslim citizenship law IAMC vehemently condemns and expresses serious concerns over the announcement by the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi government to implement the discriminatory Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).

Announced on Monday, March 11, the notified CAA rules purportedly grant Indian nationality exclusively to non-Muslims from Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Afghanistan who entered India before December 31, 2014.

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Slide IAMC Interviews INTERVIEW THIS IS HELL: Hindu Supremacism in India and the United States / Safa Ahmed Indian American Muslim Council's Safa Ahmed on her Jacobin Magazine article, "The US Hindu Right Is Still Whitewashing the Gujarat Pogrom." "Rotten History" follows the interview. Read More keyboard_arrow_left keyboard_arrow_right Slide The Black Panther OP-ED The Black Wall Street Times: Connecting threads between oppression in U.S. and India What is less known is that the influence went the other way too, with generations of activists in India drawing inspiration from the U.S. civil rights movement. A movement among India’s caste-oppressed individuals,

The Dalit Panthers, patterned themselves directly after the Black Panthers, immersing themselves in Black liberation literature.
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Slide 1 IAMC Report Report: Persecution of Religious Minorities in India (July-Sep 2023) IAMC’s third quarter report highlights a distressing surge in communal violence, targeted attacks, and hate speech directed against religious minorities, particularly Muslims and Christians, in India. The violence is exacerbating an atmosphere of persecution and discrimination faced by minority groups. Read More keyboard_arrow_left keyboard_arrow_right

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IAMC is the largest US-based advocacy organization of Indian American Muslims. It was registered in Washington, D.C. in 2002 as a tax-exempt non-profit. It has chapters across the country with thousands of members.

Our Objectives

Pluralism, Tolerance and Respect

To promote the common values of pluralism, tolerance, and respect for human rights that form the basis of the world’s two largest secular democracies – the United States and India.

Interfaith and Inter-community Understanding

To work towards increasing inter-faith and inter-community understanding in the United States, with particular focus on the Indian Diaspora with a view to safeguard individuals and societal institutions from infiltration by divisive and hate-filled ideologies.

Education and Awareness

To provide a platform for increasing education and awareness about issues of interest to the Indian community in the United States.

Alliances and Relationships

To build alliances and relationships with all individuals and groups who share our basic values, in order to work together for achieving the above objectives.

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To provide a responsible voice for the Indian Muslim Diaspora in the United States in their quest for all of the above objectives.

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