Religious leaders, politicians and born-again liberals impede their progress
What has happened that Islam and its practice in India have acquired such an extremist edge?
From the 2011 veil ban law to the recent senate vote on the hijab, the French remain institutionally and instinctively committed to laïcité, the original model of secularism
The hijab controversy can take the country into dangerous territory but, unlike the 1980s, it will not take people years to grasp its import
On Indian Muslims and Mani Shankar Aiyar’s review of Ghazala Wahab's book Born a Muslim: Some Truths About Islam in India
A city caught between the heretical seductions of modernity and the atavistic lures of medievalism