Organic farming in Sikkim
Sikkim’s Chief Minister, Pawan Chamling, proudly presents himself as the leader of the greenest state of India. And indeed, since his first election in 1994, Mr. Chamling has undertaken an impressive array of initiatives on sustainable development - which are universally praised by the United Nations and other international...
SADF Research Report- Persecution against the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Pakistan: A multi-dimensional perspective
Abstract
The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community (AMC) has always considered itself as part of the Muslim ummah, the larger community of Muslim believers (Khan, 2003, p. 218). However, several conservative fundamentalist groups within the Sunni Muslim community deemed the AMC as heretical and acted to ostracise its members from said ummah...
Focus 67 – Rural India: The Country’s Untapped Growth Engine
Acknowledgements
The author wishes to thank Mr Srinivasan, B for being a role model in more ways than he cares to acknowledge himself, as well as a friend for the past two decades. The author also expresses his gratitude to Ms Shairee Malhotra for her gracious support in proof-reading multiple...
Policy Brief 10 – Tablighi Jamaat and its role in the Global Jihad
Abstract
This SADF Policy Brief deals with Tablighi Jamaat (TJ), a transnational Islamic missionary movement. Despite declaring itself as officially apolitical and non-violent, TJ is cited by German and other European intelligence reports that underline (manifold) threats originating from the movement. An increasing number of assessments emphasise TJ’s function as...
SADF Webinar Series – ‘Tablighi Jaamat and its role in Global Jihad’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esp9z7U76dE
On the 17th of November 2020, SADF hosted its Annual Conference on ‘Tablighi Jaamat and its role in Global Jihad’, focussed on SADF’s latest Publication, ‘Policy Brief 10 – Tablighi Jamaat and its role in the Global Jihad’.
The Webinar counted with the presence of Mansoor Khan, National President (India) of the Sufi...
WORKING PAPER 21 – Popular Front of India- Understanding the Propaganda and Agenda
Abstract
There is an understanding that political views in the world are increasingly polarised - one dominant idea will be considered far right and those who are not on that side of the fence will get attracted towards the far left. The first evident indication of this phenomenon in...
Focus 83 – Impact of Hindu Nationalism in India’s Foreign Policy Conduct
Abstract
India is constitutionally the largest democracy on earth, as well as a secular country. However, the rise of Hindu nationalism has created some discomfort among those in the land who believe in religions other than Hinduism. The impact of societal polarization in India is usually contained within Indian boundaries;...
Research Report 8 – The Hefazat-e-Islam and the Islamist challenge in Bangladesh
Abstract
In recent years, the number of terrorist incidents and related casualties have steadily declined in Bangladesh. Yet the problem of Islamist extremism remains, as can be witnessed in the frequent outbursts of massive political violence, increase in religiously motivated illiberalism, and a general shrinking of free, liberal, and secular...
Research Report 7 – State persecution of religious minorities in Pakistan: Christians in distress
Abstract
Religious minorities, including Christians, are facing severe discriminations in numerous Muslim-majority countries. Yet in no country are Christians so systematically - and institutionally - persecuted and victimised as in Pakistan. Here, the plight of the Christian community ‘fully illustrates the vagaries, miseries and dangers of life as a religious...
Pakistan’s military support of Hamas terror – C261
As part of the Global Jihad machinery, Hamas enjoys support not only from international non-state actors but also by countries involved in state-sponsorship of terrorism. According to Middle East expert James M. Dorsey, Hamas leaders, including Khaled Mishaal and de facto leader Ismail Haniyeh, are based in Qatar’, which...