MDI Comment: It is common to hear in Islamophobic and Hindu Ultra-Nationalist discourse, the myth that Hindus were massacred and thousands of temples destroyed by Muslim rule in India. However, some of the foremost scholars of Indian history have examined the sources and they skillfully debunk the myth. […]
MDI Comment: This GALLUP survey reveals something quite contrary to the Islamophobic and ‘counter-extremist’ narratives propounded by pundits and government officials around ideology and ‘radicalisation’. It reveals that people in the U.S. are four times more likely to justify killing civilians as “sometimes justified” than the average respondent in the […]
Reported in International Business Times: Dutch pranksters Sacha Harland and Alexander Spoor have proved that people might know of holy books like the Bible and Quran but most are not aware of their contents. The two have scored a YouTube hit where they ask people on the streets […]
MDI Comment: On Monday 23rd November 2015, the UK tabloid newspaper, The Sun, published the results of what many considered to be a poorly executed survey on its front page cover exclaiming that ‘1 in 5 Muslims sympathy for Jihadis’, next to a picture of the infamous ISIS […]
MDI Comment: In the 17th century, Protestants developed a form of study to wrestle Christianity from Catholics, this was called ‘Historical Criticism’, and attempted to seek out the true historical origins and original forms for sacred texts held by Catholicism. This was developed from 19th-20th centuries into critiquing […]
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