{"id":187321,"date":"2025-11-06T09:58:29","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T04:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/?p=187321"},"modified":"2025-11-06T09:58:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T04:58:29","slug":"another-up-madrasa-sealed-muslim-community-faces-targeted-harassment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/2025\/11\/06\/another-up-madrasa-sealed-muslim-community-faces-targeted-harassment.html","title":{"rendered":"Another UP Madrasa sealed, Muslim community faces targeted harassment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-187324\" src=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/11\/3-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Lucknow: Tension gripped the Muslim community in Uttar Pradesh after authorities sealed the Kuliatul Banatir Razavia Madrasa, a move locals decry as the latest in a series of actions selectively targeting Muslim-run institutions in India.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kashmir Media Service, the madrasa was sealed by a team of officials, including the Sub-Divisional Magistrate and the District Minority Welfare Officer, who claimed it was operating without proper authorization on disputed land.<\/p>\n<p>The institution was run under the guidance of Maulana Shamsul Huda Khan, a British-Indian scholar currently in police custody over allegations of receiving foreign funds. The sealing has sparked fear and anger among Muslims, who see it as a discriminatory act disguised as a legal procedure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery time a Muslim cleric gets foreign help for education or charity, it is treated as a crime,\u201d said Maulana Rashid Qasmi, a scholar based in Lucknow, highlighting what the community perceives as a double standard.<\/p>\n<p>Local residents and rights groups argue that the action is part of a systematic pattern to undermine Muslim education and identity. They contend that the government\u2019s approach is not about enforcing the law but about humiliating and marginalizing the community, destroying a vital source of education and faith for poor\u00a0girls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lucknow: Tension gripped the Muslim community in Uttar Pradesh after authorities sealed the Kuliatul Banatir Razavia Madrasa, a move locals decry as the latest in a series of actions selectively targeting Muslim-run institutions in India. According to Kashmir Media Service, the madrasa was sealed by a team of officials, including the Sub-Divisional Magistrate and the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":187324,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-187321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indian-occupied-jammu-and-kashmir","tag-top-story"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/11\/3-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187321"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187328,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187321\/revisions\/187328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}