A group of Muslim politicians established the first Muslim political party named the All India Muslim League (AIML) in Dhaka (now the capital of Bangladesh) on December 30, 1906. The party's objective was to secure Muslim interests in the Indian subcontinent. During the 1906 annual meeting of the All India Muslim Education Conference that was formed by Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, held in Israt Manzil Palace, Dhaka, the Nawab of Dhaka, Khwaja Salimullah, forwarded a proposal to create a political party which would protect the interests of Muslims in British India. Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, who has been considered a Muslim reformist, sown the communal idea that Muslims are a separate nation into the Indian political ethos.

On December 18, 1992, the United Nations adopted and broadcasted the statement on the rights of individuals belonging to religious or linguistic national or ethnic minorities. Every year, the day is celebrated in India by the National Commission for Minorities which focuses on religious harmony, respect, and a better understanding of all minorities' communities.

Once again, a question has been raised on the wearing of a Hijab in educational institutions. The issue has been surfaced after a student refused to remove her Hijab when asked by a teacher to check whether she hid Bluetooth devices under the Hijab while attending the exam. By refusing the removal of the Hijab, the girl students chose to leave the exam instead of 'showing ears' hidden by her Hijab. The incident took place at MDDM College in Muzaffarpur, Bihar.

Massive questionable religious conversions compelled Karnataka Government to bring in a law restraining fraudulent and forced conversions to safeguard innocent people in the State.

Amidst the revelation of substantial sexual abuse cases of minors in Western countries' churches, the minors have also been exploited sexually by Church priests in India too. Many cases have been registered against Church priests. In India, the cases have not only been reported in southern States where there is a considerable Christian population but in other States too. The issue once again surfaced after three more cases were registered against the arrested Christian Pastor Rajkumar Yesudasan, who has been arrested for sexually abusing minors in the monastery run by Bethel Gospel Pentecostal Church under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, in Mumbai, Maharashtra.

After an attack on British-Indian writer Salman Rushdie in New York, USA, people started searching for his controversial novel named 'The Satanic Verses'. Rusdhie, 75, suffered grave stab wounds after he was attacked at a literary event in New York. After the attack, the novel once again became popular in society.

The Tablighi Jamaat is an Islamic missionary organization that derives inspiration from the Deobandi school of thought in Sunni Islam. The Tablighi Jamaat movement started in India in around 1926-27. A Deobandi Maulvi, Muhammad Ilyas al-Kandhlawi founded this movement in Mewat region near Delhi. He was a descendant of the Sufi Shah Waliullah, who had invited Ahmad Shah Abdali to invade India in the eighteenth century.

On January 7, 2015, French Islamist shooters attacked the office of Charlie Hebdo and killed seventeen people for publishing cartoons depicting the Prophet. Some cartoonists, including some of France's most celebrated, were killed in this attack. The incident challenged the freedom of expression and sparked global arguments related to free speech, blasphemy and religion.