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...Hindus rampage in Gujarat state in retaliation for a Muslim train attack that left 59 Hindu activists dead. About 2,000 Muslims die in revenge killings by Hindu mobs. Eyewitnesses allege complicity by local BJP officials...
...years ago, India had a taste of what can happen if the hard-liners in the BJP seize power from the moderates. In the western state of Gujarat, Hindus embarked on a rampage that left about 2,000 Muslims dead. The police stood by while local BJP activists armed with swords, tridents and electoral lists raped Muslim women; beheaded, burned and disemboweled Muslim men, and torched Muslim-owned businesses. Tens of thousands were forced to flee. No one has yet been brought to book for the mayhem, and the Gujarat courts have proved incapable of convicting the rapists, looters...
...year, so inaccurate are the new textbooks that they represent nothing less than "declarations of war against academic history itself ... When history is fabricated to constitute a politics of hatred and violence, then we need to sit up and protest. If we do not, then the long night of Gujarat will never...
...presence of a coalition government in New Delhi led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which draws support from the VHP, has prompted many Muslims to cry foul. They claim the BJP is anti-Islam, discriminates against Muslims in the civil service, and ignored last year's rampage in Gujarat state, when Hindu mobs killed 2,000 Muslims and injured and raped thousands more...
...country's Hindu-Muslim troubles, an animosity that dates back hundreds of years, are hardly over. A bombing campaign by Islamic extremists is ongoing in Gujarat and Bombay, while the Hindu hard right, including the VHP, is now promising a national protest campaign over Ayodhya. Moreover, Bidwai points out, the VHP's overseas Indian members are big donors to the BJP. So while India may be witnessing a trial separation within the Hindu nationalist camp, no one is yet predicting a divorce...