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...festering anger over Gujarat serves as irresistible fodder for extremist groups who direct their message to India's increasingly disaffected Muslims. A federal report released in 2006 found that the country's 138 million Muslims are poorer than other Indians, less educated and vastly under-represented in India's largest employer, the railways, and its civil service. While many political parties pledge to defend India's Muslims against Hindu nationalism, they rarely deliver promised roads, jobs and schools. "The disaffection of Indian Muslims is not any different in its quality from the disaffection of other parts of the underclass, whether...
...thus far, Indian politicians haven't offered much beyond pro forma calls for calm. India is a proudly secular state, and acknowledging the friction between Hindus and Muslims could offend the millions of Muslims who have nothing to do with extremist groups, domestic or otherwise. "Our politicians are still in denial mode," says Raman, the counterterrorism expert. "To be able to solve this problem, they have to understand its real nature." The rift between India's Hindus and Muslims is real. Until India acknowledges that fact, the country can't begin to mend...
...made political points--sometimes anti-U.S., often against the Egyptian hierarchy--but his didacticism was typically overwhelmed by his irrepressible urge to entertain, whether with the underclass tragedy Cairo Station (1958) or with a delirious love story like The Other (1999). Influenced by Hollywood comedy, Italian neorealism and Indian musical melodramas, he tossed everything--ideas, people, whole nations and regions--up in the air for the intoxicated viewer to try to catch...
...India A New Source of Terror At least 16 coordinated blasts rocked the western city of Ahmadabad on July 26, killing 45 people. Whereas previous attacks had been widely attributed to foreign militants, the Indian Mujahedin claimed responsibility for the bombings--raising the specter of domestic terrorism and highlighting mounting unrest among India's Muslim minority...
...Washington has certainly grown increasingly agitated in recent weeks over the activities of the ISI. Last week, the U.S. demanded that Pakistan investigate charges by the governments of Afghanistan and India that the ISI had been involved in the recent bombing of the Indian embassy in Kabul. And the New York Times reported Wednesday that CIA deputy director Stephen R. Kappes had met with senior officials in Pakistan to confront them with evidence purporting to show that elements in the ISI has been working with the network of Taliban commander Jalaluddin Haqqani...