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...Cheap labor allowed India to find a niche for itself in the diamond-polishing business, but that wasn't the country's only edge. The Surat diamond trade was built by a dynamic and enterprising religious community?the Palanpuri Jains, followers of an ancient religion that emphasizes nonviolence and vegetarianism. Jains account for 0.4% of India's population. The Palanpuris, who hail from the town of Palanpur in the Indian state of Gujarat, form a close-knit community that thrives in the atmosphere of secrecy and informality that envelops the diamond trade?there are often no written contracts, many transactions...
...Deobandis do not like to be called fundamentalists. They say that is a term that can apply to every religion. And they don't like the term "Islamic terrorist" either. "Islam means peace," says Maulana Said Palanpuri, the school's Arabic professor. "There are people who distort God's teaching and we condemn them. But why do people in the West use the term Islamic terrorist and not Christian terrorist or Jewish terrorist when Christian and Jews commit atrocities...
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