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...talk at 24-year-old Abdul Hamid's wake is of murderous revenge. "If someone gave me a gun, I'd kill a policeman," vows Gazala Qureishi, a pretty, 24-year-old business student whose anger draws respectful murmurs from the mourners. "I would empty all six chambers into him. I have the guts to kill those people, those stupid drunks who spill innocent blood here, rape girls, murder us, because we are Muslim." Qureishi's accusations are hard to deny: even hardened nationalists admit that an overwhelming body of anecdotal evidence and witness reports point to state complicity...
...born 83 years ago. Whatever the Hindu extremists say, there are no Islamic terrorists in Ahmadabad now?but there will be if the assaults on Muslims do not cease. Since Feb. 27, when a Muslim mob set fire to a train four hours away in Godhra, killing 59 Hindus, Qureishi's neighborhood of Shahpur has been under siege by Hindu rioters and the police. The official death toll for the state of Gujarat is approaching 900. Human-rights groups and Western governments put it at more than double that. What no one disputes is that the overwhelming majority...
...other side have been welded shut in a permanent divide. Armed with stones and petrol bombs, the young Muslims from Gujarat's camps and ghettos now look?and think?like their Palestinian counterparts. "Every man and woman here has a volcano in his or her heart," says Qureishi. "If defending our home is terrorism, then terrorism is starting here." Noting that India is home to 150 million Muslims?the second largest community in the world?she warns: "India will explode...
...people to fight," says Imam Mohammed Ismail, 72, who lives at a refugee camp?and are being answered. "This is not communal violence," says Javed Saiyed, a Muslim from Ahmadabad. "This is civil war." All that is lacking is a Hamas or al-Qaeda. "We need training," says Usman Qureishi, Gazala's 20-year-old brother. "And we need a leader." And then India will have its civil...
...leader Mullah Mohammed Omar, drove into Dostum's mud-walled fortress to talk surrender. The two men and armed aides shared vast plates of qabeli, the Afghan staple of rice and mutton, and bowls of pistachios, to break the Ramadan fast. "They were laughing and chatting," commander Mohammad Anwar Qureishi, one of the Alliance leaders present, told TIME, "and hours before, they had wanted to kill each other...
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