Word: shahpur
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...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 of the dead are Muslims. More...
...past, conflict in India ebbed and flowed, with orgies of bloodletting erupting then subsiding. Now, at least in Gujarat, the hostility is relentless. The passageways through ancient city walls that used to link Shahpur to a Hindu neighborhood on the 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...