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...revamping its grant process to facilitate that, said Foundation intern Marisol Pineda-Condre ’08. The Foundation, which supports various student organizations, now has 60 member groups, up from the 10 it started with at its creation, said Foundation intern and Student Advisory Commitee co-chair Simi Bhat ’08. The rate of increase of cultural and ethnic groups has been greater than any other sub-type of group, Bhat said. Teddy L. Styles ’07, a Foundation intern and co-director of last year’s Cultural Rhythms, said that the Foundation...
...Last weekend, police released the names of three suspects, and the focus of the investigation settled on Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), a militant Islamic group based in Pakistan. LeT was suspected of working in concert with indigenous Indian Muslims from the banned Student Islamic Movement of India (SIMI). SIMI and LeT were accused of detonating eight bombs in Bombay in late 2002 and 2003, killing 70 people. Lashkar-e-Toiba, meaning army of the pure, has fought Indian rule in Kashmir since the early 1990s, and is believed to have links with al-Qaeda. Largely funded by Pakistan's Inter...
...mounting sense of persecution among young Muslims in India, combined with high unemployment and mounting anxiety about what many see as a global crusade against their religion, makes fertile recruiting ground for homegrown groups such as SIMI. Muslims resent the fact that four years after anti-Muslim riots killed more than 2,000 in the state of Gujarat, there have been few convictions. Police raids, detentions and the oft-reported abuses that occur under such detentions only add to their sense of being unfairly targeted. "Perceived injustice is the bedrock upon which all terrorist groups are based," says Bhatt...
...separate men from women (every train has a carriage designated for women on their own) but there are no carriages marked "Hindus only." Yet an attack like this one can peel back the veneer of ethnic tolerance, revealing a common Hindu belief that Muslims aren't truly Indian. "LeT, SIMI?it doesn't matter who was behind these attacks. They are all children of Musharraf," sneers Shah, referring to Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf, as he stands outside the morgue where he has just identified his friend's body. "Palestinians kidnap an Israeli soldier and Gaza gets bombed. Here...
...Hindu nationalist agenda - which also stoked a Hindu pogrom in Gujarat in 2002 in which 2,000 Muslims died - has lent further legitimacy to India's lurking anti-Muslim prejudice. In 2003, just before twin bomb blasts in August that killed more than 50, TIME spoke to "Umar," a SIMI operative, or Ansar ("guide"), who said his men were carrying out the attacks. The 44-year-old said: "This country doesn't work for Muslims any more. You can't get a proper education, you can't get a job. You're not even safe." He said...