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2013.
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| Summary/Abstract |
Post 9/11, the West descended on India seeking answers to the one
question: why are Indian Muslims not terrorists? I attended any number
of 'private' meetings organized by embassies of the Western countries
in New Delhi with Muslims in India and their behavior patterns as the
sole issue for discussion. In the process one ate a variety of cuisines,
joining other carefully selected Muslims to help the missions and their
governments understand the 'peculiar' character of the Indian Muslims
that kept them away from the turbulence of Pakistan and the Middle
East, and secular in their response. Paradoxically, the official
Government of India position is that Indian Muslims are not terrorists,
even though covertly more and more are being arrested and detained
under various terror laws.
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