Indian Muslims
Salil Tripathi on the unwelcome tumult that the brothers have caused in London and Glasgow:
“India has over 140 million Muslims, and it has the second-highest Muslim population in the world, and yet you will not find even one Muslim joining international terror networks.” It was Kapil Sibal, the Union Minister for Science and Technology, who made this proud assertion at the Tehelka London Summit in early June this year.
There was considerable truth in this: Guantanamo Bay and other prisons like Belmarsh in Britain and elsewhere in the world may be crawling with hundreds of prisoners accused of terrorism since the attacks on America in September, 2001 — prisoners drawn from all nationalities — but Indian Muslims were conspicuous by their absence despite their large numbers. However fractured relations between Muslims and Hindus might be in India — the legacy of the Partition apart, between Ayodhya and Gujarat Indian Muslims have suffered enormously in communal carnages in recent years — Indian Muslims didn’t do global jehad.
You know you are tempting fate when you make such a bold assertion.
