Mumbai's Muslims and 'Friends'

August 23, 2012 16:39

The violence against the police and the media at the recent rally in Mumbai held by Muslims to protest the killing of Muslims in Assam and Myanmar took everyone by surprise.

While the Mumbai police's remarkable restraint avoided a larger
conflagration, it failed to anticipate the violence despite clear signs. Ever since the 1992-93 communal riots in Mumbai, fi rst the Congress Party and later the ationalist Congress Party have cultivated a few Muslim leaders who act as "brokers" and have hardly any grass-roots support within the community. Read

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