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To: kumar who wrote (114640)	9/13/2003 3:21:23 AM
From: Jacob Snyder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<I hope you check your facts before spouting in the future.> Good principle. <India has population of about 1B people. Of that, about 280M is a muslim population.> A quick google search says: The Muslim Population in India (2003) is somewhere between 150-120 million. geocities.com Indian Census of 1991: Total Indian Population in 1991 = 816 million Indian Muslim Population in 1991 = 101 million (12.1% of total) 216.239.57.104 Question: If the Indian Army (whether the units are Muslim or Hindu or mixed) have been unable to suppress the Kashmir muslim insurgency, in 50+ years of trying, what makes you think they will be more motivated, or more successful, in Iraq? Next question: Does India have enough Muslim troops, and could they be expected to loyally serve a Hindu Nationalist government, sending them to help a Christian nation control Muslim Iraqis? Some snips off the internet: This poster says <The current (2003) religious composition of the Indian army: 85% Hindu 10% Sikh 1% Jain, Buddhist 2% Xtian 2% Muslim> 216.239.57.104 The issue of Army recruitment not open for Muslims had been raised by the CPM member, Mr M.Y. Tarigami, during the zero hour in the Assembly today. Mr Tarigami displayed a newspaper report informing the House that in the press release issued by the Ministry of Defence had stated that recruitment for the Army will be held at Akhnoor through open rally on April 21 and it had been categorically mentioned that “no vacancy for Muslims and tradesmen categories.” tribuneindia.com The history of 55 years of grievous anti-Muslim violence in India shows that in townships and villages, where Muslims are 20% or more of the population, not much harm happens to them in communal riots. In such townships all across India, Muslims were always able to defend their lives and properties... ...in the other cities in Maharashtra, UP and Bihar, where many anti-Muslim riots have occurred over the years, Muslims suffered losses of life and property in those localities where they were under 10% of the population, while they were safe in localities where their population was 20% or more. To live in pockets where Muslims are 20% or more of the population, does not mean that those localities become ghettos. For instance in New Delhi such Muslim pockets exist in localities like Okhla, Jamia Nagar, Zakir Bagh. These are nice areas with clean residential and business operations. In such localities in New Delhi, Mumbai and other cities, Muslims have built high quality educational, medical, civic institutions and business enterprises. And all of them have remained safe in the many large-scale anti-Muslim riots in these cities. For 55 years an overwhelming majority of enlightened Muslims in countless cities in India have tried their best to integrate with the Hindus. To do that, all those Muslims who could afford the price tags of houses in new suburbs, moved out of Muslim majority localities and settled down in localities where their numbers were very small. But as we saw recently in the gory violence in the Gulmohar society in Ahmedabad, where former member of parliament Ahsan Jafri and his family were burnt alive, Muslims’ taking such high level personal risks for the sake of integration, has brought doom to them. In the recent anti-Muslim violence in Gujarat, even several distinguished Muslim citizens like high court judges, senior IAS and police officers, senior officials of top corporations, top class businessmen etc came face to face with brutal organized violence and in many instances suffered heavy losses. Even their repeated personal appeals to senior government officials did not bring them any protection. 216.239.33.104