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Ongoing Hindu Muslim riots in India
2005-10-19
From an editorial by India Daily.
According to media sources outside India, three Hindus were fatally shot overnight in a tense north Indian town, bringing the total number of deaths to eight since rioting between Hindus and Muslims erupted last week, police said Monday. One of the victims was Shushma Pandey, a grandmother who stepped out of her home in Mau, in Uttar Pradesh state, to get food for her grandchildren, said Ram Saran Srivastava, a police spokesman. She was shot and killed by unidentified assailants, he said. "Shops have remained closed for the past three days and there is no milk supply to this small town," Srivastava said.

Rioting started on Friday after Muslim residents objected to Hindus holding a religious ceremony in a predominantly Muslim area in Mau. That angered many Hindus who tried to stop the Muslims from using loudspeakers during Friday prayers, leading to clashes. Rioters burned shops and attacked each other using pistols, knives and other weapons on Friday and Saturday, and outbursts of violence have erputed since then. Authorities rushed paramilitary forces to the villages around Mau to quell violence, said Alok Sinha, the state home secretary. Police have so far arrested 112 persons and stopped train and bus services to Mau, Srivastava said. More than 40 percent of Mau's population of 400,000 are Muslims, mostly working as weavers in factories. Uttar Pradesh is India's most populous state, with Muslims comprising 15 percent of its 180 million people. Mau is 300 kilometers (190 miles) southeast of Lucknow, its capital. Muslims comprise nearly 13 percent of India's more than 1 billion people.
Posted by:Seafarious

#7  They're going to do it again. What's unclear is who will be the mass murderers and who will be the mass murderees.
Posted by: Ulith Angeretle4390   2005-10-19 17:49  

#6  Slobodan the wannabe genocidier? That isn't very encouraging for Europe, they've done the mass murder thing so many times already.
Posted by: trailing wife   2005-10-19 17:29  

#5  RW that an interesting insight. What is the critical mass of allanists, moderate or otherwise? 10%? 20%? 32.5%? I expect it varies with the country and culture. But the number I'm after is, what is the critical mass in a Western Democracy... France is the testbed. I figure 28.54% It's scientific (2+8+5+4)=19 and we know what that means.
Posted by: Shipman   2005-10-19 15:41  

#4  No, Muslims cannot get along with everybody until everybody is Muslim.
Posted by: Gleager Cromogum5350   2005-10-19 15:01  

#3  Can't Muslims get along with anybody. Note once the Islamonuts get to a large minority aka 40% they will break out of their dhimmitude and create problems. Since 40% of Turks think honor killings are OK I'm sure the Euro's can't wait to let them in. Tours is just around the corner but this time France has no Martel. Europe's best hope Slobo is rotting in the Hague.
Posted by: Rightwing   2005-10-19 14:10  

#2  So right, Anonymoose.

In other news: water is wet.
Posted by: Xbalanke   2005-10-19 13:48  

#1  In that religious riots in India happen with the frequency of high school football games in the US, I cannot express tremendous surprise.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2005-10-19 10:32  

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