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Indian Muslims Heed to Pied Pipers of Jihad

Pankaj Mishra, The Guardian | August 7, 2008

India is depicted in the media as “a squeaky-clean ally of the United States” and no inconvenient truths are allowed to mar Indian democracy's supposed success story. ++ A passive receiver of this image will surely be surprised to learn that between 2004 and 2007 3,674 people died of terrorist attacks in India, a death toll second only to that in Iraq and over 3 times higher than in Pakistan – allegedly "the most dangerous place on earth". ++ The alienated and militantly disaffected Muslim minority has begun to heed the “Pied Pipers of Jihad.”