BBC (Tuesday): Life in prison for Gujarat guilty (India massacres)

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From the BBC Online
Dated Tuesday November 25

Life in prison for Gujarat guilty

Twelve Hindus have been given life prison sentences in India's Gujarat state for killing Muslims in religious riots last year.
The case relates to the murder of 14 Muslims in Ghodasar village after 59 people were killed on a train carrying Hindu pilgrims at Godhra.
Most Muslim families fled the village after the killings.
The Gujarat riots left more than 1,000 people, mainly Muslims, dead and were denounced by human rights groups.
Some estimates put the riots toll at 2,000.

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1. Arundhati Roy: Democracy and Religious Fascism

Oringially from Outlook India
Reprinted in CounterPunch
Dated Saturday May 3, 2003

Democracy and Religious Fascism
by Arundhati Roy

Last night a friend from Baroda called. Weeping. It took her fifteen minutes to tell me what the matter was. It wasn't very complicated. Only that Sayeeda, a friend of hers, had been caught by a mob. Only that her stomach had been ripped open and stuffed with burning rags. Only that after she died, someone carved 'OM' on her forehead.
Precisely which Hindu scripture preaches this?
Our Prime Minister justified this as part of the retaliation by outraged Hindus against Muslim 'terrorists' who burned alive 58 Hindu passengers on the Sabarmati Express in Godhra. Each of those who died that hideous death was someone's brother, someone's mother, someone's child. Of course they were.
Which particular verse in the Quran required that they be roasted alive?

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