Last week, the Congress leader threw Parliament into a pandemonium by casting doubts about the death of Maharashtra Anti–Terror Squad's chief Hemant Karkare and calling for an inquiry into it. The world rested certain in the conviction that Qasab had gunned down Karkare. The terrorist has apparently even confessed. But Antulay suggested the officer may have paid for his investigation into Hindutva terrorism and for putting several saffron–linked people behind bars in the last couple of months.
In itself, Antulay's non–conformity should not ruffle the feathers of the world's largest democracy. But Antulay's position – of a Muslim MP from Colaba, the Mumbai locality where the terrorists landed and where much of the three–day dance of death took place, and a Union minister for minority affairs to boot – makes his posture on Karkare's death positively diabolical. Antulay is undermining a momentous occasion for Indian Muslims and, by extension, for communal relations in India.
Perhaps for the first time, common Muslims, celebrity Muslims and clerical Muslims have come out together in thousands, tens of thousands, to condemn terrorism and say there is nothing Islamic about it. Even before the Mumbai attack, as many as 6,000 clerics had issued a fatwa in Hyderabad denouncing the massacre of innocents in the name of Islam and had urged Muslims not to be swayed by such satanic ideology. Since Mumbai, Muslims around the country have rallied against terrorism, observed a muted Eid wearing a black band during namaz, shunned the annual December 6 Babri Masjid protests and refused to cremate the terrorists in their burial grounds. Many have blasted Pakistan for spreading terrorism in "our country".
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