What Gujarat represented was a new menace - the mob in partnership with the state. The police were held back. Hindu rioters appeared to have computer printouts listing Muslim households. In the aftermath Muslims found that the courts could not always protect them against the popular frenzy.
In the four and a half years I have been based in India, I haven't met a single Muslim who doesn't deeply resent the Indian state for its failure to act in Gujarat. I have also met some who said they would retaliate in kind. This is the hate that hate made.
Gujarat's chief minister, Narendra Modi, has been accused at best of sitting on his hands while innocents were murdered and at worst of being behind the violence. A Hindu nationalist, Modi has been re-elected three times since the mayhem.
http://newageislam.com/bitterness-threatens-indian-tolerance/islam,terrorism-and-jihad/d/473
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