The Bombay Blasts and the 'samshay ratnmala'(series of suspicions)associated with it has become so hackneyed by now that we have long forgotten that this garland had, has and perhaps will have only one diamond in it-the Indian Muslims.Even before the investigations start a list of these suspects is drawn up and widely circulated.I have nothing with me to challenge these 'findings'however, after seeing the yeoman relief done by the Naupada zuggi colony presominantly Muslim (seen on tv) I can confidantly say that if the miscreants were Muslims they were not Indian Muslims.The faquir of 1946 who stood like a rock at the entrance of a predominantly Hindu bye-lane facing the mauauding Muslim miscreants in the Bengal riots was an Indian Muslims(even though in those prepartition days all Muslims were Indian).In my native place the Muslims who unceremoniously lifted the Taj which came in to safe passave of the Jagannath chariot, despite the requests of Hindu, were Indian Muslims.And now these Naupada brothers.Even if ultimately it is found that the terrorists were in fact Muslims I would not call them Indian Muslims even if they were found to be legal citizens of India.
