India’s Muslim community - part 2

IRP Fellow reports for PRI’s “The World”

Fellows Fall 2009

By Miranda Kennedy

November 25, 2009

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Miranda Kennedy

Hameedia Mosque in Mumbai

India is on high alert this week for terrorist attacks, as the country marks the one- year anniversary of strikes that paralyzed Mumbai last year. Indian officials have warned about threats from both foreign and domestic militants. But as we heard in part one, Muslims in India have largely not been radicalized to a violent form of Islam. However that hasn’t stopped the police from targeting suspected homegrown terrorists. In the second part of her series, Miranda Kennedy reports on the growing alienation of Mumbai’s Muslims.

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Miranda Kennedy's stories from India were funded by a grant from the International Reporting Project (IRP).

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