Australian Islamic leader condemns Mumbai attacks

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Source: earth times

Sydney - A leader of Australia's 300,000 Muslims on Thursday said terrorist attacks in the Indian city of Mumbai were "abhorrent, despicable and outrageous.""Attacks against innocent persons are abhorrent to all peaceful people and to all faiths and those who engage in this behaviour stand condemned," Australian Federation of Islamic Councils president Ikebal Adam Patel said in a statement.

"People of goodwill and faith must double their efforts and resources to fight against such acts of barbarism and inhumanity."

He called on the perpetrators to be punished because "there can be no justification for such acts that target innocent crowds."

Read more: http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/243568,extra-australian-islamic-leader-condemns-mumbai-attacks.html

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1. they don't want any attention payed to them locally so a big incident is bad nt

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2. Australian killed in Mumbai terror attacks

One Australian killed, two shot in Mumbai terror attacks

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-11/27/content_10422526.htm


More Australians may be hurt in Mumbai: Rudd

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/11/27/2431493.htm

They wanted american and british soft target sheep but in a pinch, an ozzie will do.



Behind the Mumbai Massacre: India's Muslims in Crisis

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But before inter-communal relations can improve there is an even bigger problem that must first be worked out: the schism in subcontinental Islam, and the religion's place and role in modern India and Pakistan. It is a crisis 150 years in the making.
The Beginning of the Problem
On the afternoon of March 29, 1857, Mangal Pandey, a handsome, mustachioed soldier in the East India Company's native regiment, attacked his British lieutenant. His hanging a week later sparked a subcontinental revolt known to Indians as the first war of independence and to the British as the Sepoy Mutiny. Retribution was swift, and though Pandey was a Hindu, it was the subcontinent's Muslims, whose Mughal King nominally held power in Delhi, who bore the brunt of British rage. The remnants of the Mughal Empire were dismantled, and five hundred years of Muslim supremacy on the subcontinent was brought to a halt.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20081127/wl_time/08599186265000