Jammu, Aug. 19 -- The majority-minority cleavages seem to be sharper in democracies than in other systems.
Ever since the Al-Qaeda terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001 (9/11), Muslims all over the world are 'under siege'. That's how the Pakistani-American sociologist Akbar Ahmed titled his book Islam Under Siege (2003). He could see how the tide of Islamophobia soon gripped the United States. Muslim charities were shut down, veiled women were humiliated, and commentators on Fox TV paralleled the Quran with Hitler's Mein Kampf. The editor of the National Review, Richard Lowry, went to the ridiculous extent of asking for the 'final solution' by nuking Mecca.
Even after 18 years of 9/1, we do not...