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After the Mumbai terrorist attack, a friend in New Delhi with a fondness for Batman comic books emailed me her thoughts. She is Kashmiri in ethnicity, Muslim in roots, and would probably self-identify as secular in practice:
“I can’t seem to process the attacks and all it could entail, and what the ’solution’ is, very clearly.
Will ramping up ’security measures’ mean my personal freedom gets curtailed?
Even more scarily, will my Muslim friends have to watch every word they say, go through harassment for renting a flat, have to be on the defensive whenever somebody talks of Islamic terrorism?
Not that all of this doesn’t happen already.”
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