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| | Dissent Magazine - Summer 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24) |
 | | The official Gujarat high school textbook on social studies for Class IX makes the blatantly false claim that in most states Hindus are in a minority and that Muslims, Christians, and Sikhs are in the majority-even though Hindus are approximately 85 percent of the population and Muslims less than 10 percent. |
 | | BJP chief minister Narendra Modi during the events, stated, "What is happening is a chain of action and reaction." Shortly after that, he said, "It is natural that what happened in Godhra the day before yesterday, where forty women and children were burnt alive, has shocked the country and the world. |
 | | Indeed, given the centrality of rape in the events that took place, usually rape followed by murder, we can say that the intent to destroy the group is enacted in all the ways the Convention specifies-with the exception of the removal of children to another group, since children were murdered here along with their parents. |
| www.dissentmagazine.org /menutest/articles/su03/nussbaum.htm (4872 words) |
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