INDIA — A recent spate of ethnic cleansing against Muslims in Gujarat state reached genocidal proportions, and a similar assault may soon be unleashed against India’s most threatened Christian community, the Dang tribe, unless the central government intervenes. Karsan Patel, a senior minister in the state government warned Dang children studying at a parochial school to decide whether they want to live as Hindus or die as Christians.
Systematic persecution that began in the Dang tribal belt four years ago has intensified as militant Hindus campaign to confiscate Dang territory for the god Rama and build a temple in the village of Subir. According to sources, the controversy is a powder keg waiting to explode, identical to the Ram Temple-Babri Mosque conflict in Ayodhya, North India, where militant Hindus tried to confiscate a Muslim mosque and convert it into a Hindu temple.
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