A very well researched piece�on “India’s Islamist Groups” by Husain Haqqani (Published on Thursday, February 16, 2006)
Source: http://www.futureofmuslimworld.com/research/pubID.38/pub_detail.asp�
Extracts:
�Contemporary India is a Hindu-majority country, governed under a secular democratic constitution since 1947, when it achieved independence from British rule. At first glance India’s pluralism appears to protect it from falling under the spell of extremist ideologies, including Islamism�
.�But India has been home to some significant thinkers of political Islam, and militant Islamist groups continue to operate in, and even target, India today.�Decolonization resulted in the partition of India along religious lines, …

A few weeks ago, Fareed Zakaria wrote a thought-provoking Op-Ed piece in Newsweek titled, “The Road to Reformation” (Feb 5 ’07)
In that he wrote,
“For those in the west asking when Islam will have its Reformation, I have good news and bad news. The good news is that the process appears to have begun. The bad news is it’s been marked by calumny, hatred and bloody violence. In this way it mirrors the Reformation itself, which we now remember in a highly sanitized way.
During that era, Christians of differing sects massacred …