Irrespective of whether Godhra impacted the result of last week's Gujarat assembly poll, post Godhra happenings have moved a well-known Muslim scholar of India to facilitate an earthquake in his community.

In his latest book Communal Rage in Secular India (Popular Prakashan, Mumbai), Dr Rafiq Zakaria first uses Amartya Sen's foreword and English language media reports to 'show' the Muslim sufferings of early March this year but later, instead of appealing to the Hindu's 'tolerance' (as might have been expected of a veteran Congressman) or whining about secularism (of its pseudo practitioners), Zakaria drops an anti-climatic bombshell in the last chapter titled 'What should Muslims do?' which, in essence, amounts to 'What Muslims should do.' Below is the Muslim scholar's post-Godhra prescription for Indian Muslims.

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