People who committed this heinous crime cannot be called Muslim

—Hanif Nalkande

Indian Muslims are proud of being both Indian and Muslim, and the Mumbai terrorism was a war against both India and Islam. Terrorism has no place in Islamic doctrine. The Koranic term for the killing of innocents is ‘fasad.’ Terrorists are fasadis, not jihadis. In a beautiful verse, the Koran says that the killing of an innocent is akin to slaying the whole community. Since the … terrorists were neither Indian nor true Muslims, they had no right to an Islamic burial in an Indian Muslim cemetery.

—M.J. Akbar, the Indian-Muslim editor of Covert, an Indian investigative journal

The only effective way to stop this trend is for “the village” — the Muslim community itself — to say “no more.”

No Way, No How, Not Here
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
Published: February 18, 2009
The defiance of Islamist terrorists by Indian Muslims stands out against a dismal landscape of Sunni Muslim suicide murderers who have been treated by Arab media as “martyrs.”