Just for the sake of accuracy, the man in Philadelphia was killed after he robbed a bank and killed a police officer. He and his cross dressing Muslim cohorts were career criminals with drug issues who were in and out of jail.

Firstly, it goes beyond “politics” into the realm of public safety. I spent a few months in India atround a year after the Ayodha massacres and a few months after the Bombay riots. The atmosphere of fear was palpable in Muslim quarters during the Hindu Durga festival in October 1993 in Varanasi.

A large funeral, any funeral, in India for these murderers would be a red rag to the saffron bull.

It’s to the credit of the Indian people that there have been no large-scale disturbances since the assaullt on Mumbai - perhaps because the murder and mayhem were so indiscrimiate and so nakedly designed to set off a holocaust that a petty communal response seems futile. Let’s hope it stays that way. I would advocate a little compassion for the further intended victims of this outrage - innocent poeple of a variety of faiths simply trying to survive in one this earth’s hardest urban environments. Your musings on who is a muslim and what their rights might be are facile.

Many Indian Muslims, I would imagine, if looking at the corpse of one of these terrorists would be thinking “You wanted my death in some riot. Your remains can go back to Pakistan, or anywhere. Let God sort you out”