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Verdict Allowing Hindus to Build Temple Heightens Indian Muslims' Insecurity

Anjana Pasricha

   NEW DELHI --It is business as usual in New Delhi's biggest Muslim
   neighborhood days after a landmark Supreme Court verdict gave Hindus
   permission to build a temple on a site contested for decades with
   Muslims in Ayodhya town in northern India.
   Stall owners hawk their goods in the crowded bylanes and people pray at
   the capital's biggest mosque, the Jama Masjid, while others sit on the
   roadside mulling over the recent judgment. But behind the hustle and
   bustle, there is a resigned acceptance and disappointment among some
   Muslims that the judgment did not go in their favor.

   "There is no point in objecting," shrugged Rahmat Ali, who recalls the
   demolition of a mosque in 1992 in Ayodhya by a Hindu mob that triggered
   communal riots. "Those who have the power will get their way," he said,
   referring to the country's Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party
   government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
   

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