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## Re: [CT] [MESA] INDIA-Babri Masjid-Ramjanmabhoomi dispute

Released on 2012-09-03 09:00 GMT

Email-ID | 666482
Date | 1970-01-01 01:00:00
From | animesh.roul@stratfor.com
To | bokhari@stratfor.com, reva.bhalla@stratfor.com, ct@stratfor.com, mesa@stratfor.com

The verdict will certainly create chaos and sporadic violence. and But we are not expecting large scale violence, like Godhra. Why? The case will and can go to Supreme Court next. So breather for alarmists here. People are more catious now than in 1992/3 or 2002.
The govt already banned mass SMSes/MMSes, and ordered/urged to keep calm. leaders from both relgions are too urging respective community to keep calm and restraint.
To me (and i have chated with many people on this), the High Court will take middle path and order to built Temple/Masjid near the Epicenter which might be used as 'Sarbadharma Sthal' (Place for all relgion). We have Temple/Mosque in two other place Mathura and Benaras, for example.
The court might declare many BJP/VHP leader guilty ...this will create disturbance as well.
Animesh
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<font face="Times New Roman">I have heard that it could be in favor
of the Muslims, which is why the right-wing Hindu militants are
sharpening their knives and blades. Should it not be in favor of
Muslims, this issues gives the jihadists another opportunity (in
addition to the unrest in Kashmir) to exploit. Not hearing
anything of pre-verdict demos though. Let me check with a source
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On 9/22/2010 12:59 PM, Reva Bhalla wrote:
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<div>Animesh, can you answer these questions for us? Thanks<br>
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On Sep 22, 2010, at 12:50 PM, Korena Zucha &lt;<a href="mailto:zucha@stratfor.com" target="_blank">zucha@stratfor.com</a>&gt;
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<font size="-1"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Any
insight
as to which way the high court is expected to rule over
the Babri
Masjid site? Are there any protests planned in India ahead
of the
ruling? It has been reported that security has already
been increased
in <br>
some areas of India as a precaution. Also, can we expect
to see
Hindu-Muslim riots after the verdict?<br>
<br>
<br>
<a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2010/09/22/hindu-right-hopes-fortunes-turn-on-babri-verdict/" target="_blank">http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2010/09/22/hindu-right-hopes-fortunes-turn-on-babri-verdict/</a><br>
<br>
The Allahabad High Court&rsquo;s verdict on whether the ruined
structure at a
disputed site in the town of Ayodhya in northern India is
a mosque or a
temple, as well as who has the rights over it, is expected
on Friday.<br>
<br>
It will be a monumental decision that in itself, and in
its aftermath,
will test India&rsquo;s ability as a nation to balance its
plurality of
faiths. But the Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha, a Hindu
nationalist group
that is one of the parties on the Hindu side of the court
case, is
counting on the event to resurrect the appeal of Hindu
nationalism and
its political future.<br>
<br>
Established in 1915, the group, whose name loosely
translates as the
All India Hindu General Assembly, claims to be India&rsquo;s
first &ldquo;Hindu&rdquo;
political party and aims to establish a &ldquo;really democratic
Hindu state.&rdquo;<br>
<br>
The main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party, formed in
1980, and its
other affiliates, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh
(National Volunteers
Group) and Vishwa Hindu Parishad (World Hindu Council),
established in
1925 and 1964 respectively, have their roots in the Hindu
Mahasabha and
espouse similar political ambitions.<br>
<br>
The Hindu Mahasabha was briefly banned from contesting
elections in the
1990s because its manifesto didn&rsquo;t appear to uphold the
secular values
that India&rsquo;s Constitution mandates from every political
party. After
changing their manifesto and becoming a registered
political party in
1996, the group has had very little electoral support.<br>
<br>
But the group appears to be trying to rally fervor for the
Ram temple
issue again. In Hindu belief, Ayodhya, the name of the
town in Uttar
Pradesh state where the disputed site is located, was the
birthplace of
the God Ram.<br>
<br>
Acharya Madan Singh, executive president of the Hindu
Mahasabha, told
India Real Time that his group is the &ldquo;caretaker&rdquo; of the
disputed Babri
Masjid site, and maintains that the mosque was grafted
onto a
pre-existing temple when the Central Asian conqueror Babur
invaded
India in the 16th century.<br>
<br>
&ldquo;Only the dome was added to the same temple by Babur&rsquo;s men
in 1528 that
gave it a shape of a mosque,&rdquo; Mr. Singh says.&nbsp; &ldquo;No namaz
(Muslim
prayer) was offered in that place ever.&rdquo;<br>
<br>
Mr. Singh says that Babur &ldquo;occupied several temples and
Hindu palaces
to turn them into mosques and forts.&rdquo; Mr. Singh also calls
the first
ruler of the Mughal empire, which weakened as the British
colonial
conquest began, a &ldquo;terrorist.&rdquo;<br>
<br>
Muslim groups differ with this understanding of history,
saying their
examination of historical documents and travel accounts
from the time
doesn&rsquo;t show any temple was demolished for the
construction of Babri
Masjid.<br>
<br>
Hindu mobs demolished the mosque in December 1992,
demanding the right
to build a temple there. The demolition sparked sectarian
riots into
January, especially in Mumbai, that left many dead, more
of them Muslim
than Hindu.<br>
<br>
Mr. Singh says his group was not involved in the
demolition and says
that the BJP, RSS and other groups who led mobs to destroy
the mosque
have wronged Hindu gods. He said the structure they
destroyed was the
remains of a temple that had existed since the birth of
the Lord Ram
hundreds of thousands years ago.<br>
<br>
&ldquo;The BJP hijacked our issue,&rdquo; said Mr. Singh. &ldquo;We had told
them &lsquo;you
are destroying the temple.&rsquo; But they needed an emotional
issue for
winning Hindus.&rdquo;<br>
<br>
BJP spokesman Prakash Javadekar says that his party wanted
a temple
built at the Ayodhya site, but that the demolition was not
part of his
party&rsquo;s plan.<br>
<br>
&ldquo;BJP never wanted demolition but it happened,&rdquo; said Mr.
Javadekar,
whose party has been in disarray since losing back-to-back
elections.<br>
<br>
These days, some Indian political observers wonder if
Hindu nationalism
itself has lost its appeal.<br>
<br>
In the larger political sphere, scores of commentators
have argued one
side or another of India&rsquo;s politico-religious tussles
thrown into
relief around this case. In court, 22 lawyers have argued
for the
structure to be recognized as Hindu against two lawyers
arguing for it
to be safeguarded as an Islamic property.<br>
<br>
The court case initially began in 1950, when a Hindu
petitioner asked
for regular access to the Babri Masjid site for prayers
and for idol
worship, says H.S. Jain, the Hindu Mahasabha&rsquo;s lawyer.
This was later
clubbed together with several other suits by Hindu
petitioners. The
leading three petitioners each claim to be the only true
representative
of the country&rsquo;s Hindus.<br>
<br>
On the other side, the Uttar Pradesh Sunni Central Board
of Waqfs ,
which supervises mosques and other sites of Sunni Islamic
heritage in
the state, and others filed a petition in 1961, asking for
the removal
of idols from the site and full possession to the
property. Zufar
Farooqui, the present chairman of the board, says the
disputed site was
registered with the board as a mosque in the 1940s.<br>
<br>
Unless the Supreme Court defers the verdict, the Allahabad
High Court
in the state of Uttar Pradesh will have the uncomfortable
task of
weighing in all these claims Friday.<br>
<br>
The government has asked for calm, whatever the outcome.
Mr. Singh at
the Hindu Mahasabha didn&rsquo;t appear to be giving any
guarantees, although
he did say the &ldquo;first recourse in case of an adverse
verdict is the
Supreme Court.&rdquo;<br>
<br>
But he also added, &ldquo;If Ram temple is not made, every Hindu
will come
out of home for the sacrifice. If the law comes in
between, the law
itself has to be changed. Law should be according to the
will of the
Hindus to whom India belongs.&rdquo;</font></font>
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