Calling a spade a spade

India's Muslims have defied popular jihadi "martyrdom" rhetoric, instead calling Mumbai terrorists by the Koranic term for "murderers," and refusing to bury them. Thomas Friedman discusses the situation in The New York Times here. He notes that by making this distinction within Islam, India's Muslims are creating an ideology that is the way forward for successful, peaceful democracy in the "Muslim world." Since India's Muslims are the second-largest Muslim group, this is no small thing.