The war on terror resulted in loss of life, of course. But it has done much worse; it has separated people who have lived together for centuries. This Hindu–Muslim separation of the mind is deeper than anything preceding it. Muslims and non-Muslims have been parcelled into hostile camps. And the control on the levers of this war is America’s which, alas, has no experience of Muslims. We should be guiding them; we have known Muslims since Islam’s founding. After a thousand years of living together, a people are being separated to fight a war initiated by the West for its own reasons.
