<p class="MsoNormal" DEFANGED_style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><DEFANGED_span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">I was reading the article Zainab has written about Bangalore, particularly about Thilagnagar, where I live for two months during my summer vacation and was narrowly escaped from a communal clash between Tamilians, who are rehabilitated in that area and Muslims, who have been living there for generations. Most of the Tamilians in that area are lower class Dalits, converted into Christianity. The tension was broken up because three Muslim girls ran away with Tamilians and speculation started to spread saying that those three girls were raped and was forcefully converted into Christianity.
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