By Jeffrey Donovan, Abubakar Siddique
The fatwa was issued in a strictly Indian context. In recent years, amid a series of terrorist attacks, India’s 150 million-strong Muslim community has come under strong criticism from majority Hindus. Stigmatized as terrorists, Indian Muslims have been seeking to take a strong stand to dissociate them from violence -- and the fatwa is the latest, if perhaps the most vocal, contribution to that effort.
But given Deobandi influence on Muslims across the subcontinent, the fatwa is seen as having a potentially significant regional impact.
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