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With the way some groups are positioning themselves, you\u2019d think the big post 9\/11 question was, \u201cYou\u2019re either for Islam or you\u2019re against it.\u201d Take Indian and Israeli interests, for example. For the past half-century since both countries were partitioned out of previous British control, India and Israel remained on opposite sides of the political spectrum. While Israel aligned itself with the US and Europe, India became a leader in the non-aligned movement and sided with the Palestinian cause in world forums. But the two unlikely allies \u2013 and their supporters in the US \u2013 are joining forces<\/a>, the glue being mainly a common opposition to their Muslim neighbors. \u201cWe have been drawn together<\/a>,\u201d said US Rep. Tom Lantos (D-CA) to a jubilant crowd of Indian and Jewish lobbyists in Washington, DC, \u201cby our joint fight against mindless, vicious, fanatic Islamic terrorism.\u201d Two of the latest successes<\/a> of their joint lobbying efforts have been the approval of the sale<\/a> of Israeli radar planes to India (which the US blocked when the recipient was China) and the defeat of Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney<\/a> (D-GA) last year. \u201cWhen McKinney was bashing both our homelands, we just took our business connections and social connections and made them political<\/a>,\u201d said Harin J. Contractor, an Indian American student at the University of Georgia. \u201cIt was a great model<\/a> to follow.\u201d While political expediency<\/a> is a reasonable explanation for this joining of forces, it doesn\u2019t explain the stranger circumstances<\/a> surrounding European neo-Nazi groups dropping (temporarily, it seems) their anti-Semetic feelings to ally themselves<\/a> with extremist Jewish groups to form a string of 26 hate websites that target Europe\u2019s growing Muslim population. \u201cThis is a new phenomenon<\/a>,\u201d said Mouloud Aounit, head of a group which published a report on the websites. \u201cThis form of racism [is] not only virtual, but has also spread to everyday life.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Shahed Amanullah is editor-in-chief of altmuslim.com.\n<\/p>\n

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