India's Muslim minority has had little reason lately to trust the protection of the law. Several hundred Muslims died in February and March in pogroms by Hindu mobs in Gujarat, a western state. But this week brought a bit of reassurance: on March 13th the Supreme Court ruled that Hindu activists could not perform a token religious ceremony on land surrounding the site of a mosque they had demolished ten years ago. Syed Ahmed Bukhari, leader of a major mosque in Delhi, called the ruling "the first victory of justice".
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机译：印度的穆斯林少数民族最近几乎没有理由相信法律的保护。在西部国家古吉拉特邦，印度裔暴民于2月和3月在大屠杀中杀死了数百名穆斯林。但是这周带来了一定的保证：3月13日，最高法院裁定，印度激进分子不能在十年前拆除的清真寺周围的土地上进行象征性的宗教仪式。德里主要清真寺的负责人赛义德·艾哈迈德·布哈里（Syed Ahmed Bukhari）称该裁决为“正义的第一场胜利”。
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