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“Most of the people who worship here are Hindus”: Muslim
leader surveying the wreckage of the tomb of Sisle Hazrat Islam,
Ayodhya, January 2003. Photo by John Hawley.used a more modest medium: large bricks of the Jaunpuri style. So the miracle of
the stones, as proclaimed by the justice from Lucknow, was a miracle in his mind.
And its major predecessor is little different. For years Hindu enthusiasts have spo-
ken as if the image of the child Rama that was discovered in the Babri Mosque on