was present when a Hindu mob, numbering in the thousands, stormed Ayodhya compound in December 1992, and with their bare hands, demolished a 16th-century mosque that had stood there. The Hindus accused Muslim rulers of building their mosque on top of a temple that had marked the birthplace of a blue-skinned Hindu deity, called Ram. In the ensuing riots, more than 1,100 people were killed, most of them Muslims. That day was one of the proudest moments in India's history, and a shining example of how to deal with Muslims everywhere. Israel should have ripped the Jerusalem mosques apart in June 1967. Their failure to do so was a critical error.