Ayodhya Verdict Follow-Up Post

So... to make a long story short.  Nothing happened with the Ayodhya verdict.  I am definitely happy that everyone in the area was safe and that there wasn't any violence in a potentially sensitive case ruling, but at the same time... THAT was anti-climactic!

So the way the court ruled is that they split the land into three parts.  To give a little bit of background, the three judges who ruled the case were two Hindu and one Muslim, and all were very old dudes.  They gave one part of the land to the followers of Ram Lalla (Hindu), one part to the Nirmohi Akhara (Hindu), and one part to the Sunni Waqf Board (Muslim).  How ironic that the judges who are two-thirds Hindu and one-third Muslim divided the land into two-thirds Hindu and one-third Muslim.  The judges gave a ruling that was over 8,000 pages long.  I think that's really just excessive!  I mean... Sometimes I feel like courts and the government makes complicated issues overly-complicated so that the public can't sit down and read the decisions themselves and interpret them on their own!  Who has time to read an 8,000 page case ruling?  Besides me, I mean!  I'm sure it's a real page-turner.  So the judges also decided that the Babri Mosque that is still on the land is in fact a mosque... that must have been hard to decide... but that the Hindus have a right to build a temple there. 

It seems that most Indians have taken the side of peace in the issue.  It may have been a good thing that the case was being judged for so many years.  The fire seems to have mostly burned out, and it seems that this case ruling may have extinguished the tension once and for all.  For any of you that were worried... I am definitely safe!  Except from the wrath of these term papers I have to write.......

Love,
Julia