Oh sure, and why they were hate crimes in US, even attacking Sikh people.
Who said the US is completely perfect?
There were isolated hate crimes, and in most cases, the offenders were duly prosecuted. The police and other state agencies also made every effort to protect American Muslims after 9/11 (rather than joining in the rioting and murder as they have in India in the past). Despite the fact that, in terms of death tolls, the 9/11 attacks were nearly 60 times worse than the Godhra cooking fire accident, and nearly 20 times worse than the recent Mumbai attacks, I have yet to hear of any bold faced bigotry comparable to what's going on in Surat today (which none of the Indian posters have condemned so far BTW).
At the end of the day, I felt far safer walking around Manhattan on 9/12/01 than I ever have in New Delhi or Bombay.
No one forced the Indian Muslims and the only reason they felt "obligated" was due to their own sense of right & wrong.
Who made you the spokesman for "Indian Muslims?"
For the umpteenth time, there's no dearth of Indian Muslim voices...in opeds, media statements, and what have you...expressing a certain level of disgust at the implicit bigotry in Indian society that obligates them to continually jump through all sorts of hoops in an effort to dissociate themselves with terrorism. You can argue all you want about how, as the self-appointed spokesman for "Indian Muslims" you have determined that they don't feel any societal obligation to do so...but the fact remains that many have openly expressed that they feel put upon.