Religious Wars

Smoke billows from a building set alight by rioters in Ahmedabad on February 28, 2002. Police used gunfire and tear gas to control hundreds of Hindus targeting Muslim-owned shops and sparking a running street battle with police and Muslim residents. (AFP)

From Newsweek:

The unity and calm that settled over India after the Mumbai attacks appears to have given way to renewed violence.

India is a nation of extraordinary religious, cultural and linguistic diversity, but sadly it is no stranger to intolerance. Mahatma Gandhi died at the hands of a Hindu fanatic in 1948, and since then religious riots have cast a pall on India's commitment to secularism and religious pluralism. Unfortunately, at a time when India itself has been a victim of religiously inspired terror from abroad, most notably, its deeply troubled neighbor, Pakistan, it faces a growing spate of violent religious and cultural intolerance at home. In the past, promoting sectarian discord and violence was mostly the stock in trade of India's hypernationalist right wing. Lately, however, political parties across the ideological spectrum have shown a disturbing willingness to provoke or cater to religious and cultural bigotry.

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My Comment: The situation in India is returning to normal .... i.e. meaning that everything is becoming "screwed up" again.