The attack was the second this year on a mosque in India. In September, explosions near a mosque in the western town of Malegaon left 31 people dead during Shab-e-Barat, also called the night of atonement or forgiveness, a Muslim religious event in which people offer prayers for the souls of dead relatives in graveyards. Last year, two explosions at New Delhi's main mosque, Jama Masjid, wounded 10 people.
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Hyderabad has recently been a symbol of India's economic boom, an increasingly cosmopolitan center, where old co-exists with new. Hyderabad has been dubbed "Cyberabad" a hub of software and call center jobs. The city also has a thriving Muslim quarter and is seen across the world as a center of Islamic culture in India.
"The pattern recently is to target Muslim places of worship and stir up the Muslim community," said Sandeep Unnithan, a security and terrorism analyst. "This attack was also done in Hyderabad, a world city. So it was meant to get a lot of attention. We were used to this happening in Kashmir but not in mainland India."
So, we see an effort to create the same kind of situation in India that is now happening in Iraq. Both Pakistan and India have nuclear weapons. Is the Bush administration payiing any attention to this?