Muslim Jihadis perpetrated another series of coordinated bombing attacks in India. Today, it was a series of bomb explosions in the Western Indian city of Ahmadbad that killed 29 and injured 88 persons. Yesterday it was bombings in the southern Indian city of Bangalore a major technology development center in the Republic that killed two and injured five persons.

Note this comment from the Indian Home Minister in Delhi and the history of recent sectarian violence in Ahmadbad in the state of Gujarat:

The militants’ attacks are believed to be an attempt to provoke violence between India’s Hindu majority and the Muslim minority.

“Anti-national elements have been trying to create panic among the people of our country. Today’s blasts in Ahmadabad seem to be part of the same strategy,” federal Home Minister Shivraj Patil told reporters in New Delhi.

Those fears were amplified by the history of Ahmadabad’s 2002 riots between Muslims and Hindus. That violence killed about 1,000 people, most of them Muslims. It was triggered by a fire that killed 60 passengers on a train packed with Hindu pilgrims. Hindu extremists blamed the deaths on Muslims and rampaged through Muslim neighborhoods, although the cause of the blaze remains unclear.