Holy War In India
Last week’s fighting flared in places that hadn’t seen such trouble since 1947, when Britain partitioned its former colony into secular India and Islamic Pakistan. In Delhi, Bombay, Bangalore and dozens of other cities, outraged Muslims took to the streets to protest the desecration, Hindus retaliated and the mostly Hindu police cracked down hard. Muslim mobs in Pakistan and Bangladesh sacked Hindu temples, Indian businesses and a few diplomatic offices....