*Sigh* Ok where do I begin.
Police arrest 140 for religious clashes in Vadodara as Modi tours U.S.
(Reuters) - Police in Vadodara have arrested 140 people after two men were stabbed during violence between Hindus and Muslims that left more than a dozen injured and was triggered by an image posted on Facebook, officials said on Monday.
The violence in Gujarat coincides with a visit to the United States by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is set to meet President Barack Obama later on Monday on a trip emphasizing India's economic potential.
For almost a decade, Modi was unwelcome in the United States after Washington revoked his visa in 2005 over accusations of religious intolerance stemming from riots three years earlier in Gujarat, when he was the state's chief minister
http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/0...0HO0NW20140929
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31 killed in Indian religious violence
Hindus and Muslims in India rioted over the weekend, killing at least 31, and sparking fear of a return to communal violence.
By Shivam Vij, Correspondent September 9, 2013
New Delhi — Hindu-Muslim violence 80 miles from Delhi in Muzaffarnagar in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, has left 31 dead and 40 more in the hospital raising fears of a return to widespread communal violence.
The riot is one of the biggest cases of Hindu-Muslim violence in India this year. India's home minister said today that the country had seen 451 incidents of violence between religious groups so far this year, as compared with 410 incidents in all of 2012.
The increasing violence is reminiscent of the bloody riots in Gujarat state in 2002 that left more than 1,000 people dead, according to official estimates. Such large-scale Hindu-Muslim violence seemed to have ebbed since then –