It appears that the jihadis have attacked another non-Muslim democracy in an attempt to impose their backwards system upon its people.

A series of seven explosions killed at least 174 people on crowded commuter trains and stations Tuesday evening in the Indian financial capital of Mumbai, police said.

Officials said at least 464 people were injured in the blasts in the city's western suburbs as commuters made their way home. All seven blasts came within an 11-minute span, between 6:24 and 6:35 p.m. (12:54 and 1:05 p.m. GMT).

Analysts are comparing the attack with the mass transit bombings in Madrid in 2004 and London last year, saying they all involved a series of mutiple blasts and were well-coordinated.

There was some confusion about the number of dead and injured as information was compiled from hospitals and explosion sites in Mumbai, the west Indian seaport previously called Bombay.

"There still are bodies being recovered," said Pooja Saxena, with the International Federation of the Red Cross, speaking early Wednesday.

The Indian governemnt attributes the attack to Indian Muslim radical Dawood Ibrahim, who has connections to several al-Qaeda affiliated groups.

This is not the first such attack in India. It has a long history of violence by Muslims against Hindus, dating back to before its independence from Britain. Indeed, at one time the Mughals ruled most of the Indian sub-continent with the iron fist of Islam. Thirteen years ago, the Indian stock exchange was the site of a bloody attack.

I join with my Indian brothers and sisters in mourning the deaths of innocent, and urge them to resolve to root out the jihadis among them, showing no mercy at all to those responsible for this unspeakable horror.

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