Thans to M., here is an article and a couple of videos of breaking news out of India:
At least 40 arrested after religious clashes in India’s Gujarat
NEW DELHI, Sept 28 (Reuters) – Authorities in India’s Gujarat state arrested at least 40 people after late-night clashes between Hindus and Muslims in the city of Vadodara and suspended mobile phone Internet and bulk text messaging services for four days, officials said on Sunday.
Crowds from the two religious communities pelted each other with stones and set several vehicles alight until police dispersed them using tear gas on Saturday evening after days of tensions in the city, police told Reuters.
Gujarat is the home state of Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is currently in the United States and is scheduled to meet President Barack Obama.
Vehicles set on fire
You notice journalists never introduce any of the PM of Pakistan, Ergodan, Al-Sisi, Morsi, King of Saudi Arabia, or any Muslim as “Muslim Nationalists.”
Yeah, like “far-right Likud PM Benjamin Netanyahu”.
UK
White Widow Samantha Lewthwaite ‘Training Isis Suicide Bombers in Syria’
Female terrorist reportedly responsible for Steven Sotloff, James Foley and David Haines beheading videos
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/white-widow-samantha-lewthwaite-training-isis-suicide-bombers-syria-1467558
White Widow Samantha Lewthwaite ‘trains ISIS suicide bombers in Syria’
The widow of 7/7 bomber Germaine Lindsay, Lewthwaite took the name Sherafiyah when she converted to Islam.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/white-widow-samantha-lewthwaite-trains-4337265
USA – Obama to ban profiling by feds
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department is expected to issue a broad new policy in the coming two to three weeks banning religious and other forms of profiling by federal law enforcement officers, department sources said Friday.
The long-awaited policy will not include an exemption for national security investigations, sources said. National security officials and others in the administration concerned about terrorism lobbied hard for such an exemption, according to congressional sources.
The new policy will cover ethnicity and sexual orientation as well as religion. Advocates of the new policy said they were surprised because the debate over the national security exemption had blocked movement for months.
Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., who said Thursday he was stepping down, had been on the verge of announcing the new policy several months ago, but it was put on hold by the White House days before the intended announcement, according to a congressional aide who was not authorized to speak publicly on the matter. The White House insisted the policy be reviewed for its national security implications by the Department of Homeland Security, the aide said.
The new policy, though still being finalized, is expected to prohibit federal agents from conducting undercover surveillance of a mosque, for example, without some information that criminal activity is under way. Under the current rules, approved in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, law enforcement agencies were given broad latitude to monitor specific religious groups.
There may yet be some activities permitted that would rankle privacy advocates and groups representing Muslim Americans. For example, according to a Justice Department source, the recruiting of informants from a particular religious group may be allowed.
The new policy will add to long-standing prohibitions on racial profiling, extending that policy for the first time to national security investigations.
It will probably not extend to local law enforcement, as advocated by Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin, D-Md.
Holder told the annual convention of the Congressional Black Caucus on Friday that he was committed to remaining active in his final weeks in office. He has promised to stay on until his successor is confirmed.
“There remains a great deal to be done,” Holder said. “I have no intention of letting up or slowing down.”
On Friday, the White House suggested it expected the Senate to confirm a replacement during the post-election lame-duck session of Congress, before a new Senate is sworn in next January.
A number of Republican lawmakers have warned the president against trying to force Holder’s replacement through in the lame-duck session. But if Democrats lose control of the Senate, the administration and leadership would have an incentive to move the nomination through before Republicans take control.
http://triblive.com/usworld/nation/6873327-74/policy-security-national
There has been an unofficial ban on religious profiling since the early aughts, this just makes it official.
In Pakistan, Bomb Kills 8 as US Drone Kills 4 (abcnews, Sept 28, 2014)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/officials-us-drone-kills-militants-pakistan-25814792
“A bomb blast killed eight people Sunday in northwestern Pakistan as a U.S. drone strike nearby killed four suspected militants, officials said.
The bombing struck a refugee camp housing internally displaced people on the outskirts of the city of Hangu, police officer Anwar Saeed Kundi said. The people there were displaced from a conflict in the nearby tribal region of Orakzai, he said.
He said the bomb was rigged to a motorcycle and killed eight people, including three children. It wounded 17 people, he said.
No one has claimed responsibility for the blast. Kundi said it was not clear as to why anyone would target the camp.
Suspicion is likely to fall on the Pakistani Taliban, who have been waging a war on the state to impose their version of a harsh brand of Islamic law. The local Taliban have killed tens of thousands of Pakistani in their over the last decade.
Meanwhile, the U.S. drone strike killed four suspected militants in South Waziristan tribal region of Pakistan along the Afghan border, intelligence officials and Taliban fighters said.
Those killed included two Arab militants and two of their local allies in a compound in the town of Wana, they said….”
It would not surprise me if agitators did this deliberately to time against PM Modi’s visit to the US. Bring up the specter of 2002 Gujarat at this sensitive time.
At least he’s got Bibi solidly on his side. They’re in for a hard time; together is better. Even exchanging glances, discreetly rolling eyes brightens the spirits.
You may be right, the timing is just right to give Obama an excuse to be a less then gracious host.
Suicide Bomber Attacks Shiite Rebels in Yemen (abcnews, Sept 28, 2014)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/yemenis-demonstrate-sanaa-shiite-rebels-25814255
“A suicide car bomber rammed into a field hospital run by Shiite rebels in Yemen on Sunday, killing one person and wounding others, a security official said. The field hospital some 100 miles (175 kilometers) northeast of the capital was used by Shiite rebels, known as the Hawthis, to treat their wounded from battles in recent months against rival Sunni Islamists. The Hawthis swept through the capital earlier this month after consolidating their grip over northern provinces.
The official said one person killed and others were wounded in the bombing but was not able to provide exact figures. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the press. The attack came as hundreds demonstrated in Sanaa, urging state security forces to return to the streets and demanding Hawthis’ exit. “For a secure capital free of armed militias,” read a banner raised by demonstrators in Sanaa, who also called for the return of weapons seized from security forces by the Hawthis…”