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Bombs rip through Mumbai

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While it very well could be Al-Qaida, I doubt it is. The Kashmir region dispute has been a huge issue for years and we all know that Islamic Extremists are also very involved in said dispute.

India's presence and assistance in our war on terrorism is minimal and although they stand behind us for the most part, they are too passive a people to get directly involved.

I have great respect for the prevailing religion of India (Hindu) and the peaceful teachings that it provides. Unfortunately, it also makes them a bit of a target.
 
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Brutus1 said:
When was Bombay re-named ?
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In 1995, the Shiv Sena, a Hindu nationalist party, which was the ruling party in the government of the state of Maharashtra (of which Bombay was capital) decided to change Bombay's official name into its Marathi name, Mumbai, claiming that the name Bombay is a corrupted form of the original name Mumbai connoting the pre-independence British influence. The opposing argument is that the city was created by the Portuguese and the British from a clump of islands, so they should get the naming rights.
 
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