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At least 37 people have been killed in bombings at a Muslim graveyard in western India, authorities say. The blasts come days after Indian Prime Minister Singh told the country there were intelligence warnings of attacks.

Malagaon is a Muslim-dominated area and strong-hold area of SIMI, a banned organization for Muslim 'students'. SIMI began many years ago as a Sufi revivalist organisation in 1879, well before the independence of present day Bharat. The stated mission of SIMI today is the ‘liberation of India’ from western materialistic cultural influence. Some might say that what Sufism requires is liberation from Islam, as well as from even more Western religions, and that Sufism has been short-changed by the West even more than simply by Islam in that regard, to the extent that it hardly follows its own aims properly. The aim to liberate India from the West is a reasonable enough though rather dated aim, in principle. In practice SIMI believes that Osama bin Laden is an outstanding example of a true Mujahid, who has undertaken Jihad on behalf of the 'ummah'.

SIMI has been under scrutiny for some time and was outlawed in 2002. It recently came under scrutiny, as some of its former members were arrested in connection to the recent Mumbai blast. Earlier this year, the police recovered a large cache of arms and explosives from the area of Malagaon. In October 2001, violence in protest at the US attacks on Afghanistan left a total of 12 people dead in the town.

IMO: Why are Muslims bombing Muslim areas ? Hardly in accord with the Koran, I would have thought, and by that I do not mean they should be bombing Hindu areas instead. These people, hardly bona-fide Muslims, do not seem to act with love and peace. And it certainly does not seem to be good Sufism either.