mistaking a Sikh for a Muslim is considered a grave insult- by a Sikh.) India is no bed of roses, either. After several decades of disastrous experimentation with socialism (a study of their failures should give any proponent of Obama's "dreams" pause), they have begun growing in economic strength by (however hesitantly) moving to free-market principles. And being a multi-religious, multi-ethnic "melting pot", India has had some problems remarkably like those the United States has had. But in all that time, their major political violence threat has always been... Muslim extremists. Mainly those armed and financed by Pakistan. (The Mumbai terrorist attack being only one example.) For another example in the region, consider Sri Lanka. The island state south of India has had a slow-motion civil war going on for half a century, with the Tamil Tigers attacking (a) the government, (b) tourists, and (c) everybody else. The reason? The Tamil Tigers are Muslims who resent the fact that everyone else in Sri Lanka... is in Sri Lanka. And oh yes, they get serious support from... Pakistan. Which technically shouldn't give a damn about an island that is, from their geographic POV, literally the butt-end of nowhere. But it's part of Islam that "the jihad must be supported everywhere". Even piracy in the Indian Ocean figures in. The Somali pirates, the ones in Indonesia, and nautical criminals practically everywhere there are "narrow waters" between the East African coast and the northwest shores of Australia are predominantly Muslim. Yes, it's economic,