The article was not about these things at all.
It was about the casual hatred of the Muslim that exists in the minds and hearts even of liberals.
True, many seem to have missed what the article was trying to say.
but "casual hatred" is a not just a bad way of framing it, it is wrong.
Most people (educated, wealthy, liberal, your everyday upper middle class type basically) are wary of Islam, doesn't mean at all that they hate all the muslims. Indeed, a lot of them count muslim people as among their friends.
This article also makes a sneaky small 2 line mention about:
It works the other way too. Many Muslim families also warn their children against marrying a non-Muslim. A converted Pentecostal relative of mine once said to me ‘others won’t be saved’.
"warn" LOL.. give me a break !
but very clever, 1 line on the muslim attitude towards others and then muddy the water by dragging in some anecdote about a Christian convert relative.
Is she serious ? Has she absolutely no grasp on the realities on the ground ?
Muslims are by far the most insular community in India. Sunnis, to be specific.
Everybody else on one side, mostly united and proud Indians..... and then there's the sunnis. This is the unfortunate truth of and in India.
Another user here put it quite crudely and asked "why muslims are hated the world over" or something to that extent. It's quite simple, they just do not assimilate, could it be the ideology that prevents them from doing so ? Don't want to get into a theological thing but "shirk" or idolatry is considered among the biggest no-nos
for them.
Heh, well good luck with such a rigid unconciliatory, and dare I say it,
supremacist attitude in a place like India.
Sure there's extreme right winger Hindu zealots in India and they can be a problem but this conversation is only half had if you're brushing the extremely deep rooted Sunni zealotry and animus aside.
Shame there is no scientific way to quantify it but if there was, I'll bet the Hindus' and others' feelings would measure significantly lower on the "hate scale" compared to the sunni muslim lot.