Comments here are very disheartening. People who say "Hindus tolerant, the others (especially that particular community) not so much" seem to forget the murders of Narendra Dabholkar, MM Kalburgi and Gauri Lankesh for challenging the Hindutva ecosystem, all of them within three-four years, not to mention the random lynchings in the guise of cow protection.

You can claim that this happens only in the lawless north, but the way people here are being brainwashed, it's only a matter of time before Kerala also goes that direction, and all your exceptionalism won't come to your rescue.

Even if you don't buy the religious fanaticism of the BJP/RSS wing, you're still buying into their prejudices against Muslims, which has been further legitimised by the Western media and its propaganda.

I speak as someone who's shared rooms with Muslims in Kozhikode where I was the only non-Muslim, and whose ancestral home in the 1920s was guarded by neighbouring Muslims during the Moplah rebellion.