By Apoorvanand / Aljazeera
A Muslim friend from a town in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh recently called, seeking counsel.
His young daughter had told him the previous day that her friends refused to play with her any more – after they were warned by other children to stay away from her because of her religion.
This is an experience most Muslims have gone through while growing up in India. They are familiar with anti-Muslim slurs and cuss words used against them. But something new is happening which is radically different from earlier times.
While the Indian media and politicians have long harped on the supposed dangers of radicalisation among Muslim youth, or of the threat of far-left propaganda, we are now witnessing the turbocharged expression of a reality the country has never confronted: the radicalisation of Hindu youth.
It is an everyday radicalisation of young men and women who appear very normal, until they decide to target Indian Muslims and Christians.
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