In a front-page story in the Hindustan Times on Thursday, a member of a conservative Hindu group said India’s Muslim minority “must learn to respect Hindu sentiments” following May’s sweeping election victory by the Bharatiya Janata Party, which has deep Hindu-nationalist roots.
The paper quoted Ashok Singhal, a long-time member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, a Hindu nationalist group, and a former international president of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, a hardline Hindu organization, as saying that if Muslims “keep opposing Hindus, how long can they survive?”
Muslims account for 13% of India’s population and Hindus 80%.
In the story, the 88-year-old Mr. Singhal is quoted as saying of Muslims: “We’ll give them love, and not claim any other mosque sites even though there are thousands built on the ruins of temples. But if they don’t accept it, they should be prepared for further Hindu consolidation. It has happened at the center, it will happen in other states.”
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