During his recent campaign for reelection, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a Hindu nationalist, attacked Islam, which includes about 15 percent of India’s population or over 200 million people. Election results show Modi was reelected but his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) unexpectedly lost its single party parliamentary majority, implying his religious attacks failed to work as he intended.
Christians in India, who likely number over 30 million people, are also disturbed by Modi’s Hindu triumphalism. And Christians in America also should be concerned and reflect on the example. Modi’s religious nationalism that conflates nationhood with religion is dangerous. Minorities of all sorts are endangered.
(Read the article in WORLD here.)
Comment by george on June 12, 2024 at 7:49 am
For years we have said that there are rights for other nations to be religious nations (I.e. Israel). What do we expect that other large religious groups would do?