rubyjackass
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Wrong. Another important factor to consider fact that Muslims are a MINORITY here. You pull a stunt and there are more extremists on the other side rearing to shut you down or frame you anyway.
This kind of thinking is what keeps us stunted forever. There is no excuse for the growth of Hindu radicalism. The radicals on the other side won't care about Hindus' revenge. They just want to fight for the rewards after death. Muslims being a minority is not the reason for the moderateness of Indian muslims. Their isolation from the crazies in the West is the actual reason. Up until the 1960s some of the most powerful muslim leaders(Arab or otherwise) were staunch secularists and/or leftists. We are lucky that by the time radicalism started, we divided and shut our doors tight on our western neighbor. Still there was some leakage and there were some who became jihadis fuelled by incidents like Bombay, Babri and Gujarat riots, but we are saved from the worst effects.