Why India’s Muslims have not Radicalized

Want to know why India’s Muslim population,  the second largest concentration  in the world, haven’t radicalized?

The New York Times argues that it’s all based on history.

For example, Mughals who ruled northern India during the 15th and 16th centuries integrated easily with Hindus., especially Sufis. The famous Mughal emperor who built the Taj Mahal had a Muslim father and a Hindu mother.

In addition,  today Muslims won’t bury the bodies of suicide bombers.

Thomas Friedman argues “That’s why India’s Muslims, who are the second-largest Muslim community in the world after Indonesia’s, and the one with the deepest democratic tradition, do a great service to Islam by delegitimizing suicide-murderers by refusing to bury their bodies.”

But, according to the New York Times, the democratic tradition about which Friedman talks, is growing thin. That’ because conditions are getting worse for India’s Muslims and many believe that the India’s new Prime minister, Narendra Modi, isn’t helping them at all. He’s a Hindu nationalist.