First guess, is the victim a Muslim or a Hindu? This picture and article should convince every human of good conscience regardless of faith of the virtues of secularism and interfaith tolerance
Source: New York Times
By Jeffrey Gettleman, Suhasini Raj and Sameer Yasir
As the president tours India’s capital, at least 11 people have been killed in communal clashes that have upended a working-class neighborhood.
NEW DELHI — In one part of New Delhi, President Trump was sightseeing and talking about his warming relationship with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. In another, a neighborhood was ripping apart in flames, along religious lines.
A mob of Hindu men, their foreheads marked by a saffron stripe, angrily patrolled the streets carrying iron bars, clubs and a bright blue aluminum baseball bat. They were itching for a fight.
The streets were littered with scraps of brick. All shops were closed and almost no women or children were out — except for two Hindu women brandishing sticks and threatening journalists. The whole area felt as if it were about to ignite.
Gangs of Hindus and Muslims have been clashing in the neighborhood, Maujpur, and surrounding areas since Sunday, killing at least 11 people, including a police officer bashed in the head with a rock.
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