Re: History of attacking religious sentiments
Some time back, some of the Southern Baptists Mission(I think) which is the largest protestant group in the US issued a pamphlet.
The pamphlet, in its very first sentence states, “More than 900 million people are lost in the hopeless darkness of Hinduism?Pray that Hindus who celebrate the festival of lights would become aware of the darkness in their hearts that no lamp can dispel.”
It describes two Indian cities as follows: “Mumbai is a city of spiritual darkness. Eight out of every ten people are Hindus, slaves bound by fear and tradition to false gods?Satan has retained his hold on Calcutta through Kali and other gods and goddesses of Hinduism. It’s time for Christ’s salvation to come to Calcutta.” … The usual garbage missionaries have been hurling on us for centuries.
Respons from one of our religious leaders…Swami Aksharananda: “We must urge all enlightened peoples of the world, including those few in the Christian church who are outraged by missionary behavior tantamount to obscenity and who speak so unequivocally and eloquently for justice and humanism, to take a stand. We can no longer remain silent witness to the evils of missionary conversionism and the social and cultural dislocation that it causes in the Hindu community.”
Or how about this one…
US company withdraws shoes carrying images of Hindu deities - Economic Times
There was a quite protest in the US from the Indian community and the company apologized and withdrew the merchandise. You did not see riots resulting in killing and pillaging from Hindus across the globe.
Hindus have been facing this type of atrocities from the followers of Abrahamic religions since they appeared in the sub-continent. Well the jews have always left us alone…
For religious persecution, you don’t have to look further than the subcontinent