India’s Kristallnacht?

History does not repeat, but it does have patterns, and there are disturbing similarities.

Many senior officials in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s, pictured, ruling BJP (Indian People’s Party) indulge in blood-curdling anti-Muslim rhetoric, and more than a few have urged violence against Muslims, but there is no plan to exterminate them in death camps. It can’t be done, writes Gywnne Dyer. Photograph courtesy of Commons Wikimedia

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

March 4, 2020

LONDON, U.K.—The anti-Muslim pogrom in northeastern Delhi on Feb. 23 only killed 43 people, and a few of them weren’t even Muslims. But then on Kristallnacht ("The Night of Broken Glass") in Germany in 1938, only 91 Jews were killed. It was still a Nazi declaration of war on the Jews, and a fore...

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