Jealous gods

It is getting bad in India: religion is being weaponized in ways that have already led to massacre, and could lead to genocide.

Nupur Sharma, pictured left, apologized for her remarks about the Prophet Muhammad after she was suspended from the BJP. The BJP’s Delhi media chief Naveen K. Jindal, who tweeted support for Sharma, has been expelled outright. Is the BJP turning over a new leaf? Not at all. It is frantically back-pedalling to assuage the anger of the oil-rich Muslim countries of the Gulf, which provide most of India’s oil and employ millions of its workers. The BJP’s war on Islam is for domestic purposes only, writes Gwynne Dyer. Image courtesy of YouTube

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

June 6, 2022

LONDON, U.K.—As everybody knows, the gods are thin-skinned, both the many gods of the classical pantheons (Greek, Roman, Hindu) and the jealous single gods of the monotheisms (Judaism, Christianity, Islam). Criticize them in any way, and they will punish you severely—or at least their earthly fo...

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