IS has taken responsibility for the execution -style killing of a Hindu priest in Bangladesh.After many bloggers were slain last year,this killing demonstrates the resolve of local Jamait-e-islami and other Muslim organisations to exterminate  the last remaining Hindus in the Islamic Republic.
Currently,Hindus make up 8.2 percent of the country’s population making them the third largest Hindu population  in the world after India and Nepal.Hindus made up more than 20 percent of the  population of  East Pakistan in 1970. The numbers had fallen down to about 14 pc in 1974.One can imagine that the Bangla genocide at the hands of the Pakistani army took its toll primarily upon the Hindus. The Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh and Lajja by Taslima Nasreen have duly captured this anti-Hindu nature of the state of Bangladesh .The numbers had plummeted  to 9.3 percent by 2001.
US rights groups keep making small noises about this anti-Hindu violence.Actually ,one cant see this anti-minority nature of a Muslim state in isolation.
Pakistan,Kashmir,Bangladesh,Malaysia,Afghanistan and almost all middle eastern Moslem countries have seen massive organized state violence directed against their minorities,which have seen dramatic fall in their numbers  over the  last 100 years or so.Liberal-left hardly ever takes  these issues up ,devoid as they are  of sensationalism and do not gain them brownie points anywhere.
Have successive Indian governments raised the issue effectively with the Bangladesh governments ? Could we have leveraged our power to do something about it ? Unfortunately,we have always suffered with a kind  of guiilt complex for being more powerful than our neighbours, and have consistently refused to intercede (meddle) into what we dub as  their  internal affairs .This shameless abdication of responsibility on our part has been seen as a sign of weakness,and Bangladeshi Hindus are considered as orphans.
Herein lies a prime exhibit of India’s tolerance .A petty issue like DADRI becomes a national issue and the government  of the day goes on the back foot.Left and Congress must  at least pay lip service in support of Bengali Hindus.I’m sure it would not hurt their minority vote  bank in India.

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