The latest Economist magazine has an article about Hindu nationalism in India. It disapproves. And from a humanitarian, but narrow, standpoint, it is easy to agree since there have been lots of attacks in India by Hindus against Christians and Muslims (with the police standing by and doing nothing). However, I say it is a narrow standpoint because nowhere does the write explain what the root causes of this nationalism are. After all, it didn’t exist thirty years ago, and has only emerged lately.
One could also ask what the root causes are of the Chinese putting Uighurs into concentration camps, of ethnic cleansing of Muslims in Myanmar, of the Hungarians (who were once ruled by Muslims) wanting to keep Muslims out, and so on. Why are so many groups being mean to Muslims?
Of course, this question has it backwards. They are all motivated by Islamic supremacism, which elites in the West, and even some elites outside of the West, refuse to acknowledge (much less condemn). Islamic supremacism often leads to terrorism, or if not that, then to demands that a non-Muslim society make accommodations for Muslims. The idea behind these demands is to turn non-Muslim societies into Muslim societies, which any sensible non-Muslim should resist.
Unfortunately, our elites still haven’t acknowledged the campaign that is being waged by Muslim fundamentalists against non-Muslims. Maybe there is some growing recognition in Europe that mistakes were made (see here; hat tip: Mark Spahn). But they will spend decades dealing with this problem and will probably ultimately lose since time (in terms of birth rates) is not on their side.
Meanwhile, in other parts of the world, people who are beyond the reach of our elites can respond in more effective ways. I believe that China is going too far, but no one who wants to help the Uighurs should be in the dark about why they are being put in concentration camps.