No, it's not, because I was making the point that the history you are speaking about is not history that was personally remembered by those people involved, but rather history that they had been taught to believe.
....and again, how many black americans today can personally remember slavery? how many jews were actually under the reich? Should this negate their ability, no, RIGHT to speak on that history? Indian hindus aren't being misguided to believe anything about how destructive Islam has been, the facts are there for anyone to investigate and confirm. This isn't even a case where you can make the argument that white european xenophobes are simply reaping what they have sowed, because Islam forced it's way into the subcontinent, nobody invited it over there.
I am very glad that you've emphasized how much a place those anti-Muslim stories played in the riots and violence. Because that is EXACTLY what was intended.
There's a reason why 2,000 people and hundreds of religious places of worship were destroyed in Gujarat. The government had been engaging in a long-term campaign to poison people's minds against Islam through a consistent distortion of history in order to create ethnic strife for political advantage. I've read secular authors on that, academic authors, Muslim authors, Dalit authors, socialist authors, foreign authors...literally the ONLY people who claim that Hinduvat history is accurate and not a purposeful distortion for political gain...are the Hinduvats themselves.
How many mosques were destroyed by Hindus through conquest of other countries? How many temples were erected in their place? Zero. Are you denying that Muslims destroyed Hindu temples during their campaigns? Are you denying that they murdered and pillaged Hindus? This is why I can't take you seriously, you refuse to acknowledge the past suffering of Hindus in India simply because they are the majority...the strength of Hindu culture in resisting the same type of Islamic cultural imperialism other parts of the world fell victim to has been used as a bludgeon to criticize Hindus for having the audacity to assert their own identities. The reason there is apprehension towards Islam in India is because of the long history of Muslim oppression, not because of any political tactic. If political tactics have sought to use that apprehension as a tool to get into power, so be it, but the substratum for that resentment will remain Islam's own actions that it needs to own up to.
Read something like
Religion, Power, and Violence, written from a diverse set of perspectives long before the Modi government came to power. Even if you don't believe that every essay is unbiased (they're not, and a couple of them aren't very good), there's far more than enough there for you to get an idea of how this history and manipulation of the masses is used for political agenda.
This is education, BJP-style. I'm interested to know if you can co-sign the validity and intentions of the anti-Muslim rhetoric in the reworked history books, when everything else they've been doing is so obviously
status.
Why the BJP rewrites history
Hindu right rewriting Indian textbooks
Fears grow about Hindu "Modi-fication" of education
I respect Modi for separating himself from the mold of other Indian politicans, he has a true love for his people and isn't afraid to put it on display. Aside from that I don't agree with everything the BJP stands for. I don't favor beef bans and shyt like that, for example. So just to set the record straight I am not a "hindutva" supporter, or a Hindu extremist. I already told you that I don't even technically consider myself a Hindu.
But to your other point, you seem more concerned about Indian kids being taught about the Mahabharata in history class than you are about Saudi financed Islamic militancy being taught in Muslim madrassaas in India, which almost always translates into terrorist attacks down the road. Why? What's more of a threat?
You can't name one Muslim country on this planet that offers it's citizens as much religious freedom as modi's India does. Not a single one. Thats just a fact, not an arbritrary statistic. This isn't a referendum on Muslims, it's a referendum on Islam. Muslims can hold diverse positions, true, but Islam cannot, and Muslims are largely unwilling to move their theology forward, instead they are more in favor of making excuses for it's backwardness and irrationality. I know you're smart enough to comprehend that, you just don't want to admit it.]