We cannot afford amnesia.

In June, "Prohibitory orders have been imposed in Rajasthan for a month, and internet services cut for 24 hours across the state after two men hacked a tailor to death inside his shop in Udaipur...- and posted a video online of the incident claiming it was in retaliation for the victim sharing remarks made byBJP's Nupur Sharma on the Prophet," TIE. "The police identified the victim as Kanhaiya Lal." "The assailants identified themselves in another video as Mohammad Riyaz and Ghouse Mohammad, boasted about the 'beheading' - and issued death threats to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Sharma." In another murder, "An anti-terrorism probe has been ordered into the murder of a chemist in Maharashtra whose whose throat was slit last month, a week before a similar killing in Udaipur, over suspended BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma's comment on Prophet Mohammad," NDTV. "India's top court has rebuked a former spokesperson of the ruling party for her controversial remarks on the Prophet Muhammad," BBC. "The court told Nupur Sharma that 'her loose tongue has set the entire country on fire'." "Two people, including a 16-year old boy, were killed in protests that erupted in Jharkhand over inflammatory remarks against the Prophet. In Uttar Pradesh, police arrested 421 people and registered 20 FIRs (first incident reports) in connection with the violent protests," India Today. "Director General of Police ML Lather said Ghouse had gone to visit the office of Dawar-e-Islami in Karachi," TIE. In another twist, "Irshad Chainwala and Mohammad Tahir are influential of the Rajasthan State BJP Minority Morcha and the RSS-promoted Muslim Rashtriya Manch and their Facebook timelines have photographs of Attari posing next to the BJP's leader in the Rajasthan Assembly Gulam Chand Kataria and senior Udaipur BJP leader Ravindra Shimali," The Wire. "In some of the posts by the two BJP men, Attari, who is easily recognisable, has also been identified by name and described as an activist of the party." The BJP, or the Bharatiya Janata Party, is the party of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, wikipedia. The RSS, or the Rashtiya Swayamsevak Sangh, is the Hindu organisation supporting BJP's rise to power, wikipedia. "Ever since the BJP took power in 2014, the state has either kept quiet as Muslims have been lynched, attacked or disallowed from freely partaking in their cultural and religious practices or it has actively participated in their exclusion by legislating discriminatory citizenship laws," said an editorial in Pakistan's Dawn newspaper. Perhaps, the government should read Sri Lanka's history. After winning independence from the British in 1948 the government made Sinhalese the official language and inserted Buddhism into the constitution, Scroll. This eventually resulted in a civil war between the Hindu Tamil minority and the majority Sinhalese government which lasted from 1983 to 2009, wikipedia. The Tamil militant organisation LTTE resorted to suicide bombing, killing Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and 18 others on 21 May 1991, satp.org. India has extensive borders with Pakistan and Bangladesh. Amnesia could be costly. Very costly.