Obama, Zia and Prabhakaran.

"Leaders of India's governing party have criticised former US President Barack Obama for his recent remarks on Muslims in the country." BBC. "if I had a conversation with Prime Minister Modi, who I know well, part of my argument would be that if you do not protect the rights of ethnic minorities in India, then there is a strong possibility that India at some point starts pulling apart." he said. That has not gone down well with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of Modi, as various leaders of the party rushed out to proclaim their allegiance. Referring to Assam Police filing charges against opposition leaders in other states, a journalist tweeted, "Has an FIR been filed in Guwahati yet against Obama for hurting sentiment? Is Assam police on its way to Washington to get Obama offloaded from some flight and arrest him?" To which Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma responded, "There are many Hussain Obama in India itself. We should prioritize them before going to Washington." Without naming Obama, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said, "We want friendship with the US but we get remarks about religious freedom in India. It is during his tenure as President that the US bombed six Muslim countries and dropped more than 26,000 bombs in these countries. How will people trust these allegations?" TOI.  Does not matter if trust or not. It is what the Muslims believe, whether it is the truth or not. A 2020 US Religion Census estimated that there are 4.45 million Muslims making up 1.3% of the US population. wikipedia. While the 2011 population census in India estimated that there are 172.2 million Muslims, or a huge 14.2% of the Indian population. census 2011.co.in. Despite the small percentage of Muslims, the US has not been safe from attacks. In 2009, US Army Major Nidal Hassan shot 13 people dead and injured 30 others at Fort Hood near Killeen, Texas. wikipedia. In 2015, a US-born citizen of Pakistani descent Syed Rizwan Farook and his Pakistan-born, green card holder wife Tashfeen Malik shot 14 people dead and injured 22 others at a Christmas party at San Bernadino, California. wikipedia. Jawed Naqvi tries to draw a parallel with the US support of Ziaul Haq of Pakistan. "While Zia's role in creating a monstrosity would soon show up as the Taliban and Al Qaeda in Afghanistan," Zia "a widely cheered Western spearhead in South Asia is mostly remembered for celebrating the demise of the Soviet Union." Dawn. Now, the US wants to use India against China. Perhaps a more terrifying monstrosity would be the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) which fought for an independent homeland for Hindu Tamils in Sri Lanka.  Stanford. The more than 20 years of civil war that followed, along with Covid, has bankrupted Sri Lanka, forcing it to default on its debt. wikipedia. The Finance Minister should be worrying about our economy instead of what Obama did. But then, she was incensed to see that a ration shop in Telangana did not display her boss's photo. HT. We Hindus normally display photos of our gods. Better not to conflate the two.