Indians -- till recently -- were proud that the "islamaphobia" of jihadi elements had not over taken both the educated as well as uneducated Muslims in India.
The reasons were two-fold:
1. They and their families had stayed back in India of their own free will. It was of their choice that they had accepted the faith they had in the Indian Constitution and the Secular Indian Democratic System.
2. They had integrated well in the Indian culture and milleu and helped to enrich it in many ways.
However, what irked the rest was when,in the last thirty-forty years or so, Indian Muslims began to celebrate Pakistan's cricket victories, not ours.
Then after 1971, the stream of refugees from Bangla Desh, and the terrorist elements with them, put a strain that lead Bal Thakeray-types to speak viscerally about them generally.
This gave rise to Jan Sangh and RSS and other Trishul wielding Sangh Parivar groups -- lead by Togadias and Modidas -- taking over from a midly yapping BJP and turning it into a rabidly venomous BJP.
This scared a lot of Indian Muslims, made some of them easy targets to be effortlessly roped into the band of circumcised bhaijans.
Yet there was hope as the educated among them shunned the lure of easy money and other baits.
The Ahmeds are a unique case where a family of doctors was infiltrated and indoctrinated.
